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 ►

General Overall Themes

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 9 August, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Culture, Government, ThemesLeave a comment

You can tell a lot about a universe by the general themes present. What if Star Wars had taken place largely on some frontier world with nothing of real interest to the Empire or Alliance, and the movies had been about the daily adventures of some random people there? Like,… Read More ►

Governments In The Triangulum Galaxy

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 26 July, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Colonies, Culture, Government, Religion, TechnologyLeave a comment

A few planets or systems are corrupt off the charts, but unless they do something heinous they get away with it. Officially. In reality, the Alliance Troubleshooters exist specifically to deal with threats to the Alliance that official channels have trouble with. More than a few would-be genocidal dictators have… Read More ►

Political Organization of the Alliance

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 19 July, 202423 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Alliance, Background, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Law, Starports, Starships, Technology, Thabbo, Transportation, Void PiratesLeave a comment

The Alliance of Independent Worlds is – shockingly – an alliance of largely independent solar systems. It exists mainly to facilitate trade and law enforcement that has a widespread effect. Among other things, they run the Patrol (in theory) to keep it neutral and dedicated to the Alliance as a… Read More ►

Alliance Overview

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 5 July, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Culture, Government, Technology, ThemesLeave a comment

Our main area is the Alliance (full working title is The Alliance of Independent Worlds), centered on Tau Ceti II (not the second planet in the Tau Ceti system, but a terraformed world in the Triangulum Galaxy. Long story), a loose alliance of (mostly) human-colonized worlds. Some of these "worlds"… Read More ►