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[h1]The Holy Nation of lu'tagta clann*[/h1][/center]

[sub]*the chosen children[/sub]

[h3]Ruling body[/h3]
[i]Common name:[/i] The Clann
[i]Government:[/i] Religious matriarchy


[i]Home system:[/i] Dachai'de lu'dalta [i]Home of the Gods[/i]

[i]Inhabited planet(s):[/i]
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[b]Patach'cuan [i]Childs Ocean[/i][/b]

Patach'cuan is a lush ocean world with no landmass to speak off, the oceans themselves according to the great library of the gods being some of the deepest within this part of the Galaxy. The capital city of the Clann is simply named the Capital and [url=http://img05.deviantart.net/861c/i/2006/233/6/1/atlantis_by_aksu.jpg]resides within a great cavern at the greatest depth[/url] that the Clann can possibly go to. it is where most of their people live their lives, with the exception of those who require to work outside the city. Either in the eye orbiting the planet or at the great resourcing operation.

[i]Civilian assets:[/i]

[b]The Eye[/b]

The Eye is the only habitable orbital installation the Clann owns and is named only in the dialect of the Gods. It consists of a giant sphere in orbit, placed there by the great Gift. It holds a fleet of defense drones, let alone the navy that patrols the sector. It also boasts the most advanced sensors that the Clann have to offer, turning it towards the outer reaches of their own system and hoping to capture a glimpse of what the Gods promised lies outside their own system.

[b]Lu’bealach[/b] - [i]The Gateway[i]

The gateway is an uninhabited ring placed in orbit above an uninhabited area of ocean, the ring itself has powerful tractor beams all around it, on the topside and bottom side. It is used to pull asteroids out of the nearby asteroid belt into it, before casting them into the ocean below. Once in the ocean they are then transported to a refinery. Typically the Gateway never stops pulling asteroids from the belt when a project is underway, except during the summer where the planet skims the edge of the asteroid belt. As the summer is the time where the great Gift fell from the heavens it is considered blasphemous to pull anything from orbit during this time, as it is the time where the Gods give them their gifts.

Any asteroids that fall during that time are considered special, and only used in the best or most important construction projects.

[h3]Races[/h3]

[i]Species:[/i] The Clann (Just what they call themselves, it is who they are. Before that they had no name).
[i]Population and growth:[/i] Number and percentage per year
[i]Morphology:[/i]
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They have long and powerful arms and legs. They have long fingers and toes that are webbed, their legs and feet are perfectly shaped that if held tightly together form an almost perfect tail for gaining as much speed as possible. They also have a retractable fin in the middle of their spine.

[i]Anatomy:[/i] They're carbon based life forms that evolved from one of the many aquatic creatures on their homeworld. Like many aquatic creatures they gain oxygen through gills on their necks. Their stomachs are also incredibly robust able to gain nutrients from a variety of different foodstuffs, from plants to other living creatures. Though naturally cannibalism is heavily frowned upon. Their mouth actually consists of the forward part opening downwards then the right and left parts of their face opening into a large maw, strong acids in their mouths break down the food as they do not have any teeth, so in fact the actual process of passing food through their system is relatively fast as when food arrives in the stomach it is already within a liquid state and only requires the nutrients to be absorbed into the bloodstream, and then the waste to be excreted.

Their bones themselves are extremely strong to survive the deep pressures that the Clann call their home but unlike mammals where the bone is important for the likes of stability (i.e. legs are weightbearing) bones for the Clann are largely to keep muscles in the right shape and location. This does however provide problems in the fact that if they were to ever venture on land they would need a suit not only to help them breathe but to help them support themselves as while their muscles are strong enough to walk on their bones are not.

On a side note, due to the design of their mouths they find it very hard to speak the language of the Gods, and thus when doing so will speak extremely slowly as not to offend them.

[b]History[/b]

The Clann are a simple people, always have been. They are in fact a very old race, having stories of a time before the Gift where those near the surface would see moving lights in the sky. The lights could never be explained however the Clann now believes that they were the vessels of the Sinn’ser. The Gods themselves, flying around in their benevolent chariots helping shape the Galaxy. Eventually came the time of reckoning, that would seal their fate forever.

When political movements were changing, and moving away from the tradition of the strongest female being in charge of their people the Gift fell from the heavens themselves, tearing through the cavern that they called home and into the exact centre of the city pointing back towards the heavens. The Gift came with a strange building attached, that was later discovered to be the Great Library. It told the exploits of the Sinn’ser, and how they traversed the Galaxy learning its secrets. Ever since then they have done their best to appease the Sinn’ser, so that they can come back and tell them the mystery of their existence and that all those lost on the path are welcomed into their arms in the afterlife. Overtime they would begin to advance technologically, though they still remained rather simple. Their society did not change everyone still worked for the benefit of the Clann by way of doing what the Queen requested of them. 

Eventually they learned how to use the Gift to pull asteroids from the heavens themselves, classing it as a sign that they were ready from that moment onwards all metal and ore has come from space and they have not mined into their homeworld. Fearing that if they were to damage it too much the Sinn’ser would become displeased with them and never return. So things continued, the next step was trying to get to the stars themselves. A task that proved… difficult for them. Many of the methods that the Great Library described for flight included fire a task foreign to the underwater people, however when they managed to replicate the Gift… at least on a lesser extent.

They began attaching it to the ships they had designed to work underwater it became an easy way to maneuver underwater until one day an ambitions member of the Clann turned it towards the moon of their homeworld. The ship was small enough that it did infact pull the vessel out of the water and towards the moon, however the ship being small and the powersource not used to such stress the power system failed and it fell back to the ocean below…

Since then the Clann have just become more and more ambitions. In recent years with the help of the Gift they pushed The Eye into orbit to watch their people and try to find any hint of the Sinn’ser in their system or any nearby system.

[b]Culture[/b]

[h3]Technology[/h3]

[i]Base elements:[/i] Carbon, Plutonium, Iron

[i]Power generation:[/i] Wave (Hydro-electric) and Geothermal power centres are used on world in order to power facilities and the civilization itself. Through extensive research they are utilizing fission reactors on their space and marine craft.

[i]Starship propulsion [/i]

Each ship has at least four tractor beams placed on it one forward, aft, port and starboard. These are used to grab onto nearby objects and push/pull to get the desired movement effect. These beams themselves can be angled to lock onto objects off centre, and while the beam can be set to push/pull they also are capable of creating a rotating tractor beam allowing the ships to spin when moving to produce the small amount of artificial gravity needed. 

They are currently experimenting with FTL, but due to the fact that FTL is outside of real space they’re struggling with the concept.

[i]Military technology[/i]

[b]Armor:[/b] Rolled Homogenous steel.

[b]Shielding:[/b] No shields, but with ballistic weapons if the ship can get a lock on it a tractor beam can stop incoming projectiles and even return them to the enemy.

[b]Sensors:[/b] Basic radar, sensor bouys are placed throughout the system.

[b]Communications:[/b] Mainly radio, however between ships and the planet or the Eye and the sensor bouys while the Clanns ships are still incapable of entering FTL they have found a way to make FTL transmitters. 

[b]Computation:[/b] How do your computers work, if you use any..

[b]Weapons:[/b] Kinetic, largely plasma based.

[b]Military[/b]

[i]Ground forces:[/i] Just a number. Will only come into play when capturing planets - the real battle is won or lost on the orbit.
[i]spaceships:[/i] What classes of ships do you field, if you use any.
[i]Organization:[/i] How is your military organized

[b]Relics[/b]

What kind of ancient artifacts and technologies do you have at your disposal? Note: Everyone starts with the library, which allows you to translate the ancient language and identify systems of interest that could house more relics.