the auroran empire consists of five "families" or "houses" (moash, heraan, tekel, dani and vella). each of the five families fight with each other constantly. additionally, there are systems governed by the "auroran empire". these systems do not belong to any family, but are instead governed by the central auroran government. also, one system is formally governed by the "dechtakars", warriors who are loyal to the auroran empire as a whole rather than to a specific house, although their presence is spread throughout the empire. their warriors love to tattoo themselves and engage in "honorable" combat, and their ships have very heavy armor. the auroran weapons are very heavy but they deal a lot of damage. the player can help the aurorans by either passing through the bounty hunter storyline, or having a high combat rating and going into any bar within federation or non heraan-family auroran space.