The Gemini Civilization had been born through a continuous process of competition and compromise.
From a certain perspective, the Gemini Civilization's political system bore a startling resemblance to that of a particular country on Earth.
The two races were like two political parties within a single nation. To secure greater influence and a greater right to survive within their civilization, each had to keep developing and strengthening itself. The losing side would eventually become the other's subordinate.
This unusual system of competition between multiple races had endowed the Gemini Civilization with tremendous vitality and energy, allowing it to develop a brilliant interstellar civilization in an extremely short time and demonstrate the superiority of its system.
However, while this competitive system provided powerful internal momentum, it also sowed the seeds of a fundamental side effect: intense internal divisions.
Conflicts between families, factions, and races made this civilization's internal struggles far fiercer and more turbulent than those of an ordinary civilization.
Normally, these tensions could be forcibly suppressed and even turned into healthy competition overall, mainly thanks to three factors.
The first was "mutually assured destruction"!
Through their integration, the two races had become intricately intertwined, each deeply embedded within the other. They also maintained a basic balance of military power.
Whichever side tried to dominate the other would likely face the awkward prospect of inflicting a thousand casualties while suffering twelve hundred itself.
It was entirely possible that a civil war would tear them apart into warring fragments or send them straight back to the Stone Age.
This prevented either side from casually resorting to force.
The second was external pressure-in other words, challenges from "aliens."
Throughout Twin Stars history, the rise and fall of internal tensions had shown an extremely clear correlation with the level of threats from outside forces