Ship Designation: GANS - Reaper
Ship Registry: HDNX - 0091
Ship Class: Hive-Ship (Dreadnaught)
Ship Size: 2.3 kilometers
Ship Crew: 38,780 (including hanger pilots and infantry)
Ship Weapons:

• x1 Anti Capitol Mass cannon - main weapon needs to be charged before firing - Requires Targeting AI.
• x106 small laser turrets for point defence against ships and torpedoes
• x34 torpedoe tubes stationed at the rear of the ship can be used for mine laying and Rear defence

Ship technologies:

• Engine- The Reaper is in possession of a dark matter engine. Once fired up the engine never needs to be refueled. This has made it the flagship of Sigma. The Dark Matter Engine has the ability to Jump much like a FTL engine. However the dark matter engine is unstable if damage is sustained or its overloaded the Engine will implode pulling all matter within a 150km radius before expelling it across the stars.
• shielding- While The Reaper has nano-carbon plating that can absorb most kinetic and electrical impacts distributing it across the entire hull so lessen the impact. The shielding is cyclonic energy. This tries to solves the issue of standard impacts stopping the kinetic impact by slapping it aside. the draw back to this is it has a short cycle length, meaning it can only be used for a short period of time. d
• radar - long range radar of up to 3 FTL jumps away.
• quantum communications- ability to communicate with ships and stations on the other side of the galaxy.
• AI - Trident. This AI is used purely as targeting of the ACMC as well as keeping systems from not overloading. The AI will only follow comands given by Titan or Ghost

Ship Appearance:

Notable missions:

• First mission - Operation Cat and Mouse
  
  with a small fleet of Frigates The Reaper tracked and disbanded a group of marauders attacking civilians in the glai System
• thirty fourth mission- Defense of Dry dock UEC Gamma 19
  
  In the system looking for planets to mine. alerted to hostilities.
  A group of UEC Defectors stole several battle cruisers and classified information. Use of the ACMC against a Battlecruiser was documented. with full effect on target.

Other: with the reapers main weapon requiring charge up before firing, this leaves the ship defenseless as all power that's not linked to essential systems is pulled. for there to be maximum effect the reaper must be stationary when firing.
due to the immense size of The Reaper there is no way to hide the signature of the ship so any radar system can pick it up almost instantly.
Also due to its size The Reaper can not enter a planet's gravitational pull otherwise it will be pulled down and crash. this makes maneuvering the already difficult and slow ship almost impossible when near planetary bodies.

Name: Unit 5000345 "Ghost"
Age: 1009 cycles Equivalent of 200 human years
Race: Fa’nay (Hell Diver)
Rank: Prime (captain)
Skills: Excellent ground combat skills and leadership skills.
Away Mission Equipment/appearance:

• twelfth Generation combat body.
• 10ft long throwable speer
• Semi Auto scattershot rifle
• kukri knife
• Shield

Personality: Models such as Ghost that have been battle hardened have picked up personality quirks. Ghost is very calculated and exact. Often appearing cold to other races. Ghost like the rest of his race have little to no emotional programing. However its his mission to find ways of becoming more "organic" through the use of relations with organics.

Quick-Bio: Ghost was designed to lead. That was his function. He was made to captain a ship to complete the Hive minds goal of protecting innocent organics from threats. when alerted to the attacks upon the GAN/C. Ghost retasked his ship and crew to assist in the defense. When asked to be part of the Sigma fleet, Ghost complied. the logical thinking of his race and his mission made him accept he and his crew would fight to the death to protect the organics.

Name: Alexei Yevvit
Race: Human
Rank: Fleet Admiral/Liaison to the Fa’nay Captain.
Skills: Yevvit is Tactician. Every move he makes is calculated down to a fine point. His motto is get it done to the letter. No fuss. just do it.
Downside to his brilliant mind is that he thinks he knows everything thus meaning other people's input will often get discarded. His skill is what landed him the be the Fleet Admiral of Sigma and is the voice of TitanHQ.

Away Mission Equipment/appearance: He never leaves the ship unless it's to attend sore leave or any Admiralty board meetings.
He does carry however a pair of 3 Barreled Burst revolvers .45 rounds


Personality: Admiral Yevvit is Selfish, big headed and sometimes cocky. He only listens to those he respects and even then that is limited at best.

Bio: -Classified-

Name: Unit 900123 X569 "Banshee"
Age: 97 cycles
Race: Fa'nay
Rank: Legionary (Major)
Skills: Quick reflexes (high processing power)
Away Mission Equipment:
High caliber rifle
Scatter shotgun
Katana
Appearance:
Personality: Little to no personality due to being a newer model.
Quick-Bio: Banshee was built to lead the Assault teams of the Reaper. His new model used the latest processing units to allow for the quickest speed and calculations.
However there is an issue with this. he sees the world as black or white. meaning that she could not define between good and evil.

Ship Designation: GANS Nagasena
Ship Registry: STNX - 0000
Ship Class: Stealth Cruiser (Frigate)
Ship Size: 456.7M
Ship Crew: ±1.200
Ship Weapons:
- x2 Long range Phaser batteries. Primary weapons
- x30 Close range Kinetic gun batteries. Used for defense
- x2 Missile Tubes
Ship technologies:
- Advanced AI (Experimental) - An actual self aware AI. First time being used in a combat craft. Unknown results. Listens to the name Irene.
- Reflex Shield (Experimental) - This special shield covers the ship and hides any energy/heat signatures on enemy radars. However, due to it only capable of hiding so much energy, reactors must be powered down to 1/3th capacity.
- Blink Drives - Nothing special about the engines. The Nagasena was given Blink Drivers to get in and out of combat quickly if needed.
- Advanced Radars - Juiced up radars that are capable of giving a clear image of an entire system.
- Thermal scanners - Able to pick up heat signatures on board of a ship. Able to filter between mechanical heat and organic heat.
Ship Appearance:

Notable missions: None. Fresh of the production line.
Other: Due to the urgency of the requested fleet, the ship has never underwent proper testing.
The armor of the Nagasena is very light as it needs to be a fast craft. Without proper support or the Reflex Shields, the hull can be penetrated very easily.
This ship was designed to disable enemy crafts, scouting undetected and boarding enemy ships in order to gain control of them.

Name: Orpin Hiral
Age: 34 (old for Otisha standards)
Race: Otisha
Rank: Captain
Skills: Master at Space Combat Tactics.
Away Mission Equipment: Small Las Pistol.
Appearance: There isn't much difference to be seen between Otisha. Still, Captain Hiral, due to his age, is tinted gray instead of usual white. As for clothes he wears a suite fitting to his position.
Personality: Orpin Hiral is a quiet figure. He often retreats in his thoughts where he figures out the best tactics for situations that haven't even happened yet. He is a respected figure on the ships he commands, but he is fearful of his current assignment.
Quick-Bio: Being trained on the academy for captain, Hiral quickly rose to the ranks due to his tactical prowess. It wasn't long before he had command over his own ship. An assault carrier tasked with escorting colony ships. This was done for a couple of years uneventful until one day the fleet was attacked by a large group of rebel Hypharin. The odds mainly stacked against Hiral, he still managed to pull out a victory.

This is why his name was dropped as candidate for leading a new project from the Alliance. In interviews he apparently was the most qualified and he got assigned to the Nagasena, an experimental frigate. While he is not used to commanding such a small craft, he will do anything in his power to pull of the mission given to him.

Name: Irene
Age: 0 (15 years in development)
Race: AI
Rank: N/A
Skills: Hacking, Calculating, Supporting, etc.
Away Mission Equipment: Can transfer a part of herself into a module that Captain Hiral carries around.
Appearance:

Personality: While still limited in certain things due to Blockers, Irene cares for her crew and will do anything for them. This was her default setting. Who knows how that might change over the years?
Quick-Bio: AI's were always used on Space Ships. Though due to the fact that they were only used for one task they were actually more like VI's. Irene was in development for 15 years and is the first go at true artificial intelligence. She has self awareness, base emotions and can learn new things herself. She was integrated in the new ship the Nagasena for experimental reasons.

Faira race doc (Warning: Wall of text)

TL;DR: The Faira are a nigh extinct, advanced silicon-based race inhabiting a part of a distant galaxy that travelled into this one only a short time ago and volunteered a ship to help the effort as a gesture of goodwill. They are not part of the Alliance (yet), and can not afford to send any more support than the one ship.

Ship Designation: FFg Raijin, Cygnus-class

Ship Registry: FS-2-2-1-3

Ship Class:
The Faira system for ship designations is vastly different from that of the Alliance. While it’s native class is a frigate, by alliance standards it more fits the role of ‘pocket battlecruiser’. The idea behind the class is to strip the Destroyer class (Battleship equivalent) and reduce it in size with the intent of keeping the firepower and enhancing speed. The tradeoff is somewhat thinner armor asset and the absence of a fighterbay of any kind.

Ship Size: 1000 meters

Ship Crew:
Commanding officer
Executive officer
Diplomat
2x Helm
2x11 weapons operator
2x4 engineer
4x escort marine

Ship Weapons:
Faira prefer plasma based weaponry, as it delivers damage on several levels, from kinetic through thermal to electromagnetic, making them hard to shield form and protect the hull against.
10x 5m multipurpose plasma cannon: These cannons can fire either rapid bursts of small blasts to target small ships, or a high-coherence plasma lance to engage large targets.
1x 50m anticapital plasma beam: A monster of a cannon, this thing can gut a ship equal in size to the Raijin or smaller in under 10 shots.

Ship technologies:
Shielding - the Faira shielding si state fo the art - a necessity given their shortage of various ores and low capacity of their shipyards. Combining a rotating ion barrier with a strong magnetosphere, it takes a powerful weapon to pierce through. The shields are a bit more power hungry than average, which led the engineers to split them in 6 segments, one for each direction, so power can be allocated to the needed quadrants more efficiently.
Armor - Faira armor is simple in design. The hull forms an enclosed monocoque with modules bolted onto it. The Raijin is a later variant of the class, which added plates of additional ablative armor to protect vital areas.
Fusion reactor - To keep the logistics simple, weapons, power generation and sublight drives all run on the same fuel, which is any form of gas, most often helium or hydrogen. The fusion plant is a mainstay in the Faira fleet, reliable and proven by the years. It is not as strong as other forms of power generation though, and it is particularly noticeable on the Cygnus class frigates.
Plasma drives - Split into four groups of two on separate pylons, the ship is quite over-engined for it’s mass giving it very good acceleration. Coupled with vectored thrust nozzles, this ship can dance on the battlefield if need be.
Subspace motivators - The Faira way of FTL transport. The motivators create a 1-dimensional tunnel between point A and point B through which the ship can travel at very high speeds with rather low energy requirements. A serious drawback is that Faira shields do not work in subspace and ships equipped with this technology can follow others into their jump nodes, creating a great weakness, albeit one hard to exploit without proper know-how.
EWS, ECS - Early warning system and electronic combat suite are one of the pivotal strengths of Faira ships. Capable of detecting targets at very high ranges and attacking the sensors of other ships, the Faira won quite a few engagements before any shots were even fired.
AIs - The hidden strongpoint of the Faira. Most of their ships’ tasks are automated using artificial intelligences based on the species’ own physiology. This combined with the lack of pilots and marines means that a ship of this size can be operated by tiny crew at peak efficiency.
Fabricators - To eliminate the need to create large supply depots or logistics ships, all Faira ships are equipped with replicators large enough to produce any spare parts given the raw materials.
Docking port - The means of transferring crew and supplies, the docking port also acts as fuel scoop to replenish the ship’s life support system, fuel tanks and weapons’ magazines.
Heat capacitors and recuperation unit - This particular ship is equipped with experimental heat sink upgrade which allows it to store excess heat for about 15 minutes and limit its thermal signature significantly. The stored heat is also partially recycled back into power.

Ship Appearance:


Notable missions:
The first ship to use the inter-galactic bridge to arrive in this galaxy and making first contact with the Alliance.

Strengths and weaknesses:
+ Shielding: Strong and renewable. If you do not destroy this ship, it will very likely retreat and come back at full strength sooner than you can repair your damage.
+ Redundancies: All systems have a backup of a backup, and if the computers fail, there is enough crew to operate the basic functions of the ship.
+ Sustainability: The Raijin is ideal ship for long range solo missions, given its stealth and minimum support requirements.
- Heat sinks: All the tech creates a lot of heat that needs to go somewhere. If enough heat sinks are damaged, the ship has to further limit its power generation
- Docking port: The only place where the hull is actually drilled through. Hitting there guarantees a critical hit.
- Insufficient power generation: The ship does not generate enough power to sustain maximum shield, weapon and engine output, but can only run two at full strength when the other is completely shut down, or operate all of them at less than peak efficiency.
- Insufficient point defense: While the cannons are positioned in a way that 100% of firepower can be focused to the front and at least 50% to any direction, there are too few to protect the ship against swarms of strikecraft. It also carries no strikecraft of its own to fill in the blanks.
- Weak armor: If somebody finds a way to quickly deplete / punch through the Faira shielding, the armor itself will not hold out for long.
- Inability to perform ground/boarding operations: With their low numbers and nomadic lifestyle, the Faira do not have marines present on their ships in any other capacity than diplomatic escort.

Ship Designation: GANS Courage

Ship Registry: NS 1267905

Ship Class: Retro-fitted Colony ship

Ship Size: 1.8 Kilometers

Ship Crew: Ship crew 25,000 people.
10,000 Marines
4000 support personal. (Engineers, additional medical staff, etc)
10,000 crew and standard personal
1000 Pilots and hangar personal.

Ship Weapons: Missile systems, multiple heavy canons, using kinetic rounds, and hundreds of energy and kinetic weapons.
Ship technologies:
AI systems
FTL drive
Radar
Replicators

Ship Appearance:


Notable missions: The defense of Hephaestus.

Other: The Courage is a devastating ship even though it only has missile systems and the rest of it’s weapons are energy and kinetic based. With less armor and less weapons than a Dreadnought it’s faster able to fight with Destroyers and Frigates. It’s energy shields are stronger than the average Dreadnought yet if shot through they would reveal very little armor. However with the ship having been built to house a lot more personal than it currently does the enemy would have burn through multiple decks worth of metal to even hit critical systems.

What makes the Courage unique is that it’s size allows it to vary its purpose to that of the fleet. It can fight like a Dreadnought or defend like a carrier, it's even able to perform as a repair vessel to an extent thanks to having dedicated engineers on board. It’s major weakness is to groups of smaller faster ships or other Dreadnoughts. It cannot win a straight up fight with another ship it's size. It can also accompany strike groups and serve and draw fire while it’s fighters protect the ships near it.

x30
Ship Designation: Wolf Hunter
Ship Class: Interceptor class
Ship Crew: 1 pilot, 1 gunner
Ship Weapons: Laser repeaters, 1 lock-on missle system, and one high caliber kinetic gun.
Other:
Ship Appearance:


x40
Ship Designation: Lion Mark III
Ship Class: Fighter
Ship Crew: 1 pilot
Ship Weapons: Laser repeaters, high caliber machine gun, Torpedo launcher.
Other:
Ship Appearance:


x20
Ship Designation: Inquisitor
Ship Class: Bomber
Ship Crew: 2 gunners, 1 pilot
Ship Weapons: Rear energy guns, frontal fixed high caliber gun, missiles, torpedo launcher.
Other: Cannot be detected on radar, thanks to stealth. However the bomber are larger and slower so much easier targets for interceptors.
Ship Appearance:


x5
Ship Designation: Triceratops
Ship Class: Shuttle
Ship Crew: 1 pilot, 2 gunners, 1 crew chief.
Ship Weapons: Missile launchers, twin fixed machine guns, turret inside the loading bay.
Other: Heavy transport, can carry tanks and other vehicles as well as troops.
Ship Appearance:

Name: James Knight

Age: 29

Race: Human

Rank: Captain

Skills: An ace pilot, James was also trained in ship to ship combat and ground operations however his talents lay in fleet command and tactical analysis. He prefers planning his mission before getting in to deep. However what many see as 'winging it' is actually him calculating perfect strategy's on the fly.

Away Mission Equipment: Personal shield generator, standard body armor, kinetic rifle, and an old .45 1911 as a side arm.

Appearance:


Personality: James is tough, dependable and puts people before all else. He does however put his foot down and expect everyone to perform well under his command. He keeps order the simple fact he will do anything he would order of them. He’s calm and collected in a fight, often advising other and is willing to ask for help. He’s a team player and will crack down hard on those who don’t want to play by the rules.

Quick-Bio: James grew up on a distant colony on the very rim of known space. His home was one of the largest shipyards in the human colonies, Hephaestus, it decommission Colony ships and turned the materials into smallers ships. Hephaestus is renown for its fighters as well as the quality of the pilots they produce. James attended the planet's military academy training in all courses, while not the best soldier he is a genius commander and thinker.

When his home was attacked by pirates seven years ago he earned the nickname, Jack-boot. His commanding officer tried to trade the colony for his own life James shot him in the back. After this he repelled the the attacker losing most of the defense cannons and fighters. He commandeered a colony ship and ordered it refitted with guns and additional shielding. When the pirates returned the faced something they had not expected, a ship of Dreadnought size. Opening fire with all guns the pirate frigates went down swiftly and the colony was saved. Jack then had the ship completely retrofitted as a Dreadnought/carrier hybrid.

Crewman

Name: Nora hall

Age: 28

Race: Human

Rank: Lieutenant Commander

Skills: Communications Specialist, radar, and Ship command.

Appearance:


Personality: Sarcastic and quick witted, Nora is Knight's best friend and first mate. She is harsh judge of character and tough, the voice of caution to her more emotional Captain. However she does often drink with Knight down in his quarters, leading many to believe she is romantically interested in the Captain.

Quick-Bio: Growing up the daughter of two pilots, Hall quickly determined her career of choice, however rather than become a member of the planetary defense corps she chose the Alliance academy. She trained in ship command hoping to one day captain a Dreadnought. However at the battle for Hephaestus both her parents were killed and Knight saved her from launching in fighter to go out and try to avenge them.

She joined him on the Courage as they carried out the defense of the planet and was one few Ensigns to be promoted and given a position on the ship. The Alliance looked favorably upon there crew as they had pulled off a miracle with a ship that was supposed to be destroyed. Last year she decked an Admiral across the face and was demoted on the spot, she does not regret the choice as the Admiral had just denied Knight the promotion to Rear Admiral. Which she feels her Captain had rightly earned.

Name: Dorian Cormac

Age: 24

Race: Human

Rank: Ensign

Skills: Ship pilot and navigator.

Appearance:

Personality: Lazy and prone to unwanted commentary, however very focused in battle. Calm and always cracking a joke, normally a bad one. The recent addition replacing there recent promoted pilot so still treat him as the new guy. He care's for the crew and is proud to be touring as this ships pilot.

Quick-Bio: Born on Mars to very well off parents, he joined the military to ensure they will leave him there fortune as his father was an Alliance Admiral. Shortly after he became a pilot he found himself assigned to the Courage happy to fly an older model ship with a friendly and decent crew. Rather than some recent battleship with hardly any manual controls.

Name: Hannah Triton

Age: 26

Race: Human

Rank: Lieutenant

Skills: Ship gunnery commander and best shot on the bridge.

Appearance:


Personality: Flirty and friendly Hannah is the ships chief gunner and very well liked among the crew. An open book often the support for others to lean on in times of crisis. Hannah is never serious and a practical joker, however even with her constant flirting she claims to have never had a boyfriend.

Quick-Bio: Growing up on Earth Hannah's parents were high level government officials. They spoiled jer while forcing her to have lessons in everything from manners to fencing. Eventually fed up she abandoned her family and joined the Alliance military at seventeen. Saving her grunt pay she got into the fleet academy proving her skill and eventually demonstrating her skills with gunnery. Knight selected her to join from among her class while she was not the best in her class her skills impressed him as well as her unusual methods.

Hannah and Nora often bicker and have trouble being friendly outside of the bridge, to here Cormac tell it both of them love the Captain and one is pregnant with his child. After that rumor Cormac had all his uniforms turned pink just before an inspection, no one messes with Hannah and gets away with it.

Name: Mark Matthews

Age: 41

Race: Human

Rank: Major (Marine Corp.)

Skills: Heavy lifter arm, skilled shot, good tactician, and respected commander.

Away Mission Equipment: Heavy class mark II power armor, Rail rifle, ion pistol, and dozen frag grenades.

Appearance:


Personality: Gruff but well respected, has always been rather friendly with Knight more than likely thanks to Matthew's tour of duty with Knight's mother. He always travels with his men and never acts above them, seems to always run head long into a fight after issuing orders. Believed to have a death wish and is watched carefully by his men under Knight's orders.

Quick-Bio: Formerly a highly skilled and renowned commando leader until seven years ago an explosion killed his entire squad and took his arm. Surviving that he was promoted and then promptly pushed out of the special forces, after which he joined the Courage hearing tell that it need a good troop commander. Thus he took the best three-thousand from among the men and formed the White Wolves, a large assault group able to break up and fight however needed. A versatile army for a versatile ship joining the Wolves is an honor reserved for the best troopers on the Courage. Each member gets a custom tattoo of a wolf howling in front of a moon to mark the occasion.

Name: Anna Skytte

Age: 27

Race: Human

Rank: Captain (Marine.)

Skills: Zero G training, close quarter combat, marksman, good engineer.

Away Mission Equipment: Energy pistol, pulse rifle, Magwell boots, personal shielding device, jet pack and standard armor.

Appearance:


Personality: Quiet, polite, and patient are the first words that come to mind. Anna doesn't talk much and only to certain people, bridge crew, the Major, and her soldiers. If anyone else can get her to speak it's considered quite the feat, people fear her as much they respect her.

Quick-Bio: A Hephaestus native she was with the local defense force when Knight called them to action. Using an old shuttle she and thirty others boarded a pirate frigate that was attempting to escape the system. Their are only three survivors from that fight Anna, the pirate captain, and a another soldier whom she rescued. Anna then formed the group known as the Raiders, there task was to assault enemy ships damaging, disabling, or capturing them.

Her mobile fighting force became famous on the ship and currently has five hundred members, each one hand picked by Anna. The Raiders attack ships and try to do as much damage as they can then escape before they can be cornered. As such they use cut down weapons and are trained to shoot and move in space.

With the Courage having been fully built on Hephaestus, most of it's crew hails from that distant colony and mother planet, Mars. The crew has some of the finest and most technical soldiers aboard it, they aren't the best unit but there smarter than most.

Soldiers of the unit are issued an advanced combat suit with life support and impact gel layering. However these units do not have personal shields or generators on board therefore they are left charging when not in use. The weapons on board are mix of more modern laser weapons with cool cartridges and tradition guns. Thanks to on board replicators the troops call for ammo drops when ever they need them.

The White Wolves are a special force used as assault force better than the rest of the men. Used as an invasion force or defenders if the ship is attacked. The Wolves are lead by Major Matthews and selected as best all around troopers having no real specialty able to do every task well though they are exemplary fighting force.

The Raiders the special forces of the Courage, a task force for assault and disabling ships. Zero-g certified and able to board ships without the need for boarding craft and they always attack and retreat before the enemy can mobilize a response. They are lead by Captain Skyett who hand picks her troops, they work in units breaching attacking critical systems and getting out before setting off the devices. These have helped the Courage capture more ships than it's destroyed in career as a ship.


Engineers the backbone of the Courage, most Engineers wear what they please as no one messes with the people who fix what you break. However while working most use the standard protective gear. The backpack they wear is actually a fold out exoskeleton for work in space. Magwell boots for walking in Zero-G and on board long range radio's in case they drift off or get separated from a work crew.


Pilots, the Hephaestus colony produces some of the best Star fighters and pilots in all the colonies. Pilots and there gunners are highly respected on the Courage every ship has a name and a story. With that comes many rights of passage and learning to fly with no fear. Since the Commission of the Courage Captain Knight has had his pick of pilots from his home planet as such he only takes the best. There gear is standard minus any custom painting or modifications they make to honor there home.

Ship Designation: GANS Riptide
Ship Registration: NS-F2213T
Ship Class: Battle Cruiser
Ship Size: 0.6 km
Ship Crew: 9,000
Ship Weapons:

- x40 Bolt Class Pulse Cannons
- x30 Antimatter Propelled Chain Guns
- x15 Anti-Ship Photon Rockets
- x2 Ion Cannons

Ship Technologies:

-Ion Shields: Ion shields absorb energy from blasts. When shields get to 25% it ionizez the energy and sends it out as a controlled partial blast, therefore bringing the shields up to a max of 90%

-Triple Tank Hybrid Engine: This engine is a hybrid of Antimatter, and Synthetic Helium- 4 (SH4). The engine is known as ASH4. The main engine runs on Antimatter. But there is another tank that stores the SH4. For Jumps and quick getaways, some of the SH4 and Antimatter is transferred to a third tank. The Antimatter causes the SH4 to become kineticly charged, causing a FTL propulsion.

-AI- Atlantis: Atlantis is the AI for the Riptide. She runs the computer mainframe, and all electrical systems. Atlantis also attends board meetings, and is like an advisor to the captain.

-AI- Neptune: A backup in case Atlantis malfunctions or shuts down.

Ship Appearance:




Weaknesses:
- Ion Cannons Take a while to reboot for another blast, therefore risking that the absorbed energy in the shields does not get sent out, risking damage to the ship.

- There is no seperate storage for the Antimamatter for the guns on the ship, so it must be sent from the engine tank.

Name: "Poseidon"
Age: 27
Race: Human
Rank: Captain
Skills: Excellent ground combat skills and leadership skills

Personality: Poseidon is a kind captain, always respecting the ideas and lives of the other Sigma members, even if not in his crew. He is a kick ass fighter, and a friend to the core.

Quick-Bio: Poseidon was commissioned, leader of a Speacial Ops assignment to rescue soldiers capture by a Nebula Corps Fleet. As the group was about to be cut into pieces by an ion laser saw, he risked his life to safe them. He got them out alive, but his left leg and arm were cut off in the process, so he was robotic replacements, and deemed a captain for his valiant actions

Captain Poseidon


Weapons:
MP5 Antimatter Triggered Assault Rifle
x5 Black Matter Grenades
Stratus Pistol
Crimson Laser Combat Knife

Name: Myra Langshire
Age: 24
Rank: Second in command
Skills: excellent hand to hand combat skills, and damn good with a knife

Personality: Most of the time, dark, and gloomy, with a kick of sarcasm and humor. She doesn't take shit from anyone. That's One think to keep note of...

Bio: Myra trained in the Academy with Poseidon, becoming good friends with him. When Poseidon found out that Myra was captured by Nebula Corps, he did everything he could to save her. Myra thanked him and said she owed him his life. When Poseidon asked Myra to be on the Riptide with him, she gladly accepted.

Mission Appearance:


Weapons:
M4A4 Antimatter Powered Machine Gun
Damascus Steel-Titanium Combat Knife

Exo Suit:


Exo Weapons/Equipment:
Antimatter Jetpack
Antimatter Powered M4A4
Crimson Laser Katana

Virshavk orbits close to the outer limit of K'vikaz' habitable zone. However, due to its highly elliptical and eccentric orbital path, the planet is brought closer to its parent start twice a year. During such 'summer' periods, the planet becomes not unlike Earth, albeit with a lower average surface temperature of 11 degrees centigrade. As Virshavk moves away from K'vikaz, the temperature drops sharply, until the entire planet is covered in snow and frost by the time the planet is at its furthest point away from its parent star.


The Varshakti State, or simply the State, controls a relatively small expanse in the New Outer Arm of the Milky Way. With only eighty star systems firmly under State control, the Varshakti have the dubious reputation of having one of the smallest populations and fewest colonies among the spacefaring species. However, taking a closer look at the State would quickly dispel any impression that the Varshakti are weak and easy prey. Almost every planet is heavily industrialized. Even planets devoid of resources have a use for the State. Rather than colonizing them, they are turned into centers of mass production, with the entire surface being covered in a massive factory sprawl.

The same principle is applied even to their population. As the saying goes, there are no useless Varshakti, only unassigned ones. From the moment a Varshakti enters the State-funded education system, they are quietly assessed on their martial, academic and technical aptitude. Upon reaching adulthood, they are assigned a role in Varshakti society according to their abilities. They are then expected to work within their roles for the rest of their working lives.

The Varshakti criminal justice system is often the single aspect of Varshakti culture that confuses outsiders the most. Officially speaking, there is only one crime which can be summed up as 'activities detrimental to the well-being of the State and its people'. What this means is that, for example, a Varshakti can ingest as many drugs as they please, as long as it does not interfere with their ability to work. Once a drop in performance is detected, they would be dealt with by the relevant authorities. Bringing harm to another Varshakti would also be considered illegal, as that would be hampering the victim's ability to carry out their work.

Economically speaking, the Varshakti are insignificant. Most important industries are owned by the State, and in private businesses make up less than a fraction of a percentage of all registered Varshakti businesses. Items are sold for as much as is needed to ensure that the workers are properly paid. Self-sufficiency is core to the Varshakti ideology, and as such trade with other species is limited and heavily regulated. The State ensures that every citizen can live adequately, but luxurious living is almost unheard of in Varshakti society.


The Varshakti are vaguely humanoid, in that they are bipedal, have two arms and a pair of eyes. That is about where the similarities end. On average, a Varshakti stands at 180 centimeters tall, though there are individuals that can reach up to 220 centimeters in height. Having evolved from an avian species that thrived during the summer periods and hibernated during the long winters, the Varshakti have several unique traits not commonly found among other species.

Their bodies are covered by densely packed feathers, each no larger than the small finger of a human adolescent. As the ambient temperature drops, each individual feather gradually expands and overlaps with one another to create a highly-effective heat retaining coat. Larger feathers - those between fifteen and twenty centimeters long - still exist on the outer side of the lower arms, usually three or four arranged in a linear pattern. When they are raised and stiffened, it is usually a sign that the Varshakti in question is agitated and ready for a fight. When they are flush against the skin and soft, then it means that the Varshakti is in a generally good mood.

Similarly, their faces are covered in small feathers. Though they no longer have the beaks of their ancestors, Varshakti lips are still rather hard and chitinous when compared to other species. Swept-back, long feathers cover their heads, sprouting from where most humans would have their hairlines. The Varshakti lack earlobes or any form of a distinctive nose, with only a slight bump in the middle of the faces indicating where the nostrils are.

The most intriguing trait of the Varshakti, however, would be their ability to temporarily shut down bodily functions in order to converse energy and reduce heat loss. This can, and often is done to the extent where the Varshakti would appear dead to even trained medical personnel, and would require equipment to determine that they are indeed still alive.

Varshakti sexual dimorphism is rather straightforward. As a general rule of thumb, females tend to have darker feathers while the males have brighter colours. Females are also slenderer, have longer head feathers and slightly larger eyes. When all else fails, however, it is easier to just remember that dual pigmentation only occurs in male Varshakti, and that female Varshakti always have more head feathers than males.


Free, yet restricted; controlled, yet wild. Varshakti culture if full of contradictions. They can be some of the most open-minded individuals one might come across, yet they are happy to live within the restrictions imposed on them by the state. In battle, the Varshakti often bring the most organized armies and fleets, but would fight with the ferocity and tenacity of a cornered animal. The most cited explanation by the Varshakti themselves is a simple, three word sentence: All for State.

It would appear to be a non-sequitur initially, but closer examination would reveal the hidden meaning behind the words. The Varshakti have never been an individualistic society, favouring collectivism instead. Thus, everything that the individual does must be done with the well-being of the community in mind. A Varshakti is free to think whatever they please, but few would ever dream of doing anything that would bring harm to the whole. In combat, the Varshakti follow orders because that is what is required of them, but so is winning the battle, and so they would do so by any means necessary.

Honour is another cornerstone of Varshakti culture. Anyone who makes a promise is expected to keep it even if it means self-sacrifice. To go back on one's word is seen as a grave offense, and usually results in being ostracized at best, and outright exile from the community at worst. To insult a Varshakti's honour is often the easiest way to commit suicide. The Varshakti way of defending the honour of themselves or that of others would be a fight to the death using a traditional sword.


With their small population, the Varshakti have always known that they can never slug it out with another species in a conventional fight. Although they have a policy of having all their combat vessels being able to punch above their weight, where the Varshakti shine is with their combat support vessels. No other navy has a larger emphasis on support than thee Varshakti. It has gone to the point where there is a separate naval force just for combat support, known as the Auxiliary Naval Forces.

The most feared class of Varshakti ships would be the electronic warfare and stealth vessels. It is not at all uncommon for battles to be won simply because of the presence of a flotilla of electronic warfare cruisers. With their multi-spectral jamming systems and enhanced sensors, they can often detect enemies faster and render them blind long before they even get within range of the Varshakti fleet. This is made even more effective by the implementation of stealth technology on all Varshakti EWAR vessels, giving them increased survivability and larger surprise factor.

Varshakti stealth runs on several levels. Level one would be simple optical stealth, making a ship invisible to the visible light spectrum. It is the least technologically advanced and most compact system and is thus often equipped on frigates or smaller vessels, but it is also the easiest to overcome. Level two would be the inclusion of thermal dampeners or heat sinks to reduce the ship's heat signature. The highest level, level three makes the ship invisible to even LADAR and magnetometric sensors. This emphasis on stealth allows the Varshakti to field stealth cruisers which can sneak into the midst of an enemy fleet undetected only to wreak havoc from within once a battle is well underway.

The Varshakti have no preference for weapons, though they tend to lean towards missile and kinetic weaponry due to their relatively low power draw and ease of manufacturing. They make use of onboard shield regenerators to enhance the staying power of their vessels. In the case of their capital ships, there have been instances where the shields regenerate so quickly that it was impossible for the enemy to even crack the shields.

Ship Designation: GANS Zamik ki Skakigos (Trans. Tormentor; lit.trans. One who [to]torments)

Ship Registry: NS-363963

Ship Class: Forward Reconnaissance Cruiser

Ship Size: 650 meters

Ship Crew: 450

Ship Weapons:
6X Light Missile Launcher, loaded with EMP-HE dual stage charge
12X Point defense 'autocannons', 100mm
6X Medium artillery piece, 280mm

Ship technologies:
- Gravimetric sensors: Regardless of cloaking technology, the mass of a ship would cause a dent in the space-time fabric. This sensor detects such dents and gives the operator a sense of the scale of the enemy vessel.
- Magnetometric sensors: In layman terms, this sensor 'sees' the magnetic field latent in all ships due to the vast electronics needed to keep them alive.
- LADAR sensors: Fires a laser at the target, then uses the reflected light to acquire a high-resolution image of the target.
- RADAR sensors: Uses radio waves to detect targets.
- Multi-spectrum Electronic countermeasures: Jams enemy sensors across a wide range, delaying their targeting time or preventing from targeting at all.
- Target Painter: Blows up an enemy ship's signature for faster and quicker targeting solutions by friendly ships
- Signal interceptor: Able to intercept enemy communications
- Level 2.5 stealth: Makes the ship invisible to visible light and LADAR sensors, and gives it a reduced thermal signature. The ship is still visible to radar and gravimetric sensors. High energy cost, and can only be active for a limited time before the heat sinks fail and start to cook the ship.
- AI: Known as Void. Assists in targeting solutions and decoding intercepted enemy transmissions.
- EM Pulse: As a last resort, the Skakigos can direct all its available power to it's ECM suite, overloading it and releasing a powerful, wide-band electromagnetic pulse that would fry all electronics around the cruiser. It would also render the Skakigos immobile and defenseless. Or it might blow up. Never been used.

Ship Appearance:
Notable missions:
- Destruction of the Vikorzin: The Skakigos played an integral role in the destruction of the only pirate capital ship to ever invade Varshakti space by orbiting it at close range while jamming all it's targeting computers.
- Evacuation of Station A-578: Assisted in the massive spacelift of civilians from an asteroid base under constant attack by outlaws. The Skakigos stayed in the area of operations through the lift and reported on enemy fleet movements as well as hunting, jamming and destroying enemy scout vessels.

Other:
- Very little armour. Once the shields are cut through, it is as good as dead.
- Aftermarket power core. Gives immense power, able to power both the cloak and one other ECM module. Quite unstable, and might fail catastrophically if pushed beyond limits.
- Poorly armed for it's size. While it will chew up frigates, this 'cruiser' can hardly stand up against a destroyer without assistance.
- The vast amounts of electronics squeezed into this cruiser gives it a rather large magnetometric signature, despite all the shielding.
+ Fast-regenerating shields. The shields regenerate fast enough that a quick breather from the fight is all the Sorrow needs to get it's shields back to full strength.
+ Shielded electronics. It would take quite a lot to knock out the ECM suite, or even its onboard computers. Everything is triple shielded on top of the regular shielding.

Name: Sevazin
Age: 25 (Human years), 29 (Virsuniik years)
Race: Varshakti
Rank: Commander
Skills:
- Has prior military training as a groundside combatant
- Familiar with demolitions
- Capable marksman
- Decent close-quarters fighter
- Tech-savvy

Away Mission Equipment:
- Standard Varshakti Navy EVA suit
- Mk VI Battle Rifle. A rail gun firing a larger-than-normal slug
- Plasma-bladed sword sheathed on back.

Appearance: Standing at 190cm tall, Sevazin is above the average height for a Varshakti. His feathers are a mix of green and black, with them being black from the root and gradually turning to green once they reach the tip. His larger feathers, however, are a bright shade of leaf green, making him look quite like a tree.

Personality: Sevazin is almost perpetually calm, and slow to anger. He has to be; no recce cruiser has ever survived long with a hot-headed commander. Analytical almost to a fault, he sees others more as puzzles to be solved than people. He has a strong moral compass, one which has one several occasions gotten him into trouble.

Quick-Bio: Sevazin had not always been a navy person. He had started out as a combat engineer in the Varshakti army, but eventually found himself transferred to the State Naval Academy following an incident involving a shuttle, his commanding officer and a faulty AI. While he displayed aptitude in commanding small ships, his skills with larger vessels left a lot to be desired. His first command was a small patrol frigate, and from there he worked his way up until he ended up in the Skakigos