Starship Cargo Operations

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 8 November, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Starships, Technology, Trade, Transportation, VehiclesLeave a comment

While most settled planets in the Alliance are self-sufficient, very few can produce everything they need, and offplanet luxuries are by definition from another planet. For obvious reasons, this leads to a lot of interplanetary and interstellar trade. In-system trade largely consists of basic commodities being transferred as needed. Typically,… Read More ►

Civilian Starship Operations

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 1 November, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Economics, Starships, Trade, Void PiratesLeave a comment

The Patrol and system defense ships may get all the fame and flashy news coverage, but the real work is done by civilian concerns. Shipping is a civilian trade, without which interstellar commerce would grind to a halt. Resource extraction and survey work are dominated by civilian interests as well. … Read More ►

Creature Feature: Halcyon Clown Spider

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 25 October, 202429 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Creature Feature, Halcyon, HorrorLeave a comment

Everyone loves spiders. Everyone loves clowns. What happens when we decide to make everyone happy and combine them? Something even Halcyonians want nothing to do with. And that was the plan all along. Creature The Halcyon Clown Spider is a recently discovered arachnid. It’s the size of a large tarantula,… Read More ►

The Fungous

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 18 October, 202423 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Creature Feature, Halcyon, Horror, ScenarioLeave a comment

There are a lot of fungi-analogs on Halcyon. Since most of the habitable area of the world is hot and moist with plenty of shade, this is a shock to exactly no one. Most of it is relatively benign. You may not be able to eat it and probably shouldn’t… Read More ►

Creature Feature: Halcyon Terrorsaur

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 11 October, 202423 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Creature Feature, Halcyon, HorrorLeave a comment

What would our Creature Feature series be without a giant honkin’ dinosaur-analog? Like many other planets, Halcyon is home to a creature known locally as a terrorsaur. At ten to twelve meters long and five to seven tonnes of surly, nearly-indestructible lizard-analog, Halcyon’s terrorsaur is absolutely worthy of the name.… Read More ►

The Halcyon Devil Monkey

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 4 October, 202429 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Devil Monkeys, HalcyonLeave a comment

At some time in the forgotten past, somebody thought it would be a good idea to bring monkeys to Halcyon. Most of them didn’t last a month but one species of hamadryas baboon not only survived, but thrived. Over the centuries, Halcyon’s accelerated natural selection turned them into these horrible… Read More ►

Alliance Aliens: Rsthotho

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 27 September, 202423 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Culture, Rsthotho, Weapons, World DesignLeave a comment

When the Gliror first ventured beyond their homeworld, they discovered a species of violently territorial pseudo-arthropods. They weren’t edible and their shells were difficult to pierce, but they attacked anything that came within reach. So the Gliror started exterminating them wherever they were encountered. Alliance explorers would later follow in… Read More ►

Alliance Aliens: Thabbo

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 20 September, 202423 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Culture, Thabbo, Weapons, World DesignLeave a comment

Thabbo are large, powerfully built, shaggy humanoids native to the Triangulum Galaxy. An average Thabbo stands just short of two and a half meters tall and masses around 250 kilos. This great bulk gives them incredible raw strength. Thabbo are roughly two and a half times as strong as humans,… Read More ►

Alliance Aliens: Gliror

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 13 September, 202423 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Culture, Gliror, Weapons, World DesignLeave a comment

The Gliror are small carnivorous sentients with four legs and two arms. They're physically weaker than a human, but more agile and have much better manual dexterity. A Gliror's small size also makes it slightly slower than a human in a sprint. They're covered in fine scales and have small… Read More ►

Alliance Aliens: Invasive Species

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 6 September, 202423 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Alliance, Background, Colonies, Lost Colonies, Pedro CabralLeave a comment

About four hundred Earth-standard years ago, another technologically advanced starfaring species appeared on the fringe of the Triangulum Galaxy. They arrived in a ramshackle fleet with a rapidly failing stardrive that had been shedding outlying ships for decades. They had been a colony fleet sent to a system a mere… Read More ►