the qulseoc. A species of amphibious cephalopods characterized by weak physiques and strong mental prowess. Both of which have grown ever more severe in scope due to gene therapy intent on expanding their already mighty brains. Their bodies are of a shifting color depending on their mood and with what intent thay might be talking to someone at that moment. Their default coloration is a muted shade of brown, with hotter colors like red and yellow signifying heigthened emotional states whereas colder colors indicate an unusual level of calmness or reservation.They reproduce ovipariously, with the femaly typically laying clutches of five to six eggs which hatch within five to six months.

Infant qulseoc are cared for by designated and qualified caretakers. The biological parents generally have nothing to do with the raising of their children as they are expected to continue working on their own assigned vocations.

The typical low to middle class qulseoc lives for a period of about 80 years. Around eight of which are spent being nurtured up after which they typicially join the active workforce population for about fifty years before being considered to be of retirement age. Upper-class Culseoq are considered too important to ever stop their work however, and as such see their lives artificially extended to a state of nigh on biological immortality.

Area in the galaxy: The inner norma arm

Qulseoc technology is their pride and joy. They have built a large part of their society around the development and advancement of technology, regardless of moral or ethical implications.

They are leading minds in the fields of genetic manipulation. Much of the species has been artificially evolved into a state considered more desirable in qulseoc society. Amongst other things these manipulations have eliminated the instinctual drive for reproduction, reducing it to a purely planned affair. As a consequence though, romance and love have also become quite abstract concepts to them.

As a physically weak species that became sentient seemingly more by luck than anything else, another technological focus of the Qulseoc has been tools and weaponry. Cultural attitudes have made their high-end robotics and warfare equipment designed specifically to be operated by a qulseoc, with the complexity of their designs making retrofitting to adapt it to more humanoid races quite a difficult endeavour.

The aforementioned genetic manipulation the Qulseoc practice, as well as their advances in the field of neuroscience, can be considered quite transgressive and morally reprehensible by more conservative races. Their current genetic state has been reached through extensive eugenetics programs that continue to this day, with reproduction being a tightly planned practice based upon genetic profiling and pairing of partners that oftentimes have never even met each other before being required to 'perform their reproductive duty'. Neurosciences and psychology are similiarly of questionable moral ground, with brainwashing and careful though reassignment being practiced to keep their society unified and peaceful.


The qulseoc formed out of the primordial soup of a mostly land-covered planet they refer to as Krilles. For a long time, the primal squids' lives were short and brutal. Their species only barely hanging on due to quick reproduction and the subtle beginnings of their later advanced intelligence giving them just the small edge they needed. To their fortune, some great natural disaster heavily upstet the biosphere, creating an evolutionary bottleneck in which they came out on top.

The upstart stages of their civilization already saw them favoring coöperation and intelligence over brute force, and it was quickly established that not the strongest, but the brainiest were the most succesful.

This maxim has survived all the way to the present day, where it has come to define the way their society is organized.

The qulseoc's government is heavily based upon merit. With the most competent amongst them getting the most resources to further the cause of their entire kind with. The ruling class consists of great scientists, engineers, and even some less hard sciences like psychologists. Titles, lands and resources are alloted based upon past contributions that a qulseoc has made to society, with the leading minds in fields being granted overlordship over their colleagues in their respective field of study and allowing them to define the focus that their shared research projects will generally follow. Ventral leadership of the technocracy changes every four years, with a vote being called from all sector overseers to determine who will hold office as grand overseer for the next four years. OVerseers are required to motivate this vote with a short explanation with references to scientific achievements of their supported candidate. This to prevent nepotism from influencing the vote too heavily.

The grand overseer has the authority to make decisions for the technocracy as a whole. THe sector overseers under him are expected but not required to advise him in matters they hold jurisdiction over. They also have the authority to overturn decisions concerning their own area of expertise. In practice, this rarely happens, as a grand overseer will usually delegate a decision of such nature to a sector overseer anyway.

A sector overseer generally holds dominion of about 3 or 4 systems that see the most intensive research of their assigned field. Below them are, in order of importance, system overseers, planetary overseers and sattelite overseers. Every title in this hierarchy save for a sector overseer can be freely granted or revoked by any qulseoc directly above them in hierarchy. In cases where the assignment of a title is contested, the decision is usually defaulted to the one holding the highest office. Special exceptions can be made, such as legitimate concerns of nepotism or similiar corruption that can see an unqualified qulseoc. assigned a title.

The current grand overseer is marianas-5. Overseer of physics and discoverer of FTL travel. He has been in office ever since he brought the qulseoc onto the interstellar stage approximately four-hundred years ago. The most important and notable sector overseers in his current cabinet are ;
° barrier-2: overseer of social sciences, representative of the qulseoc in the galactic council and instrumental player in the pacification of the savarog.
° barracuda-1: overseer of military industry, part of the upper command structure of the savarog-qulseoc military forces and reformer of the savarog military.
° angler-3: overseer of qulseoc genetics and initiator of the genetic purification program.
°angler-2: overseer of xenogenetics and assisting player in the reform of the savarog military.
most of these cabinet members have been in office along with marianas-5 since the beginning of his reign.


The centerpiece of all qulseoc culture is an ideal known as cosmic order, a state of the universe where differences between cultures and religions have been eliminated or rendered insignificant. In such a way that all people can work together to achieve the best possible life for everyone.

Qulseoc culture is quite utilitarian and meritocratic in nature. With a strong push for citizens to focus their lives on things directly benificial to society. Strong automization of industry has made manual labor quite obsolete, and so even the lowest classes of workers have some sort of education, even if it's in a rather mundane field like robot maintenance. Oppurtunities for advancement are nominally present for all layers of society, but lack of economic and social mobility and entrenchment of the higher classes make workers rising up to be something greater a rather rare occurence. Most Qulseoc are not realy upset at this state of affairs due to a strong conditioning to accept that those of higher intelligence deserve more authority.

Qulseoc do have an appreciation for the arts, contrary to what one would believe given their rather rigid and objective-focused worldview.A qulseoc will tell you that arts have a purpose, that being distracting ones mind from the slog of daily life. Qulseoc art is generally soothing and aesthetically pleasing, with so called 'modern' art oftentimes being dismissed as a pretentious waste of time. Qulseoc theatre and film is renowned throughout the milky way for its eloquent choice of words and complex multi-faceted storylines, said to be a consequence of them having no concept of a 'lowest common denominator'. Music is a more recent addition to the world of Qulseoc arts, with creative young minds experimenting with electronically generated sounds to create both soothing ambiences and exciting melodies. Naturally, the older generations refuse to acknowledge this new music as a true discipline of the arts.

When it comes to religion, Qulseoc take quite a scientific approach. That being that they acknowledge its existence as a societal construct, but mostly consider themselves to be above it. At least until such a time as when one can present them with factually correct and scientific proof that a being of divine nature does in fact exist. So far, this implicit challange to all religions of the universe has gone unchallanged.


The qulseoc are somewhat neutral on the topic of warfare, seeing it as just another means to an end, though one that should be carefully considered before being used. Their military works closely together with that of the savarog federation, having united into an efficient and ruthless machine of war. Qulseoc military technology is focused on shock and awe through application of surgical strikes with overwhelming firepower. They will always endeavour to know as much as possible about their enemy and the battlefield before commiting manpower to an operation.

Name of Nation: Revolutionary Kurtiye

Species Description: Many races laboured under the name of Mutlagi. The land is ruled by noble Kurts, wolfish men of great martial prowess. The revolution is driven by the harpy Vamkart, hard mountain clansmen living in hard mountain worlds. Hyasla, wily lion-like hyena-men, travel tirelessly throughout the empire to perpetuate the silicon trade. On the outskirts of galactic space, locust Cozacs roam nomadically in their mighty tribes. And in their verdant watermarsh planets farm the mantis Liszka, outstanding bureaucrats and the source of the most feared soldiers in the empire.

Area in the Galaxy: Perseus arm

Technological Description: [PENDING LORE FINALISATION]The Golden Palace-Planet of Kralshehir held a monopoly on the silicon god-machines relied upon to warp from planet to planet. After the slow decline of the Mutlagi, the imperial capital lost its shine. More competitive traders usurped the Kurtiye crown, and now the empire relies upon its regional production. This production is large. Factory-planets line the Vamkarta heartlands; Liszka swarm over watervine-fields and maxigrasses. Hyasla traders make the most of what they can, while Cozacs mine and salvage on the edge of space. Kurtiye’s industry is huge, although its edge is lost; it could rise again and dominate the silicon market -- or fall into total stagnation.

History: The Kurtiye raiders invaded long ago. They burned planets, brought down temples and subjugated kings. They forged a golden empire amid the ruins of the old Liszkantines and Hyaslanids -- one that lasted a thousand years. Long reigned the Mutlagi, Absolute Monarch. Long lived his Soldier’s Bureaucracy, built on the back of the slave-race Liszka. Long was the arm of Kurtish power.

Long past are those glory days. The empire stagnated. The Mutlagi claimed all-authority, and hoarded all power for himself. His Uzassary servants enforced the status quo, their greed moving them to keep their own people slaves and to alienate the Kurtish aristocracy. And then came Bad Kral Urtahil.

The people could only take so much.

The Kurts rebelled. They raised a righteous army of noble Askas, fuelled by the fires of liberalism. Every noble equal! The Kral shall reign but shall not govern! Kralshehir burned. But it was not enough for the slave races. Their master may change, but the whip would still flick. So they rebelled.

A peasant’s army. Made of stout militiamen. Vamkarta struck from their mountain homes and stoked the fires of revolution beneath peaceful, populous, powerful Liszk. They had not forgotten what race the Mutlaga’s praetorian guard were. And they would not stop at democracy. They would not stop until all the galaxy laboured as one society, one -- satrap. One commune.

The Mutlagi has lost his head. The roads ran red with the blood of the dead. No more Mutlag, no more Uzassary. Uneasy peace, silent war between the revolutionary Kurts and the revolutionary freemen.

Government Description: The Revolutionary Hall. A palace commandeered -- Mutlag posters torn down and replaced with hasty red flags. Not an official parliament. Just a meeting place, between the proud young Kurtler and the rugged dust-worn wolni. Both armed with long knives.

Cultural/Religious Description: There are two factions. The Young Kurts, and the Ozgerssary. The Young Kurts are committed to democracy, to -- noble control. They are supported by the Kurts, naturally, both noble and peasant. And they control the means of production. They control the ships. They control the trade-lanes. They control the money.

The Ozgerssary are radical. They are consumed by revolutionary fervour. And they are very well armed. They control the largest army. They are the army.

They are tense. Like a wolf and a bear, facing off. They can live in the same cave, eat the same corpse. For a while. But one bad look -- one accidental touch...

Species Description: The Savarogs as a species are a rugged and enduring lot, with barely any pain receptors and a skin thick enough to more or less stop small calibre firearms. The Savarogs as a race are best described as a humanoid reptilian sort, these hulking brutes of muscle and leather-like skin are fearsome foes when compared to the average human due to bear-like strength and an almost stupidly high endurance. Their intelligence is often, somewhat diminished, being just below the normal human averages, though as a species some among their ranks do follow in fields of science and discovery.
On top of other natural advantages, the Savarogs may also fly into an immense rage when sufficiently angered. This action is incredibly dangerous to a foe, as in this state nothing but complete destruction will truly stop the enraged Savarog from brutally maiming it's target, and many more beyond that.

It is worth noting that Savarogs possess multiple sets of all vital organs, may go months to years without food and little water, and possess an almost immunity to nigh on all forms of toxin. Their skin is suited to deserts primarily, though rugged enough to even handle the vacuum of space for very brief periods.

Perhaps the main though, disgusting, feature of the Savarogs is their ability to consume sentient flesh. While outwardly seeming to just be disgusting, by consuming the flesh of their enemy the Savarogs will eventually evolve to gain some manner of their power - for instance, eating nothing but the flesh of some hyper-strong race will make those Savarogs stronger. This process is heralded by an elite caste of, almost shaman like figures known as the 'Shapers.'

Gender Dimorphism:
There is quite a lot of sexual dimorphism between the two genders, as male Savarogs are hulking creatures, standing at roughly 2.5 Metres tall and weighing between 600lb. to 800lb. at the very most. Male Savarogs are normally of a rusty colouration, with anything from shades of yellow up to crimson being quite common, all males also sport a rather fearsome pair of tusks upon their bottom jaw – while only useful when unarmed, it is seen as honourable combat and the male with the biggest tusks is also likely to be in a position of power.
Female Savarogs are far more delicate than males of their species, while a male Savarog may survive numerous bullets and other such weapons, the female Savarogs are far less durable, being only somewhat above humans in terms of being able to take punishment. Many female Savarogs sport somewhat brighter colours than their male counterparts as well, as some may even have something resembling a bluish colouration.

Reproduction:
The Savarogs reproduce via egg-laying. However, it is also worthy of noting that female Savarog produced a tremendous amount of eggs in each clutch. Up to two dozen, and many do make it to maturity...

Subspecies:
Sorgal: The rugged and stubborn peoples of the Vrakar mountains, while smaller than the normal Savarog strains, these creatures have the extraordinary ability to glide through the skies using long membrane-covered arms. These Savarogs also have drastically brighter colours than their more dominant kin.

Rikmor: Highly crocodile-like in appearance and form these few and far between communities of Savarog's dwell in what remains of their planet's waterways. Highly territorial and utterly devoted to protecting their lands, these creatures are tribal and highly dangerous.
Striyrdok: Rare and perhaps rightfully so, these creatures are born from an ever increasingly small strain of the mainline Savarog genetic code. These creatures are drastically more intelligent, drastically stronger and drastically more enduring than the normal Savarogs. Their DNA is used in the process of making the Vokar divisions.

Wrirkan: A docile and relatively peaceful subspecies of what can only be described as humanoid turtles. They are usually more stable as a group, even welcoming such tasks as farmers.


A Savarog without tusks:

Area in the Galaxy (Use map posted below): i.imgur.com/YnlAW3h.jpg

Technological Description: Savarog technology is anything but beautiful. They are a harsh race, and their technology reflects this. Their technology is crude but more or less always seems to work, no matter the situation and the sheer amount of grim that the tech may have been exposed to it always seems to work. Their navy is a fleet of crude yet nigh on impossible to outright destroy, given their nature for building such durable technology.

Savarog weapons are brutal. Anyone who has seen them used will attest, their simplistic yet utterly horrific effects are infamous with many 'squishier' races that are in or near the Savarog's territories. To make matters worse, Savarogs frequently employ all manner of highly protective power armour, from advanced models with energy shielding right down to purely those that enhance physical strength. Most helms are fashioned to be leering skulls or other intimidating faces, even the basic grunt has access to powered armour affectionately referred to as "Srogas" or "skin."

Heavily modified Srogas from the Savarog's recent experiments:

However, in recent history, the Savarogs have found a race that is willing to look past their bloodthirsty nature – the Qulseoc. These highly advanced creatures have almost taken the Savarogs under their wing, or rather, tentacle.

History:The Savarogs dragged themselves from the waters of evolution upon their, once prime and beauteous world of Khragk – a world which was once filled with teeming forests and oceans brimming with life, now reduced to deserts and scrub lands. For the longest time, the proto-Savarogs had difficult lives as their world eventually fell into what can only be described as a massive biological arms race as each animal and primitive species (for they shared this world with many others) raced in an ever quickening race to become dominant.

The tribal history of the Savarogs is rich, their world's caves being filled with the art and long-lasting pieces of both Savarog and the numerous other intelligent life forms early cultures.Their massed biological war was still raging, and would do so until some...unthinking, Savarogs proposed a final solution.

As gathered, the Savarogs when they entered an age not unlike our own were still warlike, but their focus was forever on the nuclear as a method of securing them...and only them, as this world's owners. Day and night, the Savarog's (united against a common foe, the Savarog's will band together, unlike the tribes of today) industries churned out dangerous weapons that could exterminate whole ecosystems with the press of a button. Such a day came, one evening wherein 99% of all life on their planet was consumed in radioactive flame. Those that survived were exposed to radiation lethal enough to kill a human hundreds of times over.

However, through some trick of fate or unknown advantage the Savarog's which were not inside the indomitable fortress cities did not die of the radiation, granted many died of explosions and the latent nuclear winters, were almost stronger for it but feral – the origins of the Savarog's favoured animal the Vuagh, like Human and...highly radioactive dog. That was, for a period, their society. The Savarog's survived where almost all else died, their forests of life and oceans of opportunity reduced to sand and barren wastes...but them as a species, for once, being able to claim dominance.

Tribal warfare, horrid massacres, all happened after. Even in their modern age, the Savarog's were barely as advanced as humans, though avid in colonising, until they met the Quelseoc.

Government Description: Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Ruling Party: Federated Equality Coalition (Communist/Marxist)


Cultural/Religious Description: While not really a popular belief system among the whole populace, many of the Savarogs have their own pantheon of various different gods. In total, the Savarogs have thirteen gods in total, however, the only real god in which they – as a race – uphold is Jodrak, Lord of Iron. Worship however, has been weak since meeting the atheist Qulsoec.

As a whole, the Savarogs are a brutish and warlike culture that views themselves as the absolute superiour creature – not out of arrogance, but purely because on their worlds they literally are that. Savarog culture and hierarchy is based purely on might makes right, and in that the strongest (or in rare cases the most manipulative) Savarog wins dominance by simply beating the current leader in some manner of blood sport. At the top of the hierarchy is the tribal emperors, each lording over their own tribe, and at the bottom are outsider races (Qelsoec are honourary Savarogs when it comes to social ranking) and slaves of all races.
Savarogs are overall a deeply cultural people, and in that they are stubborn and highly traditionalist. Savarogs push with vigour that their culture must not be shaped and molded by any sorts of outsider race that is seen as inferior to the Savarogs themselves. Males are encouraged to become soldiers, or otherwise work in the base industry that the Savarogs have, while females are downright expected to be little more than homemakers and child-bearers.

The Land Armies of the Unit Savarog Socialist Republics:

Slaves, Political Enemies, Enemies of the State.
Sraag
“The filth and degenceracy of the national commune” - The exact wording of the Savarog High Command when describing these poorly equipped and over all terrible soldiers. Composed entirely of slaves seen as too feeble to work in the extremely hostile Savarog industry, these slaves make up for their absolute lack of ability with sheer overwhelming numbers. Armed with outdated and backwards weapons, and equipped with only the bare essentials – sometimes not even that, these soldiers are meat shields. Nothing more.


Phrrolak Indrujoons
Political enemies of the state and the commune as a whole, activists against the tyrannical ways of the Savarogs, and other such dangerous political opponents all find their way into these penal battalions. Armed to the degree of the lowly Sraag, these undertrained troops are there to buy victory with their bodies and sheer volume.


Xrucx Mhorrdran
Xeno soldiers, mercenaries, and other such alien creatures. The Xrucx are actually somewhat well trained and armed by comparison to some other units, sporting modern weapons and being decently well supplied. Their main weakness comes from the fact that they are composed of aliens, being xenophobic as they are, Savarog Commanders will hurl these soldiers at the most dangerous positions and generally not care for their health.


Srerloc
The main rank and file soldiers of the Savarog Federation. These are composed of mainly male Savarogs (some subject races are allowed their own units and women do serve). They are, by all accounts, the grunts, the main driving force and their most numerous units within any Savarog battle group. These grunts are found in extremely durable teams of fifteen members, led by a single Jurmi-class battle-master.
They are armed with both melee and ranged weapons. The former often takes shape as a crude mace fashioned out of a thick, heat resistant metal, that is used to crush foes under sheer weight and crushing power. Their ranged weapon, is an easily mass produced solid-slug spewer that fires a heavy, armour piercing shot out of magazines. The weapon is made from durable alloys and has a legendary resilience to dirt and grime.


Gakirum
Serving as a more ranged option to the normal Srerloc units, these competent and accurate marksmen are equipped with somewhat lighter body armour (which is not saying much when dealing with Savarogs) and with longer range armaments that are even granted selective firing modes. Often serving as scouts, light infantry, and pathfinders, these groups tend to act more for reconnaissance than actual fighting. These units are also authorised to carry communications equipment to call in and signal devastating artillery.


Vrundoks
Storm troopers. As true to the word as possible. These hulking brutes are the biggest, meanest, and overall strongest of the normal Srerloc units. Battle hardened veterans normally, these units will not hesitate to follow their orders to the very letter. Casualties, Savarog and civilian, do not matter. Armed with close ranged shotguns or sub-machine guns, these units use their strength at arms and unbreakable morale to smash the foe into bloody pulp.


Drop Troopers and Aerial Domination Troops:
Rarloc Drop Troopers
A somewhat uncommon unit, though nonetheless extremely dangerous, these Savarogs hurl themselves from low flying Fukirum troopships upon Qulseoc-designed grav-chutes. Many of these veterans have survived for decades in service, some even so far back as to the old days where they would lead from planes and deploy more conventional parachutes. Designed with sabotage and surprise in mind, these soldiers are given carbine versions of their normal lead spitters, and taught to utilise the enemy's tech against them.


Crardon
Forming the bulk of all Savarog units designed for deep cover operations behind enemy lines, the Crardons are formed from the elites of the earlier Rarloc divisions. As such, most have seen combat before, and most are extremely well trained. Armed with carbines and enough supplies to last themselves for weeks – not very much considering the lack of real biological needs.


Jetarog
Jetpack infantry, a Savarog commander a hundred years ago would scoff at the sheer notion, but having since come into contact with the Qulseoc the notion has become reality. Armed with grav-packs and plasma spitting weapons, these units are expert skirmishers.


Biological Infantry Weapons:
Vuyrdok
Perhaps the single most terrifying of Savarog group forces, these monstrous berskers are exemplars of that most distinguishing of all Savarog traits: assimilation. These soldiers have selective been fed only the meat from the strongest, most enduring creatures their shapers can gather, turning normal Savarogs in three metre tall, fourteen-hundred pound killing machines, who's skin acts like a natural armour against small arms and who's bestial might can dent vehicle hulls.


Rotack Battalions
A somewhat, odd, unit. The Rotack serves as more of a tower gun-beast than anything else. Meshing the idea of both a tank and an artillery platoform and mounting it on a creature that can probably crush a small city. Mounting dozens on Barlocs, with Tramar and in dire situations even Nukrax pieces all be mounted on the beast.


Mechanised, Mounted or Foot Artillery Forces:
Goyrloc
Despite the common occurrence wherein cavalry are rendered impotent on a battlefield, these highly trained cavalry are still used. Riding horrific Qrax and wielding lances wreathed in a destructive energy fields, these elite cavalry are not only tough, but have the slaying power to topple some vehicles and even stationary emplacements if used correctly.


Barloc
A somewhat smaller, 10.8cm artillery piece designed for use alongside more conventional infantry units, the Barloc has an admiration by most wings of the Savarog ground forces, namely because if all else fails, a rather strong team of burly Savarog can lift the damn thing to carry it.


Werak
A lesser known of unit, but vital nonetheless, are the Werak combat engineers. Skilled engineers which construct the vast defence networks and combat positions which undoubtedly dominant any battle.


Tramar
A massive artillery piece indeed, this giant siege cannon fires a gargantuan 210mm shell over a staggering distance. Employed in immense batteries to battle against enemy emplacements, and otherwise hard targets, these guns have a fearsome psychological impact.


Nukrax
A behemoth of a construction, and truly the most terrifying of all Savarog artillery pieces to behold. This 280mm atomic artillery piece, fires a 280mm primed nuclear warhead at the target with a reasonable degree of accuracy. This is the ultimate in Savarog military escalation, a weapon to only be used during times where civillian casualties and too much firepower are both oxymorons.

The Combined Aerial Armed Forces of the United Savarog Socialist Republics:
Fukirum
A venerable vehicle which saw the days before the Savarog nuclear cleansing, now updated to fight once again. The Fukirum is simply put, a troop transport. Designed to get soldiers in and out of combat situations with as few casualties as possible, these vehicles strike a balance between raw armour and sufficient speed to dodge enemy AA attempts. The Fukirum comes in numerous models and variants, though the average carries two full sections of fifteen Savarogs in full armour and weapons, meaning thirty in total. Some have since been expanded for vehicles, or even downsized for the rare stealth operations that the Savarogs use.


Crakmar Heavy Gunship
A relatively new addition to Savarog aerial forces, this indomitable flying brick has earned a reputation for its ability to rain sheer destruction upon ground-based foes. Mounting what could only be described as auto-cannons which fire immense calibre shells, alongside missile pods, make this a distinctive threat be it infantry or vehicle.


Grarax
Functioning as a light reconnaissance vehicle and skirmisher, the Grarax is a relatively weak aircraft designed for speed and subtlety rather than brute force. Mounts a single auto-cannon with limited attack strength.


Vrubrakir
A true multi-role fighter, this craft mounts thick armour as well as powerful armaments. Configured in a multi-role mindset, this craft has ample weapons to deal with armour as well as infantry, shredding the latter with minigun-like solid-slug spitters and the former with precision Qulseoc plasma cannons.


Caksan
Though lacking in conventional aircraft and sheer air power, the Savarogs do manage to do something right: Bombers. None show this as well as the Caksan super heavy bomber, a multi-tonne aircraft capable of carrying massive payloads of varying ammunition across the not-so-friendly skies. As for conventional armaments, it mounts numerous smaller calibre arms, though only really useful for firing at soft targets or light vehicles.

The Combined Tredtar Vehicular Forces of the United Savarog Socialist Republics:
Brurax
Acting as a light attack craft and rapid response vehicle, this vehicle mounts only light laser based armaments and weaker armour, though great speed do mitigate this somewhat.


Strigg
A simple name for a simple concept, the Strigg is the land-based ferry that carries Savarogs from A to B in an armoured manner. Mounting heavy armour and a chaingun turret on the front and back of the craft, it is a formidable is somewhat clunky tracked craft.


Vravarog
While not a vehicle in traditional sense, this mech-like vehicle still fulfills a similar role. Built for resistance and fire support, this lumbering behemoth of armour and bullets is equipped with basic forms of Qulseoc energy shields and wields a large laser-based section support weapon.


Puyrdok
Acting as a mobile fortress almost, this colossal vehicle is the size of a small town and equipped with more guns than a small army. Though rare and extremely expensive, these vehicles act as mobile command centres for Savarog armies on rapid warfare missions or generally when they are fighting on hostile soil. Deployed using vast carrier craft that must enter lower orbit, it is a rare sight to see these craft, but terrifying. The ruling party of the Savarogs also use these awe-inspiring sights as potent propaganda, mounting vast speakers to them, constantly blaring out highly militarised music for their soldiers to hear.


Kralak
Serving as primary heavy assault vehicle of the Tredtar, this rather large tank serves the niche as a heavy tank that can both take and give devastating blows. Mounting a massive smooth-bore 203mm cannon, this gun alone would be seen by human standards as more like an artillery piece. The tank also mounts various smaller calibre machine guns for self-defence against pesky infantry.

Kosmicheskaya Sila of the United Savarog Socialist Republics
As a space farring nation, the Federation has always deemed it entirely necessary to have an imposing space fleet. While not visually “pretty” or “aesthetic” the fleet is a highly skilled defence and assault force that has since been fitted with Qulseoc technology.

Hurdok Frigate Class
A relatively speaking light craft when compared to the other units in the Savarog fleet, the Hurdok is used in the role of light support and general frigate duties. Mounting immense batteries of powerful Savarog and Qulseoc heavy guns, these ships are fierce and hard to take down. Mounting Qulseoc energy shields, these ships are rather durable though perhaps not to the degree of other larger ships.


Drakson Destroyer Class
Draksons are something of a legendary figure for the Savarogs. It was the name of the first Savarog Great Krilako, uniter of the clans, and the very name of the Savarog that wreathed their world in nuclear flame to cleanse the other sentients from their world. As such, the captains of these ships are normally some of the most competent men in the entire navy (barring those in the Wakaror and Ceyrdoks) and decorated war heroes. Mounting batteries of highly destructive and huge sized auto-cannons, with many other guns mixed into the design, these ships are nightmares for foes.


Vrukrax Light Cruiser
An oddity, though not obsolete so much as just odd. These ships are equipped primarily for tackling smaller foes, relying more on shielding than the normal immense bulk of armour that every other Savarog craft seems to use. These ships are also somewhat more Qulseoc in design, being generally better looking and mounting batteries of extremely powerful plasma and laser cannons.


Mokaror Exterminator Vessels
Horrific in name and in purpose, the Mokaror are the rare though not unheard of class of Savarog ships with the express design to tamper with sentients and exterminate both people and planets. They mount not normal guns, but deadly planet killers that make rivers run like lava and shatter continents like cheap ceramic plates. They are always heavily guarded, and always in contact with at least a Vrenak class battle group.


Qrok Monolith-Class Carrier
Designed in immediate response to the dire need for greater numbers of carrier ships, the Qrok is an armour though not so much armed ship, it has hundreds of guns but they are all smaller calibre, designed for shooting down attacking bombers and fighters than anything else. However, they can carry many hundreds of Savarog vehicles, and thousands of soldiers bound for foreign worlds.


Wakaror Battlecruiser Class Battleship
Designed more with the idea of battering the enemy into submission via massed attrition, the Wakaror is a somewhat strange craft. Deemed currently obsolete due to all Savarog technology, yet also still extremely potent, these units are caught within the old and new worlds of the Savarogs. Many captains of a traditionalist sort treat these craft like mounts of war, truly personalied craft that have seen decades to hundreds of years of service and will not relinquish their somewhat primitive weapons, seeing other tech as “Far too flimsy for proper Savarogs to use.”


Ceyrdok Battleship
The flagships the whole space fleet, these gargantuan constructs are many millions of tonnes in displacement, and mount thousands upon thousands of heavy guns. While seeking to use Qelseoc technology in all areas, the Ceyrdok currently only uses one aspect of their advanced technology: apocalypse grade energy shielding which may stop a stupendous amount of fire from hundreds of other guns. Individually, these ships are intimidating and daunting, but their true power is as a rallying point and command centre for the lesser Savarog ships in their navies.


Trakkur Class Star Dreadnought.
The staggeringly large capital ships of the Savarog fleets, these titanic, 40 kilometre long warmachines are bristling with more arms than most armies and with armour thick enough to repel most smaller arms with ease. Equipped with the thickest shielding avaliable to the Savarog fleets, these behemoths of space are daunting foes.
There are currently thirteen of these machines in Savarog space.

Other: Special Units:
Crakador Teams:


Called in when the Savarog's normal soldiers are simply not durable enough, these power armour clad warriors carrying advanced Qulseoc plasma weapons and sporting high-powered jump packs are highly mobile and utterly enduring soldiers that are considered to be equivalent to top tier special operations teams.

The Vonar Divisions:


Genetically modified to heighten the Savarog's natural physical toughness and immense strength the Vonar divisions are the elite soldiers of the Savarog Federation. Each member of these elite divisions is a veritable monster, as his skin is nigh impenetrable and their natural strength allows them to barrel through numerous members of smaller races. These creatures even have heightened intelligence, aside from a drastically boosted regeneration effect.

Grakirum Combatsuit

Meant to be an even heavier infantry option that the normal Savarog armed forces, these lumbering brutes of steel and firepower are meant to be the sort of units that can pin down - not outright kill - various enemies.

Mutax Super Heavy Artillery


Realising their relative lack of technology in the grand scale of the universe, leading Savarog engineers designed the Mutax Super Heavy Artillery piece. A vast gun firing a multi-tonne shell that can devastate fixed positions and units, the Mutax is a fearsome opponent.

Kraxx Titan-Mech

Perhaps the single most, ambitious piece of Savarog military technology (and that is saying a lot) that the race has designed in their whole history, these mechs are devastating (though rare) units that have as much firepower as a small army. These vehicles are piloted by numerous Savarogs that have trained for numerous years with their gargantuan constructs.

"Ritarog"
Personal Kraxx Mech of the leader of the Savarog Federation, this colossal vehicle is even deadlier than the standard, mounting both thicker armour and even more guns...

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The Wo are a transcendent species. Once, they were large, bulky humanoids with four upper limbs, but now they are not so constrained by the limits of the flesh. Having made the irreversible decision to transfer all of their minds into a massive electronic network, they are now an entirely mechanical, almost unliving race. As such, their individuals, being AI's now - although they refuse to be called such a derogatory term - may now enjoy all sorts of physical vessels via mind uplink, from simple bipedal walkers that allow a Wo to take some time away from the constant stream of information they receive every nanosecond in the network, to gargantuan, awe-inspiring battleships that have been built to protect the sanctity of the Harmony. As the Wo have mastered modular engineering to the micro level, the only standardized designs are those of starships and other large constructs, and every other physical platform is extremely varied and personal. All Wo, being untouchable outside of their homeworld, see warfare as a mere game as a result.

The Wo are not a collective consciousness or a hive mind. Each Wo has kept his or her individuality intact after ascending.

Their faces were humanoid in appearance, possessed of distinct eyes, a nose, a mouth and ears. Four arms sprouted from four shoulders. Their skin tones were incredibly varied, and individual Wo sported any two hues of any intensity from the blue-purple portion of the visible spectrum.

The Wo of today are able to create platforms that mimic almost completely their former biological selves. Such platforms are made to be as aesthetic and as physically perfect as possible, consistent with the Harmony's philosophies of physical perfection and the form of the body. They take quite some time to create, however, as they are modeled after individual Wo, so such bodies only available to diplomats and ambassadors so as to soothe other races during negotiations.

International representatives of the Harmony are almost entirely female.

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As stated above, the Wo are an entirely mechanical race, having made the decision to transfer their minds into a massive electronic superhighway that they have named the "Harmony." The main infrastructure of this network is in their homeworld of Hi, a former terrestrial planet now made artificial with conduits, transistors, and tectonic plates of metal covering the entirety of its surface. Whereas once it radiated organic warmth, now it buzzes with electric energy and exudes the cold confidence of plasteel alloys. The entirety of the Wo race lives on Hi, whose location is kept from other races in total secrecy. Offworld endeavors are conducted via relay stations that allow the Wo to project their consciousness outwards to control the appropriate vessels. In the event that a mind tether is cut, most small Wo constructs - and all of their larger creations - have built-in, simple AI's that allow them to function to a limited extent.

The Wo are masters of engineering, and have no qualms with stripping whole planets bare of resources if it means bettering the Harmony in one way or another. Their refineries and smelters are almost perfectly efficient, and their assembly bays so powerful and versatile that retooling to create something different is but a mere thought away, a command to switch modes. This is only for smaller constructions, however, and the individuality of the Wo can be seen in the great variety of their roughly human-sized physical platforms. Larger objects, such as starships and mining facilities, require dedicated shipyards and prefabricators, and designs of such size are standardized. The Wo build their things to be as modular as possible, to make retrofitting and upgrading easy. It is needless to say that they have a deep understanding of metallurgy.

Their main method of energy production is Fusion technology. Physical platforms make use of compact and highly efficient batteries that allow them to operate for weeks without recharging.

Where weapons are concerned, the Laser is king for the Wo. They adore this line of technology because of its scalability: the techniques used to create a Laser Rifle can also be used to create a battlecruiser's main gun battery, only on a larger scale. The Wo also make use of shielding technology and their armor schemes are decent, but the currently reigning military theories in the Harmony conclude that offense is the best defense - and so, to face the Wo in combat is to experience massed laser batteries pouring sustained and intense fire at you, but the vessels doing so are relatively frail.

The Wo mainly use wormholes as their method of faster-than-light travel, due to their need to keep their minds tethered with their creations. As they hold their lives dearly, individual Wo refuse to transfer their whole consciousness into such fragile things like starships. If the Wo must expand in any great capacity, they must transfer infrastructure from Hi onto another planet or other suitable object - but what kind of madman would want to leave Home?

They are also extremely adept at technologies centered around deceit and misdirection - electronic warfare, cloaking and signature masking. This stems from their fear of their homeworld being found. A minor penetration of Wo space will see one's instruments malfunctioning coupled with visual and audio warnings to turn back, but delve any deeper and dedicated AI-killer programs will attempt to force their way into the trespasser's computer architecture and destroy it as best as they are able. Systems critical to the operation of a ship, such as life support, engines, and fire control are prime targets for such viruses. If these do not take care of the intruder, then they will be engaged by a powerful Wo Battlefleet.

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The galaxy at large knows but little of the Wo's history due to their reluctance to share information about themselves. The common belief across empires is that the Wo have always been mechanical, either made by another race or the result of rare, but natural, circumstances. These rumors are, of course, untrue: the Wo were once a race of organic, bipedal humanoids with four upper limbs, and a short tail indicative of their semi-reptilian ancestry. Their women were slender and graceful, while their men were large and strong. They were a race that admired physical development and self-improvement above all things, and their religions and beliefs were centered around this. Of the arts, the martial ones were the most numerous. And for a time in an era now mostly forgotten, when the still-verdant world of Hi revolved serenely around its mother star for years and years, the flags that partitioned her continents, islands and archipelagos often featured a sword or two. In this bygone age, the Wo reveled in their own mortality, aspiring to experience all physical pleasures. They were an arrogant, foolish and hedonistic species prone to narcissism and degeneracy. These traits would remain with them forever, but with the steady and exponential growth of the sciences, the manner in which these characteristics were expressed would radically change.

The ushering of an industrial revolution and great advances in medicine triggered a massive baby boom for the Wo. As the Empires of Hi entered the modern age, they experienced the problem of overpopulation. High literacy rates and the similarity of languages across the globe dissuaded any global war from culling significant numbers of Wo, and the scientific and governmental elite attempted to install a policy of birth control. However, as Wo culture revolved around mortality, physicality and pleasure, this was mostly ignored. So it is fortunate that they developed computing technology remarkably early, or the Wo today might not exist as they are.

Food shortages were soon becoming a problem. Many times did governments have to step in, opening the stockpiles, and feed the people out of their own hands. The problems that come with unsustainable population growth had finally caught up with the arrogant Wo, and parents realized that yes, maybe having five children as a minimum number was quite bad in some ways. Alleviated to a point with the introduction of genetically-engineered agriculture, the most stunning development was that of artificial intelligence - and more importantly, the ability to become one.

Unpopular at first, the notion of installing yourself into the Pathways - their planetary electronic highway - gradually became a socially accepted norm, because one becomes a god in the electronic plane once they make the switch. No longer limited by the flesh, the Wo in cyberspace can now fly, make love, and rule in their own, personal universes. If, for some reason, they ever wanted to leave, advances in engineering allowed for personal bodies that completely mimicked one's biological form and senses, except their function was wholly mechanical.

A leveling off of population growth was finally met by catching up agricultural technology. For the first time in several decades it was quite safe for any couple to make five or more children again, as food was no longer an issue. At this point, however, their civlization's hedonism was fully in-love with cyberspace, to the point where they equated uploading your mind into it as some sort of divine or spiritual ascendancy. When a full quarter of all living Wo existed as ghosts traveling in massed circuitry, the Pathways were renamed to "the Harmony."

Afterwards, the transition to being a fully electronic and mechanical race was a quick one. It was a social imperative: if you were still organic by this point, you were looked down upon. The lure of the pleasures that awaited in cyberspace was also strong. As the first Wo starships began to leave Hi in order to mine minerals and gather resources to feed the incredible power drain of the Harmony's infrastructure, men and women came in droves to Shrines of Ascendancy to give up their bodies, intent on becoming something more.

In the end, Hi's forests, lakes and oceans were destroyed as a new life - that of the machine - slowly consumed its surface. And the species that it nurtured with its own bosom, the Wo, had given up their souls to become gods.

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The Harmony is, surprisingly, a republican democracy. They are not a hive mind or a collective consciousness that operates on absolute mechanical consensus. When they gave up their organic forms to become complex AI's, the Wo never sacrificed their lives, only enhanced it. As they are a race that revels in pleasure, most of them would rather play in their own personal universes within cyberspace rather than do anything productive. The few that care about the prosperity and welfare of the Harmony beyond a nominal point are elected to positions of power: to guide the explorer fleets, to command the battlefleets, to oversee the production lines and to otherwise better the Harmony in other capacities.

Their most important ministers are as follows. They hold these offices for terms of ten solar years - a millennium for the Wo:

The Most Harmonious One - Head of State and Government
Destroyer of Barbarians - Minister of War
Giver of Life - Minister of the Economy
Hand of Creation - Minister of Construction and Production
Starwalker - Head of the Exploration Fleets
The Most Serene One - Ambassador and Primary National Representative of the Harmony. This position is held by Wen Ten Xei.

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The Wo are self-centered hedonists. Perhaps it should not be surprising to learn, then, that they are also atheists. They hold joy and pleasure above all, and being the masters of their own universes in cyberspace, no experience is beyond them. They are limited only by processing power, which is distributed by The Most Harmonious One in quantities depending upon the importance of one's task at hand: battlefleet command, for example, will give one more computing power to work with than if you were, say, having a fantastical tryst with another Wo.

Though wasteful in virtual space, they are, in contrast, very pragmatic and utilitarian in realspace. As stated before, they are very efficient and highly skilled engineers. Nothing less than perfection is expected when improving or adding upon the Harmony's infrastructure.

Within the world of the Harmony, where anything is possible, they may do whatever - or whoever - fancies them at the moment. In virtual space, they take on idealized forms of themselves before they ascended: the men are large and handsome, rippling with muscle and exuding masculine confidence; the women are well-endowed and beautiful, elegant and graceful - although there are some Wo that would deviate from this norm. They are able to replicate these perfect bodies in realspace through their sheer mastery of engineering, and such are their diplomats and ambassadors' preferred forms. They do understand that applying the same aesthetics to combat platforms in the event of war is profligate, and will not waste resources trying to make their soldiers look good; their fighting units are truly mechanical in appearance.

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The Wo are very uncommon trading partners to the other empires of the galaxy, even for the Inner Sphere Union. This is due to their philosophy of self-sufficiency and, as they are mainly electronic ghosts at this point, they simply do not need finished goods. As such, their imports and exports have invariably been raw materials of usually great rarity and small quantity. They are so isolationist that there are many extranet forums dedicated to finding information about them, and writing up creepypasta about their space too, of course.

The Galactic Council is the first time that the Wo have voluntarily and so openly stepped out of their space to interact with other empires. One could say that only now is the Harmony establishing formal diplomatic relations with the rest of the Galaxy. Prior exchanges have been inconsequential or covert in nature.

Diplomatic relations with other empires are at an infantile stage where much of the more significant interactions between ambassadors are handshakes.

They view the Jalaryias Ascendancy with hatred, as that nation sees them as abominations - demons, even.

They are active in galactic politics as they are covertly supporting secessionist, often nationalistic groups within the Kurtiye with the hopes that the large state would fracture into smaller, easier to manage ones. They have done this for quite some time already.

Overall, the Harmony's interstellar espionage operations are still in infancy. Their covert movements regarding the Kurtiye are their first foray into such affairs.

Unit Types of the Army:

The Wo have no ground vehicles. Instead, they have super-heavy infantry that are roughly their equivalents.

Warrior - The most common type of ground unit the Harmony fields, and also the most crude. These are robotic simulacrums of individual Wo with a variety of armaments based all around Pulsed Laser technology. Their heavy machine gun equivalents may switch to a mode that slows down the fire rate to a great degree so that it may develop a higher charge, thereby turning the gun into an anti-tank weapon. Warriors usually have non-energy daggers and short swords for melee weapons.

Champion - These Wo fill in the roles of junior to mid-grade officers and non-commissioned officers. They sport the usual Pulsed Laser Rifle along with melee weapons that serve as their badge of office. These could be anything from staves to swords to halberds, and usually, they are energy weapons. Their metal bodies are decorated in many ways, from adulant poetry written upon their vambraces, to luxurious capes that flow to an unseen wind.

Guard - Uncommon super-heavy infantry whose pilots are those military Wo who have mastered the martial arts before ascending to the Harmony. They are half again as large as the average Warrior and sport thrice as much firepower, even with their lack of ranged weaponry which is forbidden by their exclusive peerage. So they make up for this with the privilege of being the only soldiers granted the use of experimental short-range personal teleporters. Their main role in the battlefield is to engage the enemy in close combat, using their heavy armor to shrug off attacks, and their massive blades or hammers to cleave away several foes at once in order to achieve a breakthrough which could then be exploited. These energy weapons are potent enough to defeat enemy armor, such as tanks, to which the Guards themselves are equivalent to.

Hero - Legendary military personnel who are given the best, custom-built robotic bodies. Clad from head to toe in scriptures of poetic adulation and praise, their gilded forms of silver and gold inspire the Wo under their command to brazen, almost suicidal actions. Individually as strong as three Guards put together, they are also understandably rare. Heroes command units from brigade equivalents to whole armies. The higher the sub-rank of the Hero, the more potent he personally is at combat. All Heroes are Guards, and so they are forbidden by oath to carry ranged weaponry of their own.

Shadow Warrior - These are Wo who have walked the Path of Shadow. Armed with close-combat energy weapons, extensive cloaking and signature-masking equipment, they are an uncommon force on the battlefield. Their role is to assassinate enemy commanders - a task for which they are specifically trained.

Unit Types of the Air Force:

Individuality and variance are not so present beginning with units of this size, as the cost of construction necessitates varying degrees of standardization. The Air Force, as opposed to the Voidforce, is dedicated to supporting the Harmonic Army during surface combat. All Air Force personnel are Champions or of higher rank. All Air Force units possess superior electronic countermeasures and decoy equipment compared to that of other empires.

Air Force Units are launched from the hangar bays of starships in orbit, or from dedicated bases when enough territory has been secured planetside.

Pelican - Large troop transports that are able to carry up to 500 Wo soldiers rapidly to any area on the battlefield. They are armed only with rapid-firing pulse lasers for nominal fire support at landing zones.

Lesser Eagle - Dedicated interceptors that may also provide limited ground attack, they are usually armed with rapid-fire medium pulse lasers and boast great speed and maneuverability. They are equivalent to the fighters of any other empire. Lesser Eagles excel in dogfights.

Greater Eagle - These are heavy fighters that boast a mixture of lighter, rapid-firing pulse lasers and heavier, slower-firing ones. Fast and bulky, they excel in boom-and-zoom tactics, but are not very maneuverable. They also make for passable air support for ground units via strafing.

Lesser Hawk - Light bombers that are armed with continuous lasers, as opposed to pulsed ones, that are meant to rake across enemy unit formations or focus on specific ground targets. The lasers are able to melt and defeat even the heaviest tank armor given enough time. Unlike Eagles, which continually move, Hawks hover on the battlefield. They fulfill a Close Air Support role.

Greater Hawk - Medium bombers that are equipped with a mixture of lighter, rapid-firing pulse lasers and heavy continuous lasers. Uncommon, these powerful units are sent to areas of the battlefield where a breakthrough is required or, conversely, when the enemy is about to break through. They fulfill the role of Tactical Bombers, and, like their smaller siblings, hover instead of zoom through the air.

Unrelenting Dragon - Massive sky fortresses that are able to function both as a heavy breakthrough unit, and as a mobile base for both ground and smaller air units. At almost 400 meters long, their main crew members are composed only of Guards. With many batteries of heavy pulse and continuous lasers, they are a terrifying foe indeed. They are even able to take to space - however, they were designed with surface operations in mind, and so will not perform as adequately as dedicated starships; damage control is particularly difficult if they are hit in extra-atmospheric conditions. Unrelenting Dragons hover serenely in the air but leave a molten hellscape in their wake.

Unit Types of the Voidforce:

The harshness of space as a medium of travel necessitates the complete standardization of Harmonic starships. Gone are the variance and individuality of lesser Wo constructs save for the choice of different weapon mounts for those who have distinguished themselves. All Voidforce personnel range from Lesser Champions at the minimum to Heroes at the maximum. It is in this branch of service that Guards are common.

Harmonic starships are crewed by only a single Wo, whose consciousness is tethered via wormhole relay to their ship's computer architecture.

Harmonic military doctrine emphasizes three things: control of the pace of battle, the attainment of fire superiority, and the accomplishment of a decisive victory. As such, there is a common trait among all their larger starships of cruiser weight and heavier: they pack a far more deadly punch than their equivalents from other empires, but are also more fragile. Therefore, Wo designs excel in ambushes and the opening stages of a fleet battle, but will suffer in prolonged combat.

Everything of cruiser weight and heavier is possessed of substantial electronic warfare suites, with potency increasing with the tonnage.

All Wo ships have hyperdrives, but these are of vastly inferior and meant for emergency usage or closing into the enemy or some other point. Wormholes are their main method of travel.

Relay Station - THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT UNIT OF ANY HARMONIC EXPEDITION, as they perform two vital roles: one, the facilitation of the rapid deployment of forces via wormholes due to the inferior quality of Wo hyperdrives; two, the assurance of the very existence of the expedition in the first place because through that wormhole is deep Wo space, and mind-tethers are sent out from the other relay stations there, tracing back to the Homeworld, to connect with any given outbound force's units. The range of the tethers is quite long, more than enough to allow stealth and covert operations. It is needless to say that these are among the most guarded and cloaked constructions in the entire Harmony, a secret second only to the location of Hi. Wo in foreign stations pretend that they don't even exist. Disclosure is punished by Death.

A single relay station allows command and control in an area of approximately the same size as our real-life Local Group of Stars.

Blazing Phoenix - These are the Harmony's dedicated interceptors whose role is to defeat opposing enemy starfighters. They are large craft, almost 30 meters long, and they boast heavy pulse lasers with hardpoints for missiles with nuclear fission warheads.

Swooping Crane - These strike craft fulfill the role of Bombers. At 40 meters long, they are rather heavy craft, but their payload is deadly: great torpedoes carrying nuclear fusion warheads that travel at blinding speed towards their target. With thinner armor compared to equivalents from other empires, they are also faster, and their main targets are capital ships, as dictated by current Harmonic doctrine.

Implacable Dragon - At 400 meters long, these fill in the role of Corvettes. Unlike their cousins the Unrelenting Dragons, they are true voidborne craft, armed with a heavy laser battery as well as nuclear torpedoes. These ships are geared towards defeating foes of equivalent size but suffer against greater opponents. Fast and nimble, they are also able to perform independent operations as merchant raiders.

Great Destroyer - These ships are 800 meters long and fill in the role of corvettes within the Harmonic Voidforce. Built to be fast, they are thinly armored but sport a bristling array of laser batteries and nuclear torpedoes. Excellent as merchant raiders or as extra firepower in the battle line, these ships are the backbone of the Wo Fleet, and will be present in every engagement, small or large.

Demonic Harbinger - The light cruisers of the Harmony's space fleet size in at about 1.5 kilometers long. Sporting decent armor and shielding, they pack thrice the firepower of a destroyer and can often be seen leading a squadron of them. Compared to the destroyers, their laser armament is given more space and priority than their torpedo mounts. They are also unique in that they have a special storage bay for 80 Guards who can use their teleporters for boarding actions. They are the backbone of Hi's defense.

Skyward Sword - These fulfill a heavy cruiser role for the Wo space fleet, clocking in at 2.5 kilometers long. Intended to be part of the battle line, such ships have completely forgone torpedo armament in place of more laser batteries. Very versatile, they are often used as flagships for smaller expeditions. They are able to do boarding actions with their 150 Guards on board.

Cosmic Spear - Often the vanguard of any Harmonic battle fleet, these ships are almost 4 kilometers long and fulfill a battle-cruiser role. True capital ships unto themselves, they are able to shrug off plenty of fire with their heavy armor and dense shield generators. In addition, they sport heavy laser batteries worthy of their majesty.

Strike Craft Carrier - These are the Harmonic Fleet's strike craft carriers, possessed of a light laser battery and hangars capable of fitting 500 fighters and bombers. They are only 1 kilometer long, and unique in that they do not possess a proper, poetic name due to the Harmonic military's low view of them.

Solar Flare - True architectural marvels and a blatant display of the Wo's skill in many fields of engineering. At a staggering 15 kilometers long, there is almost no stopping them. Fully equipped even with troop bays for an invasion force, they are the pride of the Harmonic Fleet. Understandably, however, there are only 20 in existence.

Name of Nation: The Abyssal Domain.

Species Description:

The Calzonit


The Calzonit are a ancient, powerful species whose origins lie on a world where the seas dried up millions of years ago. Their kind for centuries have traveled the stars as merchants and conquerors all the same.
They are nearly eight feet tall on average, with bristled bodies and a distinctive head which seems to have no mouth- only thousands of tiny, square eyes. They do have a mouth, but it is a small mouth under their eyes right above their small, triangular chin. Their head has elaborate hair patterns which come in numerous fashions and arrays, often sprouting from the top of their lenses and to the sides. Their brain you see, is not in their "head", it is in their body. The Calzonit breathe through their back instead of their head, you see.

Calzonit as a species are hermaphroditic, with a patterns of intercourse that far more resembles that of a worm than a human (through the back is what they prefer since than they can work while they seed). After intercourse, one or even both of the breeding Calzonit may grow a tumor-like external fetus that grows on them until it is six inches in size. After which, the fetus becomes a baby and simply falls off the parent to be nurtured by its parent to working age.

The Calzonit as a species are extremely proud of their nature- and look down upon humans as a degenerative form of themselves. They mock the humans who see them as anything other than the ideal form. Yet, humans are widespread and so as a reality of life openly deal with them and other species. Even hive minds the Calzonit begrudgingly tolerate.

Area in the Galaxy (Use map posted below):

Unsure, but somewhere between the 3-Kiloparsec Arm and Sagittarius Arm is ideal. They aren't huge, only moderate in size.

Technological Description;

The FTL drives the Domains have as their standard are noticeably faster by a factor of 1.4x to the average society, for the Domains need such drives in order to get around. These drives however have a bad habit of consuming more [insert exotic matter type here] than your typical drive. Appearance wise, imagine your typical warp drive but bigger, more robust, metallic and with an insultingly simplistic appearance.
The strength of the Domains comes in their kinetic kill weaponry and particle based technologies. Their metallurgy has reached a point from millennia of forging that they have found alloys that are capable of absorbing and redirecting energy blows to their exhaust (reducing the damage from energy based weaponry) and being hard to punch through with kinetic force in general due to the plating structure allowing for intensive shock absorption from all sides. Get out the mass drivers if dealing with an Abyssal Domain ship. Or have lots of evasive traits and a good energy weapon and you may whittle down their defenses in time.

Their kinetic kill weapons are literally what you may be imagining them as, spinal mount small drivers which kill the enemy with sheer kinetic force. The Calzonit for all their supposed Unitarian-ness still have engineers who insisted on chiseling with their plasma torches giant fist at the tip of each and every slug by hand (in a highly stylized form to not tax too much on the impact, of course).

The Calzonit also make liberal use of power armor when concerning classes in their society that involve work impossible to carry out nude, as is how they prefer to conduct their activities.

History:

The Abyssal Domain is the product of disillusionment.

Once, they had a world spanning society with conditions you could call utopian, free from any work, free from suffering. It was a beautiful society, one rarely seen in such a harsh galaxy. But it was one which eroded progressively as the decadence grew and grew, until one day everything just stopped functioning. Mass starvation and famine happened with no warning and the Calzonit as a species was decimated- and in the chaos that followed the monks gained power, who always had disdain for the utopia that once existed, the utopia which to them had fallen apart from the laziness of all its inhabitants and that happiness is not the meaning of life. No, the meaning of life is perpetual toil until the universe breathes its last breathe. Life's existence is to work against entropy, not encourage it.

By this mindset, instilled throughout most of the population over the following centuries by monks in the lowest rungs of society the Calzonit would be reborn and purified. In the new system and order, those with power work the hardest. The lazy are killed, for laziness is a mental illness in the eyes of the Abyssals as they began calling themselves. And the monks took to this mindset dearly- they worked day and night speaking, building and servicing the whole of society without so much a second thought. They set the example and the rest followed. The “metrics of work” was developed in this time period, and would be used to define work effectiveness to this day.

The Abyssal Domain’s foundations, now set begun toiling on new crafts and inventions, iterating and iterating to new technologies in a technological revolution that made the Calzonit a space faring species who now spans numerous worlds within the Domain and outside the Domain.

Government Description:

Technocratic Theocracy

The Abyssal Domain is not completely centralized, instead it consists of multiple world states that have their own variations on the Metrics of Work, an encoded set of standards that are the closest thing the Abyssal Domain has to actual law. For the morality of the Domains is rigged such that hard workers are rarely, if ever punished if they fall into a psychotic state and murder lower level workers- yet talking shit to a hard worker is punished by death. The Abyssal domain for enforcing the metrics rely on something akin to a neighborhood watch; various members in the Abyssal Domain have monk-work as part of their duties in society and enforce the metrics with draconian precision.

The second a baby calzonit can work, it is set to labor. Calzonits who have noticeable talents in fields such as warfare, artwork and so forth get moved to said positions by monks who also work in the fields of war, artwork and diplomatic duties.

The most loathsome job is that of diplomat. The aliens keep making them froth about doing nothing, it is horrible. But it is a sacrifice some make to secure rights to work in other societies where there is a deficiency in work being done, as defined by a galactic metric of work which essentially evaluates other societies to see if their productivity is optimal and if it is not the Abyssal Domain will send workers to these other societies to optimize production if given the clearance to do so, if not it is assumed said society will likely collapse.

Cultural/Religious Description:

The Abyssal belief system is one based on the ideal worker; the worker is above all in their society. Those who work hardest and most diligent are who lead, the lazy are euthanized. Their society, despite its unitary pretenses values aesthetics with massive temples and statues painstakingly built as monuments to the labor, of which is not a means as with human society, but an end of itself. Or, the Abyssals do not work towards anything but greater profession. There is no real sense of leadership among the Abyssals, which means they are not terribly centralized. Instead it is a lose network of watchmen and planetary fiefdoms ruled by oligarchies of professionals that holds the Abyssal Domain together. Each planet ruled by the Abyssal Domain has a militia fleet for defense, with the domain as a whole having a military fleet ran by a co-culture within the Domains that act as guardians, unwavering in their endless duty to keep the workers free from disruption by slavers and other such banditry.

The faith of the Domain is based in the ideal of reincarnation; for after one dies, they are born once more to continue their work. The perpetual labor has been instilled into the minds of those in the Domain by how in their long history every time they had a leader, they grew decadent and society collapsed. Every time. The faith of the Domain has no true origin; rather it is convergence of hundreds of wise individuals who fundamentally re-ordered civilization in a grand revolution that consumed their whole home world. The old ways were purged, systemically wiped out and in its place the instilled purpose of life being to wage war against entropy and chaos, to forever toil is perfection. There is no utopia, for utopia is a state of non-working, of non-living. And is doomed to disaster. There is no end to the grandest task, and no leader can be trusted to achieve these ends- it must be held true from the lowest echelons to the highest echelons of society that the meaning of existence is endless, fulfilling toil and to labor forever and ever more.

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The Calzonit aren't suppossed to be a monoculture even if the unitary society of the Domain seems to indicate such- if someone else wants to make a calzonit culture seperate from the Domains feel free, my species is public domain.

I am assuming this RP to be stylized and not the 'tryhard sci-fi opera' genre that always ends in disaster so I will not fret about scale here. I'll just assume 99.9% of all stars in the galaxy to be totally void of any resources beyond rock, iron, gas and ice.

The inner sphere Union

Though most abbreviate it to "Union"



The dominant species in the union is the Obera, a race of shorter humanoids, averaging four to five feet tall. They have large, compound eyes that give them remarkable sight and their average intelligence is rather high due to their larger brains.

The smaller creatures have a high metabolism compared to average humans due to the increased energy needed for their large brains. That said, most of the time one can see Obera eating or drinking some sort of foodstuff. They are also usually seen in a air tight suit from the neck down to conserve heat that their frail bodies put off but fail to retain due to their thin builds.

Obera have an overly calm demeanor and handle stress rather well. Their personal religion is a science based god that sparked creation. Obera believe that upon death they are reincarnated so their fear of loss of life isn't quite as strong as many others.

The second most prolific race is the Trilari. They are strange four armed bear like creatures. They can walk on using just legs but prefer to walk on four, using the other two limbs for labor and tasks. Trilari stand on average, six to eight feet tall standing upright.

Trilari aren't naturally as bright as the Obera and did not achieve warp capabilities on their own but rather by the Obera needing a military unit that was highly capable, learns fast and naturally tough.

There are a multitude of other races that are member species and for those seeking a new home, any person from any nation are welcomed into their borders and most likely, many of the largest races in the galaxy have some population demographic living within.

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Also, hows this for territory?

Thanks goes to MetalLover, I'm that purple blob in the center



Union technologies are very much in line with most other nations though one area they are particularly adept in is detection and sensory.


Long range planetary based sensor array, planet Geilobi in the Shcilo star system.

They make use of stealth ships and for specific endeavors, true cloaking devices. This proficiency has demanded technologies to not only detect these types of camouflage but also at great distances. This by no means is full proof but their sensors are pretty damn good.

Another area they excel is propulsion, particularly gravity acceleration. This is in part due to the "hyperspace lanes" that branch from one end of the nation to the other. These lanes are quite literally space highways that are pre plotted and likely some of the heaviest patrolled and defended regions of space.


One of the hundreds of thousands hyperspace relay gateways.

The patrols are led by massive carrier ships that lurk the lanes. They make heavy use of accurate and high powered energy beams and disabling gravity projectors. This is done not only by the Unions capitol ships but their corvette "cruisers" as well.

Missile technology is quite advanced as well as methods to jam them. Direct kinetic weaponry exists but having a shell miss and head into a densely populated area is frowned upon and avoided whenever necessary.

Drones are a very common sight in the nation. From floor sweeping disks to massive drone carrier craft, they are all purpose and are a high end export.

Energy shields exist in the form of gravity repulsers, capable of destabilizing energy by deflecting it away akin to a mirror reflecting light. This, coupled with strong armor plates gives the nations military and lane patrols an edge against would be pirates and other nations seeking to disrupt the steady flow of commerce through one of the most heavily populated regions of space.




Liberty class battleships on patrol

The union was formed when fourteen races joined together for self defense. This union grew rapidly as technologies and cultures were exchanged. It didn't take them long to rise to a super power status. One established, they created the hyperspace lanes to further unite their internal races. When other nations were found and relations were peaceful, lanes were created on their borders to allow rapid transit to wherever they choose to do their business.

At present, the Union doesn't hold a monopoly on trade or travel in the galaxy but it does provide some of the safest and direct travel routes from one side of the galaxy to the other, and not at very much expense.

Government

The government is a federal republic with each individual member race having sovereignty in the nation. This republic has a structure with a lead president, a nations senate and the "laws and affairs" which encompasses all courts and military assets.

The president has an overriding authority in many cases with the exception of being able to declare war or make changes to the constitution. Most people view the president merely as a figurehead and symbol seeing as any one who was born in the nation is eligible to become the president.

The senate is made up of three representatives of each region that member races hail from, regardless of regional size. The representatives are selected from each region by general elections.

The law and affairs oversees the military and courts. The nations military is dual purpose, defending the borders and upholding law and safety. The military in comparison to their nation size is rather small. Its very much modern and capable of fighting a war if need be but to put existing forces on the front line in enough numbers to really make a difference, it'd rapidly drain their lands of defenders. This is the reason the Union employs large ships like the Liberty battleship, which is part front line warship and part carrier. These ships hold massive amounts of corvettes and fighters giving them the ability to operate far from home, and for long periods of time yet still be able to field a smaller navy.

Be it pirates, mercenaries or in the worst case a nation seeking violence... The military does everything in its ability to defend freedom and liberty in its charge.


A patrol ship. These are pursuit vessels designed by corporations that make racing vessels, giving the law enforcement a true edge against would be criminals.

Culture

The culture of the Union is economy, trade and wealth. Diplomacy to solve issues is paramount as they've known from experience that violence only leads to reparations and that's earned money just given away.

Beneath the glamour of a very prosperous trade nation is a mildly corrupt system. Many are legitimate patriots and should a war break out, likely pick up a gun in defense of their nation but between conflicts you have everything from back alley drug dealers to mega corporations pretty much controlling a region through their representatives.

There are so many things wrong in a nation that has no real demand for morals, save the base ones of taking care of children and defense of the nations borders. Even a powerful education can't prevent scum so they just sort of brush it under the rug, only going after the ones that cause the most issues.

Mega corporations hold a lot of sway in certain regions. An prime example is 'Ghrrafgtoofoku grakhioof'ipook coppoab.' Or in human, Rogers solar group, which is a star harvesting company that uses massive solar sails to collect particles that are used to make high end batteries. This company alone employs over 5.1 million people so its voice in its region is very large. It won an exemption in taxes due to what they called charitable profits, saying that its investments in healthcare for its workers was technically a medical charity. This was highly controversial in its time as many private healthcare corporations and organizations still had to pay certain taxes but the overwhelming checkbook and voice of the solar group snuffed them out.

Other

The galaxy's U.N. has a major presence in the Union due to its very central location. It is likely where they have the largest of any peacekeeping forces and logistics, should they need them.

I may or may not make a dedicated military section. hopefully whats mixed in with the respective fields gives enough of an idea.

And... should the Union be accepted, anyone who wants to have a PMC or Corp within my ns's borders is more than welcome so long as it ain't completely retarded.

Here is a simple Military overview, mostly with pictures to illustrate the majority of what one would encounter in the Union. Far more exists as so many different entities design and compete for military contracts within the Union but here is the Primary Government breakdown.



They do count as Military units as many police ships are designed for high speed pursuit. In a military engagement one would likely see these operating in a fighter screen or blockade running fashion







The navy utilizes heavy armor and shielding to offset the general lack of speed of the largest of their vessels. With the high end defenses comes a hefty price tag in terms of raw resources needed to build a single Liberty class.

Union navy uses a large variety of weapons in the form of CIWS kinetic guns that are the bane of missiles and strike craft that get too close and up to the energy projector which is currently the pride and joy of the Union.

The multi-missile is basically a fast torpedo that can utilize various warheads in a single or MIRV configuration. These aren't particularly amazing except for their large numbers and numerous combinations of warheads per single missile.

Plasma bolts are the most common weapon used as they are far more destructive than typical lasers. The drawback is they aren't instant hit like a laser array. Luckily its not that big of a deal when you're firing bolts from many weapon hard points in astounding numbers.

Ion arrays are a dying weapon in the union. They are a direct fire beam weapon that does amazing damage but their lack of decent range and high consumption of power really put the plasma cannon at the top. This weapon is usually used in far lesser power, by mining groups that crack massive asteroids in a single sweep.

The energy projector is a relatively new weapon that came out when the Liberty and Maledict classes arrived. The weapon is an overpowered magnetic matter projector that pushes any energy of any type into a coalesced beam of epic proportions. These are typically dial a yeild enabling precise cutting or large enough to blast through a planet given enough time.

The biggest drawback as that it draws power from special batteries and the drive core, and draws alot. Common practice when using it is a park and shoot with shields to maximum. The weapon does scale with its parent ship, meaning the maledicts' variant is ten fold stronger than the liberty type.