@Havoccultist Other than black hole generators, those other power sources are acceptable. As for Plague bombs, that'll be fine, the current Orion Sphere is rift with war crimes :P
Sounds good. I'll get to working on a sheet for ORN, otherwise known as the Orion Reclamation Network.
@Sigma Alright. I've got a WIP up. Wanted to post it here before continuing to see if there's anything that needs to be changed. Especially since I started writing on autopilot after a point.
@Sigma Okay, here's the full sheet. And yes I did pull almost all of the info from the Orion's Arm wiki, mostly due to the fact that their autowars are basically what I imagine when thinking of self-replicating swarms designed for armed conflict.
The GSCoN operates under a revolutionary system of republics and nations united under a great congress, a parliament of elected party members of the three allowed parties of the republic seated in the planet of Narkeren. The Parliament heads legislative, ideological and half of the administration. While on the other side the triarchy of three rulers control the executive power as the three paramount leaders of the republic. One elected amongst the parties, the other via popular vote and one via a military vote of officers. The system was born out of despair of the early days of the revolution that abolished the kingdom of Narkeren and following the so called wars of the coalitions. The republic operates under what can be called presidentialism-parliamentarism if the Triarchy was a single person instead of one. With the power to steer the republic being pulled from the triarchy to the congress of peoples. The congress is led by the three major parties. At the left of center socialism there is the Vanguardist party believing in the far more militaristic approach to foreign policy but also in socialist practice. At the center lies the Social Marxist party. Led by centrists and a large umbrella coalition of members. At the right of socialism lies the United for Progress, a political entity that follows a reformist view of the system rather then the revolutionary view of the other two parties.
Considered former majority of the territory during the federation days. The Zeridians are a tall red skinned humanoid race with heavy body builds. Their kind was once largely the majority in the region until migrations of humans to the area displaced most of them while still a massive majority; the collapse of the federation and the rise of the successor states that purged most of their kin resulted in their race being put into near extinction.
Others: 6%
The Gran Legions of the Republic
The People’s Legions
Built around a core of manpower in the millions, the Legions were built around the old military of the Kingdom of Narkeren. Following the Legionary system of the peoples legions have officers of great quality leading legions of standardized soldiers of the council or congress as it is sometimes called by the people. While fully the infantry focus the People’s Legions also are in charge of artillery support and control.
The legions are generally equipped with medium weight body armor. Projectile rail-gun rifles, grenades, night vision and gas masks in case of emergencies involving usage of weapons of mass destruction.
Armored Red Legions
The heavy hammer of the Congress is the Red Legions spouse mostly by tanks and mobile vehicles. The land forces are generally extremely advanced tanks and are generally considered top of line quality. Same for supply line trucks and vehicles this is due to the red legions having a quality based warfare method. Seeking to cause as much damage instead of sustaining much damage.
Mechanized Knight Legions
Considered more infantry helpers or a separate class entirely. The Mechanised Knight Legions while using noble titles. The legions got romanticized as more protectors of the people using iconography and propaganda to help their image. As grand knights of the People in their protection this resulted in the Knight legions being considered elite Armored Divisions. But this is something that has yet to be tested under true fire as the organization is brand new, created in the high fires of the revolutionary wars that unfortunately extinguished before being tested. Mostly used as a backline force initially and now recently being promoted into elite armored divisions.
The Red Guard
Considered the special forces of the Legions as well as the secret intelligence, and special operations of the nation. The Red Guard are elite genetically modified soldiers that operate in the protection and well being of the military and the state used in the wars as covert ops and dangerous missions tasks of specialists in war and many others. Their usage was extensive that one could consider then as the legendary ones in officer and military circles not much talked about unfortunately due to their tendency to be more of a secretive. Its service has recently increased to a secret police after the times of the revolutionary wars ended and with it. The Red guard entered a new phase as a powerful tool of war but probably a danger at peace. At the same time the induction of psionic users into the Red Guard is a cause of debate in the congress.
Gran Republican Navy
Inherited from its conquests and revolutionary wars. The republican navy stands as the sole most powerful entity within the congress of nations built around a professional core. A system of heavy ships and powerful fleets inspired by the former kingdom, it was born of pride and glory, bathed in horror and humiliation during the age of fascist kings and restored under the revolutionary wars. Focused on a fleet in doctrine having huge fleets with the aim of protecting itself and showing at a moments notice.
Generally spousing in its defense are simply, Destroyers of many uses but mostly as defensive fleets or escorts.
Cruisers used for protection as well but generally a bigger role in defense and military offensive and defensive actions considered the backbone of the Congress fleet.
Carriers utilized for transportation of fighters, bombers but also invasion troops in case a situation demands it.
Battleships considered prides of the fleet are currently the most powerful tool of the Republic's fleet getting bigger in numbers by the year, heavily armored but also heavily gunned.
Dreadnoughts few of those exist and are considered flagships or commander ships at the same time it is also considered as frontline breakers as its cheer firepower and armor could be used to break through a ship’s line of defenses.
History
The republic is 18 years of age, same for its current institutions. For a simple reason long before the republic was born the region it inhabited was ruled over by six successor states. Reactionary and Facistic in nature authoritarian to the extreme, many supported each other to maintain an order in the region. These countries had little to worry about the collapse, only locals and human populations that managed to band together during the economic and initial breakdown, no barbarians came to their doorstep instead they only had to worry about themselves. Three of these nations were kingdoms and three were republics, together these factions kept themselves in power in an increasingly unhappy and angry population. Until it broke 20 years ago in the kingdom of Narkeren its people had enough and with it a revolution exploded resulting in what was called the revolution. The revolt was a success with armies even joining the uprising at the streets led by a series of leaders of resistance nodes upon its success the royal family was executed while half of it managed to flee. Resulting in the birth of the People's Republic of Narkeren. A nation who struggled with a new revolutionary government but also a new danger being surrounded by enemies by every side. The new socialist republic found itself a target of an anti revolutionary coalition led by six nations with the aim of destroying the revolutionary congress beginning what would be called the revolutionary wars. At the panic of the war the congress began to act quite quickly in mobilization initially a series of judgments would be set into the military but thanks to the war slack the recruiting quality and new rules allowing more meritocratic selection. Resulted in the rise of what is called the big four.
Ilahenos, Zenia, Julius, and Sagreius, the four greats that are said to have saved the republic from disaster Ilahenos the administrator, Zenia the admiral, Julius the general and Sagreius the economist. From the time of war this four man and woman, managed to bring the things under control from the defenses, stability and economy back straight back into order and allowing for the offensives that took place. Albeit there is debate if it was this four man idolized by the republic or the will of the people that fought in the war and that pushed through the chaos. Same for the congress this is still an ongoing debate but for many the four set the foundations of the republic's success and its triumph towards the big four.
When the republic managed to hold itself together Zenia the admiral of the fleet led the fleets into a counter offensive against the republic Narzenen the fall of the republic took many by surprise as it was a great and ancient republic. Once it was ceased the nation’s forces managed to not only pacify but also keep order especially after the [redacted by the red guard] the fall sended many shockwaves as the socialist republic reorganized its forces Ilahenos and Sagreius managed to integrate the republic and with it massive reinforcements for what would be called the Revolutionary Wars. As the forces united against the socialist republic they faced a quite devastating defeat at the hands of Zenia with the fleets of the 4 nations nearly destroyed the revolutionary forces went into a rampage destroying the nations of the region. The wars brought the end of the six nations east of the Augustan and North of the Ilovacan nation. As the revolutionary wars began to end the last nations that once existed. Their integration was incredibly well done and Ilahenos one of the first Triarchs of the nation was the one who led the reforms allowing what happened next to exist. With the fall of the kingdom of Romulus. The Socialist republic of Narkeren was abolished and with it a new nation was born, The Socialist Congress of Nations came into existence that day a federation formed of six socialist republic members that replaced the former states of the kingdoms.
With the birth of the congress of nations and the end of the coalition many believed things would settle. But they weren't picked by the fact that a previously small state managed to overtake five other countries. While outgunned and outmatched thanks to grand tactics and military maneuvers from Zenia and Julius as the republic bordered the three states of Augustan, the Ilovac, the Concord and Republic of Orions. While the war and overextension of expansion would be logical and stop the growth of the new power that came to be. This did not affect the Congress of Nations as the last kingdom fell and its monarchy fled to the Augustan Empire the armies of the Socialist Congress immediately invaded the Augustan empire under orders of the Triarchs and the congress. The same event happened against the Ilovacic forces to the south and when meeting the concord of free nations to the north. The congress considered all as reactionary forces and stepping stones on its path of reuniting the federation and initiated invasions. For many it seemed like madness why invade neutral and more powerful nations but thanks to achieving the considered impossible, the congress and its leaders grew bold as they proclaimed themselves the federation reborn and with it. The revolutionary wars continued expanding this time from localized small powers into a massive war between four nations. A war where three of the most powerful factions in the outer systems were locked in war with a revolutionary state.
Zenia, and Julius immediately took on a more bigger issue they had to chew as the frontline of the war was massive stretching from the system of Safor in the sector’s south all the way to Shield's heart in the north near Vora. The war began to fervor as the advance was substantial securing many regions as Zenia managed to keep things under control but as the war began to continue things started to go back in favor of the final coalition quite slowly but substantially Ilahenos one of the first Triarchs was murdered. Many believed the suspect to be a political rival, others believed foreign affairs but after investigation it was found out that the main culprit was a counter revolutionary and nationalist to one of the no longer existent reactionary states. This revealed that while successful in integration this was further from reality as regional separation still existed, not as bad as before but still existed; this resulted in new campaigns to diminish national separatism. Until the war started to slowly die down as Julius died in the war against the Concord attempting a massive tidal push hoping to release steam from the massive frontline. But his death came instead not many knew of his demise and mourned him immediately only the news came after his partner died but for those who were present they knew the warwas coming to close. The war against the Augustan Empire was considered a continuation of the revolutionary wars, a pull and push against an absolutist monarchy, seeking liberation of its people against tyranny. The war was long and considered more bloody compared to the others the Ilovacic dealt with raids and the occasional system exchange. The concord dealt with an attrition war of sieges and few movement. The Augustan and Congress dealt with maneuver warfare and grand battles that took mass land and lost massive ammounts land, that led closer to each other's capitals at turns from Augusta Prime to close to Narkeren until the death of Zenia considered a war hero and winner of the congresses existance. Her death shocked the nation and forced many to start a panic as both her and then Julius death information was released sended the republic into shock. As the nation mourned the fronts became static and with it a peace deal was signed. Unable to defeat its enemies many would consider this the end of the boldness of the revolutionary government but that would be inaccurate. Surviving the war was a great miracle once the scope of the situation was made clear and with it the nation's leader even part of its people still hail that the nation is destined to reborn the federation. Resulting in a less friendly regime to other nations as the congress treats most other nations as rogue elements of its ascension. Said view of things though is rather new and dying down after the revolutionary wars ended the peace time has made many rethink the view of other states resulting in a less jingoist view of foreign policy.
But as time goes on the republic seems to once again be ready for other campaigns to reunite the federation. What once was six nations now is one and what once was a people fighting for their freedom became a new power in the region and what once was a nation fighting desperately for survival now is expanding seeking to unite what once was broken. But at the same time many wonder... how? How does one nation small and irrelevant managed to unite the region it lived and fight 3 powers and still stand? That is a question that runs within the congress of nations... how did all of this happen a debate exists and many speak of conspiracy shadow cabals and many more theories.
@venzkaizer Hello! Sorry to say that it is not possible. I would prefer all nations/species to be either from the Orion Sphere itself or are descendants of the invading barbarian horde.
Just curious if this is still accepting applications, and if so, if it'd be allowed to have a small nation pop up utilizing a completely different branch of technology- both the reason for their isolated independence, and a mark of pride of their sovereignty.
Idea being, they're relatively small but can punch up to be "equals" against significantly larger civilizations.
Small ships, elite powered infantry, but hellishly expensive one and all compared to significantly larger ships due to density collapsed armor, gravity propulsion and FTL (capable for short trips between near systems but nowhere near as effective for long trips that hyperlanes once filled), extensive cybernetics. Can't really "project" power due to small size and quantity, but the quality has skyrocketed.
It would, of course, be a major incentive for them to never ever share or allow their technology to be reverse engineered, and perhaps a strong incentive for other nations to investigate the new advancements.
I think I'll have to withdraw for now, as my interest in this roleplay has largely waned, though if anyone wants to use ORN then by all means feel free. Otherwise the Triune could just go dark and its fleets could have gotten lost in interstellar space.
Clarification: The Compact is the original name, the USRP the name of the nation as a whole, and the Sov.Stel. the name of the central government.
Map Location: (Claim posted and confirmed)
Governance:
Bipartisan Authoritarian
Two political factions, with a lineage predating The Troubles, cooperatively control the nation. There is occasionally elements of democracy in polls and forums allowed for people to discuss their viewpoints that are often witnessed by policymakers, but is still ultimately a two-party controlled government that does not cede control to the populace. Councils exist as local governments, with representatives elected from the population, but they do not retain any power outside of their jurisdiction and report to the state government all the same.
State Capitalism is the name of the game. The government controls the economy, and employs the people. With the good stewardship of the Kiruli, the system flourishes once again, limited as it is by supply.
Everyone can live in the Compact… but service and duty brings Citizenship, and Citizenship brings rights, purpose, and opportunities.
Demographics and Disposition:
70% Human, 23% Kiruli, 7% other The Department of Civilian Resources and Analysis reports an 83% approval rating from the public in government action, up .476% from the previous quarter...
A gloom hangs over even the capital city of the Stellectorate, the metropolis flying on the dense clouds of the system's supermassive gas giant known as Cinder's Nest. In the brightest smile in the most glorious opera of the greatest concert hall of the city, you'll find a heavy burden in the eyes of every man, woman, child, machine, synthetic, everyone. The threat of chaos hangs like an axe over the high society of the Phoenix Sovereign. Yet their gazes are filled with molten warsteel, a simmering fury, an inability to give in to the trauma that haunts their souls.
Even as they work, fight, train, study, research, gossip, every Citizen of the USRP is a survivor of a war created by their worst enemy: themselves. And in that, there is no hiding behind another's faults or mistakes. Every Citizen of the USRP would march in lockstep with their neighbors to ensure they will never turn on one another again.
Their greatest dresses and finest eveningwear are made of a hyperweave so fine that it's layered over and over, rewoven with ballistic fabric and then treated for durability and strength, and reworn over and over in new colors and different styling... but always reused, nothing discarded. And always capable, at an instant, to take a knife, or lock with an emergency helmet to defend against the vacuum. Even the most decadent and egotistical of the highest of society... has blood dripping from their fingers, and a SURNA chip that ensures they do their part of their people, so that the most pristine, perfect shard of the Federation, turned Stellectorate, will live on forever.
The common civilian and Citizen work jobs in maintenance, engineering, programming, farm supervisory, machine guidance, AI handlers, bartenders, tailors, musicians, prostitutes, and more. Hard labour as the Rim might know it is long gone, replaced by automation and machinery and even nanites. Either you contribute to the production, recreation, military, or the government.
Those with no use are recycled. Their mental engrams will have their personality wiped-- they'll make for a decent Biological Artificial Intelligence to install in a miner somewhere.
Human
76 out of 100 humans are Citizens.
Do you need assistance?
Humans are omnivores, endurance-based hunters that pursue their purpose relentlessly until it is complete. They are insane, they will not stop, they recognize the universe will tear away everything they love until nothing is left. Humanity screams in defiance, and builds a starship from ash.
Their capacity for hope, kindness, thought, fury, perseverance has created the perfect race to dominate the universe.
Behold humanity.
Kirul
94 out of 100 Kiruli are Citizens.
Your feet are dirty, let us clothe you.
Kirul, omnivores in a land that was quite without opposition. They were well suited for their ecosystem and challenged very little, spreading across their world and forming a centralized, racial government. Over the course of a thousand years, they experienced peace as they worked together, uncovering the mysteries of nature and the universe out of sheer curiosity. Where the time between the first electronic instruments and the first moon landing was a mere century for humans, the kiruli took three hundred years. Two hundred years afterwards, humanity found them with burgeoning space-born infrastructure. Hundreds and hundreds of years later… their world had become a core world of the Federation, their inquisitive, agreeable natures making them ideal to mediate conflicts and gather together for trade and diplomacy. Their stewardship over one planet, then two, then three perfectly healthy, carefully managed worlds carpeted in cities and nature alike was unmatched.
Their patience, their care, their understanding knew no bounds.
Their hearts, dust, shattered, weeping even today, at the horrors they had to commit to ensure there would be a future for them to steward once more, their ancient calling pulling them to a brighter future that they will create, one way or another, at any cost.
Their capacity for hope, love, and brilliant innovation even with the most lacking environments has guaranteed a race perfect for forever pursuing a perfect future.
Your host, the kiruli.
Technology Overview
Terraforming and Reclamation Mastery
The Kiruli are natural-born terraformers, using grasses and seaweed and forest fires to keep their world pristine even while they discovered and neglected the use of coal and oil as power sources. That racial talent has extended even to climate specialists and planetary recovery researchers as they seek to repair their homeworlds and restore them to a pristine, livable state.
Due to the Fracture and following Troubles, both Kiruli and Human alike in the burgeoning Stellectorate became exceptional at ensuring no stone was left unturned in their reconstruction of system infrastructure. Blasted cities and even plasma-burned glass were reconstituted into usable materials to build new habitation domes, armor plating, or reactor fuel.
Q-Communication
Quantum communication has been around for some time. In this case, it’s used in devices called ansibles, linking two particles together and exciting them, and the “line” between them, to pass information. An expensive unit, so it’s only found in larger ships and stations. Ansibles have a built-in function that can use one side to critically excite the other, disabling the machine and annihilating the particles.
Hyperspace Proficiency
The hyperspace relay fell early in the Core, including its handlers.
As a result, some technologies were improvised as hyperspace relays and their secrets were researched once again.
The first steps were of particular note to the insular Stellectorate: hyperspace buoys, like a guideline for ships in hyperspace. Somewhat inexpensive, as far as Stellectorate technology goes, and placed liberally, with dynamic coordination between buoys and their sensors to identify fastest available hyperlanes. Proper hyperlanes are nonexistent at this point, but the Stellectorate is confident they are approaching this.
The second notable hyperspace technology is the hyperspace interdiction device, HID. As its name suggests, it has one purpose: short range disruption and excitement of the hyperplane, rendering any FTL transit effectively impossible, dropping ships in hyperspace into realspace and prevent hypergates from forming. This is a complicated technology that requires the use of dark matter and hyperspace particulate to operate.
Antimatter Mastery
The production and forging of antimatter is known; how to contain and utilize. Gone are neutron bombs, thermonuclear charged particle beams, and electrolasers.
This is used for space efficient generators, weapons, and research, primarily.
Creation Engine
What do you get when you combine nanites, hyperadvanced molecular science, and miniaturized fusion reactors?
The Creation Engine, or nanoforge, are large, usually orb-shaped devices capable of producing most materials, items, devices, consumables, or technologies known to the Compact. They come in a variety of specializations and can be as small as 3' diameter mounted in a battlemech to wetprint ammunition, to a 60' diameter core tucked into a battlecruiser to passively refill missile magazines and fuel tanks while possessing the raw material to do so.
The Creation Engine is the Compact's answer to their sudden scarcity; break almost anything down into whatever else they need.
It struggles to turn scrap to shine, but given the appropriate, actual ingredients, nanoforges will burn through their stores (and probably their heatsinks) before what they're mounted in dies.
They are, of course, incredibly costly, much like the nanites they "slush" out from overuse, and the vehicles and structures they're mounted in.
Gravity Manipulation
The first and foremost technology used for post-Trouble starships, refined and distilled to an exact, efficient system, despite its power requirements. Using hulls that often sprout winglets, G-mip vessels wrap themselves in multiple gravatic fields that are used in onioned layers: To keep internal spaces at .8G To accelerate and manuever To deflect and defend Furthemore, this technology is used to negate certain environments, such as inside gas giants or close orbits around significant gravity wells.
Density Collapsed Materials
The pride and joy of post-Federation material science, replicating that which dwarf stars are made of. By using Solar Forges placed in extremely low Solar orbit, slamming materials together under immense gravity generators powered and aided by solar fury, or utilizing the immense pressures and already present gravity of supermassive gas giants, gravity manipulation is turned up to a whole new degree. Unique alloys that defy previously know material science constructed from normal metals, materials, and even supercritical gases increase the defensive characteristics, structural integrity, and kinetic potential all across the Compact.
Genetic & Cybernetic Mastery:
Exactly as you would guess. Cloning, cybernetics, integration of both, genetic modification, all these are possible. These processes can be fast but they're high-quality processes, not mass productive.
Chronic diseases, common ailments, cancer, and other such things are basically nonexistent. Your average Citizen has blood filter implants, radioactivity and toxin resistance, extended lifespan, higher muscle density, etc. They are in every way moderately improved. Non-citizens might have blood filter implants but generally lack the genetic upgrade and modification.
SURNA: Sentience Upload and Recovery Network Administration
A black project predating the Troubles and the Invasion.
Every member of the Compact has a Standard Neural Implant, SNI, that acts as a basic sys-net access device and links to SURNA. Data is regularly updated to vast bio-crystal memory banks under the user's gene-signature, and in the event of an untimely death, can be resurrected into machine, android, synthetic, clone, or reconstructed form, depending on SURNA level, options available and selected, and importance. In the respective order listed, the cost increases for resurrection. Resurrection from a lower level to a higher level has proven negative side effects; the mind is irreversibly… simplified after existing in a lesser form.
SURNA Voluntary Resurrection is only enabled for Citizens.
Gas Giant Mastery
The Compact has shattered their ancient cradles. The majority of their peoples now live in cities floating on the vast gaseous winds of their home system's gas-giants, doubling as cloudscoops, shipyards, refineries, and space elevators down to the gascore foundries deep in the gas giant beneath them.
Terraforming Proficiency
Necessity and available minds guarantees that the glassing, cracking, fracking, firestorming, and nuking of the planets once carpeted in city and water can return. Even with advanced systems in place, however, these processes still take time. Though they've brought the planet back to a somewhat liveable state, the ecology has not yet taken and recovered, though they are works in progress. Genetic recovery, generation, radioactive neutralization, glass-breaking, and more are possible, even if costly and time consuming.
Astronomy:
I'll edit with more detail of the planets later, and the nation's satellite systems. For now, just the capital Stellectorate system.
Stellectorate Capital System, Currently named Stellar Roost Federation named Kalus Prime
Stellar Sol, star, G-class yellow star - Stella-1, 1 shattered moon forming a ring, barren planet, cracked but hasn't broken orbit, or apart. Gravity and heat has thus far been great enough to keep the shattered planet in one piece. - Stella-2, 4 moons, small gas giant, gas core, significant military activity - Stella-3, 1 moon, glassed green zone planet - Stella-4, 2 moons, "Ashen Cradle," glassed green zone planet, homeworld of Kirulinity - Stella-5, 3 moons, glassed amber zone planet, significant military activity - Stella-6, 1 moon, 2 rings, red zone planet, barren - Stella-7, 17 moons, supermassive gas giant, current capital, majority of population on flying cloud cities or in orbit. - Stella's Belt, mined, reduced in quantity, barren. - Stella-8, 7 moon, massive gas giant, minority of population on cloud cities or in orbit. - Stella-9, 3 moons, 1 ring, frozen planet, significant military activity.
- Stella's Halo, the Oort Cloud, still possessing significant resources.
- Stella's Shroud, deep space outside the system, where ships regularly travel to collect dark matter in the solar eddies around the system.
Military:
Full edit will come in the future. At present, I will provide a synopsis:
The Stellectorate features a fully capable combined arms military. It devotes significant resources to its military since it serves as peacekeepers, warriors, fleets, research, and intelligence.
Fleets are small, with an emphasis on large, heavily armored ships with advanced weaponry and dark matter "battle screens" used to reduce an opponents effective range, and render long range observation, scanning, tracking, and combat to be useless. With hyperdensity armor and gravity propulsion, these ships are largely lacking in obvious weakpoints and possess extreme fortitude and surprisingly capable mobility alongside their significant density. These ships are, by and large, superheavy dreadnoughts compared to another's ship of the same class, and more than capable of easily winning a duel with an opposing ship.
Their weakness and great equalizer is their volume, or lack thereof. Fleet elements, infantry, armor, aerocraft, everything is hyperadvanced and overengineered for one simple reason: They do not have the resources to afford losses, and so all resources are devoted to making one unit impossible to defeat, rather than ten units that'll suffer 30% casualties.
Due to their ostentatious and self-centered nature, and the expense and investment in every soldier, armor unit, courier ship, or fleet carrier, there's often some significant effort to not only decorate and personalize the war machines of the Stellectorate, but also record themselves during action.
This is quietly encouraged and a great source of entertainment for the Stellectorate, for civilian, citizen, and service member.
Even the lightest infantryman is equipped with advanced power armor, sonic baffling fields, a microreactor with personal defense shield, multiple adaptable weapons, and more.
Most Citizens are familiar with resurrecting directly into combat units, and/or have combat equipment in ownership and/or possession.
History:
What happens when a prosperous, rich, post-scarcity society is suddenly cut off from the endless flow of goods and resources that sustains it? Local economies that had long since resorted to outsourcing labor and production rather than taking advantage of the resources still present?
The Hordes had little bearing on the Epsilon Crown, one of three core systems, one of the very pinnacles of the Federation. Some enterprising fellows marched to war and indeed some negative feelings were felt… but it was the core. Nothing touches the core.
The infighting began abruptly and brutally. The war ending brought a sigh of relief but missing freight made major families and corporations tense more than they had during the entire war, contingency plans made for the barbarians stayed from their scrapping at the revelation that perhaps things are not yet over. That prudence led to the nepotistic Old Boys' Network to solidify against all outsiders. New blood was quickly selected and political borders drawn.
The first hyperlane failures was the signal for Hell to break from its fell gates.
Many people were soft and living hedonistic, luxurious lives, burying their heads in bliss and sin.
Over the span of a week, major infrastructure was seized, the government fracturing under the weight of its prominent, weighty movers breaking from the form that had held for hundreds of years.
People were slain by the millions daily. Superscrapers and floating cities crashed to the ground, fleets of ships repositioned to the edges of the solar system to light drives and seize stations. A faction broke from the Old Boys', taking the cloudscoops that fueled the system's starships. Another broke, the alliance that turned on the rest of the system falling apart as different lineages made their plays. Ships in formation turned guns on each other, mining ships cleaved their neighbors apart, ancient thousand year old compounds detonated in furious antimatter annihilation. One of three moons cracked from the war that furiously ripped apart the biodomes that carpeted her surface, only loose gravity keeping the cloven planetoid from drifting out of control.
But eyes watched; of lesser legacies, of new blood only a handful of centuries old.
The Sagurillian Lineage and Finnigan Fiae struck their bargain, and rose with nuclear fire re-lit in their hearts.
It took eighteen years for the fighting to settle. Ancient lines of kingmakers and political kingpins and black guilds of data and digital divining had been razed. The death toll was in the hundreds of billions, a significant portion of the population erased. Multiple planets who had enjoyed stable terraformed environments were blackened, glassed, new volcanoes blasting from cracked continental plates. Once shining beacons of Coreworld pure power reduced to rubble. Ships littered the landscape, debris fields scattered through the system, the souls of the dead haunting those who remained with a strange silence; of a system that once saw trillions of tons of traffic now quiet and empty.
The families of Sagurillian and Finnigan knew that the prosperity once enjoyed was centuries from being regained, but they had taken control and re-established order.
New stations were built. New standards of living. New solar farms, new ships expanding out to the Oort Cloud previously thought too meaninglessly expensive to harvest now the primary source of materials. Cities rebuilt on the swirling gases of the gas giant, new stations wrapping around a tighter solar orbit. The technological capital of the fallen Federation bared her teeth as the Fiae-Lineage dug their hands in and began to rebuild.
Nanoforges flushed their engrams for war and loaded up mining craft and hydroponics. Shattered pilots and shaking infantrymen, once socialites and analysts, set down their helmets and sidearms, and took up yet another shocking change.
Hidden black projects surfaced, their fruits becoming the new normal as the once unspeakable became critical to the efficient reconstruction of the highest society possible.
