Solar Schism Database

**Sigma** · 12-16-2012

Here is where we post our Faction and Nation sheet.

**GrievousKhan** · 12-17-2012

-Race-

Parastructneanoids are a species of parasitic organisms that adapt at an extremely fast pace. This ability to evolve, change, and mutate as resulted in their being a number of species of the original Para. The race itself should not be mistaken for a grouping of like minded, individual, but instead a single entity in a sense.

Name: Parastructneanoids (Para-struct-nea-noids)

Appearance: Parastructneanoids, vehicles, and starships all share a common feature they all have from four to eight set's of slant red 'eyes' and are completely jet black elsewhere. However aside from those traits their is no true perfect example of a para, as no living organism even remembers what they originally looked like but their most basic form is often that of tiny small spider like insect looking organisms that are able to inhabit other living organisms. ((kind of like this))

Culture: Since the Spawn is so vast in size now with the many assimilated, the Spawn are broken down into nodes which break down into nest, each node has a Hive Tyrant and every nest a Mantian Queen that lead and control the assimilated, one Node can oversee as many as 10 nest. A Swarmlord oversees a series of ‘Nodes’ and themselves are connected to the Hive Mind. The Para have retained their ability to mutant and adapt thus the race has many species specially created for their given task.

The Assimilated race's under the Hive’s control are generally happy and content with their lot in life, they are loyal to the hive and thanks to their parasites, never harbor any thoughts of revolt effectively pacified.

They all believe as the Para do that technology is evil and that only organic can be trusted, seeing the Spawn as their ‘savors’ in a sense. Those assimilated are visibly infected with their parasite with black biomass tendrils growing directly one and in their bodies.

Racial Traits:

Masters of evolution: The Spawn have an outstanding ability to adapt to almost any and every habitat and environment. A specially crafted virus for example will work well the first few times that the spawn are exposed to it. However they will eventfully learn to quickly overcome such weapons as their makeup adapts to it. Their ability to adapt is not limited to genes however, they learn at an outstanding speed and if they fail to achieve a goal in one way they well quickly shift focus to accomplish it in a different manor and changing to more effective tactics on the fly, and the larger stronger more closely connected of their breed have been know to develop minor psychic powers though this is rare.

Revolting plague: Other nations see them as an infestation and little else, for this reason it is difficult to establish alliances and impossible to trade with most other nations since no one will trust a product potently created by a highly intelligent virus. Further more the Spawn are highly vulnerable to sub sonic sound waves, special ultra sounds are capable of rendering them confused and disconnecting them from the hive mind momentarily.

**JarlWolf** · 12-17-2012

The Free Stockade of Mars

Anthem of Mars, Hold the Heathen Hammer High, the Raiders anthem.

Mars is a rugged society that is very chaotic. Inside the borders of the Free Stockade regime is the only type of law you'll encounter on the planet. Drug consumption and alcohol consumption is frequent, and while crime is not too high inside the borders of the Free Stockade due to Mad Dog's harsh sentences, crime outside the borders is at the levels of anarchy. Martians are a proud raider culture, and in the Martian culture sex and violence seem to be the cornerstones of society. The Free Stockade itself often sends out raiding parties to enslave or pillage nomad parties, bandit groups or mutant area's. And looting, piracy, and smuggling are all considered art forms by the Martian people.
There is 3 distinct cultural camps of Mars. There is the Stockade, as previously mentioned, nomads/and or bandits, and the muties. There is also other groups on Mars, as well a large full mutant population, but the mutant population can barely be considered a sentient race of people and they are all savage, bloodthirsty monsters.

Bandits/nomads are people outside and not a part of the stockade. These include corporate remnants, former citizens of former settlements that were pillaged/ overrun by mutants, and anyone who turned into an outlaw. They have no human rights in the stockade, and to achieve citizenship/earn it back they must either serve a sentence of 8 years of forced labour, or fight in and survive a pit match, which pits 11 other participants like themselves against each other in a last man standing battle to the death. They are often rounded up by the stockade to be put into work or simply killed.

Muties are found both inside and outside the Stockade, and the name refers to people who have mutated due to the Ares virus, but not to the extent where they are inhuman monsters. Many still do exhibit extremely violent behaviors, but a sizable community has managed to live within the laws of the Free Stockade. Muties who are too violent in nature are often found outside the borders, and they are savage, hedonistic sadists who are often killed on sight by roving Martian bands.

Mars was first landed on by human beings in 2020, having an international team scout the planet. Over successive years, small communities were built for scientific research, and later industrial exploitation. By 2200 the planet was terraformed due to heavy industry pollution, creating a thicker atmosphere, which melted the caps more and created oceans. The air is breathable due to genetically engineered forest being planted on Mars that has popped up around the coasts. The planet was still arid in many regions and cold desert, but hospitable. However, by 2260, when the UEL finally gained enough control on Earth, and due to corporations having information leaked on them about the closed genocide and the horrid biological weapons testing they did, sent a stream of convicts made up of criminals, dissenters and transhumans, "defunct" robots and others to labour to death in the camps. A particular corporation, the Dionysus Corporation, had been inoculating the camp with a virus called the Ares body through the water supply in the camps. The prisoners therefore became much more stronger but required more food, making dependent workers. Continued research on the unethical virus continued, and the convicts built up an immunity to it. However, when the ZLR rose up years later, 2378 and , the UEL distracted, the convicts rose up in full armed rebellion, lead by a charismatic convict boss named Mraxis Mad Dog. During the chaos, the Dionysus corporation, who had furthered development of the Ares virus for use on transhuman rebels on Earth, which they were developing to target only individuals with a certain chemical hormone released commonly by transhuman cyborgs (that helps with preservation of their bodies) and mutate them into degenerative fiends. However, the virus, which, now known as the Ares virus as previously mentioned, earned it's name as it infected the largest city on the plant, Ares. Millions succumbed to the infection, and the UEL commanders and corporations during their cowardice nuked the city. It wiped a portion of the population out. However, a good portion of horrific mutating victims were left, the radiation from small tactical nukes and fires merely making the regenerative virus repair the damage to their flesh, further warping the infected into more ghastly and sickening forms.
The Convicts and others who were exposed to the virus over time already had built up an immunity, though small minor mutations were common. Most notably the growing of bony ridges and spines, and more aggressive behavior, though most were at manageable levels. The Convicts took over the Stockade and renamed it the Free Stockade, taking it and the agricultural area's around it, as well as going up into space and taking over the space fortress, Tyr. From this start the convicts secured their borders, a brutal autocratic system developing, with a culture of piracy and raiding developing, and the Black Market's influence expanding. Today, Mars is a formidable force, but outside the Free Stockade is a dangerous world full of ravaging mutants, bandits, mutant warlords and sadists, and silent self preserving nomads, and the surrounding Asteroid belt full of pirates.

FACTION: The Scarlet Scourge
Profession: Raider Group, Piracy, Smuggling, Mercenaries
Origin: Mars

Abraham Heinburg

Abraham is a cyborg who was a former SDI strike team leader, who patrolled actively with a unit. During one interception of an alien craft, he and his team boarded the ship. The Aliens were waiting in ambush however, and most of his team was killed. He managed to fend them off, and he found out the ship had weapons hidden inside it, no doubt this ship was intended for raiding. He managed to fight his way to the ship controls, and he cleared the entire ship of aliens. But during the process he was exposed to psychological weaponry, the cyborg having had his circuitry and his mental stability severely harmed in the process. The other strike team on the patrol evacuated him and salvaged the ship, and he was awarded as a hero for single handedly neutralizing the threat. He was physically repaired, but he was showing symptoms of depression and psychosis, and his commanding officer dismissed him on account of mental instability and fatigue, and he was stationed on what was then the backwater of Mars. However, when the Ares plague occurred and the resulting Mars crisis, he managed to rescue a small group of civilians and herd them out of the city, where they survived in a small outpost out in the wastes of Mars for close to a year, undetected. People were becoming sick and dying of lack of supplies, and Abraham was beginning to panic. He encountered Sarah Scarlet, a raider, and she helped the remaining survivors and himself back to the stockade, after he had helped defend her from a mutant pack. He has a protective, somewhat paranoid personality and he holds the values of the SDI tightly with him, the vow to protect the citizens of Sol embedded closely. He is Sarah's security, and primary means of reconnaissance.
Sarah Scarlet

Scarlet is a feisty woman from Mars. Sent to Mars on account of kidnapping, rape and arson. Some say she has also killed 15 men before being sent to the Mars Stockade, but nothing can be confirmed, and the men she was rumored to kill were alleged rapists. She has a gallows humour and she enjoys indulging in liquor. She managed to survive the days of the Stockade by proving her worth in the illegal pit fights that went on in the camp, earning the fear and respect of the other inmates. When the Mars crisis happened, she immediately signed up with Mraxis Mad Dog, the charismatic leader of the convicts, and participated in the following insurrection. She still wears the skull of her district warden around her belt. Scarlet is full of wanderlust, and leads her own small band of raiders, with her confidants being Oleg "One Eye" Bokovsky, Abraham Heinburg, and Laura O'Connor.
Oleg "One Eye" Bokovsky

Oleg was originally from Ulyanovsk, a region on Earth that had been a conflict zone off and on for numerous years, with former Russian government troops fighting the UEL. He was a legendary marksman, having been known to operate in the urban districts, picking off UEL officers. His organization was slowly being subdued however, and the remnants were splitting away to the newly formed ZLR. Oleg decided to disguise himself, and to do so he cut out his own eye and replaced it with a cybernetic replacement. He then, through various colleagues, obtained false identity, however something slipped and UEL agencies found out about his operation but could not pinpoint his exact location. To escape from being hunted down and killed, he decided his only way out was to be sent to Mars as a prisoner to avoid being tracked down. He managed to sneak into a prison loading bay, and he boarded the ship disguised as a convict, and managed to escape the UEL agencies. When he arrived on Mars he immediately set about gathering contacts and gathering favors from people. He encountered Sarah Scarlet, losing money on a bet against her. He went up to her, slightly amused after the fight and after a tussle the two seemed to catch each others attention. Oleg, seizing his chance joined up in Mad Dog's insurrection during the Ares plague crisis, and he fermented his loyalties to Sarah. Oleg serves as a "confidant" and as a Marksman and technician for Sarah's band.

Laura O'Connor

Laura was born on Mars, having grown up in The city of Ares. She is fascinated by explosives, and when her father, an immigrant to Mars, hailing from the former UK, was arrested by the UEL on suspicions of ZLR related terrorism, she went rogue and started to conduct bombings on the UEL pipelines. She was sent to the Stockade, then she met Sarah Scarlet. Sarah was a troublemaker like herself, and the two seemed to have had many things in common. They both paired up to survive and he became Sarah's closest friend. Laura joined up with Mad Dog's rebellion, using her skill with explosives to blow up all the security measures keeping the convict forces in her district from advancing. Laura serves as the demolition's expert and mechanical head of Scarlet's band.

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**Zacharius** · 12-19-2012

Faction Name: The Nightingale Initiative
Faction Profession: Scientific Consultation and Research Firm, with a side order of Spec Ops
Hails from: The Nightingale Initiative was to begin with a Terran venture, the brain child of one Lucien Nightingale, but now has quite legal representation in most major settlements within the system, their most continual piece of property covers most of Mercury, practically one huge solar panel to meet the vast energy consumption of the research labs beneath its surface as well as economical purposes.
Species: Humans, although The Nightingale Initiative is committed to excellence, no matter your genetics, aliens still remain a minority simply from exposure to Nightingale Recruitment schemes. (A very small population of Elvron, a Terran species kept secret from the world, and consequently solar system, by the extended Nightingale Family and its cadet branches).
Persons of Importance:

Robert Nightingale: The grandson of Lucien and current Chairman of the Nightingale Initiative, Robert has recovered the firm after it skipped a generation, ownership being base upon ability rather than birth. The Nightingale family are of mixed, British-West African heritage and this is still evident in Robert, a well built, half-caste individual in his mid thirties. While Robert does not possess the scientific ability or education that his grandfather and father possessed he makes up for this with pure business sense, acting as an overall director rather than a lead scientist. It is under Robert that the hiring out of the fabled Nightingale Marines has turned into a lucrative trade, mercenary work providing funding and stability for the pure science approach of the Initiative, although some within believe that this activity has become too large a part of the role of the initiative, fearing a transformation into the business of warmongering.

Emily Nightingale: Robert's younger sister, in her early thirties, oversees the Nightingale Scholarship Program and general recruitment into the Initiative, a politics and philosophy graduate herself, she is fully involved in the educational portion of the initiative, although she is more extensively trained to some degree in most fields of scientific research the Initiative is interested in, as to help her select potential recruits and scholars. Emily has opted to take part in the final stage of a scientific trial, showing the generally beneficial effects on introducing certain strands of alien DNA into the human coding prior to birth, and so is within the third trimester of a well monitored pregnancy, although she continues to work as it stands. A bubbly and quirky individual, Emily is charismatic in the friendly and endearing manner, as opposed to the cool collected nature of her brother.

Darius Knox: Director of the Mercury facility, Professor Darius Knox is one of the premier experts on Solar Behaviour as well as being a generally very well organised and competent team leader, making him a natural candidate for the facility he now resides over, in his late fifties he was also remarkably younger than most of the other candidates, arguably from Robert's point of view, making him better suited to a project where innovation was the by-word. Well by no means in poor shape, Darius' greying hair and a frame that is just about starting to degrade tell of rather more experience than the other two individuals on the current command staff, although his age is rather more the average one the reasonably sparse Board of Director meetings between the various scientific departments from across Sol.

Military/Civilian Assets:

The Nightingale Scholarship Program; provides education and formal qualifications across a wide spectrum for individuals from various backgrounds, although the non-science courses tend to carry reasonable fees. While often non-conventional no matter what is studied, the education provided by the Scholarship Program is generally well regarded across the system, making it a very exclusive program indeed. Science Courses equally come with fees attached, however these can be reduced or even fully discounted if the individuals also signs up for a certain number of years of mandatory employment within the Initiative on completion of their course(s). While the Initiative does not practice slavery and so cannot force individuals to work, they will simply reinstate the funds with an added 10% should the individual forsake them.

The Nightingale Marines; Are reputably the most competent soldiers in the system, extensively trained and genetically monitored and often modified and equipped with the cutting edge of technology, the Marines are coveted but small fighting force whom fall into two groups;

-Hammer Division: Willing recruits drawn from general society, Hammer Division is formed of some of the best soldiers/athletes/tacticians/engineers/etc Sol has to offer, before further training, screening and the odd modification is added on top by the Initiative. Numbering at around 10,000 in total, they remain a small and exceptionally elite force in the grand scheme of things, trained to fight in a wide variety of tactical situations, be that as isolated spec-ops units, or part of a larger military operation instigated by a client.Example Appearance

-Sabre Division: Numbering only 1500, Sabre division are grown, while given an excellent general education, although in a compressed time (until adulthood the Sabres develop at twice the rate of a normal human) they are simultaneously morphed into super soldiers before, at the age of 9 (18) they are provided with their Sabre Mark Battlesuits, pushing their already exceptional abilities into the realms of superhuman. The Sabres are all female, as the default 'setting' for a human foetus, there is little need to deliberately change this and particularly to avoid the testosterone rage of males bred for war (and arguably the female body being better equipped to deal with extended periods of intense pain), the Sabres are not enslaved to the Initiative beyond their ninth birthday, although the vast majority choose to accept their 'suits' and enter employment with the Initiative (while they age quickly to a certain point, after this they only continually develop until their late twenties, then their physical form does not obviously degrade, as a whole human generation has not passed since the advent of Sabre division, the affect on their lifespan is unknown). Sabres are trained in cohorts of 50, divided into squads of 10 and cells of 5, although they are are rarely deployed as cohorts, instead being used for critical squad/cell based operations, although they would be exceedingly deadly during a large scale military encounter, due to the expense of hiring the Sabres and the investment required in each individual, neither their clients nor the initiative tend to waste them in such manoeuvres. Appearance

The Mercury Defense Network: Largely in the form of defensive satellites, with a few surface bunkers, the defense program is in place largely to defend the solar panel banks across the surface from saboteurs, thieves and space debris, in a long drawn out conflict the role of the network is to delay invaders until the inner sanctums can be evacuated, critical personnel and projects have the top priority while there is sufficient measures in place to evacuate every individual, if not every project, with enough spare left over to account for loss of certain regions. The preliminary layer is made up of minute monitoring installations, practically untraceable in the vastness of space, they locate, attempt to contact, then assign a warning priority to oncoming objects, be they asteroids or ships. The next response, if there is no reply, is for all defense station within range to open fire on the object, there are no conservation of power concepts, due to the energy taken from the sun, and the precious nature of Mercury, no expense is spared in making sure that said object is an object no more. All this is done automatically, sentient staff are only made aware of the situation should the threat survive the initial onslaught and remain on an invasion/impact trajectory.

The Deepspace Facilities: Three scientific stations in the outer system, separate from any natural orbit, while less heavily defended than Mercury, they are less prolific and play host to the Education program as well as outer investors and dignitaries, making them far more controversial targets for attack, especially due to their international nature. Due to their much more open status, the more controversial projects are left to the Mercury and Neptune Installation.

The Neptune Facility 'Constellation' : Constellation is the second largest Nightingale facility, orbiting Neptune and is completely sealed off from outside interference, even more so than the Mercury facility which is often the sight for educational/investor tours, the Chairman being the only individual whom is not a permanent member of staff to have knowledge of its inner workings. It possess a long list of fail safes should secrecy be breached, which includes the station being jettisoned into the gas giant it orbits, without shielding.

History: WIP

**Terminal** · 12-23-2012

System Message: The following archive contains language fragments which are incompatible with any human language and could not be properly translated - such fragments have been left unaltered. Passages within < > denote that they are rough, approximate translations.

Nation Name: <Lerna> (Xenolinguistic designation for the Jovian moon also commonly referred to as Europa)
Government Type: Oligarchy
Location: Europa

A great deal of Lernaean history is lost in the mists of time, as no reliable method of record-keeping has been developed short of carving into rock. History, as an archival concept, is only known as far back as the oldest Lernaean remembers being alive with the most well-known Lernaean historian being nearly 1,600 years old. Being historian is a duty alongside many others - there is no pay or incentive for being a historian other than what others might pay in return for retellings of the past. Even then, most history is greatly fragmented and distorted by personal bias. Recent history only covers the last several hundred years.

The past several hundred years is thought to have been rent with nearly continuous war between as many as six different nations, with

ascending to the role of <Exalted Ruler> approximately five hundred years ago. They are thought to have arranged a tentative military alliance with two others <Exalted Rulers>, taking advantage of

uniting of several prominent <war leaders> who commanded their armies. It was essentially a strong-armed alliance, as neither of the two <lands> would have lasted long with most of their forces having defected to join the rising <war leader>.

is then known to have swept across the oceans of the moon with his armies and to have destroyed every other nation and army left under the ice sheet over a time period of nearly thirty years. He is not remembered as having lost any battle that he personally lead, which drove him to become a nigh-mythical figure in Lernaean culture. Pockets and splinter groups of other nations and forces are thought to have survived his surge across the moon, but if so they likely either joined with the nearest city or died in the wild.

Since then, Lerna has known nearly three centuries of peace. The original alliance between the three only remaining <Exalted Rulers> and their <lands> remains, and is predicted to continue to do so for as long as the <Greatest Exalted Ruler> or

are alive.

holds all of the power on Europa, in that he wields the loyalty and the minds of the people as a legendary figure rivaling those out of myth - and he, by oath, follows the creed of the <Greatest Exalted Ruler>. What happens if they die first is therefore anybody's guess, although popular speculation is that the

will finally do away with <Exaltation> and simply declare himself <Sole Ruler>, although if he dies first it is thought all three <lands> will split and war will begin again.

is amongst the youngest of the Exalted Rulers at the age of 500 years. They rule the fewest cities of the lands, which is the weakest of the three, and they have a bitter rivalry with the other two <Exalted Rulers>. In recent times, as the most powerful of the <Exalted Rulers> has fallen on hard times, and doubts begin to rise as to their leadership abilities,

plots their rise and is ever watchful of the first <Exalted Ruler's> dark descent.

. A secretive ally of <Exalted Ruler>

. They are an outsider, a leader of a raider band that pillage and destroys. They have often spared Gregory's domain from plunder. In exchange, he is given supplies and weapons, often acting as an indirect means for the second <Exalted Ruler's> plot to undermine the other rulers. Their alliance, due to its conspiratorial nature along with the risk and fear that it is built upon, is a fragile one.

the last of the three <Exalted Rulers>, they maintain a neutral, yet distant relationship with the others. They are indifferent to the current crisis, and is simply more concerned with attending to his subjects. However, they do indeed have hidden fears regarding the bitter second <Exalted Ruler>, and whether they intend to carry out their sinister plans for Lerna.

- Something of a <trailblazer>, never staying for long in one spot. They are a fairly prominent philosopher and naturalist explorer, having a small and dedicated group of followers and idealists who support them. Well known for their <zeal>, passion for exploration and taking in all that life has to offer. In essence, they are a prototypical bardic adventurer.

- They are a

, the closest analogy in human culture being the prototypical black knight, with a healthy dose of rape and serial murder thrown in. They were a visionary <forger>, a rising star throughout all of <Lerna> known for their innovation and technique when working the <forge farm fields>. However, they decided to use their talents for <grand betrayal>, having discretely murdered dozens of fellow workers in gruesome manners, leaving their bodies to drift before eventually being caught in the act. They fled, and have been striking at the edges of
<Lernaean> civilization ever since, picking off wanderers and stragglers. They are particularly dangerous in that, as a member of a parasitic species, they are exceedingly talented at hijacking the nervous systems of other organisms - and they are even capable of parasitizing other
<Lernaeans>, despite their genetic neurology having been thought for the longest time to be wholly resistant to any such attempts. They are well known for their masterfully grown and shaped exosuits, their ability to parasitize others, and their tendency to use both in order to torture and murder victims for their pleasure.

Military Details: None of the three <lands>, by agreement, have a standing army. All military crop and industry is overseen by and conducted on the order of either <Exalted Rulers> or the military under

. While local <rulers> are expected to have their own <militants>, each <ruler> in turn is normally a member of an extended family branching out from one of the <war leaders> present in the military. Full-blown military exosuits are extremely rare sights outside of the <Greatest Land>.

Allied Forces of Three <Lands> as led by the <Greatest Exalted Ruler>

Hails from: Europa
Species: Lernaeans

- <Exalted Ruler> of six of the twelve cities of Europa.

is a spry 924 years old, having served as ruler for over 500 years after having being elected as the most deserving member of the previous <Exalted Ruler's court>. They are commonly considered to be the most influential political figure of Europa, despite the icy relationship held with the other two <Exalted Rulers of land>, although this is more a coincidence of residence since he just happens to be the <Exalted Ruler> who happens to control the city of <Lodestone Foundry>, the largest industrial and agricultural center on the moon. They are greatly loved by their people, although they are not without their critics, and their behavior has grown increasing erratic over the last several years. Some theorize that the loss of his mate due to a mysterious case of <Lodestone> poisoning has caused them too much grief, and that perhaps they are not as fit to rule as they used to be...

- They are the

of Europa's armies. Traditionally, each <Exalted Ruler> has one <war leader> under them, with exemplary heads of military being awarded the title

posthumously. However,

was the <war leader> under the previous <greatest Exalted Ruler>, having solidified the power structure of the three <lands> within the <grasp> of a shaky alliance between the three most prominent <Exalted Rulers> of the time.

is responsible for the systematic annihilation of every other nation and their armies on Europa. He has a perfect, eighty year victory streak that is unprecedented in all of <Lernaean> history and is often credited to be the uniting force of the current alliance, having offered defeated <war leaders> and <armies> whom had impressed him the opportunity to join with him rather than face defeat. Officially, based on the tenants of the alliance, he is only accountable to the most prominent of the three <Exalted Rulers>. As he is not a native of any of the three <lands> by birth, it is unknown exactly where his true loyalties lie. He is an unusual specimen of his species in that he has only one gender (hence why he gets proper pronouns). He is thought to be one of the most <charismatic> figures on Europa, and is a potential candidate for the next <Exalted Ruler> of the <Lodestone Foundry>.

Assets: The Lernaean Army controls the <Lodestone Foundry>, the largest agricultural and industrial center on Europa, while their leader controls six of the twelve cities on the entire moon. They can also order other cities and specific forge-farms to grow particular crop, draft new <soldiers> from any city and may generally do whatever they please as long as it does not upset any of the local <rulers>. As such, it would not be an unfair assessment to say that they hold the entirety of Lerna and all of its resources as an asset.

Lerna has known centuries of uninterrupted peace, save for attacks by unaffiliated raiders (which are not considered to be of great significance). As such, most the the military proper is largely retired and inactive. Each city is thought to have a militia of anywhere from 5,000 to 100,000 <sentries> and an active military force of anywhere from 1,000 to 12,000 <soldiers>. The nation is not thought to possess any space-faring vessels or any heavy armor equivalents.

Sentries - Keepers of civil order, the equivalent of heavily armed police. Equipped with thick chitinous armor and a muscular sheath for each tentacle, plus a tipped spike at the end of each, these Sentries are fairly dangerous in their own right, even to armored humans - the tentacles, each being covered more or less in pure muscle, have extreme strength to them that allows Sentries to drive their spikes through even powered armor with relative ease. Underwater, Sentries could strangle and/or impale even a well-armed and prepared human soldier with little trouble. Sentry exosuits are not watertight and so do not protect the operator outside of a saltwater environment - although the musculature would allow Lernaeans to move around quite nimbly on dry land, they would suffocate within minutes. Their advantage in a fight stems from how adapted they are to an aqueous environment. They also lack ranged weaponry, rendering them vulnerable to most munitions as long as said munitions work underwater.

Warriors - Exactly what they sound like. Warriors wear large, thickly armored exosuits that will shrug off most physical assaults. In keeping with the smaller Sentry exosuits, the larger Warrior exosuits also have thick, corded strands of muscle with sharpened, chitinous blades growing along their outer circumference which move based on the input of the exosuit's pilot. Each of these tentacles usually has a modified nematocyst at the end, resembling a claw that hooks into prey on contact before driving a central spike through them. Due to the coiled, spring-like structure the nematocysts used, each claw is able to latch into even solid metal, with the central spike being capable of driving through several meters of armor - necessary, as most Warrior exosuits are expected to have chitinous armor thick enough to allow the pilot to survive such attacks in the first place. The distinguishing characteristics that separate Warriors from sentries are the thickness of their armored shells and the length of their tentacles. Their chitinous shells can be anywhere from a foot to over a meter thick, with a reach that can extend over 30 meters. Thankfully, Warriors only remain effective in saltwater environments. Their exosuits, like those of Sentries, are not watertight and they lack any ranged weaponry. On dry land they would likely suffocate within minutes.

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