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The land of Ishtar is one region in this fantastic land of war, and strife and magic. The role play will be a mid to late medieval fantasy setting, using fantastic species, and monsters, and powerful magic alongside warriors with steel, and the courage to face the supernatural.

Players will take control of customized nations within this region creating unique splinters of a former empire that once ruled these lands, all the while rumors of something dark and sinister rising in the north run rampant through the region.

The NS will be rather simple but at the same time allow for a lot of creativity, as for magic.

Magic: Magic in this world works in a slightly different way, in order for any spell to exist it requires the constant manipulate of the inert magical energy of the world into the spell in order work, different people have different capabilities of magic being transferred through their bodies, use too much magic and you could kill yourself. Magic in this world exists in a constant feed from the magical realm which fonts exist to push the magical energy from that realm to this one. I will not be stating outright restrictions for spells rather anything that seems like it might be out of the normal or abnormally powerful we will simply discuss it.

Timeline
Year 0 the Navarros Elven Empire rises, controls most of the lands and most species only spit up by a few swaths of warlord controlled lands.
Year 876: the first war of incursion takes place beast creatures from the north attack the northern borders and stream into the region causing chaos and havoc. They are eventually defeated but the war caused a schism splitting the Navarros empire in two, human and other species fill the land between the two halves.
Year 1062: The Orduin Empire rises.
Year 1101: Border skirmishes erupt between the Navarros empire and the Orduin Empire
Year 1109: the Pinnacle war begins between the Orduin Empire and the Navarros.
Year 1164: a peace treaty is signed by the two empires and borders are drawn up to ensure no more conflict.
Year 1192: Navarros arch mages begun researching how to enter the realm of magic
Year 1204: Navarros arch mages successfully enter the realm of magic and disappear for 3 years
Year 1207: the Navarros arch mages return from the realm and enact a coup slaying the Emperor and Empress of Navarros and the rest of the royal family. They infect champions of the Empire with a new disease. These 1000 white elves become known as the Pale.
Year 1210: the Pale begin maneuvering and conquering all elven sub races of the Navarros empire.
Year 1212: the pale begin to strike at the Orduin empires borders, this same year high elves break away and ally themselves with the Orduin empire.
Year 1218: Arch Wizard Hesper comes from the East with his hundred Acolytes offering to help them defeat the pale if he is named the Emperor of Orduin and that his lineage would hold the throne. This is accepted after a small civil war between the houses in Orduin.
Year 1220: with the help of Hesper the high elves and the Orduin Empire are able to force the pale and their forces back into their lands. Their lands are then cut off from magic as Hesper blocks off their fonts.
Year 1221-1246: peace Reigns
Year 1247: Former Grand Marshal Dunehelm raises rebel forces in the Mikald Province, and turns two Imperial Legions to his cause to secede from the Orduin empire claiming Hesper to be a false Emperor
Year 1248-1253: Civil between the Orduin Empire and Grand Marshal Dunehelms forces takes place ending with the death of Dunehelm by Hesper daughter Zeralda.
Year 1253-1903: Peace Reigns under Hespers Bloodline
Year 1903: The Northern beasts raise another horde and attack to the south terrorizing the Orduin empires borders for 200 years
Year 2103-2107: a gathering of five legions led by General Keppin pushes through to the north pushing the beasts back and crushing them in their homelands at the cost of 2 legions.
Year 2108-2422: peace reigns
Year 2423: the Bug invasion begins, the empire having little forewarning to stave off the ships that snuck to their shores
Year 2424: the bugs reach the Orduin Capital defeating the two legions guarding it and slaughtering the Imperial family as well as the senate and most nobles. The Orduin Empire falls
Year 2425: the Bugs are pushed back by the now splintered empire that had broken down into several new kingdoms.
Year 2426: the Bugs keep a foot hold on the region but dedicate most of their strength to building a land bridge and defending their occupied area. The splintered nations of the Empire begin building up their own borders and fortifications.
Year 2614: the land bridge is completed.
Year 2622: rumors begin coming from the north of a new nation consolidating power in the old White elf lands.

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Name: Starburst Valkyries Corp.

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Brief Description: A mercenary company made up entirely of those of the female sex, whether they were originally female or not doesn’t matter as long as they are female now. The company prides itself on professionalism, and its willingness to do whatever the job requires no matter what efforts it would require.

Claim:
Valkyrie Station: The Main Space Station hub for the Starburst Valkyrie Corporation.

Hades Void Prison: A privately owned space prison ran and owned by the Starburst Valkyries.

Kevos 2 Research Station: A desolate Ice planet, the Research station is built into the side of a mountain, the area being chosen for the volatile weapons research taking place there so that if something goes awry there will be no damage to a local populace since it does not have one.

Government: The current leadership is made up of different department heads, each of whom makes up a board of directors that ultimately decide the course of the company, what jobs they accept, and who they work for.

History: The Corporation was formed one hundred and twelve years ago by women displaced after their military service, they felt that an all female mercenary group would garner a certain standard of publicity, which it did. Being rather successful they went on to grow larger and larger, purchasing a small fleet of freighters. This worked well for them as it allowed to do the jobs they needed in order to gather the funds to continue to increase their workability in the galaxy.

As their funds grew, so did their quality of equipment, troops, and even gained them new ships. Soon enough they were a Mercenary company capable of travelling anywhere in the known Galaxy, and with this ability came even more funds, which brought them to purchasing a space station which they could operate from, capable of docking their new fleet of frigates. This money also allowed them to work on a new venture, they funneled incredible amounts of funds into a custom built space station that would be utilized as a prison that would take infamous, political, and other types of prisoners from nations that didn’t want to execute or keep said people imprisoned themselves, it was also a place where the company kept many of its prisoners from combat missions. These prisoners tended to disappear eventually though, and seldom any reason was given, most theories are that it was due to being sold into slavery, or used in experimentation by the Corporation itself.

Military:
The Military is made up of several different branches, though they all ultimately answer to the Board of Directors.

Infantry Weapons

Ranged Energy Weapons: The ranged energy weapons are that of a top quality, the Starburst Valkyrie Corporation now developing, and manufacturing their own weaponry after having gained a rather large manufacturing ability, and a sizeable R&D team that works on such things. These weapons utilize powerful energy cells that focus said energy into

Energized Melee Weaponry: Energized melee weaponry comes as a standard or collapsable hand to hand combat weapon such as swords, batons, and maces. These weapons come with their edges, and areas used for striking to be powered by energy to make a more powerful blunt attack, or cut.

Ballistic Weaponry: Whether small arms, or mounted, ballistic weapons are made with a similar method of propulsion all around, magnetic rails. Rail weaponry is the mainstay of ballistics for the Valkyries, and it has not failed them yet.

Missiles: the Valkyrie Corporation has obtained an impressive variety of missiles, whether they are used planetside or in space, they are versatile and useful in many situations.

Troop Types











Mechanized












Navy














Air Force




Religion/Culture: It’s a mercenary corporation, they tend to be have an aggressive, yet professional culture, there is a pride in their work, and they take whatever they are tasked with seriously. Though the Corporation is made up only of women in every field possible, they are not sexist in the idea that they dislike men or think they are inferior, the Corporation uses this as a marketing ploy, and personal preference. The thought behind it being that why hire skilled and deadly men, when you can hire skilled and deadly women and have some eye candy at the same time.

Demographics (Species):
Human majority
Other Alien species are included.
Females only are employed.

Characters:

CEO



Directors and Important Support Staff













Military Leaders 10





























Field Research Team Alpha















Relations:
TBD

Habitation:
All sorts, mainly a space station.
Planet: Arturio 3
Deployed Unit(s): 1st Infantry Division, 3rd Mech Division, 1st Armored Division.
Deployed Officers of Import: Captain Maria Valero
Mission Parameters: Destroy, or relocate local Populace.
Employer: Absterisk Mining Company.
ROE: Eliminate Any Resistance, Relocate peaceful surrenderees, Transport captured combatants to R&D facility.


Trees cracked, and fell over, the civilians of Arturio 3 running quickly from their positions in the tree line and into their town as Hover tanks punched holes in the forest, carving a path with their cannons as they closed in. It was devastating to the local populace they fell in droves, soldiers, and civilians alike. Starburst Valkyrie Corporation had little mercy for the locals, and soon several aerial vehicles were roaring by overhead. They released their contents large blue and purple explosions overtaking any structures, vehicles, and organic beings leaving behind only shimmering ash that danced in the air in varying bright colors that sharply contrasted with the destruction that they were the consequence of.

The assault raged on for several hours as the Valkyrie tore apart what little resistance the locals could put up. By the end of the attack barely anything remained of the locals in the area, and only four of the Valkyries had been lost in combat. Those who had been captured by the Valkyries were now lined up in rows on their knees, blindfolds around their eyes and hands tied behind their backs. The locals were a mixture of alien species and humans all of which were being looked over very closely, an inspection of sorts, from which the human women were pulled from the lines and led into the back of a nearby ship.

One woman stood out among the mercenaries, her eyes wandered over the prisoners a slight smirk upon her lips. Captain Valero raised a single hand pointing to the captives. “Execute them, use the blades don’t waste ammunition. As for human females put them on the Frigate Mephisto and have them taken to the Kevos 2 Research station for repurposing.” Turning she looked over the devastated area. “Smell that?” She said looking towards one of the troops, the woman turning towards the Captain.

“The Burning Flesh Ma’am?” The trooper was new, obviously a fairly recent recruit by the rank insignia on her shoulders.

“No Private… No, that smells like money.” In the horizon the mining ships were slowly descending from the sky towards the surface. This was just the first stepping stone, soon the planet would be one giant mining colony, and the citizens would be made into slaves to work in the tunnels.

Planet: Kevos 2
Location: Valkyrie Research Station
Current Projects: Manchurian, Jamie Sommers, Edith


The operation room was rather busy today, some breakthroughs had been made and were very much in the process of being applied. Three of the operating tables had a patient on them, each of them deep under anesthetics. Surgeons, and Lab Techs stood over them, as well as some engineers. Two of the patients were troops, one of them a volunteer, the other injured in combat, and the final patient was a woman who had been captured during a raid the company had been hired to do. The injured troop had had her arms and legs amputated, nodes were being installed into the stumps of her arms and legs, connecting to nerves, and muscles. Once the wires were fused to flesh several robotic limbs were brought in, some with attachments some without.

The next woman had her skin split in several places and her muscles were being removed from around the bones they were attached to and being placed aside, the scent of burnt flesh in the air from the energy scalpels being used. Soon metal plates were being attached to the bones in her arms, the bones that made up her rib cage, legs, skull, and even her spine, soon vials of synthetic muscles made up of some metallic fiber were being brought forth to be placed into her body next.

And the final patient, her head shaved bald, her scalp had been cut and peeled back like a tent flap, and the top of her skull had been removed like a cap. Her brain revealed the patient was having wires planted into the organ and connected to a series of chips mounted to the inside of the skull cap. The scalpels cut into the woman’s flesh removing bones, skin, muscles in some places, filling the voids with different devices that were both combative, and utilitarian. Even other body parts were completely removed such as one arm was replaced with what looked like a rivet gun, and her eyes were even replaced with some type of ocular camera that was attached to her brain to allow her to see, and to allow a control room to see what she sees.

From a glass windowed room watching over what the surgeries taking places was Dr. Krauss taking notes ona holographic datapad as she hummed lightly to herself. Turning she pulled up another screen, and the face that looked back at her was the Secretary of CEO Lyesmith. Krauss gave a nod in greeting, then without waiting for a response began to speak. “Inform Miss Lyesmith that the operations are repeatedly successful, and that soon we will go into field testing to ensure the products are in good working order. Who would have thought three different projects would have helped each other so much.”
Name: Starburst Valkyries Corp.

Flag:

Brief Description: A mercenary company made up entirely of those of the female sex, whether they were originally female or not doesn’t matter as long as they are female now. The company prides itself on professionalism, and its willingness to do whatever the job requires no matter what efforts it would require.

Claim:
Valkyrie Station: The Main Space Station hub for the Starburst Valkyrie Corporation.

Hades Void Prison: A privately owned space prison ran and owned by the Starburst Valkyries.

Kevos 2 Research Station: A desolate Ice planet, the Research station is built into the side of a mountain, the area being chosen for the volatile weapons research taking place there so that if something goes awry there will be no damage to a local populace since it does not have one.

Government: The current leadership is made up of different department heads, each of whom makes up a board of directors that ultimately decide the course of the company, what jobs they accept, and who they work for.

History: The Corporation was formed one hundred and twelve years ago by women displaced after their military service, they felt that an all female mercenary group would garner a certain standard of publicity, which it did. Being rather successful they went on to grow larger and larger, purchasing a small fleet of freighters. This worked well for them as it allowed to do the jobs they needed in order to gather the funds to continue to increase their workability in the galaxy.

As their funds grew, so did their quality of equipment, troops, and even gained them new ships. Soon enough they were a Mercenary company capable of travelling anywhere in the known Galaxy, and with this ability came even more funds, which brought them to purchasing a space station which they could operate from, capable of docking their new fleet of frigates. This money also allowed them to work on a new venture, they funneled incredible amounts of funds into a custom built space station that would be utilized as a prison that would take infamous, political, and other types of prisoners from nations that didn’t want to execute or keep said people imprisoned themselves, it was also a place where the company kept many of its prisoners from combat missions. These prisoners tended to disappear eventually though, and seldom any reason was given, most theories are that it was due to being sold into slavery, or used in experimentation by the Corporation itself.

Military:
The Military is made up of several different branches, though they all ultimately answer to the Board of Directors.

Infantry Weapons

Ranged Energy Weapons: The ranged energy weapons are that of a top quality, the Starburst Valkyrie Corporation now developing, and manufacturing their own weaponry after having gained a rather large manufacturing ability, and a sizeable R&D team that works on such things. These weapons utilize powerful energy cells that focus said energy into

Energized Melee Weaponry: Energized melee weaponry comes as a standard or collapsable hand to hand combat weapon such as swords, batons, and maces. These weapons come with their edges, and areas used for striking to be powered by energy to make a more powerful blunt attack, or cut.

Ballistic Weaponry: Whether small arms, or mounted, ballistic weapons are made with a similar method of propulsion all around, magnetic rails. Rail weaponry is the mainstay of ballistics for the Valkyries, and it has not failed them yet.

Missiles: the Valkyrie Corporation has obtained an impressive variety of missiles, whether they are used planetside or in space, they are versatile and useful in many situations.

Troop Types











Mechanized












Navy














Air Force




Religion/Culture: It’s a mercenary corporation, they tend to be have an aggressive, yet professional culture, there is a pride in their work, and they take whatever they are tasked with seriously. Though the Corporation is made up only of women in every field possible, they are not sexist in the idea that they dislike men or think they are inferior, the Corporation uses this as a marketing ploy, and personal preference. The thought behind it being that why hire skilled and deadly men, when you can hire skilled and deadly women and have some eye candy at the same time.

Demographics (Species):
Human majority
Other Alien species are included.
Females only are employed.

Characters:

CEO



Directors and Important Support Staff











Military Leaders 10





























Field Research Team Alpha















Relations:
TBD

Habitation:
All sorts, mainly a space station.
Interested



Warmth filled the meeting chamber, it had been so long unused, but the Lord Marshal deemed the current discussion weighty enough that all the Commanders of the Order must be gathered. The meeting hall that had up until recently been a dusty untouched room for the past several years due to the Lord Marsha’s desire to remain undisturbed due to his illness, had been meticulously cleaned, and the metals polished, causing the Council’s room to look as if it had never languished in untouched vacancy.

The Wardens were the first to arrive taking their respective seats at the table, each of them sitting so that their backs were to the direction they were the commander of. After the Wardens' they were followed by The Most Exalted, The Grand Wizard, The Lord Commoner, and The Knight of Flowers, taking seats between the Wardens. Murmuring could be heard around the table as they discussed among each other what this might be about, some thought they might be heading north finally to civilize the barbaric clans, others thought they might be marching to war on behalf of Shenra into the Emerald empire, no one knew for sure though. Soon enough Markus had arrived, looking as gruff as ever, and standing off to the side.

After half an hour the door finally opened once more, and entered The Lord Marshal, and The Under Marshal, Richard would take a seat at the head of the table with Katalina standing next to him as the Lord took in every who was at the table. “We are all here. Thanks be to the Prophetess.” Richard’s hand would come up as he gave a few coughs, and held a cloth to his lips, he noticed the red stains there, and folded the handkerchief up and put it away.

Each of the members had dressed nobly for the meeting, donning silk doublets and trousers for the men, and the women had come dressed in dresses, and other finery, with magnificent embroidery to really give that sense of nobility.

Taking a deep, but gravelly breath the Lord Marshal brought a hand to his chin and stroked his hand across his features. “I have called all of you here today for one reason, to discuss our neighbors to the South, to long have we turned a blind eye to their barbarism, slavery, and war mongering. Too long has their dishonor and injustice plagued our borders. Well I say no more, my time on this world is short, and I will be damned if I will leave this world without giving justice to this nation of despots. I propose we deliver demands for their surrender, and if they choose not to accept those demands then we will march forces into their lands, take their cities, and break the shackles of those they oppress ourselves!”

Those gathered around the table stared at the Lord Marshal for a moment, stunned at his suggestion of the invasion of Matathran, then slowly they looked to each other, and all nodded. “Agreed” “Of course my Lord.” “Matathran is a pit of abominable heresy” all these answers and more were given as the Lord Marshal stood up and held out a letter. “I have already drafted terms of surrender for Matathran, I will have delivered it directly to our emissary in their Capital, should they refuse our offer, we will invade, should they not reply within seven days… We will invade.” Moving across the room Richard stopped at their War table. “Marie, Markus, and Peter, you have all been undergoing drills on my command. Peter I want you to take your forces immediately and move them to the Southern fort, and join up with Marie, Peter you will continue to command The Hawks Talon, and prep your forces there for movement. All of you will begin gathering provisions for the forces to move through the desert. I will send word to Captain Howard, and Captain Dubois to gather a small force each and gather more supplies in the meantime, if it becomes necessary to transport it to Matathran.”

“Dismissed.” The entire council got up, and moved out of the room, except for the Lord Marshal, and the Under Marshal. Richard walked towards a desk with a series of slots in it and lifted up several letters and began to set them into the different slots where they subsequently disappeared.

Richard turned towards “Katalina, the doctor says I am getting worse, and it’s only a matter of months before my end has come. I want you to continue our work, defeat Matathran, end its wicked rule.”




The provided quarters had been adequate for Lady Lemaire, but she longed for home. When her letter box began to give a faint glow a jolt of excitement ran through the Emissary for Matathran. “Am I going home? Being called back?” She moved quickly across the room and opened it, and frowned as it was designated to go the Imperial hierarchy. A sigh escaped her lips, and she fanned herself for a moment with the letter. “Fine.” The Lady muttered before pulling a gown on, it was rather flattering showing just the right amount of cleavage and accenting her curves in a way not over the top. The blue and green silk shimmered whenever light came across it. Yellow slippers were placed upon her feet, and her hair was neatly braided and wrapped into a bun.

Once ready Jaqueline left her room, followed closely by two men, each wearing chain mail and a tabard to show they were part of the Order of the Lady’s lament, with a sword on their hips as their protect should any harm try to befall the lady. Lady Lemaire went straight to the Imperial Courier, knowing that if the letter had been sent by magic it was of the utmost importance it reaches the eyes of whoever was to read it immediately. She would leave the letter there, and then head back to her quarters, everything in this place was a hodge podge of hurry up and wait, and not even the leaders of another country were expedited, unless it was something as simple as reading a letter it seemed. Once in her quarters she undid all that she had done to pretty herself simply to walk to the Courier, and moved to her balcony and stared out towards the North, where her home was, her white shift fluttering in the wind.






The refugee town was coming along well, Albert Churchill overseeing it as people fleeing from the Northeast continued to come across the border searching for a place of safety, and this was that place. Knights and soldiers having removed their armor and weapons now used hammers and saws as they built the makeshift town for the refugees to live in, this would be their new home, a safe place, all were welcome, and the clergy were insuring that all were taken care of and administered to.




The letter box glowed, and Lady Margot turned and looked towards it. Opening then what was a sealed letter inside, her eyes glanced over the words before she set it back down and took a deep breath and glanced to the Captain of the guard that had just been briefing her for the day. “Have the men start drilling, tell them we may… have war. Tell them to begin reinforcing all the walls, all the gates, and to gather as much as we can for the mangonels, and trebuchets…”
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