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Government Type: Tribalist
Territory: 209 planets
Currency: Drachma
Subdivisions: Tribes (1 tribe takes up one planet)
Military: Depends on the tribe.
Technology Future Tech
Military Equipment used by the Brachiosaurs:

Pods. (these are shuttles similar to the Hestrel Class Atmospheric shuttles of Babylon 5 fame. These are used for dipomatic visits, traders, tourism.) Pods tend to be more of a personal transportation vessel.
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Shilom (a communications vessel.)
Prathi ( These are the Brachiosaur troop transports. They are often used for offensive landings on hostile worlds or for invasions. They are armed with weapons at their center that drop massive thermonuclear firebombs on to their targets. They are also equipped with cosmic forcefields (see post number 2 for more information on the Brach forcefield technology) that block most conventional weapons. Each Prathi carries 50,000 troops and carry 1.5 million personnel.) A prathi is 15 miles in diameter.
Image of a Prathi over a city on the Brachiosaur homeworld (Vetushasha):
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The primary weapons array on a Prathi. These are used much like fumigants and insecticides are on earth. It's designed to sterilize an area of all life so that the Brach's can set up a colony there.
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Zhixia (Battlecraft. These huge craft carry up to 200 Prathi vessels.)
Zhixia are so huge (One half the mass the moon and over 600 kilometers in diamter)that if one was entering the solar system, one would be able to spot it with the Hubble Space Telescope if they were looking in the right place at the right time. The electromagnetic signals emitted by the craft would also be detectable by radio telescopes on earth, and by other spacecraft that are equipped to pick up such signals. ) If it got to close to earth, it would cause tidal waves around the planet. They begin invasions by seizing control of a native world's system of sattellites and using those same sattelites against them. A sure sign of a looming attack is tidal waves and losing control of your own sats and losing the ability to radio and tv to communicate ie: the screen on your sat or cable tv system goes snowwy and the sound gets staticy or just cuts out.

Amongus: Brachiosaur Landing Craft.
These are the craft that carry Brach troops into the cities and onto the battlefield. Each craft carries 500 troops. They are equipped with electromagnetic death rays (called Reaxiou). The rays are limited in scope but use heat to kill up to one 20 people at a time or disable/or destroy enemy craft. A Reaxiou is not powerful enough to destroy a meteor nor can it destroy anything that is insulated from its heat ray.) These craft come with Tachyon sheilding which makes them impervious to most future tech ammo. But because the sheilding tends to allow small physical objects through, if Brachiosaurs were to invade earth, there is a chance that these could be brought down with some stingers (takes 25 to be exact) and small arms fire makes dents in the ships surface.
A group of Amonguses preparing for Yithishoato (Yithishoato is akin to an amphibious assualt landing on earth. It literally means Invasive Landing). This picture is from the Nondoong war pitting the Hondong tribe of Brachiosaurs against the Ziriphanti tribe of Brachiosaurs. The picture shows Ziriphanti craft making an assault on the Hondong homeworld.
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Shavinu: These are terraforming and garbage converting ships. The frightening beam in the picture is from the Gorgan a device that is used to turn waste into either biofuel or fertilizer. In the Brachiosaur year 12.234.867.2345 Dr. Ghi proved to the defense department of the Inhalee tribe that a Gorgan could theoretically make a good improvised weapon when one was faced with a hostile invasion. That is if you didn't mind turning your enemy into fertilizer for your potted flowers.

Ishi Heavy Cruiser: similar to the Vree Mk.2 saucer of Babylon 5 fame but has some differences.
length: 500 meters
mass: 1.3 million metric tons
crew: 320
troop: 1500
fighter: N/A
power: Quantum/Gravitic reactor
duration: 15 years
weapon: 15 antimatter burst cannons
defense: 2 meter armored hull
Electromagnetic/Gravitic Defense Field
The Ishi is an example of convergent technological development where two different species who are galaxies apart actually develop the same type of technology or vehicle.

to be continued

Brach cosmic forcefield technology:

A forcefield is a barrier made up of energy to protect a person, area or object from attacks or intrusions.

The Brach race has several types of forcefields which it uses on a regular basis.

1. Phegmxi: barrier to allow workers to work in areas that can be exposed to the vacuum of space, keeping the atmosphere inside while allowing certain other objects to pass through. Because of this, the Brachs have no need for conventional space suits when doing spacewalks or work that requires them to be outside their vessels. However, Phegmxi are not conducive to interstellar battle (because while Phegmxi can't be destroyed or penetrated forcefully from outside, once inside one a bomb can easily destroy both the person and the phegmxi), so more conventional suits are worn by the Brach's that make them look like spacewalking StormTroopers with tails.

2. Qauganeria: Used for emergency quarantines to prevent a contagion from spreading from an already affected population.

3. Helios: these are used to put out fires by limiting the supply of oxygen.

4. Cosmic ForceField: A shield (in some cases large enough to cover an entire planet) that protects something from damage by natural forces or enemy attack.

5. Homish: These are used to create a habitable place for people that was previously not able to sustain any life.

6. Venshi: These are used mostly by bounty hunters and law enforcement to capture criminals and suspects. They are used to direct someone in a particular direction for capture.

7. Prisomos: Used a the cell doors in jails and prisons. The only things that can go through them are food and water.

These shields work via the manipulation of electromagnetic energy and dark matter.

to be continued

Relations with Earth:

As the Brachs rule a different part of the Milky Way, they do not know of earth's existence. Though earth is the homeworld of their ancestors, the Brachiosaurus. Brach's have a legend, which many of them believe to be a myth, that all Brach's are descended from a creature that lived in a distant part of the Milky Way on one the galaxies spiral arms. They do not know that actual name of the place or its location. Though, they have termed it: Terra Firma.

Up until 2 years ago, no Brach's had ever visited earth. Then some Brach's in a Shontu (a small exploration vessel compared to the Brach's other ships) discovered a 11 body system. (counting pluto, sedna, and Eris)
And decided to investigate. They found a world inhabited by advanced race of mammalian primates. Their first contact with another intelligent species.
Their stay on earth was very brief but they purchased 4 dreadnaughts from an earth tribe called Leafanistan to take back to their homeworld for anthropological study.
They noted that primates had already started colonizing and exploring their own planetary system. But as they had no authority to initiate diplomatic contact, no diplomats were exchanged and no treaties signed. As far as anyone could tell, stories of Brach ships entering earth's system or atmosphere were explained as typical UFO conspiracy theory stories.
The explorers were from the Cuchos tribe of Brachiosaurs which banned all further contacts with the planetary system we know as sol or Earth.
Despite this brief contact, the Brachs remain unaware that they actually originated from earth over a hundred million years ago and if you told them they did, they would laugh at you and not take you seriously in anything you did.


There are currently no relations between earth and the Brachs. Because of this they are only vaguely aware of each other's existence.

Though there is currently debate among Brachs as to what to do.