Here's something I wrote up, more of a proof of concept thing over than a final thing since I realized we already have others with similar ideas to what I'm doing. [hider=My Hider] [b]FACTION NAME:[/b] The Machina Conclave [b]SETTLEMENT NAME[/b]: Installation Alpha Primaris [b]COLONY THEME:[/b] Unrelenting Industry without limits or ethics. Extreme cybernetics are common and often produce horrific results. Immortality through machine, even if just a machine with a body. Artificial Intelligence is not to be trusted so humans hardwired into machines are used instead. [b]POPULATION:[/b] There is not a single unaugmented human within the Conclave as from birth, children are installed with hardware and cybernetics that they will constantly switch out as they grow. There is no pomp nor circumstance to the installation of new implants as they are seen as basic parts of life but should a child's body reject their new additions, they will be terminated and repurposed. Death is not an excuse to the Conclave leadership By the time one has reached adult hood, their mechanical parts easily equal their organic parts, if not over take. Work has extreme importance as only industry matters and production with little leeway allowed. Thanks to extensive neural implants, even those who perish are often given life but put under direct control of their overlords, more as living robots than anything. Its often said there are no people in the Machina Conclave, only resources. [b]CRITICAL INFRASTURCTURE: Heavy Industrial Sector[/b] Whereas other settlements boast of large, strong industrial production area, only the Machina Conclave can boast of having the largest and most extensive as the entirety of Installation Alpha Primaris is a giant manufacturing with more factories and workshops than even living quarters. The mechanical augmentation its people endure are required for life as it is nearly impossible to sustain normal human life in the settlement between 18 hour work shifts and heavily polluted air. However, without the limitation of Old Earth, the Machina Conclave can produce a terrifying amount of goods and materials rivalling that of entire corporation from the Central Authority. [b]ADMINISTRATION UNITS:[/b] The Machina Conclave is a strict hierarchical oligarchy where merit and prestige will drive you up the ranks. At the lowest level are the Fabricator Minoris or "Forge Lord" who control single factories or facilities and are the most involved. Above them are the Fabricator Majoris or "Forge Overlords" who control entire districts of sprawling manufactories and compounds. At the very top is the Fabricator Rex or "Forge Master". Each position is obtained through election with only those who display cunning and power able to advance. In some ways, the system is akin to a feudal domain where the Fabricator Rex will still control a sizable personal domain while also lording over the rest of his peers. Appearance wise, the Machina Conclave has little care for visual beauty and has an extremely dirty, gritty utilitarian design with pipework and cabling and conveyers reaching out from the buildings like a great web of machinery. [b]SPACE ASSEST: The Omniscient Resolve [/b] A massive mining vessel with its own onboard manufacturing plant spanning its entire length, the Omniscient Resolve has long been used to crack open asteroid and process its materials into anything and everything of worth. Powered by great fusion generators and with dozens upon dozens of entombed bodies acting as its AI, tt is nothing less than an void-born behemoth of iron and steel that hungers for the resources of industry. Perhaps most sinisterly is its EMP cannons, used to disable other ships before devouring it with its massive reclamation maw that grind and crush the entire ship and its contents down, humans on board or not. [u][b]WRITE-IN ASSESTS:[/b][/u] [b]1) Deep Crust Bore 07 "Jörmungandr"[/b] Upon the skyline of Installation Alpha Primris, many will confuse the tallest tower on it as a skyscraper or some other building, but in truth it is the largest mining drill the Machina Conclave possesses. Nicknamed Jormungandr, its burrows beyond the planet's crust and straight into the heart of the planet to extract metals and minerals that flow within. Its said that anywhere between a third to a half of the entire raw resource extraction comes from Jormungandr alone. [b]2) Cloning Facility[/b] Very few people come to the Conclave of their own free will and the even the act of buying prisoners of convicts isn't enough to quench the thirst for labor the endless forges demand. As such, the Conclave has dabbled in the illegal science of cloning to increase its labor pool. The beings that come out of such facilities are often malformed and horrendous, soon encased in metal and machine to serve as tech-thralls and slaves to the finances and Forge Lords. [b]3) Titan 01 "Will of Iron"[/b] Correctly called a "God Engine", Titan 01 is an ambitious project of creating a massive bipedal engine of war to bring ruin to the enemies of the Machina Conclave. However, even with the myriad resources and manpower of the Conclave, the monster is barely constructed with only its frame, main reactor and but one turbo-laser cannon built. Thus far its sole purpose has been to defend Installation Alpha Primaris as a massive stationary turret and provide energy from its reactor core. [b]4) Communion Relay Nexus[/b] The figurative hub of data of the Conclave, the CRN acts as the main terminal for all tech-thralls and anyone who isn't a Forge Lord will be linked to the CRN so that they may be controlled directly. It is this Nexus which allows workers to be pushed beyond normal human limits to work and power the nervous system of the deceased to allow for the dead to continue their service and duty. All communications entire through its terminal and everything is controlled by the Nexus. [/hider]