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[The Story] (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10247014&postcount=3)
THE NANIC PEOPLES;
The Nanic are all but unknown to most life in the common Galaxies.
The Nanic are from the ancient and distant Cetlot region of the outer rim of known space, beyond the Coma Cluster.
Having only recently acquired Hyperspace technology (recently, being used in relative terms) within the last three generations the Nanic have begun to move from the home systems out into common galaxies.
What comes next in this document is an explanation of the Nanic as I have seen fit to record from dealings with these unique creatures and their strange customs:
I first came across the Nanic eleven years ago while on a research mission to M77.
Our research vessels had numerous escorts, and we were doing routine planetary examinations, when the sister vessel to my own came under fire from an unseen enemy.
As the escorts vessels began to offer a counter stroke, my vessel turned its vast array of sensors on the space surrounding us.
We picked up the marauding forces.
Several dozen small fighters cloaked, well.
One at a time they were dropping from their cloak state to attack the research vessels.
Then recloaking, and evading the escort's advances.
Suddenly all at once nine of the small fighters dropped from what I learned later to be a 'phase cloak' which only highly sophisticated sensor arrays are capable of detecting, these ships burst forth swarming quickly on the Frigate 'Alester'. They moved quickly, first striking the sensor arrays leaving the guns untouched.
They took no losses, and then dropped back out of phase.
They struck again this time at the Frigate 'Leviticus', the same assault against the ships sensor arrays.
Losing one vessel.
Then back into phase, as they returned for their third sortie they struck out our sensor arrays but our systems held long enough for us to detect a massive gravimetric anomaly--a very large vessel dropping from Hyperspace.
From view ports we could only watch as hundreds of small fighters engaged our escorts eliminating them one by one.
As overwhelming forces using hit and run tactics, only the monolithic vessel which had brought the fighters remained static with its large escorts.
The small fighters danced with our fighters and the large vessels simply buckled under their overwhelming numbers.
......
It seemed like an eternity but it was in truth only minutes, as the first alarm sounded.
There was a Hull breach.
Then the intruder alarm sounded, the unknown enemy was boarding our vessel.
From the view ports we could see vessels landing on our crippled sister ship.
The Republican Guard Aboard our vessel fought for three hours to stave off the boarders, but it was to no avail.
We fell to these people who had attacked us unprovoked.
FACE TO FACE
What happened next was to become the most stunning event of my life even though I did not realize it at the time.
Republican Guards rushed into the room and herded us all to the rear.
They sealed the door and took up positions to defend the room.
By the sound, several of the men had remained in the hall to hold off the advancing enemy while we readied our selves.
Silence...
A long silence.
Then suddenly the doors blew free from the frame. Thick smoke filled the room, too thick.
The smoke was deliberate, and the RepGars knew it. They immediately began to fire upon the doorway, but it was too late.
Among the smoke I saw shadows, not full beings but mere wisps of them.
I knew they were their, and I knew they were real but I could not fully perceive their presence.
They moved deftly seeing them more clearly on my peripheral vision then head on.
Screams of horror, pain, and rage as RepGars struggled with the enemy.
Blasters loosed their deadly gift, yet even then it seemed as if only the crackle of super heated air from the plasma emissions from the RepGars weapons were all that was heard.
The enemies’ weapons made no sound, or at least not a very loud one.
And then, silence again.
The smoke settled slowly and in the room stood five humanoid figures.
I had difficulty focusing on them....
I suddenly considered the smoke must have some effect on the central nervous system, perhaps a psychotropic effect?
The figures were average height for a human male, their skin pale, eyes almond shaped like Asians but with elliptical pupils, and black around the iris instead of white. Their build seemed slight yet as the last one flung the body of a RepGar the motion seemed to speak of unseen power in the frail appearing figure.
As the men approached I was at a loss I knew we were going to die.
Some how my curiosity at their physical appearance had left me the forward most standing person, so it appeared I would be the first to die.
The weapon in the first man's hand seemed to be a projectile weapon of some kind rather then an energy weapon.
Several of the others actually had knives, fracking knives.
As he was almost to arms reach of me I screamed and dropped to the floor (I am not too proud to admit this, I have no desire to die and the prospect was enough to make me weep) I dropped to the floor covered my head then screamed "please don’t kill us, we're just scientists, we just want to go home! We can’t hurt you!" As I blathered on I realized I was still speaking after the man should have already reached me.
I dared to look up and see.
The alien was standing just in front of me, staring down at me with a look of curiosity or pity or both.
I uttered the word "please"
He looked very human and all at once not.
Still too I had trouble focusing on him.
He spoke, "Stand up, but do it slowly."
I did as he asked.
“If it is true and no harm is intended then why did you come with warships, what were you scanning the planet for? Why did you not answer our hails?"
I stood stock still; I had not truly expected to get a stay of execution.
"I ....we are just the tech staff for a scientific study of the region. The soldiers were for our safety. It was them at the helm and not us."
"Follow me" replied the Alien.
We all followed, again some how I had been fracked into the lead.
It is worth noting at this point that even after leaving the room I still had difficulty keeping my eyes on the strange men, and at least twice I had forgotten for a brief second who it was I was following.
The smoke definately had to have had some kind of psychotropic substance in it.
We reached a breach in the hull where a cause way led to what was appearently their vessel.
"If you remain aboard this ship you will all die? You have ten seconds to decide." and with that the man began walking down the corridor.
I noticed as I looked further down the corridor into his vessel that there were aliens of other species, other races.
Our choice was clear, we had to leave with these raiders and hope their good nature maintained........
THE UNDERSTANDING
Once aboard the vessel I learned their name was the Nanic.
That they had no planet but instead resided in the Coma Cluster.
Their true home planet having been destroyed several hundred centuries prior.
I learned the Nanic were an old space fairing race, far older then man.
I learned that what I had thought were other races was indeed just a variation of the Nanic.
They had lived long enough to literally breed and live, with evolutionary splits.
There were apparently four distinct breeds of Nanic.
All very closely genetically related, vertebrate mammalians, who all exhibited high muscle density, elliptical pupil with the common third eyelid of nocturnal species.
The different breeds were formed into what role in society they fit best, though cross over was common.
The Nanic breeds are as follows;
Nanic-Aneer:
The Aneer are very similar in appearance to humans and serve as one of the two primary warrior classes in Nanic society.
They are roughly two times the strength of a human, with seemingly twice the bone density. This feature affords the ability to be amazingly brutal and endure tremendous punishment compared to humans, though other races obviously can and do exceed this. The Aneer as it was explained earlier, have subtle psyonic ability, they radiate a mental vibration which causes interference with the short term memory, the visual cortex, and the motor skills center. Literally they become difficult to perceive and remember. Often the Aneer use chemical hallucinogens introduced either through the skin or the repertory system to heighten the effect.
The Aneer are considered the special forces of the Nanic hand to hand forces. They hold several positions in the Nanic society, largely as healers (outside the military).
Nanic-Usian
Usian are the other Warrior class of Nanic society.
They are less human appearing then Aneer, but still more so then the other two. They are lean, with round eyes roughly the size of chicken eggs, and small ears. They have grayish flesh and for the common slight build have astoundingly deep voices that are very melodic when they speak.
The Usian have an over developed nervous system and an increased synaptic firing rate. The synapses in their brains fire far more rapidly then Humans, they literally think several times faster, thus decreasing their reaction time in stressful situations. The increased synaptic speed coupled with extraordinarily fast twitch reflexes make the Usian excellent in hand to hand combat and in the piloting of Space craft in combat and other dangerous situations.
The psychic ability of the Usian is far less invasive then that of the Aneer.
The Usian psychic ability is in the frequency ranges of their brain waves two things have developed over the eons of their existence; the Usian transmit and receive from one another, and they do so through a gland which some operates on a quantum level transmitting in hyperspace. The telepathic link can span thousands upon thousands of light years and it allows the Usian to triangulate their relative positions in the universe.
Usian are only as strong as regular men, perhaps even a little bit less so, but still formidable in hand to hand combat.
Nanic-Intos
The Intos are the most common Nanic; they are the strongest of the Nanic races reaching as strong as three to four times that of a man.
They appear as a humanoid cross between man and bat, however as well as being the most common and the strongest they also on the mean test nearly thirty percent higher in intelligence matters, and are among the most even tempered beings ever to be met. They are very reluctant combatants and seem to much prefer bartering to combat.
These Intos are natural born sales men.
Their psychic ability is quite complimentary, they like the Aneer radiate field of brain wave activity which cause a serotonin production and release, the Intos are comforting people to be around and more often then not people fall completely relaxed in their company.
Nanic-Rados
Rados are the genius of the Nanic race.
They appear similar to Aneer except that the ears of the Rados are much larger; the bone structure is almost avian in its delicate frame work. The bone however slight is very strong in a latticed pattern and far more dense then human bones (by as much as four times).
They almost all ways test off the charts in all subjects of basic study.
The Rados have the only truly passive psychic ability.
They exhibit total recall, and can communicate with each other over great distances, though not as far Usian powers the Rados real strength lays in the way they dissect an issue and find all possible solutions and more then likely the out come.
OOC: Thanks Chronosia.
Please forgive me I tried to do some comparison on tech to see what was acceptable. I don’t seem to babble to find a consistent benchmark.
So I will just do what I do and see who complains.
IC:
The Nanic as it appears had been mining the planet we were scanning and in fact the fighters we encountered were there to support that operation.
The Nanic apparently have no centralized authority but rather a confederation of morality and mutual understanding.
Crime as we understand it does not exist in Nanic society.
I believe that the Nanic have a less developed sense of self preservation as opposed to higher sense of species preservation, hence the reason evolutionary offshoots were not cut off.
Please make no mistake in my statements, I am in no way suggesting the Nanic a self preservation instinct, I am simply saying that where in man it is typically the primary behind species preservation, in the Nanic it is the opposite. Of course, I am no biologist.
Now after a few days the Nanic produced several escape ships from our research vessels.
We were afforded the luxury of using these vessels to enter stasis and drift home, or at least into commercial lanes where we would be picked up, the prospect was months in space either way.
NOTE: I must be honest at this point; I have omitted the description of my fear and irrational behaviors and those of my companion scientists who in truth at no time really did any of respective field’s justice.
We were captured in a conflict and were treated in quite a civil fashion.
We responded most poorly-at least in the beginning.
Offered the chance to leave before the Nanic moved back into the Coma Cluster, all my counter parts leaped at the chance.
I however had given some thought to some facts.
1. The Nanic, once understanding that we were of no threat immediately ceased all hostility.
2. They exhibited more curiosity about us as individuals then our technology or scientific know how, in short they were not working us for information.
3. I have no family.
4. We had no Ambassador to the Nanic.
My choice was clear, I should stay. As The Nanic would allow me to leave later, it was imperative that we have a familiarity with this race before large interaction becomes unavoidable and we find ourselves in a ferocious war. As man is so prone to do.
MONTHS LATER
Since offering to stay and learn about them, and teach those about us the Nanic have treated me as visiting dignitary.
I have an office along with kind accommodations; my day is filled with visiting officials and requests for my presence in Nanic learning facilities which would be the equal of our lower grades all the way to college.
The Nanic seem to have no Xenophobia, at least not in the conventional sense.
Ahhhh, but I have almost forgotten where I live.
We reached the Coma Cluster a few weeks after releasing my fellow humans.
I had expected to find a planet where the Nanic had taken up residence, I couldn’t have been more wrong.
We reached a solar system in the Cluster where the star was surrounded not by planets but rather it rested on the edge of Nebulae.
As we approached I was invited to the bridge of the Nanic mining freighter(because they actually have a massive bridge with a full transparent view, all around--terrifying to first step through the door, let me tell you)
I saw a space station in orbit, a huge one.
Then I was read the distance, and I was stunned.
Still nearly a million kilometers away and I could see it; I could see it with my own eyes.
As we neared the station changed and I could see that it was indeed moving, shifting.
It was a huge construct of mobile platforms so immense as to be astounding.
And then I was told that it would receive and move to continue the docking process.
[I]Docking with what?
After had merged into the massive complex of ships and platforms, I was then pointed to the apex f the orbital ellipse on the opposite side of the star.
And I saw at first a simple planetoid, and then as the hours clicked by it came into full few and I saw not one but two massive forms.
Two partial spheres, one smooth and but incomplete.
The other a jagged monster of technology.
Though by the curve of the smooth sphere when completely it dwarfs any man made thing I had ever seen or heard of.
The jagged sphere was smaller; the size of a large asteroid, except it was all manufactured material.
I took a moment to do a sketch, as approach took several hours.
I will include it here now,
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y211/IndioRazaRepublica/c9285cdb.jpg
I am told its diameter is approximately 5000 kilometers, by the curve surface of the smooth structure it will be beyond that by several magnitudes.
As we become 'entangled' among the sphere it is was explained to me that at the heart of the jagged sphere which hence forth I will refer to as NanicWorld, I regret do not yet understand the Nanic word for their home, though I believe it to be some what synonymous with 'deliberate' or 'engineered'. I am informed that at the heart of his massive sphere of technology upon technology lays the first Nanic Space faring vessel used after the destruction of their system.
In the core of the NanicWorld is an energy source I was not allowed to question.
The NanicWorld has gravity, though a smaller sphere it seems to have slightly higher gravity then earth, I attribute this currently to the unexplained power source, as I was not allowed to ask about the artificial gravity systems-or rather I was ignored when I did.
Once into the giant machine that is NanicWorld it is for all intents and purposes a cross between a city, a ship, and a planet.
This is currently my new home.
During my time here and watching interact with other races of the Coma Cluster, I have found out some facts I believe the more suspicious minded members of our race would be interested in and while I do trust the Nanic I will include them for the sake of not appearing to care more about another race then my own, which I might note my very hosts would find offensive and strange.
The Nanic Military ship types are as follows:
Patrol Fighters (NanicWorld Based)
Attack Fighters (Carrier Based/NanicWorld Based)
Long Range Fighters
Deathwing Fighter(The first size capable of carrying a Nanic Phasic Cloak Device)
Corvettes
Frigate
Destroyer
Cruiser
Battle cruiser
Battleship
Dreadnaught
Mobile Fortress
Black star Battle Station (I would like to note I have seen one of these 'vessels' and while I am not a military officer, I find them to be terror inducing.)
The Nanic seem partial on their vessels to use a variety of weapons, one they didn’t mind allowing me to know about are fusion based warheads, electromagnetic projectile weapons, very advanced particle weapons,
AM/M Warheads, Lasers, and while I was not spoken to about this, I have seen the Phasic cloak in use so I can only assume that indeed phasic weapons are also in use.
There ships use Pion drives and are capable of hyperspace jump, I have seen AM/M pulse engines in sue as well.
Their smaller ships use a variety of power sources from fusion powered impulse to pulse detonation, fusion powered ion drives, and they seem to adopt all technology they come in contact with.
I would also to say I originally I found this absurd, until I saw it in action for myself.
They use redundant systems and in concert they are very difficult to counter in action as they do not approach any problem from one single position.
The Nanic are if one thinks of them in an adversarial nature, very dangerous thinkers who are quick to adapt and well suited to the task.
The Nanic above all else in matters of conflict prize stealth. I believe this can be exploited.
I will offer more information as I gather it, when I return home I hope to be given the chance to become the official representative of our race to the Nanic.
I have been allowed other access to the Nanic, and have found them to be an amazing if some what enigmatic people.
The Nanic structure of Government is somewhat confusing, I will however attempt to break it down;
The entire Nanic Civilization is called by many names but the ones I have seen used in formal sense are these: Nanic Grand Dominion, Nanic Dominion, The Dominion, Dominion of the servants of the Great Sight Blighter, Dominion of the Sight Blighters.
As well each Nanic Race appears to have a governing body:
The Nanic-Aneer are known as the Great Clans of the Aneerian Brotherhood, the Aneerian Brotherhood, or simply The Brotherhood.
The Nanic-Usian are known as the Usian Collective, The Great Hive, Mind Hive, the Hive.
Nanic-Intos are known as the Intos Guild, the Merchant Guild, Those who Guide, Keepers of the Great Tongue of the Nanic.
The Nanic-Rados are known as the Great Cyphers of the Nanic, The Eyes of the Nanic, The Great Eye, Those who see.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y211/IndioRazaRepublica/Aneer.jpg
Nanic-Aneer:
The Aneer are very similar in appearance to humans and serve as one of the two primary warrior classes in Nanic society.
They are roughly two times the strength of a human, with seemingly twice the bone density. This feature affords the ability to be amazingly brutal and endure tremendous punishment compared to humans, though other races obviously can and do exceed this. The Aneer as it was explained earlier, have subtle psyonic ability, they radiate a mental vibration which causes interference with the short term memory, the visual cortex, and the motor skills center. Literally they become difficult to perceive and remember. Often the Aneer use chemical hallucinogens introduced either through the skin or the repertory system to heighten the effect.
The Aneer are considered the special forces of the Nanic hand to hand forces. They hold several positions in the Nanic society, largely as healers (outside the military).
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y211/IndioRazaRepublica/Usian.jpg
Nanic-Usian
Usian are the other Warrior class of Nanic society.
They are less human appearing then Aneer, but still more so then the other two. They are lean, with round eyes roughly the size of chicken eggs, and small ears. They have grayish flesh and for the common slight build have astoundingly deep voices that are very melodic when they speak.
The Usian have an over developed nervous system and an increased synaptic firing rate. The synapses in their brains fire far more rapidly then Humans, they literally think several times faster, thus decreasing their reaction time in stressful situations. The increased synaptic speed coupled with extraordinarily fast twitch reflexes make the Usian excellent in hand to hand combat and in the piloting of Space craft in combat and other dangerous situations.
The psychic ability of the Usian is far less invasive then that of the Aneer.
The Usian psychic ability is in the frequency ranges of their brain waves two things have developed over the eons of their existence; the Usian transmit and receive from one another, and they do so through a gland which somehow operates on a quantum level transmitting into hyperspace. The telepathic link can span thousands upon thousands of light years and it allows the Usian to triangulate their relative positions in the universe.
Usian are only as strong as regular men, perhaps even a little bit less so, but still formidable in hand to hand combat.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y211/IndioRazaRepublica/Intos2.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y211/IndioRazaRepublica/Intos.jpg
Nanic-Intos
The Intos are the most common Nanic; they are the strongest of the Nanic races reaching as strong as three to four times that of a man.
They appear as a humanoid cross between man and bat, however as well as being the most common and the strongest, they are among the most even tempered beings ever to be met. They are very reluctant combatants and seem to much prefer bartering to combat. When A Nanic-Intos is provoked to physical violence the intent is never less then murder. The few Nanic Intos which serve in military positions are very much respected and feared.
These Intos are natural born sales men.
Their psychic ability is quite complimentary, they like the Aneer radiate a field of brain wave activity which causes a serotonin production and release, the Intos are comforting people to be around and more often then not people fall completely relaxed in their company.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y211/IndioRazaRepublica/Rados.jpg
Nanic-Rados
Rados are the genius of the Nanic race.
They appear similar to Aneer except that the ears of the Rados are much larger; the bone structure is almost avian in its delicate frame work. The bone however slight is very strong in a latticed pattern and far more dense then human bones (by as much as four times).
They almost all ways test off the charts in all subjects of basic study.
The Rados have the only truly passive psychic ability.
They exhibit total recall, and can communicate with each other over great distances, though not as far Usian powers the Rados real strength lays in the way they dissect an issue and find all possible solutions and more then likely the out come.