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I posted. Sorry about he double post and the relative shortness of it all. It was all I could manage in the short amount of time I had available

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Mi Ran shook her head. Her thoughts were wandering around again, she needed to concentrate. Concentrate on the nearly empty, except for her two Tatara body guards, throne room.
"Min Su... I am bored... Isn't there something I can do except simply sitting here?", Mi Ran moaned.
A blue scaled Tatara, her bodyguard Pyo Min Su, flew closer and bowed a little.

"I am very sorry, Mi Ran-mama. I don't know myself why today is such an empty day. But sadly I cannot allow you to leave yet, mama. But I can shorten the audience time to end in about half an hour, if you wish, but we need to go through the formalities."
Mi Ran sighed tapping her fingers onto the wood of the throne. "I know, I know... proceed, please. I don't want to sit here for two more hours..."

Pyo Min Su bowed before she dashed behind a desk whirling out a pen and activating the digital panel.
For now, Mi Ran just devoted herself to staring into the sky visible through the open gate a few hundred meters ahead of her until her stare was interrupted by a Nyali hastily flying in. "Gongjumama, gongjumama! Princess, princess! Urgent message!"
Surprised and a little shocked Mi Ran sprang up from the throne. "What is it, jeonlyeong? Tell me."
"Jeoha, we have just gotten news from Home... Earth has fallen..."

When Admiral Tae Yu Na received the news, she was sitting in the captain's cabin on her ship, the Seoul, the lead ship of the Seoul-class Dreadnought, of which currently four others are finished, and flagship of the First Fleet, caring for her red scales, especially on her tail. Naturally, as a Tatara, she was very proud of her scales as her sign of beauty and strength and had to care for them routinely.

When the message arrived, she didn't flinch, she didn't stop her cleaning for one second and just motioned for her first officer to leave.
As soon as the door had closed, she balled her scaled hand into a fist and slammed it onto her bedstand.
"Dammit, dammit, dammit!"

She paused for a second to angrily pull out a splinter of plastic out between the scales of her hand and breathed in and out steadily to calm herself down. A little flame passed through her mouth unconsciously. This was a political disaster for the Cheonsang Kingdom. It meant the renewal of diplomatic relations with the dominion, it meant, war was inching closer and closer.
Even though some hardliners in the military wanted to seriously try out the new equipment in actual war, but even those would not dare to try to use them offensively against the dominion.

No matter what, her people needed her now. She couldn't even begin to imagine how it would feel for the humans in her crew. Gingerly, she straightened her uniform, folded her wings in and left her room to head to the bridge.

"Captain on the bridge!", her first officer called out. Yu Na nodded and moved to her self to her chair, but before she sat down, she turned to her two thirds human bridge crew. "I'm sorry... the next couple of hours will be painful as we await an official statement of the royal family. The months following that will be even harsher, I myself know, we can't let ourselves be intimidated... but a display of might like the one the dominion just showed us, is not easily counterable." A heavy pause.

"As sad as it makes me to think about it, but we might need to give up what our ancestors managed to regain two hundred years ago and retreat, once again, into the safety of The Sisters or even further."
A lonesome tear rolled down her cheek staining the lovely red scales that adorned them with a deeper colour than usual.

After a long, meaningful pause, one human started humming a familiar tune to everybody on the ship and soon, the entire bridge crew joined in the folk song.



Arirang, Arirang, Arariyo...
Arirang gogaero neomeoganda.
Nareul beorigo gasineun nimeun
Simnido motgaseo balbbyeongnanda.

Arirang, Arirang, Arariyo...
Crossing over Arirang Pass.
The one who abandoned me
Shall not walk even 4 kilometers before their feet hurt

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Cheonsang Kingdom

Name of Nation:

Cheonsang Kingdom / Cheonsang Wangtan / Heavenly Kingdom

Banner/Flag:

Type of Government:

Royal Triarchy

Leaders:

King Seo Tae Sun, human, male

Queen Seo Sa Ra, human, female

Princess Seo Mi Ran, human, female

Persons of Importance:

Admiral Tae Yu Na, Tatara, female

Cho Rae Yeon, Nyali, female

Diplomatic Corps:
Yang Ji Han, human, male
Sang Na Mi, Tatara, female
Yeo Ae Ri, Nyali, female

Demographics:

50% Human
20% Nyali
20% Tatara
10% Several other species, none more than 2%

Species

The Nyali:



The Nyali are a curious race. Just like their sister race, the Tatatra, the Nyali only have female members of their species. Once, in the far past, they might have had males, but until now, they have evolved to use female on female insemination. After insemination, there is a five month development period in the womb, before both females lay exactly one egg each which hatches after five more months.

Visibly they strongly resemble harpies of human mythology, but a lot less scary. Although mostly human, they have wings instead of arms and their feet are bird claws and very dexterous and therefor used to handle a lot of things that their arms cannot. Their feathers are vividly coloured and can have multiple hues and colours which is also reflected in their hair.

Socially Nyali have a flock-like behavioural pattern and they quite dislike being alone and so they are very well suited to crew spaceships, mostly acting as engineers and gunners as well as psychologists and other social support officers, but also pilots, due to their natural ability of flight.

The Tatara:



The Tatara are very similar to the Nyali, except for their physical looks, to the point that scientists believe they might have developed from the same roots. They have the same reproduction cycle, no males and a similar "human hybrid" look.

However, they certainly are very different in many other ways. For one, Tatara have seven limbs; Arms, legs, wings and a tail. Another surprising biological feature is their ability to breathe actual fire, which makes them, with the inclusion of claws for both their hands and feet and their protective scales on at least half of their body, different body parts are covered for every individual, very good fighters and marines. Otherwise Tatara's are able to do basically every duty out there, even diplomats, although that might be a little rarer to see, since firstly aliens are not accepted by all empires as equal and secondly, Tatara are known for being a bit impatient and impulsive.

Religion:

Nebula Trinity:
A fairly spiritualist religion that reveres the three nebulae in the vicinity as signs of nature's beauty. As such, the holy number is 3 and every follower of the religion has to do a pilgrimage to the Trinity system, which is a triple star system with three planets, all inhabited with three moons each, clearly a sign of the gods, as the chances of this happening are very, very slim. In contrast to many other religions, this religion sees not male gods, but only female ones, inspired by the beauty of said nebulae, birthplace of many, many stars.
There even is a religious order, the Sisters of the Nebulae, who watch over the integrity of the nebulae and have the duty of licensing and controlling mining operations.

Culture:

Quite interestingly and contrary to most space faring empires, due to the Nyali and Tataran cultural influences, females of all kind are seen a lot more frequent about almost everywhere. Most of the admiralty is female and the desired gender of the children in humans is, for most human couples, girls as well. However, this is not as much of a problem as one might make it out to be, since there are quite harmless methods of transforming one's body into the opposite sex, which makes the boundary between male and female even less visible.

However, the Korean influence is even visible within the two major alien races. Every name is based on Korean names from back on Earth, even the Nyali and Tatara abandoned their cultural naming to better fit into the society. Even more so, the official language and script are Korean and their architectural style, while modern is heavy leaned upon traditional, 11th to 19th century Korean architecture.

Naturally traditional Confucian thought, though, was, slowly supplemented by philosophy from the two major alien races, which makes the country quite introspective and progressive in thought and mind, which explains the high acceptance for new alien species and thought patterns.
Cheonsang people also experience the feeling of "Han". Han is sorrow caused by heavy suffering, injustice or persecution, a dull lingering ache in the soul. It is a blend of lifelong sorrow and resentment, neither more powerful than the other. Han is imbued with resignation, bitter acceptance and a grim determination to wait until vengeance can at last be achieved, however, Han is passive. It yearns for vengeance, but does not seek it. Han is held close to the heart, hoping and patient but never aggressive. It becomes part of the blood and breath of a person. There is a sense of lamentation and even of reproach toward the destiny that led to such misery.

History:

It all started with a fleet of colony ships starting from a United Korean Federation on Earth towards an unexplored part of space into the Sagittarius-Arm . Upon arriving there and founding the colony of Silla, an exploration ship found a colony of a new alien race, later known as Nyali, which whom they immediately managed to make diplomatic deals with. Soon after, they had discovered another alien race, the Tatara and, even though relationships between the three races started out a little roughly, it quickly grew into a profitable partnership and then, in the end into a friendship.
This friendship, however, was threatened when the Imperium formed, forcing the small blossoming nation into its mantle.
Korean government officials were deposed and replaced by Imperium loyal ones. Racism against the Nayli and Tatara was widely considered immoral and wrong by the human population, but a certain degree of discrimination was, by law, required. This meant frequent uprisings against the iron hand of the empire, which were far from successful. In a desperate attempt to escape Imperial might, the Nyali, the Tatara and a lot of human sympathizers sought refuge in the Omega and the Trifid Nebulae where they managed to settle several systems concealed from the Imperial scouts. It was there that they, out of the necessity of hiding developed the star gates, they use even now to travel from point to point instantly.
During this time, the Seo family was elected as royal rulers to steer the way of the new Cheonsang Kingdom.
When it became apparent that the Imperium was collapsing, sleeper agents inside the region up to the Lagoon Nebula started to incite revolts against the rule of the Imperial governeurs. After five years of struggle, the separatists managed to topple the Imperial government on the capital Baekje.

What followed was an industrial boom unprecedented in their history, even in the history of Korea. Mines popping up everywhere and the discovery of new resource places, since the area was previously pretty much ignored by the Imperium, brought the Cheonsang Kingdom to the realization that they were sitting on a gold mine.
Most important systems were equipped with hyperspace gates to compensate for the slow warp drive.
This was a peaceful and prosperous time for the Kingdom and the focus of research and construction was almost entirely on civilian ships and economy.
Things started to change when news of a new leader in the nearby Dominion reached the Cheonsang. Alien races, especially the Tatara pressured, scared by the thoughts of another, even more terrifying oppression, the government to focus all their research for military technology and rearm the nation.
Now that the Dominion seemed unstoppable, a gigantic array of military fortresses has been erected in the systems bordering Dominion space hoping to hold them off until help arrives.

Military:

Most of Cheonsang's military operations are focused on the navy, the only place where the military thinks it is able to at least contend the Dominion's might. Other than basic army equipment, the only close combat gear actually fabricated are marine equipment used for Tatara marines.

Navy:

Most ship-classes and designs are fairly new, none older than twenty five years. Therefor there are not a lot of ships in the navy, but they are excellently designed to be a lot stronger than your usual ships.

Fighter:

Anyang-class:



Ansan-class



Frigate:

Torpedo: Muan-class



Plasma: Imsil-class



Beam: Naju-class



Anti-Air: Jinan-class



Destroyer: Sokcho-class



Light Cruiser:

Variant A: Kaesong-class



Variant B: Taebaek-class



Heavy Cruiser: White: Daejeon-class, Red: Jeonju-class



Battlecruiser: Yeoncheon-class



Battleship: Incheon-class



Dreadnought: Seoul-class



Light Carrier: Andong-class



Escort Carrier: Busan-class



Heavy Carrier: Daegu-class



Fleet Carrier: Pyongyang-class



Siege Vessel: Gwangju-class

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I hope I am done. Tell me if I need to change something or add some bits.

Cheonsang Kingdom

Name of Nation:

Cheonsang Kingdom / Cheonsang Wangtan / Heavenly Kingdom

Banner/Flag:

Type of Government:

Royal Triarchy

Leaders:

King Seo Taesun, human, male

Queen Seo Sara, human, female

Princess Seo Miran, human, female

Persons of Importance:

Admiral Tae Yuna, Tatara, female

Yang Jihan, human, male

Cho Raeyeon, Nyali, female

Demographics:

55% Human
15% Nyali
15% Tatara
15% Several other species, none more than 2%

Species

The Nyali:



The Nyali are a curious race. Just like their sister race, the Tatatra, the Nyali only have female members of their species. Once, in the far past, they might have had males, but until now, they have evolved to use female on female insemination. After insemination, there is a five month development period in the womb, before both females lay exactly one egg each which hatches after five more months.

Visibly they strongly resemble harpies of human mythology, but a lot less scary. Although mostly human, they have wings instead of arms and their feet are bird claws and very dexterous and therefor used to handle a lot of things that their arms cannot. Their feathers are vividly coloured and can have multiple hues and colours which is also reflected in their hair.

Socially Nyali have a flock-like behavioural pattern and they quite dislike being alone and so they are very well suited to crew spaceships, mostly acting as engineers and gunners as well as psychologists and other social support officers, but also pilots, due to their natural ability of flight.

The Tatara:



The Tatara are very similar to the Nyali, except for their physical looks, to the point that scientists believe they might have developed from the same roots. They have the same reproduction cycle, no males and a similar "human hybrid" look.

However, they certainly are very different in many other ways. For one, Tatara have seven limbs; Arms, legs, wings and a tail. Another surprising biological feature is their ability to breathe actual fire, which makes them, with the inclusion of claws for both their hands and feet and their protective scales on at least half of their body, different body parts are covered for every individual, very good fighters and marines. Otherwise Tatara's are able to do basically every duty out there, even diplomats, although that might be a little rarer to see, since firstly aliens are not accepted by all empires as equal and secondly, Tatara are known for being a bit impatient and impulsive.

Religion:

Nebula Trinity:
A fairly spiritualist religion that reveres the three nebulae in the vicinity as signs of nature's beauty. As such, the holy number is 3 and every follower of the religion has to do a pilgrimage to the Trinity system, which is a triple star system with three planets, all inhabited with three moons each, clearly a sign of the gods, as the chances of this happening are very, very slim. In contrast to many other religions, this religion sees not male gods, but only female ones, inspired by the beauty of said nebulae, birthplace of many, many stars.
There even is a religious order, the Sisters of the Nebulae, who watch over the integrity of the nebulae and have the duty of licensing and controlling mining operations.

Culture:

Quite interestingly and contrary to most space faring empires, due to the Nyali and Tataran cultural influences, females of all kind are seen a lot more frequent about almost everywhere. Most of the admiralty is female and the desired gender of the children in humans is, for most human couples, girls as well. However, this is not as much of a problem as one might make it out to be, since there are quite harmless methods of transforming one's body into the opposite sex, which makes the boundary between male and female even less visible.

However, the Korean influence is even visible within the two major alien races. Every name is based on Korean names from back on Earth, even the Nyali and Tatara abandoned their cultural naming to better fit into the society. Even more so, the official language and script are Korean and their architectural style, while modern is heavy leaned upon traditional, 11th to 19th century Korean architecture.

Naturally traditional Confucian thought, though, was, slowly supplemented by philosophy from the two major alien races, which makes the country quite introspective and progressive in thought and mind, which explains the high acceptance for new alien species and thought patterns.
Cheonsang people also experience the feeling of "Han". Han is sorrow caused by heavy suffering, injustice or persecution, a dull lingering ache in the soul. It is a blend of lifelong sorrow and resentment, neither more powerful than the other. Han is imbued with resignation, bitter acceptance and a grim determination to wait until vengeance can at last be achieved, however, Han is passive. It yearns for vengeance, but does not seek it. Han is held close to the heart, hoping and patient but never aggressive. It becomes part of the blood and breath of a person. There is a sense of lamentation and even of reproach toward the destiny that led to such misery.

History:

It all started with a fleet of colony ships starting from a United Korean Federation on Earth towards an unexplored part of space into the Sagittarius-Arm . Upon arriving there and founding the colony of Silla, an exploration ship found a colony of a new alien race, later known as Nyali, which whom they immediately managed to make diplomatic deals with. Soon after, they had discovered another alien race, the Tatara and, even though relationships between the three races started out a little roughly, it quickly grew into a profitable partnership and then, in the end into a friendship.
This friendship, however, was threatened when the Imperium formed, forcing the small blossoming nation into its mantle.
Korean government officials were deposed and replaced by Imperium loyal ones. Racism against the Nayli and Tatara was widely considered immoral and wrong by the human population, but a certain degree of discrimination was, by law, required. This meant frequent uprisings against the iron hand of the empire, which were far from successful. In a desperate attempt to escape Imperial might, the Nyali, the Tatara and a lot of human sympathizers sought refuge in the Omega and the Trifid Nebulae where they managed to settle several systems concealed from the Imperial scouts. It was there that they, out of the necessity of hiding developed the star gates, they use even now to travel from point to point instantly.
During this time, the Seo family was elected as royal rulers to steer the way of the new Cheonsang Kingdom.
When it became apparent that the Imperium was collapsing, sleeper agents inside the region up to the Lagoon Nebula started to incite revolts against the rule of the Imperial governeurs. After five years of struggle, the separatists managed to topple the Imperial government on the capital Baekje.

What followed was an industrial boom unprecedented in their history, even in the history of Korea. Mines popping up everywhere and the discovery of new resource places, since the area was previously pretty much ignored by the Imperium, brought the Cheonsang Kingdom to the realization that they were sitting on a gold mine.
Most important systems were equipped with hyperspace gates to compensate for the slow warp drive.
This was a peaceful and prosperous time for the Kingdom and the focus of research and construction was almost entirely on civilian ships and economy.
Things started to change when news of a new leader in the nearby Dominion reached the Cheonsang. Alien races, especially the Tatara pressured, scared by the thoughts of another, even more terrifying oppression, the government to focus all their research for military technology and rearm the nation.
Now that the Dominion seemed unstoppable, a gigantic array of military fortresses has been erected in the systems bordering Dominion space hoping to hold them off until help arrives.

Military:

Most of Cheonsang's military operations are focused on the navy, the only place where the military thinks it is able to at least contend the Dominion's might. Other than basic army equipment, the only close combat gear actually fabricated are marine equipment used for Tatara marines.

Navy:

Most ship-classes and designs are fairly new, none older than twenty five years. Therefor there are not a lot of ships in the navy, but they are excellently designed to be a lot stronger than your usual ships.

Fighter:

Anyang-class:



Ansan-class



Frigate:

Torpedo: Muan-class



Plasma: Imsil-class



Beam: Naju-class



Anti-Air: Jinan-class



Destroyer: Sokcho-class



Light Cruiser:

Variant A: Kaesong-class



Variant B: Taebaek-class



Heavy Cruiser: White: Daejeon-class, Red: Jeonju-class



Battlecruiser: Yeoncheon-class



Battleship: Incheon-class



Dreadnought: Seoul-class



Light Carrier: Andong-class



Escort Carrier: Busan-class



Heavy Carrier: Daegu-class



Fleet Carrier: Pyongyang-class



Siege Vessel: Gwangju-class

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Very early draft, most is incomplete, but you can adore the work I put into it to make it look pretty.

Cheonsang Kingdom

Name of Nation:

Cheonsang Kingdom / Cheonsang Wangtan / Heavenly Kingdom

Banner/Flag:

Type of Government:

Royal Triarchy

Leaders:

King Seo Tae-sun

Queen Seo Sa-Ra

Princess Seo Mi-Ran

Persons of Importance:

Admiral Tae Yuna

Yang Ji-Han

Cho Rae Yeon

Demographics:

60% Human
20% Nyali
20% Several other species, none more than 5%

Species

The Hyali:

Religion:

Nebula Trinity:
A fairly spiritualist religion that reveres the three nebulae in the vicinity as signs of nature's beauty. As such, the holy number is 3 and every follower of the religion has to do a pilgrimage to the Trinity system, which is a triple star system with three planets, all inhabited with three moons each, clearly a sign of the gods, as the chances of this happening are very, very slim. In contrast to many other religions, this religion sees not male gods, but only female ones, inspired by the beauty of said nebulae, birthplace of many, many stars.
There even is a religious order, the Sisters of the Nebulae, who watch over the integrity of the nebulae and have the duty of licensing and controlling mining operations.

Culture:

History:

Military:

Navy:

Fighter:

Anyang-class:



Ansan-class



Frigate:

Torpedo: Muan-class



Plasma: Imsil-class



Beam: Naju-class



Anti-Air: Jinan-class



Destroyer: Sokcho-class



Light Cruiser:

Variant A: Kaesong-class



Variant B: Taebaek-class



Heavy Cruiser: White: Daejeon-class, Red: Jeonju-class



Battlecruiser: Yeoncheon-class



Battleship: Incheon-class



Dreadnought: Seoul-class



Light Carrier: Andong-class



Escort Carrier: Busan-class



Heavy Carrier: Daegu-class



Fleet Carrier: Pyongyang-class



Siege Vessel: Gwangju-class

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@Sigma Mhhh. They are basically defectors of both empires, so yeah... xD
Nevertheless, I'd planned for the faction to be very, very defensive focused. Giant space stations/gun plattforms with FTL-Inhibitors and their navy being very defensive as well. Few ships, but the few they have are almost to the point of over-engineering.

Ship Models I think I will use

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If you're still accepting people, I had an idea:

The Procyon Sector Authority. Basically a few systems around Procyon as the central system formed together and (very recently) declared independence, which is quite exciting since Procyon is pretty close to Sol (11.4 LY). Systems, I thought about to join it are, for example, Luyten's Star, Sirius, Ross 614 and a few more around that area, especially mining systems.
Since they are so close to Sol, they are pretty much very old colonies, with quite the population and a strong, mining based economy as well as the Procyon Shipyards.
Of course they will never have either the military or the economy to challenge a huge empire, but they can be self-sufficient and also defend their borders.

How does that sound?

R.W.B.Y. ~ The Colors of Dawn ~

Min Seoyun

Even her exploding arrows had nearly no effect on the beast's neck. This was slowly getting frustrating for the tiny fox girl, even more so when one of the humans motioned for her to pin the wings once more.
Really, that again? It hadn't worked before... but nevertheless, she wasn't one to spoil some one else's strategy, so she nodded. However, this time around she planned to do it differently. She removed the red dust vial and inserted a white one onto the grip of her bow and knocked her arrow.
She focused and concentrated, narrowed her eyes and let loose. As soon as the first arrow was on its way, she knocked a second one and fired it immediately after continuing to do so until about eight arrows were in the air or already hitting the target.
The arrows, while in flight, had a white trail flowing off the shaft and when they impacted the soft membrane of the beast, the tip exploded freezing the surrounding area and creating an iceberg surrounding the arrow making it even more difficult to remove it and lift up the wings, both of which were now pinned down by four ice arrows each.

Wings Askew

The migraines, man, the migraines...!