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| dr.love180 | Jul 8 2011, 06:44 PM Post #1 |
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The Empires of Tarquin![]() Verixia, the Capital of the Holy Verixian Empire The history of Tarquinas from prehistoric times until the Stagnation Age was always the struggle between various Feudal states, and the formation of large Empires that clashed. Through various conflicts over the Generations, until the Age of Communication, less than a Dozen Empires Remained. Sources vary on which state was the most powerful, but large scale conflicts ended with the advent of the Nuclear Age. The Industrial Age had seen massive global wars between the various Empires, Millions upon Millions of Soldiers marching and battling their way to defend or conquer in the name of their Emperor. This all ended with the Nuclear Age, where such conflicts were not viable due to the fear of a mutually assured Destruction. Afterwards, conflicts took a different route, one of proxy wars, assassinations, and Revolutions. Corporations began rising in power, Groups that operated in multiple nations, large and small. The Empires would use the Corporations to their advantage and disadvantage. They were allowed large amounts of power and influence in order to fight their rival Empires in overt and covert ways, however they were a double edged sword. The Corporations themselves would sell information to the highest bidder, and would at times secretly work against those that are paying them. Advances in Science and Technology in this period began to increase, and the Communication Age began, and Humanity began to expand into the Solar System. Colonization of Asteroids, planets, and moons began. These ventures into space were initially done by the Corporations, but later the Empires themselves began in order to claim a stake in the solar system. Probes and scans of nearby star systems were done, and plans were drawn up for colony ships to be sent. Numerous habital planets were discovered in the later Communication Age, and a sort of arms race of Colony ships were constructed. Colonists were put in Cryogenic sleep and sent off to the star systems. After the colony ships were sent however, Resources began to drain, and the Economics of the world began to slump. A period called the Stagnation Age began, which was marked by war for the last resources on Tarquinas. Three power groups arose, its members allied out of sheer convenience. The Holy Verixian Empire, The Tlexican Empire, and the Guinxhang Dynasty in one power group. The Weltibabar Caliphate, The Sahtapa Kingdom, and the Kinjab Empire in another. The Lumecian Empire, the Ruscovite Empire, and the Patazian Kingdom in the final power block. The Wars started off as low key, but began to escalate. The Empires invaded the smaller countries, and proxy wars began. However soon the Empires would build up and war between the Larger Empires seemed imminent. The First Shots were fired in the War of the Triple Alliances when the Ruscovite Empire began its invasion of the Holy Verixian Empire. The War lasted For nearly one year, a Battle which touched all of the Solar System, and ended with the 12 Hour Battle. All of the nations were attacked from all sides, and most were nearing complete destruction. Nobody is sure who fired first, but within a 20 minute period, all of the nations began to unleash their nuclear arsenal. The 12 Hour Battle ended with the Destruction and collapse of all the Great Empires, and most installations in the solar system destroyed. Even the Corporations were unable to escape, and very few stations within the Solar System were left. approximatly 90% of the total population died from hunger, disease, and war. Only those in the Colony Ships were left untouched. ![]() One of the first Nuclear Strikes on the city of Wessings, Holy Verixian Empire. Edited by dr.love180, Jul 8 2011, 09:23 PM.
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| dr.love180 | Jul 8 2011, 09:21 PM Post #2 |
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Second Colonial Age![]() The Qatcca towers, New Arramen While Tarquin was bathed in Nuclear Fire, the Colony ships were on their destination. the slow speed of the colonization ships meant that the first colony ships did not arrive at their destinations for about 400 years after their launch. Although the colonies still had allegiance to the countries they launched from, such countries no longer existed. The slow response to even the nearest colonies took at least a decade to be responded to. The Colony ships became autonomous and swore in there own Governments and leaderships. Their tech base was destroyed, and all were forced to improvise in order to defend themselves. The Colonies had plans for Manufacturing centers, factories, and farming, but had no plans for weapons of war. to save resources, many simply took tractors or commercial vehicles and added armor and weapons to them. Drop ships were converted to armed ships and Reconnaissance aircraft had guns added to them. With no culture from their home world coming to them through radio transmissions, they each began to diverge and form their origin culture. New works of art, dialects of speech, and mannerisms were developed. Two Colonies from the same Empire looked and acted very different from one another. Many Colonies kept in contact with one another, however there was no pressing need for expansion. it took many centuries to redevelop a techbase, and many began to retake to space and colonize the system they are in. Around this time, a new engine drive was developed which could travel at 99% of the speed of light. However through mishandling, the Concept of the engine was beamed out, and all Colonies received the plans, and soon began to develop their own. The Colonies began to expand themselves, and form mini-empires. They expanded and began to lay claim to other star systems. There was much room to expand for a time, so there was little need for conflicts at first. However, as the newer Systems began to be further away from the home colonies, logistics began to catch up. Conflicts began to arise around border systems, and the system of tangling alliances began. Meanwhile on Tarquin, the Colonies had mostly avoided their home system, not seeing a need to use resources to claim a barren wasteland with no resources. Anarchy spread for hundreds of years, as Techno-Barbarians roamed the wasteland. This began to an end several centuries after the 12 hour battle, when numerous Vaults began to open. The Vaults opened after Radiation levels have fallen to safer levels. The Vaulters began working together under the leadership of the Church of the One, and began using equipment sealed away to construct a space elevator to reach the Lunar Vaults. The Moon of Tarquin, Terdas, had been under a terraforming project since before the war. Terdas was untouched by the war due to the skeleton crew on it, which had gone into cryosleep. The Vaulters began colonizing Terdas, while occasionally making trips to Tarquin to recover lost technologies. The Vaulters formed a Senate and crowned an Emperor, leader of the vaults. The Empire would be called the Empire of Tarquinas, with the city on Terdas being called New Tarquin. ![]() City of Terdas, Capital of the Empire of Tarquinas Edited by dr.love180, Jul 8 2011, 09:25 PM.
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| dr.love180 | Jul 9 2011, 12:47 PM Post #3 |
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The Reconquest of the Tarquinas Empire![]() Conquest of Latberia, Republic of Vastun by the Tarquinas Empire The Empire of Tarquinas soon began construction of a War machine, in order to reconquer the colonies. Emperor Umnarius the II wanted to show his power, and singled out one of the more power colonies within reach. The choice was the Republic of Vastun, and its home colony of Latberia. Numerous ships flew out from Teradas, for the Republic of Vastun. After a 10 year trip, the Ships arrived being personally led by Umnarius the II. The War Ships annihilated the defenses, which were nothing more than highly developed civilian technologies. The Emperors Army landed on the planet after a fierce bombardment of Infrastructure, and began to fight their way to the capital buildings. The Republics army fought bravely, but they had inferior weapons and doctrine for facing the Emperors Army. The Emperor sent one request for the rulers of the planet to surrender and swear loyalty to the Emperor. A few turncoats from the Leaders of Vastun accepted the demands, and the Emperor married one of his daughters to the leader, and a Royal House was created. The emperor began this policy of allowing his conquests to remain semi-autonomous and self-ruled, and bounding them by marriage to his family. The Emperor continued his conquest across the known universe. Many times the colonies resisted, and surrendered later, unable to stand up to the technologically and militarily superior Tarquinas Empire. Eventually soldiers from the conquored regions were levied and used alongside the Emperors Soldiers. Some of the last planets in the conquest were taken using only levied soldiers, but by then most Colonies began to surrender instead of fight, as news began to travel among the stars. As the Empire was united however, in fighting soon began between the Great Houses. Old Rivalrys still existed and carried over with the new administrations. The Emperor allowed these rivalrys to continue, but keeping them from escalating to much, in order to keep himself in power and not risk a Rebellion. As such small scale conflicts and sabotage over new Colonies continued. Expansion continued, but was continually slowed as from before the Tarquinas Conquests. There was however, one event that changed the course of Human History. On one of the distant colonies, listening posts began to pick up strange readings from a nearby star, a Blue Giant called Anargath. The Anomalies show signs of an Intelligent life form on the planet, not of human origin. News spread to the Emperor, who ordered the world quarantined until a Ships could be assembled for first contact with the first Intelligent Species humanity has met. Two ships were sent, one with a civilian crew for contact, and another armed with weapons for defense. As the two ships arrived at the planet, they encountered extreme difficulty navigating through radiation bands from the blue giant. They found the entire system had stations of the xeno species, and had heavily colonized their solar system. They were met by one of the Xenos ships, and began contact with one another. The Xeno species was completely alien and in closest translation possible were called the Nylatrhanp. they were Quadraple like a horse, however instead of a head they had two sets of eye stalks at both ends of the body. from the leg joints were Tentacle-like appendages that served for grabbing and gripping. Their legs and arms could fully rotate 360 degrees, and had a Mouth on their underside with a long tongue that was used for eating, defecation, and reproduction. The Colony team had found them to have completely alien thought patterns, and incredible difficulty communicating, and noticed that they seem to think faster than humans. The Nylatrhanp seemed much more advanced technologically, possessing weapons yields atleast an order of magnitude greater than the humans. However, the Nylatrhanp had run out of a specific fuel source used by Human ships. As the human commanders were thinking of what to do, the Nyalatrhanp ship randomly turned around. It was powered using a reaction drive, and the fuel exhaust cut the human ship in half. The Military ship was seized with a tractor beam from a nearby Nylatrhanp ship, and moved into a radiation band where the human crew was killed in a gruesome manner from the extreme amounts of radiation. When news reached the Emperor, he Mobolized the entirety of the Empire on a war for survival. ![]() The First Contact ship Daborrah, is cut in half by the Nylatrhanp Reaction drive |
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| dr.love180 | Jul 13 2011, 11:42 AM Post #4 |
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The Contact War![]() The Siege of Mustaff IV, 3rd Wave Reinforcements under Lord Reinald Hapsfall come under heavy fire. The Nylatrhanp recovered as much data as possible from the destroyed human ships, and salvaged as much fuel as possible. They were able to quickly reverse engineer several ships and having the star maps of the Tarquinas Empire, began an invasion fleet to the nearest World called Mustaff. Mustaff was led by a disgraced noble Tewube, of House Kassalu. When word reached of the invasion, Tewube began immediate preparations to face the Xeno onslaught. The Nylatrhanp Fleet would arrive in 6 Years, and Reinforcements would not arrive for at least another twenty. He ordered the levy of all men that could fight, and began construction of large vaults and complexes to move the planets industry and population underground. He himself began to study in the libraries of ancient conflicts of less technological foes against greater ones, and to prepare. On nearby systems, Various lords agreed to meet their forces and reinforce Mustaff as soon as possible. The Emperor and the Worlds near him also began to raise forces for battle. The Nylatrhanp Began their attack on schedule, their superior ships and doctrines caught early defenses by complete suprise. Tewubes fleet was annihilated and planet based defenses were also destroyed rather quickly, with minimal damage to the Nylatrhanp ships. Afterwards began a year long bombardment of the planets infrastructure and cities, the Nylatrhanp employed space based weapons but also used Redirected Asteroids as kill vehicles to cause large amounts of damage. Tewubes Military endured due to previous preparations, however things changed when the Nylatrhanp made planetfall. The Nylatrhanp Ground forces were as fierce as their space based forces. They possessed Energy based weaponry and advanced armor and personal energy shields. They were also much more organized than the Human defenders. Casualties during the first months of planetfall were some fifty humans casualties to every Nylatrhanp casualty. Most Nylatrhanp casualties were from traps and ambushes, and Tewube noted that they had a very rigid command structure that assisted in direct engagements, but were weaknesses in ambushes. Nonetheless, Tewube was able to keep his forces from being destroyed, as the Nylatrhanp began to siege the planet. The First Reinforcements arrived Ten years after the Nylatrhanp arrived, under command of Lord Jean-claude XX of House Marleusse. The Fleet including the reinforcements were almost immediately annihilated using long range laser weaponry of the Nylatrhanp, because the Fleet had stuck to close together, they were destroyed with ease. The Nylatrhanp Began salvaging the fuel and information from the destroyed ships, and sending it back to their home system. The 2nd Reinforcement wave fared much better, under Lord Carlos XVI of House Barcedrid arrived 3 years later. The Ships diverted the Nylatrhanp while the Troop Transports made planetfall to reinforce Tewube. Lord Carlos was killed in the initial reinforcements when his transport was destroyed by Nylatrhanp Fighter Aircraft. The Soldiers however were a major boon, and reinforced Tewube's depleted forces. The Space based forces however, were mostly destroyed but survivors fled to the outer parts of the system to a Gas Giant where they remained. The 3rd Reinforcement Wave under Lord Reinald XIII of House Hapsfall, was the biggest help. The Fleet was able to swarm the depleted Nylatrhanp Ships, and fight them to a draw. The Nylatrhanp Fleet was forced to leave orbit of Mustaff, when Ground Forces began a major offensive against the Nylatrhanp. The Nylatrhanp However, fought off each and every attack, and human casualties climbed. All was not well however, as a massive fleet of Reinforcements of Nylatrhanp began to arrive. The Humans had noted in tow was a large ship shaped like a ring. The Fleet could easily overwhelm the defenders, and the humans assumed the ship was either a massive weapon or some sort of wormhole generator. The Fourth Reinforcement fleet under Lord Ghelxing of House Taong, took no chances. he arrived a few months before the Nylatrhanp reinforcements, and landed his troops on the planet. He took his fleet, and began a suicidal charge toward the Nylatrhanp. The Nylatrhanp were taken completely off guard, and were going to fast to begin evasive maneuvers. Most of the Human ships were destroyed, but enough broke through to create chaos. The Human ships that slammed into the Nylatrhanp ships with such force the energy readings were spiked in systems far away. The Ring-ship of the Nylatrhanp was not destroyed, but heavily damaged. When the Nylatrhanp arrived in the system, they were narrowly able to muster enough strength to land reinforcements. The Nylatrhanp That landed began a series of offensive that nearly broke the backs of the human defenders, and were able to control a good portion of the planet. The Fifth Reinforcement wave was the Emperor and the remaining lords of the Empire. They arrived in the system, and began to swarm over the Nylatrhanp. The Emperors ships were more advanced than the rest of the noble houses, and were able to fight the Nylatrhanp on more even grounds. The Nylatrhanp for once, was destroyed in a conventional engagement. They began a re invasion of the planet, however here they suffered horrendous casualties. The Emperors soldiers suffered 20 Casualties for every Nylatrhanp Casualty, their legendary armor useless against the Nylatrhanp Energy weapons. The Ensuing battle lasted a year, and the Nylatrhanp Fought to the last soul, refusing to surrender. The Siege had lasted 80 Solar Years, and had taken the lives of nearly one billion humans, and was an incredibly close. The Humans began to muster the fleets of every House, up to the minor houses. An Initial fleet sent into the Nylatrhanp Home system was cut to ribbons by numerous amounts of defenses. The Emperor had no choice but to begin a quarantine of the Nylatrhanp Home System. Luckily for the Tarquinas Empire, the Blue Giant left massive radiation bands and few safe exit points in the system. The Humans began to construct a series of defenses around the star system, and overwhelmed any Nylatrhanp Ships that exited. They began to launch massive asteroids into the system in order to deal damage. to the Nylatrhanp. The World remains in Quarantine, hoping that one day the Nylatrhanp will completly exhaust resources, and collapse. The Humans had high expectations of reverse engineering the Nylatrhanp Technology, but few came. Their Weapons were to advanced and worked on principles that no human scientist could understand. However two things were able to make up for this. The large Ring-ship was indeed a Wormhole generator, Technology Humans knew in theory, but were unable to replicate. Communication devices that could be sent in real time, were also derived. These two Technologies would Revolutionize the Empire, and bring about a Second age of Communication. The Emperor however, guarded this technology. The Stargate system was established, however the Emperor had a kill switch that would immediatly deactivate any Stargate, in order to keep his nobles in line. ![]() Station Kallixun Edited by dr.love180, Jul 13 2011, 02:01 PM.
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