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Feels abandoned.

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Then you'd be newly emerged Tier 3, as that is when FTL is discovered according to the tier list. Tier 4 is like modern Earth with our space programs.

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If they're a tier 5 and have the tech to be tier 4, why would they not be tier 4. Is your first post going to be the use of an FTL drive?

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Ask the Space Ghosts for assistance as a Tier 4/5. Maybe they'll help you. They're known for being present Coast to Coast.

And god damn this thread blew up with pointless discussion.

edit- Oh, to be serious, it is distinctly possible the Unseen might happen across your civilization due to their mobile, constantly moving nature.

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Added a pretty bare-bones drawing I made for them to the sheet. Decided to hide their appearance too, aligns with their general isolationism.

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Skimpy NS to get the main points jotted down for now, I will be making a drawing of them in a bit;

Nation Name: The Allied Remnants of Relia (The Black Fleet, various other names)

Race(s): Relen (AKA: The Unseen, The Black Ones, Light Benders, Space Ghosts, etc)



A suited Relen, the only way they show themselves to outsiders. Speculation abounds to why the Relen hide even their physical appearance behind masks.

Racial Traits:

WE ARE THE UNSEEN: The Relen have focused and continue to focus a large proportion of their technology on cloaking technology, both for their ships and for personal use, resulting in the development of a vast number of metamaterials and other technologies that have ultimately led to them becoming infuriatingly hard to detect when they don't want to be found, even at the individual level. This technology, combined with their general attitude of isolationism, has led to them become regarded as the spookiest members of the galactic scene, with myths circulating widely as to their exact abilities, their intentions, and their origins.

YET WE ARE FEW: In comparison to every other galactic and interstellar power, the Relen do not even begin to register as blibs on the galactic scales of population. Their population numbers less than even 200 million, meaning they have absolutely no hope of winning a conventional war, and essentially negative chances of winning any kind of long ground engagement. Their only real ability to fight is navally, often relying on their cloak technology and usage of hit-and-run tactics. Beyond that, the Relen engage mainly in covert operations against their enemies.

Civilization Tier: 2 - Galactic Power, this is more a measure of their technological level than their size.

Population: ~178,000 Relen spread across nearly ~2,500 ships.

Culture/Society: The Relen society essentially functions with very little centralization beyond Allied Command, the military organization designed to coordinate the Remnant forces if absolutely necessary, and the Relen themselves are split into multiple fleets centered around a single enormous vessel that carries ten thousand of their kind. The various fleets generally operate as they wish, and organize themselves on their own, maintaining distance from one another across the galaxy. Essentially all of the fleets operate using communistic ideals, distributing supplies as necessary to the various ships, and deciding as a whole what their fleet's goal is. Law is also decided on a per-fleet basis, for example, some fleets openly engage in piracy, assassinations, trafficking, murder of multiple kinds, etc, though none of it directed towards other Relen.

It is almost universally accepted, however, that Relen do not kill other Relen due to having too few numbers, and that no foreigners can ever know the location of any major concentrations of their own people, let alone set foot on any Relen vessel. Because of this universal unspoken law, the Relen do generally keep to themselves for the most part.

There is, however, one group the Relen spend a fair portion of their time "interacting" with: The Prosperity Sphere. They almost universally agree that the robot bastards who purged their homeworld of Relia and commited mass genocide against the Seven Colonies of Old must pay eternally for their actions. They enact their revenge by using whatever means necessary to stall the expansion of the Doom Bubble.

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Serp, might it be possible your robots purged the homeworld of a race I am considering making?

A Single Galaxy [Sci-Fi Nation RP]

I know for sure at least Warrior of Sunlight withdrew. So there is a minimum of one spot open.

A Single Galaxy [Sci-Fi Nation RP]

The Coalition of Aexen Powers



The Grazan


An Grazan stands without its second skin, gazing into a holo-sphere, an unusual, potentially lethal action.

Grazan Description

Grazan stand about a meter tall if they were to fully stretch their legs, have four eye clusters that offer them large fields of view, and rather thin, heavily segmented exoskeletons that were once far thicker. These exoskeletons thinned and segmented to allow the Grazan more range of motion and to work with more intricate, small details, defeating most of their protective purposes. Most of the Grazan 'strength' comes from their enormous neuron mass that fills what would commonly be identified roughly as their "cranium," running down along their "backs."

Of course, you'll almost never see a naked Grazan. From birth, they live within their technology, their Second Skins, biomechanical constructs that house their frail bodies, feed them, and protect them from the outside elements. They subsist off nutrient paste, formulated mostly from a fast-growing underground fungus. Their atrophied bodies practically cannot survive outside their Second Skins without incredible conditioning beforehand and immunity injections.

Needless to say, Grazan are basically incapable of reproducing naturally anymore, instead being forced to rely on growth pools filled with painstakingly-made eggs combining donor sex cells from female and male Grazan, each egg requiring a fairly large support apparatus to grow it, with many eggs failing to take to the apparatus in the first place.

Grazan tend to individualize themselves using intricate tattoo-like art painted onto their Second Skins, something they pride themselves on.

Name of Homeworld: Aexen

Stat Placement:
-- Toughness: 0 (Grazan can only leave their Second Skins with incredibly long preparation beforehand. Needless to say, they're quite squishy, and would be prone to dying from incredibly small scratches were it not for their advanced life support systems integrated in their Second Skins.)

-- Reproduction: 0 (Being incapable of natural reproduction is an enormous impediment to the Grazan, and the sheer amount of resources that goes into growing a single individual is quite large. The growth pool must grow them for many months, carefully monitoring the individual, then the individual must basically be transplanted into a Second Skin, which has to be upgraded as they grow further.)

-- Industry: 2 (The Grazan manage to supplement their lack of numbers with their brilliance in robotics, creating sophisticated, sometimes borderline sentient, machines to work for them. This has the second benefit of keeping Grazan from engaging in potentially dangerous work.)

-- Psyche: 6 (The enormous neuron masses that the Grazan possess are not only packed full of nervous tissue, but this tissue exhibits the unusual ability to form far more connections than most creature's brains as well. The result is that the vast majority of Grazan would be, to humans, absurdly intelligent geniuses, with the most intelligent Elder Grazan possessing an intellect that makes humanity's geniuses look like five year old children. Many humans could identify this state of being as perfection, but the Grazan could easily prove intelligence is not the path to a New Eden.)

-- Morale: 2 (Grazan typically fight with average morale, if you call what they do "fighting," tending to use an army composed mainly of robot warriors as their frontline. Whenever possible, Grazan will not put themselves at risk if a machine can take their place, and will often value their lives quite highly. Because of this, Grazan often exhibit a form of warfare almost similar to some feudal humans, where Grazan who know they are defeated will yield to their better before death. This form of warfare is generally meant to help sustain their numbers as best they can, and the Grazan almost instinctively fight with the knowledge of the great situation in mind, preferring to show mercy before vengeance.)

Brief Planetary History:

"Brief" Planetary History

The Grazan are unusual beings whose ancestors were six-limbed insectoids most similar in nature to Earth ants, chained within a hive heirarchy. The Grazan remained this way, according to their historians, up until a few million years ago, at which point Lodier, the star Aexen orbits, began producing far more radiation than normal. This radiation tended to become concentrated in specific surface fruits that the Grazani Queens loved to consume, quickly resulting in their radiation deaths, as well as producing unusual mutated offspring.

The vast majority of these offspring are assumed to have died, but one lineage resulted in new Grazan with females that could all reproduce, instead of being tied directly to one singular reproductive female. Evolution and adaption took over, leading to an out of control population that periodically caused mass extinctions and death on Aexen for millions of years, until the Grazan began losing the ability to lay hundreds of eggs and experienced abnormally large amounts of cephalization resulting in "heads" that essentially ran down their entire "backs". Intelligence began to decide dominance, and things went from there, leading eventually to the anatomically modern Grazan, pre-addiction to technology.

The furious growth of Grazan technology is typically agreed upon by historians as having begun roughly three thousand years ago with the first appearance of sophisticated tools. From there, the Grazan advanced in leaps and bounds, forming hundreds of societies and nations that spent much of their time killing one another with increasingly more advanced weapons because they simply reproduced too quickly. But this pace of war slowed as the general welfare of the global population increased, leading to slower and slower hatchrates as the people focused their attention on other issues.

This slow growth was disturbed as the Grazan broke headfirst into the atomic era shortly after, approximately two centuries ago as the atomic bomb came under the control of a single Power on Aexen. This one, old Power, the name of which has been intentionally erased from history by the modern Coalition, recognized their advantage and capitalized upon it with cold, calculated ruthlessness. They engaged in a near-global blitzkrieg, tactically nuking opposing forces that stood in their way, burning Aexen in nuclear fire for nearly three decades. In response to this old Power's aggression, the Coalition was formed of the remaining Powers.

The Infinite War waged nearly seven more decades before the Coalition achieved victory; exterminating the entire population of the aggressor Power as accomplices to global genocide and wiping their name from history to ensure they would not rise again. But the cost was enormous. The Infinite War had spurred incredible advances among the Grazan, which, combined with the already hostile, irradiated Aexen becoming even more irradiated, led directly to the development of the Second Skin Project.

Originally the Second Skins were meant as protection against the ever-increasing radiation bathing Aexen, but their functions only become more and more invasive and advanced. When the Infinite War ended, the Grazan found themselves unable to leave their Second Skins, as an ultra-irradiated hell awaited them beyond the suits of metal and plastic. So they stayed inside their suits, never leaving them again, save for a few isolated experiments and incredibly foolish Grazan, until a hundred years passed, leading to the present day.

The Coalition of Aexen Powers reigns supreme over the whole of Aexen, though the individual Powers tend to exert more control over their own realms than the Coalition itself does. The Grazani bodies have atrophied significantly, and they have remained embedded in their suits, relying upon them simply to survive. Much of the old aggressor Power's land has been reconstructed, though efforts are ongoing to attempt to repopulate it, but a new prospect has presented itself to the Grazan: Faster-Than-Light Travel.

Previously, the Grazan had already spent a large amount of time exploring their solar system, but they had generally refrained from creating colonies, as it was seen as unnecessary and expensive to maintain these colonies, and they served little purpose. But the discovery of FTL awakened within many Grazan a drive to explore the stars that populated their night sky now that it was finally feasible...