Original Universe History.
For the IGA's page in their home universe, see here:http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:IGAThe IGA was created for the protection of the Ibis Galaxy, a small galaxy whose residents have just discovered the many empires outside. Realizing how many threats were out there, the two main races of the Ibis Galaxy, the Tyrannar Junta and the Alvarok Empire, formed a coalition for protection. They created a charter that enacted a Shared Defence Treaty, a galactic watch system, and a complete sharing of technology. At first numerous small rebellions sprang up, as the IGA attempted to turn into an empire, but a change in leaders stopped that. Now the IGA exists as a republic with two members democratically voted in from each state. Throughout it's short history the IGA has managed to add 300 colonies to its reach and increase citizen happiness to 91%. It's survived through two rebellions and has now declared itself in intergalactic space for the first time, making a colony in the Andromeda Galaxy.
Nation States History:
Recently, the IGA have opened a wormhole to a new universe(this one), and discovered a huge planet filled with thousands of nations(some of them from the original universe living on it. Finding it to be an excellent place to place a colony,the IGA landed a colony ship on the continent of Absolution, and have begun to expand from there.
Races:
Major Races
Minor Racesns
Tyrannar
A powerful and very physically strong race, Tyrannar are one of the dominant races of the Ibis Galaxy, and due to their extreme physical prowess, domianate the IGA army. They are not stupid, however, they are actually very intelligent.
Alvarok
Alvarok are a race of agile, highly intelligent, bird-like creatures who are one of the most common races in the IGA. Due to their intelligence and extreme reflexes, Alvarok are the most common race in the IGA Navy, and are also commonly found in Spec-Ops and scientific positions.
Ryordaans
The Ryoordaans are a highly social and intelligent race, and the third most common IGA member race.
Minor Racesns
Orashnia
One of the newer races to the IGA, Orashnians are a very social and diplomatic race.
Lembas
Honorary Members. Only participate in shared defence treaty, and are not full IGA members due to their religous zealotry and mild xenophobia.
Rillians
The newest member race in the IGA, Rillians are an extremely intelligent race who are very skilled with science and technology.
Starships:
Strike Craft
Cruisers
Dreadnoughts
Stations
Superweapons
Special
Weapons Tech
Reaper
*Length:50m
*Armament:CIWS laser array, 20 antimatter missiles.
*Defenses:Non-Phasic shielding, armor plating.
*Crew:5
A light scout ship.
Cruisers
Hellrainer Destroyer
*Length:310m
*Armament:2 particle cannons, 2 light Proton torpedo launchers, 4 light particle cannons, CIWS laser array.
*Defenses:Non-Phasic shielding, armor plating.
*Crew:15
A light patrol ship used to lead light fleet and screen larger ships from attack.
Hellrainer Cruiser
*Length:430m
*Armament:2 particle cannons, 4 light particle cannons , 2 rapid fire Proton torpedo launchers, CIWS laser array.
*Defenses:Non-Phasic shielding, armor plating.
*Crew:25
A larger version of the Hellrainer Destroyer.
Dreadnoughts
Godsword
*Length:2000 meters
*Armament:20 particle cannons,1 Heavy Superlaser, PD array,4 RKV missiles.
*Defenses:Non-Phasic Shielding, armor plating.
*Crew:250
The Empire's most powerful commonly used warship, the Godsword is a titanic 2km long super-dreadnought. It emphasises the IGAs combat doctrine, with extreme speed and long-ranged firepower.
Harbringer
*Length:24km
*Armament:1 Superheavy Superlaser, 20 heavy particle cannons, PD array, 64 RKV missiles.
*Defenses:Non-Phasic shielding, Armor Plating.
*Crew:5000
The Harbringer is a highly experimental superdreadnought. There are only sixteen of them currently in existence.
Dominator
*Length:32km
*Armament:!1 Superheavy Superlaser, Particle cannons, PD array, 128 RKV missiles.
*Defenses:Non-Phasic sheilding, Armor Plating.
*Crew:10,000
The Dominator class is currently the largest ship class in the IGA. There is currently only one in the fleet.
Stations
Galactic Defense Station
*Lenght:2.9 km
*Armament:2 heavy superlasers,500 long range RKV missiles, 10 particle cannons, PD array.
GD Stations are large, automated space staitions that protect solar systems from attack. They scan the solar systems for unknown starships, then scan comunications to see if they have friendly or hostile intentions. If the ships are hostile, then the station fires massive volleys of missiles until the target is destroyed.
HQ Stations
*Length:3-5 km
*Armament: Varies.
*Crew: Varies.
*Defences:Non-Phasic sheilding, armor plating.
HQ Stations serve a headquarters for the IGA military forces in a sector.
Superweapons
Gridfire
The IGA has been obsessed with figuring out how to create a working Subspace Compression Wave ever since they drove the remainders of the Ibisian Grox out of the Ibis after the War of Ages. While they have not had much sucess with the tech, they have managed to create several low powered gridfire incursions, but they are still are a long way away from creating combat eficient gridfire.
Fatboys
Fatboys are long range hypermatter bombs used by the IGA to destroy planets and dreadnoughts. One of the IGAs main tactics in war is to send entire swarms of Fatboys into enemy territory to destroy important targets.
Special
The Galactic Blade
The IGAs mobile HQ, the ''Galactic Blade'' is 24 kilometers long and is armed with an extremely wide variety of weapons.
Weapons Tech
Particle Beams
The most common ship to ship weapons in the IGA, Particle Beams accelarate particles(hypermatter particles, depending on the weapon),to within a percent of C, allowing them to deal extreme damage. They are extremely powerful;ranging from gigatons for turets, teratons for the spinal cannons on Hellrainers and Godswords, and petatons for the massive cannons on Harbringers and the Galactic Blade.
RKV Missiles
The main long range armament of IGA ships, RKV missile are massive long range missiles. Ones designed for anti-planet purposes are generally designed to simply crash into the target, while anti-ship missiles generally carry a hypermatter charge,which is used to pump an X-Ray laser. These missles are generally in the low petaton range.
Point Defence
IGA ships point defence system consists of hypermatter misiiles for long range PD, and pulse lasers for close in defence.