[img]http://img13.deviantart.net/ed9e/i/2010/267/6/e/flag_of_columbia_bioshock_by_party9999999-d2zdymv.png[/img] [b]The Gaia Republic[/b] [b]Ruler:[/b] President Maxwell Parsons, Congress of Gaia [b]Species:[/b] Three quarters Terran, one quarter mutant [b]Gaian Mutant:[/b] Largely looks human, but with sharper teeth, purple skin, green eyes, and full black eyes, and longer limbs and bodies. [b]Allegiance:[/b] Staunchly, proudly, unshakeably Terran [img]http://img00.deviantart.net/0323/i/2013/227/e/6/farmland_by_6ideon-d6ibzfy.png[/img] [b]Government:[/b] Based on the Pre-Imperial United States of America, with a bicameral legislature, an elected President as executive, and a separate judicial system. Only terran, male, landowners native to Gaia over the age of 20 are allowed to vote for Senators and Presidents, and only terrestrial terran males over 35 may vote for representatives. [b]Military:[/b] Soldiers are mainly from the mining class, and commanders from the planter class. Only male terrans over age 15 are allowed to enlist, and service is compulsory for males from the mining class. Gaian commoners also make up a large portion of the military, though service is not compulsory for them. The right to bear arms in sacred, and most male terrans from any class are well aquainted with weapon use. The Gaian military is very mobile, with most of the large ships in the navy being carriers for the fighters which make up the main fighting force, which swarm enemy ships. The army is mainly comprised of infantry, supported by tanks and artillery, with little to no robots or mechs. [hider=The Gaian Army Rangers] [img]http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s480x480/e35/c25.0.869.869/11820546_1511101859187610_1378174815_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTExMzMxMjc3ODYxOTczMTMzMw%3D%3D.2.c[/img] The Gaian Army Rangers are the elite special forces of the Gaian Army, being called in to the most dangerous terrestrial missions Gaia has to offer. Unlike much of the rest of the military, the Rangers are all volunteers, and are used in rapid deployment operations, hostage rescues, and to be placed directly into enemy territory. They are fast, light, and incredibly accurate marksmen as well. [/hider] [hider=Mining Militias] Though unofficial and unorganized, with miners being veterans and all skilled with a weapon, miners have been known to create militias when threatened, or when called upon to do so. They're a surprising effective means of defense, and can usually hold out long enough for actual military reenforcements to arrive...unless they're on a mores distant mining colony. [/hider] [hider=Centaur Model 12] [img]http://cdn2us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/styles/article_width/public/2016/01/jedi-starfighter.jpg?itok=Q5M-qPzQ[/img] The Centaur Model 12 is the backbone of the Gaian Navy. It is a fighter ship designed for extreme speed and maneuverability, while still maintaining a good resilience and endurance. Named for both the mythical creature and the Gaia home system, it does lack a decent long range attack, and is designed for short range fighting. [/hider] [hider=Gaian Marines] Despiting existing on practically every large ship, The Gaian Marines are still considered an elite force, existing due to the close range nature of the Gaian Navy. Gaian Marines are outfitted with heavy armor and weaponry, and are used for boarding action, as well as when being boarded. Marines are adept in melee combat, and one can be drafted into the marines, although due to the high standards, many draftees are then denied. [/hider] [hider=GATM27/The Bullmoose] [img]http://img03.deviantart.net/f2f5/i/2012/201/2/1/tank1_by_peterprime-d580emb.png[/img] The primary tank of the Gaian army, the GATM27, better known as 'The Bullmoose', is used to support the main component of the Gaian army, the infantry. Light, fast moving, and powerful, it fires a concentrated ion blast from its cannon, and is designed to keep pace with the quickness of the infantry. [/hider] [hider=Gaian Infantry] The backbone of the Gaian Army, Gaian infantry is a well disciplined machine, made up of Gaian commoners and miners. Though they are of course carried to the locations of their battles by ship, they hardly ever take place in any sort of boarding action, and only take place in space combat if boarded. [/hider] [img]http://www.livescience.com/images/i/000/032/248/original/alien-planet-alpha-centauri.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&downsize=*:1000[/img] [b]History:[/b] Before the empire existed, when humans first started to colonized space, a corporation from the United States of America was created, with the purpose of colonizing the nearest solar system to the Human solar system, Alpha Centauri, and the company became known as the Alpha Centauri system. After terraforming the only planet in the Alpha Centauri system, Proxima Centauri b, it was renamed Gaia, and colonies began to be set up. The plan of the Alpha Centauri group was to use Gaia as a central base from which the main goal of the company could be achieved; to mine the large asteroid belt that existed around Alpha Centauri. Because of this, largescale farming operations started to be built on Gaia, so as to provide food for the miners, and a large spaceport was built in the capital of Gaia. Mining operations started to be set up in the asteroid, with most of the miners coming from the United States region of Appalachia. But what the corporation hadn't accounted for was the radiation of the stars of Alpha Centauri. While asteroid miners were unaffected, many new children born in Gaia were born with serious deformities, and over the generations these mutations became consolidated as one population; the Gaian mutants. [img]http://factor-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/asteroid-mining-1.jpg[/img] As the Alpha Centauri group lost funding, and the Terran Empire became more powerful, a local government in Gaia became more prominent, and the colonists unaffected by the radiation became to see themselves as superior to the mutants, and the mutants were enslaved to work on the plantations owned by the Gaian elite. The farms which couldn't afford mutant slaves were soon bought out by those who could, and soon, a planter class came to dominated local Gaian politics, while the nomadic asteroid miners were either self-governed or still completely obeyed the rule of the Alpha Centauri group. Eventually, the Alpha Centauri group was bought out by the Terran Empire, and the Gaian government, which while still existant, now was forced to respect the Imperial power, which they hated. They were even more discontented by the pro-Alien reforms. The Gaia Republic was one of the first groups to declare independence from the Empire, and fought brutally in the civil war, renaming its capital city on Gaia as Bethlehem. Eventually, they came to own Gaia, all of Alpha Centauri, the asteroid miners, and a large number of neighboring systems, where the same political systems as Gaia were enforced, all non-planters living on the newly conquered planets being delegated as commoners (including aristocracy, who were stripped of their titles), and all Xenos being forced into exile. Today, Gaian planters are interplanterally known for their extravagant wealth, and elaborate social customs. In many parties around the galaxy, one could find a planter, with pistol in belt, loudly recounting his tales to a group of enamored terran females. Meanwhile, if one went out to the asteroid mines, one would find unimagineable poverty, and a population of Terran luddites who seem to reject most advancement and technology, and still play musical instruments found in Pre-Imperial Terra, such as violins and acoustic guitars. Gaia itself is also a key provider of food to groups around the galaxy. [b]Religion:[/b] The whole of The Gaian Republic are devout Christians, and religion is very much connected to politics, dominated by a church known as the Church of the Celestial Israelite, which organizes pilgrimages to Earth. [b]Other:[/b] The Republic frequently sets up mining colonies in asteroid belts far away from Alpha Centauri, and has a deep hatred for Aliens, especially due to the piracy experienced in these far off mining colonies. Additionally, amongst the mutant slaves, a revolutionary group is starting to rise up.