NationStates Jolt Archive

First, what DLE focuses on: The Military and Economy.

Population: 114,000,000 and rising.
Government Budget: $711,563,832,000.00
Major Industry: Information Technology
Currency: Fingerbone
Population in military service: 4,350,000
Combat personnel: 1,450,000

Personal weapons:

SMP-7 x1,450,000
SAR-97C1 x290,000
SAR-97 x1,160,000
SSG-9 x1,450,000
SLMG-2 x72,500
Sarkaraset Minigun x1000
SHMG-5 x1000
SSR-4 x2000
STIMS 300 "Maddog" x1165 (lost a few lately...)
AES-12 x600
RAT-5c x50 + 500 Belts
RAT-2a x15 + 1500 Rounds
KBM Type-32 x1200
WPFM mkIV x500
BLM 9 x500
KC-56 x250 + 12,500 Drums
KBR-95 x250 + 25,000 Mags

Spacial Weapons:

P3X40 x148 (Note: Redesignated PL3X40 in DLE military)
T3Rex x50
DLEX50 x112

Research and space budget: $51,584,330,330

Military Divisions:

Marines- The Grunts. Pretty much, that's all they are.
Special Forces- These are the people in charge of the military and the crews of the ships. They make up pretty much all of the upper echelons of the military forces.
Noncombat- Basically, everyone not devoted to combat.

Military ranks (from top to bottom):
Ministress of Defense
General
Brigaddeir-General (Spelling is intentional)
Major-General
Captain
Major
Leutenant-Major
Leutenant
Leutent (not misspelled, equal to Private)
Marine
Recruit

Raptor P3X40 Series:
Crew: 4 - Pilot, Nav, Tactical, Engineer
Passenger: 12
Speed: 20 parsecs per FTL jump.
Fuel: Plasma
Life Support: 2 Weeks
Armor: Titanium, 9 inches, Self Sealing, Type III Deflector Shield
Weapons: Siesatian Disruptor Mark IV, 6 Torpedo Launchers
Other info: The standard fighter for any operation at the moment. The series after this is the DLEX50, which will replace the entire fleet eventually.
40 Million Dollars Apiece

T3Rex Bomber
Crew: 4 - Pilot, Bomb Control, Nav, Anti Fighter
Passenger: 6
Speed: 18 parsecs per jump
Fuel: Plasma
Life Support: 1 week
Armor: Titanium, 10 inches, Self Sealing. Type III Deflector Shield
Weapons: Type III Siesatian Plasma Scourge Bombs, 2 Disruptor Mark II Turrets
Other Info: Unused in battle.
Price: 46 Million a piece

Darmeth DLEX50 Series:
Crew: 4 - Pilot, Nav, Tactical, Engineer
Passenger: 12
Speed: 24 parsecs per FTL jump.
Fuel: Plasma
Life Support: 3 Weeks
Armor: Titanium, 9 inches, Self Sealing, Type IIIa Deflector Shield
Weapons: DLE Disruptor Mark V, 6 Torpedo Launchers
Other info: The fighter to replace the PL3X40.
49 Million Dollars Apiece

To come: History of Sarkaraset, Sarkaraseta, and DemonLordEnigma

OOC: Don't take this wrong. It's not intended to be the real Earth, just an obviously bad fascimile. Also, note I changed a few things from when I played Sarkaraset and Sarkaraseta.

Histories

Sarkaraset and Sarkaraseta

Thousands of years ago, on a small, isolated planet named Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy, humans existed and had begun their advancement. Most of their history is lost, except they had a powerful nation rise called the United States of America. That nation, advancing rapidly and building a small empire, managed to survive four world wars and defeat every major power they encountered. In the end, they were left surpreme over the Earth. Or, so they thought.

The United States had several problems. One is that, as a nation, it was never truly united to begin with. It had constant internal struggles, even fighting two civil wars, and the nation was always dividing itself in many smaller groups. The second problem was that its economy was entirely dependant on other nations, with just about everything being imported, and most of the people were either in white collar jobs or poor. The third problem was the government had turned from being for the people to oppressing them.

The people finally grew tired of the system. Some wanted the U.S. to take a more militaristic approach, forcibly dominating everyone. The others wanted democracy. The resulting civil war utterly tore the nation apart and, from the ashes, rose both two nations and a new race. It would just be 175 years later.

When the people finally settled into two nations, all traces of who they once were, including their species, were gone. The people had evolved into a new species, taller and slightly stronger and smarter than the old. Plus, their language was now a mixture of all the languages influencing the nation. Splitting into two groups, these people called themselves the Sarkarasetans and became the nations of Sakaraset, militaristic and oppressive, and Sarkaraseta, democratic and capitalist.

The two nations extended diplomatic ties to those around for a short period before withdrawing. They found themselves too different from those around. Determined to find a planet where they would not be strange, they focused heavily on spacial technologies and eventually left Earth.

Much of the history of the two empires is lost. No one knows where they ended up, what peoples they contacted, what planets they colonized, or even exactly how advanced they got. What is known is the two nations disliked each other and frequently warred. But, towards the end, the two began to mysteriously work together, creating colonies together and even going as far as to try to create robots with their entire history intact. Then, just as mysteriously, they decided to go to war and nearly obliterated each other. With a few exceptions, no trace of those two nations survived to this day.

DemonLordEnigma

On a world named Terran, nearly 4000 years after the two empires who the inhabitants were descended from wiped each other out, a farmer was digging in his field when he found a strange hatch. Opening the hatch, he descended into the dark tunnel, surprised to find lights comming on as he descended. He was equally shocked to see a man, strangely beneath two meters in height (the average height of a Sarkarasetan), lying on a metal slab. The farmer shook the man awake, surprised someone would be asleep in a buried hatch.

Unknown to that farmer, he had woken Enigma, the last android built by Sarkaraset. Enigma, upon emerging into the world and finding the area he was in unclaimed, declared himself emperor. The people, and three nations in the area who had already stabilized from thousands of years of anarchy, were mostly unimpressed. At least, until Enigma started building ships capable of leaving the atmosphere, at which point the people in the area he claimed became curious. Suddenly finding the people comming to him, Enigma started to give out advice on how to plant crops, medicate people, etc. Within a year, his claim of emperor was instead recognized as Dictator and Enigma found himself in charge of a nation of five million people.

Enigma immediately set out to try to find out what was going on with the strange ruins in his area. It was at that point his nation found out what the other three knew: They were the remnants of the Sarkarasetans. Enigma also found one thing no other nation had, which was the plans for FTL Jump drives that used gravitons. And, surprisingly, the plans were only complicated in math, not actual parts requirements.

Organizing his people as best as he could, Enigma found them surprising. They were primitive in culture, yet as a people resilient, adaptive, and technologically advanced. He found they seemed to work best in small groups with little organization and even less support. He also found that, despite his attempts at creating a formal education system, the Sarkarasetans preferred to educate their children at home. But the one thing he found that piqued his curiousity was a combination of willpower combined with the intelligence that allowed them to quickly reverse-engineer technology within their understanding, and it was surprising how much they quickly grasped.

At this point, Enigma began to extend towards other planets. However, this revealed his nation's technological advantage and terrorist strikes, combined with unease with the nation of Tiamat Taveril, began. Enigma quickly organized a military and police force, only to find the same thing held true with their fighting tactics as working tactics. But, it allowed him to keep his people together despite terrorism problems and to negotiate a treaty with Tiamat Taveril.

When it came to space, Enigma's exploration crews eventually found a Klonor ship and, taking the opportunity, purchased several ships from them. The ships served for both military and police, even with the finding of the planet Terrator, for several years. These ships were also used when DLE forces first discovered the Earth nearest them and began diplomatic overtures there, even joining ISEC. It was at this time, however, a new discovery, kept secret from other nations, was made by Enigma himself: The Sarkarasetans were getting ready to evolve, and it would be rapid when it happened.

After several years of contact with Siesatia, DLE purchased several ships from them to replace the aging Klonor ships, which were promptly sold to Merlyns for way above what was paid for them. Then came the diplomatic troubles and attempted assassination of Enigma at a UN ball in the nation of Aliana, the near-war with Cherry Ridge, and the problems with the mysterious loss of a ship on its way to Terrator, and the problems Enigma's own ship had with unusual aliens from Protospace recently that left his ship destroyed and General Soybayun in charge of the nation until his return.

After the evolution of the Sarkarasetans, DLE began a new era of exploration. It discovered and plundered several secrets of an old Sarkarasetan battlecruise, which set the country years ahead. It also annexed the nations of Tiamat Taveril, Merlyns, and Apsu Lilith, resulting in the birth of the DLE Empire. In the time since then the country has begun bigger projects, suddenly looking forward to a time where it will head out into space with an even bigger presense than before. However, the empire is in for a rough road with the tensions between the exnations it now encompasses.

OOC: This is information covering the years past the RPs as well.

Very nicely written.

OOC: This portion of the entry shall be editted quite a bit as I add portions. The first post also needs to be updated, with military ranks and divisions added.

Balrogga, thank you.

IC:

Region: The Dead Zone

Called the Dead Zone by DLE scientists because it is unmappable by all known texchnologies, this portion of the Milky Way and space outside of the galaxy appears to possibly be a circle or sphere of some type. All attempts to produce starmaps of it, or starmaps once inside, simply fail and produce random gibberish and incomprehensible drawings. The fact this does not affect star maps of other areas brought into this region suggests the affect may be artificial, although no exploration attempts have found the source of it yet.

Most modern tech nations that look at this region find it to be unsurprising that it is unmapped, but not for the real reason. To outsiders, it appears to be mostly empty space with only a few stars surrounded by uninhabitable rocks. While mostly true of the star systems, at this time two inhabited planets are known to exist. One, Terran, was terraformed in the past to make it suitable for life and is the homeworld of DLE. The other, Terrator, is a planet naturally capable of supporting life and currently being colonized by DLE. Both will be discussed in their own entries.

However, planets and stars are not the only features of the region, with each discussed below.

Derelicts: Perhaps the most frequent feature of this region is derelict ships, many of which wandered into the region on exploration missions and promptly got lost. These range in technology level from pre-light speeds to as advanced as transgalactic warships run entirely by AIs. Most of these ships are extremely dangerous in their own right, as quite a few have active anti-intruder systems designed to kill as many people comming in as possible, strange biological agents or even entire creatures that evolved to survive without a normal ecosystem, or in some cases strange beings which seem to exist outside of the capacity of science to explain. There is even suggestions in old records of a massive graveyard of ships, though it has yet to be found.

Most people who deal with derelicts, especially those in this region, tend to develop an almost-religious fear of them. And for good reason. Derelicts that are intact or mostly intact are usually too dangerous to be worth whatever treasure they hold and the safer ships are probably already stripped of valuables before the last crewman stops breathing.

Unknown alien races: There seem to be several unknown alien races, many of them seeming to exist entirely outside of physical bodies. As they are mostly on derelicts, they are usually left alone. Pretty much everyone agrees this is as it should be for those species.

There are two, besides the Sarkarasetans, that live in this region and are known for piracy and graverobbing, although they leave locals alone. No contact of any sort has been made with those other races by any known government and it is suspected they are just rogue gangs hiding from the law.

Dyson's Logic: Also known as the Whirlpool, this is a giant dust cloud in space with a black hole in the center. The unknown elements the dust cloud is made of cause it to be sucked up by the black hole at a much slower rate than normal, all the while interactions with the radiation the black hole throws off creates powerful ion storms in the cloud, sometimes causing archs of energy to strike ships that get too close. The result looks like, as one person described it, "a giant purple hurricane in space."

Black Suns: These are what appear to be regular stars that don't throw off photons within the normal visible spectrum. Most of these stars have amazing temperatures that may account for it. A few, being amazingly cold for stars, may actually have once been black holes that are now oon the verge of a new evolution or final death. In any case, these pose a danger as sometimes a ship not paying attention will accidentally fly into one. They are not classified as black holes because they lack the massive gravity required.

Ion Storms: As if all of the above wasn't enough, this region is mysteriously prone to ion storms. Sometimes they come with small clouds, but mostly the only warning a ship gets before one hits is a sudden energy buildup in front of the ship, usually with them not having enough time to get out of the way first. There are two known cases of stationary ion storms, one being between two large derelicts that show signs of extreme energy damage and the other being in Dyson's Logic.

Explorers: Perhaps the greatest danger to locals are explorers who are not familiar with the region. These ships are often lost, heavily armed, and at least damaged or drain of personel from a bad encounter with either an ion storm, a derelict, or a black sun. These ships pose a danger because often the crew is extremely desperate and also quite lost. If left alone, explorers often turn into derelicts in a short amount of time, much to the benefit of the locals.

As a region, the Dead Zone is best described as hostile, merciless, and dangerous to all. Any ship not knowing what it is doing or helped out by locals is likely to join the masses of empty tombs that float, silent and undisturbed, in the dark regions between stars. And even for the locals, this region has a set of dangers that can easily turn a well-armed and prepared crew into a group of half-dead maddened lunatics just trying to survive. Worse is that these are just the known dangers of a region in the universe where no maps are possible and the pilots fly more by instinct than by knowledge. But, to those that call this region home it offers opportunities to thrive.

OOC: It appears I made a mistake in one topic when quoting distances. I had posted that Terran (DLE homeworld) is 1141 lightyears away and Terrator is 1825.6 light years away from Earth. This is false, as I misread the information I was looking at. The information I was looking at was for the wrong game entirely. Sorry.

IC:

Terran

Type: Terraformed Rock
Majority of Terrain: Lifeless rock and ocean.
Distance from Earth: 1825.6 lightyears
Native Sentient Species: Sarkarasetans
Nonnative sentient species: 1 werewolf, a few humans, a some other species in minor amounts.
Other fauna: Several dragons, cockatrices, etc. that are usually labelled as mythical.

History:

Once a colony-world of Sarkaraset and Sarkaraseta, this world is now home to four nations of varying political viewpoints. It is from here that DLE hails and on this world the capital of DLE lies. The world is habitable due to the terraforming process, but most of the land will take several millenia to make capable of supporting life. By that time, the sun supporting it is expected to have cooled too far to allow the planet to support life anyway. It is expected to be abandonned within the next two thousand years.

Perhaps the most striking feature is the high presence of Sarkarasetan technology left over from the two empires, most of which DLE has yet to access and use.

System information for those looking for Terran: The planet is in a system of six planets, not a single one being bigger than Mars, and a sun that, while larger than Sol, is several millenia older and began to cool about 7000 years ago (around the same time the planet was colonized). The system has one inhabitable planet, the fifth one from the star.

Terrator

Type: Earth-like Planet
Majority of Terrain: Flat plains and water
Distance from Earth: 2738.4 lightyears
Native Sentient Species: None
Nonnative Sentient Species: Sarkarasetans
Other Fauna: Insects, none being more advanced than bees in organization.

Terrator is remarkable in that it is naturally inhabitable in a region of space best known for being both dead and hostile. The planet has two continents, one bigger than the other, and both have only a single mountain range. The planet is 60% water and about midway between Earth and Mars in size. The air is slightly lower than Earth's concentration, but well within adapatible ranges.

The planet is currently a colony-world of DLE and Tiamat Taveril. The two nations have put orbital platforms above it and are in the process of building cities and otherwise cultivating it for themselves. They have yet to start mining procedures and, thus, have not harvested the local crystals or metals yet. But, finding this planet is not exactly easy, as it is in a system of four planets orbitting a Sol-like star that is typical of most solar systems in the Dead Zone.

No word on when, or even if, the planet will be open to other cultures in the future.

System information for looking for Terrator: Dicrections to it are classified. The general planet description gives enough information to find it if one is willing to search for several decades.

People

Perhaps the most startling thing about DLE is the people themselves. Physically, they look almost exactly like humans, except they average 2 meters in height. It is not until one examines genetics or sees them in action that the differences become obvious.

The recent evolution of Sarkarasetans is leaving them highly active, and even somewhat powerful, in the magical and psionic arts. But unlike most species, Sarkarasetans appear to be not only favoring the magical arts, but mutating physically in response to them. Genetically, the results have so little differences between them they are not even classed as subspecies, despite the physical appearances.

The people have split into five subcategories known to date: Humans, elves, dwarves, trolls, and orks. They are only named such because of physical traits they share and pass on to their children, which amount go height, body build and density, and the occasional presence of tusks in addition to general tendencies towards physical attractiveness. But beyond these superficial traits, nothing has really changed about them and they do not all share the same tendencies towards magic.

When it comes to the magical skills, it should be noted that not everyone has them. Only about a thousandth of the population currently has magical skills, though the genetic preliferations of these skills is expected to take the percentage much higher in the next two centuries. However, even with the proliferation of magic skills, technology has shown to still be a required and essential part of life. That, and several people trying to take advantage of their magical abilities to commit crimes have found that an old-fashioned assault rifle still is fully capable of killing them quickly.

But perhaps the most interesting changes have been in diseases. Several people with Sorba Syndrom, a debilitating viral infection of the nervous system that causes the victim to feel mind-blowing pain in their abdoman, have mutated to have adverse reactions with sunlight, have elongated felines (translation note: canines, or in this case fangs), and have other possible changes. Exactly what is happening with them is still under investigation.

Where and what developments, as well as what magical abilities are devloping, are expected to take years of investigation to pin down.

Black Suns: These are what appear to be regular stars that don't throw off photons within the normal visible spectrum. Most of these stars have amazing temperatures that may account for it. A few, being amazingly cold for stars, may actually have once been black holes that are now oon the verge of a new evolution or final death. In any case, these pose a danger as sometimes a ship not paying attention will accidentally fly into one. They are not classified as black holes because they lack the massive gravity required.

I'm guessing Spectral Class L or T stars. Or commonly known as Brown Dwarfs. They emit no visible radiation but have massive Infrared emmissions. They're supposed to be extremely common in the Universe.

Actually, that's exactly what they are. I just like the name "Black Suns" better.

Actually, that's exactly what they are. I just like the name "Black Suns" better.

Yes, "Black Suns" does have a definite cool factor.

There is supposed to be one at Gliese, which lies about 19 Light Years away from Earth in the constelation Lepus (The Hare).

Here is the link:

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/hst/95-48.html

They are closer than you think.


Incidently, it is one of the first worlds I visited when I expanded from Earth.

Neighbors: Ternaea Syndicate

The closest neighbors to Terran are the Ternaea Syndicate. An insectoid race, these people have only recently discovered second-generation warp engines. However, despite this they are considered a very dangerous race.

Unlike most races, they focused more on weapons technology than anything else. Their fighters typically carry first-generation phasers and use antimatter torpedos, while the only other type, the planetary destroyer, carries antimatter cannons. Beyond this bit of information, all that is really known is they hate intruders, but will reward those who help defend them. It is currently suspected they use a form of FTL Jump Drives, but that has not been confirmed.

Diplomatic attempts are not recommended. They tend to respond by opening fire.

Cultural Practices:

Marriage- Marriage is, as a cultural practice, mostly just for legal benefits. It is unregulated by the government beyond stating it must be with a sentient being. However, the Sarkarasetans have a genetic stigma against incest and a social stigma against interbreeding with species they consider genetically inferior, such as humans.

Karsonat Pendel- "Celebration of Freedom's Reign." A cultural burning of crosses in large numbers that has no meaning at this time, its meaning having been lost down the centuries. However, it is not a practice of hatred or discrimination, as the practice takes place in open fields set aside for it. The cross is built using your typical T shape, only with a half-circle covering the top-three prongs (or whatever they are called). Then it is covered in a flamable liquid, gasoline was popular while iit was still available, and set on fire. It should be noted the crosses strangely resemble a few derelict ships we have come across, but a correlation has yet to be made.

Education- Education is a practice done in the home. All attempts at a state-back education system have, with the exception of military training, failed.

Backwards Engineering- Perhaps the most unusual thing is how easily Sarkarasetans can backwards engineer, a suggestion that perhaps their earlier technological advancements before their slide backwards for several millenia may have a relation to their genetics. As a people they tend to advance, on their own, at a rather surprising rate. Put together and given a goal and the imagination is the limit.

Religion- Religion is viewed with a apathetic eye, which is one of the main reasons it declined from power early in Sarkarasetan history and has never been able to rise since then. It's pretty much a case of worship how you will as long as you don't cause trouble.

Social Interactions- Compared to many peoples, Sarkarasetans are quite informal as a whole. The only way one can actually tell who the leader is in many cases is to wait for an order to be given. This level of interactivity results from centuries of having to survive in small groups and is the reason all military efforts involve small numbers.

Prejudice- There is a strange lack of internal prejudice against other members of the same species. However, genetics often play a role in prejudice against other species, though such prejudice has dropped away from being a dominant trait to being a mild one. Sarkarasetans do get along well with humans, but they still view humans as genetically and societally inferior. However, they do not let this show, mainly because they recognize humans as a sentient species in spite of any reservations they may have about the truth of human sentience. A human inside the DLE Empire will notice a certain coolness towards them, but mostly this is because they are strangers (other than height, there are no obvious differences between Sarkarasetans and humans at a glance).

Enigma- Enigma is a cultural influence of his own. Being the first working Sarkarasetan device activated, despite them not knowing it at the time, he has acted to unify the entire species and try to regain what they once had. The recent discovery of him being an android has only helped him in this. Enigma acts as a leader, a symbol of the past, and a goal all at once. In a way, he is a greater icon of what they hope to achieve than anything else the Sarkarasetans have come across.

Cultural Connections to Past- Other than the Karsonat Pendel, the language, Enigma, and a few ruins, the Sarkarasetans have no connections to their past. The current cultures are most self-constructed with the last few decades and rely heavily on the few connections they have as a form of unity. Without these connections and a want to regain the culture they have lost, the Sarkarasetans would separate into small groups and probably end up being wiped out by the first invader to come along. Perhaps one day they shall regain the empire they once ruled.

More Cultural Traits:

Humor- As a people, the Sarkarasetans have a humor that shows up in every aspect of their life. From the silly titles of their leader to banter of the military soldiers when relaxing, there seems to be a lack of general formality.

Unspoken Social Rules:

1) When things get serious or people get angry, the humor stops.
2) No groping without permission. This has resulted in a few deaths.
3) Despite the Dictator's wishes, vigillanties (sp?) are an approved way of dealing with criminals.
4) Assume people are always armed and show respect. Mostly, they are always armed.
5) Be courteous to outsiders, but not friendly until you have sized them up enough to determine if you wish to interact with them.
6) Respect the Dictator.*
7) The only difference between the sexes is in biology. Otherwise, there is no reason a person cannot do something because of their gender. There is only one exception to this.
8) The Minister of Defense is to always be female.*
9) When cussing, Sarkarasetan is preferred no matter tha language.
10) A person's sexuality is unimportant, as long as they are not going against a stigma. (stigmas in previous post)
*No legal reason behind this. Enigma doesn't care if they respect him and doesn't use secret police. These have no known reason for evolving as such.

Age of Adulthood: 16. This is the age a person is usually done with their education, the age they can legally enter the military, and the age they can give consent. This is a legal practice more than a cultural practice.

Handicapped: When it comes to the physically or mentally handicapped, the people as a whole generally tend to let them do what they can on their own and help them with the rest. As a result of this and another trait, DLE is looking into cybernetics for medical uses. Military uses are considered out of the question until the medical is secured.

Independence- As a people, Sarkarasetans are very independant. They only trade for what they need but cannot produce, develop, or steal from derelicts themselves. They prefer to develop their own tech or take that from derelicts and backwards engineer it. Anything they buy they have a habit of backwards-engineering to make sure they can maintain. On occasion, they have found ways around the normal safeguards against it, but mostly prefer not to hassle with such when it is easier to develop it on their own.

Magic- When it comes to magic, all they have done is integrate it into their daily lives and begun to investigate it. It is expected they will take decades to fully understand magic, but as a people they are patient. In the meantime, what comforts magic provides are exploited just as technology is.

OOC Notes:

DLE Empire vs. DLE:

DLE Empire is the region of Terran and Terrator and includes all nations in it, as well as Tiamat Taveril. It is ruled over by DLE. DLE itself is a much smaller part of it, despite ruling it. When it comes to warfare, ICly threats will be for the empire itself to be used but it will actually be only those from the country of DLE.

Empire Nations:
DemonLord Enigma -Ruling Country
Tiamat Taveril
Merlyns
Apsu Lilith

More to come as needed or thought up.

Well done, DLE.

Well done, DLE.

Thanks. I still have to redo a few posts to catch them up to modern, but it is pretty much complete.

Most of this has been moved to NSWiki. It's not complete, but the page is already extremely long.