Flagg

Imperial Conquest RP Idea

Interested, ofc.

In the Shadow of the Dark Lord

Sounds pretty great. Definitely interested.

@absentmare

Awesome- we just need two or three more people and we can start.

In the Shadow of the Dark Lord

My idea is for a small nation/faction RP that takes place after the victory of an evil Dark Lord over a fantasy world. Players would RP as part of the ruling faction, conquered nations enslaved by/collaborating with the Dark Lord, rebel movements, etc. in a world that has been devastated by an apocalyptic war and is in the process of being remade in the Dark Lord's image. Nations would be shadows of their former selves, and even the most autonomous would be fearful client-states of a powerful evil.

The setting would be what I call "High Fantasy OOC/Low Fantasy IC", meaning the setting would have as many fantastic elements as we like, but there would be limited magic "on camera" in the IC, as both an aesthetic choice to keep magic... magical and mysterious, as well as to put a limit on IC power levels while allowing for maximum creativity and freedom OOCly.

Here are some tentative setting details:

The World of Geryon

It was a hundred years ago when Dagon IV, Emperor of Aldebaran, covetous of the lands he did not rule and fearing his own mortality, enacted some heinous rite with the help of five of his closest lieutenants. Across the lands of Geryon, the sun shone an angry, dull red for ten days, with no moon at night, only strange and sinister constellations. From the Red Night, which ruined crops and plunged the world into panicked chaos, the Emperor emerged as a god of immense power, whose armies swept over the other nations of Geryon. His lieutenants too had become something more than human, weilding powerful and dark magics, and in time became known as the Immortals.

Some nations bent the knee, others actively collaborated with the new god-emperor, most were enslaved and destroyed. Aldebaran, once a rich and fertile riverland, was turned into a spoiled waste filled with the ruins of once proud cities, now sinking into poisonous bogs and fens and haunted by monsters and demons.

Now Dagon IV is master of all, ruling with the aid of his five Immortals and the feared Aldebaran Legions. They enforce a strict caste system in the lands they control, spreading the Cult of Dagon, and demand tribute in the form of children, woman and blood-slaves from the nations they've subjugated. Human sacrifice is offered to the god-emperor night and day in his haunted capital of Kuranes, and the nights grow longer and darker as the world itself begins to sicken.

Some, however, resist still. The Scarred King, once the might King of Varyon and now little more than a guerrilla captain, has continued to inflict defeats on the Legions for a century, and is a legendary figure of hope to the masses chafing under the yoke of Dagon thanks to his military brilliance and... incredible... longevity.

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Ok so that's a hasty sketch of what I have in mind. Everything is open to revision and obviously much will be expanded. Let me know if you'd be interested in joining!

In the Shadow of the Dark Lord

My idea is for a small nation/faction RP that takes place after the victory of an evil Dark Lord over a fantasy world. Players would RP as part of the ruling faction, conquered nations enslaved by/collaborating with the Dark Lord, rebel movements, etc. in a world that has been devastated by an apocalyptic war and is in the process of being remade in the Dark Lord's image. Nations would be shadows of their former selves, and even the most autonomous would be fearful client-states of a powerful evil.

The setting would be what I call "High Fantasy OOC/Low Fantasy IC", meaning the setting would have as many fantastic elements as we like, but there would be limited magic "on camera" in the IC, as both an aesthetic choice to keep magic... magical and mysterious, as well as to put a limit on IC power levels while allowing for maximum creativity and freedom OOCly.

Here are some tentative setting details:

The World of Geryon

It was a hundred years ago when Dagon IV, Emperor of Aldebaran, covetous of the lands he did not rule and fearing his own mortality, enacted some heinous rite with the help of five of his closest lieutenants. Across the lands of Geryon, the sun shone an angry, dull red for ten days, with no moon at night, only strange and sinister constellations. From the Red Night, which ruined crops and plunged the world into panicked chaos, the Emperor emerged as a god of immense power, whose armies swept over the other nations of Geryon. His lieutenants too had become something more than human, weilding powerful and dark magics, and in time became known as the Immortals.

Some nations bent the knee, others actively collaborated with the new god-emperor, most were enslaved and destroyed. Aldebaran, once a rich and fertile riverland, was turned into a spoiled waste filled with the ruins of once proud cities, now sinking into poisonous bogs and fens and haunted by monsters and demons.

Now Dagon IV is master of all, ruling with the aid of his five Immortals and the feared Aldebaran Legions. They enforce a strict caste system in the lands they control, spreading the Cult of Dagon, and demand tribute in the form of children, woman and blood-slaves from the nations they've subjugated. Human sacrifice is offered to the god-emperor night and day in his haunted capital of Kuranes, and the nights grow longer and darker as the world itself begins to sicken.

Some, however, resist still. The Scarred King, once the might King of Varyon and now little more than a guerrilla captain, has continued to inflict defeats on the Legions for a century, and is a legendary figure of hope to the masses chafing under the yoke of Dagon thanks to his military brilliance and... incredible... longevity.

-

Ok so that's a hasty sketch of what I have in mind. Everything is open to revision and obviously much will be expanded. Let me know if you'd be interested in joining!

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

Sorry for the delays Flagg. Will work on something soonish.

@Bright_Ops

No worries, @Bright_Ops. If you need anything from me, feel free to PM or mention me with an @ here.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

Any word from Flagg lately? Kind of waiting for a response from him PM wise...

@Bright_Ops

Apologies for the radio silence folks. I'm still here. @Bright_Ops, I pmed you regarding our collab. Let me know if what i proposed works for you.

What Stops You from Killing Yourself

Hey Rocket,

You ain't alone. As someone who struggles with depression and addiction, I can empathize. A few scattered thoughts:

I think it's important to realize the incredible travesty that the act of suicide always is (though psychological conditions can mitigate personal culpability, of course, and we shouldnt be quick to judge anyone). Suicide leaves behind a trail of devastated people, many of whom will never recover from the loss of someone they loved and were unable to help. I have seen this up close, and it is horrifying. Many people think others will be 'better off' when they are gone. The opposite is true. Suicide opens wounds in others that never heal.

I think suicide is almost always a failure of perspective, an inability to see that life will not always be like it is now, a failure to count the consequences that an irrevocable and traumatizing act would have on others, and a failure to understand that doubts about self-worth, etc, are a normal part of life, especially for younger people, and they are important to struggle through and face. When interviewed, one person who threw himself (or herself, not sure) off the Golden Gate bridge and happened to survive said that he realized as soon as he jumped that all of his seemingly unfixable problems were in fact fixable- except for the fact that he had just jumped.

On a more personal note, the most significant writer that helped me is the now (somewhat obscure) british author GK Chesterton, who himself was suicidal in his younger years. Chesterton was a poet, novelist and a deeply brilliant (if amateurish and unsystematic) philosopher and theologian, who learned to find a sort of exuberant joy and wonder from the world around him. He really fell in love with reality, and saw his whole life as an adventure. To boot, he ended up as an inspiration for authors like CS Lewis, Neil Gaiman, Tolkien, Borges and many other literary and philosophical giants. As someone who eventually went in to academic philosophy and explored the ah, other options in some depth, I still think Chesterton's attitude toward the world, God, and others is deeply right. The sort of dazed, incredulous wonder at the world that Chesterton describes is important to rediscover. CS Lewis also discusses it in his short book the Four Loves, and it is the root of much of (good) literary fantasy from Tolkien to the present. Gratitude for existence, for all the good things we take for granted, even with all the evil in the world and trials in our life, is a hard but worthwhile attitude to cultivate- and it is a different thing entirely from naivety, pan-glossianism or credulousness.

And just to echo HeySeuss- I'm glad you're still with us.

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The Dagon Pact

The Dagon Pact

Aliases: The Xeno-Corporate Pact, the Compact, the Fringe Systems

Species:

Humans of various ethnicities, especially Rozzarrian

Dagon Skinwalkers: A strange and sorcerous race, the Skinwalkers have ruled the Dagon system for millenia, utilizing the native Introgg peoples as servants, soldiers and slaves. The natural appearance of the Skinwalkers is that of a pale, human sized slug, with four delicate arms ending in three-finger hands protruding from the 'torso' and rows of black, clawlike talons along their 'tail.' Faceless, the Skinwalkers communicate through telepathy or more mundanely through neuro-activated voice simulation technology. As their name suggests, however, Skinwalkers have the unique ability to assume the forms of similarly sized organic life, making them exceptional assassins. Their race's mastery of the arcane, especially of necromancy and augury, rivals that of the mage-lords of the Pheonix Empire.

Drones: Synthetic hybrids of insect, droid and humans, Drones are mass produced by the corporations of the Pact to serve as hyperobedient slaves, servants, and of course frontline soldiers and canon fodder. Drones are semi-sentient at best, and come in innumerable varients custom bred for various purposes.

Introgg: An avian/reptilian sentient race native to the planets of the Dagon System, where they make up the vast majority of an interplanetary oligarchy ruled by the Skinwalkers. They make excellent skirmishers, snipers, light infantry, and fighter pilots.

Vakeshi: A race of sentient amphibians divided into several petty tribes, the Vakeshi are a nomadic, shipbound race, often traders, pirates and mercenaries. All of the Vakeshi tribes make pilgrimmage to their home planet of Vesh, a densely populated shrineworld and the only planet in the galaxy with a significant, permanent Vakeshi population. The Vakeshi space-tribes are ancestral foes of the Skinwalkers and Introgg, but have allied with their ancient enemies in the face of the Rozzarrian advance. The Vakeshi ancestral traditions have preserved ancient forms of druidic magic for millenia, and their spacecraft are famous for their beauty and craftsmanship.

Gn'Mok: Whatever the Gn'Mok people were originally, the bioengineers of some long-forgotten empire manipulated their bioform into one designed for combat. It is theorized that the Gn'Mok were meant to serve some faction or other as shock troops. Whatever their distant origins, the Gn'Mok have sustained themselves with mercenary work for millenia, frequently working for the Skinwalkers of Dagon and the megacorporations of the Rozzarrian Empire.They excel as heavy infantry, and serve the Pact as an elite force, utilizing wrist mounted energy shields, rad-hammers and power lances in combat. There are eight Gn'Mok Legions in the employ of the Pact, including the infamous III Legion.

Government: The Pactis a decentralized alliance of human and alien states, former Rozzarrian corporations and nobles, and rebel and pirate elements. It is 'governed' by an executive Directory of Six, composed of individuals who represent the most powerful subfactions within the Pact. The Directors are:

- Ava Sing, Guildmistress of the Raynasa Farspace Trading Guild
- Caractacus Veed, CEO and President of Imperial Droidcraft and Synthetic Intelligences
- Archmagister Ithaqua of the Silent Masters, the ruling body of the Dagon System
- Legate Xo of the Gn'Mok I Legion
- He-Who-Wanders-the-Void-Fearlessly, High Chieftan of the Vakeshi Space-Tribes
- Thrazariah dai Gazebor, Imperial Archduke of Alessio

The Directory shares power with the Conclave of Mouths, an immense parliament with representatives from all member-states and corporations of the Pact. Needless to say, such a power structure is chaotic, and the Pact resembles a military alliance of minor nations much more than a single, unified state. Nevertheless, fear and hatred of the Rozarrian Emperor has proven a powerful cement between otherwise disparate factions and peoples, and the constant threat of annihilation has helped the unworkable governing structures of the Pact hang together.

Description of Technology:

The Pact wields a wildly diverse array of technology and magic thanks to the many factions and peoples it governs. Robotics, cloning and stealth technology are areas in which the Pact tends to hold an edge over its Rozzarrian rivals, thanks to the scientific resources of the megacorporations at the heart of the Pact.

Rozzarrian Tech:

The Pact controls a number of former Rozzarrian frontier planets and utilizes much of the Empire's standard military technology. Rozzarrian tech is, unsurprisingly, used for the most part by the ex-Imperial member states of the Pact. The Pact lacks the vast industrial base and centralized economy of the Empire, however, and so the manufacture of new Rozzarrian model ships and heavy armaments is concentrated in the system of Far Ingria.

Corporate Tech:

The megacorporations of the Pact control advanced AI, robotics and droid technology and manufacturing capabilities. The work-horse of Pact ground forces, both for infantry and armor, are a various models of mass-manufactured wardroid and synethic drone models built by Imperial Droidcraft and Synthetic Intelligences (IDSI). The Pact utilizes IDSI heavy carriers in its fleet, capable of housing several thousand automated fighter-bombers and ground-troop carriers. Civilian-use droids proliferate throughout the corporate- and ex-Imperial sectors of the Pact, and some models are quickly gaining popularity in some of the xenos-systems.

The Raynasa Farspace Trading Guild and its subsidiary corporations have typically focused less on military and civilian technology than IDSI, but possess advanced magitech engineered based off of the designs and technology utilized by the wide range of cultures and races with which the Guild trades. The magitech stealth systems originally utilized by the Guild's long range trade vessels are notably difficult to counter, and have in recent years been used to great effect by the Pact's naval assets in its prolonged struggle with the Rozzarrian Empire and its formidable navy. Guild Skiffs have proven to be excellent in reconaissance, blockade-running, behind-the-lines raiding and black-ops roles.

Dagon Tech: The Skinwalkers of Dagon and their Introgg subjects have been capable of FTL for millenia, but the Skinwalkers' esoteric interests and isolationism have contributed to technological stagnation among their kind. Their vessels are small, equipped with outdated weaponry, and utilize solar sails for intrasystem travel. There is very little to be said for native Dagon technology across the board. The exceptional magical ability of the Skinwalker Silent Masters alone makes up for their technological backwardness, and tentative efforts to utilize Skinwalker magi in the creation of magitech has yeilded interesting fruit. The Introgg make good soldiers and excellent skirmishers, snipers and fighter pilots when outfitted with contemporary armaments and vehicles.

Vakeshi Tech: The Vakeshi are an (almost entirely) space-bound race, and their capital ships, escorts and fighters are examples of peerless, loving craftsmanship, especially notable for their formidable magitech sheilding and elegant design. Each Vakeshi ship is unique, however, its own work of art, and so they are few in number and not easily replaced. A Vakeshi War-Maiden outstrips even a Rozzarrian battleship in size, and is considered one of the finest capital-class vessels in existence by many naval experts.

Gn'Mok Archeotech: The Gn'Mok have been plying their bloody trade for millenia. They utilize ancient models of personal shielding and heavy weaponry, often inscribed with their peoples' arcane formulas and litanies. Their space cruisers are built primarily for boarding and ground-support actions.

Description of Military:

The Pact Space Fleet is a mishmash of Rozzarrian, Vakeshi, pirate, mercenary and corporate ships, with little standardization. While a few taskforces have sufficient numbers of Rozzarrian Imperial ships and Vakeshi War-Maidens to trade blows in a pitched battle with enemy ships of the line, most of the Pact Navy is ill-equipped for front line brawls and the Pact economy is insufficiently centralized to efficiently replace serious capital ship losses. As such, the Pact relies on hit-and-run tactics, behind-the-lines raiding, superior stealth capabilities, and advanced jump technology to disrupt and damage enemy formations and manufacturing capability while avoiding enemy fire.

The Pact Combined Armies enjoy the benefits of the Pact's immense diversity, while suffering from the issues of command and control that fielding such a wide array of troop types creates. The wardroids and battledrones deployed by the megacorporations of the Compact ensure that there are few battlefields on which Compact armies are outnumbered, while the Gn'Mok legions provide peerless heavy infantry support. Introgg units serve as excellent light infantry and fast-attack pilots, as well as serviceable frontline troops alongside human conscripts. The Combined Armies also benefit from the psionic and magical expertise of the Dagon Skinwalkers, as well as the protective shielding-tech and defensive arcana favored by the Vakeshi. When coordinated by a skilled commander, the Combined Armies are a formidable combat force, combining the strengths of so many different races. Under less assured command, however, the Combined Armies can become unweildy and poorly coordinated, and vulnerable to a more streamlined, flexable, unified foe.

Description of Culture:

Rozzarrian: The ex-Imperial Systems of the Pact maintain the Imperial caste system, though in a much looser and less policed form than in the Empire. Some ex-Imperial provinces have introduced liberalizing reforms, while in others nobles cling to their ancient perogatives. In any case, Imperial culture is strong here, though hatred of the Empire is too, especially (and ironically) among the nobility- memories of Leoric's brutality run deep in the former frontier worlds. Pro-Imperial rebel fronts and terrorist cliques, however, have a strong presence in ex-Rozzarrian space, and the secret police services of the rebellious nobles work hard to snuff out loyalist agitation.

WIP

History:
The Dagon Pact was formed in Imperial Rozzarrian Year 169 by a collection of Rozzarrian megacorporations, alien nations, and rebellious nobles. Frustrated by bureaucratic meddling, Imperial racial dogma, and above all, increasingly high taxation, several major Rozzarrian corporations- most notably Imperial Droidcraft and Synthetic Intelligences, Avignon Spacecraft, Inc., Rozzarian-Central Positronics, and the Raynasa Farspace Trading Guild- combined their efforts to sway several key duchies to lobby for greater autonomy from the crown, and protested genocidal campaigns in recently acquired xenos systems. The Xenophiles, as the party became known, argued that alien sentients were better seen as trade partners, customers, clients, and a potential labor pool, rather than merely vermin to be exterminated. The xenophile corporations had long had clandestine trade agreements with the Vakeshi Space-Tribes and the Skinwalkers of Dagon, and had profited enormously from such partnerships. The new Rozzarrian Emperor Leoric III's strict enforcement of Imperial Racial Dogma threatened the bottom line and autonomy of the megacorps, as they were increasingly subordinated to the Crown and made an instrument of colonial policies. The crown's blatant favoritism in regards to the Greater Atmoran Company further detiriorated the situation.

The Rozzarrian Emperor refused to even consider the xenophile demands, and when pressure from dissatisfied corporations and nobles continued, His Majesty deposed the dissatisfied dukes and revoked corporate charters, seizing assets and bequeathing them to the ever-compliant Greater Atmoran Colonial Company. Left without options, the anti-Leoric dukes and their wealthy corporate backers roll the dice, allying with the powerful alien factions that stood in the way of the Rozzarrian advance and declaring their autonomy from the Empire. Thus was formed Dagon Pact from a smattering of Imperial frontier worlds, alien polities, corporate-ruled planets and installations, and mercenary fleets. The alliance was named after the planet on which the founding treaty was signed, the throneworld of the Skinwalker Oligarchy, xenos whose anti-Rozarrian scheming had done much to bring the revolution about.

Systems Controlled

Dagon System: the capital system of the Pact, the Dagon system is home to four habital worlds and is ruled by Skinwalker oligarchs known as the Silent Masters. Dagon itself is a technologically backwards planet of teeming, dangerous jungles and ancient ruins, and is the only planet with a widespread Skinwalker population. Other planets in the sytem are:

The Dolorious Shoals:

Vvaryl

Vesh

Alessio

Far Ingria

Corporate Space (three systems)

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The Dagon Pact

The Dagon Pact

Aliases: The Xeno-Corporate Pact, the Compact, the Fringe Systems

Species:

Humans of various ethnicities, especially Rozzarrian

Dagon Skinwalkers: A strange and sorcerous race, the Skinwalkers have ruled the Dagon system for millenia, utilizing the native Introgg peoples as servants, soldiers and slaves. The natural appearance of the Skinwalkers is that of a pale, human sized slug, with four delicate arms ending in three-finger hands protruding from the 'torso' and rows of black, clawlike talons along their 'tail.' Faceless, the Skinwalkers communicate through telepathy or more mundanely through neuro-activated voice simulation technology. As their name suggests, however, Skinwalkers have the unique ability to assume the forms of similarly sized organic life, making them exceptional assassins. Their race's mastery of the arcane, especially of necromancy and augury, rivals that of the mage-lords of the Pheonix Empire.

Drones: Synthetic hybrids of insect, droid and humans, Drones are mass produced by the corporations of the Pact to serve as hyperobedient slaves, servants, and of course frontline soldiers and canon fodder. Drones are semi-sentient at best, and come in innumerable varients custom bred for various purposes.

Introgg: An avian/reptilian sentient race native to the planets of the Dagon System, where they make up the vast majority of an interplanetary oligarchy ruled by the Skinwalkers. They make excellent skirmishers, snipers, light infantry, and fighter pilots.

Vakeshi: A race of sentient amphibians divided into several petty tribes, the Vakeshi are a nomadic, shipbound race, often traders, pirates and mercenaries. All of the Vakeshi tribes make pilgrimmage to their home planet of Vesh, a densely populated shrineworld and the only planet in the galaxy with a significant, permanent Vakeshi population. The Vakeshi space-tribes are ancestral foes of the Skinwalkers and Introgg, but have allied with their ancient enemies in the face of the Rozzarrian advance. The Vakeshi ancestral traditions have preserved ancient forms of druidic magic for millenia, and their spacecraft are famous for their beauty and craftsmanship.

Gn'Mok: Whatever the Gn'Mok people were originally, the bioengineers of some long-forgotten empire manipulated their bioform into one designed for combat. It is theorized that the Gn'Mok were meant to serve some faction or other as shock troops. Whatever their distant origins, the Gn'Mok have sustained themselves with mercenary work for millenia, frequently working for the Skinwalkers of Dagon and the megacorporations of the Rozzarrian Empire.They excel as heavy infantry, and serve the Pact as an elite force, utilizing wrist mounted energy shields, rad-hammers and power lances in combat. There are eight Gn'Mok Legions in the employ of the Pact, including the infamous III Legion.

Government: The Pactis a decentralized alliance of human and alien states, former Rozzarrian corporations and nobles, and rebel and pirate elements. It is 'governed' by an executive Directory of Six, composed of individuals who represent the most powerful subfactions within the Pact. The Directors are:

- Ava Sing, Guildmistress of the Raynasa Farspace Trading Guild
- Caractacus Veed, CEO and President of Imperial Droidcraft and Synthetic Intelligences
- Archmagister Ithaqua of the Silent Masters, the ruling body of the Dagon System
- Legate Xo of the Gn'Mok I Legion
- He-Who-Wanders-the-Void-Fearlessly, High Chieftan of the Vakeshi Space-Tribes
- Thrazariah dai Gazebor, Imperial Archduke of Alessio

The Directory shares power with the Conclave of Mouths, an immense parliament with representatives from all member-states and corporations of the Pact. Needless to say, such a power structure is chaotic, and the Pact resembles a military alliance of minor nations much more than a single, unified state. Nevertheless, fear and hatred of the Rozarrian Emperor has proven a powerful cement between otherwise disparate factions and peoples, and the constant threat of annihilation has helped the unworkable governing structures of the Pact hang together.

Description of Technology:

The Pact wields a wildly diverse array of technology and magic thanks to the many factions and peoples it governs. Robotics, cloning and stealth technology are areas in which the Pact tends to hold an edge over its Rozzarrian rivals, thanks to the scientific resources of the megacorporations at the heart of the Pact.

Rozzarrian Tech:

The Pact controls a number of former Rozzarrian frontier planets and utilizes much of the Empire's standard military technology. Rozzarrian tech is, unsurprisingly, used for the most part by the ex-Imperial member states of the Pact. The Pact lacks the vast industrial base and centralized economy of the Empire, however, and so the manufacture of new Rozzarrian model ships and heavy armaments is concentrated in the system of Far Ingria.

Corporate Tech:

The megacorporations of the Pact control advanced AI, robotics and droid technology and manufacturing capabilities. The work-horse of Pact ground forces, both for infantry and armor, are a various models of mass-manufactured wardroid and synethic drone models built by Imperial Droidcraft and Synthetic Intelligences (IDSI). The Pact utilizes IDSI heavy carriers in its fleet, capable of housing several thousand automated fighter-bombers and ground-troop carriers. Civilian-use droids proliferate throughout the corporate- and ex-Imperial sectors of the Pact, and some models are quickly gaining popularity in some of the xenos-systems.

The Raynasa Farspace Trading Guild and its subsidiary corporations have typically focused less on military and civilian technology than IDSI, but possess advanced magitech engineered based off of the designs and technology utilized by the wide range of cultures and races with which the Guild trades. The magitech stealth systems originally utilized by the Guild's long range trade vessels are notably difficult to counter, and have in recent years been used to great effect by the Pact's naval assets in its prolonged struggle with the Rozzarrian Empire and its formidable navy. Guild Skiffs have proven to be excellent in reconaissance, blockade-running, behind-the-lines raiding and black-ops roles.

Dagon Tech: The Skinwalkers of Dagon and their Introgg subjects have been capable of FTL for millenia, but the Skinwalkers' esoteric interests and isolationism have contributed to technological stagnation among their kind. Their vessels are small, equipped with outdated weaponry, and utilize solar sails for intrasystem travel. There is very little to be said for native Dagon technology across the board. The exceptional magical ability of the Skinwalker Silent Masters alone makes up for their technological backwardness, and tentative efforts to utilize Skinwalker magi in the creation of magitech has yeilded interesting fruit. The Introgg make good soldiers and excellent skirmishers, snipers and fighter pilots when outfitted with contemporary armaments and vehicles.

Vakeshi Tech: The Vakeshi are an (almost entirely) space-bound race, and their capital ships, escorts and fighters are examples of peerless, loving craftsmanship, especially notable for their formidable magitech sheilding and elegant design. Each Vakeshi ship is unique, however, its own work of art, and so they are few in number and not easily replaced. A Vakeshi War-Maiden outstrips even a Rozzarrian battleship in size, and is considered one of the finest capital-class vessels in existence by many naval experts.

Gn'Mok Archeotech: The Gn'Mok have been plying their bloody trade for millenia. They utilize ancient models of personal shielding and heavy weaponry, often inscribed with their peoples' arcane formulas and litanies. Their space cruisers are built primarily for boarding and ground-support actions.

Description of Military:

The Pact Space Fleet is a mishmash of Rozzarrian, Vakeshi, pirate, mercenary and corporate ships, with little standardization. While a few taskforces have sufficient numbers of Rozzarrian Imperial ships and Vakeshi War-Maidens to trade blows in a pitched battle with enemy ships of the line, most of the Pact Navy is ill-equipped for front line brawls and the Pact economy is insufficiently centralized to efficiently replace serious capital ship losses. As such, the Pact relies on hit-and-run tactics, behind-the-lines raiding, superior stealth capabilities, and advanced jump technology to disrupt and damage enemy formations and manufacturing capability while avoiding enemy fire.

The Pact Combined Armies enjoy the benefits of the Pact's immense diversity, while suffering from the issues of command and control that fielding such a wide array of troop types creates. The wardroids and battledrones deployed by the megacorporations of the Compact ensure that there are few battlefields on which Compact armies are outnumbered, while the Gn'Mok legions provide peerless heavy infantry support. Introgg units serve as excellent light infantry and fast-attack pilots, as well as serviceable frontline troops alongside human conscripts. The Combined Armies also benefit from the psionic and magical expertise of the Dagon Skinwalkers, as well as the protective shielding-tech and defensive arcana favored by the Vakeshi. When coordinated by a skilled commander, the Combined Armies are a formidable combat force, combining the strengths of so many different races. Under less assured command, however, the Combined Armies can become unweildy and poorly coordinated, and vulnerable to a more streamlined, flexable, unified foe.

Description of Culture:

Rozzarrian: The ex-Imperial Systems of the Pact maintain the Imperial caste system, though in a much looser and less policed form than in the Empire. Some ex-Imperial provinces have introduced liberalizing reforms, while in others nobles cling to their ancient perogatives. In any case, Imperial culture is strong here, though hatred of the Empire is too, especially (and ironically) among the nobility- memories of Leoric's brutality run deep in the former frontier worlds. Pro-Imperial rebel fronts and terrorist cliques, however, have a strong presence in ex-Rozzarrian space, and the secret police services of the rebellious nobles work hard to snuff out loyalist agitation.

WIP

History:
The Dagon Pact was formed in Imperial Rozzarrian Year 169 by a collection of Rozzarrian megacorporations, alien nations, and rebellious nobles. Frustrated by bureaucratic meddling, Imperial racial dogma, and above all, increasingly high taxation, several major Rozzarrian corporations- most notably Imperial Droidcraft and Synthetic Intelligences, Avignon Spacecraft, Inc., Rozzarian-Central Positronics, and the Raynasa Farspace Trading Guild- combined their efforts to sway several key duchies to lobby for greater autonomy from the crown, and protested genocidal campaigns in recently acquired xenos systems. The Xenophiles, as the party became known, argued that alien sentients were better seen as trade partners, customers, clients, and a potential labor pool, rather than merely vermin to be exterminated. The xenophile corporations had long had clandestine trade agreements with the Vakeshi Space-Tribes and the Skinwalkers of Dagon, and had profited enormously from such partnerships. The new Rozzarrian Emperor Leoric III's strict enforcement of Imperial Racial Dogma threatened the bottom line and autonomy of the megacorps, as they were increasingly subordinated to the Crown and made an instrument of colonial policies. The crown's blatant favoritism in regards to the Greater Atmoran Company further detiriorated the situation.

The Rozzarrian Emperor refused to even consider the xenophile demands, and when pressure from dissatisfied corporations and nobles continued, His Majesty deposed the dissatisfied dukes and revoked corporate charters, seizing assets and bequeathing them to the ever-compliant Greater Atmoran Colonial Company. Left without options, the anti-Leoric dukes and their wealthy corporate backers roll the dice, allying with the powerful alien factions that stood in the way of the Rozzarrian advance and declaring their autonomy from the Empire. Thus was formed Dagon Pact from a smattering of Imperial frontier worlds, alien polities, corporate-ruled planets and installations, and mercenary fleets. The alliance was named after the planet on which the founding treaty was signed, the throneworld of the Skinwalker Oligarchy, xenos whose anti-Rozarrian scheming had done much to bring the revolution about.

Systems Controlled

Dagon System: the capital system of the Pact, the Dagon system is home to four habital worlds and is ruled by Skinwalker oligarchs known as the Silent Masters. Dagon itself is a technologically backwards planet of teeming, dangerous jungles and ancient ruins, and is the only planet with a widespread Skinwalker population. Other planets in the sytem are:

The Dolorious Shoals:

Vvaryl

Vesh

Alessio

Far Ingria

Corporate Space (three systems)

Rise of the Stars, a freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

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Yes. The details will be expanded on in my History section.