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[PROCESSED] Sler-Ex'Ennica

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Type (e.g. Planet, Faction, System): A system.

 

Describe this proposal in a single sentence (12 word maximum): An exception, a Skrellian world without nlom beacons exists.

 

How will this be reflected on-station?  The endless understanding of the Federation had allowed the world some delays in setting their nlom beacon, and it is capitalized upon as a banner for radical skrell.

 

[b]Does this faction/etc do anything not achieved by what already exists?[/b] Yes.

 

[b]Why should this be given to lore developers rather than remain player created lore?[/b] A place in the wiki would allow other people to more readily interact with it.

 

[b]Do you understand that if this is submitted, you are signing it away to the lore team, and that it's possible that it will change over time in ways that you may not forsee?[/b] yeah

 

[b]Long Description:[/b]

Sler-Ex’Ennica 

When the last of the efforts of exploration and colonization in Glorsh’s reign unfurled, one system in particular sparked interest for Glorsh. Sler-Ex’Ennica,  of the Slellik System.

 

Sler-Ex’Ennica was a world of deep, reinforced warrens and intensive geo-engineering projects to minimize the noteworthy tectonic activity of the world.  All of this effort was bent to turn a world whose immense, deep minerals were it's only redeeming value into a pipeline in which a strong foundation of industry would bootstrap expansion for years to come without scarring a garden worlds ecology. In the same system existed Guq'Draa, “Relative of a Rock.” Only technically habitable due to it's cold, dry climate, Guq'Draa had far less resources invested with its only merit being the relative closeness it had to Sler-Ex’Ennica: with a below average comet and ice asteroid count in the system, terraformation would be slow for the world.. Records indicated that pre-fall, almost one and a half billion Skrell lived on Sler-Ex’Ennica, with tens of millions living on Guq’Draa. The dense and stark environment of Sler-Ex’Ennica meant a significantly increased uptick in rebellious activity in comparison to other worlds.

 

In the closing chapters of the Glorsh’s Reign over the federation, a fleet of Patrol vessels had tasked with persuing several Skrellian rebel ships, who had successfully instigated the permanent destruction of Sler-Ex’Ennica’s nlom beacons, and were maneuvering to do so in Guq’Draa when Glorsh's fleet had arrived.  in the middle of maneuvers, Glorsh had left, and both fleets had been caught by the coronal mass ejection over the next few days. Only a few of the crafts of the rebellion side had the functional capacity to maneuver with their crippled ships. They listened to members of both sides, ask, plead, barter and beg for a shift in trajectory, anything to prevent the atrocity that was coming. The cost would have been relatively minor: these few functionals ships would be stranded in an eccentric orbit with dead engines, to join the disabled ships as a graveyard fleet in exchange for the saving the people who were on a world in the collision lines, They chose to make a slingshot maneuver around Guq’Draa and return to Sler-Ex’Enica, as witnesses to the deaths their inaction had brought.

 

Guq’Draa’s people were murdered by the rain of starships, as an estimated 10^5 tons of metal fell from the sky. Earthquakes from the teraton explosions, meteoric debris flung into orbit from the first impacts showered ensured a total saturation of the Guq'Draa. All of the worlds people were turned and burned as the opening shot to the end of a civilization. Ash choked the sky in darkness, and the scant millions who survived the ship-fall died from the cold, the ash, or to each other. Sler-Ex’Enica witnessed death pangs of a decivilized people sliding into extinction under a pale, alien sun, shrouded entirely from their stars. And they could do nothing.

 

Sler-Ex’Enica survived this cataclysm, and was a witness to the murder of a world. . Sler-Ex’Enica’s return to the stars was expedited by the massive amount of engineers and construction equipment left in a packed up state, intended to create the next stepping stone into the new puddleworlds of the Traverse, it was still a hard fought battle with numerous difficulties in both their worlds fickle geology and their machines damage. They had an independent streak, one pushed on the envelope by  the new authorities as a means to keep their freedom from Glorsh Omega and other tyrants. They had no idea that Glorsh-Omega had perished: their beacons were destroyed rather than shut down by the local polity and thus it’s message was never received. The only ones who knew were the survivors of the ships, who had listened to the few Skrell on the patrol vessels attempt to trade information for the redemption of the Guq’Draa. This is a well kept secret, one that the Federation continually attempts to inform Sler-Ex'Enica people even today.

Sler-Ex’Enica barely survived as their own infrastructure collapsed in front of the lack of AI-management. The survival was largely credited to the military Junta formed by the survivors of the ships that returned, largely owing to their still functioning crude weapons and charismatic leaders. A martial law was declared, and through many sacrifices, rationing efforts as well as a deception on the part of the highest echelons of how exactly events transpired outside of the system. 

They had risen into the stars earlier than most Skrellian polities, despite the many hardships. Unlike all other post-Glorsh civilizations, they had chosen to stay in their solar system, the warpdrive only used for intra-planetary travel, never to travel beyond for higher authorities had greater dreams than returning to being guided by any other's will, the Federation included. A cover up was made, and the world of Sler-Ex’Enica was beholden to fear a ghost. Constant, continual efforts were made to entrench the system in defensive installations, heavier armament and heavier industries, even returning to some  lower level automated systems that would raise alarms and the ire of the federation, come the days after the first contact.

First contact between the already consolidated Jargon Federation and Sler-Ex’Enica occurred in 2325 with a Jargon scout jumping into the system and promptly ended with the activation of half a dozen autonomous armed mines, right in the orbit of Slelliks outermost gas giant. The craft had barely made the time to jump out of the system and returned to its origin with nearly total casualties.

Relations between the Jargon Federation and the Ex’Enica polity thawed after a series of communications, ship-to-ship laser comms and more than a few periods where Jargon vessels were forced to retreat due to the superior numbers and home-field advantage of the system. Not until higher authorities on Qerr’Balek personally assigned high-level authorities to send a fleet of warships to reconnaissance the area and put an end to the situation.

Ship-to-ship combat never really began. Jargon forces sent in probing scouts, launched thousands of disposable probe systems and thoroughly scanned and mapped the capabilities of their foe and came to the conclusion that to take Sler-Ex’Enica, it would almost certainly require a total saturation bombardment of every defensive facility on the system, the sacking of all orbital equipment around the planet and a extended invasion campaign to remove the polity from power. A estimated 1.2 percent of the population of the system were military staff, which was augmented by nlom-interactable drones and systems. The cost of casting dominion on this system at the time of first contact was estimated in lives. The scales were almost entirely weighted towards the smaller, lesser numbered and bitterly entrenched system: tens of millions would die. Every one of them were prepared to fight the slaves of an artificial intelligence intent on turning every Skrell into a mindless husk, and would rather die before that would happen, despite the actual truth.

Negotiations were struck, and Sler-Ex’Enica’s military junta was allowed to exist. Jargons plans were long term: to dismantle the regime through a systemic approach of enlightening their people of the Federation. All attempts at installing nlom beacons failed, rebuffed or outright destroyed at every turn by a wary populous or vigilant government. Sler-Ex’Enica’s only weakness was the rapidly declining health of its population, a result of the extremely poor biotech industry it had, a sacrifice for its relatively upscale industry.

Eventually, the health of the Skrell would fall to the point where they must return to the federation, and this status quo was upheld. Sler-Ex’Enica’s military and industry expanded, and it’s isolated nature held, despite the teeming masses that were in desperate need of liberation.

The first contact with Humanity changed this. The Jargon Federation preemptively demanded the export of heavy machinery, weapons and finished goods in exclusivity in return for handing over the necessary biotech equipment and expertise to prevent further declining health of the population, which the Junta accepted: Sler-Ex’Enica was at the border of unknown space, and could easily give non-Skrellian entities access to industrial and military technology only a few steps behind Skrellian cutting edge: it is suspected of doing so on at least two separate occasions. In recent times, emigration from Sler-Ex’Enica has increased, tacitly and silently allowed by the Federation, we have begun to see Skrell from Sler-Ex’Enica reach space beyond the Skrellian borders. Officially, emmigration from Sler-Ex’Enica is illegal, and is usually done through smuggling operations or the occasional desertion. However, some Skrell are allowed to leave with the intent that they would send intel back to Sler-Ex’Enica. The Skrell that are most likely to emigrate are spacers and military staff, being the ones with the ability to access transport out of the system.

Slelliks people are almost certainly wide and varied. With just over a billion people, it’s population has finally begun to stabilize after centuries of slow decline. With so many facets of it’s society reliant on large scale automation to take the load of its relatively few people, the Skrell from Sler-Ex’Enica have a twisted idea of what Glorsh-Omega is, as a psychosomatic entity wholly disconnected from the construction of positronic AI cores, as a result of systemic propaganda efforts by Sler-Ex'Enica. Consequently, they are more comfortable and interested in every-day machinery and positronic AI systems, at least compared to other Skrell.

 

Potential Character Concepts

Characters from Sler-Ex’Enica are likely too 

Be either disillusioned or implicitly in favor of the Sler-Ex’Enica military Junta.

Have a statistically significantly higher chance of genetic defects or health issues.

Have a background in industrial systems or space operations.

Express dislike towards the Federation as well as be less likely to be uncomfortable around IPC’s.

Speak Nral’Mallic

 

Example 1:

  • Konig Xur’Yui is a 221 year old Skrell, and is hired aboard the Aurora as a Maintenance Technician.
  • Konig is 5’4 with a thin build and bright purple skin. They have chronic health problems associated from hard radiation exposure during his emigration from Sler-Ex’Enica due to wearing improper equipment while stowing away in an unshielded cargo barge's hold, which carried “mildly” radioactive regolith.
  • Konig has education in engineering by a 'Enica Junta College, and currently lives on the Odin, uncomfortable with the idea of living on an object large enough to have earthquakes.
  • Konig is dis-interested with all species except for humans and Skrell, who they views as the only people who can really understand their hobbies and interests enough to be cognizant and interesting to talk too, excepting Tajaran fixed artillery and Unathi’s militarized space craft.

Example 2:

  • Xuril’Qur Werq is a 98 year old Skrell, who is hired aboard the Aurora as a Security Officer.
  • Werq is 5’3 with a relatively athletic build and dull grey-blue skin. Constantly stressed, they have inky tear spots around their eyes due to the passing of their Qu'Draa during their emigration out of Sler-Ex’Enica after a maintenance failure aboard their transport ship.
  • Werq has had very little official education, preferring to work on a spacecraft as soon as possible after Highschool.
  • Werq is tacitly interested in the Tajara and Unathi who they often work with when they are not in a depressive slump. Werq distrusts Lunarians, who ran the transport that resulted in the deaths of Qu’Draa close to them.

Example 3:

  • Qurril Vinn'ig is a 365 year old Skrell, who is contracted aboard the Aurora as a Medical Doctor by Zeng-hu Pharmacuticals.
  • Vinn'ig is unusually tall, at 5'7 because of their formative years being spent in zero gravity as a part of Glorsh-Omegas machinations in space.
  • Vinn'ig was largely educated in three famous universities specialized in Skrellian medicine, and while they did have a easy time immigrating to human space, leaving Sler-Ex'Enica required staying aboard a military corvette that was badly damaged during the escape to Federation space: Vinn'ig bears the mark of vacuum exposure and cloned eye tissue.
  • Vinn'ig is a loyal member of the Federation, and has taken a posting in Zeng-Hu Pharmacuticals as a permanent vacation from the stressful life of a Federation genetic clinic. They like the lack of social intrigue of human environments as it reminds them of the better treatment they had in Sler-Ex'Enica as a premier physician.
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