The Exodians
29-01-2006, 20:47
Name: Exodians
Race: Cybernetic Humanoids
-Appearance
The Exodians look like they are always wearing a full suit of armour, but this is in fact a set of augmentics fully encasing them. Only through the transparant visor of their helmet you can see they were once humans. Their actual bodies within the armour are very thin and weak, unable to perform things that require quite a bit of strength, including walking. The armour makes them able to live in virtually all places, except for space itself.
-Personality
No longer striving for themselves, but rather for the preservation and improvement of the race, Exodians all have very good relations with eachother. The opposite applies to strangers, who they view as threats to their survival. This can be somewhat problematic in diplomatic cases, where their will to apply logic can conflict with the will to get what's best for them.
History:
For millenia long, the Meklar race lived peacefully on the small earth-like planet Meklon. Augmentics weren't really needed in that time, they only found their uses for replacing bodyparts lost in accidents or helping people overcome physical decay at old age. It all appeared to be a perfect world, or atleast it was untill space-travel was invented. At first it was only used for the colonization of the two moons the planet had, but it wasn't long before several groups understood these powers could be used for different, more destructive things.
Within two years, the planet had been engulfed in three different wars, the last of which had been the most destructive the planet had ever seen. It was also the last it would see, because one of the factions in this conflict had managed to set up such a giant bomb, that its explosion had altered the course of Meklon to a spiral towards the star.
The Meklar had no choice but to set off into space. In the five years that remained, many of the spacecraft were rebuild to become colonization vessels. It was still not enough to get everybody of the planet, but after all that happend the Meklar had understood that by fighting over it, nobody would leave at all. In the end just over half of the people could be evacuated, mainly because the ships had to contain a lot of technology that wasn't necessary before like artificial airsources and greenhouse-style constructions. While the rest of the Meklar race died out together with the planet, the group in space started travelling through the galaxy, hoping to once reach a habitable planet.
Many generations later, they were only a shade of their former beings, weakened by the lack of gravity. Their technology and knowledge was slowly increasing, and new types of augmentations were being constructed to help overcome the physical decay of the race. By now they had renamed themselves to the Exodians, as they were no longer anything like the Meklar had once been. When they eventually reached a suitable star system they could barely believe their eyes. Their ancestors had left behind one small planet a long time ago, and here they discovered not just one, but two larger planets to live on.
The star system would be named Calxion, as it was the goal they had been trying to reach for centuries. The fourth and fifth were both habitable, shielded from the dangers of outerspace by a large asteroid belt where the sixth planet must once have been.
Around Calxion IV orbited an moon made out of ice, not exactly habitable, but it could provide enough water for the planet in case of disasters. Exodians living on it would need special augmentics to resist the sheer cold, and all food would need to be delivered from the planet as nothing grows on the ice.
Calxion V was quite the opposite. There was plenty of everything on the planet itself, but the moon was simply an oversized asteroid that had been attracted out of the belt. It would probably contain a lot of minerals, but putting a colony on it would become a bit tricky.
The Exodians finally colonized this system, using the materials from the colonization ships to construct the first buildings. After that their combined effort led to their rapid spreading over the planets, slowly changing back into a worthy civilisation again. The only difference to the Meklar would be their augmentics, and the knowledge not to start any internal wars ever again. What was out there in space would be a totally different matter...
Present:
Now the Exodians have created an empire even bigger than that of the race they once were. Their influence is not only noticable on their planets, but also the asteroid belt around those is being used for raw materials and the construction of fortresses in them. Although they are at peaceful terms with the other known races, they know that this will not last forever, and they will remain preparing for that day...
Owned Planets and other Stellar objects:
-Calxion IV(Planet)
This world is the most suitable for life in the system (to Terran norms), and the Exodians are using it mainly for the production of food, and other things that require to be grown. It is dependant on Calxion V and the moons for defence.
-Calxion V(Planet)
The main industry of the Exodian Empire is located here, with raw materials coming from the adjacent Asteroid belt. It is heavily armed with ground batteries and missile racks, as it is meant to protect both planets.
-Conforti I(Moon)
This is the moon of Calxion IV. On it a small colony is build, and the Exodian shipyard is located here too. It is dependant on Calxion IV for supplies, but heavily armed and guarded.
-Conforti II(Moon)
The ice moon orbiting Calxion V. In times of need the Exodians mine the ice to make water out of it on the planet. A fortress is located at the dark side of this moon to protect this 'water reservoir'.
-Silex(Asteroid Belt)
Source of raw materials for the empire, almost everything is mined from the asteroids in here, and some will be changed into ships or stations.
Technology Level
The technology of the Exodians is relatively advanced in the fields of mining and construction, especially the knowledge and skill to use asteroid material for most things. Everything focuses mostly on defensive things, to preserve lives. Most combat troops are still fitted with only basic ballistic weaponry, with the newer and better weapons reserved for the higher trained among them. The combat troops do have the advantage of the augmentic suits being easily changed into bigger and stronger armoured ones.
Race: Cybernetic Humanoids
-Appearance
The Exodians look like they are always wearing a full suit of armour, but this is in fact a set of augmentics fully encasing them. Only through the transparant visor of their helmet you can see they were once humans. Their actual bodies within the armour are very thin and weak, unable to perform things that require quite a bit of strength, including walking. The armour makes them able to live in virtually all places, except for space itself.
-Personality
No longer striving for themselves, but rather for the preservation and improvement of the race, Exodians all have very good relations with eachother. The opposite applies to strangers, who they view as threats to their survival. This can be somewhat problematic in diplomatic cases, where their will to apply logic can conflict with the will to get what's best for them.
History:
For millenia long, the Meklar race lived peacefully on the small earth-like planet Meklon. Augmentics weren't really needed in that time, they only found their uses for replacing bodyparts lost in accidents or helping people overcome physical decay at old age. It all appeared to be a perfect world, or atleast it was untill space-travel was invented. At first it was only used for the colonization of the two moons the planet had, but it wasn't long before several groups understood these powers could be used for different, more destructive things.
Within two years, the planet had been engulfed in three different wars, the last of which had been the most destructive the planet had ever seen. It was also the last it would see, because one of the factions in this conflict had managed to set up such a giant bomb, that its explosion had altered the course of Meklon to a spiral towards the star.
The Meklar had no choice but to set off into space. In the five years that remained, many of the spacecraft were rebuild to become colonization vessels. It was still not enough to get everybody of the planet, but after all that happend the Meklar had understood that by fighting over it, nobody would leave at all. In the end just over half of the people could be evacuated, mainly because the ships had to contain a lot of technology that wasn't necessary before like artificial airsources and greenhouse-style constructions. While the rest of the Meklar race died out together with the planet, the group in space started travelling through the galaxy, hoping to once reach a habitable planet.
Many generations later, they were only a shade of their former beings, weakened by the lack of gravity. Their technology and knowledge was slowly increasing, and new types of augmentations were being constructed to help overcome the physical decay of the race. By now they had renamed themselves to the Exodians, as they were no longer anything like the Meklar had once been. When they eventually reached a suitable star system they could barely believe their eyes. Their ancestors had left behind one small planet a long time ago, and here they discovered not just one, but two larger planets to live on.
The star system would be named Calxion, as it was the goal they had been trying to reach for centuries. The fourth and fifth were both habitable, shielded from the dangers of outerspace by a large asteroid belt where the sixth planet must once have been.
Around Calxion IV orbited an moon made out of ice, not exactly habitable, but it could provide enough water for the planet in case of disasters. Exodians living on it would need special augmentics to resist the sheer cold, and all food would need to be delivered from the planet as nothing grows on the ice.
Calxion V was quite the opposite. There was plenty of everything on the planet itself, but the moon was simply an oversized asteroid that had been attracted out of the belt. It would probably contain a lot of minerals, but putting a colony on it would become a bit tricky.
The Exodians finally colonized this system, using the materials from the colonization ships to construct the first buildings. After that their combined effort led to their rapid spreading over the planets, slowly changing back into a worthy civilisation again. The only difference to the Meklar would be their augmentics, and the knowledge not to start any internal wars ever again. What was out there in space would be a totally different matter...
Present:
Now the Exodians have created an empire even bigger than that of the race they once were. Their influence is not only noticable on their planets, but also the asteroid belt around those is being used for raw materials and the construction of fortresses in them. Although they are at peaceful terms with the other known races, they know that this will not last forever, and they will remain preparing for that day...
Owned Planets and other Stellar objects:
-Calxion IV(Planet)
This world is the most suitable for life in the system (to Terran norms), and the Exodians are using it mainly for the production of food, and other things that require to be grown. It is dependant on Calxion V and the moons for defence.
-Calxion V(Planet)
The main industry of the Exodian Empire is located here, with raw materials coming from the adjacent Asteroid belt. It is heavily armed with ground batteries and missile racks, as it is meant to protect both planets.
-Conforti I(Moon)
This is the moon of Calxion IV. On it a small colony is build, and the Exodian shipyard is located here too. It is dependant on Calxion IV for supplies, but heavily armed and guarded.
-Conforti II(Moon)
The ice moon orbiting Calxion V. In times of need the Exodians mine the ice to make water out of it on the planet. A fortress is located at the dark side of this moon to protect this 'water reservoir'.
-Silex(Asteroid Belt)
Source of raw materials for the empire, almost everything is mined from the asteroids in here, and some will be changed into ships or stations.
Technology Level
The technology of the Exodians is relatively advanced in the fields of mining and construction, especially the knowledge and skill to use asteroid material for most things. Everything focuses mostly on defensive things, to preserve lives. Most combat troops are still fitted with only basic ballistic weaponry, with the newer and better weapons reserved for the higher trained among them. The combat troops do have the advantage of the augmentic suits being easily changed into bigger and stronger armoured ones.