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Styria: Years of Blood (Adult 18+)

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Ryana Empire

Name of nation:

Ryana Empire

National anthem

National Anthem

Nation crest

Description of government

Description of government:

The Ryana are ruled by their High Council (HC) with their emperor or empress as the chairman. The chairman has the right to decide urgent matters alone or with a few advisors, however important matters which can be delayed for some time will be brought before the High Council. Laws for example are decided by the High Council, while battle formations are decided by the chairman and the respective generals. Underneath the Hight Council are the clans. Each Clan has a respectable amount of influence and power in the society, however each of them has to bow before the High Council. The High Council is located in the capital Capreae.

The Clans are the powerhouses, that rule large areas of the Ryana space. This can be anything from one small village to a continent with large amounts of people. Later on they might even be given control over whole planets or systems. But not every Clan is directly under the High Council, some Clans serve under bigger Clans, which can be confusing for someone, who has not lived in this society for a long time. This hierarchy can actually go down several layers, and this is only on one planet. The most powerful Clans have direkt control over parts of the military. The Alatheia Clan, the Zhithru Clan and the Ruknad Clan each have their own division and each of them controls and several atmospheric craft. The Clans are usually found in their respective territory, however there are also clans which do not possess any territory.

The Obsidian Order is the part of the government and military, which operates in the shadows. They possess authority to demand support from any faction and in any number. They could for example demand control of all forces from several clans, if they need to. There are cases in which the Order obliterated big clans because they posed a threat to the Order and the High Council. Neither the strength nor the location of the Order are known. Only a few members of the High Council and very few Clan leaders know about the location. However speaking about it is punishable with death of the offender and his whole family. Most of the field agents of the Order are Tarena, while they use Edta in many cases the Tarena are still prefered for some operations.

Description of military

Description of military:

The Ryana have a large amounts of smaller atmospheric vessels, counting from small fighter planes to 20 m large atmospheric corvettes and large atmospheric freighters.

The Navy contains 1 heavy Cruiser, the Aedinia, the last remnant of the great solar war, but since she receives upgrades, she is equipted with the most advanced Ryana technology. Her dimensions are as followed, length 271 m (~889.108 feet), Height 47 m (154.199 feet), and Width 96 m (314.961 feet). Most of the old fleet was scraped to assist the rebuilding of the society and cities.

Navy crest

Navy vessels

Bomber

Corvette

Destroyer

Cruiser

Battleship

The Guard is the ground force, they use everything from blades for the close quarter combat to rifles. They consists of Edta and Tarena soldiers and some Ryana as strategists. They use both tanks and walker for heavy firesupport. The Guard is structured into the normal Legions, the basic soldiers, and the High Guard Legions, containing only veteran soldiers and specialists. Currently there are ten Guard and three High Guard divisions on standby. The rest of the personal is splitted as guards or in training on different bases, however the 13 divisions can be deployed within one day. The Guard is structured as follows:

Infantery:

• 1 Legion = 5 Battlegroups (1,000,000 and 100,000 Tanks/Walker)
• 1 Battlegroup = 5 Division (200,000 and 20,000 Tanks/Walker)
• 1 Division = 4 Regiments (40,000 and 4,000 Tanks/Walker)
• 1 Regiment = 5 Brigades (10,000 and 1,000 Tanks/Walker)
• 1 Brigade = 8 Battalion (2,000 and 200 Tanks/Walker)
• 1 Battalion = 5 Companies (500 and 50 Tanks/Walker)
• 1 Companie = 4 Platoons (100 and 10 Tanks/Walker)
• 1 Platoon = 5 Squads (25)
• 1 Squad = 5 Soldiers

Guard crest

Ground Forces

Infantery:



Tanks:



Walker:

The Obsidian Order is the intelligence and black ops faction of the millitary. They are shrouded in mistery, not much is known about them, except that they posses authority to seize anything to complete their missions. The Obsidian Order is also considered the secret police of the Hight Council and only the High Council can deploy them.

Obsidian Order crest

High Guard and Obsidian Order Operatives

They may also use standard equipment instead!

technological Overview

Technological Overview:

The Ryana are able to greate powerful an small energy sources. While small and powerfull, they only have a large but limited amount of power before running dry. They contain enough energy to last a long time, however once depleted they cannot be recharged. The construction of those sources costs mainly power on creation, however crystals are used to store and enhance the energy. Crystals can be created through compressing large amounts of glass and interpenetrate the glass with conductive materials, while complicated the result are the valuable crystals used in nearly all of Ryana technology. The higher the conductivity of the materials, the larger the enhancement factor and the capacity.

Energy module

The fusion reactor generates energy through the usage of hydrogen, they are used to support the main energy modules and to produce the needed energy to create them.

The Ryana possess a hyperdrive, which let's them travel faster than light at a high efficency. Their sublight engines have an enourmous potential, however to use the whole potential enourmous amounts of energy are needed. Since it is way too expensive and inconvenient to use the maximal speed of 0.987c to travel, they only use it in emergencies.

The main capital weaponry are a supplement of drones which have an intelligent enemy-detection-system. They travel at high velocity and can do basic evasion, while tracking their target. The drones are powered by a cheap much less potent energy source as the above mentioned modules. Therefore they do posses a limit of effective range and destructive power. Drones can be recalled, if the all valid targets escape. Needless to say that detonated drones cannot be recalled. However the cheap version of the energy modules used in this drones may be recharged, as long as energy is still remaining in the drone. A depleted drone does not pose any threat, as the detonation can only occur if there is power left to trigger it.

Drones

Energy pulses are also used for weapons, from guns, rifles and cannons, to capital weaponry. They use projectiles out of pure energy to hit the target and cause destruction. The projectiles have a higher penetrations as beam weapons using the same amount of power. This comes from the compression of energy into small projectiles. Melee weapons have an activation button, to activate energy pulses around the blades or whatever form the weapon is. The pulses causes touching matter to melt or at least heat up considerably, this effect is used to cut through many materials like iron and steel for example.

The Ryana possess an energy shield, which scales with the supplemented energy. Having the potential to shortly boost it's power, the energy drawn will increase at an alarming rate. While normally sturdy it might be necessary to sacrifice one or more energy modules to buy enough time to make the jump to hyperspace.

While possessing the ability to create biological weapons, the Ryana refuse to use it after the desaster in the last great solar war.

The control of most of the Ryana technology is only possible with their genetic code and their brain waves. This was introduced due to the incidend with the 8th planet. Most of their technology uses their brainwaves as control, or in other words thoughts. This is possible with a special interface, that scans the brainwaves of the user and uses these as input, just like pressing a key on a keyboard or moving the mouse. Many actions can be combined to be used with a single thought, much like an macro which calls multiple functions. This is mostly possible due to their high intellect and not something any normal human could do, with the current interface. This process enables Ryana ships to be operated by a very small crew.

The Ryana have knowledge of inefficient gravity generators, while able to simulate their normal gravity (1.34G), they tend to use quite the amount of energy and always have their own dedicated fusion reactor.

They possess large knowledge of both robotics and genetics, used to create both Edta and Tarena.

They are currently developing a transpotation technology to transport matter from a ship in orbit to the planet below. However there are several problems that need to be solved as neither is the location right (most matter materializes inside walls or the ground or high in the sky), nor is it guaranteed that the matter reappears. Currently 95% of the transportet matter does not reappear, making the technology extremely dangerous, unreliable and expensive as it uses large amounts of energy.

Cultural Overview

Cultural Overview:

The Ryana are reserved, analytical and a bit xenophobic. They tend to observe first, while not hesitating to shoot at any threat.

The elderly are very respected and generally the higher standing people. The Clans play a very big role in the society and culture of the Ryana. People without clans are usually treated as the lowest people without any power or influence. The strongest clans are currently the Alatheia, the Zhithru and the Ruknad. The current Empress and nearly half of the High Council belong to the Alatheia Clan. The Clans rule over certain territories or supply whole regiments for the legions or workers for the factories. There is an uncountable number of Clans in the society of the Ryana, which changes every moment as Clans are dissolved and created. The Clans are clashing in the shadows for power and influence, while the world looks unified and peaceful at the moment. The Ryana learned that they must unite against external threats, however in absents of such a threat, why not expand ones influence and power?

They value honesty, loyalty, knowledge and the truth, even though they fight themselfs in the open and in the shadows. They will use any means necessary to remove threats to their race. They don't have any gods, however they have a guardian beast and their ancestors and their elders to honor and respect.

The guardian beast is the Silverbird, a large bird which can grow to become 100+ m large. The Silverbird hunted the natural predators, that hunted the Ryana. The Ryana were much like baits to be used to lure the guardian beasts prey. The Silverbirds protected some groups of Ryana since it's troublesome to find new bait. Therefore it can be said that the Silverbirds did possess some intelligence. Once there were millions of these majestic creatures that roamed Appuleia, but those numbers dwindled down through the development of the Ryana and therefore reducing number of the predators. Nowadays there are only several thousands of those birds on the whole planet. Now in turn they are protected by the Ryana. Large areas are not to be developed to leave the predators and therefore the Silverbirds some territory to live.

The feathers of Silverbirds are seen as lucky charms and many Ryana want to possess one. However it is punishable by death to even hurt those birds, much less to kill one for it's feathers. A black market was founded by some Clans who possessed the control over a region with Silverbirds. They would search for fallen feathers and dead birds, while they buried the birds they would harvest some of it's feathers to sell.

But not only did those Silverbirds defend the Ryana from their natural predators, they even fought against the invading other lifeform. The other lifeform wanted to eradicate every native species and replace them with their own ecology. While at first at a disadvantage against the masses of the other lifeform and their strange usage of insects as weapons, the Ryana could come back through the help of the birds. The Silverbirds hunted both the flying insects and their ground counterparts. Many birds and Ryana died in that long war, however they managed to survive and some Silverbirds developed the tendency to live in some Clans. That proved to be a problem of itself as the predators of the Ryana were naturally not to find there and the Ryana needed to supply them to those birds living in the Clans.

Even though the Silverbirds play such a big role and even live with the Ryana, they are not part of their society. They are free to leave the Clans whenever they want and do not possess the same level of intellect as humans or Ryana.

The capital of Appuleia is Capreae, also know as the Silver City. It is the biggest city on Appuleia, before the war it had a population of nearly 200 million people. It is also home to three Silverbirds which roam through the sky of the city. The High Coucil is located at the city center in the tallest tower, the Silvertower. The Silvertower is not only the meeting place of the High Council, it is also the residence of the Silverbirds. In the lower levels of the building is a permanent contingent of the high guard at any given time, while the city as whole is always protected in force as it is the pillar of their society. The Silver City can be said to be the heart and soul of Appuleia.

The Silver City is build in the middle of an inland sea. It may be an inland sea, but it is comperatively shallow with an average depth of 300 m. The sea was named the Silver Sea and is much larger than Capreae. The City itself is supplied by both sea and air.

Capreae

The Ryana economy is based on bartering, there is a currency, however it is only to reduce the mass they need to carry. There is no form of interest for any value, which stabilized the economy.

Planets:
Large Planet: 12 NP (Appuleia)

Ships:
Cruiser: 7 NP each (Aedinia)

Population:
1,000,000,000 pop: 10 NP
-> 150,000,000 Ryana
-> 50,000,000 Tarena
-> 800,000,000 Edta

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29 (12+7+10)

Species Ryana

Species:

Ryana

Appearance

The appearance of the Ryana is much like that of humans, however they posses a lifespan of 5,000 standard years (365d/24h/60min). Their height is ~2 m (6.56168 feet) for the male and slightly shorter for the females with ~1.9 m (6.2336 feet). Their physiology is rather weak as they are not as strong as an average human, however they possess a much greater intellect than humans and a much bigger agility. Their wisdom and their intellect is nurtured through their long lifespan. They have a high resistance to illnesses.

The lifespan of the Ryana may be 5,000 years, however for a very long time they would die much sooner, due to natural predators, the long Solar War and later the Outbreak. There were still some who reached close to 5,000 years, however they were rare in the past. Only in the time between reaching the modern era and the attack of the other lifeform and after the other lifeform was driven from Appuleia, were there greater amounts of older Ryana.

Stats

Traits: (Max traits: 7)

Tough: +4 Health stat. (2 RP)
Intelligent: +6 Intelligence (7 RP)
Industrial: +4 Work (4 RP)
Biological: enables need for food, enables need for water, enables basic and advanced research and tech trees. (+0 RP)
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RP: 13

Stats:
str: 1
int: 8 (+6) = 15
dip: 3
rep: 3
hea: -2 (+4) = 2
wor: 2 (+4) = 6
mor: 4
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RP: 19
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RP: 32

History

History:

~700 000 years ago - The Ryana formed their first Clans. The average lifespan was about 300 years since they had several natural predators against them.
~675 000 years ago - The first civilizations are founded. The average lifespan increased to 450 years.
~650 000 years ago - The Ryana progressed into the middle ages. At this time the average Ryana could life for 900 years.
~640 000 years ago - The Ryana reached the modern era and set foot on their moon. The average Ryana would now live for 5,000 years.
~639 500 years ago - The first Edta are build to support mining and construction.
~14 500 years ago - The Ryana discovered another lifeform on the 8th planet in their system.
~9 000 years ago - The other lifeform developed into a interplanetary power with the help of the Ryana. They shared their technology and pushed the lifeform into space, in hope of getting a good trading partner.
~8 000 years ago - The other lifeform attacked the Ryana and started an invasion of Appuleia.
~8 000 years ago - Genetic manipulation is started to create more resilient Ryana.
~7 970 years ago - Genetic manipulation is used to create special forces, the first Tarena are created.
~7 800 years ago - The Ryana managed to drive back the other lifeform from Appuleia. The Edta are also used as war machines.
~7 600 years ago - The war rages throughout the solar system.
~3 000 years ago - The other lifeform was confined to the 8th planet, but is still trying to escape the planet and to destroy the Ryana.
~2 600 years ago - The Ryana, with no other way to end the war, used biological armaments to complete wipe out every life on the 8th planet. The biological weapon was way more powerful than the Ryana thought infecting several million Ryana after the usage. The death rate of the infected was 100%, with medical knowledge limited to treating physical wounds, like battle wounds.
~2 590 years ago - The outbreak was stoped and the Ryana could start to rebuild their society. The deathtoll of this outbreak was nearly 70% of their society. Complete destruction of all remaining biological weapons is decided and the knowledge is locked away.
~1 000 years ago - The Ryana finally rebuild their society, with the help of the Edta.
current - The Ryana control Appuleia, the 8th planet is still a watched dead crater landscape and used as a testing ground for weaponry and other dangerous inventions.

8th Planet lifeform: Large insects of around 2-3 m size for their normal worker. Larger 30-50 m insects are used as cavalry or tanks. In close combat they used corrosive poison, which could melt through steel. They bred in caves around 50 m below the surface.

Destruction of the lifeforms

Species Edta

Species:

Edta
The Edta are robots constructed by the Ryana to both fight and work for them. The Edta come in different forms, however in their small forms they look just like the Ryana, but out of metal. Their larger forms may look like large walker, several meters (1 Meter = 3.28084 foot) large. They may be equiped with weapons in a apropriate size, or with tools for other jobs. The Ryana military uses the Edta for their manpower, as the long war decimated the Ryana them.

Stats

Traits: (Max traits: 7)

Strong: +3 Strength (4 RP)
Tough: +4 Health stat. (2 RP)
Robotic: +6 intelligence stat, +3 strength stat, +6 work stat, removes need for food, removes need for water, enables need for energy, enables Robotic-Intelligence government, enables robotic research and technology trees, removes loyalty requirement. (16 RP)
Industrial: +4 Work (4 RP)
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RP: 26

Stats:
str: 1 (+6) = 7
int: 0 (+6) = 6
dip: 0
rep: 0 (Needs to be build, consumes metallic resources to produce, no natural reproduction rate)
hea: 3 (+4) = 7
wor: 2 (+10) = 12
mor: 0
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RP: 6
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RP: 32

Species Tarena

Species:

Tarena
The Tarena were originally Ryana, however through genetic manipulation they were forged into a physically stronger version. Though they are listed as a different species they are actually part of the Ryana, they are viewed and treated like Ryana and they see themselfs as Ryana. Tarena is like a name of a special forces unit.

They are larger than the normal Ryana and have a much stronger muscle structure.

Stats

Traits: (Max traits: 7)

Tough: +4 Health stat. (2 RP)
Biological: enables need for food, enables need for water, enables basic and advanced research and tech trees. (+0 RP)
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RP: 4

Stats:
str: 7
int: 3
dip: 3
rep: 1 (Slow reproduction represents the need for augmentations, some may be born however most are created from Ryana babies)
hea: 6 (+4) = 10
wor: 1
mor: 7
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RP: 28
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RP: 32

History:

Look at the Ryana.

Planet Appuleia

Appuleia:

Planet: Appuleia
Sector: Galaxy 1 - 777,777 - Clodia
Faction: Ryana

Type: Glitter World (12 PP)
Biomes:
1. Tropical (7 PP)
2. Mountainous (2 PP)
3. Rain-forrest (2 PP)
4. Ocean (-5 PP)
5. Volcanic (-12 PP)
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-6 PP

Atmosphere:
Mostly Breathable: 4 PP

Traits:
Big: 11 PP
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11 PP

Inhabitants: Ryana, Tarena, Edta
Importance: Capital
Resources: Food, Water, Stone, Iron, Titanium, Glass, Gold, Ciranium
Military presence: 10
Total Planetary Points: 21 (12-6+4+11)

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Planet

History:

Planet: Ichnaea
Sector: Cthaobbu
Faction: Xadla

Type: Hive World (Glitter World 12 PP)
Biomes:
1. Tropical (7 PP)
2. Mountainous (2 PP)
3. Rain-forrest (2 PP)
4. Ocean (-5 PP)
5. Volcanic (-12 PP)
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-6 PP

Atmosphere:
Mostly Breathable: 4 PP

Traits:
Hot: -4 PP
Titan: 15 PP
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11 PP

Inhabitants: Xadla
Importance: Capital
Resources: Wood, Food, Water, Stone, Iron, Titanium, Glass, Gold
Military presence: 10
Total Planetary Points: 21 (12-6+4+11)

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Species/Race

Species:

Xedla

Appearance

The Xedla are an organism that is similar to an ant colony. They are organised in queens, higher drones, and lower drones. Queens are massive breeding machines and control center for the hive. Higher drones are commander, they may control normal drones and relay hive orders to them. Lower drones are used as soldiers and/or workers, there is not much difference as they are all controlled by the hive mind.

They developed a swarm intellect where each queen controlled drones underneath her, while still being a part of the greater hive. Therefore a swarm/colony will never be able to persist without at least one queen in the vicinity to control them, smaller groups can be lead by a commander, which can operate seperately from the queens for some time. Drones without leadership will remain idle until a commander or queen takes over. Idle drones will not resist in any way to attacks and will simply die, if they remain idle for to long.

Their physical ability and resistance is like that of insects. They posses a strong and fast body, that is resistant to large quantity of radiation. Their resistance toward cold and heat is strong enough for them to live in harsh environments, however they cannot survive in extreme environments, without the help of suits. Like ants their queens are constantly breeding new drones for the hive. Xedlas grow up very rapidly, while lower drones reach a size of 3 meter (9.84252 feet), higher drones up to 3.5 meter (11.4829 feet), and queens up to 20 m (65.6168 feet).

As their homeplanet Ichnaea, has a gravity about 2.5 times larger than the gravity on Earth, the normal gravity the Xedla speak of would always mean 2.5 G. The Xedla can move without problems on gravity spanning from 0.5 G to 3.5 G, for other gravity values they would need either suits to maneuver, or enhance their strength through other means. If they don't do this their ability to move and work would be handicaped.

As many insects the Xedla possess a very efficient reproductive cycle and fast work speed. However they need longer to implement new technologies.

The average lifespan of a Xedla depends, Queen are up to 500 years, Commanders up to 300 years and drones up to 30 years. The lifespans of the drones seem insignificant to human lifespans, however through the swarm intellect drones will become effective workers and soldiers as soon as they grow up. This reduced their speed in which they learned new things, however once a large breakthrough was made the all Xedla members will benefit of it.

Queens need a period of 180 days to grow to their adult sice and start reproducing, while workers and warriors only need a time of 25 days to fully grow.

Stats

Traits: (Max traits: 7)

Reproductive: +7 Reproduction rate. (6 RP)
Tough: +4 Health stat. (2 RP)

Swarm intellect (4 RP)?
Biological: enables need for food, enables need for water, enables basic and advanced research and tech trees. (+0 RP)
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RP: 12

Stats:
str: 4
int: 3
dip: 2
rep: 3 (+7) = 11
hea: 2 (+4) = 6
wor: 6
mor: 0
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RP: 20
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RP: 32

History

History:

Around 20,000 years ago an anomaly of space sucked in an ant Queen and a few dozen worker. They were thrown onto the surface of Ichnaea a planet several times larger than Earth and with a higher gravity. They founded the first colony on this new planet, while trying to avoid all the new and old dangers. After reproducing for several generations, mutations were formed. Every new generation would be larger in size and more intelligent than their predecessors.

After only 50 years they developed into their current size and intelligence level. They had founded several colonies and conquered quite some area. However their development could not be that perfect for much longer. They soon encountered large alien lifeforms, much like Earth dinosaurs, which started to hunt the Xedla. It was only several centuries later that the Xedla developed far enough that they were no longer in danger of losing colonies against those predators. They kept on developing into a continental power and later on they conquered the other continents and made them their own, while exterminating all threats to the colonies and Queens.

1,500 years ago the Xedla controlled every landmass on Ichnaea and reached the technology level of the cold war period. They still had no way to launch any vehicle into space, this would only be possible 1,000 years later.

Currently the Xedla claim their whole system and possess control over the 3rd planet, Ichnaea.

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Xedla Hive

Name of nation:

Xedla Hive

Description of government

Description of government:

The Xedla are controlled by their queens aside from that, there is a strict segregation between worker, warriors and queens. They will be born in one role and live that role until they die. There is no way for a queen to become a worker or a warrior. The hive queens are the ones at the top, below are the normal queens which control their respective colony (note: as in ant colony, not necessarily space colony).

Technological Overview

Technological Overview:

The Xedla technology is based on the usage of high energy, high temperature plasma.

The plasma reactor is a combination of multiple plasma and energy generators combined into one construction. It generates both energy and plasma, based on it's size and the number of generators involved. It uses gaseous substances to create plasma and energy through fusion.

The Xedla do currently not possess any FTL drive! However their sublight engines use high energy plasma, which is provided through the reactor. The engines do not allow traveling faster than light, however they allow relative fast sublight travel, while remaining only dependend on their reactor. Even though they may not possess a valid FTL drive, the idea behind the hyperspace exists, it may only be a matter of time before the first working hyperdrive is created on Ichnaea.

They have knowledge of simple gravity generators, these generators can be deployed in anti-grav vehicles or to generate a gravity field for a ship. They can create either limited zero gravity zones or their normal gravity. Their capacity to create zero gravity and let things hover is limited to the size of a weapon platform. While it's possible to create anti-grav platforms they do require additional plasma reactors as the efficiency of the gravity generators is quite bad. As for creating their normal gravity from less gravity, it is actually much easier than to let things hover. The generators do not need to counter balance the existing gravity, but instead simply output a constant amount of force. They may not be limited like the anti-grav version, however they still need large amounts of energy due to inefficiency.

Plasma is also used for weapons, from claws (powerarmor/suit) and coated in plasma to cut through steel, over plasma guns, rifles and cannons to capital weaponry. Each weapon makes use of plasma to 'burn' through the target. While claws, guns and rifles have their own small reactor integrated, cannons and capital weaponry need a seperate reactor system. Anti-grav plattforms have seperate reactors to field the larger cannons, as for capital weaponry those are only available for vessels and special buildings.

The Xedla do not possess any sort of traditional energy shield. Therefore the Xedla construct buildings and vessels to be resistant against heat, cold and kinetic energy, since they can't depend on any kind of shielding. Their vessels usually have a heavy armor to withstand the impact of asteroids and other space trash. They use titanium as base for their powerarmors/suits, which are completely air tight and contain their own small plasma reactor. Each suit has multiple small plasma engines which allow them to jump a several meters on normal gravitation or maneuver in zero gravity.

Their knowledge of robots is non existent, as their drones are better than any robots.

Description of military

Description of military:

While being strong on ground they still developed several anti-grav plattforms with heavy weaponry to boost their strength even further. However lacking presence in the air and in space they created fighter and bomber, later on they constructed Freighters and other bigger ships to travel from planet to planet. Hangar bays in ships and on planets usually tend to contain different types of fighters, bombers, gunships and boarding ships.

The Hive Fleet contains currently a single large Hive Ship (short: Hive/Hives), spanning several hundred meters and Several 220+ m Cruisers.

Hives are both shipyards and and Battleships in one. They tend to be enourmous in size and several smaller vessels like cruisers may be docked to it. They contain several large hangar bays, offering space to hundreds of small fighters, to defend themselves, while still possessing several batteries of heavy, medium and light plasma weapons, capable of large destruction. They have at least one Queen, but most of the time several Queens, on board and are command vessels. Normally boarding a Hive is quite a bad idea, since they usually have Xedlas in colony strength on board. While extremly strong and hard to kill, they are in fact very slow making it an easy job to outrun them. While it's possible to use Cruisers and freighters for colonization purposes, Hives are much more efficient, as they can carry way larger quantities of both material and Xedlas.

The difference between a normal Hive and a Super Hive class is the size and the fitted equipment.

Cruisers are usually boarded by a small colony and a Queen, or Commander, while able to operate alone most Cruisers are either escorts for a Hive or themselves escorted by several Destroyers. A Cruiser contains two to four medium sized hangar bays with limited space. They are armed with a large quantity of plasma weapons from small anti-fighter turrets to capital weaponry. Cruisers are already much faster than hives, but still slower than their smaller counterparts. Normal cruisers usually have multiple boarding mechanisms, which use plasma coated drills to open up their target, so that the target can be boarded. The same mechanism is used in boarding ships and on other boarding capable vessels.

Carriers are Cruiser class ships which trade some speed and a large number of guns against several larger hangar bays. Their design is nearly the same as cruisers, which makes them difficult to distinguish from normal cruiser.

Frigates/Destroyers are large gunboads and escort ships, they are only boarded by worker and warriors and are rarely found alone, far away from Xedla space or fleets. They do not possess any fighter or bomber bays but are instead armed with as much plasma weapons as their size and reactors allow. They tend to have a large firepower, however as their weapons need additional reactors, their armour tends to be weaker compared to other Xedla ships. They are currently apart from fighters and bombers the fastest ships in the arsenal of the Xedla. They contain a single boarding mechanism to let dozens of Xedla board their victim at the same time.

Needless to say, that every Xedla vessel contains a considerable contingent of Xedlas.

Fleet

Hive Fleet:





Super Hive:

Landing craft

Anti-grav

Cultural Overview

Cultural Overview:

There are no fixed numbers for colonies, instead a colony can range from a few dozens to several millions or more. However a colony has usually between one and five queens.

The Queens are the heart of the Xedla society. They are the swarm intellect, without the queens there is no way to reproduce and the drones would wait for another queen or commander to command them. Each Queen is able to sense if another Queen is in the same system. Commander units can replace a Queens presence for smaller groups of up to several hundred. This is to ensure that no Queen needs to enter the frontlines to command their soldiers.

Planets:
Ichnaea (18 NP)

Ships:
-

Population:
1,000,000,000 Xedla (10 NP)

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Quick note to everyone: Don't include time stamps in your posts. ...

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I removed the time stamp from my post, thought it would be usefull to get an idea of how the nations developed, but well it's not really that important is it? ^^

Stellvia Reboot - a freeform Sci-Fi/Near-future NRP

Cthaobbu, Ichnaea

Several Freighters started from the surface to complete the transfer of a big colony onto the Hive Ship in the orbit of Ichnaea. In addition to that a just finished cruiser began to lift of, within a smaller colony. Dozens of strong plasma engines were firing and lit up the surface in the middle of the night. This small fleet accelerated and quickly left the atmosphere until finally reaching the orbit, where the Hive and the rest of the colonization fleet was waiting. While some of the Freighters were being docked to the hive, six the Cruiser and around two dozen Destroyers moved into a formation around the hive, awaiting the start of the hive.

34 minutes later the Hive powered up it's mighty engines and accelerated towards the ninth planet of the system, surrounded by Cruisers and Destroyers, and supported by a dozen Freighters. Each ship of that fleet, leaving the orbit, was filled to the brim with Akhenaton, to populate the ninth planet. The rest of the Akhenaton ships were scattered all around the system in small groups, always near a planet or moon, or on the way to a planet or moon. Both, the seventh and the ninth planet were always under surveillance of at least a Cruiser and a dozen Destroyers. Every lifeform that could be a threat to the colonization was merciless exterminated by those ships. Those guardships are also responsible to find suitable places to settle for the first colonies on the respective planets.

Freighters were moving between Ichnaea and it's moons, transfering both material and 'people'. They would only stop that to hasten the loading of a Hive class ship or if there was a acute danger. Each Freighter could reach the planet from the moons in between ten minutes and one hour, depending on the moon used as the origin and the mass of the freight.

The colonies of Ichnaea never stoped working, while all that was happening. They started to construct two more Hive Ships and seven new Cruisers. With those ships the number of ships being constructed rose to two Hives, nine Cruisers, seven Destroyers and twelve Freighters. Millions of Akhenatons were crawling on the construction sites and Freighters were coming and going at a rapid speed, this all happens without a single trace of confusion or desorientation. They work like a single machine, constructing the ships in all directions from the origin, an efficiency and coordination no human group would ever be able to reach. But all these ships were only the begining of their construction efforts, many would follow after the few, that was the main rule of the Akhenaton.

Stellvia Reboot - a freeform Sci-Fi/Near-future NRP

Ok, that answered my question perfectly :D

Stellvia Reboot - a freeform Sci-Fi/Near-future NRP

Will there be only one IC thread or is there a possibility to get different sub-threads? The RPs I know of generally created one thread for each named region, so pardon me if I'm still a little confused ^^

Stellvia Reboot - a freeform Sci-Fi/Near-future NRP

I may not be a GM, however I think I can answer this question in their stead:

It is never too late, except the GMs close it ^^