Celestial Host Technology

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 17 January, 202516 January, 2025Cat AllianceTags Background, Celestial Host, Equipment, Factions, Government, History, Lost Colonies, Patrol, Religion, Technology, Threat Forces, Villains, WeaponsLeave a comment

Sonoziel and by extension the Celestial Host had a healthy trade relationship with the Alliance at large before the war. They had a low native tech base – the planet was settled by a conservative religious movement that eschewed most technological advancement – but they accepted some of what was… Read More ►

The Celestial Host War

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 10 January, 20259 January, 2025Cat AllianceTags Background, Celestial Host, Cults, Economics, Ethics, Factions, Government, History, Lost Colonies, Patrol, Religion, Threat Forces, VillainsLeave a comment

The Celestial Host’s strategy was simple. Host forces, led by an Umael, would defold into the target system, annihilate their defensive fleet, and disgorge a regiment or more of troops. A typical Celestial Host soldier was equipped with heavy armor and good weapons, and were well-trained and motivated. Their elites… Read More ►

Celestial Host Overview

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 3 January, 20251 January, 2025Cat AllianceTags Background, Celestial Host, Cults, Economics, Factions, Government, History, Lost Colonies, Patrol, Religion, Threat Forces, VillainsLeave a comment

In AY -2, a colony ship funded by a megachurch on Earth fell out of warpspace as the Pedro Cabral’s warp field collapsed. They found themselves in the vicinity of a habitable planet with lush, edible vegetation, and took it as divine providence to settle there. For about two hundred… Read More ►

Example Threat Force: Khalki Planetary Defense Force

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 27 December, 20246 April, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Character Design, Equipment, Threat Forces, Vehicles, WeaponsLeave a comment

Khalki is a fairly typical human-settled Alliance colony. It has a pleasant climate, low population, and nothing too weird going on to demand special training or equipment. Their function is military, and their role is that of a defense force. They’re there to protect their world, not persecute the current… Read More ►

Mercenaries in the Alliance

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 6 December, 20246 April, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, MercenariesLeave a comment

While open warfare between systems is rare in the Alliance, smaller conflicts are much more common than most people would like. Since standing armies are expensive, especially when there isn’t a war on, a lot of this fighting falls on contractors. The vast majority of mercenaries in the Alliance… Read More ►

Shipwrecks and Ghost Ships

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 29 November, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Technology, VehiclesLeave a comment

First, let's establish definitions. My definition of a shipwreck should be pretty intuitive: it's a wrecked or otherwise lost starship. Ghost ships aren't ghost ships of legend, spectral craft that drift in and out of reality snatching away those unlucky enough to have come aboard, damned to spend eternity as… Read More ►

Spacer Food

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 15 November, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Food, Starships, Technology, TradeLeave a comment

The Alliance has a large population of people who rarely if ever set foot on a planetary surface. There are even more who travel so extensively they spend large amounts of time in space. This includes merchant crew, asteroid miners, active-duty Patrol personnel, people who live on orbital or deep-space… 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 ►

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 ►