Editing Vetrovnak (section)

==Founding Era==
The nano-virus had been released anywhere there were vetrovnak, so their forces were now dangerously depleted. Many recently pacified worlds stood liable to become problems once again. Rather than fight and possibly lose the vetrovnak retreated to Novi Dinarsko to consolidate their numbers and recover from the blow. There were several immediate problems that would have to be solved and quickly too. The vetrovnak had just killed every important government official, leaving Novi Dinarsko without leadership. The second was securing a blood supply to feed them. Third, they would need to do so without driving themselves mad from the conflict it created with the guardianship imperative. Fourth and perhaps most importantly, they would have to solve all of this before they became hungry again and ended up doing something they'd regret, the timetable of which was completely unknown. If they didn't act soon everything would be for naught.

The solution to the first problem was simple, thanks to their masters keeping tight control of what information the public received so it was easy for the vetrovnak elders to doctor everything they needed to convince the public it was a terrorist attack by malcontents and apophrenicly afflicted madmen railing against the Noosphere system and the government marginalizing them. Then they would fill in for the leadership themselves, but rather than demanding it they would first integrate themselves into Noosphere System. Every public figure first required its stamp of approval and surely it would recognize that the elder vertrovnak were more than experienced and wise enough to be more than suitable for the role. To swing things further in their favor they promised to allow more involvement from further down the totem pole as they themselves were quite removed from civilian society and would need the help. The final concession that sealed the deal though was the vetrovnak allowing people to finally see the inner workings of the Noosphere system - the fact that the criteria upon which it judged was wholly opaque to the public had been a point of contention for centuries since its inception. Of course the vetrovnak did make some changes to the system to make it more palatable for the public to swallow but nobody had to know that.

The blood supply was easily solved for a time once the elders cemented their rule. Those that the Noosphere System deemed to be a danger to society were to be locked up in isolated rehabilitation facilities. Few ever came out of them. It was easy for the vetrovnak to take those that would be useful to them from these facilities and put them to work while using the rest to produce the blood their needed. Criminals which exceeded regulation values that used to be terminated on sight were now having their lives spared and made useful to society by supplying the vetrovnak with their blood. Eventually though the vetrovnak realized they would have to stockpile blood if they wished to continue their original mission - which they did. They outed their own vampiric nature to the public. While there were some issues with that the populace swallowed that pill easily when it was yoked to a matter of civic pride and the very fact the vetrovnak had fought and (occasionally) died for their protection without ever asking for anything in return until those damned terrorists did this to them. The elders attempted to soften the blow by claiming that they were searching for a cure - although they were not entirely sure where to find it.

Once life settled down on Novi Dinarsko the vetrovnak returned to the matter of the Reclamation and figuring out exactly what had happened to them. The fight to pacify the Hvar Cluster went well now that they were able to coordinate their own actions. The battle to figure out their own nature was more difficult. They were able to discern that the small phasmachoronic signature that virtually all humans had did something to their blood that the vetrovnak required. They had tried to synthesize blood or feed from the blood of animals but both measures failed completely. Next, the best minds among the vetrovnak threw themselves headlong into understanding the secrets of the nanites that composed their bodies and the Beacon. While they never solved the problem of vampirism they did derive countless innovations in their efforts to do so that would greatly aid them in bringing the entirety of the Hvar Cluster under their control.

In M28 they accomplished their goal. The entire Hvar Cluster was united into a single hegemony under the vetrovnak's control, forming the '''Vetrovnak Human Protectorate of Hvar'''. The first act of the Protectorate was to bring all worlds within up to the standard of living of Novi Dinarsko. While a noble goal to their wards, the elders did not act out of the goodness of their unbeating hearts. They did it solely for the reason that aside from apophrenics, the blood of Novi Dinarskoan's simply tasted the best. Those that had a similar quality of life tended to have the same richness to their blood, so the vetrovnak reasoned that there was a causal relationship between quality of life and quality of blood. Besides, with the frontiers closed, there was little else for the guardians of humanity to do.  Sitting back and enjoying their victory didn't feel right. They had to be doing something - another genetic imperative, perhaps.