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Diddly Do

Vice-admiral Knaggs had been insistent that the Kurultai's plan of action would be followed to the letter. Both the Khan and the fleet admiral had not returned yet, so he was still in command of the entire fleet. He had ordered all of the ships to start orbiting a nearby planet. He figured it would be one of the safest yet closest places where they could recuperate from their disastrous wormhole jump that had violently thrown them into another universe. Soon, the titanic ships moved, fusion thrusters lighting up as they pushed the ships towards the planet. Khaganate thruster technology was very advanced, so the journey only took a few hours, and soon the fleet was in orbit. Scanners indicated lots of life on the surface, but the entire civilization only lived in a low-tech medieval society, and would be unable to pose any threat to the Khaganate fleet. Knaggs chuckled. Now that he thought about it, it must've seemed like a new constellation appeared in the night sky of the planet below them, so large was the Khaganate fleet, as well as its ships. In addition to the planet being scanned while they were in polar orbit around it, several probes had been set out to discover where the fleet was exactly positioned.

The results were very concerning. Not only were they in a completely different universe, their location results based on pulsar locations and star-maps were completely different than their location before entering the wormhole. They had no idea what the time or date or age of this universe was either, so at least they could use their own standard dating system without having to change anything. A bit of good news was also there though, as an earth-like planet was found a few hundred lightyears away, a distance that could easily be travelled with a wormhole jump.

Then, more news came in. During their polar orbit over the planet, the fleet's scanners had found a communication signal. One that belonged to the Lanist Khaganate. It must have been one of the missing ships, so they tried to send an away team, but their dropships were ripped apart in a strange gravitational anomaly that seemed to cover a thin layer of the atmosphere between the planet's surface and its exosphere, effectively disabling any attempt to get people on the surface of the world, meaning whoever was there could only come up, effectively trapping whoever was left of the Khaganate's crew down there.

As he was pondering this new information, he got a call from the captain of the Atlas. He told Jens that the person they had rescued wished to speak to him. Luckily for the vice-admiral, the Kurultai was over that exact moment and both the Khan and the fleet admiral returned, so he was no longer needed at that moment, and he went to the shuttle bay.
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As the small spacecraft extended its landing gears and its door starts to open, James' task forces raised their rifles and aimed them at the door, ready to shoot anything hostile that might come out. To their surprise however, the only thing that emerges is a young woman, and some of them started to lower their rifles slowly, not seeing any threat the woman could pose. James, as well as several of his colleagues, kept their weapons up however, aiming at the woman's head, and he ordered the rest of the soldiers who had let their guards down to do the same. What confused James most however, was the calmness the women visibly displayed while twelve rifles were pointed at her, and the look of concern on his face was hidden by his Re-Mask helmet (Rebreather gasmask) that covered his entire face.

James turned off the speaker on the outside on his helmet, and talked into his communicator, so that the words would clearly be recorded and saved: "Operation Command, this is PA-1. Subject appears to be a female human who calls herself "Fanny May", as told by herself when she had recorded her distress call. No anomalous activity nor visible hostility has been detected yet of her or of her ship.", telling his commander that Fanny May was probably not very dangerous, and at first glance did not seem to be anomalous to say the least. Subject is apparently pregnant, but you must've heard that already through comms. Fanny May requests to speak to Vice-admiral Jens Knaggs, the man who initially decided to answer her distress call."

"PA-1, request granted. You are to escort her to Containment cell HC-3-2-12. We will try to get Vice-admiral Knaggs there as well. Please make sure to stand guard in the room while Knaggs is in there. Operation command out."

James turned on his speaker again, saying to Fanny May: "Please follow us, and do not try anything stupid. You will be able to the man who decided those things."

The soldier then walked away, expecting her to follow. If Fanny May were to follow, she would be flanked by 6 soldiers at each side, marching in unison. The group reached a small transporting vehicle with a metal rail attached to its floor and another one to its roof. The rails ran through the entire length of the hangar bay. As soon as the group of 13 people had entered the transport, James tapped a few buttons that were next to its door and it moved further into the giant stratocruiser at a breakneck pace. The task force was completely unaffected by the sudden acceleration due to their magnetic boots.

Soon, the vehicle had stopped, before changing direction upwards with the same acceleration that it had earlier. The vehicle stopped again, and a voice came from a speaker in the elevator saying: "Containment bay 3, level 2". After some more walking they had arrived near a containment cell made out of steel. In it, there was a table with two chairs facing eachother. James walked inside, expecting Fanny May to follow, and told her to sit down on the chair while the vice-admiral was coming. James and another member of his task force then stood guard inside the room, flanking the doorway, weapons ready.

Meanwhile, the Atlas had joined the rest of the fleet in orbit, and soon a small shuttle departed from the Genghis and flew towards the Omega Order's stratocruiser. It docked in the hangar, and out stepped vice-admiral Knaggs, he took the same elevator as the group earlier did.

Soon, in containment cell HC-3-2-12, a knock on the door could be heard. A man with gray hair and a friendly face, dressed in a simple T-shirt and jeans, walked in and sat down in the chair opposite to Fanny May. He started speaking: "Hello Fanny May. I am Jens Knaggs. I understood you wanted to speak to me."
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That same night, someone else, in an entirely different region of the world, was having exactly the same dreams as the stranger many kilometres away did, and she too woke up covered in sweat, her red hair reflecting the moonlight. She went outside, standing on the balcony of her sleeping chambers, looking up towards the night sky. Like the stranger before her, she also saw some strange lights slowly moving towards the south. The woman went back to sleep. After waking up and eating breakfast in the castle's great dining hall, she ordered her servants to make preparations for a voyage...

It was the fifth day of the stranger's journey towards the southern lands in an attempt to explain the strange dreams together with the new constellation in the sky. Everywhere he traveled, he encountered vastly different reactions to the appearance of an entirely new group of stars. Some saw it as an omen from their gods, either good or bad, while many others didn't really care about it, seeing as they were asleep during the night anyway. The stranger was awake that night though, and could see fire raining from the sky, great explosions appearing from very far away. He was slightly distracted as he remembered the events that happened that night, not hearing the low growl in the bushes next to the road. Soon it was too late, and the great wolf-like beast ambushed him, slashing him across his face with its paw with three claws. The stranger was slightly dazed and could not see clearly because of the blood running across his face, but still managed to draw his sword, and he plunged it into the beast's heart, killing it. He had to act quickly, grabbing the few medical supplies he had, and cleaned the wound while checking it. It was not too deep, and he would only need some bandages to stop the bleeding until his blood would coagulate inside the wound. He then continued on his journey.

It was four days later. His wound was starting to heal, and the stranger felt like he no longer needed the bandages. He had always been tougher than most people, after all. The stranger had been walking down the road, continuing to the south, when he heard a horse behind him. The stranger turned around, and saw an attractive woman with long flowing, red hair, sitting on a brown mare. The woman started speaking: "I have heard rumors of your travels stranger, and I know you are good at fighting with a sword. I have an offer for you."

The stranger replied: "I will listen to your offer, but I do not know your name."

The woman chuckled, and said: "My name is Duchess Katie Anderson."

Diddly Do

Yuri Lanist has been demoted to NPC of the Lanist khaganate and i've made a new chracter instead

Diddly Do

After some time, repair, and several checkups, the warning lights and sirens finally turned themselves off. In the Genghis' bridge, all systems seemed to be working again. All screens and lights were lit, command interfaces were fully operational and the ship's engineers had finally been able to get the 'all systems nominal' notification back on the screens for the first time since the GEF had entered the wormhole. The moment it popped up, the crew of the bridge let out a collective sigh. They, as well as the other crewmembers of the massive flagship, had been frantically running around, trying to fix everything and making sure everything still worked. Luckily for the crew, the only major damage inside the ship had been an overloaded wormhole generator, something that was easily fixable in mere minutes with the Khaganate's advanced technology and resources. The major structural damage was a massive cut in the left part of the stern of the Khaganate flagship, caused by a collision with the bow of one of the Khaganate's cruisers when the flagship started to turn around during the wormhole jump.

The rest of the fleet, however, seemed to have suffered much worse damage than the flagship had. After everyone got their bearings, reports started to come in from nearly every ship in the fleet, telling of missing people, equipment, fighters, destroyed systems, and the list continued to grow. Most remarkable was that an entire Mori-class landship was missing from its dropping bay in one of the Typhon-class stratocruisers of the fleet. Two entire ships had gone missing as well, simply dissapeared to another place or time when the wormhole tunnel broke apart. The Khan himself was most irritated about the loss of VIPs 45 to 47, they were his friends and well-respected and long-standing Kurultai members, so it was a true waste that he and the Lanist Khaganate had lost them. Yuri also despised the way the news had been brought, as he despised the whole codename system that was commonly in place for the Lanist Khaganate, where some of the most important people of the nation were reduced to mere numbers, but it had been in place long before he became Khan and it would probably endure after his death. It made him sad as he walked towards the Kurultai conference room.

"Members of the Kurultai," Yuri began speaking as he looked around the room. Nearly everyone used screens and hologram projectors rather than meet in person. Of course, it was an emergency Kurultai, so nobody had the time to take a shuttle and fly to the fleet's flagship. To Yuri's shock, there were a lot more people missing than the three he heard about. Of course, many members were probably helping on their own ships, but the Khan could not lose the feeling that a lot more people dissapeared in the wormhole jump than initially thought. "It seems that we have arrived in a completely unknown universe," He continued, "and I would like to request your advice to deal with our current situation. As you might've known, we've suffered great losses, with people, materiel, and even entire ships seemingly dissapearing into the unknown." Immediately, the Kurultai started arguing and offering solutions to the problems that the Khaganate faced, as they usually did. At least that's still the same Yuri thought.

After the Kurultai had been debating for several hours, a plan of action was finally made and approved by Khan Lanist himself. First order of business would be to locate where they were, having to stay in the same position for several days. After that, they would have to find some way to locate much of the missing equipment, and most importantly, the missing people that had dissapeared after the fleet was so violently thrown into the unknown reality. Then, they would figure out where to go then.
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When Fanny May sent her distress call, the Khaganate's Great Expansion Fleet had already flown far away from the asteroid field in its succesful attempt to avoid it, but the call was still heard. The message was relayed to the fleet admiral's second-in-command, as the admiral of the GEF was currently at the Kurultai meeting, and a response was sent: "We will come pick you up. Please stay on your position and wait for our rescue vessel to arrive." The 'rescue vessel' in question was the KSR Atlas, a stratocruiser spaceship belonging to the Omega Order. The dark blue painted hull of the Stratocruiser reflected the dim light of the bleak sun as it headed towards the asteroid field. The choice for a stratocruiser was simple, as they had very large hangar bays that could be opened and then seperated from space using forcefields, making it easy to take the rescued ship in and repair it before sending it on its way.

The Atlas arrived near the asteroid field, and a transport craft equipped with mechanical arms flew towards the Jezebel, nimbly dodging the incoming asteroids the ship grabbed the Jezebel and hauled it towards the Atlas' open hangar bay, carefully placing it on the bay's floor.

James Maleski, proud soldier of the Omega Order, was sitting in his room, eating. The mess hall had to be cleaned due to a containment breach from the disastrous wormhole jump. As usual, right when he was eating, James got the order to report to his designated briefing room with the rest of his team. It turned out he was to assemble a welcoming party for a native lifeform of this universe that was apparently in need of help and had been rescued by the Atlas. Soon, James' task force was gathered in the hangar bay, standing in a line, the people in the center crouching down. They all pointed their weapons at a strange metal object that had just been put down on the hangar's floor by a transport craft that had just come in from the asteroid field.
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That night, the stranger did not sleep well. It was not because of fear of the dark or being assassinated by one of the Wul, he had lost that emotion a long time ago, and he knew that he had not harmed anyone in the Wul empire, already showing his complete difference to the human bandits that raided its farms and villages. Neither was it because he was stressed or was worried about anything, because he had been travelling the land, occasionaly working as a mercenary for the local population.

The stranger was dreaming. They were no pleasant dreams either. The stranger dreamt of a group of massive flying metal vessels flying through an even greater tunnel with walls made of pure light in all colors of the rainbow. Something went horribly wrong, causing untold destruction as the strange objects collided into eachother and the walls of the tunnel that had started to ripple. He woke up, sweating all over, and put on his clothes and went outside, where he looked up at the sky. He did not see the familiar stars, instead, he saw hundreds of strange bright lights, slowly moving to the south, and for some reason, he felt as if he recognized it, but the feeling went away quickly. He tried to sleep until it was day again, and left the inn in the morning, having already paid for the room and the food the night before. For some reason, he had the urge to travel towards the south, leaving the Wul Empire.

It was the second day of his journey to the south when he came across another Wul farm. It was still early in the morning, and fog that had come from the sea was laid over the land like a blanket. In the fog, the stranger heard screaming. It had to be bandits! The man drew his two-handed sword and charged, he vaguely saw someone approaching from the left, and swung his blade, cutting the man's torso. Another bandit charged at him, and he sidestepped, letting the foe stumble as he lost his balance. He cut the man's arm off. This was enough to disperse the other bandits, as the stranger had taken them by complete surprise because of the dense fog. When the farmer and his wife came to look at who rescued them, they found nothing, because the stranger had already continued on his journey.

Diddly Do

Added a new character, has been approved by the GM

Diddly Do

The loud noise of sirens could be heard as red lights flashed all across the bridge of the LKS Genghis, the Khan-class dreadnought that was the flagship of the Lanist Khaganate's Great Expansion Fleet. Yuri sat in the bridge close to the Captain's chair, and he could see the walls of the wormhole tunnel pulsate out of the bridge's windows as the wormhole generator failed to compensate for the strange enviromental conditions of whatever was inside of the wormhole or was outside of the wormhole's walls, whatever that might be. Wormhole travel had presented a solution to the whole "space is extremely large" problem that presented itself to the Lanist Khaganate and other burgeoning space nations, but the Khaganate's scientists had never been able to solve the issue that the enviroment inside the wormhole tunnel as well as outside of it could drastically influence the travelling experience of anyone who wished to use one. Wormholes became dangerous to use with large ships and fleets, so it was not a surprise for Yuri that something like this would happen. The strange enviromental conditions inside the wormholes combined with the fact that they were not completely stablized lead to one interesting thing though: Interdimensional travel. The Khaganate soon became able to travel to alternate realities, albeit it happened accidentally and was not really controllable.

Yuri was soon rudely awoken out of his long drawn-out chain of thoughts by a lightning bolt that streaked across nearly the entire wormhole, followed by the Genghis slowly turning sideways, unleashing a horrible creaking sound as if metal was scraping over metal and parts of the ship were being broken off. Yuri could see lights and screens flickering as entire systems started failing while the men and women ran around the bridge, unable to do anything. The gravity generators failed and people were sent flying while trying to run. Then, the wormhole generator that had to constantly endure the stress of the journey gave away, and the wormhole tunnel collapsed, sending the ships of the Lanist Khaganate's Great Expansion Fleet into the unknown...
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Beep beep beep was the sound both Yuri and many of the crewmembers of the bridge would first hear when they were woken up by it.
The irritating beeping luckily didn't alarm them of any life support system failures or other catastrophic failures, but was merely a proximity alarm warning the captain, Yuri, and the bridge crew of an approaching asteroid field. The captain immediately started barking orders, and people ran around the bridge again, trying to find their designated seats they had fallen our floated out off. Eventually, the danger was averted, and to Yuri's relief, the fleet followed the flagship like baby ducks following their mother.

"Check the damage please Captain." the Khan said, and the captain obeyed immediately, running several damage control programs. The captain answered "structural damage is limited, Sir, although our ship has taken some damage to the stern left main thruster when another ship rammed us during the wormhole jump, but repair robots are on the scene at the moment. Also.." The captain paused for a moment, not quite sure how to tell his Khan the news. "VIPs 45 to 47 have dissapeared." Yuri sighed. They had arrived in a completely unknown universe, again.
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Drops of rain slowly started to fall from the sky on the stone wall the stranger was sitting on. It was a very old wall, not able to properly support the stranger's weight as it had been eroded over the years by the winds and rain that were common in that area of the world. The man heard the slow rustling of leaves as the storm began to pick up. He continued walking, seeing that he had to go inside to seek shelter from the coming storm. He had heard of a village that was supposed to be half an hour away.

After 10 minutes of walking, he came across a crossroads. He ignored the sign, as the stranger knew exactly where he had to go. He pulled the hood of his cloak over his head as the rain began to pick up and kept on walking. The stranger had been a strange sight in the remote villages of the Wul Empire. Humans did exist in the world, but were a rare sight in the most western reaches of the Singular Continent. Humans, as it was well known, came from the south, and had only slowly spread to the rest of the world.

The stranger passed a farm, and the farmer's wife and child that had been working the land ran away the moment they saw him. Unlike humans, the Wul were only small, with an average length of 4 feet. They had four arms, but could not best a human in combat despite having more limbs. The stranger was not there to burn down or loot their home like the bandits that were often humans in this part of the world, and so he continued on, unyielding.

After exactly half an hour after he had left from his break spot, he arrived at his destination, an inn. He entered the large, wooden two-storey building and walked towards the bar. The Wul bartender looked up at the stranger, asking him "What do you want?". The stranger looked back, and under the man's cowl the Wul could see a stern face with hair white as bone and eyes as grey as steel staring back at him.

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The Lanist Khaganate (Nation)

Name: Lanist Khaganate

Overview: The Lanist Khaganate is a highly technologically advanced nation originating from an alternate version of Earth they've come to call "Delkhii" after the mongol word for Earth, although Earth and Terra are also often used. It has the capability to travel to different dimensions and realities due to its highly unstable form of Faster-Than-Light travel, and is always accidental rather than intentional. It is ruled by a Khagan, the current of which is a man named Yuri Lanist, although the title of Khan is more commonly used. Much of its economy and production are done by robots.

Government: The Lanist Khaganate is an elective monarchy. Contrary to the Mongol Empire it came from the Khan is not chosen by a Kurultai, but by the Khaganate's people. The Kurultai has become the advisory council to the Khan. The Kurultai is a political and military advisory council made up of Khaganate generals, ministers, statesmen, etc of the Lanist Khaganate. The members of the Kurultai are appointed by the Khan himself.

Military: Like the ancient Mongol Empire, the Khaganate often employs a highly mobile form of ground warfare. Highly flexible units made up from tanks, IFVs, and other armored and mechanized vehicles lead by leaders that had a lot of authority over these small unit allowed the Khaganate armies to easily flank, outmaneuver and ambush their enemies. Giant landships act as artillery support, mobile command base, and place where vehicles can be repaired and refueled all at the same time.

History

History: Coming from an alternate version of Earth where the Mongol empire never declined and fell, but just kept conquering, a predecessor of the Lanist Khaganate was eventually able to unify the globe. Because of the near-constant state of warfare, new technologies were rapidly developed, culminating in the invention of the Landships, massive weapons platforms mounted on colossal tank tracks capable of supplying and supporting vast armies that came to be known as landship fleets. After the invention of such powerful weapons, including WMDs such as nukes, most resistance against the mongol empire quickly fell, and it was able to unite virtually the entire globe under one global nation. Space-age technologies were developed, eventually culminating in the invention of the wormhole generator that would allow starships to create wormholes to travel faster than light and travel to other stars. Slowly, the mongol empire, although under different names based upon its leaders this time, would expand again, this time into the stars. After much settling, expansion, war and conquest, the Lanist Khaganate had conquered most of their side of the galaxy with the help of the advanced technology they developed and stole. A Great Expansion Fleet was made, led by Khan Lanist himself. The fleet made a wormhole, entered it, and dissapeared never to be seen again, to the distress of the Khaganate's population. Unbeknownst to the public, the fleet survived, and had arrived at a strange Planet where they tried to settle, failing miserably as the planet was destroyed. After a series of adventures and shenanigans in alternate dimensions and realities, the Grand Expansion Fleet arrived in the Diddly Do sector.

Military

Khaganate Navy

Corvette

Destroyer

Cruiser

Stratocruiser

Battleship

Dreadnought

Mothership

Khaganate Army

MCES Legions

Technology

Wormhole drive

The Khaganate wormhole drive is arguably one of the most important technologies Khaganate scientists have ever invented. As an interstellar empire, the Khaganate is dependent on interstellar and interplanetary transport and travel to achieve its goals and have a functioning nation, and the wormhole drive, as a technology that allows Khaganate ships to travel faster than the speed of light, fulfills this need. Basic Khaganate wormhole drives have 3 fundamental components that make them work: The spacetime folder, the mass compressor, and the exotic matter scaffold device, or EMSD. More advanced verions, like the wormhole drive of the KSS Atlas, may have additional components to add different functions, like increased wormhole stability, shorter travel times, or the ability to generate multiple wormholes at once.

-The spacetime folder folds local spacetime around the Khaganate ship or fleet. This makes the location of the ship slightly closer to the destination, and also curves the fabric of space-time in such a way that allows for the second component, the mass compressor to work.

-The mass compressor generates a singularity, a point of infinite density, for a very brief moment by compressing incredible amounts of matter together. This then 'punctures' a hole through spacetime itself to the intended destination, creating the wormhole tunnel. For this to work, spacetime has to be 'folded' by the first component of the wormhole drive first. The process of 'puncturing' takes about a nanosecond to happen, and takes tremendous amounts of energy. This part of the wormhole drive is the reason Khaganate wormhole drives take a lot of energy to run.

-After the Mass Compressor has created a tunnel to the destination, the EMSD then 'scaffolds' the wormhole using exotic matter, a form of matter with negative mass. This negative mass creates a negative gravitational force that repels things rather than attracting, and is used to stabilize the wormhole. Exotic matter is rare but can be harvested by specialized Khaganate ships, but it is often generated aboard the spaceship that created the wormhole in the first place, usually because it is easier to do so.

While these are the most important components of a wormhole drive, wormhole drives are always supported by large quantum supercomputers, which calculates all the necessary calculations to generate a wormhole. Khaganate navigators just have to put the coordinates of the destination into the drive system, and the quantum supercomputer which is connected to the bridge's systems will start calculating the energy, trajectory and spacetime curvature that is required.

While the wormhole drive is very advanced, Khaganate wormhole technology is not perfect, and accidents will often happen. The most efficient and safest form of wormhole transport is between 2 systems that have already been taken by the Khaganate, that way the precise coordinates and information of the star system on the other side is already known. The leading cause of wormhole accidents is often the extreme enviroment of the wormhole itself, which may disrupt fleet formations and cause ships to go out of the wormhole unexpectedly. One way of preventing or at least mitigating the damage of such accidents is to employ the use of wormhole-resistant materials, which brings us to our next topic, Advanced Materials.

Advanced materials

Robotics

Nanotechnology

Feral nanobots

Assigned Feral Nanobots
Non-assigned Feral Nanobots
NAFNs are a phenomenon where a population of nanobots will go feral without ever having received a task. This causes the nanobots to all go into their emergency mode separatly, rather than as a group, which means that taking materials from the environment, converting them into useful products and self-replication will all happen individually per nanobot. Since all nanobots have their own blueprints stored inside them since they need to self-replicate, mutations will often happen in these blueprints like they would happen in DNA. This will often mean that the nanites will evolve into several different species, creating a rich ecosystem of nanite species all competing with eachother for resources, until finally a sentient species emerges.

Miscellaneous

Systems and worlds

Factions and Interest groups

Autonomous Industrial Robots

Omega Order

Katie Anderson (Character)

Name: Katie Anderson

Species: Human

Gender: Female

Age: 35

Appearance: By Khaganate standards, Katie would be considered to be beautiful. She is about 6 feet tall, with long, flowing red hair, clear blue eyes, and a pretty face. Most often she is dressed in her military uniform, wearing her hair in a ponytail, but what she wears varies from situation to situation.

Abilities: Because she is a general of the Lanist Khaganate, Katie Anderson is a very good leader and strategist. She is relatively skilled in swordfighting, as well as a good shot.

Personality: General Anderson is often optimistic, and almost always very cheerful and talkative. However, she can also be arrogant and irritable. Due to relatively recent events, she started having nightmares regularly after she was nearly killed by alien four-armed creatures while commanding a landship.

Equipment: One-handed sword made out of titanium.

Background:
Katie Anderson was born on the ringworld known as New-Dadu, a ringworld megastructure in the Four-Ringworlds system, aptly named because the star system contained four ringworlds. Katie's father, a man named Jerry Anderson, was the governor of the system, like Katie's grandfather had been and lived in the capital city of Khanbaliq. Jerry Anderson had been appointed as governor by the Khan before Yuri. The governor was a man who was very interested in scientific research and development, and would often host lavish dinner parties where he and his inner circle got to know many of the researchers that were working on the ringworld. That was where he met Katie's mother, Gwyneth Bryant. Katie's mother was a lesser-known xenobiologist assigned to studying the passive space-borne alien species that had been living in the system before the megastructures were built, and had adapted remarkably fast after the four ringworlds had been completed. When Jerry met Gwyneth, they fell in love, married shortly after, and had a kid, who they named Katie.

Because Katie was the daughter of the governor, almost nothing was beyond her reach due to her father's power and wealth. She grew up spoiled, getting everything that she asked for. However, as she grew older and childhood and puberty eventually turned into adulthood, she found that she had become bored with the luxurious life, and she joined the Khaganate Military Academy on Mars in the Sol system as a cadet after easily passing her entrance exams. Several years later, she had graduated, and was sent to help mop up resistance forces in a recently conquered sector. During her military career, she eventually met and began a fierce rivalry with General Arman Nurzhan. Her tactical brilliance caused her meteoric rise through the ranks of the Lanist Khaganate Army, until she eventually earned the rank of General.

General Katie Anderson was believed to be dead after the ship she was on crashed after a failed wormhole jump.

After being reunited with her former rival, General Arman Nurzhan, the two found a crash-landed Khaganate ship, the KSS Tsol, and used some of its parts to build a pod to escape the planet that they were stranded on. While they initially thought that they were going to die in outer space as they saw the Khaganate fleet had disappeared, they were saved by the KSS Atlas. After being questioned and examined, they were eventually released from the custody of the Omega Order, and boarded a small transport craft that would bring them to a civilian craft.

James Maleski (Character)

Name: James Maleski

Species: Human

Gender: Male

Age: 30

Appearance: James is nearly 2 meters tall and has a very muscular build due to military training. His hair is of a dark blonde color, and he has blue eyes. James is most often dressed in the military gear he needs for the mission he is on, and this changes per mission.

Equipment: Omega Order standard combat gear.

Background: James, after completing his military training and serving in the army for several years was recruited into the Omega Order, the primary Khaganate force for fighting against the unknown.

Arman Nurzhan (Character)

Name: Arman Nurzhan

Species: Human

Gender: Male

Age: 35

Appearance: Arman is unusually tall, standing at around 7 feet tall. He has short, white hair and grey eyes. He constantly has a very stern expression on his face, much to the chagrin of his colleague, General Anderson. Three scars caused by some alien creature's claw lie on his face, going from the bottom right to the top left.

Abilities: Because he is a general, Arman is a very good strategist and leader. He is also very strong and skilled at combat, as well as tough, due to his power armour.

Personality: General Arman is a very unyielding but stubborn man, never giving up doing something. He is also very honest, although this can sometimes result in poor social interaction with others, most notably General Katie Anderson, who is often irritated by what he says or does.

Equipment: Power armor, two-handed sword made out of Slaosten, a wormhole travel-resistant material that is an alloy of steel, cosmoynite and broysium.

Background: After being reunited with his former rival, General Katie Anderson, the two found a crash-landed Khaganate ship, and used some of its parts to build a pod to escape the planet that they were stranded on. While they initially thought that they were going to die in outer space as they saw the Khaganate fleet had disappeared, they were saved by the KSS Atlas, and are now aboard that ship.

Hokum not god

Diddly Do

I'll write a sheet whenever I have wifi (that is actually usable and stuff

The New World

The German shepherd happily splashed in the water near the beach, rolling around in the water in an attempt to simulate swimming without actually having to enter the scary sea. The dog ran back to his master, and then back to the sea in a strange zig-zag pattern when viewed from above. The man was walking his dog at the beach, far away from the Naukan settlement, together with another colonist. It may have been too far, considering the fact that the dangers of the island they were on as well as the New World as a whole were not well understood, but many of the Crusade’s citizens that had been dropped off on the island to build the supply port that the main fleet desperately needed did not waste the chance to explore the beautiful island. It was almost a true paradise, with pristine blue seas and shores that were not tainted by the foul pollution that had devastated the original birthplace of the humans that had settled on the island. The two men looked around. It had not gone unnoticed by them and the Naukan scientists that both the flora and fauna were larger on this island than they were at home, possibly due to the phenomenon of island gigantism where animals that settled somewhere would evolve to be bigger.

The dog stopped. It started barking, at something a few hundred meters away that looked like rocks. The two men stood still, neither of them had any weapons. Slowly, almost unseen by the two men, but not by the dog who could both hear and smell the creature, the rocks moved and revealed a massive red crab, several meters in size, a lot larger than its counterpart on Earth. The crab started scuttling towards them slowly, soon picking up a frantic pace. The men and dog started running away, but the crab was faster, and before they knew it the crab had caught up with them, and used its giant claw to pick up one of the men and nearly cut him in half, killing him instantly, before retreating back to its nest where it came from. The other man continued running as fast as he could, with his dog in tow. As soon as he reached the settlement he ran towards the building that had been constructed where the colony’s leader managed the settlement, and told everything about the crabs to her. Soon, the order was given to all colonists to not go away too far from the colony until these Titan Crabs, as they came to be known by the settlers, could be exterminated.

Udo sighed when he saw what he was assigned to. He had been ordered to escort a group of scientists into the rainforest together with a few other soldiers. He didn’t really like it, but orders were orders. He’d much rather hunt the Carcinus Titania that had been plaguing the beaches around the port colony, especially since they were delicious when cooked, but he had been assigned to something else. There wasn’t much to do except protecting the workers and other colonists from the native wildlife or hunting animals anyway. He walked to the small barracks near the port. It was only a small building because the local Naukan colony didn’t have that much soldiers in it, as most of the Crusade’s military was still on the Vanguard. He gathered his equipment and weaponry and walked towards the only recon vehicle that they had. He entered and sat in the passenger seat and soon some of his comrades also entered the vehicle, including the driver. Other soldiers entered the jeeps that were standing next to the barracks instead, and soon a small convoy drove towards the meeting point from where they would escort the scientists deeper into the island. The convoy continued as soon as the vehicles containing the scientists had joined them, and they drove from the beach towards the jungle. It took some time, because much of the tropical forest had been cut down already, to make space for homes, farms and other buildings. A byproduct of this was the wood which would be used to build the buildings. When they were at the edge of the rainforest the men and women got out off the vehicles and walked into the forest.

Angela Szarka, wildlife biologist of the Naukan Crusade Scientific Division, was having a field day. She really enjoyed the field research part of her job, where she observed animals and plants in their natural habitat and this was even better, as she could see completely new species and forms of life that were very different from the animals on Earth. She could probably write several different scientific papers about them, but this was neither the time or the place to do so, as she had to determine if all of the different animals and plants would be dangerous or helpful to the survival of the growing colony and its inhabitants. She shivered when she thought about one of the less friendly denizens of the island, the Titan Crab, scientifically named Carcinus Titania. It had first been discovered when several Naukan colonists had decided to explore some of the beaches of the island, thinking they would be safe from the dangers of the rainforest. They were wrong, as several of them were killed and dragged off. When a small military force later came to investigate, they killed several of the beasts and found human, amongst animal bones, in their lair. These crabs possessed a limited intelligence, able to hide behind rocks to wait for the right moment to strike, and were very territorial creatures. Soon after their discovery, autopsies and scientific studies had been done on them, which determined the only helpful way that these Titan Crabs would be helpful was as a food source, and so hunters and soldiers were given the orders to hunt for them. Luckily for the colony’s citizens, the Carcinus Titania were not able to best the rifles and machineguns of the soldiers, and the meat was a good source of protein.

After several minutes of walking, the group of soldiers and researchers came across a clearing in the rainforest, where they found a herd of herbivores resembling giant rhinos peacefully grazing. The scientists took samples of them, and determined that these giant rhinos could be useful as beasts of burden, strong enough to carry and drag things which could be helpful in logging and construction. Due to their size these animals were very hard to move, until Angela suggested that they tried luring the rhinos with some of the native plants that had been discovered earlier. This particular plant was the Oryza purpura, a plant that looked like purple rice and several test fields on farms had been made for them. After some research it was found that these plants were not toxic and were edible, but they would probably never replace the grain crops that the colonists had brought with them due to their size and difficulty of processing. The giant rhinos were able to eat the purple rice unprocessed though, and some of them were lured back to the colony to be domesticated or trained. The explorers also brought back with them seeds of a potato-like plant that was determined to be safe for consumption, as well as the corpse of a carnivore that was able to camouflage itself from the people in the forest because it had leaves on its wings. It was only found when some of the scientists tried to use thermal imaging equipment and found out there was a large bird-shaped blob of higher temperatures against the background lower temperatures of the leaves. They immediately asked a soldier to shoot it a few times with his assault rifle, and soon the animal was dead on the ground. Overall, Angela thought, it was a very successful trip.

Walter looked over the colony from one of the watchtowers that had been build near its edges. He could see the farmhouses made out of wood next to the fields full of wheat, corn, etc. After the Naukan fleet had landed on the island to build a supply port, a portion of the seeds in the seed-bank were left there to grow into crops to provide food for the colonists. Also, some of the animals that were on the Ark had been left on the island, to provide a source of protein that they would know would be safe for consumption. The animals also provided manure which would fertilize the farms and fulfilled some key roles like pollination. The farms were in a spot where there originally was only jungle, but the giant trees had to be cleared to make space for agriculture. These giant trees that were taller than many on earth also provided a very good source for wood that would be used to construct many of the buildings Walter could see from the watchtower, and the leaves and bark of these trees, together with many of the waste products of the sawmill had been used to make even more biofuel which would be used for the generation of electricity. They had recently constructed a barracks for the military, a makeshift hospital, and a school. The only buildings that weren’t really made out of wood were the large naval port that the Naukan fleet would use to resupply when they would eventually make their way back to the Gate to go pick up more people, as well as several factories that were built to provide the materials for this supply port and budding settlement, most notably of which was a large steel mill that had been built after sources of coal and iron had been found in the mountains that were located more to the inside of the island. There were also a concrete factory and resource refinery much like the one aboard the main Naukan flagship, as well as several other factories responsible for the production of building materials and other goods.

After several days of sailing, the Naukan Crusade fleet had finally arrived where they were planning to build the main settlement of the Naukan Crusade, and Temir Zima gave the order to land there. They had chosen a location to the northwest of their island colony, protected from invaders by the mountains to the east. The climate was a lot more temperate there, so it was more comfortable for many of the Naukan settlers. The same pattern that happened when the island colony first started was repeated here. The location was made safe, a port was built, local resources were exploited, and farms, factories and housing were all constructed with several major differences: The population of the main settlement numbered in several thousands compared to the several hundred people that lived in Azure Port, so the work happened quicker. The Vanguard was gone more often as it had to check back on Azure Port every now and then since radio communications were not set up yet. The flagship became a more permanent addition to the settlement, as it was intended to be. The nuclear reactor that had been sitting in the Flagship’s cargo hold was finally used to build a powerplant. The Ark was sitting around mostly empty until the Naukan citizens could gather enough materials to build another ship that was capable of protecting the new settlements, which would still take a long time. The main settlement of the Naukan Crusade was named Temir’s Landing.

The New World

It had been a full week on the sea after the Naukan Crusade had arrived into the new world through the gate. Preliminary scouting efforts using the detection equipment the Naukan ships had on hand, as well as the three helicopters onboard the Vanguard, the recon and defense ship of the Naukan Crusade's fleet, had revealed that there was a massive continent to the south-west of the gate, and as such the leader of the Naukan Crusade, Khan Temir Zima, had ordered the fleet to go to the south west. Due to currents, weather conditions, and encounters with several different denizens of the oceans of the New World, the fleet had ended up near the northern part of the archipelago that was between the northern and southern parts of the continent. After passing several islands, the fleet found an island that was good enough to settle on, and so, Temir gave the order to build a supply port here before the Naukan Crusade would settle on the mainland.

The soldiers of the assigned away team gathered in the landing craft, and a few minutes later it departed the Vanguard's well dock. They were nervous. It would be the first time any of them had set foot on land for a while, and who knew what kinds of dangers were on the island. Udo sat in the back, near the sergeant that was in command of the squad that was sitting in the landing craft. Another landing craft with one of the Crusade's recon vehicles was following closely behind. Udo could hear the chopping sound of helicopter rotors as the recon and transport helicopters flew over the landing craft and the ASW helicopter was dropping buoys to check for any dangers underwater. Then, they were upon the shore. The squad of men in the landing craft grabbed their weapons and carefully walked on the shore, checking for any threats. There seemed to be none, and a call from the sergeant with the recon helicopter confirmed this. As soon as a beachhead was established and the island was declared safe, the other ships came ashore. First to arrive was the Pioneer. A massive ramp at the front of the vessel was laid down upon the beach, and the ship was anchored to the beach. The Ark came and offloaded some of the people who were assigned to help construct the small waystation port that'd be used as a jumping-off point for further Naukan settlement. The Neptune went off to gather fish and make biofuel to refuel the ships.

Farms were established near the shore as the materials that were required to build a naval port were gathered using trucks and equipment that the Crusade had brought with them. The Neptune came back with a full tank of biofuel, and the scientific database was consulted to construct an additional biorefinery, together with a small powerplant, on the island.

After a week, the small Naukan settlement, named Azure Port, named after the beautiful blue seas that surrounded what would be called a tropical paradise. It had a few houses, biofuel refinery, farms, power plant, and most importantly, a large naval port. Some of the Naukan citizens were left behind, to work the land and service the Naukan ships that would pass through the area. Some soldiers, together with a few of the recon vehicles, were left behind, to protect the settlement. The Naukan Crusade fleet was ressuplied with materials gathered from the island, and set off north to their original destination.