"For centuries Gnoklars have developed and worn powered exoskeletons to compensate for their physical weakness. As a result, they are the recognized masters of cybernetic interfaces, they incessantly search for worlds with abundant diesel, valuable metals and crystals both for their exoskeletons and to build their floating cities where they concentrate the population, research centers that improve their capabilities, military posts to obtain benefits by extracting resources from hostile people and commercial posts to obtain wealth.
A belief in the free market and that anyone could "make it" formed the foundation underlying culture of state it is its entrepreneurial spirit; a popular stereotype has it that his people have trouble have embracing philosophies which can't be expressed in terms of revenue and cost."