Velkya
01-10-2005, 01:06
Allied Union of Velkya
Government
Government Style: Representative Democracy
Head of State: President William Harker
Capital City: Velkya City, Earth
Interstellar Holdings
The AUV is comprised of 89 worlds. Unlike most other interstellar nations, the AUV does not possess a "capital world". Instead, its capital is located in its territory on Earth, the original nation of Velkya. The closet thing the AUV has for a capital world is New Velkya, an Earth-like world several dozen light-years from Earth. Much of the colonial administration is located there, and "The Titan", the HQ for the Colonial Defense Command, is based there.
Demography
Total Estimated Pop.
1.1 billion Citizens, with 92% of that distributed along the various colonies.
Ethnic Groupings:
34% White
21% Selkan
19% Black
7% Asian
3% Other
6% Various Alien Races
Economy
Currently, 30% of all Velkyan worlds are mining worlds. Further more, ten more worlds act as trading hubs, coordinating the massive Merchant Marine of Velkya. The MMV consists of over 100,000 trade ships which traverse the known universe everyday, delivering goods to allied nations and fellow Velkyan worlds alike.
History
Origins
The Velkyan military and government space program has existed since the formation of Velkya at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The civilian arm, the Velkyan Space Agency, was formed in 2001 with the launch of Guardian I, a communications satellite. The military arm, formed in 2054 as the Allied Union Space Force, controlled the orbital cannons and missile defense systems of Velkya, as well as military expeditions on nearby solar neighbors. When the first faster than light (FTL) reaction-less drive (the precursor to the current slipspace method), was developed under the leadership of Dr. Bernard Sharnhorst (2052-2106), the Allied Union found itself the only nation on Earth to possess such an advanced technology.
While Velkya had already established vast, permanent bases on the Moon and Mars, for the first time in human history, exploration outside the Solar System was not only possible, but fast and relatively cheap. Immediately, an expedition, codenamed "HETI" (Hunt for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) was begun. Headed by the V.S.E.V. Orion, the first FTL spacecraft built by human hands. HETI launched on January 1st, 2108. Sharnhorst, unfortunately, never saw his brainchild climb into the heavens. He was struck down by an extremist's bullet 2 years before the Orion's launch.
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Mass Driver from which the Orion was launched.
Into the Void
Many members of the media, both foreign and domestic, awaited the launch of the Orion with disdain. Most thought the drive would overload and explode into an atomic fireball, instead of carrying the Orion to Pluto, its preset destination. When zero hour came, hundreds of journalists, watching a live camera feed linked to Baker's Ridge Moon Base, watched as the craft began to gain speed, passing the designated checkpoints over the Moon. Then, there was a silent flash of blue light. The Orion disappeared, a trail of magnetic disturbance following it.
The craft reemerged approximately a third of an AU from Pluto, close to its jump point. Sending a laser signal to BRMB, the Orion has successfully completed mankind's first FTL jump. Milliseconds later, the laser signal was received by Baker's Ridge. All over the country, mass celebration broke out in the streets as foreigners and Velkyans alike celebrated this monumental step in human achievement. But the greatest discovery was still yet to come. As the Orion finished an orbit around Pluto, taking never-before seen pictures of the small planet, its primitive sensors detected an incoming object. Expecting an asteroid, the ship used retro-rockets to maneuver, but to the crew's surprise, the object followed it.
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The V.S.E.V. Orion
Encounter
Attempting the rocket away from the incoming UFO, the crew fired its retros again, to no avail. The Velkyan crew was being drawn into the ship, and at a distance of one mile, their small rear cameras captured a massive ship, clearly alien, drawing them in. The invisible beam drew them into a blinding light. Once past the blinding light, the crew was told to exit the vehicle by an alien figure. These men, Captain Michael Faring, 1st Lt. Zackary Davenport, and Colonel Ricardo Harlem, would be the first humans to communicate with an extra-terrestrial species. Greeting the humans with a strange gesture (placing their fist upon their breast), the creature proceeded to speak perfect English. The aliens, calling themselves the Aran' Nai (Eldar in their language), were similar to humans, with pale white skin, brightly colored hair, and a slim physique. Standing at about seven feet tall, they towered over the trio, as they told them they were great heroes to their race for taking the first step in reaching out to the stars.
They had been monitoring the human race for thousands of years, and with their first FTL jump, had deemed humanity ready for exposure into the galaxy. The aliens then returned the men to their spacecraft, and readied to jump to earth. The alien's jump was highly accurate, more so than the Terran one, and landed within high Earth orbit with the Orion in tow.
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Eldar flagship Erosa
Friendship
Displaying themselves to humanity, the aliens then meet with Velkyan leaders in secret, hoping not to cause a panic within Earth's religious sectors. The aliens themselves believed in a religion similar to that of Earth's Hinduism, with a rigid caste system and belief in a singular supreme being. Within years, with government deemed the populace of Earth ready to meet their alien friends. In a grand ceremony in Velkya City, the President, Charles Douglas, presented the Eldar Fleetmaster, Loral' Vashnil, to a large crowd of photographers and newsmen. The Earth was not alone.
Although the shockwave from such a "discovery" would not subside for nearly a decade, the populace accepted the aliens, and soon, the aliens built a majestic "embassy" on a tropical isle not far from Sand Island Naval Base. Disclosing secret slipspace technology to the humans, the Eldar aided the humans in developing a fleet of their own. Soon, a small joint fleet codenamed Winchester reached a habitable world, which they named New Velkya. The Aran' Nai called it Gorl' Zeo (roughly "Paradise of the Stars"). The world, greatly similar to the Earth, would become the first Velkyan colony on another world. Soon, the whole Gorl' Zeo system would be colonized, and other systems followed, as the banner of Earth flew from dozens of worlds.
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Female Eldar warrior in battle dress.
Pestilence
All was not well within the Aran' Nai, however. A devastating plague, similar to the Earth's long-forgotten AIDS virus, ripped through the population of the Eldar. Spread via sexual contact and contaminated food supplies, the virus rapidily mutated into different strain even if a vaccine was devolped. Humans were unaffected by the virus whatsoever, and interspecies hybirds shared this resilence. Sadly, over 87% of the Eldar population, a staggering forty billion, fell to the myterious virus in a mere twenty years, before it myseriously died out.
Nonetheless, the once great Aran' Nai Empire was shattered, seemingly beyond recovery. Only the capital system of the Eldar, Ven' Zeo, was totally, spared from the death and decay, with several other systems gutted completely. The once great galaxy-spanning fleets of the Eldar were reduced to a mere few hundred vessels, and it's standing army one million. The roles had switched, and the Terrans became the parent figure and the Eldar the child.
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The virus which wiped out the Eldar.
Unity
After the virus died out, the remaining Aran' Knai united with the humans, created the Allied Union of Species (or Allied Union of Velkya, as it was more commonly known). The Aran' Nai began to recapture the once plague ridden worlds, and soon, the alien population recovered to half of its pre-plague population. However, the alliance remained, and both species grew closer and closer together. Reports of inter-species breeding grew common, and hybrids densely populated border worlds.
As the two species intermingled, the human fleets advanced enough to begin to rival their Eldar brethren, as thousands of vessels bearing the golden eagle criss-crossed the void. Worlds such as Moria, New Velkya, Ordinstat, and Barkersville became fleet hubs, and orbital defenses ringed each Velkyan world. "The Titan", a massive 2 mile wide and structure, was built under the ocean floor of New Velkya's Ceres Ocean to house the newly formed Colonial Defense Command, which served as the Velkyan's space "navy".
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The Titan's surface elevator.
Present Day
Allied fleets continue to travel between the nearly one hundred Velkyan and forty Eldar planets, and the navies of both species number 20,000 strong. Over thirty billion citizens of the twins rise each morning, and a fifty million man army watches over them. The Allied Union is currently one of the largest entities in the galaxy, and will continue to be for many centuries to come.
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Velkyan SSF-5S Guardian II fighters on deep space patrol.
Government
Government Style: Representative Democracy
Head of State: President William Harker
Capital City: Velkya City, Earth
Interstellar Holdings
The AUV is comprised of 89 worlds. Unlike most other interstellar nations, the AUV does not possess a "capital world". Instead, its capital is located in its territory on Earth, the original nation of Velkya. The closet thing the AUV has for a capital world is New Velkya, an Earth-like world several dozen light-years from Earth. Much of the colonial administration is located there, and "The Titan", the HQ for the Colonial Defense Command, is based there.
Demography
Total Estimated Pop.
1.1 billion Citizens, with 92% of that distributed along the various colonies.
Ethnic Groupings:
34% White
21% Selkan
19% Black
7% Asian
3% Other
6% Various Alien Races
Economy
Currently, 30% of all Velkyan worlds are mining worlds. Further more, ten more worlds act as trading hubs, coordinating the massive Merchant Marine of Velkya. The MMV consists of over 100,000 trade ships which traverse the known universe everyday, delivering goods to allied nations and fellow Velkyan worlds alike.
History
Origins
The Velkyan military and government space program has existed since the formation of Velkya at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The civilian arm, the Velkyan Space Agency, was formed in 2001 with the launch of Guardian I, a communications satellite. The military arm, formed in 2054 as the Allied Union Space Force, controlled the orbital cannons and missile defense systems of Velkya, as well as military expeditions on nearby solar neighbors. When the first faster than light (FTL) reaction-less drive (the precursor to the current slipspace method), was developed under the leadership of Dr. Bernard Sharnhorst (2052-2106), the Allied Union found itself the only nation on Earth to possess such an advanced technology.
While Velkya had already established vast, permanent bases on the Moon and Mars, for the first time in human history, exploration outside the Solar System was not only possible, but fast and relatively cheap. Immediately, an expedition, codenamed "HETI" (Hunt for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) was begun. Headed by the V.S.E.V. Orion, the first FTL spacecraft built by human hands. HETI launched on January 1st, 2108. Sharnhorst, unfortunately, never saw his brainchild climb into the heavens. He was struck down by an extremist's bullet 2 years before the Orion's launch.
http://www.ssi.org/assets/images/slide08.jpg
Mass Driver from which the Orion was launched.
Into the Void
Many members of the media, both foreign and domestic, awaited the launch of the Orion with disdain. Most thought the drive would overload and explode into an atomic fireball, instead of carrying the Orion to Pluto, its preset destination. When zero hour came, hundreds of journalists, watching a live camera feed linked to Baker's Ridge Moon Base, watched as the craft began to gain speed, passing the designated checkpoints over the Moon. Then, there was a silent flash of blue light. The Orion disappeared, a trail of magnetic disturbance following it.
The craft reemerged approximately a third of an AU from Pluto, close to its jump point. Sending a laser signal to BRMB, the Orion has successfully completed mankind's first FTL jump. Milliseconds later, the laser signal was received by Baker's Ridge. All over the country, mass celebration broke out in the streets as foreigners and Velkyans alike celebrated this monumental step in human achievement. But the greatest discovery was still yet to come. As the Orion finished an orbit around Pluto, taking never-before seen pictures of the small planet, its primitive sensors detected an incoming object. Expecting an asteroid, the ship used retro-rockets to maneuver, but to the crew's surprise, the object followed it.
http://www.bisbos.com/rocketscience/tta/images2/pathfinder_1.jpg
The V.S.E.V. Orion
Encounter
Attempting the rocket away from the incoming UFO, the crew fired its retros again, to no avail. The Velkyan crew was being drawn into the ship, and at a distance of one mile, their small rear cameras captured a massive ship, clearly alien, drawing them in. The invisible beam drew them into a blinding light. Once past the blinding light, the crew was told to exit the vehicle by an alien figure. These men, Captain Michael Faring, 1st Lt. Zackary Davenport, and Colonel Ricardo Harlem, would be the first humans to communicate with an extra-terrestrial species. Greeting the humans with a strange gesture (placing their fist upon their breast), the creature proceeded to speak perfect English. The aliens, calling themselves the Aran' Nai (Eldar in their language), were similar to humans, with pale white skin, brightly colored hair, and a slim physique. Standing at about seven feet tall, they towered over the trio, as they told them they were great heroes to their race for taking the first step in reaching out to the stars.
They had been monitoring the human race for thousands of years, and with their first FTL jump, had deemed humanity ready for exposure into the galaxy. The aliens then returned the men to their spacecraft, and readied to jump to earth. The alien's jump was highly accurate, more so than the Terran one, and landed within high Earth orbit with the Orion in tow.
http://www.xulu.com/walkthru/images/imgAStarshipAdriana.jpg
Eldar flagship Erosa
Friendship
Displaying themselves to humanity, the aliens then meet with Velkyan leaders in secret, hoping not to cause a panic within Earth's religious sectors. The aliens themselves believed in a religion similar to that of Earth's Hinduism, with a rigid caste system and belief in a singular supreme being. Within years, with government deemed the populace of Earth ready to meet their alien friends. In a grand ceremony in Velkya City, the President, Charles Douglas, presented the Eldar Fleetmaster, Loral' Vashnil, to a large crowd of photographers and newsmen. The Earth was not alone.
Although the shockwave from such a "discovery" would not subside for nearly a decade, the populace accepted the aliens, and soon, the aliens built a majestic "embassy" on a tropical isle not far from Sand Island Naval Base. Disclosing secret slipspace technology to the humans, the Eldar aided the humans in developing a fleet of their own. Soon, a small joint fleet codenamed Winchester reached a habitable world, which they named New Velkya. The Aran' Nai called it Gorl' Zeo (roughly "Paradise of the Stars"). The world, greatly similar to the Earth, would become the first Velkyan colony on another world. Soon, the whole Gorl' Zeo system would be colonized, and other systems followed, as the banner of Earth flew from dozens of worlds.
http://users.pandora.be/Airforcer/DE%20Mod/dark-eldar-lord2.jpg
Female Eldar warrior in battle dress.
Pestilence
All was not well within the Aran' Nai, however. A devastating plague, similar to the Earth's long-forgotten AIDS virus, ripped through the population of the Eldar. Spread via sexual contact and contaminated food supplies, the virus rapidily mutated into different strain even if a vaccine was devolped. Humans were unaffected by the virus whatsoever, and interspecies hybirds shared this resilence. Sadly, over 87% of the Eldar population, a staggering forty billion, fell to the myterious virus in a mere twenty years, before it myseriously died out.
Nonetheless, the once great Aran' Nai Empire was shattered, seemingly beyond recovery. Only the capital system of the Eldar, Ven' Zeo, was totally, spared from the death and decay, with several other systems gutted completely. The once great galaxy-spanning fleets of the Eldar were reduced to a mere few hundred vessels, and it's standing army one million. The roles had switched, and the Terrans became the parent figure and the Eldar the child.
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2001/02/23/image.gif
The virus which wiped out the Eldar.
Unity
After the virus died out, the remaining Aran' Knai united with the humans, created the Allied Union of Species (or Allied Union of Velkya, as it was more commonly known). The Aran' Nai began to recapture the once plague ridden worlds, and soon, the alien population recovered to half of its pre-plague population. However, the alliance remained, and both species grew closer and closer together. Reports of inter-species breeding grew common, and hybrids densely populated border worlds.
As the two species intermingled, the human fleets advanced enough to begin to rival their Eldar brethren, as thousands of vessels bearing the golden eagle criss-crossed the void. Worlds such as Moria, New Velkya, Ordinstat, and Barkersville became fleet hubs, and orbital defenses ringed each Velkyan world. "The Titan", a massive 2 mile wide and structure, was built under the ocean floor of New Velkya's Ceres Ocean to house the newly formed Colonial Defense Command, which served as the Velkyan's space "navy".
http://www.nanotech-now.com/images/Art_Gallery/LP-Conceptual_Anchor%202_c-med.jpg
The Titan's surface elevator.
Present Day
Allied fleets continue to travel between the nearly one hundred Velkyan and forty Eldar planets, and the navies of both species number 20,000 strong. Over thirty billion citizens of the twins rise each morning, and a fifty million man army watches over them. The Allied Union is currently one of the largest entities in the galaxy, and will continue to be for many centuries to come.
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Velkyan SSF-5S Guardian II fighters on deep space patrol.