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[The Nuclear Fist]

And the Canucks will just sit back and wait for the Coalition to be all: "We need help." Then we'll be like "Pew pew pew! Bang Bang! Democracy!"

Wouldn't you be more interested in reclaiming Mattah?

[The Commonwealth of Steel]

Civilization Name:Commonwealth of Steel

Government type:Direct democratic federal democracy

Home/Capital planet:Ferrum

Government Information: Bio-synthetic synapse implants allow public entry to the Forum (populus parliament). Members of one of the four castes (Air, Water, Earth, Fire) may vote on policy, law and the election of the council member who is pertinent to their caste. This can expand to include two castes, three, or everyone, if that's who the law concerns. AI's manage lesser civil servant duties. Each Caste is represented by a single council member who is elected for a sixteen year term, which may be cut short by the Praetor Lux, the Monarch. The Praetor Lux rules from the ivory palace on Ferrum, and makes decisions concerning the Commonwealth at large. Each Councillor is part of the Privy Council, as well as the Adjudicator, the Praetor Lux's lieutenant. Each Councillor, and the Adjudicator are equal, but their roles and titles vary vastly. The Praetor may be voted against by a unanimous vote from the council, but on account of the heredity nature and therefore finality of the position, their decisions are rarely wrong due to experience and honour.
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Population:2.157 Billion

Species name: Armitage

Founding Species: Armitage

Other Species: N/A (We'll see about where this goes )

Major Civilian industries/Services: [1]Mining/ [2]Manufacturing/ [3]He3 Mining/Refinement

Society and Cultural information: Society is fairly nationalistic, with a dash of imperialism. Population fulfill jobs with efficiency and precision, affected by their Caste-path decision on their 18th birthday, into the field that is an equilibrium between what they enjoy and what they're good at. The culture is fairly dour, where in the people have quite a sense of humour, which is subtle when first heard. The culture has driven the rise in industry and manufacturing as the forefront of the economy, provoking workers to work to produce works of high quality, albeit high expense. As a result, the Earth Caste are the largest ethnic group, the architects and engineers. Then the Water Caste is the second largest, the scientists, merchants and diplomats. Then the Air Caste is the third largest, the spacefarers and pilots. Lastly, thankfully, is the Fire Caste, constituting but 5% of the population.

Respiratory Gas: Oxygen

Base Form: I'll assume this is what and Armitage looks like. Here goes: Bipedal, two arms, two legs, 13 digits on each limb endpoint. Fingers and toes are double-jointed and incredibly dexterous. Skin is a light pale blue, but fades to white on the belly. Face's hue may be anywhere from violet to green, and a thick plume of feathers sit square on the scalp, hugging it back to the rear of the neck. Very weak physiologically.
[Carbon-based Life form]

Life span: 60 years

Intelligence (scale of 1-10 10 being like forerunner and 1 being cavemen):8

Natural defenses/abilities: Punching?
Aggression: (Scale 1-10) 9

Information: The Armitage watchwords are efficiency and precision. Their works are of very high quality, and they pride themselves on innovation and the precision to which they work. They make excellent starships, helped in no small part by their technology, but have a rather weaker ground force. They prefer it to be small and well equipped, earning themselves the designation as demi-paramilitary. Soldiers require extensive augmentation and cybernetic aids in order to compete against enemy soldiers.
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Military Doctrine: Manoeuvre warfare. Rather than defend in a siege, they would withdraw and attack again when it suits them better. They seek to circumvent enemy strong points to strike behind them. Adapt creatively to overcome situations, utilising their expertise with technology. Prefer clandestine resolutions to a conflict. Prefer surgical strikes and brief firefights than a war of attrition.

Foreign policy: Default friendly, not neutral. Any death of a citizen initiated by a foreign power, however, will create immediate war. Call it a hair-trigger facade.

Technological Age (Years beyond RL earth): Well, this is hard. Teleporters.....5000 years?10,000 years (Correct me if I'm being outlandish)

FTL Capabilities: Unique method of dimensional attraction. The DeVass Warp-Shield generator forms a bubble around the craft, which is composed of exotic particles using a certain energy signature. This energy signature is that of another dimension, in coexistence with reality. This shield forces the ship into the foreign dimension like holding a balloon under water. This dimension has been explored and selected to be the "inside track of a race course", for that particular region of space. When the ship must return, the shield is purged to be replaced by good, honest electrons which then attract the ship, whilst protecting it, back into the native dimension. As you can imagine, this form of travel does take quite a while, and is fairly inaccurate, but it comes with the bonus of being silent, and rather fuel efficient.


Military Information:
Navy
Army

Navy
20,000 Total ships

Patrol

1 Frigate
3 Cutters

Squadron

1 Galleon
3 Frigates
9 Cutters
1 Corvette

Taskforce

1 Cruiser
3 Galleons
9 Frigates
27 Cutters
3 Corvettes

Strike Fleet Number: 10

9 Battlecruisers | 301 Personnel
27 Cruisers | 151 Personnel
81 Galleons | 121 Personnel
243 Frigates | 73 Personnel
729 Cutters | 43 Personnel
81 Corvettes | 17 Personnel
[1170 Ships]

Battle Fleet Number : 3

1 Man-of-War | 451 Personnel
27 Battlecruisers
81 Cruisers
243 Galleons
729 Frigates
2187 Cutters
243 Corvettes

Misc
4,000 Peacekeeper Vessels/Cutters
4,300 Transports/Tenders

Commonwealth Defence Force Personnel
107 Million Total personnel
70 Million Navy
-40 Million Reservists
-30 Million Enlisted
30 Million Army
-25 Million Enlisted
-12 Million Territorial Armies
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NS activity: Everyday. No, seriously.

Technological Bases: Salarians, ME3. Pacific Rim (Ikr). Tau-WH40K. Natural Selection 2. A confusion of princes. Peter.F. Hamilton...All of them.

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The sun rose above the horizon as the ship orbited lazily across the barren landscape below. Mountains and valleys alike could be seen easily with the naked eye, as the ship held it's precariously low orbit above Solomon. Suddenly, the frozen contrails from a missile's exhaust were illuminated in the dawn sunlight, and a warhead flew out of the sun's glare to strike the starboard hull of the cruiser. The captain, without orders and bereft of initiative or experience, was frozen to her chair as the ship began it's rather violent greeting to the ground below.

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[Ralnis]

I was thinking if I join that the Tesla Confed were be the first to uncover one of those tomb worlds that have the Nities( sorry if misspell) sense they are close to the galactic core.

[The Nuclear Fist]

I was thinking if I join that the Tesla Confed were be the first to uncover one of those tomb worlds that have the Nities( sorry if misspell) sense they are close to the galactic core.

Interesting, though they're called the Niteris.

[Voldoviana]

It seems like the Order's primarily rival is going to be the Coalition.

Considering we're basically the Space US with a healthy serving of Roman Republic and a dash of libertarianism? Yep, I can see us becoming rivals.

I look forward to facing such a worthy foe.

But of course. We can finalize the alliance there, along with setting up joint colonial funding, lend-lease programs, technology exchange, trade treaties, and colonists.

This is relevant to my interests.[/quote]
Again, you're getting our old stuff, we're getting compact shielding. Sure, those M1-39 Testudo MBT's might be a few decades old, and those rifles a couple centuries, but the still outclass your stuff by a mile! And we can manufacture them as well!

[Canuckland]

And the Canucks will just sit back and wait for the Coalition to be all: "We need help." Then we'll be like "Pew pew pew! Bang Bang! Democracy!"

Wouldn't you be more interested in reclaiming Mattah?

Speaking of which: Posted in Pay Unto Evil.

[The Nuclear Fist]

Considering we're basically the Space US with a healthy serving of Roman Republic and a dash of libertarianism? Yep, I can see us becoming rivals.

I look forward to facing such a worthy foe.

As do I.

Speaking of which: Posted in Pay Unto Evil.

I noticed, I'll have a response up later on today.

[Ralnis]

I was thinking if I join that the Tesla Confed were be the first to uncover one of those tomb worlds that have the Nities( sorry if misspell) sense they are close to the galactic core.

Interesting, though they're called the Niteris.

And what are the Niteris?

[The Nuclear Fist]

Interesting, though they're called the Niteris.

And what are the Niteris?

Zombie robots obsessed with skinning biologicals alive and wearing their flesh.

[Ralnis]

And what are the Niteris?

Zombie robots obsessed with skinning biologicals alive and wearing their flesh.

So Necrons of the NEAR galaxy?

[The Nuclear Fist]

Zombie robots obsessed with skinning biologicals alive and wearing their flesh.

So Necrons of the NEAR galaxy?

I borrow the aesthetic, but that's about it.

[G-Tech Corporation]

All this talk of war makes me want to invade someone with the silvery eldritch goodness that is the Chosen Empire.

Volunteers?

[Caecuser]

All this talk of war makes me want to invade someone with the silvery eldritch goodness that is the Chosen Empire.

Volunteers?

Tomorrow!

[Canuckland]

So...

Am I the only one here with REAL(-ish) Cyborgs?

[G-Tech Corporation]

So...

Am I the only one here with REAL(-ish) Cyborgs?

My lads have formerly organic consciousnesses in artificial bodies.

So, sort of.

[Canuckland]

So...

Am I the only one here with REAL(-ish) Cyborgs?

My lads have formerly organic consciousnesses in artificial bodies.

So, sort of.

Sort of.

My Cyborg Corps. uses dead bodies and artificial minds. Dead bodies are collected, slap some armour, guns and cybernetics in them and BOOM! Insta-army.

[The Synthetic Union]

So... something like the Strogg from Quake?

[Canuckland]

So... something like the Strogg from Quake?

Now that I think about it...

Oh, dear.

Well, kinda. But their minds are limited. They aren't the strogg, but if you'd care to take look at them I'd be grateful.

[Arcerion]

Hi guys, sorry about leaving without notice, went on vacation and in the flurry to pack, etc. NS was the last thing on my mind minus some posts I made with the internet access I had.

I am thinking of turning Arcerion into a system of chaos planets. Pretty much gangland-esque cartel-ridden hell holes with only a semi-functioning provisional government in place. Very few long-range jump capabilities, but a lot of trade moving through there.

Thoughts?

[Canuckland]

Hi guys, sorry about leaving without notice, went on vacation and in the flurry to pack, etc. NS was the last thing on my mind minus some posts I made with the internet access I had.

I am thinking of turning Arcerion into a system of chaos planets. Pretty much gangland-esque cartel-ridden hell holes with only a semi-functioning provisional government in place. Very few long-range jump capabilities, but a lot of trade moving through there.

Thoughts?

So basically the Africa of NEAR?

[Arcerion]

Hi guys, sorry about leaving without notice, went on vacation and in the flurry to pack, etc. NS was the last thing on my mind minus some posts I made with the internet access I had.

I am thinking of turning Arcerion into a system of chaos planets. Pretty much gangland-esque cartel-ridden hell holes with only a semi-functioning provisional government in place. Very few long-range jump capabilities, but a lot of trade moving through there.

Thoughts?

So basically the Africa of NEAR?

Yep. Pretty much. Think of the Refugee-side of Earth in the new Total recall, except with waaaay more violence. The ProvGov, as its called will barely hang onto the ports it uses to keep trade flowing into the planets.

[Wandering Argonians]

Sounds like they'd fit in quite well in 'Broken Crown', Arcerion.

[Alidina]

So...

Am I the only one here with REAL(-ish) Cyborgs?

The Javakin have(and will have had) a growing cybernetic industry.

The Ilium are quit found of taking organics and rigging them with various weapon and such, after they have modified the genetic structure to fit what they need and taken control away from the original being. After that They are more than happy to fit all kinds of booby traps and internally housed weapons, usually taking up the space of organs that a being can live without for a few weeks. Its a nasty process but it makes some very convincing insurgents or hardened shock troop.

The favorite add on for insurgents is a device that allows them to create a powerful magnetic field that can rip the iron rich hemoglobin out of organics with human like blood. Basically it rips your blood out of your body and it should effective on any oxygen breathing creature, seeing as the iron in it is what makes blood work.

[Alidina]

I'm curious as to what the ratio of "normal" States is to abysmal horror states.

So far Ive counted 4 "normal" states and i use that term loosely
the Javakin governments
The Coalition
the Order
What ever Cauk got going.

and for the abysmal Monstrous race that might only conduct limited diplomacy if it suits them, I'm counting 2
The Ilium
The Orks

[Voldoviana]

I'm curious as to what the ratio of "normal" States is to abysmal horror states.

So far Ive counted 4 "normal" states and i use that term loosely
the Javakin governments
The Coalition
the Order
What ever Cauk got going.

and for the abysmal Monstrous race that might only conduct limited diplomacy if it suits them, I'm counting 2
The Ilium
The Orks

From my big, incomplete list:

Normal:
The Coalition
Canuckland
Jakavin
Lutvorodus
Lokhavia
The Russian Empire
Terrabug

Borderline:
The Order
Argonians
Chosen
Hobbeebia
CATACOM
44th Independant Legion
The Shepherds

Insane:
The Orks
The Ilium
Venitorie
Niteris

So...

Am I the only one here with REAL(-ish) Cyborgs?

All Coalition citizens who can afford it get cybernetics. Of course it's minor, like being able to see infrared, or bone strengthening, or life-lengthening procedures, and other such things, but nothing overly extreme. It's not banned, but it's taboo.