GENERAL-
NS Nation Name: The Greater Gambia
Nation Name: The Kelraaza Empire
Flag:
Location: Formerly large .swaths of the galaxy, now just desolate installations run by AI and forgotten worlds scattered throughout the galaxy. Only known installation on Kalchata.
Government type: Historically a Empiral Monarchy with a council of the rulers of sectors of the Empire, while the weaker species under their control had absolutely no input on how things should be run. Now, it's nothing but what remaining Kelraaza roaming without leadership.
Economic ideology: Total State control, now due to the nature of the remaining Kelraaza, non existent due to inability and no need for one.
History:
Long before many of the current galactic powers had even left the cradles of their home worlds, The Kelraaza Empire reigned supreme amongst the stars. With an empire expanding over half of the Galaxy. The Kelraaza Empire was one of the largest Empires in Galactic history. The Empire was made up of millions of species, all under the oppression of the Kelraaza themselves. The Kelraaza were a merciless and feared race. Quickly silencing the mere mention of rebellion by annihilating the offending species.
The Kelraaza themselves held immense psionic power in their original organic form and were masters of genetic manipulation. The Kelraaaza were able to change their appearance to what they considered beauty, while genetically engineering slave species to become warriors in the large and fearsome Kelraaza Legion. The Kelraaza devoted entire star systems to creating and modifying species to suit their needs. These zones were called Cradles. A birthplace of those who would be born, bred, and killed to serve the Empire.
The might of the Kelraaza Empire was only rivaled by one other, the Taari Empire. While no where near the prestige and technology, they made up for this in strength and sheer willpower. As the Kelraaza encroached on Taari territory, war soon broke out between the two galactic titans. The war lasted for a hundred years. The Taari fought bravely and savagely, even bringing about the extinction of five entire species as the Kelraaza through soldiers into the Taari meat grinder.
Taari defiance against the Empire grew to be a major humiliation for the Empire. The Taari began to inspire revolts within the Empire, naive revolutionaries thinking they can free their species from the oppression of their creators. Outside threats began to grow spines and begin to plot against the Empire in the shadows, preparing to change the power structure of the Galaxy. Of course, the Empire could not stand for this. At first, the Empire had only wanted to add the Taari to its collection of enslaved species. As the war dragged on, the plan changed to one of genocide.
Despite the valiant efforts of the Taari, they could not hold out forever. In the last years of the war, as the Kelraaza slaughtered their people and neared their home world, the Taari began working on a bio weapon that would bring the end of both Empires. As the Kelraaza began to enter the system, killing billions and burning worlds, the Taari released their new weapon to devestating results. At first, the weapon completely devastated the Kelraaza legions, turning their own dead against them. It seemed that the tide had turned, but it was not meant to be. As the Taari began pushing out, the weapon grew a mind of its own and turned on its former masters. This weapon named itself the High Breed.....
The High Breed consumed the vast legions of the Kelraaza. Misguided in their thinking, the Kelraaza began to battle the High Breed hordes with their own, creating an orgy of blood and death lasting a thousand years. One the Galaxy had never seen nor since. whole sections of the galaxy were wiped clean by the fighting, either by the High Breed's assimilation or the Kelraaza's scorched earth tactics. As the High Breed began to consume more and more of the Kelraaza themselves, it began to manifest psionic abilities. Soon, "religious fanatics" began to appear throughout the Empire. Worshipping some sort of "All-Father" and declaring the High Breed his blade against the heathens. It soon became clear that these fanatics were actually under the control of the High Breed itself. The top Kelraaza scientists began working on a counter to the High Breed's new psionic abilities. Modifying the genes of themselves and the species of what few cradles remained untainted by the High Breed.
800 years pass and the Bio-Engineered legions of the Kelraaza have been exhausted. Few Cradles remain as the High Breed rampage throughout the Galaxy, bringing death to trillions through the depths of space (teehee). The Kelraaza Empire is a mere shadow of its former self with its last strongholds being on the edge of the galaxy. The Imperial Council, once numbering in thousands now brought to a mere 52, order the creation of Robotic Legionnaires to take the place of their former slave army. The automated factories began to create these soldiers by the millions. Freed from the limitations of material and able to create matter at will, the latest in Kelraaza technology. Within a month, these robotic soldiers are released onto the front line. Unable to fall to morale, starvation, thirst, or the wicked words of the High Breed, the new Legion brings the war to a stalemate, lasting for 200 years.
Attrition began to take its toll on the High Breed. Without the constant flow of food from the Kelraaza, the High Breed began to starve. In one desperate assault, the High Breed lunged for the Sargassi Cradle, one of the three remaining cradles in the Galaxy. The result was the battle of planet Tergaz, now known as Kalchata. Billions of Mecha legionnaires were launched against the onslaught of High Breed. Miraculously, the battle was won by the Kelraaza, trapping the survivors in the planets crust where a monitoring and research station were built where they still stand, even to this day.
The Kelraaza's luck would not last forever. 200 years later, the High Breed broke through, consuming world after world. Chaos ensued throughout the carcass of the Empire. Planet wide mass suicides took place in systems the High Breed entered. Many tried their luck by entering the Depths of Space (Teehee again), boarding cryoships in hopes of finding a new galaxy to settle, the remaining nobility that hadn't already undertaken the other two options uploaded their consciousness into the Kelraaza net, freeing themselves from their physical forms and the wrath of the High Breed. Those that remained knew their time was at an end. They decided to do one final act of cruelty to their long time enemy. A testament to Kelraaza sadism. They ordered the activation of the Cradle shields. The shields enveloped the three remaining cradles, vaporizing whatever organic life tried to enter or leave. The shields would only last for a hundred years, but long enough to starve the High Breed out. Long enough to deny them complete victory.
Many years passed as the shields began to fail one by one. They faltered to a empty galaxy, as their creators and the High Breed had both perished. The heat and radiation given by the shields completely wiped out the possibility of life from the surround systems, shielding them from the future High Breed infestations. The Kelraaza became one of the infinite forgotten Empires of history. There worlds fallen to the elements or collected by future civilizations for their advancement or by collectors of ancient artifacts, their bones picked by the vultures.
Every so often a civilization will stumble on a nest of Mecha Legionaries usually ending in the wiping out the intruders. Alas, the Kalraaza remain forgotten, most of their wonders being pillaged spare those deep underground or in forgotten sectors of the Galaxy. There are Kelraaza that remain, however, in the vast digital net of their computers. Creating AI and making a world of their own. Those that survived within this new world remain isolated from their old world. Watching as the outside rebuild and move on without them. Some Kelraaza have taken this time of isolation to meditate on the events that brought them to this, seeing that they alone are to blame and must find peace with their nature. Others only see it as a planning stage, where one day they'll escape their sanctuary and reclaim their creations. Bringing the galaxy back to the reign of the Kelraaza. And if any Taari escaped the hellish nightmare and have made it to the modern era, the Kelraaza will finish where they left off....
Population: Historically 345 Trillion. Now, estimates are at 1 million uploaded minds. Possibly less.
-Species-
Kelraaza
-Organic form
-Synthetic Form (Of course look different for each Kelraazan, you know how it goes)
Kelraaza Imperial Legionnaires
ECONOMIC-
Ideology: State Controlled
Economy: Historically, the Empire was a Galactic powerhouse. Now, the economy is nonexistent nor needed.
Manufacturing:While the Empire has fallen. Some factory worlds still remain. While many surface installations have been overrun with flora and fauna, underground facilities remain ready to begin construction of the Empire's glorious constructs and ships.
Agriculture: None. There used to be whole systems dedicated to farming, feeding the Kelraazan citizens. Now, as with many things of the Empire, they have fallen to the elements.
MILITARY-
Population: Once numbering in trillions of soldiers from species created only for war, now is only made up of millions of un-awakened AI soldiers forever guarding the facilities of their former masters.
Branches: The Kelraaza Legion
Standard infantry:
Scout
Legionnaire
Sentinel
Standard weapons:
Ionized Particle weapons. Able to disintegrate organic material and lightly armored targets.
Standard ship:
Imperial Fighter Craft
Ship of the Line
Dreadnought
Weapons:Ionized Particle Cannons
Strengths: Highly advanced technology, Immense Psionic abilities, Installations and facility dot the galaxy. Their ships are heavily armored and shielded along with a powerful inventory of weapons.
Weaknesses: Shadow of its former self, many installations and facilities have been lost or looted by civilizations coming after, leaving only those in isolated areas or deep underground, Those few that remain are arrogant, with a fierce elitist attitude towards what they presume are "lower species". They especially have a fanatical hatred of the Taari, who not only humiliated the Empire by surviving their onslaught for a hundred years, but also unleashed the High Breed on them, bringing ruin to the Empire. Their actual numbers are low, only breaking 1 million minds who have uploaded their consciousness into the Kelraaza net.
WIP. I'll finish the rest later but I want input on the history. I made these guys to be the counter to the High Breed but also be a threat after, although with a risk for civil war. I also made them to kinda give my guys a buff, too. I was planning on having the Tagali Federation be inside one of the three remaining Cradles, meaning early in the histories of the multiple species. This would mean that they'd be immune to the High Breed's psionic attacks and have the possibility of having psionic powers themselves. Basically, they'd be the descendants of feral test animals. I'm tired now, so I'm going to go to bed. I'll address any grievances in the morning.
NS Nation Name: The Greater Gambia
Nation Name: The Kelraaza Empire
Flag:
Location: Formerly large .swaths of the galaxy, now just desolate installations run by AI and forgotten worlds scattered throughout the galaxy. Only known installation on Kalchata.
Government type: Historically a Empiral Monarchy with a council of the rulers of sectors of the Empire, while the weaker species under their control had absolutely no input on how things should be run. Now, it's nothing but what remaining Kelraaza roaming without leadership.
Economic ideology: Total State control, now due to the nature of the remaining Kelraaza, non existent due to inability and no need for one.
History:
Long before many of the current galactic powers had even left the cradles of their home worlds, The Kelraaza Empire reigned supreme amongst the stars. With an empire expanding over half of the Galaxy. The Kelraaza Empire was one of the largest Empires in Galactic history. The Empire was made up of millions of species, all under the oppression of the Kelraaza themselves. The Kelraaza were a merciless and feared race. Quickly silencing the mere mention of rebellion by annihilating the offending species.
The Kelraaza themselves held immense psionic power in their original organic form and were masters of genetic manipulation. The Kelraaaza were able to change their appearance to what they considered beauty, while genetically engineering slave species to become warriors in the large and fearsome Kelraaza Legion. The Kelraaza devoted entire star systems to creating and modifying species to suit their needs. These zones were called Cradles. A birthplace of those who would be born, bred, and killed to serve the Empire.
The might of the Kelraaza Empire was only rivaled by one other, the Taari Empire. While no where near the prestige and technology, they made up for this in strength and sheer willpower. As the Kelraaza encroached on Taari territory, war soon broke out between the two galactic titans. The war lasted for a hundred years. The Taari fought bravely and savagely, even bringing about the extinction of five entire species as the Kelraaza through soldiers into the Taari meat grinder.
Taari defiance against the Empire grew to be a major humiliation for the Empire. The Taari began to inspire revolts within the Empire, naive revolutionaries thinking they can free their species from the oppression of their creators. Outside threats began to grow spines and begin to plot against the Empire in the shadows, preparing to change the power structure of the Galaxy. Of course, the Empire could not stand for this. At first, the Empire had only wanted to add the Taari to its collection of enslaved species. As the war dragged on, the plan changed to one of genocide.
Despite the valiant efforts of the Taari, they could not hold out forever. In the last years of the war, as the Kelraaza slaughtered their people and neared their home world, the Taari began working on a bio weapon that would bring the end of both Empires. As the Kelraaza began to enter the system, killing billions and burning worlds, the Taari released their new weapon to devestating results. At first, the weapon completely devastated the Kelraaza legions, turning their own dead against them. It seemed that the tide had turned, but it was not meant to be. As the Taari began pushing out, the weapon grew a mind of its own and turned on its former masters. This weapon named itself the High Breed.....
The High Breed consumed the vast legions of the Kelraaza. Misguided in their thinking, the Kelraaza began to battle the High Breed hordes with their own, creating an orgy of blood and death lasting a thousand years. One the Galaxy had never seen nor since. whole sections of the galaxy were wiped clean by the fighting, either by the High Breed's assimilation or the Kelraaza's scorched earth tactics. As the High Breed began to consume more and more of the Kelraaza themselves, it began to manifest psionic abilities. Soon, "religious fanatics" began to appear throughout the Empire. Worshipping some sort of "All-Father" and declaring the High Breed his blade against the heathens. It soon became clear that these fanatics were actually under the control of the High Breed itself. The top Kelraaza scientists began working on a counter to the High Breed's new psionic abilities. Modifying the genes of themselves and the species of what few cradles remained untainted by the High Breed.
800 years pass and the Bio-Engineered legions of the Kelraaza have been exhausted. Few Cradles remain as the High Breed rampage throughout the Galaxy, bringing death to trillions through the depths of space (teehee). The Kelraaza Empire is a mere shadow of its former self with its last strongholds being on the edge of the galaxy. The Imperial Council, once numbering in thousands now brought to a mere 52, order the creation of Robotic Legionnaires to take the place of their former slave army. The automated factories began to create these soldiers by the millions. Freed from the limitations of material and able to create matter at will, the latest in Kelraaza technology. Within a month, these robotic soldiers are released onto the front line. Unable to fall to morale, starvation, thirst, or the wicked words of the High Breed, the new Legion brings the war to a stalemate, lasting for 200 years.
Attrition began to take its toll on the High Breed. Without the constant flow of food from the Kelraaza, the High Breed began to starve. In one desperate assault, the High Breed lunged for the Sargassi Cradle, one of the three remaining cradles in the Galaxy. The result was the battle of planet Tergaz, now known as Kalchata. Billions of Mecha legionnaires were launched against the onslaught of High Breed. Miraculously, the battle was won by the Kelraaza, trapping the survivors in the planets crust where a monitoring and research station were built where they still stand, even to this day.
The Kelraaza's luck would not last forever. 200 years later, the High Breed broke through, consuming world after world. Chaos ensued throughout the carcass of the Empire. Planet wide mass suicides took place in systems the High Breed entered. Many tried their luck by entering the Depths of Space (Teehee again), boarding cryoships in hopes of finding a new galaxy to settle, the remaining nobility that hadn't already undertaken the other two options uploaded their consciousness into the Kelraaza net, freeing themselves from their physical forms and the wrath of the High Breed. Those that remained knew their time was at an end. They decided to do one final act of cruelty to their long time enemy. A testament to Kelraaza sadism. They ordered the activation of the Cradle shields. The shields enveloped the three remaining cradles, vaporizing whatever organic life tried to enter or leave. The shields would only last for a hundred years, but long enough to starve the High Breed out. Long enough to deny them complete victory.
Many years passed as the shields began to fail one by one. They faltered to a empty galaxy, as their creators and the High Breed had both perished. The heat and radiation given by the shields completely wiped out the possibility of life from the surround systems, shielding them from the future High Breed infestations. The Kelraaza became one of the infinite forgotten Empires of history. There worlds fallen to the elements or collected by future civilizations for their advancement or by collectors of ancient artifacts, their bones picked by the vultures.
Every so often a civilization will stumble on a nest of Mecha Legionaries usually ending in the wiping out the intruders. Alas, the Kalraaza remain forgotten, most of their wonders being pillaged spare those deep underground or in forgotten sectors of the Galaxy. There are Kelraaza that remain, however, in the vast digital net of their computers. Creating AI and making a world of their own. Those that survived within this new world remain isolated from their old world. Watching as the outside rebuild and move on without them. Some Kelraaza have taken this time of isolation to meditate on the events that brought them to this, seeing that they alone are to blame and must find peace with their nature. Others only see it as a planning stage, where one day they'll escape their sanctuary and reclaim their creations. Bringing the galaxy back to the reign of the Kelraaza. And if any Taari escaped the hellish nightmare and have made it to the modern era, the Kelraaza will finish where they left off....
Population: Historically 345 Trillion. Now, estimates are at 1 million uploaded minds. Possibly less.
-Species-
Kelraaza
-Organic form
-Synthetic Form (Of course look different for each Kelraazan, you know how it goes)
Kelraaza Imperial Legionnaires
ECONOMIC-
Ideology: State Controlled
Economy: Historically, the Empire was a Galactic powerhouse. Now, the economy is nonexistent nor needed.
Manufacturing:While the Empire has fallen. Some factory worlds still remain. While many surface installations have been overrun with flora and fauna, underground facilities remain ready to begin construction of the Empire's glorious constructs and ships.
Agriculture: None. There used to be whole systems dedicated to farming, feeding the Kelraazan citizens. Now, as with many things of the Empire, they have fallen to the elements.
MILITARY-
Population: Once numbering in trillions of soldiers from species created only for war, now is only made up of millions of un-awakened AI soldiers forever guarding the facilities of their former masters.
Branches: The Kelraaza Legion
Standard infantry:
Scout
Legionnaire
Sentinel
Standard weapons:
Ionized Particle weapons. Able to disintegrate organic material and lightly armored targets.
Standard ship:
Imperial Fighter Craft
Ship of the Line
Dreadnought
Weapons:Ionized Particle Cannons
Strengths: Highly advanced technology, Immense Psionic abilities, Installations and facility dot the galaxy. Their ships are heavily armored and shielded along with a powerful inventory of weapons.
Weaknesses: Shadow of its former self, many installations and facilities have been lost or looted by civilizations coming after, leaving only those in isolated areas or deep underground, Those few that remain are arrogant, with a fierce elitist attitude towards what they presume are "lower species". They especially have a fanatical hatred of the Taari, who not only humiliated the Empire by surviving their onslaught for a hundred years, but also unleashed the High Breed on them, bringing ruin to the Empire. Their actual numbers are low, only breaking 1 million minds who have uploaded their consciousness into the Kelraaza net.
WIP. I'll finish the rest later but I want input on the history. I made these guys to be the counter to the High Breed but also be a threat after, although with a risk for civil war. I also made them to kinda give my guys a buff, too. I was planning on having the Tagali Federation be inside one of the three remaining Cradles, meaning early in the histories of the multiple species. This would mean that they'd be immune to the High Breed's psionic attacks and have the possibility of having psionic powers themselves. Basically, they'd be the descendants of feral test animals. I'm tired now, so I'm going to go to bed. I'll address any grievances in the morning.
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