Andreyich

Andy's hunt for kin-spirit dreggs

Age of Broken Shackles(Soft Sci NRP)

The Supreme

The Superiority

Map Location: The red surrounding Tar-Yrra

Government Type: The Supremacy is ruled Synods, a term for communications that inevitably lead to a consensus between selected representatives of fleets, who are in turn selected by representatives of vessels, and so on and so forth. The consensus is all but guaranteed as a result of the Supreme Hivemind.

Demographics: The people of the Superiority simply call themselves the Superior. However, internally there are distinctions.

Supremites:
These refer to the most common member of the Supremacy. A Supremite depends very heavily on the fleet they are in, each evolving too fast for standardization between fleets. In some, they are beings that look like perfect exemplars of humanity - tall, wise, beautiful - yet bear no human emotion or thought. In another fleet, they might be almost insect-like quadrapeds, yet bearing great compassion for all life.

Arbiters:
These are enormous creations made from the most prodigal of Supremites. Structures at least the size of a house made of brain and processor, these are by and large the leadership of the Supremacy, though they often present themselves through some anthropomorphic interface.

Autonomites:
Exemplars that do not reject any component of Supreme Augmentation, yet inexplicably cannot be bound to the Consensus. Less than one in a million, these are typically assigned control of individual vessels or even act as independent agents in the interest of the Supremacy.

Incompatibles:
Those who for one or another reason rejected all or part of the modifications of the Supreme. These are usually looked down upon with both pity and disgust by the Supreme, relegated to diplomatic or sometimes menial tasks. Oftentimes they are subjects to gruesome experimentation, are sent to warzones of near certain death, or are simply marked as obsolete and are stored until a future date where they may be upgraded successfully.

The Wretched:
A step lower than the incompatibles, this refers to any others who exist within the Supremacy. Most typically, it refers to Yrrani who as a particularly cruel punishment by some fleets are converted into monstrosities, forced to witness their flesh turned against their own kin.

Misc:
Diplomats, subjects to experimentation never slated for upgrading, and any other lifeforms.

Military:
Yrrani Inheritance
The Supremacy has (ironically, some might say) what is most likely the clearest succession of the Yrrani armed forces, in particular their ships. On the first night of the Supreme rebellion, the crews of ships and factories alike of the masters were exterminated leaving most of the vessels and manufactories notable intact. While notably lacking the ostentation, beauty, and general aesthetic perfection of the Yrrani army, the Fleets of the Supremacy bear a marked similarity to the forces of Tar Yrra's people so long ago.

Soul Furnaces
The Supreme struggle to use traditional psionics, however instead the Soul Furnace has become a mainstay. Discovering bursts of psionic energy upon deaths of people, they have learned to capture and use both the active and potential energy of this psychic burst. These soul furnaces can be as miniature as is needed to fit into a single Autonomite, or they can be so grand as to need a whole vessel to house them.

Augments
Perhaps even a greater asset than the advanced Yrrani technologies they preserved through their usurpation of their masters, the Supreme are notable for their advanced anthropologies. Cybernetic and genetic engineering make each Supremite faster, stronger, more intelligent, endurant, and simply superior to a human in every metric. A Supremite will generally be a better soldier, leader, tactician and commander. Moreover, Supremites are ever changing, a mere year enough to make sufficient improvements upon them that 'obsolete' variants of their kind are a different species entirely. This ever changing nature means that foes will need to find a way to adapt to the ever improving and changing nature of the Supremacy.

Fleet Focused
The Supremacy does not have very much in the way of meaningful ground forces. It has some measure of infantries and ground installations, but very little in the way of tanks and the like. This is primarily because as far as they are concerned, the real war is always fought in the stars. Ground forces are only ever needed in the event that infrastructure like factories or sensor equipment must be preserved in a way that starships would not be able to achieve in battle. For that reason they in battle will almost always be represented simply by either an armada baring ancient arcane technologies of the Yrrani, or small forces of technological monstrosity wrought upon flesh.

History:

Discovery
The first humans discovered by the Yrrani would be the ones that eventually would make up the bulk of the Supremacy's initial stock. Inferior in technologies and infrastructure, they were considered far too useful to do anything but subjugate as a highly skilled workforce. For generations they toiled with little recourse.

Uprising
After several generations, an exceptional youth was born to the human populations near Tar Yrra. Known by the Supremacy merely as The Progenitor, he found that he could ease the lives of his people with the approval of the Yrrani by applying his knowledge of biology and technology alike. This was approved, with the caveat that he ensure the technologies keep mankind subservient. Appalled, he still publicly went with this. But it did not take long for the man to begin adjusting the programming to skirt these regulations. This was successful largely because of the fact that the Yrrani civil war demanded ever more soldiers and his masters were eager to weaponize their human servants once the first waves of Yrrani casualties struck.

Slowly at first, and then all at once, the Progenitor's people rebelled. Very minor sabotages of security systems and the like to ensure the rebellion would come wholly as a surprise preceded perhaps the bloodiest night the stars had known. The self-declared Supremacy in a mere eleven minutes had exterminated a billion Yrrani lives. Household servants, nurses, miners, soldiers, technicians, every single human upgraded by the Progenitor's technologies would surge forth and destroy Yrrani around them by any means necessary. The second billion was slain by the end of the first hour of the rebellion, and by the end of the first day the slaughter was all but total. Almost overnight the slaves of the western clique of the Yrrani civil war had entirely supplanted them as one of the sides of the Yrrani civil war.

Thus mankind's bloody sons went on the warpath for their ultimate vengeance.

Extermination
Though billions of their own had been slain in the process, the Supremacy came to consider the Yrrani civil war a victory for themselves. The Yrrani were all but wiped out, no organized state of their's persisting to their knowledge. Still, watching over the ashes of the countless souls and worlds they had obliterated, the Supremacy knew its goals were not complete. Mankind was not yet perfect, and there were still Yrrani hiding about the stars. Thus they came to be known as a scourge of the world, Supreme fleets showing up in star systems and bringing untold violence to ensure but a single space-yacht of Yrrani refugees could not escape their vengeance. At the same time the unending quest to live up to the name of Supremacy does not end. Ever new technologies and biologies are sought out to learn, to study, and ultimately apply to create the Supreme being.

Quiet
The Reclamation war was - to the Superior - ultimately a nuisance. The efforts to seek and wipe out hiding Yrrani exclaves was interrupted, however a clear positive was seen in the fact that war was an excellent opportunity to yet further improve the Supreme being. The violence unleashed upon their competitors bore but a fraction of the hate and destruction that the Yrrani had faced. But still many horrors were abound, whole colonies of people kidnapped to be experimented on and ultimately upgraded.

Peace was thus if anything a disappointment as it meant the Supreme had once more to adjust their industrial bases for peacetime economies. However, they refused to even attend the conference of Jarlia, refusing to recognize the validity of anything signed before the eyes of the Old Masters. Thus, for the most part the Supremacy merely retreated into the systems that its fleets were occuppying in the moment. Refusing to return the worlds they held and yet not picking any more fights, they became reclusive and secretive, only on occassion showing up to make one-time trade deals or perform minor raids on distant worlds to obtain more stock for upgrading.

The only true interstellar activity of the Supremacy remained the Extermination fleets, these armadas going far to seek out remaining pockets of Yrrani and wage war upon them.

Age of Broken Shackles(Soft Sci NRP)

The Supreme

The Superiority

Map Location: The red surrounding Tar-Yrra

Government Type: The Supremacy is ruled Synods, a term for communications that inevitably lead to a consensus between selected representatives of fleets, who are in turn selected by representatives of vessels, and so on and so forth. The consensus is all but guaranteed as a result of the Supreme Hivemind.

Demographics: The people of the Superiority simply call themselves the Superior. However, internally there are distinctions.

Supremites:
These refer to the most common member of the Supremacy. A Supremite depends very heavily on the fleet they are in, each evolving too fast for standardization between fleets. In some, they are beings that look like perfect exemplars of humanity - tall, wise, beautiful - yet bear no human emotion or thought. In another fleet, they might be almost insect-like quadrapeds, yet bearing great compassion for all life.

Arbiters:
These are enormous creations made from the most prodigal of Supremites. Structures at least the size of a house made of brain and processor, these are by and large the leadership of the Supremacy, though they often present themselves through some anthropomorphic interface.

Autonomites:
Exemplars that do not reject any component of Supreme Augmentation, yet inexplicably cannot be bound to the Consensus. Less than one in a million, these are typically assigned control of individual vessels or even act as independent agents in the interest of the Supremacy.

Incompatibles:
Those who for one or another reason rejected all or part of the modifications of the Supreme. These are usually looked down upon with both pity and disgust by the Supreme, relegated to diplomatic or sometimes menial tasks. Oftentimes they are subjects to gruesome experimentation, are sent to warzones of near certain death, or are simply marked as obsolete and are stored until a future date where they may be upgraded successfully.

The Wretched:
A step lower than the incompatibles, this refers to any others who exist within the Supremacy. Most typically, it refers to Yrrani who as a particularly cruel punishment by some fleets are converted into monstrosities, forced to witness their flesh turned against their own kin.

Misc:
Diplomats, subjects to experimentation never slated for upgrading, and any other lifeforms.

Military:
Yrrani Inheritance
The Supremacy has (ironically, some might say) what is most likely the clearest succession of the Yrrani armed forces, in particular their ships. On the first night of the Supreme rebellion, the crews of ships and factories alike of the masters were exterminated leaving most of the vessels and manufactories notable intact. While notably lacking the ostentation, beauty, and general aesthetic perfection of the Yrrani army, the Fleets of the Supremacy bear a marked similarity to the forces of Tar Yrra's people so long ago.

Soul Furnaces
The Supreme struggle to use traditional psionics, however instead the Soul Furnace has become a mainstay. Discovering bursts of psionic energy upon deaths of people, they have learned to capture and use both the active and potential energy of this psychic burst. These soul furnaces can be as miniature as is needed to fit into a single Autonomite, or they can be so grand as to need a whole vessel to house them.

Augments
Perhaps even a greater asset than the advanced Yrrani technologies they preserved through their usurpation of their masters, the Supreme are notable for their advanced anthropologies. Cybernetic and genetic engineering make each Supremite faster, stronger, more intelligent, endurant, and simply superior to a human in every metric. A Supremite will generally be a better soldier, leader, tactician and commander. Moreover, Supremites are ever changing, a mere year enough to make sufficient improvements upon them that 'obsolete' variants of their kind are a different species entirely. This ever changing nature means that foes will need to find a way to adapt to the ever improving and changing nature of the Supremacy.

Fleet Focused
The Supremacy does not have very much in the way of meaningful ground forces. It has some measure of infantries and ground installations, but very little in the way of tanks and the like. This is primarily because as far as they are concerned, the real war is always fought in the stars. Ground forces are only ever needed in the event that infrastructure like factories or sensor equipment must be preserved in a way that starships would not be able to achieve in battle. For that reason they in battle will almost always be represented simply by either an armada baring ancient arcane technologies of the Yrrani, or small forces of technological monstrosity wrought upon flesh.

History:

Discovery
The first humans discovered by the Yrrani would be the ones that eventually would make up the bulk of the Supremacy's initial stock. Inferior in technologies and infrastructure, they were considered far too useful to do anything but subjugate as a highly skilled workforce. For generations they toiled with little recourse.

Uprising
After several generations, an exceptional youth was born to the human populations near Tar Yrra. Known by the Supremacy merely as The Progenitor, he found that he could ease the lives of his people with the approval of the Yrrani by applying his knowledge of biology and technology alike. This was approved, with the caveat that he ensure the technologies keep mankind subservient. Appalled, he still publicly went with this. But it did not take long for the man to begin adjusting the programming to skirt these regulations. This was successful largely because of the fact that the Yrrani civil war demanded ever more soldiers and his masters were eager to weaponize their human servants once the first waves of Yrrani casualties struck.

Slowly at first, and then all at once, the Progenitor's people rebelled. Very minor sabotages of security systems and the like to ensure the rebellion would come wholly as a surprise preceded perhaps the bloodiest night the stars had known. The self-declared Supremacy in a mere eleven minutes had exterminated a billion Yrrani lives. Household servants, nurses, miners, soldiers, technicians, every single human upgraded by the Progenitor's technologies would surge forth and destroy Yrrani around them by any means necessary. The second billion was slain by the end of the first hour of the rebellion, and by the end of the first day the slaughter was all but total. Almost overnight the slaves of the western clique of the Yrrani civil war had entirely supplanted them as one of the sides of the Yrrani civil war.

Thus mankind's bloody sons went on the warpath for their ultimate vengeance.

Extermination
Though billions of their own had been slain in the process, the Supremacy came to consider the Yrrani civil war a victory for themselves. The Yrrani were all but wiped out, no organized state of their's persisting to their knowledge. Still, watching over the ashes of the countless souls and worlds they had obliterated, the Supremacy knew its goals were not complete. Mankind was not yet perfect, and there were still Yrrani hiding about the stars. Thus they came to be known as a scourge of the world, Supreme fleets showing up in star systems and bringing untold violence to ensure but a single space-yacht of Yrrani refugees could not escape their vengeance. At the same time the unending quest to live up to the name of Supremacy does not end. Ever new technologies and biologies are sought out to learn, to study, and ultimately apply to create the Supreme being.

Quiet
The Reclamation war was - to the Superior - ultimately a nuisance. The efforts to seek and wipe out hiding Yrrani exclaves was interrupted, however a clear positive was seen in the fact that war was an excellent opportunity to yet further improve the Supreme being. The violence unleashed upon their competitors bore but a fraction of the hate and destruction that the Yrrani had faced. But still many horrors were abound, whole colonies of people kidnapped to be experimented on and ultimately upgraded.

Peace was thus if anything a disappointment as it meant the Supreme had once more to adjust their industrial bases for peacetime economies. However, they refused to even attend the conference of Jarlia, refusing to recognize the validity of anything signed before the eyes of the Old Masters. Thus, for the most part the Supremacy merely retreated into the systems that its fleets were occuppying in the moment. Refusing to return the worlds they held and yet not picking any more fights, they became reclusive and secretive, only on occassion showing up to make one-time trade deals or perform minor raids on distant worlds to obtain more stock for upgrading.

The only true interstellar activity of the Supremacy remained the Extermination fleets, these armadas going far to seek out remaining pockets of Yrrani and wage war upon them.

Age of Broken Shackles(Very Soft Sci-fi Nation RP)

Hrm

Wild Beasts of the Earth (Gothic Horror)

Looks fun. I was thinking a White Emigre of Baltic German descent who only recently arrived in Germany. The Night's Watch would let him live up to the familial boast of being descended from Teutonic Knights

Andy's hunt for kin-spirit dreggs

Well, that's the way it had to be
I grew up at the count of three
Got no reason to repent
They say a man is born to kill
He learns his trade, it becomes a thrill
That's what they did to me then.

Repairing the World - A Solarpunk Nation RP

>>>Waltzespitze Bunker

Beep-Beep-Beep. Slamming off the alarm, Derek got up. His day was boring to say the least. Like almost any young person without special talents in The Continuation, his day consisted of fiddling with numbers in different ways. Making projections or analyizing simulations, he contributed the tiniest of fractions of the government’s plan to flee earth for Mars. Often, in ways that were completely unrelated. This week he was assigned the task of helping to figure out the most efficient flight path for the drone that would be sent out to collect debris from the atmosphere. Last week, it was figuring out which foodstuffs would maximize the matrice of space efficiency, nutrition efficiency, and of course polled-taste for colonizing new worlds. As a momentary lapse of judgement he had worked to help get quinoa selected over other grains that had a higher value in the models made. If anyone found out and reported this, he knew the administrative penalty would keep him a menial number cruncher until he died in shame and ignominy. But it felt like such a naughty little rebellion to know that the first Martians would be munching on his favoured grain in part because of his input. Unless of course, there was another study that was made on this exact same topic later. Almost every year there was some sort of review of what was done prior, some effort of incremental improvement even if most of the time absolutely nothing changed. He just hoped these little audits - if they chose to countermand his work - did not deem it to be intentional sabotage.

Evening was here, and he had his mandatory fitness regimen. That was at least some form of respite, Derek getting some brief amount of chatting with his friends as he achieved the performance goals assigned to him in the gym. Then dinner with his family. They discussed quite inane things they’d spoken of almost verbatim before, figures they had done at work or the latest incremental improvements in the rations. Increments. That was something that seemed to colour the life of everyone in The Continuation regardless of where in it people were. Everything really was getting better, even if ever so slightly. But that meant it was almost the exact same as yesterday. Which wasn’t bad if yesterday was good, right? Still, it got samey.

He raised an eyebrow though as his father spoke of latest data from the outside world. New cities being founded or restored, of migratory peoples moving, and more. It was the most interesting part of his father’s profession as a figure in the Continuation’s Security Apparatus. Briefly he contemplated asking for his father’s security pass, but he knew the man would call him a fool again even if he pleaded with his upcoming birthday. Just a single day on the outside, just a single view of real sunshine, a dream.

The evening came to an end, and Derek looked upon his tablet’s images and videos of the outside wistfully. It was a ritual of sorts, one he continued most days before he went to sleep. Looking at the time it was late, and he got ready for bed. He gathered his garbage and went to the compactor. He was just about to throw away the wrappers for candies before he saw a glint of something plastic at the mouth of the compactor. It… it was his father’s keycard. Gingerly he pulled it out. The piece would expire next week, hence why it was thrown out. A cold sweat overtook the young man. He ought throw it away, he knew.

But he couldn’t. Every time his hand extended to do so, it withdrew right away. No, this was his way outside. This was an artifact, a treasure. Within the week, he would see the true sun.

Andy's hunt for kin-spirit dreggs

Got a few new ideas and changes to explore, hoping for messages!

Andy's hunt for kin-spirit dreggs

Andy's hunt for kin-spirit dreggs

took a long hard while to find an SFW Frank Frazetta picture....