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Gashathi Aldum Ordo

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Eternal Gem - Command Deck
Mid-Transfer towards B23-3527KI

The colorful chaos of FTL travel seeped through the large windows on the fron of the bridge. The respiration systems hum silently in the background as they scrbbed the air of carbon-dioxyde. The bridge was mostly empty and dark, apart from the main holographic screen showing some flight details. "ETA +143 minutes". Kindal'Q glanced over at the only other illuminated terminal in the room: his tactical officer was running several checks on their flight data. The Vixar are always cautious and make sure things go their way which is exactly why they make such good officers. But not all races of the galaxy are so noteworthy. Kindal'Q crossed his arm in front of himself and gazed out the window as his thoughts wandered to subjects at hand. In the next 3 hours the Gem will finish it's long intergalactic travel and take positions in orbit around the sun of a system that is rumored to house another Gashathi sanctuary. If his bretheren awake to his arrival, the unification shall commence with haste. His people will once again be free to rule the galaxy that they once owned. Maybe the other three singularities find their itnernal struggles more important that reclaiming the ancient dinasty, but the Aldum Ordo will begin by subjugating this part of the universe. Then, the rest shall follow to tremble in the wake of giants.

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"Arrival to shift location in 5 minutes! Core is running at full effiency, all checks are perfect." 2 hours later the bridge looks nothing like before. The room is buzzing with life, and all of the operators have taken their places. Two dozen terminals light up the excited faces of officers ready to end their year long journey through the stars and find soltitude in the image of stellar objects. The Vixar are a race new to space travel and the journey has teaken their toll on them, but they are all eager to explore a new galaxy never before seen. This is a monetous step in their race's history, and the operators can barely hold in their excitement. The voice of the tactical officer cracks as he speaks up and he is forced to clear his throat before speaking up again. "Tunnel superstructure is at 100%, drives are ready for the shift, sensor lens checking for distortions. Fueld rods are stable, energy readings are in the green. We are ready for the shift on your orders sir." The two dozen furry faces look up from their consoles and turn towards the captain in anticipation. Kindal'Q crosses his fingers and rests his chin on them. The timer on the holopad is about to reach 1 minute, the signal point for the shift to begin. He gently nods, and opens his 4 arms wide towards the spectacle of the FTL tunnel. "We are to embrace this galaxy, and it is to embrace us! Initiate the shift!"

A trillion billion atoms moan at the same time as they are suddenly ripped from their reality and then get stuffed back into a new one in the blink of an eye. The shining lights disappear and a much brighter one takes their place. The Gem suddenly materializes deep within the gravity well of a large sun. His subspace anomalies masked by the distortion of the star, it was only a slight blip on the radars for a millionth of a second. The hull cries out in a metallic tone as the gravity pulls on it only to be held back by it's powerful engines.

"Shift succesful! Core is spooling, and the fueld rods are intact. Sensors didin't pick up anything, our track is still hidden." Sighs of relief and happy cheering fills the bridge. Some of the officers end up in each other's arm as they celebrate the end of the long intergalactic travel. But the warning lights quickly quell their joy as they all rush back to their places. Kindal'Q looks at his officers questioningly. "Is the sun causing us any problems?"

"Shields are up, and heatsinks are deployed. The structure of the ship is over 99.9%. The Gem is holding together as intended." The tactial officers speaks up, bringing up a tactical map of teh system on the holodpad. "The sensors have detected multiple unidentified ships in the system. We weren't able to pick them up in transit, but we are getting clear readings on several ships around the planet. We've got chatter on multiple frequencies, running analyzer on them now."

Finding aliens so fast after their arrival was quite the news, however it meant a change of plans. Originally they would have waited for the systems to get ready for an SDD and land on a nearby planet to establish a base of operations, but they couldn't do that with aleins around. This made time an important factor in finding that Gashathi Sanctuary before these races stumble into them. "Sir, we've analyzed the data patterns. They seem to be broadcasts, but the translator matrix indicates that it is more than one language. The ships we picked up on preliminary scans seem to be of different designs which suggests that we are dealing with multiple factions. The translator matrix is running the algorithms right now." Maybe they bumped into a warzone? Or perhaps some kind of rebellion? Whatever it was, this many different sides never leads to succes. Kindal'Q leaned forward in anticipation of the translated broadcast. On the holopad, one by one, the unknown words traded palces with more familiar ones until a clear messages appeared. As if his officer knew what he was thinking about a moment ago he commented on the discovery "It doesn't seem like the broadcast are of hostile intention. It appears as though these factions are just as confused about the situationas us. The primary freqency is broadcasting a looped message declaring their ship as a safe ground for diplomatic negotiations. The second frequency was intercepted from drone that sent a message to the ship."

"Wait, a drone? What would that be doing here?" "It looks like an unmanned vessel, probably remote controlled. Judging from the message, there must be a ship nearby. However, we don't have any further readings in the system." A drone? A ship that is looping a diplomatic message? And what about the other ships they picked up? For the sake of the Gashathi Sanctuary they must indulge in this weird situation. "Reroute power from auxilary combat systems to our optical scanners. If there is anything out there, the sun will help us light it up. And make sure to ping the sector once, the background radiation near the corona SHOULD be enough to mask our presence. Let's see if we can locate these foolish aliens." The oficers nod and began working on their console with utmost concentration. Kindal'Q leaned over to the side and brough up a personal holopad in front of him, dialing the officer down in Hangar 2. "Corey, prepare an escort corvette for immediate departure. Get all avaible wings ready for departure if needed. We'll be down there in a minute."

He gazed back at the window which was now showing a zoomed in image of the "diplomatic vessel". Maybe diplomacy was an option this time. But these inferior beings would not appreciate the fact that they could talk face-to-face with a Gashathi. Maybe blasting their inferior ship to pieces was a better option. But an all out warfare would be hard with only one ship. "Prepare point-to-point communications with UFO 1. Let them know that we are willing to participate in their diplomatic games as long as they disable their guns as a sign of good measure." Kindal'Q stood up from his seat, and straigtened his suit. He conveyed a psychic message to all those in the room to overcome the cacaphony of sounds. "I will be heading to the hangar bay with my personal guards. Tactical Officer Matt will be in command until I come back. Stay hidden with the ship until I come back safe and sound." With that, Kindal'Q stepped into the decklift that will take him directly to hangar bay 2.

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Just spewing out my thoughts, wouldn't the Gashathi be considered the Forerunners or even Precursors by the Covenant? Technically speaking the backstory of the Gashathi is the same as the theirs, being the oldest living beigns in the galaxy (I guess I kinda missed that backstory, but can you blame me for not copying that one part from a 60k NS at 1AM?) who were also almost destroyed by something very similar to the Flood. And between you and me, I did take some merit of inspiration from them.

I'd be happy to collab with them, since both of our races are looking for the long abandoned technology of their ancestors.

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@Sierra Oh man, I love the way you're trying to tell me it wasn't personal :3

I am aware that it wasn't JUST for me, I just simply told you about the things that are related to my contribution in the subject.

And oh man, if you play Factorio then count me in!

Update: Time to join this eight way gangbang on Aurora.

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Gashathi Altum Ordo

Faction Name: Gashathi Altum Ordo (Gashathi High Order)

Faction Leader: Kindal'Q

Brief Description of Technology:

Since the dawn of time, the Gashathi have ruled the galaxy with their technological wonders. Now broken and scattered, they hold only a fragment of their past knowledge. However, their equipment is still the undisputed king of galaxy with unparalelled effiency. They employ mostly railguns and missiles for anti-capital warfare. They have advanced subspace sensors and FTL drives that are undetectable. Stealth technology is not far away from them, and a number of their ship designs feature advanced stealth designs.

Here are a few of their unique designs to put the cherry on top of the cake:
IERC - Intelligent Energy Redistributing Circuitry is one of the oldest technologies in the Gashathi fleet. It is what the name suggests: a semi sentient system of circuitry that acts as the bloodveins of the ship. The principle is simple: the cables are replaced with two plates that have amino acids contained between them, with a few solid semi-conductors acting as barriers for the fluid. Localised distributors detect shortages in the circuits and reroute energy from other areas with excess energy. If there is damage taken, the semi-conductors seal, and prevent energy loss. It's simple nature means that it can run at 95% effiency in most cases, and still maintains around 70-75% in excessive combat situations (like being bombarded). This system is produced in a modular fashion that allows for easy repair of damaged parts.

MLRS - The Multi-Layer Rubber Shield is a shield system used by the old Gashathi fleet. Unlike other shield systems, it is designed to conserve energy for other systems by only being semi-active, whilst still providing high level of protection. The shield system scans an early warning zone widely around the ship, picking up any fast moving projectiles, and laying down localised protection against it. This way, the shield only protects areas that are being attacked, and can use more shield layers if only one side is being bombarded. With excess energy to be used, the shield system can make the early warning bigger, and provide even more shield layers. It excells against kinetic attacks, and can even deflect quick moving projectiles without a stable path (such as gyro bullets fired from railguns).Missiles and other conventional weapons that would be ignored by standard shields are also negated by the MLRS.

TELEP Armor - It stands for Thaontine Enriched and Lokhar Energy Protection Armor. It is an armor type that negates around 95% of all energy attacks, and reroutes the excess energy into the shield system to beef them up considerably. It is also effective against kinetic weapons, but not anywhere near as effective as other specialized armor types. It converst around 5% of the kinetic impact energy into electricity as well, given that the plating survives. (Furthermore it is the Hungarian word for capacitator. Bet you didn't expect it huh? Thought it kinda is the seeling point for such a stupid name.)

PODS CIWS - Protected Omnidirectional Defense System is a point defense system that uses a network of different anchor points and sub-armor tunnels to deploy CIWS weapons to meet incoming threats. Out of combat these turrets are stored deep within a central armory of the ship, but they can quickly relocate to any point of the ship when in combat. These small orb shaped guns can also be ejetced into space when damaged and new ones can be palced into their positions.

CITU - Capital Installement Tranquilising Unit are a set of long range hooks that are used to anchor two ships together and deliver massive quantities of energy through them. This "shockwave" will disable and overload system near the points of impact, rendering local defences useless. After the initial impact, these hooks burrow themselves into the hull of the enemy ship and pull them closer to their owner. This can disable and capture smaller ships, or disable capital ships for just enough time to get a boarding party inside.

RAD System - The Rapid Asset Deplyoment system is a form of magnetic launch method that is used in both missile launchers and hangar bays of Gashathi ships. Fighters are launched out of the hangar at full interception speeds, giving their pilots a momentarily advantage over their enemy. Missiles are launched out of the tubes at cruise speeds, requiring less fuel and meaning that they can carry a bigger payload.

Gyro Railgun Slugs - Even thought modern guns have paramount accuracy, some shells still miss their target. However, projectiles equipped with Gyro system can alter their course to adjust their trajectory and hit their target. Missed shots can come back to strike the enemy in their rear, and give the ability to intact shells to impact their target for a second time.

Savage Anti-Capital Missiles - Missilies are an inefficent design by nature. Most of the explosion goes to waste when they impact and they can rarely pierce the enemy's plating. But in space a lot of the old design methods can be altered. Savage missilies do not use standard impact or proximity fuses to explode their payload, but rather deliver the explosion deep into the heart of their marks. Unlike regular payloads, the Savage missiles employ plasma warheads encased withing Duranium casings. The payloads explode in a controlled fashion, meaning that the explosions of the plasma is directed at the enemy instead of going to waste by spreading the power everywhere. This can ensure more crippling blows by pinpoint strikes at important enemy systems.

Types of beings that exist in your faction:

Gashathi - The Gashathi are an all powerful race, as ancient as time itself. Long before the Humans have conquered the Milky Way they had an empire spanning galaxies. However, even thought they have ruled for so long, they couldn't escape the great barrier for sentient beings. Space itself. From beyond the known sectors came the great plague, quickly massacring Trillions and wiping entire species off the face of the universe in days. To avoid them the Gashathi purged their empire, and hid until the time would come to rule again. They possess great psionical powers which they used to determine when to wake up their former empire. Their bodies are genetically modified to be strong, quick, and tenacious to the point of not aging, but the thousands of genetical modifications left them unable to reproduce, leaving them reliant on cloning technology. They are potentially the most intelligent race, and and have senses rivaling that of primitive sensory equipments. Thought once they had made themselves perfect via genetic engineering, that time has passed already, and now their sacred bodies are left alone, and those among them who still wish to modify themselves are sent to "rehabilitation" to consider their wish again. They have 6 eyes, and their face is slightly elongated to house their large brain. They have 6 arms, 2 of which are permanently covered by their long robes. Their body is thin in structure and stands on average around 3 meters tall. Their physique may appear fragile but it is extremely strong due to physics bending muscle density. But their powerful body is also very flexible and agile, able to fit through small gaps much like octopuses.



"Fanheim" Vixar - A humanoid race of fierce fox-like creatures. Their history of constant warfare with each other over the barren wastes of their homeplanet has evolved them into fierce warriors and potent scientists. They were discovered by the Gashathi only after the Awakening, and were subdued after weeks of bloody conflict over their homeplanet. They are now fiercely loyal to their new overlords, since they united their species andbrought their civilization out of what seemed to be the apocalypse. Their technology is almost an exact copy of the same designs that the Gashathi use, albeit less powerful. They form the basis of the new Gashathi forces, having developed tactics that are much more viable for the Gashathi now that they lack their old numbers. Unlike other subservent species of the same tier, the Vixar are deemed to important to be kept brainwashed. They still adopt their own equipment and leadership in battle, but are kept under constant watch by the Gashathi.

The Fanheim were the most militant subspecies of the Vixar before their race was conquered by the Gashathi. Kindal'Q has taken a liking to their agressive nature and fierce loyalty for those stronger than them. Despite most of the Council agreeing on them being too dangerous to use, the Grand Overseer is using the Fanheim in great numbers.


(yes, the resources are taken from Stellaris. Either this or furries that don't resemble my ideas at all)

Kronsemar - A race of what appears to be sentient robots at first glance reveals tiny creatures controlling much larger combat suits. The Kronsemar are a race of tiny humanoids similar to goblins that have excellent engineering skills. They are phisically quite weak but agile which makes them dangerous even out of combat. Their suits are approximately 3 times larger than them, and are used in combat situations. They make quite formidable foes inside their suits and excellent engineers out of them. They can fix almost anything that is broken, and they can make anything break in just a few seconds.



Lokhar - An insectioid race of spider like creatures. They have hardy skins that are effective at dissipating energy damage, but are very fragile otherwise. Thought it may seem that they don't have a language, they use some sort of unknown psionic technique to communicate with each other in the gigantic underground hive colonies they live in. Unlike other insects that live in hives, there is no ruler, but rather a strong sense of survival in every individual of the race that makes them co-operate perfectly. They are are the workhorses of the empire, as they excell in mining, operating machinery, and building structures. There are a number of them that are called officers and they are given special implants so they can understand the language that the orders are given in. They are primarily miners and ship builders for the Gashathi.



Vulkhar - Gigantic beasts with the intellect of tiny insects. However they not completely devoid of intelligence, even if it is much smaller that that of primitive beings. They have their own language and have incredible memory, not to mention their very complex social structure. Their bodies are huge, ranging around 20-40 meters of heigh depending on 3 genders, incredibly strong, and very well armed with scales that can deflect all but the strongest of projectiles. They are used when other tamed beasts can't do the heavy lifting. Once they get angry, there is no stopping them, so the Gashathi usually stop asking them to do stuff to avoid colleteral damage, and more likely manipulate them to make them beleive what they do is for themselves. That said, they have the same implants as other subservent races have, even if they are for stunning and angering them rather than controlling them. There are special transport ships for their carrying, reinforced heavely, just in case these generally calm monsters get the blood eye before battle. However as calm as they are, before they had the fighting capabilities of a Moon Destroyer compacted into 20 meters of flesh, they were a lot more suspectible to attacks from wildlife on their planet. This evolved a natural gland in their body that stores adrenaline safely, and when they are attacked, it releases the stored substance and enrages them into a bloody rage, only controlled by their implants to some extent.



Philosophy/Goals Etc:

The High Order is seeking to find their long dormat sanctuaries and recruit some races still loyal to the old Gashathi ways. They are highly fanatical making diplomacy hard with them. Thought they are not yet ready for a full out war, they are already spreading their ideals on other races they meet. Ultimately their goal is to reshape the current Gashathi way of living, and bring back the dark past of the galaxy's mightiest race. Kindal'Q wants to establish his zealous ideals and found his own Singularity to acquire more power and change the way the Gashathi function as a species.

Brief History:

Ever since the first Singularity solidified and met with the seond and third Singularity, there has been some level of integral tension. Conflicting ideals and racial chaos has been weel contained but not entirely destroyed withing the Gashathi Empire. One of the most painful example is the segregation of High Gashathi from the Elder Gashathi. Thought not very prominent nowadays, the High Gashathi used to be looked down upon by the Elders for their ideals remaining from before the big reforms took palce in their Empire. Before they strived for security and instead improved themselves to their full extent, worshipping themselves even more as gods. Kindal'Q used to be one of these High Gashathi, but he took the oppurtinity of being a Grand Overseer and detached from the first Singularity to "gather information".

Grand Overseer Kindal'Q

Name: Kindal'Q

Title/Rank: Grand Overseer

Gender: Unigender

Species: Gashathi

Description:

Kindal'Q is a religious Overseer of the first Singularity. He holds a lot of power in his hands and is responsible for overlooking projects issued by the ruler himself. Even thought the Gashathi already beleive themselves to be gods, he disagress with the strife to create a perfect being, and instead insists that the Gashathi ARE the perfect beings. He beleives that true perfection can only be achieved if every other race looks up to the Gashathi as gods, and then they shall become true gods.

Unique traits/Personality:

-Fanatic Zealot: Cannot be manipulated. His words are extremely persuasive and can easely change the belief of other individuals.
-Cunning: As an Overseer, Kindal'Q often had to deal with secrets and disobedient races. He has learnt his way with people and he will always try to be one step ahead of the others, no matter if they are friend or foe.
-Respects strenght: Much like the old Gashathi, Kindal'Q marvels over the strenght of other races. He values honorable traits in other races, and accepts them into his order.

Equipment:

Armadae of the Eternal Gem - Kindal'Q is in command of the "Eternal Gem", the second largest Gashathi ship in all three of the Singularities. He was the one to oversee the production of this vessel, and it was given to him by the High One after he achieve many great victories with it. Thought the High One now commands a vessel mightier than Gem, the ship is still a marvel of engineering. It spans as long as 11 kilometers long and several hundereds of meter across. This ship stands a testament to the artistic talent of the Gashathi and the engineering provess of Lokhar. Out of combat this ship conceals it's true combat capabilities by hiding it's guns behind thick plating. However it's arsenal consists of hundreds of capital sized batteries and thousands of smaller batteries, flak entrenchements and a massive PODS system. It can house and launch 50 full wings of fighters and bombers, as well as 8 additional Ful'noK class Heavy Escort Corvettes inside it's main hangar bay. These ships all add up to be named the Armadae of the Eternam Gem.

Furthermore, there are plans of upgrading the Eternal Gem to a newer design that was drafted up by talented Mekar engineers back at home, but the lack of resources and equipment has so far stopped the project from becoming a reality.

Brief Bio: (Has lived for more than 2000 years, he has no time nor space for bios)

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@Sierra Hey, let a man enjoy his personal dreadnought. The Gem took 8 years to build lorewise, and it was the flagship of the First Gashathi Armada for two decades. All that time Kindal'Q was in charge of it's maintenance, and even the construction of it's succesor.

I don't see any problem with powerful things as long as people can keep level head about them and approach the situation reasonably. And especially since this RP is not an NRP (at least it's not posted in that section), giving you a lifeline is very important. You could make a really cool bio only for your guy's ship to be blown up by a meteor swarm. Not very entertaining in my opinion.

And even thought I hate to voice this because people tend to be touchy about the subject, we should all trust each other to not exploit things or go overboard. Maybe some of us wants to win, whatever that means, but no one can really enjoy winning via a superweapon. Just like how you don't research atomic bombs in HOI4 because they are too good.

So yeah, I personally will use my ship as a homebase and not as a dreadnought. If I wanted to "win", I would get something more spectacular and interesting. But I chose to make that goddamn expansive list of aliens I bring with me, so you better goddamn beleive I'm about to use them.

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@Starwhip 22.5 Megatons is no laughing matter. If that hits my ship then it's not gonna look pretty, even with the shields and armor. Still, the purpose of my ship is to be the single most powerful ship, since others have a lot of capital ships. In a 1v1 I think the Gem would probably win, since it's able to cripple systems in capital ships with relative ease, but it is not well equipped against a whole fleet. But why would anyone do something stupid like sending one ship against it haha.

@Sierra I haven't read your bio yet, but I can assure you thaz we all have powerplays in our pockets. That is, if we ever manage to get them. Technically, I'm not even accepted yet XD

Also technically my ship is considered a superweapon, but I really wouldn't call it that. It's more like a replacement of the home planet others have. Cause yknow, a planet is technically a superweapon as well.

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@BKburke As a faction, the Gashathi ARE OP. There is no denying it. However, as I only have a singular ship and I can hardly produce any other big capitals for my cause, I want to strike a balance by making me a one-hit-wonder. There is no atom bunker to retreat to, no second fleet to help me. It's just one gigantic mothership between me and the cold vacuum of space. Basically I put all my eggs in one basket, and I'm flailing that absket around inside a hurricane whilst standing on top of a moving train.

@Starwhip Also, I just realised you meant 5% as the remaining damage. Lol sry its a bit late here. My shield in Star Wars terms is more of particle shield rather than a ray shield, some of the laser would be initially absorbed by the shield (but the shiled is primarily against kinetic attacks and not energy attacks), and the rest would be enough to cause damage to the hull. I would say around 10% of the initial power goes to wasee on the shield, but the remaining 5% yield of 22.5 megatons is still enough to melt a lot of plates together. But you have to take into consideration that the energy it regenerates will be fed back directly into the shield. So the longer your laser stays on target, the less damage it will do. Unless of course, it melts the plates so fast that they cease to function bfore powering the shield up. In which case, we are already talking about a death star laser firing at my ship, and not some random old destroyer or cruiser.

Edit: I am open to criticism. Weird things happen when you only take the desired half of a much bigger NS.

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@Starwhip Give me more power for my shields most likely