Editing Space Harpies (section)

===Enlightenment Period===
This period is where history starts being more commonly kept, and the galaxy at large has a better idea of what was going on in Harpy history. Up until this point, despite the fact that females did the majority of governing, tactical, and more skilled work, they were largely seen as property of their husband. While history is still unclear on this point, it is known that one female harpy in particular lead a feminist revolution, similar to the bolshevik revolution, and had a great deal of the bachelor population on her side during this. While Harpy's are unhappy to explain this period of history to outsiders. Some facts are clear. Something similar to the french revolution went down, with much chaos, chopping off of heads, and similar awfulness, back and forth between ineffectual republic and totalitarian monarchies, until things finally began to settle down once everyone realized that the old systems were simply not going to work anymore.

The current 'patriarchal' system that is still common to Harpy worlds became formalized during this period, with the fast majority of power lying with the female sex. Females would have the ability to 'vote' for their representative, who would also be their mate. All males, regardless of blood line, became eligible during this period, and could potentially have a say in governance (usually their would pass on their own body of votes to a higher level representative, and so on and so forth until it reached a final senate).

It was also during this period that recreational, and medicinal, drug use became not only widely enjoyed, but widely necessary, it is suspected that many of the plagues that covered Harpy society in this time (part of which lead to the philosophical upheaval that possibly the old 'divine right monarchy' system they had been using previously might not be such a good idea) were directly caused by the lack of even drug distribution throughout their population. It was discovered during the end of this period exactly how their systems had begun losing the ability to produce key hormones, and this discovery also jump started their industrial revolution.