Maikalians

"We are the descendants of those who left that precious blue pearl so many centuries ago, they themselves the children of our creator and father, and thus took on a name that ensured that he would never be forgotten. That is the origin of the name."

- Othello Morgan

Maikalians is the catch-all term used to refer to all the modern-day descendants of the group of refugees known as the Exiles, who settled the Virgo Cluster some eight hundred years ago. Often used by irredentists when referring to the entirety of the cluster's inhabitants, the name is linked to Michael the Great, the creator and father of the Maikalians, and symbolic founder of the old Maikalian Empire which collapsed in 171 ATE and was later reborn as the current Xanian Empire. The name is still used by the inhabitants to refer to themselves as a group, but rarely as individuals, given the epidemic warfare that has dominated the cluster for more than seven centuries.