Name of nation:
Xedla Hive
Description of government:
The Xedla are controlled by their queens aside from that, there is a strict segregation between worker, warriors and queens. They will be born in one role and live that role until they die. There is no way for a queen to become a worker or a warrior. The hive queens are the ones at the top, below are the normal queens which control their respective colony (note: as in ant colony, not necessarily space colony).
Technological Overview:
The Xedla technology is based on the usage of high energy, high temperature plasma.
The plasma reactor is a combination of multiple plasma and energy generators combined into one construction. It generates both energy and plasma, based on it's size and the number of generators involved. It uses gaseous substances to create plasma and energy through fusion.
The Xedla do currently not possess any FTL drive! However their sublight engines use high energy plasma, which is provided through the reactor. The engines do not allow traveling faster than light, however they allow relative fast sublight travel, while remaining only dependend on their reactor. Even though they may not possess a valid FTL drive, the idea behind the hyperspace exists, it may only be a matter of time before the first working hyperdrive is created on Ichnaea.
They have knowledge of simple gravity generators, these generators can be deployed in anti-grav vehicles or to generate a gravity field for a ship. They can create either limited zero gravity zones or their normal gravity. Their capacity to create zero gravity and let things hover is limited to the size of a weapon platform. While it's possible to create anti-grav platforms they do require additional plasma reactors as the efficiency of the gravity generators is quite bad. As for creating their normal gravity from less gravity, it is actually much easier than to let things hover. The generators do not need to counter balance the existing gravity, but instead simply output a constant amount of force. They may not be limited like the anti-grav version, however they still need large amounts of energy due to inefficiency.
Plasma is also used for weapons, from claws (powerarmor/suit) and coated in plasma to cut through steel, over plasma guns, rifles and cannons to capital weaponry. Each weapon makes use of plasma to 'burn' through the target. While claws, guns and rifles have their own small reactor integrated, cannons and capital weaponry need a seperate reactor system. Anti-grav plattforms have seperate reactors to field the larger cannons, as for capital weaponry those are only available for vessels and special buildings.
The Xedla do not possess any sort of traditional energy shield. Therefore the Xedla construct buildings and vessels to be resistant against heat, cold and kinetic energy, since they can't depend on any kind of shielding. Their vessels usually have a heavy armor to withstand the impact of asteroids and other space trash. They use titanium as base for their powerarmors/suits, which are completely air tight and contain their own small plasma reactor. Each suit has multiple small plasma engines which allow them to jump a several meters on normal gravitation or maneuver in zero gravity.
Their knowledge of robots is non existent, as their drones are better than any robots.
Description of military:
While being strong on ground they still developed several anti-grav plattforms with heavy weaponry to boost their strength even further. However lacking presence in the air and in space they created fighter and bomber, later on they constructed Freighters and other bigger ships to travel from planet to planet. Hangar bays in ships and on planets usually tend to contain different types of fighters, bombers, gunships and boarding ships.
The Hive Fleet contains currently a single large Hive Ship (short: Hive/Hives), spanning several hundred meters and Several 220+ m Cruisers.
Hives are both shipyards and and Battleships in one. They tend to be enourmous in size and several smaller vessels like cruisers may be docked to it. They contain several large hangar bays, offering space to hundreds of small fighters, to defend themselves, while still possessing several batteries of heavy, medium and light plasma weapons, capable of large destruction. They have at least one Queen, but most of the time several Queens, on board and are command vessels. Normally boarding a Hive is quite a bad idea, since they usually have Xedlas in colony strength on board. While extremly strong and hard to kill, they are in fact very slow making it an easy job to outrun them. While it's possible to use Cruisers and freighters for colonization purposes, Hives are much more efficient, as they can carry way larger quantities of both material and Xedlas.
The difference between a normal Hive and a Super Hive class is the size and the fitted equipment.
Cruisers are usually boarded by a small colony and a Queen, or Commander, while able to operate alone most Cruisers are either escorts for a Hive or themselves escorted by several Destroyers. A Cruiser contains two to four medium sized hangar bays with limited space. They are armed with a large quantity of plasma weapons from small anti-fighter turrets to capital weaponry. Cruisers are already much faster than hives, but still slower than their smaller counterparts. Normal cruisers usually have multiple boarding mechanisms, which use plasma coated drills to open up their target, so that the target can be boarded. The same mechanism is used in boarding ships and on other boarding capable vessels.
Carriers are Cruiser class ships which trade some speed and a large number of guns against several larger hangar bays. Their design is nearly the same as cruisers, which makes them difficult to distinguish from normal cruiser.
Frigates/Destroyers are large gunboads and escort ships, they are only boarded by worker and warriors and are rarely found alone, far away from Xedla space or fleets. They do not possess any fighter or bomber bays but are instead armed with as much plasma weapons as their size and reactors allow. They tend to have a large firepower, however as their weapons need additional reactors, their armour tends to be weaker compared to other Xedla ships. They are currently apart from fighters and bombers the fastest ships in the arsenal of the Xedla. They contain a single boarding mechanism to let dozens of Xedla board their victim at the same time.
Needless to say, that every Xedla vessel contains a considerable contingent of Xedlas.
Hive Fleet:
Super Hive:
Super Hive:
Cultural Overview:
There are no fixed numbers for colonies, instead a colony can range from a few dozens to several millions or more. However a colony has usually between one and five queens.
The Queens are the heart of the Xedla society. They are the swarm intellect, without the queens there is no way to reproduce and the drones would wait for another queen or commander to command them. Each Queen is able to sense if another Queen is in the same system. Commander units can replace a Queens presence for smaller groups of up to several hundred. This is to ensure that no Queen needs to enter the frontlines to command their soldiers.
Planets:
Ichnaea (18 NP)
Ships:
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Population:
1,000,000,000 Xedla (10 NP)
