War Among the Stars (Low-sci-fi nation game, OOC)

[Cpt Toellner]

I'm going to mob them at the moment, if it becomes necessary. I can afford to move all my ships into a skirmish.

Funny, I plan to play with my own story for a while. Ironic that the merchant is the seclusive one story-wise.

[MelonHead]

Funny, I plan to play with my own story for a while. Ironic that the merchant is the seclusive one story-wise.

Well, I would have played an inner event but two ships from two people have flown over, presumably to take advantage of and exploit the crystal guys.

So I will be their unofficial protectors.

[Cpt Toellner]

Well, I would have played an inner event but two ships from two people have flown over, presumably to take advantage of and exploit the crystal guys.

So I will be their unofficial protectors.

My hero...

[Gotharic]

My hero...

our star systems are right next to each other, so it looks like trading may very well happen between us

[GrievousKhan]

So Raptor were you still up for that skirmish?

[Synthorian]

Well here's my nation sheet. All it lacks are the Military Hardware, Military Branches, Major Characters and the Species Traits, which will be added later.

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Faction Overview

Faction Name: Tilonan Conkfedorat (Tylon Confederation, TCF)

Faction Core World Name: Altonoch (pronounced Altonogh)
Core World Description:

Altonoch, a ruin of a planet that suffers from a full on atmospheric fallout is around twice the size of Earth, and with a gravity of 1.8G. There are multiple "Forsaken" zones that are uninhabitable due to their radiation levels going off the scale. Megacity 1 being a great example. The planet also has a large CO2 fog that is around 68% percent Carbon Dioxide, 2% Oxygen, and 30% Carbon Monoxide. The fog travels across the whole planet, around every Earth fortnight. That fog is poison and every time it seen, gas masks come on. Another recurring atmospheric anomaly are the Radiation Blowouts, normally these are distinguished when the sky turns blood red, which means gamma rays are moving through the sky. This means that in about 5 minutes, the area you are currently in will be dozed in 60 Sv worth of gamma radiation for about 30 minutes. Tylons would either take shelter in the undercities, or take anti-rad injections, which will also be explained later.

Capital: Megacity 14 (The Haven)
Major cities: 20
Settlements: 100+
Natural Satellites: None
Artificial Satellites: Many Orbital Strike and Anti-Ship Defence Grid satellites. Orbital "Ghost" mine-field.

Dominant Economic Activity: Nuclear Tech, Cybernetics, Anti-Radiation Drugs, Pure Uranium.
Secondary DEA: Artificial Nutrition, Raw Metal Mining, Salvage.

Nation Perks:

* Survivalists: Their ability to survive on Altonoch alone is astounding to any species that visits them. Throw the Tylons onto a virtually uninhabitable world and they will find a way to survive on it. Whether it's through genetic modification, or new technology. They always find a way.
* Going Nuclear!: Their understanding and knowledge of all kinds of radiation and nuclear energy is revolutionary. From power plants to radioactive rail-cannons. This has lead them to be able to artificially create pure uranium as a near infinite energy source, by smashing particles together in specially constructed factories. Even their Anti-radiation drugs have amazing effects against deadly doses of radiation.

Nation Flaws:

* A neutral state: Despite being desperate and possibly joining multiple alliances and signing peace pacts in the future to survive, if faced with choosing a side, they will most likely not, and remain in a neutral state and won't help anyone. They have their own problems anyway, like the mass evacuation, and possible terraformation of their homeworld.
* Mutants, Mutants Everywhere: Their current and biggest problem is the immense mutant infestation. It causes lots of problems. From the some what intelligent Rapture to the grotesque and near invincible Burrower Worms. Most of the TCF are concentrated in eradicating this mutant menace. Meaning they will be too busy fighting zombies rather than helping a race they have forged an alliance with.

Short History:

Before the TCF, there were multiple factions that emerged from small communities in the Emergency Fallout Shelters (EFS), and before those, there was the barren wasteland and the remainder ruins of the old Tilonan Imkperiun (Tylon Empire).

The former Tilonan Imkperiun was a large empire that spanned multiple star systems, ruled by a young, yet wise Empress, who always lead her armies to war in person, with her massive Battleship, Ca Sern Ester'la (the Blue Star). Their vast armies and fleet threatened the Golden Empire, and as such, the Imkperiun was approached by the Golden ones with a proposition. The Empress being a powerful Psyker, saw past their lies and read their thoughts of making the Tylons their indentured servants. She banished the Golden Empire from her systems, leaving them begrudged and angry at their failure to convince the Tylons to get 'uplifted'.

The Golden Empire and the Tilonan Imkperiun were on the verge of war, but the Eternal War among the Golden ones began, leaving them in disarray, while the Imkperiun suffered their own tragedies. The assassination of the Empress split the Tylon Empire into 3 factions, the Loyalists, the Overseers, and the Rebels. The Loyalists wanted to make sure that the Empress' son rose to power, while the Rebels wanted the Empire destroyed, and establish their own form of goverment. The Overseers on the other hand, were Golden Empire sympathisers, who believed that Golden Empire was truly the way forward.

These 3 factions left death and destruction on every colony they had behind, wiping themselves out to the brink of extinction. Atronoch, the capital of the former Tilonan Imkperiun, was their last stand, all three factions fighting each other planetside for the worlds control. The forces were equal in battle, not gaining any ground with the planet's nation borders split equally into three. The Loyalists were the ones to throw the final blow, sending a rain of heavy payload nuclear warheads across the whole planet, leaving Atronoch in ash, cinders, and radioactive fallout.

It was 400 years later when the survivors crawled out of their Shelters, they were greeted by the ruined landscape before them.



Each shelter began to establish its own society and mini-nations, other Tylons had no nations to be part of, and wandered the wasteland in search of adventure and loot. Wars between these nations had come and gone, scorching the land more so than before. 420 years later a young Tylon by the name of Kronos Gurik emerged seemingly out of nowhere, wandering the wasteland as a gun for hire, moving from town to town, border to border, continent to continent. The stories of his adventures and travels are the stuff of legends. He single-handedly sieged a reconstructed Tylon Light Cruiser, and took it for himself. Using that ship, and some allies that he made during his travels, he convinced the rebels of the Emergency Shelter Coalition to help him establish a more solid nation, now named the Tilonan Conkfedorat, or the TCF. With the rebel forces of the ESC at Kronos' back, and a group of advisors by his side, Kronos managed to form alliances between multiple factions, unifying the Tylon race as a whole. It took 50 years for the TCF to spread across the whole planet, spreading their influence. It was 50 years later when the Tylons took to space flight again, with their one and only ship, "The Apocalypse".

During this first flight, the Apocalypse meet a Draconian ship exploring the Tylon star system, which belonged to the Burning Legion. The Tylons almost opened fire on the Xeno vessel, but right before they pulled the trigger, they received a hail. Several hours and a massive language barrier later, they have managed to negotiate a meeting between Kronos and the Draconian Imperators. After that, the two nations have spent 80 years building on their relationship, the Draconians mostly keeping the Tylons at arms length, maintaining a trade pact between them.

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Outposts:

The Tylons have only recently managed to rebuild their old pre-nuclear-war ships. They have no actual planetary outposts established yet, just major cities that provide the Tylons with resources.

Outpost Name: Megacity 2 (The Mega Factory)



Outpost/City Summary: Megacity 2 is a massive factory city, clad with warehouses, hangers, spaceports and skyscrapers. Spanning 430000 square miles. This city is their bulk producer of Mechs, Tanks, Weapons and Ships. Megacity 1 is from the Pre-war era. Most of it's buildings are still damaged from the nuclear exchange, and are currently undergoing some sort of reconstruction or retrofit. This is also the home of the Alphatekk Mega Corporation, who design weaponry and robotics. The city is clouded in emissions, and there is a pungent smell of carbon, raw materials, and oil in the air. This city is also used as a trade gateway, for all the raw materials to be packaged and shipped off to other cities.
Asset: Military Tech, Vehicles, Ships, Ammunition, Raw Materials Trade.

Outpost Name: The Undercity (The Undercity Mine)



Outpost/City Summary: The Undercity was originally an Emergency Fallout Center that housed thousands of people during the nuclear bombardment. Since the original Megacity 9 that stood proudly above the Fallout Center was vaporised, taking a direct hit from a 200 megaton missile, the survivors turned their shelter into a huge underground city, using the thermo-energy of the core of the planet, instead of Nuclear Reactors, to power it. This city thrives on mining raw minerals, the best metals being near the planet's core.
Asset: Raw Minerals and Metals.

Outpost Name: Megacity 6 (NeoCity, also known as CyberCity)



Outpost/City Summary: NeoCity is the most advanced Megacity of Atronoch, holographic advertisements and lights illuminate the place, making it's grandeur visible from the horizon. This city is the Trade Center for all kinds of goods, except military tech. It is also home to the famous Psycho Squad, and the Omegatroniks Mega Corporation that builds cybernetic implants and cyberware.
Asset: Psycho Squad, Cyberware and Communications Technology.

Outpost Name: Megacity 14 (The Haven)



Outpost/City Summary: The Haven is the Capital city of the TCF, housing a massive military academy as a huge scientific research facility. The Haven itself is a huge biodome, built around the old Megacity. The surrounding area has a large amount of CO2, around 30%.
Asset: Military Training and Research.

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Race Name: Tylons
Majority Species: Tylonians = 80%
Minority Species: Tylonian Mutors = 19'99%, Tylonian Ethereals = 0'01%

Species Description:

(Yes, I drew that)

Your average Tylons are mammal-amphibians, and would stand at between 7 and half to 9 foot tall. They live between 350 to 400 years. Their musculature is very similar to that of most humanoids, but slightly denser, making them pretty strong, but no where near the calibre of their mutated brothers, the Mutors. Males have strong facial features, with their eyes (the entire eyeball being a huge black pupil) quite far apart and sharp cheekbones, they have bald heads unlike females. Females are, well, females. Their faces are more slender, but with a stronger nasal bone but softer cheekbones, with their eyes a little closer together. They also have head tentacles, which get longer with age. The longer the tentacles, the older the female. Tylon skin pigmentation varies, ranging in different colours. Blue Tylons have the toughest skin, green ones being poisonous, and white ones, with their thin and see-through skin, being the Albinos of the species. Tylons have psychic abilities, but that will be explained further in the Species Traits.

Mutors are the mutants of the species. Wielding huge muscles and standing at a height of 11 to 12 foot tall. Their strength and damage resistance is unmatched, capable of throwing a car and flipping over a small tank. They are also the most intelligent of the Tylon race. Unfortunately Mutors are only a small number of the populace, and 95% of them use their intellect for science, rather than war. They have no psychic abilities.

Ethereals are the most powerful psychics of the bunch. They are the same size as normal Tylons, but have oversized craniums.

Majority Species Traits:

Perks:

Resilience and Agility: They may be part amphibian, but they are also part mammal, add that to their current evolutionary stage. Their skin is hardened to resist up to 20 Sv doses of radiation, as such, their skin is hard to penetrate with most low-calibre weapons, especially with their musculature and height. Due to being quite tall, they are very fast runners, throwing large strides, as well as very flexible, utilizing cover to it's maximum potential.

Psionics: Tylons have minor Psychic abilities due to natural evolution. These Psychic abilities may be weak, but they are useful for communication between other Tylons and Xenos at short range. Tylons can only read the current thought you are projecting, if they try to read memories, they run a massive risk of brain damage in exchange for a small chunk of information.

Flaws:



Minor Species Traits: (1 positive perk, 1 negative flaw)

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Social Values

Government: The TCF Government is an Autocracy, don't mistake this for a Dictatorship. The TCF is ruled by a single Supreme Commander, holding all of the power in his/her hands, surrounded by several advisors from certain sectors that aid in the major decision making, such as who to start wars with, and what to research. Public Opinion and Needs are heavily valued, or in this case, heavily valued by Kronos himself.

Economy: It's a Socialist system where the government owns the Mega Corporations, much smaller businesses are owned by the people who created them. Originally the TCF followed a Capitalism economy, but the Mega Corporation started to fight for power and control, which followed in a Corporate War where multiple corporations tried to overthrow the TCF. Most corporations were decimated my the TCF, while the TCF took ownership of others by force, creating this makeshift Socialist economy. The economic system itself is a mix between a mixed economy, a participatory economy, and a barter economy.

Religion: None.

Military: The military normally use a mix of guerilla tactics as well as front-line warfare and trench warfare tactics when applicable. Since the entire Tylon population IS the military, they always have people on standby and ready for war when they are needed, most of them also being trained in using enemy vehicles through a bit of quick thinking and improvisation. Front-line warfare involves the use of massive armour collums consisting of tanks and mechs, aided but both heavy and light ground forces, sometimes escorted by nuclear gunships and with orbital bombartment support. Trench warfare is somewhere along the same lines. Guerilla warfare and Special Operations are employed through the use of small, heavily trained elite units that go behind enemy lines and cause as much havoc as possible, and in some cases, complete annihilation of enemy installations and bases.

Ideology: Tylon ideology really depends on which Megacity you are from, since all of them have recently been annexed by the TCF due to their original goverments failing to keep control. If you are from Haven, you value honour and companionism. If you are from the Mega Factory, you value labour and hard work. If you are from NeoCity, you value that next generation cybernetic limb, or that really expensive designer outfit. Every Tylon is unique when it comes to value. The TCF as a whole value prosperity and survival of the Tylon race. They had one nuclear war, they don't want another.

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Name: The Apocalypse



Class: Light Cruiser/Planetary Siege Vessel
Weapons: (Work in Progress, still trying to calc weapon levels. Leave ready to change on notice.)
Captain: Commengdankt Terra
Perks: Plenty of firepower and Armour - This ship is decked out with enough firepower to make another light cruiser have second thoughts, and enough armour to take one hell of a beating.
Flaws: Painfully slow, Massive engines - The Apocalypse is really slow in both acceleration and general top speed. It's turning speed is also pretty frustrating to deal with, especially in battle. It's massive engines that are need to even get the thing off the ground are a really easy target, this is a case of forced bad design, it's difficult to produce a small and powerful engine for a ship this heavy. There is research currently in the works for a much smaller, and yet more potent nuclear sub-light engine. If the research is successful, this will decommission the Apocalypse for a Retrofit for several months as the design gets reworked and applied (Turning this vessel into a Cruiser with buffed engines and generally bigger dimensions, with an addition of broadside weaponry rather than spinal mounted nuclear railcannon turrets).

Name: The Platform



Class: Heavy Frigate/Carrier
Weapons: (Work in Progress, still trying to calc weapon levels. Leave ready to change on notice.)
Captain: Commengdankt Sigrian
Perks: Fighter hanger - This vessel has it's own Fighter/Bomber hanger than can also be used as a ground forces transport if needed, this vessel can sustain combat landings as well as repair ships while in combat.
Flaws: Lack of firepower - Due to the space needed for the Central Hangar, the Platform lacks sufficient weaponry to take down a similar vessel alone. It heavily depends on it's fighter and bomber squadron to help deal large amounts of damage.

Name: The GunStar



Class: Heavy Frigate
Weapons: (Work in Progress, still trying to calc weapon levels. Leave ready to change on notice.)
Captain: Commengdankt Aldren
Perks: Well armed and armoured - The GunStar carries the smaller varient of the Nuclear Railcannon Turrets, and is equipped with 20 megaton nuclear torpedos. It is also decently armoured.
Flaws: Slow - Just like the Apocalypse, it is slow, but has a faster turning speed.

Name: The Traverse



Class: Transport
Weapons: (Work in Progress, still trying to calc weapon levels. Leave ready to change on notice.)
Captain: Subt-Commengdankt Retrian
Perks: Large passenger capacity - It can carry up to 10000 civilians to other worlds for colonization.
Flaws: Basic weaponry - It's weapons are basic and relatively weak in form. The Traverse needs armed escort to survive

Name: The Drop Platform



Class: Military Transport
Weapons: (Work in Progress, still trying to calc weapon levels. Leave ready to change on notice.)
Captain: Subt-Commengdankt Karmacon
Perks: Large Armour and Troop capacity - This ship is designed for transporting companies of soldiers, as well as large amounts of tanks and mechs for either reinforcements or to accompany the Traverse by supplying the new colony with security forces. Dropping soldiers from orbit and onto the battlefield with precision targeted droppods, while heavy armour is dropped from mid-atmo onto the battlefield.
Flaws: Slow - It's twice the size of the Traverse, and is just as slow as the Apocalypse, needs armed escort to survive.

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Armoury

Vibro-Knife



Official Name: TCX Vibro
Common Name: Vibro-Knife
Ammunition: N/A
Magazine Capacity/Clip Capacity: N/A
Price: 500 C-Bills
Use (Who Uses It): All military branches
Designer: Alphatekk Weapons Design
Manufacturer: Alphatekk

The Alphatekk TCX Vibro is a standard issue vibroblade for all military branches. It uses an ultrasonic field to increase the knife's cutting effectiveness by vibrating the blade. It reverberates a very quiet hum as it vibrates, which is quite difficult to hear.

Vibro-Blade



Official Name: TCV Vibro Sword
Common Name: Vibro-Blade
Ammunition: N/A
Magazine Capacity/Clip Capacity: N/A
Price: 750 C-Bills
Use (Who Uses It): Black Guard and Psycho Squad
Designer: Alphatekk Weapons Design
Manufacturer: Alphatekk

The Alphatekk TCV Vibro Sword is issued to all Black Guard soldiers, and Psycho Squad operatives (who have it implanted in their cyberlimbs). It operates in the same fashion as the TCX Vibro, but has a much more audible hum than it's predecessor.

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Vehicles

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Military and Law Enforcement Branches

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Major Characters: (For major leaders or heroes in your nation)

Name:
Species:
Skills:
Personality:
Short History:

[Meeky]

Well, I would have played an inner event but two ships from two people have flown over, presumably to take advantage of and exploit the crystal guys.

So I will be their unofficial protectors.

Yeah, I was wondering how the roleplay would start for the T'Tiri. So far, so astonishingly good... From what I've talked over with Grimm, and with the Nerai and Sciranti Collective so far so friendly (or at least so 'not shooting at us'), the T'Tiri could end up having a safe, strong start.

I'm honestly very surprised that a lone privateer ship would come at the T'Tiri in the very beginning - but I certainly won't look a gift horse in the mouth!

[MelonHead]

Oh great, more random ships in my sector.

This is going to get ridiculous soon.

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Gotharic, why are you scouting the sector with a destroyer anyway?

(Without any negotiations.)

[GrievousKhan]

Hey now I know where to send that invasion scouting fleet!

Anyway I suspect they are in you neck of the woods Melon because they are either lost, or wish not to risk entering Draconian space. :P

[MelonHead]

Hey now I know where to send that invasion scouting fleet!

Anyway I suspect they are in you neck of the woods Melon because they are either lost, or which not to risk entering Draconian space. :P

Pff, they're going to get raped if they don't start talking quickly. Wandering into someone else' space with relatively minor forces is a good way to have your incredibly valuable ships knocked out without costing the opponent anything.