[OOC] From Stardust, To Stardust

[Keyguyperson]

Reality has 11 dimensions, as predicted by quantum theory. The higher the dimension, the more apparent power one has. At the 11th dimension there is a membrane from which all began. Is that membrane a sentient being? Perhaps. Is it nothing more than a membrane? Perhaps. Whatever the case, those from higher dimensions are often worshiped as gods and goddesses by those from lower dimensions. Multiple forces also exists, though at this point it is doubtful that anyone can distinguish them from one another. The year is 2064. This is all that is set in stone about this roleplay. Everything else is made by the player. To be honest... that's it. No extensive history, no rebellion or war plot. Just a pure sandbox. This roleplay is more than just that, it is a worldbuilding experience. That doesn't mean that you have to write a novel for each post, in fact, one paragraph is the (absolute, bare, I-have-never-written-anything-before-sorry) minimum. You just need to be at least somewhat creative. Science takes a backseat to plot, but trying to be a little realistic is always welcome. So is explaining everything with the word "magic". Like I said, sandbox. App: Name of nation: Species: Description of government: Description of military: Technological Overview: Cultural Overview: History: Other: Rules: -You know the drill -Try to be sensible with your app. Sure, they can worship desks, but you have to give a reason for that. Maybe desks were given to them by an alien species, which they worshiped as gods at the time, and the religion just devolved into worshiping desks. (Please do not do something THAT ridiculous.) -No emotional breakdowns in the OOC. If you can;t handle criticism, then I'm sorry, but you're not going to function here. Given the sandbox nature of this, there will be criticism. -NO HEATED ARGUMENTS IN THE OOC. -Duck doesn't get to tell anyone that they're out of character. -Wiki link- From Stardust, to Stardust Fantasy Sci-Fi RP Wiki That's it. That's the whole OP. Small, but given what I have seen in VotS, this can turn into a huge roleplay with rich storylines. We just need to make that happen! Banner by Unfortunately (http://www.roleplayerguild.com/users/12909)

[MrFoxNews]

The desk idea is almost to tempting to pass up... xD

[null123]

Name of nation: The Eternal Union
Species:
Iscandarian

The Iscandarians are a humanoid species, there average strength and height is about that of the humans. The Iscandarians appearance has a wide variety of colors. Hair and eyes can be anything across the spectrum. Their skin usually is a more white color, with a few rare individuals having silver skin, and their skin noticeable veins, that flow with colors. These colors represent their unique ability, magic, flowing through there veins. There are 4 types of Iscandarians, each with different abilities with magic.
The first type is the Earthen. The Earthen cannot tap into magic directly, but do have a strong affinity to plants and animals, and tend to have a lot more strength then the other types. They tend to be farmers and laborers; however there is a few well known Earthen Philosophers and scientists. Another thing of note is that the colors flowing through there vein tend to be green and darker colors, however they can still have any color flowing through there veins.

The second type is the Sentinels. Much like the Earthen they cannot tap into magic directly, however they also are unique physically as they each possess a large pair of white wings, often said by other races to be angelic. Normally these wings would not be enough to carry them, however there magical talent lets them fly with these, and fast to. They can also manipulate the weather of the worlds they are on. They are typically warriors, and also manipulate the weather for farmers.. They veins usually flow with a more cloudy white and blue, but like others they can be any color.

The Casters are the third type. They can tap into magic directly, and are important as there spells allow them to defend the empire, and help farmers with fertilization and water. They are the scientists, diplomats, and bureaucrats of the Union, and also serve the roles of battlemages and Archmages, Archmages being Casters of great magical ability. Their veins typically flow with the colors of silver, pure glowing white, and sometimes rainbow, although rarely.
The final are the Immortals. These are a combination of all 3 types, and there abilities are greater than that of any 3. They are created when someone is thought to have committed deeds that go above and beyond. They are called the Immortals as they are biologically immortal, however they can still be killed, but it is more difficult to do so. Another important part is that the Immortals also become the leaders of the Union, as the Princesses or Princes, and are considered Demi-Gods in the eyes of most due to their power being considered a representation of the Goddess that all Iscandarians worship.

Gamilas
The Gamilas are a warrior race, they are humanoid. Iscandarian beliefs dictate that the Gamilas were created by the same Goddess that created the Iscandarians. They have magic similar to that of the Iscandarians, but cannot tap into it directly and don’t have the same veins as the Iscandarians. They are an avian-species, with feathers covering their body. The colorings vary, but the patterns are similar to that of Human Mythical Griffons. They have wings, but they are not as fast as the Sentinels, and there magical talent is there great speed, strength, and the ability to fight. There homeworld, named Corus Prime, is a sister world to Alas Prime, the homeworld of the Iscandarians.

Description of government: Absolute Theocratic Monarchy

The Eternal Union is led by Princesses and Princesses, which are the Immortals. The Union does have freedoms though, and it technically doesn’t describe itself as a monarchy. There are elections, but the Prince and Princesses and the power to dissolve these institutions at any time. The Freedoms can best be described as those in the US bill of rights, but they are much more strongly held onto due to Iscandarian beliefs.

Description of military: The Eternal Union’s military is heavily focused on a defensive doctrine, and it originally was a small forced. However after meeting and annexing the Gamilas, it evolved into a medium-sized force. They have agreed that peace is still preferable, but if necessary they will use their military for peace-keeping. The Eternal Union’s military prefers fast heavy hitting weapons and lasers, along with a few AoE weapons. Due to magic being a nice shortcut it us combined with technology, dubbed magitech, and is effective. Even there FTL is magic based. The grounds forces use augmented forces, with both cybernetics and genetic modification, along with non-augmented forces, and a large air-force for support. So called Synths are also used, which are creatures of both Cybernetic and Genetic engineering. There is also usage of a highly encrypted comm channel for most military operations.

Ground forces mainly use magic, explosive, and mass accelerators(Think ME weapons). While the space forces use energy, magic, explosive, and rail-guns.

Technological Overview: As mentioned the Eternal Unions heavily uses Magitech. Magitech is the combination of magic and technology, and allows for seamless and easy interaction between the two. Magitech can be found everywhere, and is even used in cybernetics and energy generation. The Eternal Union also has made lots of progress on the fronts of genetic modification, as well as cybernetic augmentation. They have also combined the two to form Synths, which are quite deadly. They are also good at terraforming, mainly with magic, and while they do not have the best weapons there shielding tech is thought to be some of the greatest in the galaxy.
The Eternal Union is quite advanced, and due to their culture and ideology continue to progress.

Cultural Overview:

The culture of the Eternal Union focuses on a few specific ideals, harmony, peace, liberty, and freedom. While the other 3 are obvious, harmony is defined as the state of little to no problems, no conflict, and eternal peace. This is what the Eternal Union wishes to work towards, a utopia. Combined with magic the Eternal Union is well on to this path, as with magic they can easily harvest and farms lots of food, eliminating the need to charge for such things. A majority of these ideals, and what their culture is centered around comes from the Solar Church, there religion.

The Solar Church believes in one goddess, she is referred to by 4 names. The Eternal Mother, the Guardian or Goddess of Harmony, and Faust. Most followers refer to her as the Eternal Mother, as she is thought to be eternal, and that she treats the Iscandarians and Gamilas, who she created, as her children. She was thought to have risen from Stardust, and that she created the Iscandarians and Gamilas with Stardust, thus inspiring the popular phrase “From Stardust we come, to Stardust we fall”. Another belief is that everything is from Stardust, and that everything is eternal and must become Eternal. As such burials are conducted by launching the dead into a Star, thus returning them to Stardust. Before space era these burials were conducted by burning the body and that putting the ashes in a ceremonial urn, which was then launched into the sky by a special spell, and later it would contact a star. Of note is that Faust, in their bible at least, said that the Iscandarians would guide all sentient to a Union of Harmony under one flag, and that to do so the Iscandarians need to ascend. As such they are fine with augmentation and rapid progress as it is necessary for ascension in the eyes of the Solar Church.

Most Eternal Union citizens also follow the Solar Church, even with the right to freedom of religion. The reason is that while no other religions are discriminated against, the State endorses it, and uses it to maintain the Union under a single common doctrine and culture.

History: The Iscandarians had a relatively peacefully history. There was little conflict, and from the beginning the Solar Church was dominate. Its doctrine and ideology were appealing, and were it thrived little, if any crime, existed. The society was very prosperous.

When the Industrial Era came about, or as its was also known the Magitech era, due to the sudden rise of it, a Caster by the name of David managed to unite all Iscandarians under one banner, the banner of the Eternal Union. He became the first immortal, and when he did those around them described a light coming down, and guiding him to his ascension. Immortals under the system led this Eternal Union. Later a Sentinel by the name of Aaliyah invented some of the first forms of space travel, and guided the civilization to the discovery of the Gamilas. She was crowned as the second Immortal.

The Gamilas when found were a very warring civilization. They were close to destroying themselves via atomic weapons. The advanced Iscandarians intervened and stopped them. While they resented this as the Iscandarians disarmed them and forced peace, the Iscandarians sent missionaries, and overtime they curbed there warring nature. They were brought into the Eternal Union.

The rest of the Eternal Union was rapid advancement of technologies, as well as expansion. Two more Immortals were crowned, the Earthen Orion for a live-saving cure to a deadly magical disease, and a Caster named Adeline for a massive contribution that was the FTL system currently used.. At current they have 606 ships, divided into fleets of 101, and are spread across 19 planets. They have so far deemed themselves alone, but they will be proven wrong…

[MrFoxNews]

The Children of Mandalore

Name of nation: The Children of Mandalore



Species:Human, Taung, Various Aliens

Description of government:
There is no official Mandalorian state as recognized by galactic Politics.

Primarily Meritocracy where actions and achievements are valued over Rank.

People are separated into clans with a single Chieftains(usually a wise senior) whom oversees it.

All clans answer to Mandalore(translated as sole Ruler)

Description of military: 
When drawn together as an army, Mandalorians easily settle into an informal command structure, arranging their priorities on outcome rather than personal ambition

Technological Overview: 
Beskar Armor - The wearer was protected from the majority of all blaster fire. Armor made of actual Mandalorian iron, which could also deflect blaster bolts, made it lightsaber resistant. As this Armor is rather expensive to produce many Mandalorians opted for less durable materials instead, such as durasteel or duraplast. 

Disrupters - The tech used in Mandalorian blasters was a vicious and devastating weapon that disintegrated its target. It tore apart its victim at the molecular level, destroying their body tissues and bypassing most sorts of personal energy shields.

Vibroblades - Vibroweapons were a family of weapons that utilized high-speed sonic vibrations to make the weapons more deadly; most commonly found on swords, vibrogenerators could also be found on axes, pikes, knives, etc. Almost anything with a blade had the potential to be turned into a vibroweapon.

Hyperdrive - FTL capable Engine

Cultural Overview: 
The Mandalorians are a nomadic people.
Central to the Mandalorian culture were the Resol'nare, or the "Six Actions". These six tenets defined what it meant to be a Mandalorian, and any who wished to be considered as such was expected to abide by them. The Resol'nare consisted of wearing armor, speaking the Mandalorian language, defending oneself along with one's family, contributing to the welfare of your clan, rallying to the Mand'alorwhen summoned, and raising one's children in the Mandalorian ways. In order to retain their heritage in the face of outside influence, Mandalorians placed a high value on rigorously carrying out theResol'nare's tenets in a daily manner.
Gender meant little in Mandalorian society, and there was scarcely any distinction present in their language. Males and females were on equal footing, although they often took different roles. Mandalorian males were all expected to be warriors, and were responsible for training their sons to be the same. Females were expected to have the same martial skills as males, and were responsible for the training of daughters. They were also expected to be able to cook, and to care for any young children and their home if the men were away. But if they had no children dependent on them, females would fight side-by-side with the men on the battlefield. In accordance with this mentality, the desired Mandalorian female was not so much beautiful or graceful, as physically strong and enduring. In fact, the wordlaandur, or "delicate", was a common insult among Mandalorian women. To imply that a Mandalorian woman was delicate, a poor mother, or a bad fighter, was a sure way to start an unwanted confrontation. When a Mandalorian was down on their luck or in need of a place to stay, it was expected of his neighbors or friends to give them sanctuary and offer them a meal, whether that individual was a common soldier or the Mand'alor himself. It was also common for Mandalorians to offer support to their fellows in a dangerous situation, even if they were not familiar with the individual on a personal level; simply being Mandalorian was the only pre-requisite for assistance.
In direct opposition to their infamy as a ruthless enemy, Mandalorians cherish family and shower affection upon those they love and care for. In Mandalorian society, marriage is expected to be life-long and usually takes place shortly after a Mandalorian turns sixteen-years-old. Adoption was extremely common in Mandalorian culture, even adoption of adults. Because of the Mandalorians' constant connection to war, widows and orphans became an inescapable fact of life and adult males became not only welcome, but necessary.
Both girls and boys learn their earliest lessons from their mother, meaning that her own fighting prowess is critical; the pledge to raise warriors in the Mandalorian marriage vow is a joint commitment. It was the job of a parent to prepare their children to train the next generation of Mandalorians. Elders educated Mandalorian children with the Mandalorian ideals of loyalty to clan, discipline, courage, and respect for their heritage. At the age of thirteen, children of both genders face the rite of passage known as the verd'goten, where their skills are tested and they are declared adults in Mandalorian society. 
Family bonds were a large part of the Mandalorian culture, and as a result, they felt more comfortable around each other than they did around outsiders, or aruetiise.
The thing most often associated with the Mandalorians was their armor. In Mando'a, it was known as beskar'gam, or "iron skin", a show of just how central it was to a Mandalorian's life. Armor was greatly valued, especially if made from the near indestructible metal beskar, and was often passed down through generations.

History: 
The first recorded Mandalorians were a race of Aliens known as the Taung.

The Taung had left their own universe with a powerful technology to escape from am unknown threat. The universal jump caused catastrophic damage to the vessel causing it to crash land on an unknown world.

Earth.

After some time on the world who's primitive race had yet to even discover flight the Taung repaired their vessel to the extent of inter galactic travel. From earth they Taung took with them a large number of human slaves.

The ship was able to jump several systems away from the backwater world before crashing once more. But this time the ship had little hope of ever being repaired. The Taung began bickering with one another about what was to be done. A dispute broke out which lead to bloodshed and finally a new leader had been chosen from among the Taung whom freed the enslaved humans.

The Taung taught the humans their ways and language. And over the course of a thousands of years the Cultures was flushed out. The Taung began to dwindle as humans became evermore present.

The small world warred with itself many times but on the eve of a great discovery the Mandalorians have rallied behind a new Mandalore and have set their gaze to the stars and beyond.

"There are two reasons why we have to wear armor. One is so that we don't get killed too easily. The other is so that we all look Mandalorian, however different we may be from our brothers and sisters."
―A Mandalorian mother to her daughter

[TehAlphaGamer]

App:
Name of nation: Sazkarjhia (Sazkarjhit)
Species: Sazkarjhian

Sazkarjhians are about 6'5" and on average weigh about 180 pounds. Both sexes have muscular-although-flexible builds, with bright orange, smooth skin with flourescent yellow patterns running along them. They have black, glossy, globular eyes with white pupils that increase in size with age. They have elongated snouts with a large maw with sharp, conical teeth and molars towards the back (Sazkarjhian's are omnivorous but have strong carnivorous tendencies). They respire chlorine gas, and find atmospheric oxygen toxic (In reciprocation to most aerobes, who respire oxygen but find gaseous chlorine to be very toxic). Males have six, long, flacid horns on either side of the back of their head. Females' horns are relatively short and blunt.

Due to their inability to breathe oxygen, they usually wear suits of powered armor with chlorine rebreathers. However, their technological advancements have led to capsules that can temporarily alter biological makeup to make their chlorine breathable to other species or oxygen breathable to them.

Alongside this, certain Sazkarjhians possess certain magical powers, evident in the differentiating color flowing through their veins through major cardiovascular points (temples, wrists, etc.). These are rare and are usually Vessels of gods, those who are not are still regarded as their children or "He/She Who Has Been Marked."

Description of government: Theocratic Dictatorship

Sazkarjhia is led by a body of "Vessels", or prophets of the Sazkarjhit gods with the head, or Grand Vessel, being a prophet of the Supreme Being known as "Zarwaun" ("Sarwun", in the Sazkarjhit vernacular Sazka). The Grand Vessel makes decisions with these other inferior Vessels to pass decisions for the empire. Under this is a military cabinet consisting of the Supreme Commander, Supreme General of the Sazkarjhit People's Army, Supreme Fleetmaster of the Sazkarjhit People's Navy, and the Admiral of the Sazkarjhit People's Space Exploration Initiative (SEI).

Freedom of Religion, however, is condemned by the Vesselage as it is under their law, "The sacrilegious defamation of logical constitution." As a result Sazkarjhit that are caught practicing other religions are exiled. Attempting to spread this religious system as, again, in the Vesselage's terms, "poisoning the youth of the great Sazkarjhit people", is punishable by death by firing squad.

Description of military: The Sazkarjhit Military of the Common People, also known as the People's Military, is comprised of three different branches:

People's Army of Sazkarjhia

The main ground and intra-atmospheric air divisions of the military. Several units are involved in it, including:

Infantry: Standard footsoldiers using assault rifles that load with a rotating energy battery, among other weapons.
Anti-Armor Infantry: Footsoldiers wielding two-barreled guided missile launchers known as the Type-11 Personal Anti-Armor Weapon.

Heavies: Technically known under the Sazkarjhia Defense Firm Heavily-Armored Universal Combat Soldier Program, the "Heavies", as they're colloquially known by soldiers, are 2.13 meter tall hulks of titanium and carbosteel plating with extremely powerful and complicated movement systems making them walking main battle tanks. The increased armor brings their weight up to about two tonnes. They can carry a vast array of armaments; ranging from heavy automatic weapons to flamethrowers to portable coilguns.

Commandos: Under the Sazkarjhia Defense Firm's Biologically-Augmented Super-Soldier Program, known as the "Commandos", are augmented supersoldiers experienced with close-quarters combat. Attached to a Commando's wrist is a large, boxy implement with a pad at the front. Known officially as the Mark I Extremely High-Power Kinetic Impact Weapon, the machine sits on a rail and allows a Commando to throw a several-tonne punch; effective in causing severe damage to structures, vehicles, and soliders alike.

HT-1 Scarpios Hover Tank: With a high-powered coilgun turret, one machine gun turret, one coaxial machine gun, and jumpseat bays on either side allowing a total of ten soldiers, the HT-1 is the ultimate assault vehicle.

HV-6 Sparrowhawk Utility and Attack Aircraft: Capable of fitting twenty soldiers, and being able to be used as a close-support craft, the Sparrowhawk is a tour-de-force of military technology. A four-barreled autocannon mounted in the nose and six two-missile pods allow it to be deadly for gun runs, while they're useful for insertions, extractions and deploying Airdrop Soldiers from high above.

AV-1 Furosi Aerial Attack Vehicle: A modified version of the HV-6 for air combat, the AV-1 features two autocannons, automatic countermeasures, bays for bombs, flammable adherent or thermite canisters, and several missile pods allow it to be especially deadly in the airborne theater.

People's Navy of Sazkarjhia

Main Naval Force used for both attack and defense.

Marku-Class Heavy Cruiser: Main-line cruiser, used as flagships. Armed with a powerful coilgun used for firing antimatter as well as plasma throwers, torpedoes, missile pods and magnetic artillery.

Darbor-Class Heavy Frigate: Heavy and built for long range. The Darbor-Class Frigate is powerful and used often for escort and assaulting positions.

Manumar-Class Light Frigate: Nimble and fast, but poorly armored. The definitive scout ship for the People's Navy.

Trikolo-Class Destroyer: Extremely heavily armored and loaded down with magnetic artillery and antimatter launchers. Nicknamed "Fortresses with Engines" by crew and bystanders alike.

Samani-Class Prowler: Capable of using a very powerful cloak and deploying antimatter warheads, proving to be devastating hit-and-run vehicles but also excellent for stealth insertions or espionage. The main drawback is that their reactors can overheat and vents in the middle of the craft will often eject steam when deactivating the cloak, which can easily give away their position.

Pulsar-Class Electronic Warfare Vessel: Capable of completely crippling vessels with electromagnetic pulse emitters and other such technology, they make effective ships for crowd control.

Rakora-Class Assault Ship: Smal and capable of entering the atmosphere easily, they can provide support on the ground or board ships in space.

Basilisk-Class Fighter: Small and nimble, devastating when flying in squadrons.

Sarpinta-Class Interceptor: Launched from tubes in ships like torpedoes, they're extremely deadly with solar/battery-powered laser projectors and autocannons, in large groups their incredible speed and maneuverability make them very deadly foes to contend with.

Technological Overview: Sazkarjhit technology is mixed in development. They have developed powerful weapons using antimatter, and have vast technological achievements in the form of the Translight Hyperjump Engine, which tunnels through Slipstream Space. However, most of their technology is nuclear-powered and lower-grade superweapons use plutonium, while most ship and on-ground reactors use thorium as fuel.

Sazkarjhit medicine is also very advanced, often studying medical reports from other empires on other species and strictly cataloging their findings. Contrary to the popular belief that their religious zeal leads them to believe in faith healing.

Cultural Overview:

As mentioned above, the Sazkarjhit are religious zealots and practice their religion, Zarwaunism ("Sarwuna") to an extreme. Magic is not common, but those who have it are viewed as descendants of the gods. With this, there are several gods and goddesses in the religion:

Zarwaun: The "Supreme Being", the father of the universe, the God of Right - Representing the Religious and Governmental region of Karboria
Yuturata: The "Industrial Being", the father of metalcraft and fire, the God of the Forge - Representing the Industrial Region of Daramaska
Markura: The "Matriarchal Being", the mother of nature and maternity, the Goddess of Life - Representing the Bountiful Region of Bellaran
Oparas: The "Fortunate Being", the mother of fortune and misfortune, the Goddess of Balance - Representing the People's Region of Gamaria
Markarapas: The "Wealthy Being", the mother of commerce Trade , the Goddess of the Coin - Representing the Mercantile Region of Borsarsa

History:

Sazkarjhia was formed from two tribes, the intellectual Saz and the warlike Jhia. After many years of bloody war, a treaty was signed. When leaders realized what was possible when they combined their achievements, they sought to form together and take over the rest of the tribes. 20,000 years ago, the International Doctrine of Saz-Kar-Jhia was signed atop Mount Karbor, a site that would later become a holy focal point for Zarwaunism. Around 10,000 years later, a man identified only as The First Prophet began spreading the first ideas of Zarwaunism. The Pagan/Atheistic nation vehemently rejected this, but he soon gathered enough supporters. In an attempt to overthrow the leadership, a civil war that would later be known as the Ten Year's Bloodshed started. Millions of deaths later, the First Prophet would step to power, only to be shortly assassinated by a pagan nationalist. However, the ideals held strong, and soon the Zarwaunist regime took over the rest of Sazkarjhia.

About 9,000 years later, the first effective FTL drive, the Translight Outersystem Engine, was developed. Sazkarjhia soon sought to go out and conquer the stars. First they acquired two colonies, a metal-supplying moon known as Markada Minor, and a flat, bountiful farm colony known as Trimubelo III. Soon, eight more colonies were captured, and Sazkarjhia has begun to look out farther, and to maybe spread their religion to have those understand the Path of Divine Right, and the Father of the Universe.

Other: This took me a long, long time to write so hopefully Sazkarjhia will still be able to be used. I have made some edits to it compared to VotS, some major and some minor.

[darkwolf687]

Haha, you all have such juicy races for me to feast on...

Name of nation: The Hives

Species: L'Er (Eng: One of Us. Note that this is their name for themselves, not one that is used universally by species they encounter. As the nature of such encounters tend to be with feral hives developing on one of their worlds, species often believe the L'Er to be a non-sentient disease at first glance.)
There is no way to accurately describe the entire race, as many, many different forms are constructed. The most common is the small "Spore form". These are arguably the most dangerous form as they possess the ability to bite their way into their host, their organic forms have no skeleton and thus can contort to squeeze through small openings in their host that they cause with their abnormally strong teeth, which are strong enough to bite their way through armour if given a few seconds. Once inside their host, they couple with the hosts central nervous system, making removal almost invariably fatal. It is sometimes argued that they kill the host outright, though there has been no reliable study to confirm this, so it is entirely possible the host is alive and maybe conscious. The host does not have to be alive for this process, a corpse will do. Whatever the case, the Parasite has full control and begins mutating the host. The hive will use the host for a variety of purposes, including but not limited to construction, reproduction and combat.
This host will now become one of two forms. The first is known as the "Battle" form, this involves the usage of the hosts natural abilities for combat, in addition to mutations to make them stronger, such abnormal muscle growth. This is often done at the expense of the hosts brain and specific organs. Little attempt is made for long term maintenance, as the host will likely be recycled after its purpose is served. The second form is known as the "Transport" form. The is essentially a walking reproductive center for the Parasites, growing new spore forms inside massive bulbous sacks, often mutating the host past what is recognisable. This form shoots the Spore forms out of its many sacks when it sights and approaches an enemy, and has two no way to defend its self except through these spores, although it has been known to fall onto beings which have gotten too close to prevent then from running. Both these forms are called "Impure" forms. There is a third form, though its existence is debated, known as the "Thinker" form. The theory is that certain hosts have their brains kept intact and, in some theories, boosted. These forms supposedly serve as tactical planners in pre-Mind infestations, as well as scientists of sorts or advisors to the mind. Since some intelligent behavior is exhibited in all combat forms, its argued that these are just abnormally intelligent combat forms rather than a new form, though no one is entirely sure.
The next forms are the "Pure forms" These are not mutated hosts but entirely new creatures made out of collected biomass from the planets, including recycled hosts and the bodies of their dead. There are countless different forms which vary from hive to hive. The most important pure form in any hive is the Mind. Without the mind, the parasite has little coordination, and their priority is to begin the construction of a mind. This is not to say they are stupid, they possess the intelligence of their hosts, and though it often degrades over time (with the exception of thinker forms), they are smart enough to coordinate basic tactics (Supposedly thinkers coordinate pre-mind stages) There are three stages (Four if one believes the Thinker Theory)
One: Feral. In this stage, they are uncoordinated and possess limited intelligence. They are still dangerous, but less so compared to later stages. Minor displays of intelligence, such as basic ambushes are known to appear but generally their intelligence is considered to be similar to that of animals at this level. They maintain knowledge their previous hosts had, so the use of vehicles isn't out of the question. They have a weak psychic link which is starting to develop to form the beginnings of a hive
Sapient stage (Thinker theory): According to the Thinker theory, this is the stage where Thinkers begin to show up. They apparently become smart enough to employ advanced tactics, and the weak psychic field between them apparently becomes strengthened to the point it can be used for communication and these thinkers become officers for the fledgling hive. Supposedly these thinkers can be capable of communication with other races, though intelligent communication is often attributed to a later stage, and at this stage it is believed to be simple taunting
Coordination stage: A partially functional Mind has been created. The psychic linked between the organisms has now strengthened to the point that they know each others status at any given time, and they are intelligent enough to communicate with other sentient species in a proper manner, although their previous stages have often resulted in such violence that further conflict is inevitable
Hive stage: The hive has produced a fully functional mind and joined with the other hives of the galaxy. In this stage the Mind has a psychic link with the hive that is so strong that it allows him to speak with others outside the hive across vast distances. The Hive is fully coordinated and can now operate as a proper nation.

Description of government: The government consists of a hierarchy with the Tribunal, a council of three made from the Minds of the most powerful hives, who use their psychic link to communicate with each other and lead the Union of Hives. The major hives come just under them. It has been proposed that there may be some form of "Overmind" by some scholars, but nothing is proven

Description of military: The most common of this species is a small, ball like creatures with small tentacles protruding from it. It uses these tentacles to move, able to climb on surfaces thanks to their suction like design, and to couple with its hosts nervous system and seize control. Their colour varies depending on the hive, and this can be used to quickly identify which hive the Spore forms are from. They have a "beak" of exceptionally strong teeth underneath their tentacles, allowing them to bite they way in, and their lack of a skeleton, small size and relative "squishiness) allows them to fit through small openings they make in their host. They prefer to make such a hole close to the hosts nervous system in order to avoid excessive damage, but forcing their way up appendages is not unheard of. They will then mutate the host or take them to be used. A host can also be mutated if he inhales enough of a gas produced by specially made biomass, however this is a slower process than the spore forms and is less effective. This allows a very flexible army that is able to shrug off most loses in an invasion as they can usually be reabsorbed into the hive or replaced relatively easily

Technological Overview: There is no uniform technology within the hive as they tend to use the technology of their hosts. As such, their weapons range from ballistics to anti-matter. There are a few examples of Hives creating their own technology if the need arises, but given their parasitic nature it is rare. It is known that, once they reach a coordinated stage, they will use any industry they capture to arm themselves. Their space craft range from organic creatures grown around a handful of systems, to entire functional ships that have been merged with and infested by an organic substance which is hostile to intruders, often attacking them where possible.
As a result of the assimilation dynamic, as well as the ease with which they reproduce, even a small scale infection can quickly become extremely dangerous and large.

Cultural Overview: N/A

History:
The L'Er date back to evolution on a backwater colony of an interstellar nation. This "Super Parasite" was able to construct a Mind from the biomass of the rampant wild life where it was born. This Mind observed the colonists and their star ships and was able to deduce, after the assimilation of multiple individuals into the hive, that it could sneak aboard Spore forms and infect all the worlds of the species.
The Mind was able to infiltrate the ships with a small number of spore forms, each of which spread out to the species worlds. At the time, the Mind had little power as it hadn't been further developed, as a result its psychic power was weak enough that the spores that were sent off developed different hives. This separated them into three hives, the original S'Buk, and the successor S'Orp and S'Lif. Out of the three, the original was the most unlucky. The other two worlds of the species were much more developed and larger, and so S'Orp and S'Lif were able to become more powerful than S'Buk as they absorbed more biomass from the worlds and inherited more of the hosts technology, industry and infrastructure.
The Three Hives were able to slowly build up strength and eventually over run the three worlds, absorbing the necessary biomass and leading to the desire to use the host species space travel to find new worlds.
Over millennia, there were several more hives developed across the quadrant and the Union of the Hives was formed in order to advance the L'Er as a whole through inter-hive cooperation. Most of the mentioned new hives are only major to this day with the exception of one, the now Tribunal hive S'Rin. The S'Rin remained the weakest of the hives for many centuries, as they had achieved semi-peaceful relations with the sentients they had encountered and essentially sold themselves as weapons to them. The two species developed under one nation that was budding, and over time the S'Rin were able to gain more and more power, eventually changing from being a living weapon to being an equal partner in the nation. Their hive was weak compared to the others due to their lack of biomass due to having brokered a deal, one which ensured their hives survival but established a blocker to their success however the S'Rin had a plan. They developed a new type of pure form, still used by hives today, called the Worm form. This small form was microscopic and as such it was able to enter the sentients undetected and nestle inside their brain. From their it would secret its toxins to make the individual more susceptible to hive control and eventually place them under the hives control, assimilating them completely. The S'Rin used this on members of the armed forces, slowly bringing control of the military into the hands if the S'Rin. After the S'Rin had secretly gained control of the militaries minds, the organisation that had stopped the S'Rin from assimilating the species before was now on their side. Almost over night the S'Rin seized control using the military and began to assimilated the population into their hive, growing rapidly from a minor power and usurping the place of the S'Buk on the Tribunal now that they had become more powerful than their forefathers. Today, the S'Buk is only a major hive and the S'Rin still hold their place on the Tribunal.
Other hives have been produced since them, and many have come into violent contact with outsiders... And consumed them almost invariably.
Other:
The colour of the biomass varies from hive to hive based on a variety of factors

Below is a government report of known hives, excluding the minor hives which have merely been labelled as "countless" by the writer

Tribunal hives
S'Orp
S'Lif
S'Rin

Major hives:
S'Buk
S'Kif
S'Urp
S'Ein
S'Ark
S'Nif

Minor hives: Countless

[MrFoxNews]

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duck55223 said
Name of nation: The Eternal UnionSpecies:IscandarianThe Iscandarians are a humanoid species, there average strength and height is about that of the humans. The Iscandarians appearance has a wide variety of colors. Hair and eyes can be anything across the spectrum. Their skin usually is a more white color, with a few rare individuals having silver skin, and their skin noticeable veins, that flow with colors. These colors represent their unique ability, magic, flowing through there veins. There are 4 types of Iscandarians, each with different abilities with magic.The first type is the Earthen. The Earthen cannot tap into magic directly, but do have a strong affinity to plants and animals, and tend to have a lot more strength then the other types. They tend to be farmers and laborers; however there is a few well known Earthen Philosophers and scientists. Another thing of note is that the colors flowing through there vein tend to be green and darker colors, however they can still have any color flowing through there veins.The second type is the Sentinels. Much like the Earthen they cannot tap into magic directly, however they also are unique physically as they each possess a large pair of white wings, often said by other races to be angelic. Normally these wings would not be enough to carry them, however there magical talent lets them fly with these, and fast to. They can also manipulate the weather of the worlds they are on. They are typically warriors, and also manipulate the weather for farmers.. They veins usually flow with a more cloudy white and blue, but like others they can be any color.The Casters are the third type. They can tap into magic directly, and are important as there spells allow them to defend the empire, and help farmers with fertilization and water. They are the scientists, diplomats, and bureaucrats of the Union, and also serve the roles of battlemages and Archmages, Archmages being Casters of great magical ability. Their veins typically flow with the colors of silver, pure glowing white, and sometimes rainbow, although rarely.The final are the Immortals. These are a combination of all 3 types, and there abilities are greater than that of any 3. They are created when someone is thought to have committed deeds that go above and beyond. They are called the Immortals as they are biologically immortal, however they can still be killed, but it is more difficult to do so. Another important part is that the Immortals also become the leaders of the Union, as the Princesses or Princes, and are considered Demi-Gods in the eyes of most due to their power being considered a representation of the Goddess that all Iscandarians worship.GamilasThe Gamilas are a warrior race, they are humanoid. Iscandarian beliefs dictate that the Gamilas were created by the same Goddess that created the Iscandarians. They have magic similar to that of the Iscandarians, but cannot tap into it directly and don’t have the same veins as the Iscandarians. They are an avian-species, with feathers covering their body. The colorings vary, but the patterns are similar to that of Human Mythical Griffons. They have wings, but they are not as fast as the Sentinels, and there magical talent is there great speed, strength, and the ability to fight. There homeworld, named Corus Prime, is a sister world to Alas Prime, the homeworld of the Iscandarians. Description of government: Absolute Theocratic Monarchy The Eternal Union is led by Princesses and Princesses, which are the Immortals. The Union does have freedoms though, and it technically doesn’t describe itself as a monarchy. There are elections, but the Prince and Princesses and the power to dissolve these institutions at any time. The Freedoms can best be described as those in the US bill of rights, but they are much more strongly held onto due to Iscandarian beliefs.Description of military: The Eternal Union’s military is heavily focused on a defensive doctrine, and it originally was a small forced. However after meeting and annexing the Gamilas, it evolved into a medium-sized force. They have agreed that peace is still preferable, but if necessary they will use their military for peace-keeping. The Eternal Union’s military prefers fast heavy hitting weapons and lasers, along with a few AoE weapons. Due to magic being a nice shortcut it us combined with technology, dubbed magitech, and is effective. Even there FTL is magic based. The grounds forces use augmented forces, with both cybernetics and genetic modification, along with non-augmented forces, and a large air-force for support. So called Synths are also used, which are creatures of both Cybernetic and Genetic engineering.Technological Overview: As mentioned the Eternal Unions heavily uses Magitech. Magitech is the combination of magic and technology, and allows for seamless and easy interaction between the two. Magitech can be found everywhere, and is even used in cybernetics and energy generation. The Eternal Union also has made lots of progress on the fronts of genetic modification, as well as cybernetic augmentation. They have also combined the two to form Synths, which are quite deadly. They are also good at terraforming, mainly with magic, and while they do not have the best weapons there shielding tech is thought to be some of the greatest in the galaxy. The Eternal Union is quite advanced, and due to their culture and ideology continue to progress.Cultural Overview:The culture of the Eternal Union focuses on a few specific ideals, harmony, peace, liberty, and freedom. While the other 3 are obvious, harmony is defined as the state of little to no problems, no conflict, and eternal peace. This is what the Eternal Union wishes to work towards, a utopia. Combined with magic the Eternal Union is well on to this path, as with magic they can easily harvest and farms lots of food, eliminating the need to charge for such things. A majority of these ideals, and what their culture is centered around comes from the Solar Church, there religion.The Solar Church believes in one goddess, she is referred to by 4 names. The Eternal Mother, the Guardian or Goddess of Harmony, and Faust. Most followers refer to her as the Eternal Mother, as she is thought to be eternal, and that she treats the Iscandarians and Gamilas, who she created, as her children. She was thought to have risen from Stardust, and that she created the Iscandarians and Gamilas with Stardust, thus inspiring the popular phrase “From Stardust we come, to Stardust we fall”. Another belief is that everything is from Stardust, and that everything is eternal and must become Eternal. As such burials are conducted by launching the dead into a Star, thus returning them to Stardust. Before space era these burials were conducted by burning the body and that putting the ashes in a ceremonial urn, which was then launched into the sky by a special spell, and later it would contact a star. Of note is that Faust, in their bible at least, said that the Iscandarians would guide all sentient to a Union of Harmony under one flag, and that to do so the Iscandarians need to ascend. As such they are fine with augmentation and rapid progress as it is necessary for ascension in the eyes of the Solar Church.Most Eternal Union citizens also follow the Solar Church, even with the right to freedom of religion. The reason is that while no other religions are discriminated against, the State endorses it, and uses it to maintain the Union under a single common doctrine and culture.History: The Iscandarians had a relatively peacefully history. There was little conflict, and from the beginning the Solar Church was dominate. Its doctrine and ideology were appealing, and were it thrived little, if any crime, existed. The society was very prosperous.When the Industrial Era came about, or as its was also known the Magitech era, due to the sudden rise of it, a Caster by the name of David managed to unite all Iscandarians under one banner, the banner of the Eternal Union. He became the first immortal, and when he did those around them described a light coming down, and guiding him to his ascension. Immortals under the system led this Eternal Union. Later a Sentinel by the name of Aaliyah invented some of the first forms of space travel, and guided the civilization to the discovery of the Gamilas. She was crowned as the second Immortal.The Gamilas when found were a very warring civilization. They were close to destroying themselves via atomic weapons. The advanced Iscandarians intervened and stopped them. While they resented this as the Iscandarians disarmed them and forced peace, the Iscandarians sent missionaries, and overtime they curbed there warring nature. They were brought into the Eternal Union.The rest of the Eternal Union was rapid advancement of technologies, as well as expansion. Two more Immortals were crowned, the Earthen Orion for a live-saving cure to a deadly magical disease, and a Caster named Adeline for a massive contribution that was the FTL system currently used.. At current they have 606 ships, divided into fleets of 101, and are spread across 19 Systems. They have so far deemed themselves alone, but they will be proven wrong…

darkwolf687 said
Haha, you all have such juicy races for me to feast on...Name of nation: The HivesSpecies: L'Er (Eng: One of Us. Note that this is their name for themselves, not one that is used universally by species they encounter. As the nature of such encounters tend to be with feral hives developing on one of their worlds, species often believe the L'Er to be a non-sentient disease at first glance.)There is no way to accurately describe the entire race, as many, many different forms are constructed. The most common is the small "Spore form". These are arguably the most dangerous form as they possess the ability to bite their way into their host, their organic forms have no skeleton and thus can contort to squeeze through small openings in their host that they cause with their abnormally strong teeth, which are strong enough to bite their way through armour if given a few seconds. Once inside their host, they couple with the hosts central nervous system, making removal almost invariably fatal. It is sometimes argued that they kill the host outright, though there has been no reliable study to confirm this, so it is entirely possible the host is alive and maybe conscious. The host does not have to be alive for this process, a corpse will do. Whatever the case, the Parasite has full control and begins mutating the host. The hive will use the host for a variety of purposes, including but not limited to construction, reproduction and combat. This host will now become one of two forms. The first is known as the "Battle" form, this involves the usage of the hosts natural abilities for combat, in addition to mutations to make them stronger, such abnormal muscle growth. This is often done at the expense of the hosts brain and specific organs. Little attempt is made for long term maintenance, as the host will likely be recycled after its purpose is served. The second form is known as the "Transport" form. The is essentially a walking reproductive center for the Parasites, growing new spore forms inside massive bulbous sacks, often mutating the host past what is recognisable. This form shoots the Spore forms out of its many sacks when it sights and approaches an enemy, and has two no way to defend its self except through these spores, although it has been known to fall onto beings which have gotten too close to prevent then from running. Both these forms are called "Impure" forms. There is a third form, though its existence is debated, known as the "Thinker" form. The theory is that certain hosts have their brains kept intact and, in some theories, boosted. These forms supposedly serve as tactical planners in pre-Mind infestations, as well as scientists of sorts or advisors to the mind. Since some intelligent behavior is exhibited in all combat forms, its argued that these are just abnormally intelligent combat forms rather than a new form, though no one is entirely sure.The next forms are the "Pure forms" These are not mutated hosts but entirely new creatures made out of collected biomass from the planets, including recycled hosts and the bodies of their dead. There are countless different forms which vary from hive to hive. The most important pure form in any hive is the Mind. Without the mind, the parasite has little coordination, and their priority is to begin the construction of a mind. This is not to say they are stupid, they possess the intelligence of their hosts, and though it often degrades over time (with the exception of thinker forms), they are smart enough to coordinate basic tactics (Supposedly thinkers coordinate pre-mind stages) There are three stages (Four if one believes the Thinker Theory)One: Feral. In this stage, they are uncoordinated and possess limited intelligence. They are still dangerous, but less so compared to later stages. Minor displays of intelligence, such as basic ambushes are known to appear but generally their intelligence is considered to be similar to that of animals at this level. They maintain knowledge their previous hosts had, so the use of vehicles isn't out of the question. They have a weak psychic link which is starting to develop to form the beginnings of a hiveSapient stage (Thinker theory): According to the Thinker theory, this is the stage where Thinkers begin to show up. They apparently become smart enough to employ advanced tactics, and the weak psychic field between them apparently becomes strengthened to the point it can be used for communication and these thinkers become officers for the fledgling hive. Supposedly these thinkers can be capable of communication with other races, though intelligent communication is often attributed to a later stage, and at this stage it is believed to be simple tauntingCoordination stage: A partially functional Mind has been created. The psychic linked between the organisms has now strengthened to the point that they know each others status at any given time, and they are intelligent enough to communicate with other sentient species in a proper manner, although their previous stages have often resulted in such violence that further conflict is inevitableHive stage: The hive has produced a fully functional mind and joined with the other hives of the galaxy. In this stage the Mind has a psychic link with the hive that is so strong that it allows him to speak with others outside the hive across vast distances. The Hive is fully coordinated and can now operate as a proper nation.Description of government: The government consists of a hierarchy with the Tribunal, a council of three made from the Minds of the most powerful hives, who use their psychic link to communicate with each other and lead the Union of Hives. The major hives come just under them. It has been proposed that there may be some form of "Overmind" by some scholars, but nothing is provenDescription of military: The most common of this species is a small, ball like creatures with small tentacles protruding from it. It uses these tentacles to move, able to climb on surfaces thanks to their suction like design, and to couple with its hosts nervous system and seize control. Their colour varies depending on the hive, and this can be used to quickly identify which hive the Spore forms are from. They have a "beak" of exceptionally strong teeth underneath their tentacles, allowing them to bite they way in, and their lack of a skeleton, small size and relative "squishiness) allows them to fit through small openings they make in their host. They prefer to make such a hole close to the hosts nervous system in order to avoid excessive damage, but forcing their way up appendages is not unheard of. They will then mutate the host or take them to be used. A host can also be mutated if he inhales enough of a gas produced by specially made biomass, however this is a slower process than the spore forms and is less effective. This allows a very flexible army that is able to shrug off most loses in an invasion as they can usually be reabsorbed into the hive or replaced relatively easilyTechnological Overview: There is no uniform technology within the hive as they tend to use the technology of their hosts. As such, their weapons range from ballistics to anti-matter. There are a few examples of Hives creating their own technology if the need arises, but given their parasitic nature it is rare. It is known that, once they reach a coordinated stage, they will use any industry they capture to arm themselves. Their space craft range from organic creatures grown around a handful of systems, to entire functional ships that have been merged with and infested by an organic substance which is hostile to intruders, often attacking them where possible. As a result of the assimilation dynamic, as well as the ease with which they reproduce, even a small scale infection can quickly become extremely dangerous and large.Cultural Overview: N/AHistory: The L'Er date back to evolution on a backwater colony of an interstellar nation. This "Super Parasite" was able to construct a Mind from the biomass of the rampant wild life where it was born. This Mind observed the colonists and their star ships and was able to deduce, after the assimilation of multiple individuals into the hive, that it could sneak aboard Spore forms and infect all the worlds of the species. The Mind was able to infiltrate the ships with a small number of spore forms, each of which spread out to the species worlds. At the time, the Mind had little power as it hadn't been further developed, as a result its psychic power was weak enough that the spores that were sent off developed different hives. This separated them into three hives, the original S'Buk, and the successor S'Orp and S'Lif. Out of the three, the original was the most unlucky. The other two worlds of the species were much more developed and larger, and so S'Orp and S'Lif were able to become more powerful than S'Buk as they absorbed more biomass from the worlds and inherited more of the hosts technology, industry and infrastructure.The Three Hives were able to slowly build up strength and eventually over run the three worlds, absorbing the necessary biomass and leading to the desire to use the host species space travel to find new worlds.Over millennia, there were several more hives developed across the quadrant and the Union of the Hives was formed in order to advance the L'Er as a whole through inter-hive cooperation. Most of the mentioned new hives are only major to this day with the exception of one, the now Tribunal hive S'Rin. The S'Rin remained the weakest of the hives for many centuries, as they had achieved semi-peaceful relations with the sentients they had encountered and essentially sold themselves as weapons to them. The two species developed under one nation that was budding, and over time the S'Rin were able to gain more and more power, eventually changing from being a living weapon to being an equal partner in the nation. Their hive was weak compared to the others due to their lack of biomass due to having brokered a deal, one which ensured their hives survival but established a blocker to their success however the S'Rin had a plan. They developed a new type of pure form, still used by hives today, called the Worm form. This small form was microscopic and as such it was able to enter the sentients undetected and nestle inside their brain. From their it would secret its toxins to make the individual more susceptible to hive control and eventually place them under the hives control, assimilating them completely. The S'Rin used this on members of the armed forces, slowly bringing control of the military into the hands if the S'Rin. After the S'Rin had secretly gained control of the militaries minds, the organisation that had stopped the S'Rin from assimilating the species before was now on their side. Almost over night the S'Rin seized control using the military and began to assimilated the population into their hive, growing rapidly from a minor power and usurping the place of the S'Buk on the Tribunal now that they had become more powerful than their forefathers. Today, the S'Buk is only a major hive and the S'Rin still hold their place on the Tribunal.Other hives have been produced since them, and many have come into violent contact with outsiders... And consumed them almost invariably.Other:The colour of the biomass varies from hive to hive based on a variety of factorsBelow is a government report of known hives, excluding the minor hives which have merely been labelled as "countless" by the writerTribunal hivesS'Orp S'Lif S'Rin Major hives:S'Buk S'Kif S'Urp S'Ein S'Ark S'NifMinor hives: Countless

TehAlphaGamer said
App: Name of nation: Sazkarjhia (Sazkarjhit)Species: SazkarjhianSazkarjhians are about 6'5" and on average weigh about 180 pounds. Both sexes have muscular-although-flexible builds, with bright orange, smooth skin with flourescent yellow patterns running along them. They have black, glossy, globular eyes with white pupils that increase in size with age. They have elongated snouts with a large maw with sharp, conical teeth and molars towards the back (Sazkarjhian's are omnivorous but have strong carnivorous tendencies). They respire chlorine gas, and find atmospheric oxygen toxic (In reciprocation to most aerobes, who respire oxygen but find gaseous chlorine to be very toxic). Males have six, long, flacid horns on either side of the back of their head. Females' horns are relatively short and blunt. Due to their inability to breathe oxygen, they usually wear suits of powered armor with chlorine rebreathers. However, their technological advancements have led to capsules that can temporarily alter biological makeup to make their chlorine breathable to other species or oxygen breathable to them.Alongside this, certain Sazkarjhians possess certain magical powers, evident in the differentiating color flowing through their veins through major cardiovascular points (temples, wrists, etc.). These are rare and are usually Vessels of gods, those who are not are still regarded as their children or "He/She Who Has Been Marked."Description of government: Theocratic Dictatorship Sazkarjhia is led by a body of "Vessels", or prophets of the Sazkarjhit gods with the head, or Grand Vessel, being a prophet of the Supreme Being known as "Zarwaun" ("Sarwun", in the Sazkarjhit vernacular Sazka). The Grand Vessel makes decisions with these other inferior Vessels to pass decisions for the empire. Under this is a military cabinet consisting of the Supreme Commander, Supreme General of the Sazkarjhit People's Army, Supreme Fleetmaster of the Sazkarjhit People's Navy, and the Admiral of the Sazkarjhit People's Space Exploration Initiative (SEI). Freedom of Religion, however, is condemned by the Vesselage as it is under their law, "The sacrilegious defamation of logical constitution." As a result Sazkarjhit that are caught practicing other religions are exiled. Attempting to spread this religious system as, again, in the Vesselage's terms, "poisoning the youth of the great Sazkarjhit people", is punishable by death by firing squad.Description of military: The Sazkarjhit Military of the Common People, also known as the People's Military, is comprised of three different branches:People's Army of SazkarjhiaThe main ground and intra-atmospheric air divisions of the military. Several units are involved in it, including:Infantry: Standard footsoldiers using assault rifles that load with a rotating energy battery, among other weapons.Anti-Armor Infantry: Footsoldiers wielding two-barreled guided missile launchers known as the Type-11 Personal Anti-Armor Weapon.Heavies: Technically known under the Sazkarjhia Defense Firm Heavily-Armored Universal Combat Soldier Program, the "Heavies", as they're colloquially known by soldiers, are 2.13 meter tall hulks of titanium and carbosteel plating with extremely powerful and complicated movement systems making them walking main battle tanks. The increased armor brings their weight up to about two tonnes. They can carry a vast array of armaments; ranging from heavy automatic weapons to flamethrowers to portable coilguns.Commandos: Under the Sazkarjhia Defense Firm's Biologically-Augmented Super-Soldier Program, known as the "Commandos", are augmented supersoldiers experienced with close-quarters combat. Attached to a Commando's wrist is a large, boxy implement with a pad at the front. Known officially as the Mark I Extremely High-Power Kinetic Impact Weapon, the machine sits on a rail and allows a Commando to throw a several-tonne punch; effective in causing severe damage to structures, vehicles, and soliders alike.HT-1 Scarpios Hover Tank: With a high-powered coilgun turret, one machine gun turret, one coaxial machine gun, and jumpseat bays on either side allowing a total of ten soldiers, the HT-1 is the ultimate assault vehicle.HV-6 Sparrowhawk Utility and Attack Aircraft: Capable of fitting twenty soldiers, and being able to be used as a close-support craft, the Sparrowhawk is a tour-de-force of military technology. A four-barreled autocannon mounted in the nose and six two-missile pods allow it to be deadly for gun runs, while they're useful for insertions, extractions and deploying Airdrop Soldiers from high above.AV-1 Furosi Aerial Attack Vehicle: A modified version of the HV-6 for air combat, the AV-1 features two autocannons, automatic countermeasures, bays for bombs, flammable adherent or thermite canisters, and several missile pods allow it to be especially deadly in the airborne theater.People's Navy of SazkarjhiaMain Naval Force used for both attack and defense.Marku-Class Heavy Cruiser: Main-line cruiser, used as flagships. Armed with a powerful coilgun used for firing antimatter as well as plasma throwers, torpedoes, missile pods and magnetic artillery.Darbor-Class Heavy Frigate: Heavy and built for long range. The Darbor-Class Frigate is powerful and used often for escort and assaulting positions.Manumar-Class Light Frigate: Nimble and fast, but poorly armored. The definitive scout ship for the People's Navy.Trikolo-Class Destroyer: Extremely heavily armored and loaded down with magnetic artillery and antimatter launchers. Nicknamed "Fortresses with Engines" by crew and bystanders alike.Samani-Class Prowler: Capable of using a very powerful cloak and deploying antimatter warheads, proving to be devastating hit-and-run vehicles but also excellent for stealth insertions or espionage. The main drawback is that their reactors can overheat and vents in the middle of the craft will often eject steam when deactivating the cloak, which can easily give away their position.Pulsar-Class Electronic Warfare Vessel: Capable of completely crippling vessels with electromagnetic pulse emitters and other such technology, they make effective ships for crowd control.Rakora-Class Assault Ship: Smal and capable of entering the atmosphere easily, they can provide support on the ground or board ships in space.Basilisk-Class Fighter: Small and nimble, devastating when flying in squadrons.Sarpinta-Class Interceptor: Launched from tubes in ships like torpedoes, they're extremely deadly with solar/battery-powered laser projectors and autocannons, in large groups their incredible speed and maneuverability make them very deadly foes to contend with. Technological Overview: Sazkarjhit technology is mixed in development. They have developed powerful weapons using antimatter, and have vast technological achievements in the form of the Translight Hyperjump Engine, which tunnels through Slipstream Space. However, most of their technology is nuclear-powered and lower-grade superweapons use plutonium, while most ship and on-ground reactors use thorium as fuel. Sazkarjhit medicine is also very advanced, often studying medical reports from other empires on other species and strictly cataloging their findings. Contrary to the popular belief that their religious zeal leads them to believe in faith healing.Cultural Overview: As mentioned above, the Sazkarjhit are religious zealots and practice their religion, Zarwaunism ("Sarwuna") to an extreme. Magic is not common, but those who have it are viewed as descendants of the gods. With this, there are several gods and goddesses in the religion:Zarwaun: The "Supreme Being", the father of the universe, the God of Right - Representing the Religious and Governmental region of KarboriaYuturata: The "Industrial Being", the father of metalcraft and fire, the God of the Forge - Representing the Industrial Region of DaramaskaMarkura: The "Matriarchal Being", the mother of nature and maternity, the Goddess of Life - Representing the Bountiful Region of BellaranOparas: The "Fortunate Being", the mother of fortune and misfortune, the Goddess of Balance - Representing the People's Region of GamariaMarkarapas: The "Wealthy Being", the mother of commerce Trade , the Goddess of the Coin - Representing the Mercantile Region of BorsarsaHistory: Sazkarjhia was formed from two tribes, the intellectual Saz and the warlike Jhia. After many years of bloody war, a treaty was signed. When leaders realized what was possible when they combined their achievements, they sought to form together and take over the rest of the tribes. 20,000 years ago, the International Doctrine of Saz-Kar-Jhia was signed atop Mount Karbor, a site that would later become a holy focal point for Zarwaunism. Around 10,000 years later, a man identified only as The First Prophet began spreading the first ideas of Zarwaunism. The Pagan/Atheistic nation vehemently rejected this, but he soon gathered enough supporters. In an attempt to overthrow the leadership, a civil war that would later be known as the Ten Year's Bloodshed started. Millions of deaths later, the First Prophet would step to power, only to be shortly assassinated by a pagan nationalist. However, the ideals held strong, and soon the Zarwaunist regime took over the rest of Sazkarjhia.About 9,000 years later, the first effective FTL drive, the Translight Outersystem Engine, was developed. Sazkarjhia soon sought to go out and conquer the stars. First they acquired two colonies, a metal-supplying moon known as Markada Minor, and a flat, bountiful farm colony known as Trimubelo III. Soon, eight more colonies were captured, and Sazkarjhia has begun to look out farther, and to maybe spread their religion to have those understand the Path of Divine Right, and the Father of the Universe.Other: This took me a long, long time to write so hopefully Sazkarjhia will still be able to be used. I have made some edits to it compared to VotS, some major and some minor.

MrFoxNews said
―A Mandalorian mother to her daughter

All Accepted!

[darkwolf687]

MrFoxNews said
So a combination of the flood and the Tyranids with some fresh names?:P WAAAAR!!!!!

War? Don't you mean dinner time? *deep laughter*

Indeed, and as hungry as a hive tyrant who's been locked in a cage for 50 years hehe

[TehAlphaGamer]

MrFoxNews said
―A Mandalorian mother to her daughter

inb4 Boba Fett becomes new world leader.

[darkwolf687]

TehAlphaGamer said
inb4 Boba Fett becomes new world leader.

Inb4 he becomes my starter...

[MrFoxNews]

TehAlphaGamer said
inb4 Boba Fett becomes new world leader.

Nope. No fett's...

[TehAlphaGamer]

MrFoxNews said
Nope. No fett's...

I know the Fetts weren't actually Mandalorian, but still.

[MrFoxNews]

TehAlphaGamer said
I know the Fetts weren't actually Mandalorian, but still.

?

I think you got your facts wrong. Both Fetts were Mandos.

[ASTA]

Faction Designation: Conjoining of Retribution​

Number of planets: 11

Technology

Weaponry, which generally consists of the Hound, the Roarer, Gun Runner's Mail, the Mauler, and the Hunger.

Hound: An ambiguous phrase or term primarily attributed to the pinnacle of vul’kruun high-performance self-guiding anti-ship missile technology. Advancements in relevant sensory, propulsion and warhead technical fields have resulted in vul’kruun 'MIRVs' to be driven by an inexpensive and utilitarian type of mass-produced digital intelligence that utilizes standard gravitational, electromagnetic, thermal, and radar sensor apparatuses to seek out predetermined targets. Vul’kruun hounds are furnished with single-use superposition-based FTL drives, nuclear salt-water rocket engines and RCS points that shape them into a workable analog of the customary vacuum-based fighter craft used by other factions. Hounds lack integrated weaponry, but alternatively make do with electronic countermeasure pods, evasive maneuvers, plasma windows, and passable amounts of ablative shielding to evade and weather enemy interception attempts. Hounds are transported and distributed by a diverse range of vul’kruun star crawler types, and are ordinarily launched in the thousands by vul'kruun assault squadrons. Depending on its size, one hound can play host to hundreds of self-guiding anti-ship missiles, with each missile capped with a high-yield dial-able thermonuclear warhead. Other hound types may have a sub-munition bundle consisting of missiles that are tipped with nuclear-pumped x-ray lasers or explosively-formed nuclear penetrators.

Hunger: Hunger guns are vul'kruun smoothbore firearms that are chambered for a guided gyrojet munition; the rocket-propelled bullet is shrouded by a jacket of superformance monopropellant and primer. Using caseless ammunition and an electronic ignition system, hunger guns have a cyclic rate of several thousand rounds per minute, and can accept box magazines, twin-drum magazines or ammunition belts. Hypervelocity bullet impacts usually kills enemies through cavitation and kinetic energy alone.

Mauler: Mauler guns, also known as 'mass accelerator weapons' or 'storm drums', are vul'kruun ballistic weapons that do not employ solid propellants or miniature rocket engines to propel projectiles, but instead harness centripetal force generated by a miniature cyclotron positioned near the rear of the weapon to launch charged particles at a distant enemy. Unlike most directed energy weapons, mauler guns use disposable box-shaped cartridges that bear a single firing charge, with each charge consisting of an explosively-pumped flux compression generator, capacitor and charged particle package. Compared to hunger weapons, mauler armaments suffer from increased spread, pronounced acoustic and flash profiles, and a heightened thermal signature, but are otherwise relatively reliable, incredibly powerful, fairly useful in medium-range combat, reasonably accurate, and impact targets instantaneously. Typically when the particles strike armored or unarmored soldiers (or vehicles), explosively-violent results are displayed.

Roarer: An evolution of fundamental gun technology, roarer is a moniker jointly shared between vul'krunn-made combustion light-gas and electrothermal-chemical automatic and select-fire cannon and recoil-less gun pieces. They are similar in power to electromagnetic weapons such as railguns or coil guns, but are still [hazily] similar to modern solid-propellant guns in that chemical reactions (and not powerful electromagnets) are used to propel a projectile. Roarer weapons are universally employed by vul’kruun Rage mobile gun platforms, starcraft and self-propelled artillery platforms, which use them alongside simple automatic loading mechanisms to fling nuclear or inert shells at unfortunate xeno enemies.

Gun Runner's Mail: A full-body powered exoskeleton harness donned by vul'kruun soldiers. Fed from a lithium-air cell, the suit's hydraulic rotary and linear actuators gift the wearer with super-vul'kruun physical strength and endurance. Wears can hoist and take heavier loads, wield heftier weapons and engage in strenuous physical activity without incurring increased levels of bodily fatigue and physical stress. The right and left forearms of gun runner's mail offer dedicated hard-points for infantry arms (such as hunger or mauler weaponry) to be fixed to, while the rear chassis features four semi-autonomous mechanical 'gun limbs' (or servo arms) that each play host to an individual supplementary weapon system that is designed to provide support to the war fighter during combat operations. Several gun limb weapon systems can be attributed to each servo arm, like a single hypervelocity recoil-less gun chambered for a rocket-assisted shell of intermediate caliber, a rotary grenade launcher, mauler or hunger weapon systems, or a missile cell array designed to house and fire powerful superposed-loaded ordinance. With back and thorax ammunition feed hoppers and heavier suits of soft and hard composite body armor, vul'kruun infantry equipped with gun runner's mail do not become tanks in a literal or figurative sense, but rather morph into less-armored analogs to the modern tankettes or infantry fighting vehicles of our own world.

Military Technologies Not Invented

Main battle tanks, troop carriers or infantry fighting vehicles: Vru's thick jungles and forests coupled with the vul'kruun's lack of trench warfare prevented armored fighting vehicles from rising to prominence on Vru. Experiments with AFVs resulted in the accumulation of numerous technical issues concerning vehicle weight and mechanical unreliability. In the AFV's stead, the Rage mobile gun platform was conceived, which is an armored, open-top tracked propulsion vehicle that a single vul'kruun soldier can crew and direct. Rage can offer substantial levels of direct fire support in the form of automatic cannons, multiple repeating recoil-less guns, grenade launchers, mortars, or stacked missile cells. Self-propelled guns, on the other hand, were created.

Aircraft carriers and fighter craft: Never even thought of, as vul'kruun siege gunships have operational ranges measured in the thousands of miles due to their high-capacity fuel tanks and later on-board fission reactors. Early vul'kruun air craft drew closer to the 'flying fortress' or 'air battleship' concepts talked about in speculative military technologies, and therefore completely skipped the era of the atmospheric fighter altogether. Vul'kruun siege gunships and strategic bombers are known for their heavy composite armor, weaponry and overlapping point defense systems.

Space fighters: Rendered obsolete with the creation of Hound weapons and siege gunships.

Transportation, which generally consists of the infamous Star Crawler.

Star crawlers are vul’kruun starcraft. They come in an ample assortment of classes, sizes and roles. They are fairly uniform in appearance; most star crawlers are nothing more than enormous cylinders haphazardly machined together using rudimentary ship-building procedures and archaic power tools, diminutive amounts of preliminary construction planning, and substandard building materials scavenged from past kills and other vul’kruun starcraft. Regardless of tonnage and purpose, all star crawlers are propelled using simple, effective and extremely efficient fission pulse drives, which brutally propels the craft forward through space by casually detonating high-yield ‘shaped’ thermonuclear bombs against a heavy uranium pusher plate suspended by a series of shock absorbers. Because of the forces this propulsion method enacts on a star crawler, the vul’kruun have been forced to design their vessels to be exceptionally robust, wrapping them in meters upon meters of hardened and treated composite armor plating, and turning them into an unembellished space version of a conventional, heavily-armored 'battleship' of sorts. Though bearing heavy armor, star crawlers have excellent acceleration.

Because their creators incorporated high levels of battlefield endurance, efficiency, flexibility, and inhuman brutality in their original designs, military-grade star crawlers are usually created with a lot of redundancy in mind, and are accordingly separated into independent armored and armed automated modules called Fangs. Each Fang possess its own digital intelligence construct, emergency power generation systems (usually in the form of several pre-charged power cells, which can be activated in the event that spare power cannot be siphoned from other fighting compartment), target acquisition systems, and armament and automatic loading systems and machinery, affording individual vul’kruun starcraft the capacity to prolong combat engagements even after having suffered severe external and internal damage.

For defensive systems, star crawlers are equipped with electronic countermeasure pods, polarized plate armor, ablative shielding, plasma barriers, and kinetic/missile point defense systems. Offensive equipment consists of hound cells and roarer turret emplacements. Gravity control is sustained by spinning a star crawler’s habitat module, which simulates artificial gravity through centrifugal force. RCS points positioned along the ship's hull provide thrust for spin, while bulkier, retractable nuclear thermal rockets handle planetary orbital maneuvers and course-correctional adjustments during intergalactic transit or combat. The command information center, fission reactor, crew compartments, and the ship’s FTL drive are nestled deeply within the innards of the vessel, and are further sheltered by additional alloy shielding and the sheer bulk of the Fangs that engulf them.

Species Information

Average height: Varies

Average weight: Varies

Their mantis-like forms are supported by a protective endoskeleton, while the sturdy, cornified skin of the neck, head, trunk, and most of the lower body is encompassed by a natural armor matrix comprised of scutes and boney plates; the rest of a vul’kruun’s mass is covered in a spiked, chitin-like textile, with the entire defensive package capable of affording vul’kruun faint bodily resistance to low-velocity pistol cartridges. They possess six functional limbs: four powerful arthropodic legs for swift and nimble locomotion over most terrain types and a pair of arms and two clawed hands optimized for the precise manipulation of objects.

The upper torso and lower insect-like trunk displays notable evidence of robustness; the vul’kruun’s hostile indigenous surroundings and their unvarying, antagonistic confrontations with the destructive predators of their atrocious world drove them to progressively develop denser and elevated amounts of muscular tissue and greater muscle cross-sectional area along their rigid bulks, gifting them with an enormous quantity of upper and lower body strength. Vru, being a hefty planet with a high gravitational pull, makes vul’kruun bodily motions on worlds with lower gravity disabling, outstandingly uncoordinated and, quite frankly, hilarious to observe. Their monumental vigor, however, is heavily-augmented in environments such as these—but it is debatable whether or not this boost in material potency is any match for an enemy species that is well-conditioned for a planet of this type.

The vul’kruun are simultaneous hermaphrodites, but are capable of self-induced fertilization if appropriate mates are presently unavailable. During copulation, both members may agree to impregnate one another for a greater combined egg yield. Vul’kruun instinctively indulge in numerous cycles of reproductive sex throughout their lives--an evolutionary side-effect of their planet’s uncongenial ecology--with one parent capable of fabricating (or fathering) approximately fifteen to twenty eggs. The gestation period is two months. The parent (or the seeder) does not actively stay with the young, but instead forcibly discharges them from its presence so that they may fend for themselves. The survivors fully mature at age five, with vul’kruun typically dying from natural causes by age forty.

Vul’kruun do not consume plant matter. They are hypercarnivorous ‘bulk eaters’ with intense opportunistic feeding habits, dining on any meat or dead animal biomass that they come across without a second though, and their high metabolic rates making them out as frantic consumers of most organic and synthetic dietary material. For this reason, vul’kruun do not leave behind corpses that they have claimed, and naturally become overly-aggressive towards non-vul’kruun if they draw too close to them during food consumption.

Optical vision is decent, but is underdeveloped when compared to human vision, and lacks the ability to register certain color types. Vul'kruun do not have visible ears, but vibrations instead pass through two holes positioned on the opposite sides of the head and make contact with the inner ear. Smell is offered by powerful scent glands positioned atop the skull.

Designed mostly for ripping and pulling, the mandibles of a vul'kruun are unable to chew food. Vul'kruun instead swallow their food whole down a long, fleshy dark canal that leads to their throat, while the lack of a tongue is remedied by the presence of weak taste receptors stationed along the surface of the inner mandibles.

Government, Economy and Foreign Relations

Predominately tribalistic, with the creation of the nation state having never come to position. Vul'kruun live in tight-knit groups of several dozen persons, with a single leader (which is normally the largest and oldest vul'kruun specimen of the crop ) acting as the formal director of the tribe. Ingrained psychological limitations that pertain to their 'groupthink' primal behaviors and thought processes withhold vul'kruun tribes from exceeding (or falling below) a precise number of members, with the maximum number of vul'kruun in a tribe ensuring that collective intelligence can be kept at a maximum level of efficiency (which prevents the tribe from being afflicted with impairing pangs of simplemindedness). Because of the Treaty of the Conjoining, tribes are fully-autonomous sovereign entities and are rightfully permitted to lay claim to the area where they are first established; this can be a space station, a moon, a ship, or a defined section of land on a planet.

While human tribal societies are historically associated with frequent bouts of small-scale warfare and raiding, vul'kruun instinctively indulge in this type of aggressive behavior exclusively against administrative bodies or states comprised of a different intelligent species, and persistently avoid confronting other members of their own biological ilk with violence, coups, one-sided ultimatums, or any other action that would negatively impact the longevity or continued advancement of the vul'kruun species. Ergo, this has resulted in a shockingly minimum measure of crime within their society and an evident sense of 'species-wide' self-preservation to course through the teeming vul'kruun masses, and makes full-scale intergalactic skirmishes with other sapient organisms have almost nothing to do with political, spiritual, or economical agendas or woes, but more about the vul'kruun naturally registering nearby foreign powers as competing xeno tribes that must be kept at gunpoint and disposed of if the threat of territorial encroachment or invasion is sufficiently daunting.

Currency was never coined, but bartering and gift-giving were mainstream up until interstellar mining operations became viable and widespread enough to usher in an era of post-scarcity economics, where vul'kruun tribes that control refineries, mining rigs and manufacturing plants circulate and funnel raw materials and finished goods into and throughout vul'kruun populated space. Planets and evolved asteroids rich in uranium deposits are strongly sought after for the creation of nuclear weapons, fission pulse drive propellant and fission reactors.

Critical to the sustainment of the Conjoining is a type of exotic matter called Mes, which when refined, fused with existing elements and then synthesized yields Nor, a type of fuel used to power vul'kruun FTL drives. Mes is profoundly rare in the universe and takes truly gargantuan amounts of power and far too much time to produce, which discourages vul'kruun tech-savvy community groups from morphing it into a usable weapon of massive interstellar destruction. Mes fuel stations, which also carry fission pulse drive propellant, repair gantries for starcraft, provisions, and other commodities essential to life amongst the stars, are

Military

Vul'kruun space warfare doctrine focuses on shock-and-awe strategies with an additional focus being applied to hit-and-run maneuvers. Vul'kruun avoid decisive battles and massive engagements with enemy starships—even going as far as to flee in all directions at the slightest sight of an enemy response group or reconnaissance force--and instead direct their rage and hatred and extreme prejudice at the common people whenever they are found, which eventually urges the leaders of hostile nations to make an ethical and strategic choice: protect the people, or bolster the defenses of the factories and shipyards? Doing both is indeed possible, but now division and discord has been plunged deep into the space forces of the foe, with weakened worlds being slated for further molestation and aggression.

The land forces, which are very small, usually choose to hammer everything into oblivion with artillery fire, nuclear weapons or a combination of the two. They aren't usually deployed however.

[TehAlphaGamer]

MrFoxNews said
?I think you got your facts wrong. Both Fetts were Mandos.

Really? I thought they were humans or human-like, but Jango was raised by Mandalorians and his armor was passed to his son, and...

It's been a while since I've dipped into SW lore so I probably do have some facts wrong.

[MrFoxNews]

TehAlphaGamer said
Really? I thought they were humans or human-like, but Jango was raised by Mandalorians and his armor was passed to his son, and...It's been a while since I've dipped into SW lore so I probably do have some facts wrong.

Being Mandalorian is being a part of their culture. There is no specific Mandalorian race.

[TehAlphaGamer]

MrFoxNews said
Being Mandalorian is being a part of their culture. There is no specific Mandalorian race.

Oh, I see, okay.

[Cryptiic]

Never mind

[AlienBastard]

Os

Name of nation: The Big Horde of Communal Federal Unions and Democratic Republics of Oger. [Also simply known as Ogeria]
Species: Os



Artistic representation of a O and its ever edible child.

The Os are a species of spherical entities who lack any limbs, instead using telekinesis to manipulate objects and the environment around them and have no eyes or visible mouth; instead relying on radiative sense [whatever that means] to know where everyone is. They tend to look like large balls of raw flesh, however some ethnicities look a little better cooked, a couple look plain well done. The Os speak by making long, drawn out low tonal noises that can remind one of the noise made by electric bass or of someone saying "oh". They have never bothered to learn anyone else's language or even use a translator, instead desiring to just use their native language as a means of communication with the only real way to work with them being to simply infer what they are trying to say.

The Os reproduce by metamorphoses and consume food much like a single celled organism does. Their properties however limit them to moving like a ball can, however due to the amount of space opened by being a spherical body the Os have managed to become incredible good psychics and despite no one understand a word an O says, the O understands everyone else perfectly fine. There is some Os who are said to be able to read minds and usually shout in protest of insulting things they hear, but due to the self-imposed language barrier all one ever hears is a intense "OOOOH!" when it comes to matters like this.

The magical capabilities of the Os can get greater and greater depending on how many Os are stuffed into a small space, and due to their design quite a few can be stuffed into a space area like cargo. While Os need to eat [and often will cannibalize each other when lacking any other food sources] and need to be energized to keep their magic potent the more Os you have in a small area, the more extreme their magical powers get. Hence, they can collectively fly spaceships using just their minds.

Os psychologically due to their telepathy can communalize at will when the need exists, and it is this ability to communalize that allows them to fly their spaceships and use their technology overall. As a result a legion of Os can cause weapons of the enemy to misfire or jam if they are close enough and cause missiles to go in other directions. When there is only a few Os, they often will resort to using weapons that have internal firing mechanisms however.

Description of government: Their governmental system is a very long hierarchal bureaucracy whose form of government keeps changing depending on the level of government one is at. For instance one layer of government is totally democratic, while another is a totalitarian police state. The government comes as the result of Os being psychologically unable to commit to one form of government like the less sane species. Instead, the Os just use whatever government they feel like using and the system is any system that the individual has subscribed to for the time being.

Their government however manages to be heavily centralized and is often compared to a federation while being more like a meritocracy with some totalitarian police state and technocracy sprinkled in with a quite a bit of socialism and capitalism depending on the government their citizens subscribe to.

Description of military: The military of the Os in space is made of almost completely spherical ships, which has allowed them to fill their ships to the brim with their kind. In doing so, their ships are completely ran by the magical energies of the Os within, who are very well fed and energized before taking flight and large reserves of food are kept inside just encase a trip goes too long. There is not really any concept of ship classification in O society, instead there are bigger spheres and smaller spheres with no actual specialization instead taking whatever combat role best suited for the time being. Often these ships will trail asteroids , space junk and comets in a ring around the sphere that is used to fling kinetic attacks at their enemies through acceleration their projectiles around the sphere and guiding them into the enemy. On the defensive their ships use energy barriers generated by the magical powers of the Os inside. They also tend to take control of missiles and fling back them at their enemy instead of simply intercepting them. The bigger the ship the more power they have and the larger energy threshold the craft has before enough projectiles cause the ship to break under pressure.

Technological Overview: [coming soon, will explain energizing]

Cultural Overview: [coming soon, will be horrifically alien and disgusting to human viewers]

History: The Os are not a natural species, instead the folk only known as the Engineers made them as a toy to take their abuses on; a sentient punching bag they could watch a alien beast tear into and sense the pain the balls of flesh felt for their sadistic amusement. The Engineers as a race were some what magical, of which affected how they designed their torture toys; they made them have psionic organs in order to have them be tugged at using spatial forces to try turning the O inside out [turning a sphere inside out as it turns out is possible; but extremely painful if the sphere is alive. The various things the engineers did to the Os is near unspeakable; anything a sentient mind could think of some engineer did, for the Os were a product and were slaves in the most absolute way. While Os were ibntelligent, due to how spread out they were revolt was difficulty and always crushed by the Engineers.

However, the engineers suddenly would just die out and wither away. No one is completely sure why, but the general speculation on the matter by the Os is that the Engineers poked around with the inner workings of the universe too much, and accidentally eradicated their entire species as a result. These events happened thousands of years ago, and the accounts are dubious at best; other observers claim that a major war went on and that the Os managed to run off and form big enough groups ona world they called Oger where they silently constructed ships in justified paranoia that they'd get snuffed out. However, after the Engineers died out Oger managed to rapidly dominate the power vacuum left. And since that, no Engineers have ever been found again. Some say that the few survivors of the cataclysmic war were exterminated by the military of Oger as they expanded in the lost territories, but there is no concrete evidence due to how long ago the whole ordeal was.

Over the millenia the Os have advanced themselves considerably and developed technologies that worjk to their magical properties best; developing a charade of war machines that work through telekinetic manipulation and making a non-objective form of government that came as a result of the Os lacking any ability to come to a good agreement on the best kind of government.

Currently they are a moderate sized dominion that has built up a economy based around their unique talents being outsourced to other civilizations they are on goofd terms with while importing luxury goods from other civilizations.

Other: Incomplete