Fred104 Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Type : Planet, faction and system. Founding/Settlement Date : 2408 Region of Space : Frontier Controlled by (if not a faction) : Empire of Dominia, The Emperor Boleslaw Keeser. Other Snapshot information : i will add, if i find time and motivation more information about the empire in later dates. Long Description : System Information System Name : X'yr Vharn'p Territory of the Empire of Dominia Region: Uncharted space Settled Planets/Planetoids: 1 major, 1 minor Overall Development Level: Moderate Total Population (est.): 7,104,110 Military Presence: Moderate(lack of FTL engines) Planetary Overviews X'yr Vharn'p Systems sun, call by the local "libertatem" it is a B-class Blue white star. Dominia Temperate/cold mars size Earthly planet with temperate equatorial region and large cold polar region, capital of the empire of Dominia, it posses one moon call "Spartan", colony's on the planet are centralized on 7 major cities. It is the only livable planet and the first planet of the system. Spartan Cold barren moon orbiting Dominia, Owned by the Empire of Dominia which they build a outpost to filter traders and pirates to the planet surface or to trade directly on the orbit, it is also the location of the second and most important site of spacecraft construction, from fighters to the strongest ship class build by the empire. Alterum Magnum Second planet and only gas giant of the system classified as a Hot Jupiter, it is the last astral body before the edge of the system and the asteroid belt. Ignotum Balteum Asteroid belt and frontier of the system, mostly unexplored, primary exploration of the belt show that the asteroid body are mostly made of H2O. General History X'yr Vharn'p was discover by a human bounty hunter vessel chasing a small pirate vox fleet in 2399 the extended of the battle is unknown but what the bounty hunter did say is that the vox used this system as a hiding spot for their loot, which is why the vox named the system "X'yr Vharn'p" wich roughly translate to "Hidden Treasure", in 2408 a ambitious explorer re-discover the system in archive and after study of the system form a colony on the planet now know call Dominia but was call "Ballast" (in reference to the underwater exploration of Europa that the explorer study on for long year). at the time, the only major settlement was Nova Luxembourg and the city mostly prosper in its independence, even if seclusive, society, back then the laws mirror the sol alliance laws very closely, but in 2435 the "Constitutional Ballast Republic" was dwindling in support by the citizen which change everything when 2438 arrive. in 2438, the non-militarize colony was attack by a stolen vessel control by ambitious Unathi and the former government was quickly overthrow, which the Unathi promptly replace by the "Hierarchy of Ballast" closely resembling a classic Unathi hierarchy, the human and Unathi quickly bonded as almost no casualties happen during the invassion and the citizen where happy about the change in governement (wich didn't really change since the foundation of the colony), but only a couple of years later the Unathi realize that they were ill suited to live on the planet and most of the Unathi population quickly leave the planet, including the clan leader, which he gave the control of the clan to a human that quickly gain is trusth, and the current Emperor Boleslaw Keeser. The years that follow, the emperor reshaped the "Clan" into a Enlightened Roman* Empire (*Roman in the idea that it is inspired by the Roman Empire created by Julius Caesar), and started a extensive militarization that the Unathi started with in addition a quick colonization of the 6 biggest (if still rather small compared to the capital) settlement of the planet, it is at this time that the planet was rename Dominia and the Empire and laws known today where created. Planet Climat Name : Dominia System : X'yr Vharn'p Dominia is the first and only habitable planet on the X'yr Vharn'p system and have a moon call "Spartan", it is the capital of the Empire of Dominia, there is 3 very distinct ecosystem. Geography and Climate The planet have 3 distinct ecosystem. The equatorial climate very similar to the Earth Ardennes, where the summers are hot and wet and the winters are cold and long the temperature during summer can reach up to 25°C and the winter can go down to -10°C the geology is mostly made of schist and the geography is mostly hills. The equatorial is surrounded be mountain range call "The Testing Ground" for its use to test all kind of weapons - more later -,it is of various size and length with a rather cold climate all year long where the maximum temperature recorded is 13°C, there is little to no change in seasons. The last climate is located on and around the poles and stop to the mountain range, which is a gigantic arctic desert of dunes of snow where the temperature never go above 0°C. Year and Seasons A day on Dominia is 24,16 Earth day which make a year on Dominia 362 but the official calendar is the one of Earth and where seasons are not fix date but rather change depending on average temperature of the last month. The seasons are base and very similar to the one on Earth for the equatorial regions but almost no existent for the the two other ecosystems. Flora and Fauna The big amount of rivers and the trees that grow naturally on the planet are high and strong similar looking to pine trees unfortunately the wood is not very good for manufacture but grow quickly, the plants usually have low profile but thick in their foliage, almost all plants and massive forest are still primal forest or cut down around the city to create cultivable fields base on crops from all over the know galaxy. The fauna can be describe as mega-fauna mostly of herbivorous creatures and pack of carnivorous most of them quadruped. Both the fauna and flora are still mostly undiscovered because of the difficulty to explore the planet. Empire of Dominia The Empire of Dominia, or Dominia for short is a independent Empire within the X'yr Vharn'p system, is capital been Nova Luxembourg on the planet Dominia, the empire is located "west" of the Sol Alliance and is relatively isolated from other nations in the uncharted part of space. The primary language is Sol common. Economics The empires economy run mostly independent and self sufficient, almost no import and mostly export Titan extracted from the large mountain range located on each atmospheric extremes and primal wood from the enormous forest that covers the equatorial regions, for most outside nations, the reality is that Dominia is a safe heaven for criminal organization and pirates, if they declare it to Dominia what most other nation call criminals are welcome to do business on dominia, slaves, drugs, weapons, anything as long as no harm happen to Dominian citizen or properties. Politics Overview The Empire is a form of enlightened dictatorship mix with a roman empire senate and tribute of citizen, the emperor have full power over decision making and a new emperor is elected for 15 years at the death of the previous emperor and if after those 15 years is still re-elected is emperor to life, every decision put under advice of specialist in the matter discuss and some more permanent decision maker, and the senate is a less powerful government which vote laws and action to take for the country that every citizen can participate on, but the final word is always to the emperor, the current emperor and only emperor so far is emperor Boleslaw Keeser. Current Ruling Parties it is still the earlier age of this empire and only now the empire start to form parties within the senate, the biggest one so far been the Emperor Loyalist of Dominia or ELD for short (pronounce hilt be the most people and fanatic members which say that they will hold their swords hilt to protect their emperor with their life) then there is the next three parties that are rather small in comparison ; The Dominian Spartans, which are isolationist, xenophobe and militarist who want to remove contact with pirate group and any outside influence (4.3% of the senate) ; The Anti-Slave Militant Group (or A.S.M.G.) which wish to remove slavery and grant citizenship to those who wish it (2.6% of the senate) ; and The Ballast Republicans, who wish to restore the republic with pacific diplomacy (0.7% of the senate). the rest of the population is either following the hilt or non-align. Branches of Government The Emperor and is Council The Emperor have full power of the empire in any matter when elected for life, in any regard but every decision discuss with the council of the emperor a permanent military, economist, philosopher, political adviser and a group of temporary council member that change depending on the affair currently in talk. When the emperor is in trial (not voted to death yet) the emperor cannot break the constitution put in place by is predecessor, the emperor can renounce is throne if he feel incapable to lead anymore (for any reason been political or personal health), the current emperor is Boleslaw Keeser, first and self proclaim emperor to death is a 52 year old human male who rule from the city of Nova Luxembourg the capital of the empire and the biggest city in the empire. The Vassals The Empire have 6 vassals who follow their own constitution but have to follow every order of the empire and follow the laws of the empire. Forêt-en-Lisière - a Oligarchs Republic where election have to happen every 25 years starting when the empire was created, the city is currently lead by Mohamed Dupont a 43 year old human male. The city is know for its agricultural and forestry, the city is mostly handled like a corporation where the leader is elected between the owner of land in the city. Schnéi Creek - a Dictatorial Democracy where a leader is elected every 4 years on the base of the former Ballast Republic agenda, the current lord is Tea Turcus a 52 year old woman, the city is a big provider of energy (hydroelectric power-plant) and stockpile of goods and water. Ondergaandezon - a Enlightened Monarchy partially base on its suzerain, the current ruler is Akira Washington who created the Washington Dynasty of Dominia, this is the furthest southern city of the planet close the the titanium rich mountain and the main mining site of the planet as well as its biggest planet-side shipyard. Nova Alpinae - a Constitutional Democracy on the same election process as earlier 21s century Belgium which in short, is very accurately representing all its citizen with one central government, three regional government base on geographical region and three more based on cultural differences, the current lord is David Eberhard, the city is the northern city of the planet and is know for its military facilities (ground combat) and research and development facilities using the mountains as facility and the northern glacial hemisphere as testing ground for new weapons. Nouvelle Alsace-Loraine - a Minarchy Autocracy, the current lord is Thierry Marcourt a 34 year old man. This city is know for been the second biggest city and youngest city in the empire, its currently the place for people to own new land and explore the planet. Domum - a People's Republic Demarchy where election take place every 7 years, the current leader is Marie Hispà a 25 year old woman. The main product of the city is agriculture due to been self-sufficient before the creation of the empire and the third biggest city in population, due to its rather... unique form of government created after the empire formation this city is touching at all kind of industry and development. Nova Luxembourg - The City of the emperor, the city is mostly well around but is recognize for been cultural capital, having its famous gladiator fight and been the political and trading center, also it is the city with the most defense with a total of 16 Magnetic canon capable to shoot out of orbit and a special "roof" made of bar of plasteel cross together on top of the city that is used as shield against possible orbital bombardment in addition of a kinetic energy shield on top. Note that every leader of those city are entitle Lord an put equally in front of the emperor for their time in power. The Senate The Dominian Senate is a assembly of citizen to discuss the problem, and possible solution and outcome in the empire, the senate in itself doesn't have power, if a plan of action or request is approve by the majority it will be shown and review by the emperor and put in consideration, as it represent the will of the people. Any citizen of Dominia can participate at any assembly but there is a constant representation of party's by constantly assign senators. The Military Arm of the Emperor The military arm of the emperor (M.A.E.) is divided in 4 branch : The Imperial Army of Dominia (I.A.D.) The Imperial Navy of Dominia (I.N.D.) The Imperial Office of Intelligence (I.O.I.) The Ally Communication Department (A.C.D.) The imperial army consist of the ground, and air forces of the empire (the planet have almost, to no seas or ocean and thus have no need for a navy). Every vassals have its personnel own army but the empire oversee and give order to each one as a battalion in addition of its own self control army, with a total of 994.575 actif and reserve personnel. The imperial navy consist of all the military ship (and civilian ship necessary to maintain them) of the empire, even if most of them are own by individual city's. The fleet is use to conduct any military operation outside atmosphere and to transport troop, the fleet consist of 700+ ships but only 8 of them are equip with bluespace engines and thus most of the fleet are use to defend the home system. The 8 ships mention are : The I.N.D. Stormspike The I.N.D. Fortitude The I.N.D. Commonwealth The I.N.D. Dawn Under Heaven The I.N.D. Long Time Coming The I.N.D. Purpose The I.N.D. Waterloo The I.N.D. Might of the Basileus The imperial office of intelligence is the intelligence service branch of the empire, divided into 5 section : section 1 : Propaganda and communication, the public have good knowledge of this section section 2 : Military intelligence , the public know the existence of this section section 3 : Special projects branch , the public know the existence of this section section 0 : Internal affairs and investigations, hidden from the world at large The ally communication department focus on communication and organization with confirmed and potential ally outside of the empire wich include mercenary, pirates and other possible group. History 2399 : Discovery of the X'yr Vharn'p system by the human bounty hunter Vakaris Birstonas 2408 : Survey of the system and discoveries of "Ballast" (Dominia) by Patrik Häkkinen, follow by the first wave of colonist. 2409 : Foundation of Nova Luxembourg and the Constitutional Republic of Ballast 2410 : Foundation of Forêt-en-Lisière 2411 : Foundation of Ondergaandezon and Schnéi Creek 2413 : Foundation of Domum 2414 : Foundation of Nova Alpinae 2416 : Foundation of Nouvelle Alsace-Loraine 2433 : Major pacific manifestation against the president of Ballast, Lorin Zeiter 2435 : A manifestation against the president turn violent, 77 Dead and 403 Wounded reported 2438 : Invasion of the planet by a Unathi group in a stolen transport from Dominia and foundation of the Hierarchy of Ballast a classic Unathy hierarchy 2439 : Redraw of the clan leader S'kraskin Seryo and appointed a new leader, Boleslaw Keeser, the following years Boleslaw Keeser reform the government into the one of today and the planet been rename Dominia 2440 : Investment into the 7 major city and creation of the Imperial Railroad which link every major city together for faster transportation 2443 : Creation and first gladiator fight on the planet, creation of the outpost on the moon of Dominia 2449 : Attack by the pirate fleet « The Corsairs of the Eternal Raid », follow by a stale mate and a treaty between the emperor and the captain who call himself « War Sentinel », creation of the The Ally Communication Department 2450 : creation of the « Coalition against Dominian Piracy » by frontier colony after the previous announcement by Dominia to work with some distinct pirate group if anyone attack Dominia 2455 : Dominia announce no partnership with Nanotrasen is ever gonna happen (citizen can still work for NT but NT isn't allow in territory own by Dominia) 2456 : Dominia denounce Nanotrasen releasing documents of possible sentient mistreatment and experimentation in remote stations in the frontier, NT answered that the accusation are false and the document fabricated Early 2457 : The « Coalition against Dominia Piracy » embargo Dominia Link to comment
Coalf Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Ave Dominia victoria enim nostrum. Good work on fleshing out what was just a simple meme. But question, are all of those 8 Bluespace ships military ships? Wouldn't it make sense for atleast a few of them to be transport ships or maybe colony/reasearch ships? Link to comment
Fred104 Posted May 18, 2017 Author Share Posted May 18, 2017 Et Imperii ad id pervenit to answer your question, science and colony ship wouldn't make sense as the planet is still not fully explored yet so why have one of the few military grade bluespace own by the empire be used for that, and for transport, well as far as i know, the size of ship in the (ss13?) universe aren't flesh out much as the only one we know about are shuttles and escape pods. And except one (The I.N.D. Purpose , wich is the smallest one) everyone one of those ship where build on the moon and are... rather big, with a crew of most likely 300 men including ground troops and 2 military shuttle, They are design to be able to go in missions alone for months with no contact with Dominia. when i toke inspiration for the ship, i was thinking of ships from Halo, which to me make sense, for example, "The Pillar of Autumn"(Halo Combat Evolve) is a halcyon class cruiser, use around 1400 to 1500 crew where 900+ are ground troop and the rest are, well naval personnel. So i used this recipe on a smaller scale, 50 crewman and 250 troops for a cruiser, 50 crewman and no to 50 troops for a destroyer (its a ship to destroy ship after all), 20 crewman and 50 troops for a corvette, so honk and so forth, to my opinion that would be a realistic scaling for MILITARY ship, at least thats my opinion, thus those ships are capable of holding enough troops to be able to invade world and be feared between the stars. In short, they are able to hold troops, maybe not the biggest there is, and definitively nothing that the sol alliance would pull off (those 8 ship i would class them cruiser and frigates and sol probably have hundreds of thousands like those and probably even battleship, carrier and maybe a dreadnought or two?) of course those are the only military ship with military grade bluespace engines, there is smaller non-militarize ships used for diplomacy, trade or own by civilians, but thats it, also note that Dominia refuse to trade with NT making it even harder to get those sweet engines. i hope i wasn't rambling on too much, and if i am wrong about my scaling please tell me and i make the needed change. Link to comment
Guest Marlon Phoenix Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Hello, All frontier factions are automatically canon, as per: https://forums.aurorastation.org/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=4715 Canonizations for factions are requests to put them on the wiki as a notable faction. You can already do nearly anything you want with this faction as long as it is within reason, with the guidelines on what is reasonable in that link above. Link to comment
Fred104 Posted May 23, 2017 Author Share Posted May 23, 2017 i know... but i want it on the wiki... also i want it to see it grow over time, if the universe ever advance in time Link to comment
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