Nation Name; Aysilian Empire
Homeworld; Qwyun is a planet scarred with war and ruin cloaked in a guise of jungle, craters from weapon impacts crowned with tattered skeletons of blown out buildings all of which have been consumed by the aggressive fauna. Mega cites crown the planets south and north poles thinning out going towards the equator; Jagged mountains radiant with colors from dense mineral deposits largely untouched save for a few temples or towers can be seen. Clouds breaking over the edge of mountains to the low land swamps, even the bodies of water themselves --every thing is hidden or tangled with jungle. While the city scape is extreme it is woven into the jungle rather than having dominated over it.
Qwyun itself has a small habit ring made around it and a rather dense cloud of derelict vessels, debris and other hints of starship death around it making something of an artificial ring that glimmers just so when viewed from afar.
Species; The Xuilqitle: Reptilian like race standing around 6-8 feet with a wide range colors on them, Large colorful feathers mark males and more earthen tones mark females. Feathers are mostly on the heads and tails. Tails are around 5-7 feet and are wildly different between the sexes; males have thick heavy tails they use to beat each other with during mating rites as females tend to have a longer but more thin tail for balance. They have only four digits on their hands and feet each with a small but robust claw. Eye color is a memorizing display of color often having 2-3 different colors washing over each other with warmer colors being more common than cooler ones.
The diet of the standard Xuilqitle is the rich bounty from the jungle that is thick with minerals giving the Xuilqitle their colorful scales and feathers but also saturating into their flesh making it overwhelmingly healthy and tasty to many of the other races making them rather xenophobic.
Government; Before the last major war was two major bodies; Dynasty of Juuka and the Theocracy of Vassavana that later united into the Aysilian Empire that acts more along the lines of a Theocratic Dynasty due to the events that brought it into being. At the top going down sits the emperor who is the final say in choices, under him is the four great houses that have been appointed to over see the exterior, interior, R&D and military. under them the sub divisions of each breaking down to the smallest level such as public safety & health, waste management and jungle management. Additionally on the same level of the four houses is the head of the faith and her advisors bring up the desires of the church to the emperors ears.
During court each head is present who has something that must be spoken of, the topic is brought up in detail and debated as parties argue their points and thoughts to the emperor before he would make his choice. Each branch of government has its own standards and its own power to over see whatever its task is while the level above it keeps it in check, presenting information has been made to be a standard format across the board to ensure it passes hands smoothly and in haste but gathering it and executing upon it is up to them.
Military; With an extreme focus of the long fight over the fast one Aysilian warships are well rounded opting to have specialized variations of the same hull to fit their ideals. Large ship with heavy weapons shelled by smaller ones protecting it slowly inches forward while trimming the edge of the fight peppering foes with long range artillery. Warships tend longer with thick aft sections placing major weapon systems to the flanks of the craft, This design means engines are often compressed to the aft allowing the ship to bring to bear (turning itself to have a left or right flank face you so All the guns can point at you) far faster than other ships of its class, more so in-place evasion for Aysilians craft is better (rather than speeding up or slowing down the ship is better at just moving on its uneven axis to dodge long shots. )
As for the organization of the military it is akin to its government counter part having a top commanding officer similar to a six star general, under him his appointed generals who command over cuts of the home system over seeing the safety of the area. Under that is commanders and captains of fleets and ships and lastly humble law enforcement.
Rather than having groups or fleets in the traditional matter these are seen as families and becoming apart of a group is the same as being adopted into that family with all their actions reflecting on the whole, fuels the blind zeal for the country and its government.
Culture and People; Near foaming from the mouth waving their flag, running into the maw of death for the Emperor or the Vassavana Xuilqitlians have had a deep and scared history of these two major powers on their planet, The Dynasty of Juuka is one of the oldest family trees on the planet and has been the coin purse for growth as the Theocracy of Vassavana worships the Vassavana; A Super massive world tree rooted along a mountain with its branches reaching out into and above the clouds. Standing dogma of the faith states that the Xuilqitle, or the children of the wood, were bark that the tree peeled off itself and brought to life as to tend and care for it as well as seed life in new places. The faithful took saplings and planted them caring and growing them till in todays time the whole planet has become over ran jungle. Controlling the temple at its base hollowed and sunken into the earth is the same as having god in your pocket.
Dynasty of Juuka cut the jungle back to build cities and factories, space ports and defensive towers perverting the horizon with a shadow of development that has been the foundation for every conflict on the planet for thousands of years. Old families with wealth and power all brought up in the wake of the juuka each with their own desires to reach out and grow.
Another point of contention of the aspect of this faith in what sex should rule; The Dynasty views the father (the sun in this case) gave his seed to the mother (the planet Qwyun) who in turn birthed live unto the planet with the world tree being the location where it happened--men should lead as they give life, The Theocracy views it as the mother desired life and own the fathers love by growing the world tree as to express her desire to him, took his seed and grew it--Women should lead as they are the vassals of life.
At the end of the last major war about 80 years ago a miracle happened where the head of the Juuka gave his life to the world tree in exchange to expel the church from the temple at its base, the jungle came alive with vines and aggressive vegetation--avatars of the Vassavana, attacked them or so its told. The next head of Juuka came to meet them the church who were humbled at the event and listened to him speak that it was not about male or female but rather what the both did together, a thought that was well received and gave the divided zeal of either side into a over reaching love of fellow Xuilqitlians and ultimately the planet and government as a whole.
The aspect of growing and caring for life is still so deeply apart of Aysilian culture that a man could never hope to court a woman without a healthy potted plant or garden as much as no woman could command the eyes of men without the same. S/he would be seen as poor stock should their plant be haggard and would surely yield meek children. The interpretation of this is rather large as clans and families may have a tree or garden that reparents the whole. Even warships have a dedicated room for this and as felt that as long as the tree is saved the ship and her crew never really sunk or died, living on in the tree, empowered and giving good fortune to the next generation.
Common clothing styles are often simple silk robes, tunics or any one piece type clothing that covers the body. males and females who have had children have just a skirt that hides the upper legs or goes down to the ankles with exposed chest. those with children or eggs have a sash over their chest and those that have adult children have full bodied robes. Uniforms do not reflect this. (They lay eggs so they don't produce milk. :l ) More modern styles have woven suit styled robes but things like pants and shirts don't work when you have aggressive chicken legs and feathers on your head and back.
P.O.Is; (People of Interest. Your nations leader, important military figures, a civilian character you might want to show 'slice of life' pieces from etc.)
Mechanics;
National Traits;
- Trait 1: Pyramid rule
- Trait 2: The greater Good
Population Traits;
- Trait 1: Loyalty
- Trait 2: Fanatical patriots
- Trait 3: Heroic sacrifice
- Trait 4: Highly religious
- Trait 5: Missionaries
- Trait 6: Theological University
Star Navy Traits;
- Trait 1: All rounded
- Trait 2: Fleet unity protocols
Ground War Traits;
- Trait 1: Creeping war
- Trait 2: Occupationist
Technical Traits;
- Trait 1: Master Shipwrights
- Trait 2: Redundancy
Psychic Traits; N/A
Economic Traits;
- Trait 1: Lax Restrictions
Espionage Traits;
- Trait 1: Enigma machine
- Trait 2
Flaws;
- Flaw 1: Soylent green is people
- Flaw 2: Cult of Roots
- Flaw 3: Paranoia
- Flaw 5: Psyhic nulls
- Flaw 6: Delectable
Space Assets;
- 15 destroyers (2250)
- 10 Cruisers (4500)
- 10 Escort carriers (6000)
- 3 Dreadnoughts (5400)
- 37 Corvetts (1850)
Ground Assets;
- 2 Strategic defense fortresses (8000)
- 6 Planetary defense fortresses (24000)
- 2 Air Defense fortresses (6000)
- 1 plant shield (5000)
- 20 Area of denial (20000)
- 300 gunships (9000)
- 265 Mobile infantry (7950)
- 5 infantry (50)
