[hider=The Nameless][center][color=coral][h2]The Nameless[/h2][/color] [img]https://i.redd.it/the-ships-in-the-halo-universe-and-their-names-go-hard-v0-iaq3ztu9mawc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=c09ecd2db67bf542d7c0e24ccee1bf9397db64a1[/img] [h3]"The honourable thing for the weak is not to drag down the strong."[/h3] [color=00aeef]Government Form[/color]: Religious Matriarchy [color=00aeef]Population[/color]: 5 Billion of the Nameless. [color=00aeef]What is humanity?[/color]: Humanity is a spit in the face of the Gods. They have spread like a cancer, and they desecrate the stars with their presence. --- [/center] [color=39b54a]Planet/System Name and Description[/color]: [list] [*][b]Star:[/b] A Red Giant that bathes their planet in a warm red light. [*][b]Lava World:[/b] A dwarf planet, only the hardest materials on the surface are not turned to molten slag. [*][b]Desert Planet:[/b] The atmosphere of the planet has long since burned away, leaving the earth a barren desert wasteland. [*][url=https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/627bc589-b21e-47b2-8cf2-7617185ee1ac/d9l1xli-be4375a7-ffb9-4298-bcd3-a38f74692fac.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzYyN2JjNTg5LWIyMWUtNDdiMi04Y2YyLTc2MTcxODVlZTFhY1wvZDlsMXhsaS1iZTQzNzVhNy1mZmI5LTQyOTgtYmNkMy1hMzhmNzQ2OTJmYWMuanBnIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.vcLCBqzENUcrbetIjgBIdn9YycCMjVaQMDG5CqUfcbs][b]The Homeworld:[/b][/url] The [i]Humans[/i] called the planet Exodus. The Nameless however have not named it. It has five moons of varying sizes. [*][b]Gas Dwarf[/b] No more needs said. [*][b]Gas Giant[/b] No more needs said. [/list] [color=coral]Demographics[/color]: [hider=Images] [img]https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e1668c2e69cfd46ac3028a/1605496700526-RTE84LFV5IC91I14KRCO/halo+elites[/img] [img]https://halo.wiki.gallery/images/thumb/5/5a/HINF_Sangheili_Mercenary_Cutout.png/1200px-HINF_Sangheili_Mercenary_Cutout.png[/img][/hider] The Nameless are of differing castes of Bipedal creatures and a lone AI. The population is 80% Male and 20% Female. They have no robots/drones/droids, as they try to limit their use of heretical technology. [color=39b54a]History[/color]: BR - Before Reclamation AR- After Reclamation [hider=History] [list] [*][b]122-117BR[/b] - A colony ship, finding [i]Exodus[/i] perfect, landed on the planet and founded a civilization in its Southern Hemisphere. Despite sentient life being present on the planet, the sudden shutdown of the Gateway gave them no other choice. They elected to try and keep their distance. Studies indicated that an island in the colder southern climate was never visited by the strange aliens. They landed and started building up their fortified city, hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. [*][b]116-110BR[/b] - The colonists found what appeared to be ruins of an old [i]Exodian[/i], as they were calling them, city. Miriam, the Colonists AI deduced they were a Martriarichal and tribal society, with a strong sense of religion and community but even more importantly a deep-rooted sense of honour. The first contact was authorized, but it didn't end well. It was a blood bath between the two peoples, while the colonist's technology gave them a distinct advantage the Exodians gave as good as they got. [*][b]99-97BR[/b] - The Colonists alter Miriam's morality protocols, needing to use her in their bid to try and get one over on the local Exodians, their surveillance and intelligence reports indicating massive tribal movements in the more local populations. The locals were mobilizing. Miriam gave them the idea to make an [i]orbital[/i] approach, to use the Exodian's spiritualism against them. Approaching from space, the home of the Gods, they bypassed all the defenses and landed [i]right in the center [/i] of a tribal camp, walking out and straight up to their tribal leaders. [*][b]96-90BR[/b] - After first contact, a religious leader called Tr'llik founded a resurgent movement to try and spread the word of the Gods throughout their people. The movement was centered around an old temple on the equator, in the exact center of an island that predates all of titshistory. Made from technology unlike their own. Soon the Deacon had people within all the tribes. [*][b]89-87BR[/b] - More pro-human elements, led by the first son of the noble family of Al'ken. They lived in a camp on he outskirts of the human colony, in a new tribe. The Exodians. Formed from non-religious elements, they slowly integrated themselves with the humans. Learning their technology, their practices, and their language. [*][b]86-80R[/b] - The Exodians and the Colonists join together more and more, and the gates of the city almost continuously open between the two people as they live and work together. They inform the Colonists how the ruins they discovered had been their ancient home until an unknown schism had fractured their people and they left the island. Which is when they discovered the temple- The humans were very interested in the temple. They wanted to go and see it. Learn more about it, and what it was. [*][b]79-70BR[/b] - The Exodians manage to convince the Deacon to allow a small entourage of humans to go to the temple, visitors from the stars. They were benevolent spirits sent from their Gods, through the doorway. It was a grand day, there was a parade. It was going to be a day that would go down in the history books. But - not for the right reasons. On entering the temple, lights and consoles appeared. It fueled the mood in the room, that humans had indeed been sent from the heavens as a guest from the Gods. The humans wanted to delve deeper into the temple and probe it for more of its secrets, but the Deacon denied them. Things were moving well, why ruin things now? [*][b]67-57BR[/b] - The humans continued to try and gain access deeper into the facility, the Exodians and the Colonists had become fully ingrained by this point. While the Exodians were outnumbered by colonists, many of them lived within the city walls and had a basic understanding of human technology. [*][b]1BR[/b] - Unwilling to wait any longer, communication between the Deacon and the Colonists struggled to get any farther in their attempts to study the temple. The Colonist Governor sends a special ops team to sneak into the temple in the dead of night, escorted by a couple of willing Exodians. Deep within the bowels of the temple, the Colonists find a control panel, and the years of darkness begin. A giant beam flies into the sky, forming a sphere around the planet itself. The stars and moons in the sky disappear, and even once the sun rises in the sky the planet gets no lighter than it would during twilight. [*][b]1-5AR[/b] - Chaos. The Deacon had the interlopers killed. The Humans deemed Demons. The Doombringers, and the Exodiansare branded as Tainted by their proximity to the demons. Animals and plants struggled to cope with the lack of light, and the cooler temperatures. The natives became divided, while many moved to join the colonists with their electricity and their lighting (over the organic technology the tribes used) many more banded together around the temple. The Deacon's power grew exponentially over a year. [*][b]6-50AR[/b] - War. All-out war between [i]The Nameless[/i] as the colonists had taken to calling the unified tribes, and the Exodians - who now named themselves as Colonists and the natives that lived with them. In every battle, the Exodians had the technological superiority however there was no denying the raw numbers that the [i]Nameless[/i] had. Every battle the Exodians won was hard fought, and over time they started to lose more and more. Divisions became rife within theExodian'ss numbers, as the humans became bitter and resentful to even the natives that worked with them. [*][b]51-100AR[/b] - The Colonists launched a massive offensive on the temple. The [i]Nameless[/i] spirits were battered and bruised, all but defeated. It was the firsdishonoreded Son Al'ken who finally did the right thing. Fighting deep down within the human compound, he activated the self-destruct. Destroying the human leadership, and taking his own life. Traveling into the Great Nothing. The Deacon takes the chance to rally the last of his forces to march on the colony. The victory was resounding, every human was killed. The men, brutally. Whereas the women were given an Honourable death. [*][b]101-124AR[/b] - With the humans killed, and the Tainted brought back into the fold [i]as the lowest caste[/i] the temple powered down. A sign from their Gods that they were doing the right thing. The tainted were tasked with the cleanup, as much as the Deacon preferred their organic technology some of the technology the humans had was... superior. So until they could manufacture their own, the tainted could use human technology. [*][b]125AR[/b] - The Tainted discovered Miriam. She managed to convince them to show her to the [i]Nameless.[/i] Using all her knowledge of their people, she convinced them that she was off their fallen spirits from the sky. That the humans had trapped her within their heretical technology. She convinced them, and they kept her. Promising to one day free her spirit. [*][b]126-160AR[/b] - Fire rained down from the sky, while they had wiped out the infestation of humans upon the surface of their planet it was discovered that some had dared to continue to taint the stars with their presence. Setting up what they called an [i]outpost[/i] on the third moon. This put them beyond the reach of the [i]Nameless[/i]. They could defend their airspace, they could defend their ground. Especially as a united front, but the stars were beyond their reach. Miriam having studied their technology, offered them a solution. Using their existing 'technology', using organisms that had no right existing in nature, she told the Deacon how to build a ship. [*][b]165-200AR[/b] - Fire had rained down periodically every couple of years, fighters streamed down through the atmosphere. Nameless vessels rose to meet them, then eventually the [i]Unwavering Resolve[/i] a behemoth mix of coral, plasma, and various other organisms rose into space for the first time. Belching Plasma it cut through space like a scythe, descending righteous fury down upon the humans who plagued their system. [*][b]201-300AR[/b] - The Nameless spread out into the night sky like a righteous fury. With the new gifts the heavens provided for them, their weapons and their technology only improved. Their ships became faster and stronger. Human raids became less and less frequent as they were slowly wiped out. [*][b]391-450AR[/b] - Now known as the age of enlightenment, the Nameless were secure in their ownership of the system. Occasionally dissidents would appear, gin roups that questioned the divine word of the Deacon. These groups were swiftly dealt with, the Nameless were ready for any threat the Galaxy would send them. [*][b]500AR[/b] - The Gateway opens. [/list] [/hider] [color=39b54a]Culture and Society[/color]: They are a matriarchal society. They value life above all else, after life was a gift from the Gods. This is why women are valued as highly in their society, they are the name givers. It is forbidden for those to name what is not their creation, which is why the species has no name. Women, name their children. Shapers name their creations. It is the way of things, even their world is Nameless. Other than the reverence for life, the three main pillars of their religion are the Eternal Reward, Great Nothing, and Infernal Damnation. [hider=Castes] [b]Leadership:[/b] The Leadership caste is almost exclusively female. Women lead their tribes, the Deacon is a woman. Those who are beyond the age of reproduction, are either deposed by their daughters as head of the tribe or they resign and transition into religious or military leadership roles. [b]Shaper:[/b] The Shaper caste are the ones who understand the 'science' of the organic constructs that the [i]Nameless[/i] utilize. [b]Warrior:[/b] Often at ends with the Shapers, the Warriors are typically from noble values that value the strength of mind, and will, over anything else. [b]Serf:[/b] Serfs do the labor on the lowest levels, they work the fields. They man and crew the ships. They claw and fight for any level of honor that they can gain. [b]Tainted:[/b] The Tainted are all men, they are the firstborn of noble families who have faced didishonoror families who want to gain honor by giving up their children to become the tainted. They are ostracised by society, they aren't allowed to live within close quarters to any of the other castes. Not allowed to speak without being spoken to, aren't allowed medical treatment. They are the ones who work with the human technology that the [i]Nameless[/i] relies on. They have no hope for the Eternal Reward. All they can hope for is a painful and honourable death, so that they go to the Great Nothing.[/hider] [center] --- [/center] [color=f7941d]Governance and Politics[/color]: The Deacon is the leader, sand he has many underlings. Her words are the literal translation of the Gods, there is little room given for any political wrangling. To speak against the Deacon is to speak against the Gods. [color=f7941d]Technology Overview[/color]: The Nameless u ses[i]Organic[/i] based 'technology'. Rather than being constructed, it is grown. Many of the species shouldn't exist, technically speaking, however, they are in abundance in the Homeworld. Some things they have struggled to replicate, have been working but still struggle to replicate the abilities of long-range sensors and communications equipment. Instead, they still use human technology that is interfaced with their own, maintained by the Tainted. Their power systems, weapons, and propulsion, all run off plasma. Basically everything the Nameless have, technologically wise, was created by the AIs translation of Precursor relics. [color=f7941d]Military Overview[/color]: [hider=Navy] Their navy is strong, however, er in many ways, they rely on numbers more than any form of technological superiority. As their ships are grown they can be convinced and aided in healing, however even in the vacuum of space they still age. Old ships eventually struggle to perform functions that should be second nature to them, they also become bonded and attached to their Mistress. No [i]Nameless[/i] has ever lost a ship, and they have not perished. Mistress and ship go down together. The ships themselves seem to 'mourn' the loss of their mistress, should they die outside of battle. While they do have certain 'classes' of ships, each is unique. Like all living things. [hider=Battleship] [img]https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/5/5f/CovDestroyer.png/revision/latest?cb=20120513170616[/img][/hider] [hider=Carrier] [img]https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/c/c0/Reach_468670_Full.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140423050844[/img] [/hider] [hider=Frigate] [img]https://media.sketchfab.com/models/cb3fb7df62a54731a6baed5173ad503e/thumbnails/9795e5ad60264976b861cd0e2d6580ce/18bc5f9f27d449569f54a39f4fdce81d.jpeg[/img][/hider] [hider=Fighter] [img]https://halo.wiki.gallery/images/thumb/e/eb/H4-T31SeraphXMF.png/1200px-H4-T31SeraphXMF.png[/img] [/hider] Will expand on this section as things go on. [center] --- [/center] [color=ec008c]Additional Info[/color]: [sub](Anything else you want to include that there isn't a spot for up there.)[/sub][/hider][/hider]