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 ►

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 ►

Shipboard Emergency Equipment

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 22 November, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Equipment, Starships, Technology, Transportation, VehiclesLeave a comment

Space travel in the Alliance and surrounding areas is a mature technology, about as safe as modern air travel. For most interstellar travelers, it’s almost identical to boarding an airliner or passenger train. You check your luggage, walk through a weapons scanner, get on board, and when you get where… 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 ►

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 ►

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 ►

Technology in the Alliance

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 12 July, 202423 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Behind the Scenes, Biotech, Drugs, Equipment, Medicine, Technology, VehiclesLeave a comment

I've been thinking a lot about what tech level I want for the Alliance. Too low and a lot of things become difficult if not impossible. Too high and there's no room for improvement, whether for the Alliance or higher-tech aliens. Since I try to run more dramatic, exploration and… 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 ►