[OOC] The Fires of Anuria(Reboot)

[Sigma]

Pirate Pad
In honor of Newsun's fantastic rp :)
Note: The below has been directly copied from the original thread. None of the below is of my own creation. All credit goes to Newsun

Anuria was not the first world upon which life beyond Sol was found. It was merely the site upon which a million souls were cast away to die for their nations, for their homeworlds. And once those million had fought until the bloody end without thanks, millions more came into the breach to give their lives for the same, broken values.

The year is 2985 AD. Seven hundred years since the discovery of extraterrestrial life, six hundred since the discovery of intelligent life; four hundred since the first war between Humans and aliens, one hundred since the discovery of Anuria, the planet which would change the course of history. For this reason, some call the raging war the 'Century Slaughter' others simply call it the 'Fire of Anuria'. In truth, the conflict between the races of the sector expands far beyond the confines of this one planet, but it is upon this now-desecrated planet that it first sparked into being. The assassination of an ambassador and the execution of a native warlord was all it took to spark into being, releasing the tension of the community of galactic nations into all out war...

Anuria itself is unremarkable among terrestrial planets; it has a gravity similar to that of Earth's, a stable ecosystem and a broad range of biomes that span from the great central deserts to the polar regions of the North and South. Between that: great forests of alien flora and fauna, raging seas, exotic islands, and towering mountain ranges. But despite this apparent beauty, it is the worst station a soldier can be assigned, and those who are so stationed there often say goodbye to families as though the post is certain death. It almost always is.
This quaint, uninteresting planet sailing around a relatively insignificant star is the first planet in the Galaxy to be officially classified as a 'Death World' with over Five Billion casualties in the hundred years of conflict on this one world.

And yet, the war rages on. It shows no signs of ending, no nation gaining territory. It is here that veterans and recruits alike will share a deathbed amidst the dirt and bloodsoaked sand of a world that changed everything.

Premise

Welcome to The Fires of Anuria.

Here, you do not control a nation. You create one, you design it, specify it's military capabilities, and then you jump into the eyes of the conflict on Anuria solely through the eyes of expendable characters; soldiers whose motives vary, and enact the actions of your faction not through the superfluous ramblings of some nation president, but through orders from commanders that your cast of characters have no control over.

The roleplay's theme is based off of an article I found some months back. To get a true feel for what this roleplay is about, I suggest reading it before you go any further with this OP. Find it here.

The galaxy is vast, and the nations that inhabit it are just as large, and incredibly powerful and wealthy. But our story takes place on Anuria, the world wracked with the most intense combat that the galaxy has ever known. Your nation takes no shortcuts, and conscripts soldiers from it's many worlds to support a standing army that has no doubt been desperately stretched thin over the past 100 years. It is a desperate situation, but no nation wishes to back down. Some soldiers may not believe in the cause they are fighting for, and some may believe in it almost religiously but no nation can be composed entirely of bland, unoriginal individuals who are all unquestioningly devoted to their nation. That is not how war is. I want to see doubt, rebellion, mutiny, manipulation; I want to see strong themes of soldiers wishing simply to go home, wishing to survive. I want to see a myriad of reasons for being involved in the war.

I do not want to see your typical run-of-the-mill NRP faction war. I want this to feel desperate, tense... Harrowing.

All this awesome technology that people develop for their militaries in sci-fi NRPs almost never gets to be seen in action. Here it will be regular. Here, every difference in capabilities will matter. Some players will have advantages in areas and disadvantages in others. But this is your chance to build, from the ground up, a true sci-fi military and put it to use in a controlled and very personality centric environment.

Welcome to The Fires of Anuria.

Anuria

There are Six major conflict zones on Anuria, scenes of the most intense combat to date: The Sand Straits of Ak'Aria, Kol'Kida, Kol'Kora, Kol'Khen, The Anuriite Basin, and the Arctic Northland.

The Sand Straits of Ak'Aria

Otherwise known as the great central desert that spans the majority of the equatorial region of Anuria, this is perhaps the best known conflict zone of the planet, as well as the largest. It gets so hot here during the height of day that no major native Anuriite settlements have remained on the strait for over one-hundred-and-twenty years, far before the commencement of the war.
The Strait is now dotted with abandoned and heavily shelled villages, scarred by massive canyons, rampart with lawless native groups raiding from small cave communities hidden in the mountain rocks, and massive clearings of dunes which are permanently blemished with the remnants of a hundred years of combat. The strait is named after Ak'Aria, the native Anuriite warlord who was executed just before the commencement of the conflict. It is said that the Strait sits upon one of the largest natural gas pockets in the Galaxy, and with many incredibly rare minerals locked within the jutting rocks.
Current Combatants

Kol'Kida

Kol'Kida (or City of Sunlight in the native tongue) is an Anuriite city that is famous for being the closest to the great central desert strait. It was once a beautiful, elegant city that famously glittered in the powerful Anuriite sun, yet far enough from the equatorial region that it was possible for the natives to flourish there. It was once home to a vast solar array that outclassed anything previously created by the other Nations of the Galaxy. With close to 100% efficiency with it's power generation it quickly became a popular strategic locale for the warring forces involved in the conflict. Although in recent years it is little more than an urban warzone with smoke perpetually rising from the burning skyline, just enough of it's facilities are intact to make the city a point of vital strategic importance as it could provide massive energy boosts to those who were to hold the central city.
Current Combatants
Jasaran Federation
Avienian Empire

Kol'Kora,

Kol'Kora (or City of Paths in the native tongue) is perhaps the largest and most well known city on Anruia, and the natives regard it at their capital. It is a sprawling metropolis built around a network of rivers, leading the a dense, tangling forest of towering buildings and long, sturdy bridges. It is nestled somewhere between the Western Sea and the mid-region between the Straits of Ak'Aria and the Arctic Northland, landing it within a perfect temperate climate that is hot within the Anuriite summers and with plenty of rainfall in the other three seasons. The city contains a wealth of functioning data centres and factories; while the latter would be of little use to nations during the conflict, the former carries a wealth of implications for those that hold specific sites within. The possibility for data uplink to space-borne forces could prove useful. Other than that, the strategic location would be a useful asset to hold.
Current Combatants
Jasaran Federation
Vaegir Imperium
MSSC
Ashtar Dominions

Kol'Khen

Kol'Khen (or City of Gods in the native tongue) is the smallest, but perhaps the most sought after city on Anuria by invading forces. In short, it is the holy centre for Native operations, and while it remains in their hands, Anuriite guerrilla factions will continue to operate under the modus operandi of holy retribution. For this reason it quickly became a site of practical genocide by the forces of New Venus shortly after the conflict had begun. Some forces agreed that this was perhaps the best course of action, and others disagree with the inhumanity of the killings, calling it a war crime. It then became a site of major conflict as multiple factions piled in to forcefully show their opinions to those who would disagree. Since then, it is a continuing site of continuous killing, but those who hold the city are at the least risk of being targeted by Anuriite factions.
Current Combatants

The Anuriite Basin

This vast expanse of land is located between the Arctic Northlands at the polar regions and the Sand Straits; somewhere roughly 'in the middle' as many soldiers say. This land is so erratic in geography that few large settlements have been able to grow. It is comprised of expansive alien rain forests, spiraling mountain ranges, all divided by a great network of rivers that give life to the basin. Here, beneath the jungle canopy and high above the clouds in the mountains, heavy yet covert combat operations take place daily. To hold the basin would make it incredibly difficult for enemy forces to move from one area of the planet to the other, essentially locking enemy forces in their place as they struggle to bypass the fortified jungle defenses that the conquering force would put in place.
Current Combatants
Jasaran Federation
Ashtar Dominions

The Arctic Northlands

A vast wasteland of polar ice, solidified over millions of years on the great Northern continent. The Arctic Northlands are perhaps the most inhospitable place on Anuria, with blizzards and heavy snowfall being a daily occurrence without fail. There is little to be said about this sprawling icescape, besides that it is here that the magnetic field of the planet is formed in such a way that it is incredibly easy for spacecraft to land additional forces here while being largely undetectable by normal means of surveillance. This land is only useful to hold for few, rather esoteric nations, but should it be utilized to it's fullest potential, it could provide a great boon to both morale and requisition.
Current Combatants
Jasaran Federation
Ashtar Dominions
MSSC
Avienian Empire
Aorolach Theocracy

Application Sheets

Species Name
What is the name of the primary species you will be playing?

Species Description
Give us a general overview of your species. Add any information you feel is relevant. Your species MUST be humanoid (or relatively so) and be capable of human-like thoughts and complex emotion. Mindless grunt species or hive-mind insects will be rejected.

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Nation Name
What is the official name (and various given names) of your nation at large?

Nation Size
How many stars does your nation claim? How many citizens?

Nation Description
Give us an overview of the function of your nation and how it works. This section is mostly just contextual fluff, so add what you will here to make your faction feel more real. This can include history should you so wish.

Nation Involvement
What is your nation's involvement in the war? You can pretty much just make up a reason, and an objective will evolve around multiple application sheets.

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Technology
Give us an overview of the kind of technology available to your nation. How advanced are they?

Navy Description
Describe your space force. Detail ships and their capabilities.

Air Force Description
Describe your air force. Detail vehicles and their capabilities.

Ground Force Description
Describe your army. Detail soldiers and ground-based vehicles and their capabilities.

Common Armaments
Describe the weaponry that your soldiers are known to carry. Tell us a little about the kind of things that your faction uses regularly on the battlefield.

Emplacements and Deployables
Give us an overview of the deployable hardware your nation employs. This can range from anti-infantry sentries to anti-aircraft turrets.

Headquarters
Give us an overview of your base of operations of Anuria. This can be a heavily fortified base or a massive bunker. This is a fairly creative field, but, again, is more of a context field. You won't have much interaction with this.

Persons of Importance
Detail important people in your nation. This is an almost purely contextual field. You will NOT be controlling these characters under any circumstance. They are merely for your expendable cast to reference and aspire to (or deify).

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The Following below is credited towards Willy Vereb
Interstellar Laws of Warfare
Also referred as the Treaty, this is a compact signed by the leadership of nearly all nations involved in the Anuria conflict. This limits abuses and unlawful acts and the full version is quite exhaustively long. We only mention the parts that are relevant from RP-ing perspective. Also just because there exist a law it doesn't mean you cannot break it. Of course violating the laws often bear sanctions but such actions take time and meanwhile you can get some more immediate gains. The most important note you should remember during lawbreaking that the same laws you ignore are now void to your opponent. So if you perform unlawful orbital bombardment your enemy may do the same. Actually such deterrence is the bigger reason why Anuria remained relatively intact after a hundred years of non-stop war.
Alright, let's get to it:

Orbital Strike Ban Treaty
A set of laws which ban nations from performing devastating orbital strikes on Garden Worlds (habitable planets with a biosphere). Truly habitable planets are a precious resource which should not be wasted. Since certain species have unique needs those kind of planets were also added to the banned list. Notice that there's no ban against bombarding moon bases or asteroid installations.

This treaty only bans large scale orbital strikes and makes allowance to the so-called "tactical strikes". The regulation of tactical strikes goes under the law of limiting Destructive Weapons with allowance up to Class D firepower to be employed (sub-kiloton TNT equivalent energy yield). Though to avoid circumventing the laws by stacking up tactical strikes it's prohibited to attack 1km radius of the same area within a hour.

Cosmos Preservation Treaty
An older agreement to keep the stability of the universe. While destroying planets and similar actions are no small feat for even the greatest nations in the galaxy with sufficient effort it's plausible. The treaty was made explicitly to prevent this. Drastically effecting astral bodies at the size of moons or above is prohibited unless it's proven to be for benign purposes. In short you can't blow up moons, planets or stars or otherwise mess with them to cause massive catastrophes. Well, you can but it's against the laws. Most nations keep these laws because violating them means they're also inviting others to do the same.

Destructive Weapons Law
Morals can be fickle when we review over thousands of cultures. While many nations already had laws to prohibit abusing their destructive arms, many also did not. for a solution the Committee made a galaxy-wide law to categorize the most powerful weapons and draw a limit to their use. These laws are left intentionally loose so it could be maintained with relative consistency. Worth noting that Orbital Strike Ban can overrule these so spaceships are not allowed to use WMDs on planetary targets.

Class S:
Strategic class, weapons of mass destruction. Typically meant megaton-yield nukes and weapons approaching or surpassing this level of destruction. Again, what matters is the destruction, not the actual energy involved. For example toxins that seriously damage the environment in the area of 10+ kilometers are under this category, as well.

Class T:
Tactical WMD Class. Multi-kiloton nuke kind of destruction. They are WMDs but with a few less restrictions.

Class D:
Destroyer class. Extremely powerful weapons up to the destructive levels of a sub-kiloton nuke. It can be a an extremely powerful bomb or the main cannon of a gigantic warmachine (unless it's so powerful it counts as S or T class). Tactical strikes delivered by spaceships can reach this level. Destroyer weapons have far less restrictions than WMDs but you still need to be careful and possess a justification to fire them.

Class B:
Bombard class. Basically any weapon which can do massive damage to its surroundings. More bang than a grenade or a typical anti-tank missile and closer to artillery or main cannons of tanks. They have some restrictions applying to them mostly concerned around their use on residential areas but otherwise they are only mentioned in the law out of necessity.

Weapon restrictions in bulletpoints.
Class B:
- must be used with targeting combatants
- must warn civilians in the effected area to leave
- Aside from the most blatant violations this can be ignored
Class D:
- Must be focused on military targets (no random area bombardment)
- neutral non-combatants in the effected area must be evacuated when possible
- abuse on weaker targets is generally regarded as barbaric
Class T and S:
- similar rulings to Class D plus
- must be aimed at strongholds, large military formations or hardened targets
- the difference between Class T and S are the magnitude of the minimum strength it could be legally used on and the amount of care to use it away from civilians
- unlike the others, abuses with WMDs are tightly observed and can be a source of controversy

[Willy Vereb]

@SigmaAlright, I altered the format a bit because center-aligned paragraphs look awful. Also are italics really neccessary?
Another issue is to assume that a nation can only have one species or something which is unique to them. Quite the opposite IMO and the faction I chose will show that.
Actually I'll be using an extensively modified version of this sheet because otherwise my faction just cannot be described well enough. I think that format may be even preferable for other players but I let that be judged when I am done.

Fixed NS Format

Application Sheet

Species Name

What is the name of the primary species you will be playing?

Species Description

Give us a general overview of your species. Add any information you feel is relevant. Your species MUST be humanoid (or relatively so) and be capable of human-like thoughts and complex emotion. Mindless grunt species or hive-mind insects will be rejected.

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Nation Name

What is the official name (and various given names) of your nation at large?

Nation Size

How many stars does your nation claim? How many citizens?

Nation Description

Give us an overview of the function of your nation and how it works. This section is mostly just contextual fluff, so add what you will here to make your faction feel more real. This can include history should you so wish.

Nation Involvement

What is your nation's involvement in the war? You can pretty much just make up a reason, and an objective will evolve around multiple application sheets.

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Technology

Give us an overview of the kind of technology available to your nation. How advanced are they?

Navy Description

Describe your space force. Detail ships and their capabilities.

Air Force Description

Describe your air force. Detail vehicles and their capabilities.

Ground Force Description

Describe your army. Detail soldiers and ground-based vehicles and their capabilities.

Common Armaments

Describe the weaponry that your soldiers are known to carry. Tell us a little about the kind of things that your faction uses regularly on the battlefield.

Emplacements and Deployables

Give us an overview of the deployable hardware your nation employs. This can range from anti-infantry sentries to anti-aircraft turrets.

Headquarters

Give us an overview of your base of operations of Anuria. This can be a heavily fortified base or a massive bunker. This is a fairly creative field, but, again, is more of a context field. You won't have much interaction with this.

Persons of Importance

Detail important people in your nation. This is an almost purely contextual field. You will NOT be controlling these characters under any circumstance. They are merely for your expendable cast to reference and aspire to (or deify).

[Willy Vereb]

White Interstellar Corporations

White Interstellar Corporations

Faction Description

White Interstellar Corporations (White Corps or WIC) is the story of centuries of successful business. It started out as a small banking company by Keith White the First but by his death White Corps was already a megacorp spreading over multiple nations through the galaxy. Throughout the centuries it grew and evolved, encompassing every economic sector and estimated to contribute almost 1% of the total galactic GDP. White Corps is the purest incarnation of capitalism and meritocracy, it has no political holdings or agenda but instead has an undeniable sway over economy and industry through the galaxy. White Corps as a whole has absolutely no inclination to ethics, religion or politics. The megacorp only cares about profit and for this reason it adopts whatever laws and customs their location demands. This kind of amoral policy does not sit well with everyone but given their influence there are hardly any nations which can afford to not do plenty business with White Corps.

Faction Involvement

White Corps' involvement and interest in the war is of course purely business. The Fires of Anuria shifted the mega corporation's focus to arms development and trade, making White Corps a fairly well-known supplier of hi-quality military gear. But their involvement in the war of course didn't stop here. White Corps' military branch the White Security Services is effectively a mercenary force with millions of sub-contractors. These people can and will offer assistance to the highest bidder with the only restriction being they cannot fight other WSS personnel or hurt White Corps' interest. White Corps also has a top secret organization called HYDRA. This is a black ops force doing things which White Corps can't openly admit and the ties between HYDRA and White Corps are unknown to anyone but an extremely limited number of people. The existence of HYDRA, their never seen before equipment and their actions would actually imply a conspiracy and hidden agenda which further clouds the image of White Corps.

Species Description

White Corps is an international megacorp with employees from countless nations and races (predominantly humans or humanoids). White Corps promotes businesslike attitude and prohibits aggression between fellow employees. Visiting facilities belonging to the main branch of White Corps may feel like a zoo of various species.

Technology

Thanks to trading technologies with countless nations through the galaxy as well as spending considerable funds at research White Corps is a well-known pioneer in technology. While most nations developed their technology in their own world and perhaps trade some between their allies, White Corps gained most of its technology by trading with all the nations of the galaxy. Accordingly White Corps are known for extensive reverse engineering or crossing various technologies into one device. They are also pioneers in miniaturization and many of their creations end up being smaller and more compact than the original while retaining most of its features. The exact level of technological development is unknown because by trading foreign technology White Corps needed to sing countless non-disclosure contracts as well as he must watch for copyright and other issues. Certain technologies can be freely used and sold in one star system while banned in another. It's also a well-known fact that White Corps retains their most advanced products to themselves while supplying older models to their clients. As such the uniniated may draw the wrong conclusion as many products seem to lack exotic features you'd expect from a top scientific faction like them. Of course being simple does not mean bad. White Corps technology is famously sophisticated and focuses on maximal convenience to the user. Actually another reason behind their relative lack of exotic flair is because for mundane tasks the most efficient is to use mundane equipment. Lastly, White Corps also needs to worry about their own copyright and thus all their technology is equipped with extensive anti-tampering methods to avoid people prying into their design. Conspiracy theorists also say that the "anti-tampering" hides some insidious mechanisms to further White Corps' goals or devices to prevent their own equipment being used against themselves (the latter being actually semi-confirmed).

Typical Techs

- Replicators: Also referred as quantum-forging is a method to transmute materials and even turn energy into matter. This technology revolutionized industry and seemingly bridged the differences over matter and energy. Still, due to its massive energy requirements the world has yet to grow free of all material needs. Mining and collecting resources is still important on large-scale. Replicators of course also brought many new developments into material science and even medicine. Using replicator technology to literally reconstruct the body is possible, albeit obviously rather expensive.

- Metastable Matter: A development which made replicator technology far more accessible. It's an unique state of matter which is relatively stable and dense with energy. Can be useful for batteries (though even more efficient methods exist) but first of all it's used as an intermediary matter for use in replicators. It allows replicators to work while consuming far less energy. The obvious downside is of course that there's only a limited amount of metastable material thus the system can actually run out during operation. In addition creating metastable material can be expensive and generally this is only used for small replicator machines. Replicators connected to sufficiently large power sources can keep making matter straight from energy.

- Fold Drive: Standard and reliable FTL method which manipulates spacetime to raise the apparent velocity of the vehicle beyond the speed of light. It has relatively low power consumption but comparatively slow speed and other inherent issues. Still, it's relatively cheap and has many alternative applications. Fold Accelerators for example can accelerate projectiles and vehicles at faster-than-light apparent velocities even if, without "fold sustainers", they revert to sublight speed after reaching a certain distance.

- Farcaster: The common long range interstellar travel method used by White Corps. In basic terms it works similar to your standard Hyperdrive. It punches a hole in reality to the higher mathematical dimension of the hyperspace to allow faster-than-light travel. It consumes great amounts of energy to travel and the ships have special capacitors for this role. On the other hand the same method can be modified to transport smaller objects and Farcasters are one of the most popular and energy-efficient methods of teleportation. The only downside is that Farcasters are rather difficult to scale down thus unless there's a similar device around the teleportation is usually limited to one way trips. The speed of Farcasters is dependent on the power relative to the mass it carries. Thus systems like "Hypercarriers" (huge transports allowing many ships to dock) and "Hypergates" (large stationary structures which also use quantum linking to enhance the speed even further) exist.

- Impulse Engine: Standard sublight engines used by White Corps. They expel mass particles at near the speed of light generated from pure energy which means they can have yet unheard level of specific impulse and henceforth their common name. Without the right conditions mass particles rapidly decay into relatively harmless photons thus also making this design the safest engine known to White Corps.

- Gravitics: Electromagnetics in White Corps were long replaced by gravitics, devices that move objects around with the force of gravity. While inherently gravity is a weak force there are countless mechanisms known to White Corps to amplify them. Gravitic actuators, accelerators, propulsions are all commonly used by the WIC or its associates. This combined with the Higgs technology and mass lightening methods resulted in a massive boon for starship propulsion and new dominance of projectile weapons.

- Hypercomms, Hypersensors: A family of devices that use known FTL methods to gather or transmit information rapidly over long distances. Their mechanism can differ by type with each having its own set of advantages and disadvantages. Hypercameras and Hypertelescopes for example gather the tachyonic shadow of visible light to allow the crew up to a certain distance to see events in real time regardless of light-lag. Another common hypersensor is the Foldwave Radar which is rather self-explanatory.

- Quantum Link: By using quantum-entanglement one can connect two objects regardless of distance. This is generally used as a form of communication between friendly units, allowing to contact employees anywhere within the galaxy. While the link is instantaneous, establishing this would require to find the target by other means first. It can be also used as a form of energy transfer, albeit the method is often prohibitedly expensive and require constant monitoring as the quantum signal rapidly decays from the strain.

- Conversion Reactors: The most common method of power generation. They can be practically found everywhere, be it in factories, cars or even cell phones. Conversion reactors are the ultimate result of nuclear research and could be said to be the distant relatives of fission and fusion energy. Thanks to their degree of sophistication the conversion reactors are actually fairly safe and incredibly easy to use.

- Zero-Point Energy Extractor: The ramscoop of space-time, this complex device allows harnessing vacuum energy which makes it ideal for warships and other power-hungry machines. The device requires lot of power to run and difficult to scale down, thus they won't replace conversion reactors anytime soon.

- Compressed Vacuum Cells: Just as space itself can be used to harness energy it also turns out to be the best method to store power. Compressed Vacuum Cells and ZPEEs are virtually the same technology used for different purposes. In effect vacuum cells are Zero-Point Energy Extractors that are deliberately inefficient. For this reason they can be made more compact and many military equipment is relying on these. Actually, the White Corps is working on the means to make vacuum cells even more popular and replace other alternate batteries. Its advantages over the other means are weight savings, far higher capacity and even safety. When destroyed the spatial compression within the cell ceases and space expands around the unit. Anything caught within its area of effect is simply ceases to exist. Yet space holds massive energy densities thus the failure of a vacuum cell only results in minuscule expansion. Even for the most massive starship batteries it fails to erase the entire vacuum cell. Thus ironically vacuum cell technology is both the safest and most destructive power storage mechanism White Corps knows.

Military Techs

Defense Tech

- Durachrome: The most common military grade armor are made of durachrome. It's a hard, densely packed material family with its variants used both for ground troops and starships. At average one cubic meter of Durachrome weighs around 70 tons (70g/cm3) thus many equipment specifically requiring mass compensators to remain efficient.

- Structural Integrity Fields: Special complex field which reinforces the bind of atoms and generates bubbles of fake mass to further enhance the toughness of material.

- Higgs Shield: An extension of structural integrity fields this kind of protection forms layers of fake mass generated by the field emitters which can act like a regenerative extra armor.

- Lightwave Barrier: A rather peculiar type shield which contrary to its name actually traps tachyons in a limited boundary around the vessel. It deflects massless and low-mass particles like light and radiation the best while practically useless against heavier projectiles. Starship-based lightwave barriers also have some other properties to compensate for spatial effects.

- Gravity Deflector: The various gravitic devices can also produce a shield of gravity around the ship. These tend to extend pretty far, up to dozens of kilometers and activated only during combat. The gravity shield's main purpose is to intercept, disrupt and disperse incoming attacks instead of directly stopping them. The weakened attacks would be then handled by the rest of the defense systems.

Weapons

- IGP: Intelligent Gravitic Projectile. Highly sophisticated ammunition created for various GAWs (Gravitic Accelerator Weapons). They are equipped with miniature sensors, AI, transceiver, multifunctional warhead and even a limited gravity drive system. It's an intelligent projectile capable of filling many roles and has means to make slight corrections to the wielder's aim. There are many different IGP ammunitions, including the less advanced types shipped to other nations. The power of each projectile can be adjusted between many different parameters and using pin-point focus of its gravity drive reserves it can even break through armor and shields to some extend. Its multifunctional warhead could range anywhere from inert to micrograms of matter-antimatter explosives, airburst fragmentation to shaped explosives or even tiny bomb-pumped lasers depending on what the user sets. Ammunition is often regenerative via compact replicator technology.

- ISFP: Intelligent Space-Folded Projectile. Launched from Spatio Accelerators and Fold Accelerators, these projectiles work by a different mechanism yet otherwise share man similarities with the IGP. Compared to IGPs the ISFP only has very limited maneuverability but its apparent superluminal delivery speeds can compensate for that.

- PPA: Pressed Particle Arms. It generates and unleashes a long and often nanometer-thick stream of hyperdense particles like a spear to pierce through a range of different kinds of protection. Because of the extreme concentration of particles in a tiny surface this weapon can be ideal to defeat armors at comparatively low energy cost. The expansion of the unstable hyperdense matter helps to increase damage on the target which would otherwise be just a negligibly small hole. PPAs are powerful but the compression process takes time thus they are rather preferred against enemy armor and fortifications. Starships also carry a fold-enhanced variation of this weapon. It lacks versatility and rapidly loses its effectiveness at range but its sheer power renders it worthwhile.

- Grav Lance: Energy weapons which shoot fake mass particles at near-lightspeed or in case of fold-enhanced variations even beyond. While decent in power the sheer versatility of ISFPs and IGPs mostly made these weapons obsolete. Their role is all but completely replaced by the new and improved PPAs.

- Missiles, Torpedoes: White Corps employs myriads of different kind of missiles. These are basically small space vessels that can carry various warheads and cause damage by many different mechanisms. Thanks to on-board replicators each missile's composition can be altered just before the launch thus generally eliminating the need for carrying different loads. This flexibility is the only reason missile launchers are still relevant in space combat. There are two categories: missiles and torpedoes. Missiles are generally smaller and incapable of superluminal travel (albeit may get external assistance for it via farcast mirrors teleporting them closer). Torpedoes are much larger and often accelerated by a gravitic catapult system to great speeds as well as often capable of superluminal travel via compact Fold Drive. Missiles are commonly used for lighter targets, interception or sometimes massed bombardment. Torpedoes are much more powerful and employed against ships and space fortifications.

Warhead Types

- Conversion Warhead: Missile containing an overclocked conversion reactor which converts any nearby material into energy. Since conversion reactors cannot convert more exotic types of matter they are mostly useless in space combat. Instead their main role is demolition and planetary bombardment where they can be orders of magnitudes better than any other missile.

- Hawking Warhead: Missile containing a micro black hole in stasis. They are dangerous and only armed prior to launch. When it detonates the black hole instantly evaporates into Hawking radiation (hence its name). They aren't more powerful than any antimatter or nuclear warhead. On the other hand this mechanism allows them to dump all their energy under a minuscule fraction of time, which is essential when attacking warships moving at high speeds. There are shaped charge (Hawking-A) and even black hole pumped laser variants (Hawking-B). Torpedoes can even have fold-accelerated particle mechanism pumped by the black hole's decay (Hawking-F) which makes them well-fit for intercepting hypercruising vessels.

- Spatial Warhead: Warhead which uses a crude ZPEE mechanism for offensive purposes. It concentrates incredible density of energy to a seemingly 2-dimensional plane and effectively tears through the target by spatial distortions. It's an effective breakthrough weapon but requires direct hit. In addition the spatial distortion doesn't last for long which makes layered defenses effective against it. Without the spatial effect the missile is nothing more than just a big mass at relativistic velocities. Spatial Warheads are often closely followed by different type of missiles that can immediately abuse the gap caused by the weapon.

- Kinetic Rod: Missile which sports reinforced durachrome core to penetrate the targets by its sheer momentum. Alternatively called "Relativistic Ramrod".

- Multi-Kinetic Rod: AKA the Multi-Ramrod. More common variant which spreads out into multiple thinner penetrators to cover a wider area. It can range from a few sub-munitions to millions of wire-thin durachrome strands. The latter variant is largely superseded by the Beehive type warheads.

- Beehive: Also called the Space Shotgun. This warhead contains precisely calibrated gravitic charges surrounded by microscopically small (diameter below 1 micron) durachrome sub-munitions. When reaching optimum speed and sufficient distance from the target it disperses into a gigantic cloud of tiny projectiles with the average distance between each durachrome ball is only 1cm. Still with literally a quintillion sub-munitions by the time reaching the target this cloud extends to thousands of kilometers, practically sealing off any kind of escape. Disrupting the cloud is extremely difficult because the energy density of each projectile is the same as a large kinetic warhead, even if their kinetic energy is only a minuscule fraction of that. For the latter reason though the Beehive is largely ineffective on well-protected targets but damaging warships was never the warhead's role to begin with. Attention and timely avoidance may help starfighters to escape the onslaught albeit more often than not Beehives are launched in swarms to provide great coverage. It worths noting though that Beehives are only really effective at sufficiently long ranges and preferably when the target's path is mostly predictable.

Space Forces

White Security Services has a naval branch known as White Security Starforce (WSF) which mainly exist to provide escort for White Corps' explorers and secure trade routes. Of course WSF is still effectively a mercenary force so the offer their services to all takers when White Corps don't employ them but their involvement with other faction is much more rare. Just like the rest of WSS, the Starforce is also equipped by White Corps. Their ships are deceptively powerful for their size with frigates and light cruisers generally being their largest warships. Just like WSS their space fleets aren't numerous and they only possess just enough ships to secure their interests. For long distance journeys White Corps often relies on Hypercarriers. These are giant mostly hollow spaceships with multiple huge Farcaster rings to boost their hyperspace performance. By other ships docking inside the Hypercarrier they can travel long distances faster and more economically than using their own Farcaster Drives. HYDRA of course has its own small fleet with radically different ship classes and technologies which not just works for them but of course makes it impossible for others making connection between them and White Corps.

Silver Arrow Class Attack Frigate

Name: Silver Arrow Class
Classification: Medium Offense-Oriented Independent Space Combat Vehicle, Attack Frigate
Dimensions: length: 210m, width: 70m, height: 50m
Standard Mass: 1,550,700 metric tons (prior to mass-compensation, doesn't include the weight of modules)
Standard Crew: 325
Powerplant: WPG-Z228D Zero-point Energy Extractor, WPG-N899C Conversion Reactors x 8
Propulsion: Impulse Engine Clusters x 2, Gravity Drives x 24
Interstellar Travel: Foldspace Engine, Farcaster Jump Drive
Speed: 0.5c (cruising), 0.9c (combat), 36c (standard hypercruise)
Maximum Jump Distance: approx. 172.4 lightyears
Armor: 225mm Durachrome Composite-S (reinforced by integrity fields)
Sensors: Foldspace Radar, hypersensory package, GADAR, Hypertelescopes, backup sensors
Defense Systems:

• Structural Integrity Fields
• Higgs Shielding
• Lightwave Barrier
• Gravity Deflector

Armaments:

• SFAS-2250E Space-Fold-Accelerator Gun (accelerates 2250x3599mm ~900 ton projectile to superluminal velocities)
• SAG-172D 300mm Gun Turrets x 4 (shoots 500kg ISFPs at superluminal velocities)
• HPFP-60D Particle Projectors x 6 (relatively short ranged but powerful fold-enhanced PPA system)
• SGLS-90 Interceptor Batteries x 4 (10-tube 90mm missile systems with variable loadout, 40 tubes total)
• GAC-S88 "Space Buster VII" CIWS x 24 (shoots enhanced IGPs at 0.98c on 6,000,000 RPM)
• Broadside Modules x 10 (detachable optional package that can add weapons, hangar space or extra systems)

Module Options:

• SGLS-125M Missile Module (16-tube 125mm missile system, 192 missiles per module)
• FDKV-3200M Torpedo Bay Module (houses up to eight 3200mm fold torpedoes)
• Drone Hangar Module (houses 2-3 drone starfighters of various type)
• Shield Booster Module (houses various shield emitters to boost the ship's protection)
• Battery Module (Massive stock of CVCs to increase the ship's power storing capacity)
• Power Module (Rows of Conversion Reactors for extra power generation but at the expense of endurance)
• Replicator Module (Industrial-scale replicator in order to boost the ship's rate of recovery at the expense of consuming power)
• Fuel Module (External storage of compressed fuel materials in order to support the conversion reactors longer)
• Other, less standard modules

Silver Arrow is a small and agile starship class with power which belies its size. It's delta-shaped hull an forward mounted Foldspace Accelerator Gun visibly tells its main role as strike vessel yet it can easily fill all the other standard frigate roles if required. Due to its numerous features the Silver Arrow class is also the flagship of smaller escort fleets and performs that role excellently. Its efficient Farcaster system allows it to work as long range patrol unit, traveling the stars alone. Due to its sheer efficiency the Silver Arrow is gradually takes its role as the mainline warship for White Security Services.

Air Force Description

TBA

Ground Force Description

TBA

Common Equipment

ARS-7A Battlesuit

Full Name: Augmented Reaction System 7th Generation Anthropod-type (ARS-7A)
Height: Varies (designed to fit the wielder)
Mass: 425kg standard (for the average sized model, otherwise it of course varies. Also this is prior to extensive mass-lightening)
Armor: Nanomesh suit with 2-10mm Durachrome plates overlaid
Powerplant: ~5MW Ultracompact Conversion Reactor (found at the back)
Propulsion: Gravitic Actuators, Inertial Propulsion, Impulse Micro-thrusters
Peak Running Speed: ~60 km/h (albeit certain running techniques allow much faster speed)
Maximum Gravity Tolerance: ~36G
Maximum Lifting Capacity: ~5,000kg under 1G
Defense Systems: Inertial Compensator (cushions G-forces and assists movement), Lightwave Barrier Unit (which can alo bend light for stealth), Higgs Shield, Complex Countermeasure Suite Gen 7
Other Systems: Micro-GADAR, tactical composite sensor suite, holographic display, medical an life support systems, sensory jammers, quantum data-link

Augmented Reaction System (A.R.S.) is White Corps' invention to adapt to the changing battlefield. Gravitics, power generation, sensors and shields all reached sufficient level of miniaturization to be incorporated on the scale of infantry which gave way for yet unimaginable possibilities. ARS-7A is the 7th generation of this technology offering improved capabilities as well as new features. It's a nanomesh suit reinforced by durachrome plates to offer decent protection. It also features complex shielding trademark to any White Corps military equipment. Like its predecessors it moves by gravitic actuators combined with inertial compensators which is strong enough to lift 5 tons and run at 60km/s without engaging the thrusters. The combination of anti-gravity and impulse thrusters also gives the soldiers the ability to fly which combined with the full environmental protection allows a soldier if necessary to operate in space. While certainly advanced ARS-7 doesn't make the wearer remotely comparable to the capabilities of tanks or other vehicles equipped by competitive technology, and it wasn't even designed for that. The suit continues to serve WSS's doctrine of light and rapid response military, making most types of combat vehicles obsolete. This is the standard model battlesuit for human soldiers or those look humanoid enough to wear this comfortably. For special needs there are multitudes of different suits to equip soldiers with.

Emplacements and Deployables

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Headquarters

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Persons of Importance

Keith White

Name: Keith White
Aliases: Big Boss, The White Snake
Gender: Male
Species: Unknown (similar to Homo Sapiens)
Age: 37 (birthday is on the 345th day of a Solar Year)
Height: 6'2"

Charismatic and mysterious man whose person is synonymous with his galactic enterprise. His public image is that of a well-dressed gentleman and the posterboy for the rich businessmen. He's a clam, collected individual and a great talker who frequently attends public events which only raise his popularity more. Although many people also grew to despise him as the single most well-known face of capitalism.

[Sigma]

@SigmaAlright, I altered the format a bit because center-aligned paragraphs look awful. Also are italics really neccessary?
Another issue is to assume that a nation can only have one species or something which is unique to them. Quite the opposite IMO and the faction I chose will show that.
Actually I'll be using an extensively modified version of this sheet because otherwise my faction just cannot be described well enough. I think that format may be even preferable for other players but I let that be judged when I am done.

@Willy Vereb

The Italics are just for the cool effect :P Not necessary for your sheet at all. So no worries on that. As for species, you can have about as much as possible, the first bit of the sheet can be repeated and such to add more species into your faction.

Edit: Ok previously I said I can simplify the species portion of the sheet, but derp, it's about as simple as it can get :P I need to pay attention XP

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Also your sheet is pretty good so far Willy :)

For my faction I'm flipflopping between two ideas. Either a Multi-species democratic Federation or a Imperium of Man/Covenant mesh of a Theocracy, but less of the genocidal crazy(Actually used this one in the last game)

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The New Alleghian Republic

SPECIES NAME:
It is important to note that due to its size, the Republic encompasses a large variety of races within its boundaries, and since listing each race would make a very long list, I've decided instead to focus on the most common races one might find in the Republic: the eponymous Alleghians and their mercantile counterparts, the Terravons.

SPECIES DESCRIPTION:

Alleghians
The Alleghians can be described as a "near-Human" species, distinguished by their blue skin and glowing red eyes, which grow darker depending on the oxygen content of their surroundings. The more oxygen present, the more intense the color of both their eyes and skin tone. While their hair is typically jet black, it does, on rare occasions, go gray with age (many Alleghians believe that the development of gray hair is an indication of the siring of exceptional children). Their physical form has led to some speculation on whether they are an offshoot of some near-human species' ancient expansions into the galaxy or whether their physical form coincidentally matches that of humans. However, recent genetic analysis indicates that they are an offshoot of near-humanity, and it was believed that moving underground led to a divergence between them and baseline near-humans. Furthermore, this analysis indicates that their unique skin tone is the result of exposure to glacial minerals. Their blue skin, jet black hair and red eyes generally command attention once they are in a crowd of regular humanoids, and these features make them physically striking and instantly recognizable. Male and female Alleghians tend to be more powerfully built when compared to humans but exhibit the same variances as humanoid sexes. An Alleghian stands between either 1.6 to 2.1 meters in height, though an average height of an adult is closer to 1.7 meters.

Studies have concluded that the fact that all Alleghians often appear in very good physical shape is an indication that the species possesses an active metabolism which is responsible for their trim figure. Thus, this is believed to be responsible for preventing obesity that is commonly found within more sedentary humanoids. While the report concludes that they are indeed "near-humans," they have not determined a specific point of evolutionary divergence. There was, in fact, a number of near-human colonies established throughout many of the Traders' Federation's member worlds, though records of this are virtually nonexistent and it remains unknown how a remote area of the galaxy could have been trailblazed so far back. They do display, physiologically, very few signs of evolutionary adaptations to their original icy environment with even their skin pigmentation not providing any apparent benefit. Beyond the obvious physical features, physiologically, Alleghians are similar to humans to the point that they possess a comparable circulatory, neurological, digestive and reproductive systems. The Alleghian vocal mechanism is noted for being similar to those of humans but there are apparent differences which is evident in their capacity to speak their native language.

In addition, Alleghians experience a greatly accelerated growth rate compared to humans, which contributes to their reaching maturity faster than humans. Thus an Alleghian at the age of ten-years holds the physical maturity of a twenty-year old human. This in turn results in a culturally-imprinted emotional maturity that is many times above that of their human counterparts. They are capable of living up to eighty years old, at which point an Alleghian was considered venerable; children are between the ages one to ten, and they experience a rapid adolescence from eleven to twelve and are considered full adults by thirteen or fourteen. Middle-age follows between the ages of fifty-one to sixty-two, and those aged sixty-three to seventy-nine are considered old.

History
The origins of the Alleghians are largely unknown, even to the Alleghians themselves, though some scientists believe that they are the result of a long-forgotten near-human colony that has been lost to time. This is the leading theory held by not only Alleghian historians but scientists within the New Alleghian Republic who hold the view that this colony predated the formation of the Traders' Federation. A recent report suggests that very little is known of Alleghian history due to their own records being carefully guarded on their original home-world. However, scattered claims from many intrepid scholars suggest they were originally a forgotten colonization attempt; this theory is mostly based on their resemblance to humanity. Genetic analysis has confirmed that the Alleghians are indeed an offshoot of a near-human species' earliest attempts at colonization. It was believed that thousands upon thousands of years ago, a lost colony of near-humans settled on a desolate exoplanet that'd later become a part of the Traders' Federation.

According to Alleghian legend, their homeworld was once a warm and tropical planet. However, the planet was later locked in an ice age with profound glaciation encompassing the terrestrial world. This forced the Alleghian ancestors to travel along the ice front's leading edge in order to survive at the temperate front as glaciers began spreading across the planet. Though it is believed that the glaciation process occurred over an extended period of time, it was also at an age when the Alleghian were already technologically advanced which allowed them to overcome these challenges to their survival by way of technological adaptations. This has led many to conclude that the early Alleghians existed a tropical exoplanet prior to it succumbing to an ice age. Thus, the planet nearly became inhospitable by the time the Federation was founded, and it was only by living underground that this divergent species survived. These events have furthered the genetic changes notably seen in their skin tone and eyes. Thus it is believed that by going underground, the race had gradually began to diverge from the baseline near-human species, the glacial mineral content beginning to alter their physiology into its more modern form.

Researchers believe that this period had a profound mental impact on the developing Alleghians and led to the evolution to their current mindset. However, little is known of these early ancestors as certain legends indicate that a decadent culture had formed in the tropics that was unprepared for this ice age. Related parables even state that northern-dwelling Alleghians slaughtered their decadent southern cousins when resources became sparse and chilling temperatures befell the planet. Regardless, it is known that the Alleghians adapted well to their planet during its climatic change and began tapping into geothermal energy as a power source. This led to the building of several populous cities amongst the glaciers and were the abrupt development of a global government. Thus, they avoided the adolescence period common to developing worlds that saw nations compete with one another, along with adopting a planet-wide tongue. Eventually, their species mastered star travel independently with some speculation that they tapped into the ancient memories of the colonization effort that first brought them to their home-world.

Terrivons
A tall humanoid species, the Terrvions' craniums are studded with several small twisting horns, all of which surround a central spiraling one. Consisting of many shades of color, the spiraling horn is a mark of status in Terrvion culture; those with with a genetic disposition to growing larger horns dominate the upper class of society. The horn itself develops in adolescence during puberty, and continues to grow taller and thicker until reaching adulthood. In addition to their cranial horn, Terrvions are marked by banded ridges that stud their brows and nose. Appearing in a riot of colors, they speak in a soft whispering language which focuses on body language. This aids them in the business world when communicating, as they can pick up on others gestures more acutely.

History
Native to a lost world, the the earliest Terrvions were forced to abandon their home when its life-giving star became unstable. Travelling the galaxy, they settled on the large tropical planet Terrvia, formally leasing it from the Traders' Federation. After centuries of living on the world, they took adopted the name Terrvions and petitioned the Federation's government to allow them to purchase the world. Upon being turned down, the Terrvions were ousted by Terrvia's indigenous people and were forced to wander the galaxy. Instead of being defeated, however, they strove to gain sway over politicians of the Federation through bargaining and corporate trickery.

For over half a millennium the Terrvions traveled from planet to planet scheming and working to gain enough votes to overturn the decision that lost them their home. They were ultimately successful in their endeavors and were able to return to Terrvia, gaining membership into the Federation's government and later becoming closely tied with the leaders of the Alleghian Republic. To keep Terrvia's market high, the species seeded the galaxy with agents, trading stocks and selling shares to increase their profit. Despite such successful strides, however, when the Terrvions attempted to sell war machines to battling peoples on both sides of planetary conflicts, their reputation was ruined and their market crashed following a governmental investigation, blockade and sanctions. To get the Republic to back off, the Terrvions took great strides to comply with all of the Republic's demands and hide any illegal deals more thoroughly. However, as the original Alleghian Republic began to decline, the Terrvions disregarded any and all previous restrictions on their commercial empire, choosing instead to both engage in more illicit trade than ever before and raise an army of their people to aid the Loyalist cause, who they hoped would turn a blind eye to illegal trading in exchange for wartime support.

During the Alleghian Civil War, Terrvions were deported in droves from Confederate planets because of the species' affiliation with the Coalition. Despite the illegality of their presence, many Terrvionss refused to leave their home planets and were forced to stroll the streets with caution and fear. At the war's height, which saw both the destruction of the second iteration of the Loyalist headquarters, the first of which had also been destroyed by the Confederates, and the spelling of the demise of the Coalition, the majority of the Loyalist Thervions fled Republic space and eventually faded away from public interest. Meanwhile, on Terrvia, Republic soldiers, under the banner of the Alleghian Confederacy, persecuted the remaining members of the species for their involvement in the war and sent their economy into a downwards spiral. However, despite the biases towards non-Humans prevalent during the reign of the original Republic, the Terrvions were swift in taking up leading roles in the corporate world of the New Alleghian Republic and, despite the setbacks during the second return of the Exiles, the species continues to thrive as economic experts.

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NATION NAME:
The New Alleghian Republic

NATION SIZE:
Work in progress.

NATION DESCRIPTION:

Form of Government
In the early years of the New Alleghian Republic, when it was under the control of the Confederates, power was distributed equally between the emperor and the Alleghian Senate. However, within a decade of the Republic's founding, it was decided by the senate that the emperor's power was to be considerably limited. As a result, powers were shared between the Great Council, composed of nearly 500 members taken from patrician families, the Alleghian Senate, which was dissolved within a month of the Great Council's founding, and the emperor. Several years later, aristocratic families further diminished the emperor's powers by establishing the Minor Council, composed of dozens of advisors, and the Great Court as a supreme tribunal. Within a year, these institutions were combined into the Promethean, which consisted of the emperor, the Minor Council, and the three leaders of the Great Court. The Promethean acted as the central body of the Republic's government.

Also created were the Elders, two bodies that combined with other groups to form the Board, which formed an executive branch. Over the course of the next two decades, the Board of Intellectuals, a senate, was formed, being 100 members elected by the Major Council. These developments left the emperor with little personal power and saw actual authority in the hands of the Major Council. A year after that, the Council of Ten was established, becoming the central political body whose members operated in secret. Within a matter of months, its dominance over the Major Council was considered a threat and efforts were made in the Council and elsewhere to reduce its powers, which were met with limited success. Then, the Supreme Court of three planetary inquisitors was established to guard the security of the Republic. By means of espionage, counterespionage, internal surveillance and a network of informers, they ensured that the Republic did not come under the rule of a single leader, which many Loyalist politicians had hoped for. Soon enough, the Great Court gradually assumed some of the powers of the Council of Ten.

Following the dismantling of the Confederacy, the Promethean, Board of Intellectuals, Supreme Court, and the Council of Ten were all completely dissolved, with power instead resting solely with the emperor, the Major Council, and the Great Court.

Military Doctrine
The original Alleghian Republic was created from a prosperous trading society's need for a quickly-developed and powerful military force in the face of an emergency, so their military doctrine is different from the offensive-minded philosophies used by their technologically superior enemies, and the New Alleghian Republic is no different. Before its dismantling, the Federation and its many worlds were very industrious. When the Exiles first invaded, these worlds were already an economic machine that merely needed to marshal their vast resources for a massive military buildup. Rapid urban development was pushed amongst all planet types with strong preference for temperate planets, but the Republic's development policies made sure that all habitable territories, such as colonies on desert and tundra-covered planets, contributed their fullest to the war effort. With the need to continue their trade routes, the Republic eventually found ways to put trade ports even on remote, seemingly useless locations, including asteroids, making them able to develop trade routes without the need for expensive orbital structures.

Nowadays, the Republic is an "awakening giant", an economic juggernaut mobilizing for war. It possesses massive resource-gathering, trade and construction capabilities, and can cripple other empires' means of production through the use of propaganda. Thanks to its many years of rebellion and war, the Republic is able to call upon local insurgents to incite uprisings on enemy planets. The Alleghian fleet is primarily an assemblage of refitted civilian vessels, with few purpose-built military ships and average strike craft capabilities. However, as war draws nearer, they are now heavily armed and armored, enabling Republican fleets to win wars of attrition with ease.

History
The history of the Alleghian Republic dates back thousands of years, when economically driven settlers founded the fateful Traders' Federation in the wake of the Great Cataclysm. Established on strict principles of economics and codes of behavior, the Federation's boundaries quickly began to expand – making it into an industrial and commercial juggernaut. However, outside of the Federation's core principles, each member world maintained its own interests, form of government, economic systems and culture, which often lead to strained relations with their oppressive rulers.

It was during this early period of the Federation that something unique took place which would later reshape not only its government but the entirety of the galaxy. During a routine exploratory expedition to recruit new trading partners, emissaries discovered a dry, desert world orbiting a red giant, whereupon further scans discovered a thriving civilization. Eager to integrate this prosperous civilization into the Federation, the diplomats established communication with the civilization's leaders from orbit. However, the membership offer was quickly turned down. Not to be dissuaded, the Federation sent several market research teams to the desert planet in order to gather data that could be used to formulate a more enticing strategy for this civilization.

Unfortunately, dreams of integration quickly turned to horror upon landing on the planet. Here the teams discovered a colony of people practicing the most heinous forms of scientific and social deviancy. Invasive cerebral integration technologies, unrestricted biological experimentation, strange forms of collectivism, and wholesale usage of countless neurochemicals were but a few of the transgressions. All these deviancies and more violated the codes and principles of personal freedoms that made up the very foundation of the Traders' Federation. Having received only a single, incomplete report of this disturbing information, the emissaries returned to Federation space, where, upon their return, their news sent shockwaves throughout the Federation's worlds, who voted overwhelmingly to take control of this desert planet and exile their twisted cousins to the far reaches of space. In time, this exiled civilization was forgotten.

Over the next thousand years the Federation went on in relative peace and prosperity – a golden age for their kind. War became a thing read about only in history books and seen in holo-vids. The rare heated dispute was settled in Federation-sanctioned courts and merchant fleets filled the phase lanes with goods, while the worst thing one could worry about was the occasional raid by bands of marauding pirates in the trade lanes, which were easily dealt with by local defense fleets.

However, this golden age came to an abrupt end many centuries ago with the arrival of numerous conflicting empires into Federation territory. With no defenses and constant political infighting between the Federation's representatives and numerous politicians, these unprecedented enemies swept the Federation's ships aside with ease, resulting in what seemed to be imminent defeat. In a last ditch effort to turn the tide, the Federation abruptly dismantled and sanctioned the creation of the Alleghian Republic, named after one of the Federation's most populous races, to combat the alien threat. The Republic quickly learned to marshal the vast industrial resources of the Traders' Federation towards military production and used their new war engine to finally stall the incoming final blow.

It wasn't until ten years after the Republic's formation that a new enemy arrived into what was once the Federation's territory. The aptly-titled Exiles from the past one-thousand years had returned, and managed to gain a foothold on Alleghian territory before fleets could be redirected to halt the enemy's advance. Five years later, the war ground to a stalemate and Republican forces built immense structures in an attempt to better defend their fronts. However, faced with enemy fortifications as well, the Republic made little to no headway in reclaiming lost territory.

This series of events lasted another decade or so until the races came to a realization that war was taking its toll on lives and resources. Envoys were sent and diplomacy was given a chance. This was short lived as many within both the Republic and the ancient civilization felt as though the peace would not last or that it was a waste given the current situation. In the face of increasing internal tensions, two conflicting factions began to develop in the Republic: the Loyalists, who wished to retreat into isolation by further fortifying their defenses in hopes the war would finish itself, and the brash Confederates, who wanted vengeance for the atrocities inflicted upon the Alleghian kind by the Exiles through twenty-five years of brutal war, and were grimly willing to ensure that the Republic emerged victorious by being as ruthless to their alien enemies as the invaders were during the terrible early invasions.

The inevitable civil war did not begin in its real sense, that of the Confederates fighting against the Loyalists, with each faction's goals and ideals laid out for the Alleghian Republic, until nearly two decades after the founding of the Loyalist Coalition. Prompted by the Confederates' signing of the Declaration of Rebellion, which aimed to counteract the Loyalists' propaganda that labeled revolutionaries as terrorists, pirates, and thieves, and officials' recognition the establishment of the Alleghian Confederacy, the Coalition was quick to overtake much of the Republic's territory. Likewise, several Loyalist citizens, despite the its many atrocities, ended up siding with the Coalition as they were reluctant to join a group similar to the original leaders of the Federation, what with the whole exiling of the vengeful civilization. Initially, the Coalition did not consider the Confederacy a threat, but rather as a political tool to further consolidate power that would eventually lead to the dissolution of what remained of the original Republican senate and a massive, unprecedented ethnic cleansing of what the Loyalists viewed as threats to the integrity of their cause. It would not be until the fateful Battle of Consolidation, when Confederate forces destroyed the Loyalist headquarters, that the threat posed by the Confederacy became real to the Coalition and more serious measures were drafted to restore the Coalition's control over the Republic.

The war's decisive moment came at the Second Battle of Consolidation, when the Confederates, against overwhelming odds, defeated the Coalition's forces and destroyed the second iteration of Loyalist headquarters, killing many of best minds of the Coalition. From there, the Coalition began to gradually decay and fragment, until it was reduced to a mere remnant of its former-self, while the Confederacy evolved and grew into the New Alleghian Republic. Peace between the two warring factions was realized nearly a year later, with the signing of the Treaty of Capitulation, ending over two decades of constant struggle. The Coalition, however, continued to exist as an autonomous entity in the years succeeding the war's end, and eventually entered into an alliance with its former enemy during the second return of the Exiles, who had left Republic territory following the onset of the Alleghian Civil War. This war, which effectively demolished the Confederates' government, allowed the Coalition to emerge as the Republic's leading administration over one hundred years later, seemingly bringing history back full-circle; however, the exploits of the Alleghian Confederacy have not been forgotten, meaning that the Coalition is not nearly as militaristic and domineering as before, instead favoring a more liberal, democratic approach to dealing with the Republic's populace and governmental affairs.

NATION INVOLVEMENT:
Work in progress.

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TECHNOLOGY:
Compared to their more advanced enemies, the Republic has primitive and makeshift technologies. This is made up for by their means of mass production and heavy firepower. The Republican Armed Forces specializes in the use of mixed alloys and polymers to strengthen their armor, a strong economy, and mass production and efficiency. Their workers are masters of industry and efficiency, being able to start trade routes in multiple systems, as well as having very cost effective methods of building their orbital structures. They can inhabit most worlds effectively aside from volcanic worlds. They also have their hands in almost every single economic power and their suppliers regardless of race.

When it comes to mass production the Republic is unmatched. In a time of dire need they will divert a large portion of their factories to military subcontracting. They may also build factories that can hyper-produce ships within their massive planetary fortresses. Where the other races rely on their offensive capabilities, the Republic's workers are masters at fortifying their territories. Strong alloys and polymers ensure a thick defensive hull is within all orbital structures and ships, making them very resistant to enemy firepower. With these powerful defenses they have mastered the art of having very powerful static defenses as well. Their ships' hanger bays can be refitted to have anti-strike craft auto-cannons. Their already potent Gauss turrets can be upgraded to sport missile packs and a long range meson-bolt. And their repair technology is unmatched even by robotic nano-bots.

And where their defense may fail, this is made up for by their weaponry. While the Republic makes use of very low grade version laser and beam technologies, but their true strength comes from the chemical/nuclear weaponry equipped on many of their standard frigates and bombers. They also make use of auto-cannon payloads to rip through the hull of enemy ships.

NAVY DESCRIPTION:
Work in progress.

AIR FORCE DESCRIPTION:
Work in progress.

GROUND FORCE DESCRIPTION:
Work in progress.

COMMON ARMAMENTS:
Work in progress.

EMPLACEMENTS AND DEPLOYABLES:
Work in progress.

HEADQUARTERS:
Work in progress.

PERSONS OF IMPORTANCE:
Work in progress.

[Willy Vereb]

@SigmaUpdated my faction profile. It's far from done but these are some major additions.
Tech.
I more or less copypasted this from one of my previous NRPs but I feel a few things may be OP. If not then it's alright but it's better if I give a heads up.
Anyone who read my profile recently, if you feel pressed to some kind of unwanted arms race after reading my faction's tech then we can talk this out. I don't wish to hurt your creative freedom.
I basically went with "What would happen if Star Trek and other typical sci-fis use technology in a way it makes sense".

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@Willy Vereb The tech is all good with me.

As long as it is known they're not 100% perfect(the military portion mostly), excellent but not perfect, I'm good with it :)

[Willy Vereb]

@Willy Vereb The tech is all good with me.

As long as it is known they're not 100% perfect(the military portion mostly), excellent but not perfect, I'm good with it :)

@Sigma

The operators are humans and there are many types of people working in the mercenary/security line.
It can range from friendly heroic types, to strict military people or even ex-criminals passing their time. White Security Services is a gigantic corporation of millions of White Corps sponsored PMC companies so they can be quite diverse.

If you mean perfect as "always winning" they of course won't. One issue is that they are few in numbers. The rest will become obvious during the game. I certainly don't plan to "god mod" during the RP.

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Thanks for the clarification and reassurance. Sorry if it came off as such, just needed to make sure is all :)

[Willy Vereb]

@SigmaBTW, can we get an interstellar agreement of sorts which bans the use of orbital bombardment on habitable planets save for rather specific circumstances? So is the use of hi-yield weapons like strategic nukes on the ground.
This could be used to justify land warfare being a thing or that Anuria survived 100 years of warfare without being depopulated a long time ago.

[Sigma]

@SigmaBTW, can we get an interstellar agreement of sorts which bans the use of orbital bombardment on habitable planets save for rather specific circumstances? So is the use of hi-yield weapons like strategic nukes on the ground.
This could be used to justify land warfare being a thing or that Anuria survived 100 years of warfare without being depopulated a long time ago.

@Willy Vereb

Sounds like a good idea, let's go with that.

[Sigma]

Oh and @Brink_, you're good on moving your sheet in the Characters section, as you can see, it doesn't need to be totally complete :P

Goes the same for future players.

[Willy Vereb]

@SigmaBTW, my ARS suit was kinda inspired by this:

Kinda

[Sigma]

Oh yes I saw, and it is awesome XD

Should be good fun to see something similar during combat.

[ulsterwarrior]

Is this still open?

[Willy Vereb]

Is this still open?

@ulsterwarrior

Technically this game can have nigh infinite players. Just make a profile and if it isn't bad I bet @Sigma would approve.

[Skepic]

Hello, hello, hello! Glad to see this revived! Count me in.

[Skepic]

Alright,so with a little renaming and pic changing, here is my nation:

Avienian Empire

Species Name
The Valkeria

Species Description
A very human like race that shares many traits with them. Though over the many years, the race has become heavily augmented with both biological and nanotechnology enhancements, thus strengths depend on what role the individual plays in the society. The race all seem to have varying shades of grey hair, pale white skin, and red or blue eyes, though there are some who have dark orange eyes. The average height of a Valkeria is around 5 feet 9 inches. Their major separating trait from humans other than their more uniform skin color and eye color, there natural resistance to otherwise highly toxic environments, and to be generally more tolerant of extreme environments. Centuries of living on heavily industrialized planets allows them to easily breath and operate in highly polluted areas, whether artificial or natural. There military reflects this with its heavy use of chemical warfare.

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Nation Name
Avienian Empire

Nation Size
Five solar systems, several outer stations, and various hidden military sites all scattered within their territory.

Nation Description
The Valkeria people began on their home planet of Avier, a planet originally vibrant and full of life. After a few centuries, large nations began to form on the planet, many having different views and values alike, but these nations were very few. There wasn't very much they could be divided on except their values and beliefs. Wars were waged, blood was spilled, and time went on until period of time known as "The Great Industrial Revolution" were the few nations of the world built immense machines, factories, and industrial complexes to fuel their advancement. From then on, the nations continued to be industrious, creating more and more advance machines and weaponry to fight each other with, yet war did not break out. Soon the resources that once fueled their heavily industrialized nations became scarcer and scarcer. The various nations started to become desperate and began forming heavy trade alliances and eventually merging in order to keep up with the demand. Finally after centuries of industrialization, merging, and alliances, two great nations stood against each other in the war to end all wars. A massive century long war broke out between the two major nations, destroying much of what they had built and finally ending in the last nation standing to rule the ruins of their world. Now that the single nation stood, it seemed it was on the brink of collapse as resources began to run thin and much of the world in ruin. The air itself had become so heavily polluted that it was almost impossible to breath. The Valkeria, desperate to save their race from massive civil war, began to look to the stars for a solution. And they found it.

For the first time, a manned mining vessel landed on one of the two orbiting moons to begin operations. Soon, the entire system had been heavily colonized and being stripped of resources. The newly formed interplanetary nation of Avienian Empire began to spread out into other systems, but as they expanded, old scares began to open and soon a great civil war broke out between the main government and other planets. The war was eventually won by Avienian Empire, but the cost once again was great. It was then the government went from a collective rule into a heavily controlling Totalitarian rule with limiter augmentations in place. The government still had problems though with fully controlling its people and needed a unifying solution.

The nation of Avienian Empire encountered its first alien species when it went to colonize their fifth system. This seemed like the unifying solution that was needed to gain complete control of the people of Avienian Empire. The government fabricated an elaborate lie that the species was all savages that murdered and raped peaceful colonists. The nation soon went to war with the alien species and quickly overwhelmed the much smaller alien nation. This set the policy of Avienian Empire on how they would deal with other alien nations. Very few nations have been able to established an alliance with the Empire's generally xenophobic government.

Nation Involvement
The Avienian Empire is always craving for new territories to add to its ever expanding empire. So it was no surprised that with the assassination of the diplomatic leader to on of the human factions, the Avienian Empire "gladly" joined into the fray to push against the seemingly even more territory hungry humans. Fingers crossed that they are here to simply push the enemy out, and not here to conquer the entire system.... While allied factions of course are not fooled, this war of attrition was already tiring out their reserves, so the massive boost in industrial muscle was more than welcomed.

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Technology
They are fairly advanced, focusing on usually reliability and firepower when it comes to weaponry used by the Empire's forces. As a result, they mainly used kinetic based weapons, as they tend to be much more durable than their energy based counter parts.

Navy Description

Kapital Class

There are only a small handful of these massive ships equipped with huge amounts of firepower. They also posses heavy defenses with thick, high tech armored plating and a single shield that must be turned off before firing weapons or launching ships. They can carry a large invasion force or simply engage large numbers of ships. Though these ships are few and far between as they are incredibly hard to make and expensive. Also, they can only stay in space.

Sturm Class

This ship is mainly used for the invasion of planets. They can carry large amounts of soldiers and supplies as well as equipped with drop pod bays. These ships are also lightly armed, thus are usually escorted by more heavily armed ships and fighters. Commonly will land on planets after an initial invasion to deploy more heavier units and act as command bases.

Agriff Class

These large ships are mainly used for naval warfare and planetary bombardment. They are equipped with large railguns and missile pods. This is another ship that must remain in space

Raubzug Class

A missile destroyer type vessel, these mediums sized ships only posses one railgun. Though they can release huge missile barrages on targets and work great as support ships. They may also provide defense against enemy fighters. This ship can enter the atmosphere of planets.

Frigette Class

A multi role ship that provides the backbone of the fleet. Equipped with a wide variety of weaponry and medium type armor. This ship can enter the atmosphere of planets. This can carry a complement of ground forces for invasions.

Schlacht Class

Like a battleship, only more heavily armed and less armored. Mainly used for Anti Ship warfare. They also include a compliment of fighters and soldiers. It cannot go planet side.

Air Force Description

AVC-28 Light Troop Transport

This light transport can carry squads of troops into battle and is used for fast aerial assaults and extractions.

AVC-23 Medium Troop Transport

This heavily armed troop transport is used for a variety of roles from aerial assaults to Air to Ground support.

AVC-44 Heavy Transport

This large transport is mainly used for logistical support or heavy aerial assault. Though it is very lightly armed.

AVC-74 Fighter Bomber

This aircraft is a multi role vehicle, being able to engage enemy ground, air, and space units depending on its payload.

Ground Force Description

Ground Troops:

The Ende Truppe (Regular Infantry)

These soldiers have been augment with pain limiters and are heavily trained, making tough soldiers. Due to both their equipment and the state of most the planets, they can fight in hazardous environments very effectively. They mainly use kinetic type weaponry such as rifles and machine guns. A squad usually consists of three rifle men, a medic, an anti infantry soldier, an anti vehicle soldier, and a squad leader. Anti Infantry soldiers are armed with machine guns and grenade launchers. The Anti Vehicle soldier is typically armed with a multi purpose missile launcher and rail-gun. All soldiers are equipped with armored suits that protect them from medium to light weaponry, both kinetic and energy based. Their helmets provided a sealed environment and advanced HUD. Various secondary equipment is also attached for various roles. Marksman may have enhanced zoom optics while medics may have special modules for evaluating trauma to friendly soldiers.

The Vernichtung Truppe

These soldiers are the special forces of the military, often being deployed via orbital drop pods. They have been augmented with combat enhancers such as strength and speed and are used for going behind enemy lines and wreaking havoc, or as a quick reactionary fighting force. As seen in the image, they are equipped with special power armor and weapons, sometimes even experimental such as personal shields or energy lances. However, due to their wide variety of armaments, each squad will probably be equipped differently in comparison to the last.

Vehicles:

APK-354

This armored wheeled vehicle is equipped with twin energy cannons, being on of the few energy weapon platforms used by Empire forces. It's also armed with a rocket pod, carrying four missiles of varying types. The APK-354 is quite fast and highly mobile, but lacks any serious armor. Its only real defense is its Electron shield to protect it from enemy explosives. It can easily carry a squad's worth of soldiers.

WK-67 Main Battle Tank

This heavy, versatile tank carries twin 120mm rail guns that can punch through shields. It is also equipped with a single missile pod that can launch two to four missiles of varying types. Though its only sort of shield is a "Electron Shield" that can only protect it from explosive projectiles.

AG-66 Belagerung

This large, heavy walker is used in for siege type battles and heavy support with many weapons. Most notable would be the large 170mm rail gun turret mounted on the top. It doubles as a mobile AA platform and command center.

AG-24 Mobile Artillery Platform

This large, automated 190mm regular howitzer as a variety of ammunition it can fire, ranging from massive HE rounds to large gas canisters for chemical warfare.

AK-90 Mobile Mechanized Armor

"That's the Butcher of Ak'Aria! We're screwed! We are all screwed!"-unnamed enemy soldier

This is an example of the most common form of the unit. Highly configurable and rugged, these machines are probably some of the most notorious war machines that the Empire's forces are known for aside from their heavy use of chemical warfare. From melee weapons to 50mm autocannons, these are very versatile weapon platforms that can take a serious number of punches thanks to its advanced shielding. Each unit is also equipped with boosters, allowing them to be highly agile for its size and be deployed at high altitudes with shock troopers. The main drawback is that they are not very common. Much skill, training, and combat experience is required before a pilot can merge with this machine.

Headquarters
The Karvanta Foothold. A large, heavily defended base with three Sturm Class ships landed in the center. These three ships will occasionaly take off once they have finally finished unloading their massive cargo holds, but it takes a very long time to empty a Sturm class, thus its not very common. The main fleet holds a part of it in orbit above the base, protecting it from any orbital attacks.

Persons of Importance
Wolk Vankompf, Kommandeur of the Avienian Empire
Helma Walsi, General of all ground operations in Anuria
Argil Hensel, Commander of all orbital assets of the Anuria Campaign

[Sigma]

Sorry, I admit, I kinda forgot about this :P However, If players are coming, then I'll resume the rp :)