They ruled for untold centuries, acting both as benevolent rulers, and terrible tyrants. They gifted many worlds wonderous technologies, uplifted species of their choosing, all the while they razed entire systems to any who would dare defy their rule and wiped entire species from the face of all of creation. They were both loved and feared, revered and reviled by trillions-....

The makers of a two millenia-long imperium that managed to last for longer than many aspiring nations have hoped to, the Yrrani are a humanoid species that possesses a number of traits. Longevity, general physiological resilience, a more widespread latent psionic aptitude, unnatural beauty as well as graceful aging, and generally keen minds. It is unknown if the Yrrani of today are the same as their oldest forebears, though, or if centuries of imperium, populating the stars, and obvious matters such as the use of advanced medicines and genetic modifications to themselves have taken their toll in the long-term. It is, for the most part, assumed that it is all a mixed bag after so long as seemingly original records of the Yrrani’s rise either disappeared or went missing by the time of the fall of the Yrrani Empire itself.

What is known somewhat is that some Yrrani perhaps do still hold to the idea of restoring the Empire, even as their race declines and has mostly disappeared throughout the cosmos, though many others perhaps do not as well. It is, to use a human saying, a ‘mixed bag’ that one can’t simply assume a unified answer for across the span of a dying and storied race such as the Yrrani.

Meanwhile, within the UID in particular (at least) this species’s presence at first was mostly of a ‘mixed bag’ that were imported by the Sickly Emperor and otherwise before this point by chance during development of Project Reservoir over the decades and as workers were brought in for the project and its aims. The end result is a centuries of a mixed-bag group of Yrrani, ones whose descendants have rebranded under the term of “Yrrani-Idkar” or mostly just as “Idkar” as a new and growing derivative cultural/ethnic identity of sorts has evolved over time among their majority due to initial forced intermingling before and initially after the fall of the Yrrani Empire. This term itself is also derived from the name of the UID’s capital world of Tar Idkar.

To most of these, at least within the UID, even the term “Yrrani” has been switched out for the initially informal and eventually legally-defined use of “Idkar” as their designator and species identity in line with cutting ties to the past. At the very least, the “Idkar” of the UID have managed to not only avoid dying out but also have continued to grow in population once more. However, among the Idkar population aspirations of imperium have in the end died with use of the ‘Yrrani’ moniker among the vast majority here within the past six centuries. Some consider this a mere political change among the UID’s Idkar over the last six centuries, to cut ties with the old Empire further in some capacity after fearing reprisals from neighbors, while others see it as simply another designated cultural or other such subgroup naturally developing within an overall species over the past six centuries. A minority of older cultural enclaves have also managed to remain after the centuries as well, though are usually found on certain worlds or such as a consequence of past migrations, who was imported from where and to which place in the pre-fall Empire within the boundaries of Project Reservoir, or later attempts to ‘preserve their past’ in some capacity or such like thought processes. Etc.

It cannot be understated that the effect of Project Reservoir was, whether in ways intentionally and other unintentionally, a force that led to the development of the “Idkar” proper. Though it seems that, by importing a number of groups in, those running Project Reservoir purposefully in part sought to make use of many ‘non-mainstream’ Yrrani groups and sects who would be more loyal to the project than to the system at large of the Yrrani Empire. This would help provide a means for keeping the project ‘more secure’, it seems, given the circumstances of things. However, this is a modern theory based on some evidence and decades of calculation and investigation of the past by the government of the UID. After so long, and all that has happened in the galaxy, it is perhaps safe to say that the ‘gritty details of the truth’ have likely been lost to time to enough of an extent.

((Other Extant Yrrani Subgroup Minorities within the UID:

1 ) Yrrani-Twei

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((Note 1: If you want to have a Yrrani subgroup of yours feature in an enclave within the UID, just if you want to (don’t have to I mean), then let me know! :D))

((Note 2: Old Yrrani used to spell words with apostrophes, putting emphasis on certain syllables or such to emphasize the meaning of a word’s component parts culturally and linguistically. Yet as the Kingdom and later Empire of the Yrrani grew among the stars, the Yrrani language was ultimately streamlined to cast them off in the long-term to make it easier to use. Hence why the word for “new hope” or “Idkar” would be “Id’kar” (Id = new; kar = hope) in Old Yrrani compared to the version the galaxy came to know or remember by current times. This loss in linguistic emphasis and breakdown, perhaps, can also be seen as some loss of identity or roots to the Yrrani as they grew beyond their homeworld to boot.

This can be especially noted as certain things like “Yrri” (Yr = parent/origin; Ri = the ‘masculine’ syllable in Old Yrrani) and “Yrra” ( Yr = parent/origin; Ra = Feminine syllable in Old Yrrani) became known more as a title for an Emperor/Empress or planet to take on rather than their actual literal meanings of “Father” and “Mother” respectively (EX: Tar Yrra = “The Mother” or “our mother world”). This occurred as the Yrrani language became mainstream, as well as when it interacted with other races and became streamlined in the long-term for teaching and communication purposes. Such a small change seems to many to be a ‘nothing’, though to others the lack of emphasis in linguistics as facilitated by galactic expansion and streamlining of the language was seen as a loss of origins/identity/their roots to others. Further, one cannot ignore the changes to the language in addition as some of the most populous foreign species’ terms/language leaked in….as well as when some terms and words gained new definitions and uses over time (like how irl “Caesar” and “Augustus” became titles and symbols of being a ruler in the wider world, in and of themselves, instead of being mere Latin names).))

((Note 3: Emperors/Empresses in the Empire gained certain personal titles as a consequence of reputation or their actions, and even due to events that occurred during their reign, such as the “Austere Emperor”, the “Wrathful Empress”, the “Chaste Emperor/Empress”, etc.))

Humans. Terrans. Homo sapiens sapiens. It is unknown where this particular two-legged humanoid (or ‘yrranoid’ as the Yrrani would call it way back when) species frankly originated from, its original homeworld having gone long forgotten and lost to the ages in the minds of its descendants. Humans have spread across the galaxy about as much as the Yrrani did back during the heights of the Yrrani Empire, spreading much like some kind of ‘pest’ as some might note, with varying skin colorations and appearances of their own to boot. Yet despite lacking many of the space seeming advantages as Yrrani as a species, to make the comparison, humanity has made up for it in ingenuity and sheer determination to explore, understand, and forge new homes across the cosmos. Versatile and originating from a higher-gravity world much as the Yrrani did, though, this also led humanity to be both rugged enough to go onward…

….Though as a small aside, after ‘a few incidents’ humans in certain far-fringe places would develop a ‘stereotype’ in some far-flung places prior to the Empire’s fall of ‘being crazy experimental idiots who come up with stupidly crazy ideas when bored’. Among these are ideas such as ‘taping knives to a floor-cleaning robot and naming it something silly like Stabby or Kevin’ and the classic example of ‘strapping a warp core to a makeshift rocket and firing it into a space station to blow it up as a desperate attempt to dissuade and invasion force from landing’. Among their other feats are ‘finding new and creative ways to either blow themselves or others up’ and, not to forget a goodie but an oldie, voluntarily going ‘hey let’s see if doing X thing kills us’ and either finding out the hard way or somehow rebounding from it to tell their tale to any sapient ear that they can hold captive with the story.

(Also this is a joke part, please don't take it seriously, lol.)

Standing apart from simply individuals of other species who use cybernetics or have prosthetics, this group’s members identify themselves apart from their ‘original species’ and instead identify together with other ‘augmented’. While originally classified as a mere cultural or ethnic identity of members from still-differing species, they are tentatively listed as a ‘demographic’ of their own at the very least by current times after decades of debate and discussion over the matter within the UID government. They are a group that, for the most part, venerates technology and the augmentation of their flesh and began with missionaries of “The Holy Cog” which entered UID space. In particular the Augmented of the UID, the second smallest demographic minority of the UID, originated in their ways and such from the teachings of one missionary simply known under the identity of “Sister Mechila” or ‘Saint Mechila” to some.

Mechila was an ardent missionary of The Holy Cog, and her humble Forge Ship was a curious arrival within UID space. Her teachings were taken in by few, and many were wary of her and her teachings for a number of reasons. However, she sought to bring the strength and certainty of metal to the weakness of flesh, and in her pursuit of truth would come into conflict with some lower UID authorities over the matter of potential loyalties and her place of origin. This led to her eventual arrest and court trial after some accused her, though in a peculiar turn of events the expected declaration of her being ‘guilty’ would fall through after coming to the highest court in the UID. This was followed with some discussion behind closed doors, before finally Mechila was released and allowed to return to where she’d set up. She had refused to raise a violent hand the entire time, even as she’d been arrested telling some of the more nervous or potentially violent new followers to stand down, news of the case hitting the public at large would lead to her gaining a new swell of followers.

The faith of the Holy Cog would come to define the culture of most Augmented, aka they emerged from those who joined to the faith, though certain legal issues would seem to be solved in the aftermath of Saint Mechila and her example. An anti-extremist, she preached only taking in the willing to their ranks and promoting goodwill to their non-Augmented neighbors without trying to be coercive. Nay, they were to simply lend strength to their neighbors and to lawfully and gladly support the nation that was their home in sickness or in health.

While some have sought to take heavily-augmented people in some cases to identify among the formal “Augmented” demographic, there are still notable differences between most of those who do not follow the faith and get augmented to more or less of a degree and those who follow the faith. Sometimes a little conflict historically has sparked here and there between the Augmented and non-faithful augmentees or ex-members and even non-machine-augmented, though work toward ensuring a lasting peace has seen things improve overall in this regard quite a bit since the arrival of Sister Mechila 250 years ago. By current times the faith of the Holy Cog and the Augmented demographic are simply another part of life and the citizenry of the UID as a whole.

Known in their own tongue as the Livelloúli, nicknamed the “Livelli”, the translation of this term into galactic common is Aretposina. Females are known to have a feminine-type body layout with a ‘grasping’ prehensile tail, while males instead are known to have slimmer and longer wings and have a ‘pointy’ singular piece at the end of their tail that is said to possess a rather small and vestigial venom sac no longer connected to it with a venom inside known to cause lingering disorientation, nausea, and dizziness in those affected by it. Their societies in primitive times were noted as having a higher occurrence of fierce competition for territory, though as civilization advanced, wars occurred, and trends began to emerge, this particular anecdote would never fully vanish individually even if at the national level it would diminish to a notable extent as the species advanced and developed in its home. Further, it can be said in generally broad strokes that their societies emerged to become about as individualistic as those of some human cultures, to give a baseline comparison, though unity as a species and under things like cultural, ethnic, and national identities would also develop in their pre-contact era to boot.

Living and dwelling on the supposedly and reputedly sunny and warm world of Terser III (as named by the Yrrani; is known as “Noia” in their tongue and their home star as “Arétim”), in reality a stereotypic reputation that came from their homeworld having a larger equatorial region than many that, ultimately, was in the end only part of the ‘continental world’ they called home and where the species came to live (temperate regions, notable polar regions, oceans and island, etc, also exist there with varied climes). On their own, they would globally see their greatest powers progress to roughly a state of advancement defined formerly by the Yrrani of the time as the “Basic Industrial Era” (OOC: Like a WW1-era US + Europe type of technology levels) before eventually being encountered by the Yrrani Empire (this Yrrani definition of advancement would change quite a bit centuries later, among other things).

When first encountered by a growing but young Yrrani Empire, as this came shortly after changing from being called the “Yrrani Kingdom” even, they were seen as a potential species either way to enslave and subjugate or uplift alongside themselves instead in a more xenophilic manner. As such a good many were enslaved during this contentious time period, with females most often used as servants and males as soldiers or laborers as a rough general trend, though a good many others were instead uplifted by the Yrrani. The species would ultimately end up in a cycle of flux between these states in the many coming centuries, though within the Late Period of the Yrrani Empire it would see more of their kind end up enslaved rather than staying free in a general sense. Many would also be imported into Project Reservoir as workers, with the Sickly Emperor later importing many purchased and freed slaves as well as some amount of free Livelli as part of an attempt to ‘preserve the species of the Empire from what was to come’ in his eyes.

This, as it were, turned out to be the best call on said Emperor’s part, ensuring the future UID would both possess the largest extant and growing Livelli population as well as eventually have some reason to claim the species’ actual homeworld into its territory as the new nation grew from the ashes of the former Yrrani Empire. Due to this, a number of the last few extant bits of Livelli cultures left have been preserved at the very least (or in some part if nothing else) in the long-term as well as a consequence. However, the intermingling descendants of those who were exposed to Yrrani culture and otherwise along with the centuries of back and forth treatment by the old Empire do form the seeming majority.

((Also yes, words in their language are just reversed greek-language words for future reference.))

With many having taken flight after the conquests of the Augustan Empire, the members of this ‘warrior race’ would struggle to initially adapt to the UID and were seen as potential threats due to their initial migrating numbers and the fact it seemed to many their majority seemed to be fighting the Augustans. It was a time period where the UID was seeking to avoid some contact, or at least just angering, their closer neighbors. To see those initial migrants as ‘people fleeing a battle they saw as losing’ was certainly to become the stereotype and initial impression many had, at least, though further investigation and decades to come would spell out more of the details of the matter. In reality, most of those who fled had been on the losing side of a civil war among the Vrunak before the Augustans even conquered the Vrunak proper. Most originated from a particular ethnic and racial (both in this case) Vrunak group called the “Nek” (backwards "Ken", or Japanese for "sword" according to good old Google Translate), a growing minority group which had been targeted for elimination after being on the losing side of said civil war, who fled in mass numbers for their lives and took residence in and migrated to UID territory as a desperate measure after some discussion in the shadows with UID authorities behind closed doors. While a small number would leave to carve their own home once the greater body of Vrunak seemed to be conquered and collapsed, though, the greater majority would end up staying after it having been some time since they’d migrated there.

Initially many of the more warlike type had found work in the UID military, or at least had been routed to there in some part as ‘trade’ for their migration to the UID in this case, though despite some levels of Vrunak discrimination seeming to inevitably emerge in the long-term they would make their contribution to UID society in ways by bringing in their love of arts and some more peculiar foods and seasoning choices (among other things). After several centuries, while the discrimination isn’t wholesale gone it has instead been vastly reduced to the point that the vast majority generally see UID Vrunak as ‘just other UID citizens who’ve lived and died here like we do’.

Daxini (various but distinctly non-digital ones), Mu (?), Simmies, etc.

((Aka: Any other species minorities that exist within the UID, basically, will be put here in this hider either in the brief listing above or otherwise.))

(I will get to this at some point, hopefully, but too tired as of current times to get this extra detail, among many, written out.

AKA: I got too lazy and tired to write these little general standard things or particular details down in everything, so they are going here as a result.

1 ) Explosive weapons used by vehicles are antimatter warheads.

2 ) The ‘standard defensive package’ for manned military craft includes general forms of: Armoring, thermal insulation/protection radiation shielding (for craft used in space at least), electrical protection, protective armoring, anti-psionic protective lining (more aptly called ‘psionic resistance lining’, as it provides resistance instead of immunity and is just meant to at least help protect non-psionic pilots from psionic attacks/intrusions on them on the battlefield), and usually a primary or emergency shield generator of some sort. Likewise the implementation of self-healing materials, or things like built-in nanofactories, are also integrated into most forms of military technology and material when it comes to vehicles and soldier combat armors and such.

3 ) While not formally noted in this package, normally manned craft are fitted to not be ‘overly reliant on wireless capabilities’, akin to older-style craft, with certain vehicle-tracking measures using a proper quantum entanglement instead of older standard types of digital or radio methods. While overall this is a seemingly ‘primitive’ means of operation, myriad developments of comms-jamming and systems-hacking in the past would lead the UID to this eventual conclusion and design choice for self-contained systems to prevent more widespread issues. Even so, they still use the latest advanced comms systems as communications are something that couldn’t be backtracked on without significant issues (thus anti-jammers and things like cybersecurity measures have seen development in this particular realm to try to help protect these for units in-combat and outside of it). Further, aside from the case of psionics-operated vehicles and their own means of encryption and control in tandem with other things, non-psionic vehicles of certain types often utilize quantum entanglements in certain specific niches to connect something like a mech’s weapon to the mech itself in a safer and quantum-encrypted manner.

Does this all make the vehicles of the UID immune to everything and indestructible and perfect? Well, no. It’s just them having sought to adapt to what technological issues that their military has faced in and outside of combat over the past centuries. While one can’t expect everything they have to be just wireless and hackable outright, they did make their vehicles self-contained mostly for good reasons, they aren’t suddenly perfect and unstoppable as a military force just because of these measures they’ve taken in military craft design.

4 ) Most handheld soldier weapons are electromagnetic-type weapons and some particle beam weapons on the average. A few rare cases of some vehicles or surplus old weapons might be the type that uses advanced caseless ballistic ammunition (such as the RMATAG-AUV) instead.

5 ) Soldiers normally get a standard loadout of: A primary weapon, a sidearm, a vibroknife of some sort, and two or three grenade-type explosive weapons. Those taking on other roles, or particular missions, can and will vary in equipment depending on the scenario.

6 ) Psi-Corps soldiers have additional equipment types they can draw upon for missions due to their more unique nature, including psionic-controlled drones for scouting, psionic ‘bits’ for additional combat power (like those on the psionic mechs, but infantry-scaled and under more limitations), psionic-targeting projectiles/weapons, anti-psionic jamming machines (requires a psionic to use it though), etc. Also in that vein, anti-psionic cuffs and devices for psionic prisoners are also a thing that exists in parallel with all of this to boot.

7 ) ((To be added in the future?))

Bipedal Warfare Offensive Mobile Platform (BW-OMP)



This relic of the past is in fact a 16 foot tall MECHS platform from the Late Period of the Imperial Military, being a smaller profile bipedal platform mounted with dual rocket pods. It was most often used for hit-and-run attacks, ambushes, offensive campaigns, or to counteract either very few well-armored or plentiful soft targets alike. Known for its peculiar running speed and only using some light armor and a small shield generator to protect itself, it was a supplement infantry and other ground combat vehicles, with barely enough defenses to protect it from small arms and help it run away from or at least try to survive encountering more heavily-armored threats. It was most often used in rural/rough terrain, or urban scenarios, but found itself rather scarcely used if ever used in wide open areas when it came to combat for good reasons….and even if used in such wide open places only in the company of plenty of protection and only in support of other units like infantry and ground combat vehicles or such.

These things are a dime-a-dozen design even a fringe territory mechanic could become familiar with and repair. Thus it comes as no surprise they have had their general use in even far-flung garrisons during the time of the Yrrani Empire, and saw extensive modding for use with other weapon types by some rebel forces even, in the last few centuries of the Yrrani Empire’s existence and beyond even heading into the centuries of the Great Fall. The UID only has some stocks of these as ‘ancient surplus’, and where at least another type of bipedal combat platform from back then has at least stayed useful enough to keep upgrading and trying to improve upon by the UID….well….these instead haven’t changed at all since before the fall of the Yrrani Empire. Still aren’t totally useless or harmless, rockets and guns modified onto them are deadly weapons, but they are certainly ‘pretty outdated’ to be sure. They are also much cheaper to manufacture and copy than some ‘modern’ weapons of war as well, really, making them versatile platforms for the poorest of wannabe factions and states to boot…..a ‘BWOMP’, as soldiers have long nicknamed it, it is indeed.

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Bipedal Warfare Multi-Role Mechanized Assault Platform (BW-MRMAP)



A shorter and smaller military MECHS platform that can either be piloted by a remote operator using a quantum entanglement, or alternatively be entirely automated with advanced A.I., to support ground based troops and general infantry. It could be armed with a number of different loadouts for urban or something like jungle warfare as well, though one should not think it to be some outright ‘tank-killer’ mech either. It still is a proper anti-infantry design for the most part, and while some ‘anti-tank’ weapons and defenses can be installed to protect it in such scenarios (shield generators and such) it wasn’t built to last forever against them either. Used to supplement numbers and alongside general infantry, especially in cases of local garrison and conscripts, this versatile weapons platform was standardized and upgraded slowly over several centuries after its initial development and before the Yrrani Empire’s eventual fall. In the Late Period of the empire it was employed by the Imperial Military alongside regular infantry on the ground in general even still to help supplement numbers and equipment in some places, though it became most infamous in being used to help put down riots and in urban scenarios during the Century of Strife and in the two centuries in particular before that.

While the technology has seen a general and basic improvement since then within the territory that came to form the UID proper, and upgraded some since its use in the Yrrani Empire, it is certainly not the most advanced of platforms nor does it look too much different either in terms of comparing the UID’s existing designs to their centuries-old ancestors. It is a generally effective platform even post-collapse rebels and ex-Imperial Military factions still implement, or which have been recycled into autonomous defense units for some former-fringe territories of the now-dead empire that were lucky enough to get their hands on some. While the UID is perhaps among the very few who continued to try to improve the technology of this type of ground combat unit, it is mostly by now on its way out with the more widespread introduction of the MMRMAP platform by current times.

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Modern Bipedal Warfare Manned Multi-Role Mechanized Assault Platform (M-BW-MMRMAP)



A ground-based MECHS platform going beyond the remote operation and A.I. piloting of the MRMAP and integrating a proper cockpit. The design of its body is much sleeker, far more mobile, and has a smaller profile in combat scenarios. Its outer casing and parts are covered in layers of advanced next-generation armoring and underlying ceramic alloys and thermal as well as electrical insulation, with even a built-in shield generator and anti-psionic protective lining to boot! While some weapons, such as Anti-Tank missiles and electronic countermeasures, are mounted on or into the body it mostly carries the rest of its loadout by hand. Such hand-carried weapons can be magnetically attached to its exterior in specific locations as well. While it has less room for the somewhat larger loadouts of the MRMAP, which is in the process of being phased out, its defensive protection, maneuverability, and ability to ‘survive’ a couple of direct hits from shots made by modern hovertanks (if nothing else) in a worst-case scenario has more than made up for this in practical application. Due to its size, squads of these are often deployed either on their own or to support infantry, not being beholden to supporting others in a mix as its predecessor also has been stuck to.

An advanced A.I. assists the pilot to boot, as well as can pilot the unit autonomously in case the pilot is caught outside of or is forced to operate or perform actions outside of the unit. A compact field survival kit and such has also been installed into these, alongside a backup pistol, rifle, and some ammunition for the pilot if needed in the field, all alongside a manual emergency release in case of the worst. Further, as a self-contained unit using installed quantum entanglements to connect to and communicate with its handheld weapons (not made to be wirelessly connected to everything under the sun) only the comms might be subject to interference or such in a combat scenario for the most part. It can also use incredible strength to move obstacles and dig through rubble or such to boot.

While it is of note to say that the Imperial Military was working on something like this for some time for ground deployment, the MMRMAP is a UID exclusive design ‘seemingly’ using the latest in post-Imperial technology in its arsenal. ((There is also a notable psionic-piloted variant of this that is in use currently by the UID, the P-MMRMAP, as well. Plus there’s variants meant for support/engineering roles and moving supplies, etc, as the platform at this stage has been further pushed into some form of versatility in the field and off of it. It even exists as the basis for a much less powerful civilian-grade model/type used for construction, as well as a police-grade form, and such.))

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All-Terrain Anti-Gravity Main Battle Tank MK5 (ATAG-MBT MK5)



A hardy mainline battle tank for ground-based warfare, capable of moving over the surface of water and other rough terrains just as smoothly as over the open field. In terms of weapons it is fitted with a 20mm tri-barrel minigun, 15-count rocket/missile pod, and a powerful 105mm coilgun-type main gun. It is fitted with powerful thrusters and a tow cable, and both the latest in current day vehicle combat armor and combat-capable shield generator technology. Robust design and material filters for the thrusters ensure that the vehicle can move about with a confident general ease in wet and dry, muddy or dusty, and other such combat environments in a general sense. General point defense and other aforementioned defensive measures grant the unit a fair amount of survivability when facing other main battle tanks and artillery and such on the battlefield. Holds a crew of four, has a general anti-psionic lining inside as other manned vehicles do within the UID in general, and contains a general nanite repair kit and a crew survival kit.

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All-Terrain Anti-Gravity Rapid-Approach Plasma Light Tank MK5 (ATAGRA-PLT)



A light tank mounted with a primary plasma railgun, as well as boasting powerful thrusters, a smaller profile, and faster movement speeds than the ATAG-MBT MK5. While its thrusters are just as rugged in design, and its lighter armor is angled and designed for survival on the battlefield, its primary defensive means is a stronger shield generator. Need for a stronger power source has, however, cut down the vehicle’s firepower to just its main gun with regards to issues of the design’s power consumption. Built-in point defense remains effective and can be used as a secondary weapon to combat soft targets at a range in lieu of lacking other secondary armaments otherwise. Holds a crew of three, and likewise contains a general nanite repair kit and crew survival kit.

While the ATAG-MBT MK5 is designed for primary ground based combat, especially out in the open, the ATAGRA-PLT is designed for either deployment alongside the former or for hit-and-run attacks against enemy targets in even urban combat scenarios as it possesses general flight capabilities unlike the former. It can move about in tighter spaces, was made to be resistant to infantry-carried anti-vehicle weapons, and its speed allows rapid attack capabilities surpassing its larger ‘cousin’ of sorts. However, its primary weapon shouldn't be underestimated due to its lack of any other major weapons aside from the built-in secondary uses for its point defense module. This plasma railgun hits rather hard, able to severely damage and frankly take down more heavily armored vehicles even double its size as well as deal serious damage to some kinds of enemy fortifications, which combined with the vehicle’s maneuverability makes this primary weapon a rather potent surprise package for those it's pointed at.

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All-Terrain Anti-Gravity Heavy-Armored Utility Vehicle (ATAG-HAUV)



An all-terrain form of military utility vehicle that was used in ground operations as far back as the Late Period of the Yrrani Empire (before its fall), these are among the more common Pre-War Vehicles to still find in use today due to how utterly common they used to be. Able to carry supplies on the exposed side racks as well as on top, or instead seat up to six soldiers in the exposed side racks and supplies on top, it was a feature of Imperial Military Ground Operations for over two hundred years for a reason. With only a commanding officer and up to two pilots able to be housed inside of the protected cockpit, it could only effectively carry a singular squad of fully-armed and ready soldiers into battle or would find use as a small but generally effective cargo-moving vehicle in and outside of combat scenarios. Also being mounted with laser weapons that didn’t require ‘restocking ammunition’ for it, this vehicle traded the use of energy shielding in turn for being fitted with heavier armor with mixed-weapons defensive protection. To some soldiers, the saying ‘it takes a licking and keeps on ticking’ is certainly a phrase that applies to this vehicle in practice, though just as often if it needed repairs it can more easily accommodate that as well due to how ‘standardized’ it was in its heyday. Also notable was this craft’s ability to move over even bodies of water and such things with some amount of effective speed.

The standardization and long service of this vehicle can be attributed to several factors, however, with the most notable being the shift inside the Yrrani Empire from a ‘conquering expansion-focused military’ in many regions to become more of a ‘defensive policing force’ meant to keep order and put down potential rebellions in most places it controlled. Hence designs such as the ATAG-HAUV and other such vehicles and weapons emerged in the myriad centuries after the Empire hit the furthest extent of its outward expansion. This didn’t mean high-grade military weapons and platforms didn’t remain in use, or that technology didn’t advance in the Imperial Military or somehow got worse, but that simply the Imperial Military had to also adjust to a reasonable extent with the shifting of the times as with any nation in the history of the galaxy. Even so, the widespread rumors that ‘the Late Imperial Military was more cheaply and pitifully armed than before’ tend to discount the realities of the situation the Empire and Imperial Military were in and the consequences of those realities therein.

Even after the Century of Strife, one can find these ex-Imperial vehicles in use all over the place, either partially intact or altered or scavenged together by former rebels, individual planets that once had garrisons on them, and so forth since the fall of the Yrrani Empire. Sure they are outdated in a number of ways, that is for sure, but they remain generally effective at the very least and have thus remained in use. Even the UID still naturally has some small amount of these in storage or lying about at that, though plans to do as others have done to modify or ‘retrofit’ these plentiful outdated models in case of wartime need have been discussed behind closed doors. One cannot also ignore the presence of the just as common ‘shoddy technicals’ wrought from the platform this vehicle provides, though these are most often seen in far-fringe, very poor, the rarer pirate-held, or even rather rural worlds depending on the place and part of the galaxy and former imperium of the Yrrani Empire one is in or comes from.

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Rapid-Movement All-Terrain Anti-Gravity Armored Utility Vehicle (RMATAG-AUV)



A rapidly moving armored troop transport meant to move about in urban and wilderness areas and such alike to bring supplies, crew-manned weapons, and a range of 6-16 troops onto the battlefield and off of it again. It deploys a combination of lighter armor and energy shielding to increase its carrying capacity and speed notably compared to models of APC/AUV seen in the Late Period of the Yrrani Empire. It utilizes a mounted and manned (can be optionally remote-operated) Heavy Dual-Mounted Ballistic Machine Gun (HDM-BMG) as a weapon, one capable of providing suppressive fire to troops exiting the vehicle as well as firing on enemy infantry and light-armored targets with a ‘primitive’ but still rather effective level of firepower. Harpoon-like anchors on the sides of the vehicle (3 on each side; 6 total) can hold the vehicle in place to stabilize it rather well if horrible enough if high winds or such environmental hazards necessitate their use as well, though on several occasions ‘creative use’ of these has been recorded in the field….with mixed results in such cases in particular.

The original designs for this line of UID-brand vehicles originated within the territory that would become the United Idkaran Dominion, being among its first ‘in-house-developed’ designs, with the first of its kind emerging into service roughly 255 years after the start of the “Century of Strife”. It differs from Late Period designs seen in the Imperial Military of the Yrrani Empire by the time of its collapse in several ways, both trading heavier armor and laser-based weaponry for improved size, speed, and improved capacity for troops. While ballistic ammunition was considered ‘more primitive’ even within the Late Empire, for the future UID this design was both far more feasibly economical to produce and likewise still proved rather effective in general combat scenarios both offensive and defensive alike. Fast-forward a few hundred years more to current times, and this basic premise of design for a general ground-based APC-capable utility vehicle would improve in both technological specs while not much changing in its layout and design barring some occasional experiments in design philosophy along the way.

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Multi-Role Anti-Gravity High-Speed Mobile Weapons Platform (MRAGHS-MWP)



A mobile ground-based combat platform, capable of being mounted with a small range of weapons and other equipment or tools for assistance in planetary combat or military actions on-planet. Rocket pods, anti-aircraft weaponry, artillery guns, mortars, cranes, storage space, and so forth are among the versatile pieces that can be equipped to the vehicle, though it is primarily a combat-oriented vehicle most of the time. In that role it usually focuses on high speed movement to deliver payloads before moving onward to the next target or to avoid enemy retaliation. While it can be equipped and often is equipped with point defense and similar measures, including its hardy but light armor and stronger shield generator combination that helps make it so mobile in the first place, these are not always implemented due to the mobile nature of the platform in its usual modes of implementation.

Still of note that other more specialized designs for support vehicles are used within the UID, though for flexibility this platform can be used in a pinch or drawn-out planetary campaigns when other such equipment cannot be brought in or make it to the front lines. Etc.

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Bladeless Planetary Combat Drone (BPCD)



Various armaments can be equipped to it.

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Next Generation Planetary VTOL Dropship

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Generalist Planetary Exit & Re-entry Cargo Craft (G-PERCC)



A well-protected craft for transitioning between planetary environments and outer space, with powerful thrusters, VTOL capabilities, tough exterior armor, and a general array of defensive measures including (but not limited to) point defense, thermal insulation, radiation shielding (a standard in spacebound craft of the UID), emergency shield generator and an anti-psionic lining on the inside (etc).

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Elite Ground Personnel Transport Vehicle (EGPTV)



A vehicle employed on-planet by Military Police and local Reserve Centers for military reserves, while a lesser-armed and armored version is employed by elite police forces on the local level. Can carry 12-18 personnel onboard. Wheels are self-sealing and made to be able to cross even rough terrain. Military-grade versions possess a limited version of a ‘gravitational core’ normally founds on larger MECHS platforms, which combined with the design of the wheels allows these vehicles to cross even vertical and other ‘impossible’ forms of terrain.

Anti-Gravity Combat Fighter Craft Type-G (Type-5 AGC-FC)



A versatile fighter craft mounted with particle beam cannons and a small, angular profile, its defense mostly comes from what armoring it has and a basic military grade shield generator. It is a craft meant to use its weapons to clear up smaller enemy craft, like ‘mechs’ and other fighter craft, as well as use its particle beam weapons to wear down enemy shields or put damage into enemy armor. Usually deployed in large numbers, or in smaller groups during ambushes, they usually are used in tandem with ‘mechs’ on their own side on the average (but not always).

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Anti-Gravity Multi-Role Light Ship (AGMR-LS)



A lightly armored, lightly armed, and small crewed vessel with modular capabilities, allowing it to be outfitted to fill various roles on a smaller scale than a frigate. Useful in more confined and crowded combat space, though designed for a wide variety of situations with their potential loadouts, they are used to take down smaller enemy craft, remove mine threats, perform anti-piracy missions, assist in humanitarian and rescue operations, etc. While the likes of the Destroyer were crafted with the idea of combat as their primary scenario despite having multi-role capabilities, though, this type of vessel was made to both help screen the likes of Destroyers and larger craft as well as have a wide variety of applications individually beyond simply just combat.

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Anti-Gravity Multi-Role Destroyer, aka “The Flash Drive Destroyer” (AGMR-D)



A modular destroyer with a range of capabilities, from anti-mine and stealth operations to being outfitted for general combat scenarios with options ranging from particle beam weapons, to missiles, to even electromagnetic cannonry in a general sense. However its sophisticated defensive suite, including the standard sorts of protective linings and armoring and a shield generator, aside, the ship’s cybersecurity is infamous for ‘frying’ devices deemed to be dangerous. Hence the unfortunate incident where more than a few soldiers were using a flash drive or such external device and had it immediately fried by the ship’s defense systems, along with damage to the hands or bodies of a few of these. While the issue was ultimately rectified with improvements made to the defense systems, the nicknames of “The Flash Drive Destroyer” or “USSB” that had been given to it had already become common lingo for this type of vessel.

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Anti-Gravity Space Combat Battle Carrier MK5 (AGSC-BC MK5)





A combination of carrier and battleship, it both transports and carries a great many smaller craft (‘Mechs’ and Fighter Craft) and likewise boasts a range of high-grade shield generators as well as in-depth point defenses and armoring. These ‘moving fortresses’ were nicknamed such for good reasons indeed, and with their high defenses and variety of high-grade firepower (missiles, electromagnetic cannons, particle beams/lasers, etc) they are hard to take down and could remain out in the field for quite a long time due to the facilities built into them. Also known as the ‘flying cities’ of the UID, they are a mainstay in major space engagements and planetary assaults. Yet while capable of entering and exiting a planet’s atmosphere for special repairs or certain planetary landings alike, they most often remain in space proper and deploy vessels from there while defensively supporting the fleet in those circumstances on-average. One or two might support certain smaller-grade battles, depending on the mission, as well.

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Anti-Gravity Space Combat and Orbital Bombardment Cruiser (AGSC-OB-C)



A curious case of older designs for a ‘dreadnaught’ of the Early Imperial Period that were eventually adapted into a modern design for a cruiser. Its armoring is superior to the Battle Carrier outright, but is second only to the Battle Carrier in shielding and point defense (of which it has quite a lot). This long-range and orbital-bombardment-capable, its weapons range from large missile weapons to particle beams to even rail weapons in particular that are capable of firing rounds large enough and strong enough to bombard a planet through its atmosphere in general. These vessels are known best for their superior long-range firepower and ability to provide more precision aiming as well as a ‘sheer volume of saturating fire’ to suppress or carve into enemy forces. A mainstay in major or large enough engagements and orbital bombardment, usually food smaller battles either they will not be present or be present in a small handful as heavy firepower and support for the main spacecraft involved in such a battle/engagement.

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General-Purpose Military Cargo Vessel (GP-MCG)



A general purpose vessel used to carry cargo, both onto and off of planets as well as between locations in space. A larger sister to the G-PERCC, it is more often used for larger loads of cargo and troops and such while the G-PERCC is most often used for smaller loads. It is larger and more heavily armored and protected than its smaller relative as well, between its armoring, general defensive linings, and larger emergency shield generator.

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Multi-Role Bipedal Combat MECHS Platform MK3 (HC-BCMP MK3)



((Summary: 19 meters tall. General spaceborne mech platform, which uses equipment carried into combat and a standardized design. Uses dense armor and a shield generator, as well as some anti-psionic lining, radiation shielding, electrical insulation, thermal shielding, and the like. Possesses a powerful set of thrusters for movement. Uses one of the MECHS forms of controlling the unit. Used for planetary landings on G-PERCC or other form of military planetary transition type craft. Carries handheld weapons, some of which can be magnetically attached to its legs or arms to be carried into battle as well, and can utilize a built-in concealed plasma sword for melee or cutting apart obstacles (sword is like a giant super plasma blade, which is contained and controlled by a magnetic field produced by the hilt). Plasma sword can be used in-atmosphere, but underwater or in a liquid medium that dissipates heat more or less effectively its effectiveness is lower and reduced. Possesses a ‘gravitational core’, or a device meant to manipulate and control the platform’s personal gravitational field and thus not only allowing it to move about freely in space (as well as counteract recoil to some extent) but also even move about just as freely and smoothly on a planet if so desired by the pilot.

Is gradually being phased out for the MK3.7, though both these and a shorter variant are seeing continued use in non-combat or engineering support roles and around space stations as well within the military. Further, even shorter and downgraded civilian-derivative models have been developed for use and been implemented with general success by this point in time as well. Some surpluses of the units have already begun to form as the MK3.7 has become more widespread and better understood/introduced.))

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Multi-Role Bipedal Combat MECHS Platform MK3.7 (HC-BCMP MK3.7)



((Summary: 16 meters tall. General spaceborne mech combat platform, which uses equipment carried into combat and a standardized design. Uses dense armor and an improved shield generator, as well as improved anti-psionic lining, radiation shielding, electrical insulation, more advanced thermal shielding, and the like. Possesses a more nuanced and powerful set of thrusters for movement. Uses one of the MECHS forms of controlling the unit. Used for planetary landings on G-PERCC or other form of military planetary transition type craft. Carries handheld weapons, some of which can be magnetically attached to its legs or arms to be carried into battle as well, and can utilize a built-in concealed plasma sword for melee or cutting apart obstacles (sword is like a giant super plasma blade, which is contained and controlled by a magnetic field produced by the hilt). Plasma sword can be used in-atmosphere, but underwater or in a liquid medium that dissipates heat more or less effectively its effectiveness is lower and reduced. Possesses a ‘gravitational core’, or a device meant to manipulate and control the platform’s personal gravitational field and thus not only allowing it to move about freely in space (as well as counteract recoil to some extent) but also even move about just as freely and smoothly on a planet if so desired by the pilot. Can re-enter and exit the planet’s atmosphere safely on its own, compared to its previous/older version.

Has roughly replaced about 61% of existing MK3 platforms by the current point in time.))

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Psionics-Integrated Bipedal Combat MECHS Platform MK3 (PI-BCMP MK3)



((Summary: 19 meters tall. General spaceborne mech platform, which uses equipment carried into combat and a standardized design. Uses armor and a shield generator, as well as radiation shielding, electrical insulation, and the like. Possesses a powerful set of thrusters for movement. Uses one of the psionic-inclined MECHS forms of controlling the unit. Carries handheld weapons, some of which can be magnetically attached to its legs or arms to be carried into battle as well, and can utilize a built-in concealed plasma sword for melee or cutting apart obstacles (sword is like a giant super plasma blade, which is contained and controlled by a magnetic field produced by the hilt). Plasma sword can be used in-atmosphere, but underwater or in a liquid medium that dissipates heat more or less effectively its effectiveness is lower and reduced. Possesses a ‘gravitational core’, or a device meant to manipulate and control the platform’s personal gravitational field and thus not only allowing it to move about freely in space (as well as counteract recoil to some extent) but also even move about just as freely and smoothly on a planet if so desired by the pilot.

Uniquely made with tech and materials that amplifies pilot psionic capabilities and their range while in use. Is in the later stages of being phased out in favor of the MK3.5 Type-F, which is the latest design for a psionic mech from a special project to be developed and understood to the point of making a standardized format for the new platform. Doesn’t use anti-psionic lining due to the psionic pilot and their amplified strength in the unit being stronger than that (which otherwise as a rule is installed into all manned vehicles of the UID). Possesses psionic sensors on top of other mundane forms of detection. Among its usable weapon types, as with its successor, include psionically-guided missiles and psionically-guided antimatter-warhead ‘bullets’ among other things. In the case of the MK3, though, among its optional weapons was a unique one that took the form of a special ‘hub’ container attached to it. Said container contained psionically-controlled railgun-mounted drones that could be deployed to attack and return to their ‘mother unit’ to recharge….though these had to be simpler due to being a ‘weapon that can be attached and taken off off the unit’ and likewise due to this requirement had some issues and added vulnerabilities. As a concept, however, this optional weapon of the MK3 has been far improved in its successor as a built-in feature of sorts now.))

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Psionics-Integrated Bipedal Combat MECHS Platform MK3.5 Type-F (PI-BCMP MK3.5 Type-F)



((Summary: 17 meters tall. General spaceborne mech platform, which uses equipment carried into combat and a standardized design. Uses armor and a shield generator, as well as radiation shielding, electrical insulation, and the like. Possesses a more nuanced and powerful set of thrusters for movement. Uses one of the psionic-inclined MECHS forms of controlling the unit. Carries handheld weapons, some of which can be magnetically attached to its legs or arms to be carried into battle as well, and can utilize a built-in concealed plasma sword for melee or cutting apart obstacles (sword is like a giant super plasma blade, which is contained and controlled by a magnetic field produced by the hilt). Plasma sword can be used in-atmosphere, but underwater or in a liquid medium that dissipates heat more or less effectively its effectiveness is lower and reduced. Possesses a ‘gravitational core’, or a device meant to manipulate and control the platform’s personal gravitational field and thus not only allowing it to move about freely in space (as well as counteract recoil to some extent) but also even move about just as freely and smoothly on a planet if so desired by the pilot. Can re-enter and exit the planet’s atmosphere safely on its own, compared to its previous/older version.

Uniquely made with tech and materials that amplifies pilot psionic capabilities and their range while in use. It also has a built-in weapon called the “Shard”, of which it carries six, which are psionically-controlled drone-type units with a powerful built-in particle beam weapon and thrusters attached. These small profile and highly maneuverable pieces of tech are uniquely tied to the mech and attuned to the pilot and each have their own built-in power source and gravitational core to boot. The unit, however, also can now have a weapon additionally attached to the center of its back….in the example pic’s case being a tri-rail railgun attached to the center of its back. Improved nuanced controls, power efficiency, psionic sensors, and speed/maneuverability are among its other improvements over the basic Mk3. Doesn’t use anti-psionic lining due to the psionic pilot and their amplified strength in the unit being stronger than that standard defensive-type material (which otherwise as a rule is installed into all manned vehicles of the UID).

Has replaced roughly 77% of existing MK3’s by the current point in time.))

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((A beam weapon reference I am using: reddit.com/r/Gundam/comments/146m07z/…)

((Note: Color scheme of units is/should be black by design, other colorations of the example pics will be designated as just being some form of ‘training unit type colors’ made to ensure visibility when practicing and such.))

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Basic UID Soldier/Infantry



Soldiers wear the standard ‘protective muscle suit’ over the uniform, which comes with an airtight integrated combat gas/anti-chemical rebreather, before donning lighter and tough-made exoskeletal-type combat armor over the top of this. Soldier uniforms also usually have a similar type of ‘package protection’ as the ‘standard defensive package’ integrated into manned vehicles (mostly). Meanwhile some aspects of the ‘standard defensive package’, such as armoring/kinetic protection, are either added redundancies in or are instead incorporated into an underlying self-repairing ‘combat muscle suit’ and the combat armor proper.

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Exoskeleton UID Soldier/Infantry



Soldiers that utilize a heavier-duty integrated combat exoskeleton, one which is both useful in moving battlefield obstacles and such in the middle of combat as well as being suited to protecting soldiers against even more dangerous environmental scenarios. Forms of the suit for the Engineering Corps are also in existence for use in moving materials and performing similarly hard labor under potentially dangerous or rough conditions. The exosuit is, as with other technologies integrated into standard soldier combat equipment and armor(s), mostly self-contained aside from the usage of comms and in some cases interconnected quantum-encrypted channels between teammates created using several quantum entanglements.

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Basic and Exoskeleton UID Ranger Corps (Respectively)

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Basic UID Marine

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Exoskeleton UID Marine

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Basic UID Psi-Corps Soldier

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Exoskeleton UID Psi-Corps Soldier

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(Room left for potential later additions)

For the UID, everything began with the rule of one inspired and genius ruler of the old Yrrani Empire: The “Tyrant Emperor” or “Genius Emperor” also known as “Emperor Yrran”. The third in the final dynasty of the Yrrani Empire, it was during Yrran’s hotly-debated reign that something known covertly as “Project Reservoir” began in secret underneath his rule. A long-term project known only to the few trusted hands around him at most, including the head of the Imperial Guardians and each future Emperor after they took the throne as a general rule of thumb, it was a project focused on ‘preserving the imperial family and Yrrani species’ in a future time period Yrran saw as, as noted in his own journal:

“[Ever] inevitably leading to the Empire’s eventual fall as things get bad again, and even worse so I believe, to the point that it cannot hope to be sustainable anymore. What I’ve wrought to curb this future and buy time for those yet to come has polarized many, and caused the loss of a great many lives, and yet in the end even it couldn’t go far enough in my mind. Yet, ultimately, it also goes to show that even the means by which I managed much of my desired reforms had to go through the means and hands of the very corruption within the Empire I wish I could do away with. Poetic, perhaps? Ah, such are my thoughts on the matter at least.

Project Reservoir, to return to the main point of this entry, is a move to ensure that something of my species survives beyond this future I have foreseen.….even though it will never again be the Empire itself. Nor do I belive what comes from this work of mine should be, for that matter, seeking back toward all of this and what it will be….even for the imperium and mistakes of their forebears. So it is my hope to progress this project and its effort along and structure things that, in the case some of my own descendants fall prey to the status quo of a drying system, those who come after myself may not tarnish it. This project is to forge a capsule taken out of time, out of the chaos of this crumbling Empire, to both preserve life and foster it toward a more enlightened future and path. Either way, it is a work of vanity by most definitions that shall be in the hands of the trusted few to perhaps ensure its viability and security.”

Some would say that Emperor Yrran had the gift of foresight by the time his reign ended, though the Imperial Palace never let out any official press or word about the matter. Others simply said he was a very observant and calculating individual, a shrewd mind that was undeniably a once-in-several-generations genius who had also gained quite the political acumen of his own by the time of his passing. Yet even the fourth longest-reigning emperor in the Yrrani Empire’s history, one way or another, would certainly leave a sort of legacy for the generations to come in a sense. His oldest son, eventually to be nicknamed the “Austere Emperor”, would then take the throne as his father had helped arrange for him.

Alongside his surviving but rather old mother, who still had enough of her wits and such about her, the Austere Emperor would take his father’s teachings to heart….though living in the shadow of his reputation and trying to live up to his father’s legacy in part helped make him an incredibly strict person at his core. Even so, when it came to the Empire and Project Reservoir he invested much into each and laid down further foundations for importing ‘the brightest minds’ and a great deal of technologies into systems designated for the project and its newly-designated capital of “Tar Yrri” as it was so named in his day. Certainly it was a great feat, and his did manage a few small reforms elsewhere within the Empire, but in the end he would find himself making a few too many enemies of his father’s old corrupt-side allies and pushing his own heir too hard in turn while also managing to alienate and ignore him somewhat at the same time. Such was the case of his heir’s upbringing, then, that said heir fell more and more towards the willing attention of the empire’s factions.

So it would be that the grandson of Yrran would, eventually, ascend to the throne as the “Party Emperor” or “Ignorant Emperor” in his own time. He became famous for turning a few ‘core worlds’ near the capital into ‘literal personal resorts and playthings of the nobility’ as he mostly often left rule and management of a number of affairs to the head of the Imperial Guardians or other corrupt politicians and factions below him. It was during his much more ‘hands off’ reign that he favored the corrupt parts of the Empire even more so rather than what his grandfather and father had done previously, allowing them to regrow back into old niches while the head of the Imperial Guardians (a leftover leader from his grandfather’s reign even) neglected to pass the secret of Project Reservoir on to him as a personal call and diverted resources into it. Then, once the Party Emperor passed the affairs onto his own just about as chaotic heir, who sought to pretend he was a soldier, the truth of the project would skip another generation of the throne by choice as the next head of the Imperial Guardians was put in place by his own predecessor due to the lackadaisical nature of running things at the time.

This was, at least, before the Party Emperor’s youngest granddaughter proved a more sober ruler than her two ancestors after a hard childhood and the either disinterest or deaths of the other in-line-for-the-throne relatives she had around her. Her rise to the throne was a mostly non-surprise to those who knew the goings-on behind the throne, and while it did involve some engineering and corruption it also came mostly as a response to the decline of some imperial matters underneath her own father that had alarmed more than a few of the Empire’s factions. An emperor that was easy to handle, as the Party Emperor had been, was acceptable. An emperor going off-the-rails and pissing off most factions in the opposite way as his own grandfather had? That was unacceptable enough. Yet most important was the sitting Empress being brought in on Project Reservoir and seeking to pick up the slack her predecessors had left with regards to it and ‘restoring some sense of sobriety’ to the Imperial Palace and throne in the eyes of a great many to boot. Yet, in the end, she would also leave her mark for the future in other ways.

Unlike most Emperors and Empresses, she simply had one husband and two children….a very abnormal phenomenon to be sure compared to the many children of those who had come before her. Both children ending up being sons, then, and with what power she had and would manage to get a grip back upon during her reign she would choose her sickly younger son to succeed her over the expectations of her more popular older son. Such came after a fair amount of a ‘family rift’ grew between her and her older son, and her hope was that her wiser younger son would at least be able to further Project Reservoir compared to his older brother who had flocked to winning attention and support within the political factions. She saw her oldest son as a risk to the project and plan, though while exiling and disowning her older son from the Empire’s borders she could tell it wasn’t going to be a very successful measure in the long run after she would eventually pass on herself. The factions were still vying, her younger son’s health was already sickly as it was, and in this vein she sought to embolden the Imperial Guardians and purge their ranks as she waxed on in years.

This sickly younger son would, then, become the last successfully sitting Emperor and be nicknamed the “Sickly Emperor” for his troubles. Sickly because he was often sick and weak of body, even if his mind was noted as being bright, and while able to hold some level of power with the help of the head of the Imperial Guardians would find himself even more politically isolated than before as the factions sought to exploit his weakness. His first wife would even sell out to the factions for their loyalty in the end, with his three oldest kids born to her being taken by three of the biggest factions at her behest to be ‘cared for and raised with the highest standards’ and secure political loyalties to her on their part. Yet unplanned by her was her sudden death due to complications during giving birth to her third child, leading to the Sickly Emperor getting a second wife and bearing two more children by her who were kept to be raised at the Imperial Palace proper this time. These remaining two children would be raised with much oversight by the Emperor himself, as well as be watched over by the bulk of the remaining loyal central and upper parts of Imperial Guardians (as parts of it had become increasingly corrupt at lower levels thus far). However, the matter of succession still was expected to fall to his oldest son, a boy who was distant from his father and had been both raised in opposition to him and instilled with the idea that the throne should have been given to him already and frankly earlier than normal due to his father’s sickly nature and ‘ill fit for a ruler’.

Meanwhile, the Sickly Emperor would take the older of the two children he had with his second wife to manipulate and raise her with the intent to forge her covertly into a ‘proper heir’....though an ‘heir to what’ at this rate he was beginning to wonder for himself. His oldest wouldn’t readily give up the throne for sure, and the amount of control and authority he had over matters had already been declining across the span of his reign behind closed doors as it was with him merely clinging tightly onto what he had left. Yet even then, with what authority and such he had left, he put all he had left into Project Reservoir that he could and sought to expand it as he, in his eyes: “Saw the end Yrran did, even as it was coming hastily toward us like a charging Vulderbeast.” Yet even with this in mind, it was natural that the “Sickly Emperor” also couldn’t prevent the return of his older brother during his reign as well, both invited back by some of the larger factions with ‘amnesty’ given him for ‘the actions of a mad and irrational mother and their injustices’. It was he who still seemed to have many ears bent toward him even since his exile, and the brewing of a storm between him and the Sickly Emperor’s oldest seemed to be brewing beneath the surface of Tar Yrra’s politics at that.

In the end, the Sickly Emperor would make a fateful decision upon realizing that he was going to die sooner than later from his personal physicians. He would send off the two of his children, his beloved second wife (who these two had been born to), and most of the remaining loyal parts of the Imperial Guardians and their central command (alongside some other loyal officials and such more covertly so) off on ‘a much needed vacation’ according to most sources as information was kept tight about their whereabouts for the most part. Not something strange, for the Emperors and Empresses or parts of their families to go on a tour somewhere or vacation, though it turned out to be a timely departure as four days later the Sickly Emperor’s oldest son approached him one evening with a pillow in his hands after coming to ‘talk to him one last time’ and ‘hoping to reconcile’. Naturally, the morning the fifth day after the others had left, the Emperor was found ‘tragically killed’ in his bed,with his oldest son coming out to publicly proclaim the suspects were his two half-siblings and father’s second wife who ‘had taken much and run off to hide from their ill deeds’ in his and his conspirators’ words. While he and his son hadn’t ever truly been close, though, the Ascendant Emperor would still claim to have ‘reconciled with my ill-minded father before this’ and frankly put on the usual lavish state funeral for his father and such as he moved to curry more support for his ascension to the throne. He would continue to grease palms, see plans to kill off those he had accused and the notable chunk of the Imperial Treasury that had disappeared mysteriously with them, and with the death several years ago of his formelry-exiled uncle from an accident he felt more secure than ever about being able to ‘dispose of’ his remaining female cousin (his uncle’s only child) who he saw as a lesser threat. All he needed to do, then, was worry about preparing for his ascension after the proper mourning period and publicity stunts to get more people on his side. That and grease the right palms and so forth….yes, his rise was a certainty. With a large portion of the remaining Imperial Guardians, mostly lower ranks, seemingly in his pocket he also felt that a potential assassination would be hard to pull off at best.

It was also during this time the Ascendant Emperor and his co-conspirators, as he prepared for taking the throne, would manage to uncover the existence of Project Reservoir in a sense as they sought information left behind of where the rest of the late imperial family had fled to in earnest. Simply coming across a message that couldn’t be deleted in time before the others had left, it referred to a ‘set of security systems’ they might have fled to. Mentions of a ‘safe haven’ and ‘project’ were also dug up in connection with this. While more work to follow their trail remained, however, the Ascendant Emperor sought to be enthroned before he dug any deeper or could ‘publicly’ make more of a move against his other family members. This was because he indeed was counting on his coronation to take power formally, and thus give him much more room to pursue them than he had in his current state. Yet overall it seemed, for the most part, as if nothing could go wrong much at this point. He had effective control of the palace, most of the remaining Imperial Guardians and many Senators and even some of the military in-pocket directly-speaking, and the like!

Yet it would be the Ascendant Emperor’s cousin, the one who could become the so-called “Usurper Empress”, who would come to prove that the Ascendant Emperor had far less of the empire secured for himself than he thought. His former cast-out uncle had been working hard since his exile, and especially during his return, to prepare a means to seize the throne for himself and his line. This, at least, had built up enough steam before the uncle’s own death had shifted the plan to putting his daughter on the throne as she came to lead it all out of the blue. Such it would be that, on the day of the Ascendant Emperor’s supposed coronation, before he could walk into the palace to be crowned his own cousin’s agents cut him down in broad daylight and her soldiers moved to take over the palace in a hurry while unofficially but publicly declaring her the ‘rightful Empress’ and seeking to assert such on her part. Cue, then, the chaos that ensued as the ‘illegitimate self-proclaimed usurper’ was enough of a reason for the other two oldest siblings of the late Sickly Emperor and their factions to make a move for the throne as a perfect reason for doing so simply sat in their laps from the looks of it. Likewise the Ascendant Emperor’s conspirators would resist or defect in the process, and then the chaos on Tar Yrra spread further as multiple moves and schemes erupted across the major political factions in a cascade effect. Indeed, the roiling depths of corruption within the Empire would finally catch alight into an open and cataclysmic civil war that would come to be known as the “Century of Strife”.

During this time, the knowledge the Ascendant Emperor and his people had been digging into would come to be acquired by the “Usurper Empress” and her own conspirators. Yet as the ongoing civil war as major factions and other players within the Empire turned on each other became a far more pressing issue than first imagined by any of the sides, it would crash into the near-extinction of the Yrrani species and saw the bloody death of the Empire itself in the end. Not a cry or a whimper, but an apocalyptic fall from grace that saw the Yrrani made extinct in many places as secessionists and empire-reclaiming hopefuls and beyond also rose up during this century. Yet even as the Usurper Empress seemed to eventually ‘disappear’,, and the homeworld went silent as its millenia-long-built-up Planetary Defense System was somehow turned on to boot, the information the Usurper Empress had inherited and gained somehow ‘leaked’ off of Tar Yrra and to elsewhere by unknown means and individuals. It would end up going from file to file and word of mouth to word of mouth, and a grand ‘telephone game’ would commence from there with regards to the information in the long run.

Truth about a cluster of systems a portion of the late Imperial Family of the last sitting Emperor might’ve gone to hide out to, then, would be frankly lost to the chaos of the times. It would instead turn into a misunderstanding of ‘safe haven’ in the long-run being ‘a cache or bunker for the Imperial Family that was hidden about somewhere’. This information turned into a ‘state secret’ in some places, who thought they knew the truth, while others saw the tale turned more widely into motivation for dozens and dozens of prospective scavengers and treasure hunters and wealth-rich seekers spreading out to find this ‘great prize’ hidden within the corpse of the collapsed Empire (and assumed to be in the old core of the empire somewhere). Yet none in the end would know the full truth….at least excluding those who had survived in the ‘safe haven’ wrought by Project Reservoir.

Indeed, the cluster of systems used for the project would come to be the more widely-applicable ‘safe haven’ its final contributor had sought to change it into. While this work in those final years was a move considered ‘last second’ in the overall scheme of things, it was successful enough to preserve the Yrrani species in some capacity at the very least as they disappeared from most of the wider galaxy at large. Further, the Yrrani were but only one among the several species that seemed to have been integrated into the project’s systems and worlds as humans and others had been brought in as a sort of ‘time capsule’ to, in the words of the Sickly Emperor: “Preserve the heritage of many, even as things cascade[d] down and eagerly toward an inevitable end around us. All so that a newer, brighter future may be sought in the eras to come.”

Indeed, the cluster of systems of Project Reservoir would work to ‘begin again’ by the time of the Great Fall as the daughter of the last sitting Emperor took up the mantle of rulership in the wake of the great century of death erupting into being within the wider galaxy beyond them. From the surface of the future capital of a kingdom, and the capital having also been renamed “Tar Idkar” by this point, these former remnants of the old Empire would begin down a path different from those who would rise up aspiring for or stuck looking back upon the glory days and history alike of the now-dead Empire. From them and their efforts, and the coming generations of new intermingling species fostered within the initial safe haven, a new constitutional monarchy rose gradually from the ashes of the old Empire. Yet the advanced technology of the new capital that had been built up for generations, and bright minds alike that had been brought there for just as long, would also work to transform the new post-Empire state in terms of prosperity and might alike. Thus the new “United Idkaran Dominion” would come into being over the long-term of those following centuries beyond the fall of the Empire.

Even so, this new safe haven emerging from its cocoon did also seek to avoid detection or being seen as a greater threat if possible. This came alongside distancing itself from the old Empire in title as well as name to boot. Such was part of the overall defensive policy of things in general for the UID, even as it would eventually begin to expand bit by bit in terms of territory eventually during the Great Fall. In the wake of this also came much in the way of seeking to repair the fires of the “Century of Strife” in places where peoples still clung on to life as it expanded, though monuments and memorials and such would also arise as former great battlefields and worlds devoid of sapient life were also come across. History was not something to become lost in, but was to be a teacher for those who were yet to come, though varying opinions would still arise about the old Empire in general within the UID regardless. Overall, however, the UID would seek a sort of neutral stance and observational approach to things when it came to neighbors despite the occasional conflict with others or seeking to purge pirates, among other things.

What the UID didn’t expect to happen, however, was the eventual rediscovery of Tar Yrra….intact of all things. The old capital. The jewel of the crown of the old Empire. A place that, in the end, many factions sought to fight over and failed to secure four times over. A place that, if captured, could lead to a new Empire rising or potentially the destruction of everything that had arisen since the end of the old Empire. That….that could be a problem, but one that couldn’t be simply solved with the ‘most direct route’ outright either perhaps. Further, to take that world, on anyone’s part, would also surely be seen inevitably by the rest of the galaxy as a huge grab for power for sure even if made with supposedly the ‘best intentions’.

Such was the severity of the matter and its risks that, even if barely at first, the UID government in the end barely chose to take a continued neutral status in the ensuing Reclamation Wars. Instead, then, it cast aside direct participation in favor of espionage, the analysis of battle wreckage and fights, and seeking to watch the actions of those involved rather than diving into the carnage themselves outright. Not all were happy with this within the UID, though many others were simply glad to avoid more wars, but regardless of public and politician opinions the UID would in the end become involved in some capacity at the end of the latest Reclamation War in a manner of speaking. It would volunteer to host peace talks and the armistice at the end of the latest Reclamation War. This came after calls for ending the latest conflict, which themselves were made by the multinational organization that had arisen within the wake of the fallen Empire: The (insert Space UN title here).

From here, and managing to keep to a policy of general neutrality through it all in the end, after the Fourth Reclamation War the UID would take part in the multinational ships and soldiers and stations protecting the buffer of the ‘neutral zone’ designated around Tar Yrra and its home system. Such would also be used as a partial excuse, really, to keep building up its own military in a general sense as it had already been doing. Yet not wanting others to take the old capital was certainly just one part of the reason to keep others from getting near that planet. With the autonomous Planetary Defense System of Tar Yrra having also been activated all those centuries around, it seemed, even entering the home system of the former Imperial Capital was a death sentence to most anything within sight of the literally titanic defense grid.

Even so, however, to the UID it was clear they couldn’t allow Tar Yrra to simply fall into the hands of just anyone….especially certain parties, from the looks and sounds of it, who had participated in the Reclamation Wars. Toss in, then, the UID’s own retained ‘secret knowledge’ of a number of some much greater dangers secretly stored down there on the surface of the old capital? It was more than mere weapons and technology that posed a danger, either to someone taking the old capital or otherwise, if they got off-world or were ‘released’ somehow. It could spell disaster for perhaps even the rest of the galaxy as a whole in some cases….

((Note: Some excerpts of history, and many of the rewrites made by me in an attempt to get this down into the app proper, were not included in this due to sheer length and sometimes being rambling.))

Back during the early days of the Empire, there was an organization that would arise within the government that was tasked with investigating and studying 'anomalous matters' within the Empire that had been coming to the attention of the government at various levels. Originally a contingent of the government that was tied to the authority of the military and certain universities in a ramshackle manner, mostly to arrange its creation in an era where its existence was new and not very well understood yet, it took on the name of the "Military Anomalous Investigation Bureau" (MAIB) and for years was under the military's primary jurisdiction with several notable universities and some government researchers semi-independently assisting under its purview at the time. While this model would at least function for a while, though, it would see occasional reform until eventually a series of events known as the "Containment Breaches of 799" would lead to several cascading disasters regarding the organization and its by-then struggling performancce. In the aftermath the orgnaization would be rebuilt from the ground up and ultimately be elevated by the "August Empress", Empress Yrissa, and made into an independent Empire-wide organization of its own after years of struggling to work effectively due to the odd nature of its existence. Taking on the name of the "Imperial Bureau of Anomalies" (IBA) at this time, it's effectivness would rise drastically in the coming centuries as its semi-independent nature and built-in authority would allow it to, in this case at least, function more efficiently and avoid much of the beauracracy of the growing and eventually declining Empire (though some officials or nobles attempted to change this one way or another at times, though one way or another these attempts would fail in the end as well by some chance or other means) and to do its primary job of 'keeping the citizenry of the Empire safe, while seeking to understand and contain anomalies that seem to defy known sciences or such like things'. Much of the time the organization went ignored unless a major anomaly or such arose to disrupt things, though further reform or reorganization was certainly not going to avoid happening either over the centuries of the Empire.

During the time of Emperor Yrran of the final dynasty of the Yrrani Empire, however, the organization would become more connected to the throne after he took matters of the organiszation's management partly into the throne's hands during the cascade of his reforms and the internal restructurings and purges alike. This also came at a time where several of the Empire's political factions were vying to, almost sucessfully, to carve up influence over the organization by once again trying to pass laws to place some of their politicians in authority over branches of the organization and its facilities in some part (etc). Essentially 'saving' the IBA at this time, Yrran's heir would follow in shielding the organization in turn while instead the head of the Imperial Guardians would be left to give imperial oversight of the organization both formally and at least effectively so under the reigns of the two emperors following this (even the Party Emperor and his child at least, if nothing else, didn't trust the factions that much despite his far more hands-off attitude or just didn't care about this connection enough to not delegate it off lazily, etc). By the time of the mother of the later "Sickly Emperor" rising to power and his reign thereafter, and resumption of the management of Project Reservoir by an actual sitting Emperor/Empress, the organization began to gradually relocate facilities and suchh covertly to the site of the project out of concern over 'misuse of contained anomalies', among other things admittedly, before the fall of the Empire. However, the HQ of the organization would be the slowest in this matter in some part, and with the death of the Sickly Emperor the aspiring Ascendant Emperor put soldiers stationed around the IBA's HQ in a silent but bold claim to ownership over it. This made attempting to move any further personnel or anomalies nigh impossible, though with the assassination of the aspiring Ascendant Emperor, and chaos of the "Century of Strife" that rose in the attempted coup of the Usurper Empress, the headquarters would be abandoned by most remaining personnel as a last-ditch effort to move things out in the wake of the new conflict seemed to be the most viable matter.

In the chaos of the planned evacuation, which had to be done in haste due to Imperial Factions on the homeworld looking on the organization as a potential 'asset' but were fighting each other first, the last known sitting Director of the IBA would die (and appoint a new one in his stead before dying, as those outside of the UID wouldn't know) before the rest of the evacuees went about fleeing on the few ships to escape Tar Yrra. This initial period, of the ultimately apocalyptic century-long civil war, was indeed their seemingly only chance to get out while they still could. To the credit of those who escaped, though, the ships that escaped would make it to the site of Project Reservoir before a lengthy process of being cross-examined before being allowed in. (However, the old HQ would be locked down....and who knows what soldiers or such tried to force their way in, or what horrors might've been unleashed or left behind along with everything else on Tar Yrra....and some of that needs to stay locked up,perhaps, etc.)

From here, the remnants of the IBA would eventually reform into the Dominion Anomaly Investigation Bureau (DAIB) as the UID itself also eventually coalesced into being from those that populated and controlled the systems of Project Reservoir. And here it has remained until this day.

Current Director of the DAIB:

The Lords of Antar could be charitably described as a council of the rulers of the nations of Antar. In reality, the High Lords serve the interests of their own people first and foremost, while small scale internal wars and border skirmishes are not a rarity. Despite their differences and the near complete lack of a binding structure, the Antari still tend to stick together in the face of external forces because of their shared experiences, cultural similarities, and adherence to various feudal systems.

To deal with the Lords of Antar is to deal with each Antari nation individually. Four superpowers dominate the planet:


-The Kingdom of Arcadia; a strictly hierarchical, absolute monarchy. It is the most wealthy nation on Antar, in control of the richest deposits of mineral wealth.


-The Kingdom of Baran; a constitutional monarchy, fiercely traditionalist and an agricultural powerhouse as owners of the most fertile lands on the planet.


-The Chthonian League; a confederation of republics, city-states and smaller kingdoms united in common defence against the larger powers of Antar.


-The Empire of Katara; a ruthless police state relying on closely guarded technological expertise unmatched among their rivals to maintain its position.

Each Antari nation possesses its own military, complete with ground forces, spaceships and special forces. The Antari way of war is swift, brutal and overwhelming, emphasising the use of light and heavy elements while conventional units have a generally more static role. At the center of every Antari military is a hard core of professional soldiers and, most notably, the Knights. These elite warrior aristocracies supply pilots for the Ironclads; gigantic combat mechs of fearsome power.

Ships:

Antari spaceships use hyperspace as their means of FTL travel. This uses a huge amount of energy that requires time to charge; the larger the ship, the more energy is required and thus the longer it takes. When enough energy is accumulated and then discharged through a jump drive, the ship translates into the parallel dimension called “hyperspace”. Moving through hyperspace shortens distances immensely, with Antari ships able to reach distant systems in a matter of months or days. The downside of hyperspace travel is that any fleet in hyperspace is blind to what is outside of it: ships orient themselves using the signature of large gravity wells resonating from realspace to hyperspace, such as stars and planets; however, things such as spaceships and space stations are much too small to be detectable from hyperspace. As such, it is heavily recommended to exit hyperspace a good distance away from any populated world.

Below is a classification of Antari military spaceships ordered by size. Classes, variants and specialisations may vary considerably and are too numerous to list here.

Patrol craft:
The smallest ships that are capable of operating independently, although the majority are not hyperspace-capable. Their roles range from escort duty to interception and system patrol.

Destroyer:
Small escort vessels that use hit and run pack tactics against larger ships.

Destroyer leader:
Up-sized destroyers equipped with more powerful sensors and comms arrays, acting as group leaders for other destroyers without sacrificing manoeuvrability.

Frigate:
Light ships that defend the fleet against enemy destroyers and act as an additional point defence layer for larger friendly ships.

Heavy frigate:
More heavily armed and armoured than frigates, heavy frigates are capable of standing in the battle line, at least for a time.

Light cruiser:
Light cruisers fill a multitude of roles and are very commonly used both in routine patrol and in fleet engagements.

Cruiser:
These large vessels are the backbone of the Antari navies. Boasting abundant speed, armour and firepower, cruisers act as anchors for the fleet and are suited for trading blows with the main body of an enemy fleet. Smaller fleets often use a cruiser as their flagship.

Grand cruiser:
Rarely seen among the High Lords’ forces, grand cruisers carry armament that is second only to battleships, while retaining more speed at the cost of some protection.

Carrier:
Many Antari ships carry a small number of strike crafts. Dedicated carriers however can support a much greater number, but only have some defensive weapons for their protection in battle.

Battleship:
These massive vessels are cumbersome, very heavily protected and capable of terrible displays of destruction.

Battlecarrier:
The largest military ships in existence in the Antari navies, battlecarriers support more strike crafts than even dedicated carriers while being able to fight in the battle line with firepower comparable to a cruiser and armour equivalent to a battleship’s.

Antar Defense Command (ADC):


Despite their attachment to their independence, the Lords of Antar recognize the benefits of unified military structures, and thus Antar Defense Command was created as a compromise. ADC is a global military organisation with a hierarchy separated from any individual nation’s military, yet subordinate to the High Lords. ADC is strictly meant to defend Antar against external threats; as such, it may not be used against any Antari faction or individual, in any circumstance. It is first and foremost a command structure; while it operates a number of space stations, orbital forts, anchorages and listening posts, it maintains only the bare minimum of personnel during peacetime, and relies on contributions from the High Lords for almost all of its combat troops in times of war, thus preventing ADC from ever being a potential threat to the Lords of Antar.

Nevertheless, ADC is a well-funded, well-oiled machine boasting excellent diplomats, the best intelligence and electronic warfare specialists that Antar has to offer, and an officer corps with a reputation as some of the brightest, toughest and most intensively trained men this side of the galaxy.

Little is known of the time before the rise of the Lords of Antar. The planet once belonged to the Yrrani, who built great automated manufacturing complexes across its surface with one goal: to mass-produce weapons and machines of war. Humans were brought to Antar by their Yrrani masters, to provide what labour could not be achieved by the artificial intelligences residing at the heart of the factories and their countless drones. And one day, the Yrrani returned to the stars.

The human population was left to its own devices, quickly organising into rudimentary civilisations and forming various cultures across Antar. But as this fragment of humanity slowly picked itself back up, a great danger was brewing in the bowels of the planet. The Yrrani factories malfunctioned, their complex algorithms becoming corrupted somehow. The already colossal industrial complexes expanded to several times their original size on the surface, while tunnelling to untold depths all the while growing higher and higher in grotesque amalgamations of buildings stacked on top of one another. And while the factories grew into malformed parodies of their previous forms, so did the machines that they produced. Most were utterly useless, and swiftly recycled by the automated factories to be spewed back out again in another form. Those that did function wandered out, roaming the country on their own and wreaking havoc as their hyper-aggressive and out of control combat intelligences engaged any and all forms of life on their path.

From the chaos and destruction emerged the Knights: latent psionics among the human populations of Antar whose innate gift allowed them to interface with the complex technology of machines dubbed Ironclads: gigantic war mechs secured from the very same automated factories that released endless horrors into the world. The Ironclads, though evidently tainted, did not bear as many defects and crucially did not have AI cores like the other war machines did. Over time, knightly orders and noble houses formed with the genetic inheritance of psionic ability being passed down from one generation to the next, along with the sacred duty to protect their people.

Five centuries later, pragmatism has become dogma, knowledge has become religion, and the still operating Yrrani factories are now known as Hell’s Gates, where Demons, Beasts and other horrors born from synthetic life dwell. Constant reminders of danger and duty, no matter the lofty heights that the Lords of Antar have attained since.

The navy’s job is to combat other opposing navies and provide orbital and aerial support for all combat units. Some special ships like the Annihilator Class Super Dreadnought or the Heirarch Class Battle-Carrier are also considered factory units and can be (but aren’t always) outfitted with modules that allow for taking in scrap, melting it down, and turning it into new fighting units.

The army’s job is to conduct ground operations. They are the regulars that fight on the ground. Super heavy units like the Assault and Foundry walkers are meant for high profile ground engagements and are usually only deployed when orbital and aerial superiority is established. The Foundry walker in particular is meant to be a mobile factory that can deploy whole divisions of fully functioning automated units in a few hours. The army, however, is made up of variants of the Multipurpose Modular Automata series of droids, abbreviated as MMA with a mark number denoting series and other series of robotics coupled with only a few manned vehicles.

Commando units, the only section of the army that heavily relies on well trained organics. They’re given the special task of being deployed behind enemy lines and causing havoc. They’re deployment is usually preluded with drops of Saboteur Drone Series units or Whisper Drone Series scouts depending on the mission type.

Lokoid Commando Unit

M.M.A. Mk.2 Terminator Commandos

M.M.A. Mk.4 Infitrators

The hunters are a unique and highly specialized mechanized component of the hierarchy and are primarily trained for high risk, high value, deployments often alongside commando units. The hunters use a four legged arachnoid mech that bares the designation “Strider”. The current model of strider is the S-80 and its variations separated into “types”.

The S-80 features multi-directional rolling balls on each leg to facilitate smooth, fast movement on even ground and can transition to fast actuating legs for agile navigation of rough terrain. Alongside this, they have two high velocity wire anchors to overcome verticality and increase mobility in different situations. The fastest recorded time within an S-80 is a little over 150 kilometers per hour and it can attain this speed in any direction. However, it is noted that in simulations the machines were capable of much higher speeds however, practical combat, and terrain navigation trials saw the record speed as the highest practically possible.

They are also able to drive themselves into the ground using piledrivers located on each leg to act as mobile, fast paced, artillery. These pile drivers can also act as secondary or tertiary melee weapons against armored targets such as tanks or opposing mechs.


S-10 Experimental (1st Generation Strider)

S-50S Supply Strider
Armament: 16x smoke and chaff
Houses equipment that facilitates the reloading of S-80 Striders. Chassis based on 5th generation strider.

S-80 General Type
Armament: Standard length 120mm autoloaded smoothbore, 2x high-frequency blade sub arms, quad smoke and chaff dispensers, 2x wire anchors, and 4x piledrivers

S-80 Sniper Type
Armament: Long 120mm autoloaded high velocity smoothbore, 2x 50 caliber machine-gun sub arms, 4x smoke and chaff dispensers, 2x wire anchors, and 4x piledrivers

S-80 Missile Type
Armament: 2x missile pods with ten missiles each, 2x 50 caliber machine-gun sub arms, 4x smoke and chaff dispensers, 2x wire anchors, and 4x piledrivers

S-80 Support Type
Armament: 40mm auto-cannon with programmable ammo, 2x 50 caliber machine-gun sub arms, 4x smoke and chaff dispensers, 2x wire anchors, and 4x piledrivers

It should be noted that these are the factory standard and hunter units are encouraged to customize their striders to better fit their operational needs. Most hunter units are deployed in squadrons to maximize their tactical flexibility. The auto-loaded smoothbores can also switch between APFSDS, HEAT, and HESH as the auto-loader can switch magazines. However, a strider can only typically carry three magazines at a time and most squadrons opt to have two magazines of APFSDS and one magazine of HEAT as HEAT can deal with most lightly armored targets and have enough explosive potential to knock out light fortifications.

Other shell types are available depending on deployment with some specially selected divisions testing out the highly experimental HEPT-EX or High Explosive Plasma Type Experimental. A shell that encases the components needed for a plasmatic reaction generating excessive amounts of heat upon impact rendering most buildings, vehicles, and equipment unusable. However, the highly volatile nature of the warhead has produced less than stellar results so far.

Sluggs are a relatively rare, self-centered species which saw opportunity in establishing connections with the Syndicate. Their bodies are run through with their equivalent of brain matter, capable of communicating and controlling their technology through psychic connections. Their psychic ability stems from their evolution on their swamp planet, where they used it to detect hidden dangers and communicate with each other. From youth on they develop extensive psychological mechanisms that allow them to hide or cover-up information and intentions, which protects them against similar psychics. They guard the location of their homeworld almost religiously, and though they are looked upon with distrust, their psychic abilities make them a powerful ally within the Syndicate when it comes to inter-species communication (read: lie detection, interrogation, and suggestion). Due to this (and a fair share of nepotism), they are often found in the Syndicate's mid-to-higher ranks.

They do not have a 'proper' or preferred inter-species-name, as their psychic name cannot simply be transmitted between species upon first contact, and often defaults to the concept which they most remind the connectee of. In humanity's case this happened to be simply 'Slug'. The name stuck. Alternative names used within the Syndicate are 'Damn Slug', 'Alien Slug', or 'Alien Scum' (though this, confusingly, is also the name the Sluggs tend to use for other species).