Faction Name: First Colonization Effort of the Packs
Faction Type: Colony
Leader(s): Scriber Arrymoro
Persons of Importance:
Military/Civilian Assets:
-Approximately 5000 members forming roughly 1250 packs/personalities
-One ramship
-Survey vehicles (land, air, sea)
-Police vehicles (land, air, sea)
-Police armory
-Colony start-up kit (agricultural and construction equipment, refining machinery)
Brief History: During a brief period of peace and unity, the Packs began a cooperative project to spread themselves among the stars. A single ramship was built, over a thousand Packs were chosen to crew it, and it was sent off to a star that astronomers promised could easily support life. Shortly there after, the peace treaties dissolved and the Packs remaining planetside continued their wars. The ramship and its goal were forgotten.
It took a little over a century to cross the distance between the two stars, but the ramship arrived intact and without its crew aging too much between the changes in shift. Now, the colonist Packs prepare to survey the world and land their people, ignoring the aliens already inhabiting the surface.
Other: The Packs are quadruped creatures with imprecise graspers, long necks, and stalked eyes. Independently, they are little more intelligent than animals. However, they can coalesce into Packs using their specialized tympanum to produce and hear ultrasonic waves that serves as "brain chatter." These groupminds have the intelligence and coordination of human being, developing personalities and memories among the members of the mind, but unfortunately cannot stand in close proximity to other groupminds without the overlapping brain chatter driving both mad. In addition, the members of a groupmind must remain in close proximity to each other in order to have any coherent thoughts.