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>>47644

Nation Name: The Altair Exploration Fleet

Race: Men of Altair (Mankind Mechanically Augmented)

History: A new breed of man sprang from the soil of Altair Prime. This new breed seeks to explore the ocean of the stars. They had constructed the finest exploratory fleet possible before danger sprung on their doorstep. They quickly converted their fleet into something capable of overwhelming the enemy with skill and awesome speed. To begin with our vessels were staffed by military, seconded by science officers and those ready to encounter new races. Having the proper grounding to make the most use of their ship's capabilities, with proper training, and the finest augmentations available pushed them to become Super Human, these Men, these Explorator Captains.

In the battle against the hostile vanguard our wolfpack tactics and territory advantage proved formidable. Our deep space drones and outpost caught their FTL signatures early and we had time secure a battleground that would give us an advantage. We had spent countless hours scouting the local phenomenon and obstacles that we could maneuver them into. Unable to damage our ships the enemy morale was in tatters. Furthermore our coordination was perfect. Our enhanced reaction times to visual stimuli were as fast as .125 seconds. Salvo after salvo wore them down until they broke, and then the slaughter began. Victory did not last long and their reinforcements were detected. The size of the signal could come from a typical sized fleet. To flee was the only sensible option. We hope to find a new place to set roots, and allies to weather the storm with.

As proud men they inherit traditions and technology of an old race. As a people who are rising they are devoting themselves to exploration and discovery. Bodies ranging from beautiful to robustly utilitarian have helped refine that old wisdom of mankind where if everyone focuses on their specialty we can create powerful centers of humanity and a vigorous military.

"—We have been so deep into uncharted space that was the Altair System we thought to be beyond the influences of empires. Here we would build their new world from the ground up." - Explorator Founder of Altair Dr.Morbius, Year Zero of the Altairan Calendar

Altair was not a natural paradise. Far from it. But it was a man made paradise. The culmination of countless years of terraforming. It would have taken tens of thousands of years, perhaps a hundred thousand to turn the small radiated planet of Altair Prime into a Gaia world. Yet our progress was accelerated by leaps and bounds after the introduction of state of our art shield technology; The Wottfase Pattern Shield Array. It could prevent even the rays of Altair, the brightest star in a thousand light years, from penetrating our domes. Its powerful radiation had been a plague on our ancestors efforts to reclaim the world and on their bodies.

A flower out of the desert, water to a dying man, Altair Prime. Wondrous cities and factories spanning the world. Elegant halls for an elegant people. A flowering of a new human civilization. Or it would have been.

Alien ships, like rings of snakes devouring themselves endlessly. Massive oval plates of strange metals and ceaseless chattering languages. They continued to enter our sovereign space and refused to halt. We thought and hoped that if we drove off these alien vessels we could display our desire to remain independent. The Captains of the Fleet mobilized and set to work our shipyards to refitting the ships with what weapons we had on hand.

The ships set off to war to defend our sacred home; Son of Altair, Solar Merlin, Resurrection, Wind of Discovery, Giger Child, and Last Horizon returned victorious against the odds. When their reinforcing fleet arrived, it was all they could do to hold them off while the citizens evacuated into the colony ship to a new world escorted by a newly constructed Light Carrier: Chariot of Mars.

Core Fleet Stats: 1 Offensive, 7 Defensive, 10 Mobility, 95% Shields

Fleet:

Colony Ship [Free] 0,4,5, 95% Shields, 25 Storage

Mining Ship [6 Bp] 0,4,5, 95% Shields, 25 Storage

Refinery ship[5 Bp] 0,4,5, 95% Shields, 25 Storage

Supply Freighter[2 Bp] 0,4,5, 95% Shields, 200 Storage

Supply Freighter[2 Bp] 0,4,5, 95% Shields, 200 Storage

Military;

Light Carrier [5 Bp]: Chariot of Mars; 1 Offensive, 6 Defensive, 11 Mobility, 95% Shields, 0 Weapon Slot, 1 Defensive Slot, Hull points 20

Shield Array

Bomber 1

Offense 4 Defense 1 Mobility 10 4 hp

Deal 1d3 + offense to enemies against their defense unable to target any ships moving faster than they are dc 50

Bomber 2

Offense 4 Defense 1 Mobility 10 4 hp

Deal 1d3 + offense to enemies against their defense unable to target any ships moving faster than they are dc 50

Bonus: Sons of the Sun and Circuit: Ships are immune to radiation weapons. Able to colonize otherwise hostile worlds. Civilian ships can equip shields freely.

Pictured:

NLoS Sovereign Class Colony Ship

NLoS Luna Class Battlecruiser

NLoS Asp Class Light Frigate

Nation Name: The Neo Legion of Steel

Race(s): Humans and Cybernetic enhanced humans

History: https://pastebin.com/1pSN1LQK

Core Fleet Stats: 5 offence, 7 defense, 9 mobility, 70 shields

Fleet:

Civilian:

1x Colony ship (Free)

5 M

Mobile Shipyard (8BP)

5 M

1x Mining Ship (6 BP)

5 M

1x Refinery Ship (5 BP)

5M

Military:

Asp class Light Frigate (Corvette) (1 BP)

4 O, 4 D, 15 M

5 HP

Weapons

1. 3 turret mounted cannons (Railgun)

>>47818

>>48165

Submit to the will of Kar or be annihilated

Rolled 38 (1d100)

Nation Name: Grylon

Race: Grylac

History: The Grylac are a peaceful race that has developed a utopia on their home world, Grylon. The Grylac have avoided war and formed one nation across their world due to their aversion of hostility and their obsessive and compulsive behaviors of working hard and progressing. Grylac prefer repetitive menial and laborer tasks like mining and building. Grylon is a desert planet with little life and harsh conditions, but is rich in ore, precious metals and stones.

Core Fleet Stats:

> Offense 4

> Defense 9

> Mobility 8

> Shields 58

Fleet:

1 Colony Ship

20 HP

25 Storage

1 Supply Freighter

10 HP

200 Storage

3 Mining Ship

15 HP

25 Storage 15 hp

+10 common metal a turn

+10 metal harvest rolls

Bonus:

>>49019

Update

Nation Name: Grylon

Race: Grylac

History: The Grylac are a hard working race that prefer repetitive menial labor tasks like mining and building similar to the common ant. Their homeworld of Grylon is a desert planet with little life and harsh conditions, but is rich in ore, precious metals and stones.

Core Fleet Stats:

> Offense 4

> Defense 9

> Mobility 8

> Shields 58

Fleet:

1 Colony Ship

20 HP

25 Storage

1 Mobile Shipyard

20 HP

2 Mining Ship

15 HP

25 Storage 15 hp

+10 common metal a turn

+10 metal harvest rolls

Bonus:

Nation Name: Brannan Emergency Convention

Race(s): Mostly human

History: The Brannan System, filled with a few gas giants and a fairly large amount of asteroids, lays along a former trade corridor. Back in the heyday of that old route, the system was full of investors and traders of all sorts, eagerly staking claims and picking apart the choicest rocks for easy wealth to be shipped right down the road. But the empires up the road crashed and burned, and suddenly the profit margins on shipping most of those minerals out-of-system dropped to less acceptable levels. Pretty much all outside investment pulled out alongside their employees, save for the Cakonov-Kinari, who slapped their miners with non-compete clauses and left for more profitable skies.

Those clauses were almost always ignored. After all, mining's all those former employees had to keep the lights on, and who was going to stop them exactly? That was generations ago. Clawing a life from the rock is never really easy, and mining has never been relaxing work, but they manage. A culture spread across Hector's belts, moving into abandoned mining facilities and carving new habs out of the more stable asteroids. Slowly, but surely, small amounts of trade began to pick up, this time in the hands of the belter's ships. That those ships were essentially tissue paper with peashooters moved by pedal power was never much of a problem - there wasn't much conflict in the area, and pirates usually balked at the defenses of the habs themselves instead of fearing the ships. Life developed a kind of rhythm in the system, a mostly prosperous status quo maintained through hard work among the rocks and engineers increasingly good at shoving new and old systems together in a way that kept 'em all alive.

But nothing lasts forever. Reports of two big ol' empires riding in from the intergalactic void, fleets screaming into systems all weapons blazing and tearing through every fleet that dared stand in their way, were written off as the exact sort of sailor's tales they were used to. That changed when closer trade ports started going dark, when strange signals tore away at the edge of sensors. When the ultimatums came, handed down by advance elements of both fleets to freighters headed home, the miners circled the wagons and mulled over their options. Could they fight? Not a chance in hell. Should they serve? There were some grumblings, but those same early reports hardly spoke of the mercy and benevolence of the invaders. And so they decided to run.

And so they tore their homes apart, room by room, facility by facility, to make their ships. Entire agricultural sections of habs, entire industrial facilities, slotted into the frame of would-be colony ships. Generations of jury-rigging experience, the distant future descendants of what we might call "duct tape", and abusing what might've once been modularity got those babies flying. Were conditions cramped? Would they, as they fled, be forced into difficult working conditions? Would they be forced to live with slim layers of metal between themselves and the cold void? Business as usual, really.

Core Fleet Stats: OFF 4 DEF 3 SPD 2 SHIELD 18

Fleet:

Civilian:

-Colony Ship: Frontier Star [20HP 25 STORAGE]

-Colony Ship: Driller's Delight [20HP 25 STORAGE]

-Colony Ship: Claim Jumper [20HP 25 STORAGE]

-Mining Ship: Brotherlode [15HP 25 STORAGE +10CM/turn]

"Military":

-Corvette: Haymaker [O3 D1 S4 HP5 SHIELD 18] [LASER]

Bonus: (qm will give you this)

>>47607

Nation Name: The Bellum Rexes(Translation: Reigning Kings of War)

Race(s): Ultanians(Subraces: Grand Makers[scientists/engineers], Overlords[Commanders/Captains], Slayers[Civilians/Soldiers], and further broken down into thousands of categories if not more if one focused on the prevalence of idiosyncracies and genetic differences)

History: The Ultanians are an exceedingly belligerent race of rapidly producing humanoids hailing from the Hastos system, which originally hosted ten other sentient and intelligent species that they wiped out or subsumed into their species genetics. Ultanians range from 6ft to 8ft tall, never shorter and only taller with extreme genetic quirks, and all are shaped like typical humanoids. They possess five fingered claws, powerful legs, a "skin-tight" shell, and are omnivorous. The race naturally creates soldiers that are both inhumanly disciplined and incredibly idiosyncratic in personality and appearance, further divided into multiple squads and units that each conform to their own way of fighting, forming an interlocking whole where soldiers fight both as one unit and individuals, similar to wolves. This coupled with other evidence leads many to believe the race was genetically engineered, even considering that evidence shows they existed in their system as long as their now extinct relative races. The species as a whole gravitates toward warfare, and when first taking the galactic stage they quite quickly embroiled themselves in conflict, notably adding the genetic benefits of their foes into their own code, with said benefits seeming to appear at random amongst the whole, but in accordance with other benefits. Scientists being not only smarter but having greater introspection, soldiers with both strength and greater reaction times, and so on.

The Ultanians would likely have been culled for their extremely violent ways and rapid spread, but one of the great empires saw them as useful. They were inducted into an empire with supreme technology, but lacked natural aggresiveness, and quickly became that empires primary soldier race. The empires rulers lowered the races aggresiveness and breeding while increasing discipline even further. This made it so that, while still brutally effective and fast spreading, the Ultanians were no longer a plague and scourge upon the galaxy, and soon rose in prominence. They fought the empires wars for countless centuries, utilizing advanced Orb ships to travel and decimate foes. This lasted until the galaxy was invaded. Not given to cowardice, the Ultanians fought against impossible odds until eventually the empire they worked with was obliterated along with approximately 99% of their race. The members of the empire they worked for fled in the hundreds, and took the Ultanians with them. But with the former deals broken and the galaxy changed, the Ultanians in short order added the former races DNA and traits to their genetics. Now the Ultanians flee with other races, held back by common sense and the fact that they cannot afford a war. They must primarily maintain their race, even as the urge for battle flows through all their veins.

Core Fleet Stats: 10 Offensive, 5 Defensive, 7 Mobility, 3 Shields

Fleet:

Dreadnought Orb "Last Word"

HP: 70 Hull Points

Stats: 11 Offensive, 6 Defensive, 6 Mobility

Attack Modules: 3 Missile Launcher Arrays, 2 Lasers(1d10+11(3), 1d6+11(2))

Defensive Modules: ECM System, Improved Armor Kinetic, Energy, Explosive

Corvette Orb "Silent Grace"

HP: 5 Hull Points

Stats: 9 Offensive, 3 Defensive, 14 Mobility

Attack Modules: Railgun(1d10+11(1))

Mobile Shipyard Orb "Maker of Wills"

HP: 20 Hull Points

Stats: 3 Defensive, 4 Mobility

Supply Freight Orb "Holder of Power"

HP: 10 Hull Points

Stats: 3 Defensive, 4 Mobility

Storage: 200

Colony Ship Orb "Heart of War"

HP: 20 Hull Points

Stats: 3 Defensive, 4 Mobility

Storage: 25

Bonus: (qm will give you this)

Nation Name: Bellum(This fleet)

Race(s): Ultanians(Subraces: thousands of categories if not more if one focused on the prevalence of idiosyncracies, currently number only dozens)

History: The Ultanians are an exceedingly belligerent race hailing from the Hastos system, which originally hosted ten other sentient and intelligent species upon its large varied worlds. All of these the Ultanians killed over the course of a dozen wars. Ultanians range from 6ft to 8ft tall on average and are shaped like typical humanoids. They possess five fingered claws, powerful legs, and are omnivorous. The race is naturally fractious, proper discipline and true unity an alien concept to them. They have a mentality that is half individualistic and half collective, in that they are quick to form into cliques, gangs, and squads of incredibly varied sizes. Gangs as small as five and so large they numbered in the thousands were the range on average. This is notable in their physiology. Their natural skin, eye, and hair colors are pure grey, but when joining a gang will rapidly develop colors, markings, and patterns unique to the particular gang they are member of. In time this even leads to physiological differences of varying extremes.

The Ultanians would likely have been rendered extinct in time by their own hand or anothers, but one of the great empires saw them as useful. They were inducted into an empire with supreme technology, but whose member races lacked natural aggresiveness and through lengthy and incredibly difficult negotiations the majority joined the empire to one extent or another. In exchange for resources, weapons, ships, and pay, the Ultanians became that empires premiere race of mercenaries. Point them at a world, tell them what to do, and in due time they would have it dead. They fought the empires wars for countless centuries, utilizing odd Orb ships to travel the starts. This lasted until the galaxy was invaded. The empire they were under was targeted directly, as were the Ulthanians. Not given to cowardice, though their loyalty was always in question, the Ultanians fought a retreating war against impossible odds until eventually the empire they worked with was utterly fractured. The surviving Ulthanians, never given to discipline, finally abandoned their former masters to their fate. The races surviving members linked up, and naturally split into a variety of radio silent Refuge Fleets, each made up of gangs and squads held together by as much resources as common sense. This is one of those fleets, the whereabouts of others are unknown.

Core Fleet Stats: 10 Offensive, 5 Defensive, 7 Mobility, 3 Shields

Fleet:

Dreadnought Orb "Last Word"

HP: 70 Hull Points

Stats: 11 Offensive, 6 Defensive, 6 Mobility

Attack Modules: 3 Missile Launcher Arrays, 2 Lasers(1d10+11(3), 1d6+11(2))

Defensive Modules: ECM System, Improved Armor Kinetic, Energy, Explosive

Corvette Orb "Silent Grace"

HP: 5 Hull Points

Stats: 9 Offensive, 3 Defensive, 14 Mobility

Attack Modules: Railgun(1d10+11(1))

Mobile Shipyard Orb "Maker of Wills"

HP: 20 Hull Points

Stats: 3 Defensive, 4 Mobility

Supply Freight Orb "Holder of Power"

HP: 10 Hull Points

Stats: 3 Defensive, 4 Mobility

Storage: 200

Colony Ship Orb "Heart of War"

HP: 20 Hull Points

Stats: 3 Defensive, 4 Mobility

Storage: 25

Bonus: (qm will give you this)