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 ►

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 ►