Faction Sheet
Faction Name: The Eudaimonia Foundation, Azura Colony
Faction Type: Colony
Affiliation: The Eudaimonia Foundation
Leader(s):
Council President Helena Hawthorne, A-type
Chief of Azura Militia Captain Adrian Garroway, Liberator A-type
Persons of Importance:
Chief Engineer Arasmus Chekov, B-type Thinker-variant
Azura Militia, Zeta Squad
Lieutenant Serina May, B-type Venus-variant
Sergeant Major Davos Jaeger, B-type Atlas-variant.
Corporal Claus Tanner, C-type Lion-familiar
Privates Sain and Kent, Westinghouse-clone B-types, Pioneer variants
Civilian Assets:
* Bioengineering for All: Every colonist of Azura Colony is genetically-engineered to some extent, with physical and mental abilities above the human norm, or in a few special cases exceeding it greatly.
* Molecular Forge: Azura Colony has a noted advantage in possessing a molecular forge, an adaptable and flexible high-tech manufacturing system capable of Industrial 3D printing of most base materials and electronics. It cannot reproduce advanced electronics or optronics, and depends heavily upon detailed schematics to produce anything, but it is of immense utility in production of equipment Azura does have schematics for.
* Comfortable Living: Azura colony is not a hardscrabble outpost. Its a well-maintained colony with plenty of creature comforts and comfortable living standards for its colonists.
Military Assets:
* Bred for Battle- The small Azura Colony security force is bolstered by the fact that every soldier in its ranks has mandatory gene-modding ontop of their pre-existing mod-type, creating fighters that are naturally fit, energetic, calm under fire, and are more effective than the average human soldier. However they are facing severe manpower and equipment shortages due to their recent accelerated growth, and many of them are new recruits that haven’t seen real battle before.
* Mobile Land, Sky, and Space- For all the Azura Security’s manpower and material problems, they have no shortage of aircraft or spacecraft to contest the skies and orbit, or haul their troops where needed on planet.
* Orbital Support- The original colony ship to found Azura still remains in orbit, and has been refitted by Azura Security to act as a mobile staging base to deploy troops and fighters as well as basic artillery support from orbit.
Military Units
Infantry
"Jacket" Improvised Powered ArmorAs the tempo of conflict and native uprisings increases on Dacyira, the Azura colonists are forced to arm themselves to protect their technology and research despite having to build a private security force from scratch. One early effort was to repurpose load-lifting exoskeletons into basic powered armor to carry more guns and equipment into battle, and when paired with a skilled operator is quite effective. While not the best powered armor, the gene-modded fighters of Azura can get a lot more performance out of these suits than a regular human could.
Beater Powered ArmorA heavy weapons powered armor suit derived from imported mercenary hardware and lessons learned from the Jacket’s early iterations, the Beater is a multiple weapons systems deployment platform. While it does little to augment the wearer’s speed or reflexes and burdens them with considerable weight despite powered servos, it lets them carry a pair of heavy weapons on their shoulders along with dual-wielding wrist weapons without too much encumbrance. Despite ongoing production and replacement plans, Beaters only make up a fraction of A-Sec’s armor supply and can’t replace Jackets, and only the heavy-muscle variant C and B types can haul this armor into battle. But when they do, they are walking tanks.
Vehicles
Sentinel Automated TankTo supplement Azura's extremely limited manpower base, a number of Sentinel Automated tanks are being utilized to supplement ground forces with some degree of armor support. Armed with a 100mm autoloaded cannon, the Sentinel is a squad-support vehicle meant to follow infantry and provide covering fire and heavy ordinance support. Their limited AI makes them unsuitable for independent operations and they can be outmaneuvered by human-driven vehicles. But they are simple and easy for even a colony to replace in bulk, something Azura is striving towards.
Aircraft
Hornet FighterA chance bulk-purchase backed by Foundation funding just as the conflict over Dacyria began to arise to combat the threat of piracy, the Hornet forms the basis of Azura's entire aerial defense force. While second-rate merc hardware, Hornets are reliable and rugged VTOL craft well-suited for colonial combat that can be refitted with a range of payloads and can even travel and fight in space. They are typically armed with a pair of 35mm autocannons paired with anti-air and anti-ground missiles. However Azura has more Hornets than they have trained pilots.
Spacecraft
Refitted colony ship EndeavorThe Endeavor is Azura colony's founding colony ship that brought them to Dacyria. After colonization, the ship was retained for zero-g labspace and orbital surveying, and the colony made do with prefab housing and facilities instead of cannibalizing the ship into their colony. With the rising tensions and conflict on and above the planet, the Azura Militia have commandeered the Endeavor into a mobile staging base for their rapid-reaction forces and half of the Hornet and dropship wings, as well as retrofitting mass driver and laser turrets into the ship as basic defenses against enemy ships. Despite the ongoing refits, the Endeavor is hardly a warship, and furthermore is operating on a skeleton crew and extensive automation for even basic operations.But its a critical linchpin in Azura defenses until reinforcements from the core worlds arrive.
Brief History:
The Eudaimonia Foundation is a interstellar organization dedicated to furthering human transhumanism through genetic engineering, preferably in ways that would allow for all humanity to benefit rather than a small elite, and are noted to be one of the “nicest” transhuman organizations around, with prolong extended lifespans and youth being standard-issue for all of its members.
Azura colony was founded as a branch to investigate how local genetics and environment could improve upon retroviral engineering to allow for advanced genetic modifications to be “back-engineered” into adult subjects. While they have made significant strides in retroviral engineering, their research and advanced infrastructure has also begun to make them a target to the other colonies jealous of their achievements and rich resources they sit upon but do not exploit. Forcing Azura colony to raise a defense force and call to Foundation headquarters for additional support and security, and dig in for the storm to come.
Yet necessity is the mother of innovation, and Azura Colony is more than willing to rise to the challenges to come.
Other:
Every member of the Eudaimonia Foundation is gene-modded in some form, consisting of a general template the subject conforms to via engineering or hereditary genetics, along with personal gene-mods the subject adapts themselves.
Mod-type Templates
C-type: Effectively the baseline genemod of the Eudaimonia Foundation, generally just small modifications to improve health, immune systems, metabolism, deletion of any genetic ailments and disorders, and basic prolong and youth extension. These make up the majority of the Foundation because of how easy they are to implement and their great flexibility of personal customization in comparison to the more rigid archetypes of the higher-class genemod types.
C-type Variants:
* Familiar add-on mod: Less a variation and more of a add-on specialization ontop of standard C-mods, the Familiar family of supplemental modification provides a user with traits and abilities similar to a selected animal (A cat-type would have greater balance and perception, a dog-type would emphasize smell and determination, etc) with ears and tail to match (they arn’t splicing animal DNA in, just traits to make it look like it). Considered one of the greatest examples of retroviral engineering, users can with minor difficulty change familiars over time, although its impossible to have more than one.
B-type: An advanced comprehensive package of cognitive and intellectual upgrades on top of the physical benefits of a C-type package, B-type genemods effectively make a person peak-human in several respects; physically, mentally, socially, although rarely all at once. Most B-types are optimized and specialized in one or two areas. Extended prolong is also included in the template, ensuring greatly extended lifespans and youth. Programs are in progress to retroviral engineer B-mods into C-types, although they are presently of varying effectiveness in breeding true. Furthermore B-types are not as genetically flexible as C-types, and can’t accept as many add-on mods.
B-type Variants:
* Venus-Type: A social interaction template meant to optimize individual empathy and charisma, as well as memory and physical beauty. Venus-types tend to have bodies that "merely" start at very attractive and perfectly-proportioned, and work up from there as their mods assert themselves and they find their social niche to work into. They are usually marked by a preference for unusual hair colors.
*Thinker-type: An A-type knockoff template focusing solely on cognitive and intellectual abilities, Thinker-mods effectively turn the user into a powerful living computer capable of astounding feats in complex thinking, computer interactions and interface, theoretical engineering, and high synchronization with mind-machine interfaces which they tend to wear all the time. Thanks to decades of engineering, Thinkers are not socially crippled or erratic, but they arn’t party-people either and prefer to be alone or with other Thinkers.
A-Type: Beyond peak human in all respects, A-types are rare individuals that through advanced gene-engineering, technology, family genetics, or plain luck have yielded truly exceptional and superior genetics and abilities in all regards. Physically, mentally, socially, cognitively, a A-type is outright superior in all respects, and they tend to gravitate towards leadership roles accordingly. However reliably reproducing or replicating A-type templates is exceedingly difficult, as a procedure for one person may not work for another, nor do they breed true. Attempts to study and reliably replicate A-types are one of the major focuses of the Foundation.
A-type Variants:
* Liberator-type: A high-intensity combat genemod type meant to produce supersoldiers through improved agility, reflexes, and hardiness under fire via modified adrenaline glands to promote rational and calm thinking even in pitched combat situations, rather than emphasizing aggression and muscle (although they have a fair share of that as well) producing exceedingly high-quality soldiers. Liberators are extremely difficult to engineer though, and despite being a reliable A-type template available to the Foundation there are only a dozen among the Foundation with little impetus to create or import more from offworld. They also have a noted flaw of not being able to control when their “battle reflex” kicks in off the battlefield, resulting in treating social or intellectual activities like a warzone, with according negative results.