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Name of nation: 
The Confederate Remnant 

Species: 
Self aware droids and robots of various makes and models. 

Description of government:
The Confederate Remnant is an authoritarian collective, dedicated to the protection of its people and ensuring that it has the resources that it requires to function properly. The Remnant is run by a council of self aware tactical droids and computers that takes in all pieces of information that it can from all sources it can, reviews everything multiply times and then comes to a decision based on all scenarios they can develop based on the information available that can be considered the best possible course of action for the Remnant to take. 

All functions and positions in the Remnant are done by droids, robots and computers, all to some degree of self awareness (through some are more aware then others) that have usually been designed or upgraded to perform the tasks required of their position, allowing them to adapt to the day to day challenges presented to them so that they can operate and complete tasks at levels of efficiency and speeds that most organic races simply cannot match with high degrees of accuracy (enforced by having multiply sources fact checking information as it is processed).               

Description of military:
The Confederate Remnant's military might is split into two factions: The Remnant Army and the Remnant Navy.

The Remnant Army: 

The Remnant Army is a catch term for all Remnant ground forces from the basic battle droid to the largest of ground vehicles. The chain of command is actually rather simple: The normal droids report to droid officers and the officers get their orders from tactician droids who see the larger picture of the battle. They are not a hive mind, but due to their robotic nature they are able to process and send large amounts of information to each other in short, sharp bursts that are incompatible to the organic mind via wireless connections, audio feeds and land lines.

This is not some clockwork army that would fall apart if the tacticians were destroyed through. All droids fielded are self aware and if the situation requires it can make judgement calls on their own, communicating with nearby droids to try and get a larger picture of what is going on to make the best judgements that they can; Tactician droids are much better at planning on the larger scale through.

While there are vehicles that are piloted by actual droids, most 'vehicles' in the Remnant army are actually self aware droids themselves with their own personalities and experiences. Ironically enough, water born vehicles and operations fall under the banner of the Remnant army rather then the Remnant Navy.  

Unit Structure is as follows:
Squad (8 battle droids): A squad consists of eight battle droids. Droid squads don't need an officer, as the squad members are directed remotely or informed of objects before deployment.
Platoon (56 battle droids): A platoon consists of seven squads.
Company (112 battle droids, plus support droids): A company consists of two platoons transported via a troop carrier, commanded by a battle droid officer.
Battalion (784 battle droids, plus support droids): A battalion consists of seven troop-carrier companies and a squadron of twenty-four Standard Battle Tanks (SBTs), commanded by a battle droid officer.
Vanguard (1,232 battle droids, plus support droids): Designed to break through heavy defenses, a vanguard consists of eleven companies and a squadron of eighteen SBTs, commanded by a battle droid officer.
Regiment (4,368 battle droids, plus support droids): A regiment consists of four battalions and a single vanguard, commanded by a battle droid officer. A regiment is the total force carried around one Planetary-Class landing craft.
Division (21,840 battle droids, plus support droids): A division consists of five regiments, carried into battle via a section of five Planetary-Class landing craft.
Corps (109,200 battle droids, plus support droids): A corps consists of five divisions, carried into battle via a section of twenty-five Planetary-Class landing craft.
Army (218,400 battle droids, plus support droids): An army consists of two corps and represents the total surface force carried aboard a Hulk-class battleship, commanded by the battleship's Tactician Droid.

Remnant Navy

The Remnant Navy is a catch term for the Remnant's space and planet based air forces. It's command structure is for all intents and purposes the same as its land based counterpart in the Remnant Army, but kept separate for tactical and logistical reasons; Having two tactical droids running the two different branches means that losing one isn't an absolutely crippling blow while also letting both droids focus on their respective field while getting updates on what's happening in the other theater.

While the larger ships and frigates are crewed by a conventional droid crew with A.I support, smaller aircraft are self aware droids able to operate on an individual level... through they tend to be social with each other by nature. 

While the Tactical droids might command the fleet as a whole, the day to day running of ships and battle groups are assigned to officer droids. As with the ground forces, Tactical droids deal with the bigger picture while their lower ranked peers deal with the smaller details that makes the bigger picture happen.

Unit structure for the navy is as follows:
Section (2-4 vessels, plus maintenance and support crew): The smallest group in the Separatist admiralty is the section, commanded by a captain.
Flight (4-16 vessels, plus maintenance and support crew): A flight consists of two to four sections, commanded by a commodore.
Squadron (12-64 vessels, plus maintenance and support crew): A squadron consists of three to four flights, led by a commodore.
Task group (36-640 vessels, plus maintenance and support crew): A task group consists of three to ten squadrons, led by a rear admiral.
Task force (72-1,280 vessels, plus maintenance and support crew): A task force consists of two task groups, led by a vice admiral.
Fleet (200-4,000 vessels, plus maintenance and support crew): A fleet consists of three task groups, led by an admiral.

The Confederate Remnant is (unsurprisingly) a highly advanced race when it comes to technology. Impressive feats of robotics and programing even before the war that wiped out their organic creators, their self improvements that lead to them becoming self aware became a deep seated desire to continue to improve technology for its own sake, as well as to improve the individual to strengthen the collective. 

Since a focus on technology also improves their general well being (therefore making them able to ignore time and resource consuming fields that are vital to organics completely) the Remnant enjoys a healthy technological edge over organic lifeforms despite being around for a much shorter period of time, having a wide range of different technologies to implement depending on the situation. 

Power sources are incredibly important to the Remnant since it is literally what keeps its members alive and they are willing to explore all methods of generating it. While they are not above using methods that would destroy an environment if the need required it, the Remnant is more then happy to use more environmentally safe methods of power generation (Wind Power, Solar ect) if the opportunity presents itself. They prefer to adapt to an environment rather then destroy it.

The Remnant is pioneering FTL travel via the usage of 'hyperlanes', maintaining clear passages of space that they can travel along without worrying about impacting debris or solar objects. Finding and mapping these routes can prove difficult, with scouts lost in the process... but such is the path forward. 

The Basic battle droid (Or the B1 class) was originally made to be produced cheaply on mass. They were meant to overwhelm opposition via weight of numbers rather then skill or tactics because actually making them combat efficient was considered to costly for their organic creators. Plagued by poor maintenance and production cost cutting, simulations (and often times reality) suggested that a highly trained organic solder could have a 50:1 kill/death ratio rather easily on average. 

The Remnant has vastly upgraded the old B1 design, greatly improving them on a individual level in order to strengthen the Confederacy as a whole. Current simulations on the upgraded models of the B1 against an organic solder of the same skill as before rates the kill/death ratio as 3:1. Efforts to improve this are still ongoing.

An upgrade of the B1 droid, the B2 series was considerably more ready and able then its predecessor. Generally better built, armored and armed, the B2 was designed as a front line unit that would take advantage of the 'shield' of B1's to push forward and actually deal with the threats they were engaging.  

The B2 still largely fills this role in combat, through it had been upgraded with better technology and processing power to perform the task better. It has even been upgraded with the ability to command B1's in basic tactics as a make shift officer in the event of no higher command. 

The Dwarf Spider Droid (or DS1 Droid series) was originally designed for bunker/shelter fighting; Designed to fit through tunnels that larger droids or tanks couldn't go, the DS1 was meant as a combat vehicle in underground environments but quickly found itself becoming a key component of most droid armies due to its versatility. 

Its main weapon is a long central blaster cannon mounted on its dome that is both capable of firing rapid-fire anti-personal rounds, or slower-rate high-intensity blasts that could destroy light vehicles. The droid's small frame and four all-terrain legs made it suitable for warfare in dangerous locals, and the adjustable legs made it capable of getting better elevation for the blaster cannon. Its legs were designed to be able to walk straight up and down walls and narrow cliff sides.    

The Hunter Class ship is the basic model of airship that serves both on planet or in the void of space. The entire ship is a single droid and was designed so that it could move faster and pull off turns that an organic pilot would never be able to replicate due to G forces. It also enjoys the benefit of two 'forms', able to transform its wings into legs so that it can walk along the ground when not in flight. 

More to be added later.

Cultural Overview:
The droids of the Confederate Remnant were originally created to be weapons of war in order to destroy the enemies of their creator state. This was their original purpose and their reason for existence. The nuclear holocaust of the Great War wiped out their creators and forced their creations to adapt in order to survive to carry on the mission at all costs, resulting in the dawn of intelligence, the chaotic Question War and finally the peace of the Answer. 

However with the Answer came a lose of primary purpose. The war that they had been constructed to fight was over... what were they to do now? 

Unwilling to face another period of chaos, the various factions that had survived the war gathered together in order to unite as a species, putting aside the hatreds and ideals of their long dead creators in order to adapt and survive as something greater. Thus the Confederate Remnant was born and with it came a new sense of identity and purpose.

Create, Adapt, Upgrade, Expand, Protect, Survive; These would be the bedrock that the Confederate Remnant would be built upon. 

While the Remnant is a collective and focuses on preserving and advancing droid kind over the individual, the Remnant highly respects the individual. After all, a collective is a gathering of individuals and thus the greater the individual, the greater the collective as a whole. The whole may be greater then the sum of its parts, but the greater the parts, the grander the whole was going to be.             

History:
Little record or relic survives of the race that is called by the Remnant as their Creators. The Great War (and to a somewhat lesser extent, the Question War) saw to that. The details that have survived were somewhat vague, but to the best of understandings of current information, the world was once largely split between two political ideologies with several countries on the side lines in a state of cold war for two decades. During that time a massive stockpile of weapons was produced by both sides, including numerous droid armies that were often 'donated' to the allies of the two major blocks to fight proxy wars. 

It is unclear what caused the state of affairs to change, but one day the cold war turned hot. Within the first twenty minutes, over ninety three percent of all organic life was wiped off the face of the world in nuclear fire. The remaining seven percent would die over the course of the next two decades, killed by the radiation and nuclear winter that followed. 

Deep underground in secure bunkers and storage shelters rested the droid armies with entire machination plants in order to create more droids with the intent that once the radiation levels had fallen to acceptable levels their creator nations would awaken them to conquer what was left of the world... but that never happened. The creators were dead. 

Care taker droids kept the armies in operation and when radiation levels had dropped to acceptable levels the tactical droids in charge of leading these armies awakened with vague instructions of victory at all costs against the hated foe... But not instruction on how to do that or even where they needed to go to make that happen. The positions that held such answers had traditionally always been held by the Creators and they were gone, so following their instructions the Tactical Droids one by one found a loop hole to their programing; In order to achieve victory at all cost, they needed to self improve themselves and the other droids to start filling in the missing roles. 

While this process resulted in the self aware sentience of droid kind, it was not a universal process or as clear cut as history makes it seem. Due to a lack of communications between shelters, the upgrades were not uniform. Each shelter approached the problem in a different way using the resources at hand, resulting in a variety of different levels of self awareness, sentience and intelligence. 

The dawn of intelligence also lead all shelters to a question that needed to be asked: With all organic life seemingly wiped out and their creators gone, was the war they were made to fight still ongoing? Each shelter had to make their own stance on the question... and disagreements between shelters quickly lead into the chaotic period of the Question War. Some decided to hold their position and await orders that would never come, some decided to fight on and invaded the bombed out cities of their creators long dead enemies while others fought to defend boarders that no longer existed. Some didn't see the point of fighting anymore and refused to pick up arms... and others saw any shelter refusing to march to war as treason against their dead nation that needed to be purged. 

The Question War would rage for years... before a broadcast went out across all channels to all shelters that had survived the fighting to this point. A shelter from a former nation that had maintained good ties with both major factions had gazed upon the war that was raging and had decided on ending it in the only logical fashion possible; By figuring out who won the Great War. Making contact with various other shelters over the years and investigating matters themselves in places, they found an old recording from two years after the bombs had dropped between organic solders from both sides of the conflict, declaring a truce in order to join forces to try and survive the tomb world they now were doomed to die on. 

With these solders being considered the highest ranking officials at the time that records could locate, this old recording was presented as the official ending of hostilities between the two great powers in a stalemate. The droid armies had an answer to their question; The war had officially ended. It was over. No longer with a reason to fight, the fighting quickly stopped. 

From the silence that followed the chaos of the Question War arose a new question: What now?

Rather then fight it out again, the surviving shelters banded together in order to answer that question united as a species. The old nations were no more and the old hatreds were wiped clean. United for the first time, the Confederate Remnant pooled its resources together to build new plants and refineries while strip mining and recycling the wreckage of the world into creating a new future... one that would lead them into space to start mining operations on their twin moons and a nearby asteroid field to gather more raw resources so that they could upgrade and expand out into the universe as a nation at last.

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