Universe Proposal: Infinite Powers

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Universe Proposal: Infinite Powers

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Well, Welcome to Armageddon is currently on hiatus, but I want a decent secondary 'verse, so...

It's the 41st Century. Mankind is divided into many nations, spread across the stars. Perhaps you want to hear about them.

Well, let's begin.

The Kingdom of Imperia is the biggest human nation, challenged only by the Republic of the Stark Worlds, which it is engaging in a cold war. There's a third faction as well -the Terran Combine, the future evolution of the UN, with a smattering of minor, unaffiliated human nations across the galaxy. There are relatively few alien races or empires - most don't have the required technology level to go out into the stars, or are simply not interested in galactic politics. In other words, there are apes and angels, but not men.

Technology has also advanced considerably - people don't give cyborgs or powersuits a second glance, and your standard military-issue rifle can blow a hole in a 21st century apartment block. And a big hole too. Wars are fought on unimaginable scales, but there is always peace as well. So, the universe has a little bit of everything, war and peace in equal amounts.

Humanity is the dominant power in the galaxy, but there are always threats to its sovereignty. For instance, the Scourge, a race of mechanical beings seeking only to destroy all organic life, hiding in the radiation-belts of the Deep Core. No one remembers where they came from, and few have survived their deadly, implacable assaults.

Welcome to a galaxy of Infinite Powers.
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Do Imperial Wars or Colliding Empires not count?
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Booted Vulture wrote:Do Imperial Wars or Colliding Empires not count?
Well, Colliding Empires is now my primary 'verse, and Imperial Wars is also on hiatus and very undeveloped.
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Indeed. That was actually my point.
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Booted Vulture wrote:Indeed. That was actually my point.
I have plans to develop this particular 'verse, so I'd like some time to think.
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Weapons and Technologies of the Galaxy

Medical nanogel
Medical nanogel is a gel containing trillions of minuscule nanites, designed to be used in treating wounds or illnesses. One merely has to rub or place the gel over the affected area, and then the wound closes or the illness stops.The nanites also permeate the body, generally fixing health problems, and stay there for the rest of the recipient's lifetime, making them essentially peakhuman.


The Planck Gun
The Planck Gun is an experimental weapon designed by the Imperial Kingdom of Athenia, devised to destroy the enemy on a quantum level. It works by disintegrating the quantum waveform of the target, making them literally cease to exist. The atoms and molecules that made up the target are thus scattered randomly across the universe, in accordance with the Law of Conservation of Matter. It cannot disintegrate anything bigger than a human, and is programmed to only affect solids and liquids.

Two-dimensional sword
The two-dimensional sword is a rare and ceremonial weapon amongst the armies and navies of humanity. It appears at first glance to be made of crystal, but a subtle distortion in the air soon proves that this is not the case. It is a weapon made from an artificial spacetime defect, and can cut through anything with enough effort. The technology used in the two-dimensional sword and the Planck Gun has also been used to create primitive dimensional portals.

Archangel System
The first Archangel System was devised by the Catholic Hegemony, as a weapon to scramble the minds of the enemy and wipe out entire planets without leaving a trace of what had happened. The Archangel System works by emitting a beam that 'turns off' the parts of the brain required for continued survival, killing instantly and painlessly. Its effects cannot breach shields however, and it is thus ineffective against shielded targets.

Plasma Rifle
The mainstay weapon of many human armies, the plasma rifle works by extending a low-level shield all the way to the target, and firing a bolt of superheated plasma at hypersonic speeds through the shielded area, allowing it to punch through armour and burn through flesh with pathetic ease. Its power only increases with the scale, from the bog-standard plasma rifle to the Apocalypse Cannons mounted on capital ships.

(Work in Progress)
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SHIPS OF ATHENIA

Eliphas-class Battleship



Eliphas-class Battleship


Length: 18 miles.

Number of ships:
25000

Armament:


Series-9 missile armament, 100,000 torpedoes, each torpedo containing 100x100 nuclear-tipped AI-guided sub munitions, explosive yield 200 gigatons. Standard plasma configuration, energy output 500 gigatons. 3000 bomb-pumped lasers, power output high, can be deployed, and the ship has full electronic warfare capabilities, including counter-hacking, semi-sentient viruses and Archangel Systems. Drone fighter numbers are approximately 160,000,000, each with nuclear missiles, anti-fighter weapons and anti-missile weapons. 140,000 mass-drivers, able to simultaneously fire (speed of the projectile is possible to control) are present on each side, and can function as Relativistic Kill Vehicle launchers. Point defence lasers, 15,000,000 to a side, help defend the ship from missile barrages and fighters, helped by the ship’s not inconsiderable fighter complement. Spinal-mounted Apocalypse Cannon, able to cause planetary-scale devastation. Shield strength able to withstand 500 teratons sustained for 10 minutes.
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THE CAPITOL WORLDS

The Capitol Worlds form the heart of the Kingdom of Imperia, and their glory is obvious to all. They consist of five worlds, orbiting the star 40 Eridani A, a scant 16 light years away from the beating heart of the Terran Combine, Earth itself. But, before one can talk over the Capitol Worlds themselves, one must talk about the myriad defences and minor planets that lie in the same star system.

The Outer System

The Outer System is home to 40 Eridani A's Oort Cloud, followed by its Kuiper Belt and the Imperial Bastions. These bastions encircle the middle system, composed of space stations, asteroid fortresses and whole dwarf-planets converted into fortresses, forming an indomitable line of defence that gives any potential attackers pause. This is followed by the Gas Giant Paradiso, about the size of Jupiter and which is a common location for the profitable venture of helium mining. It is surrounded by countless defence-stations, and it forms a terrifying bastion for any attacker to face.

Beyond Paradiso lie the Three Giants, three gas-giants about the size of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune respectively, each heavily fortified and defended. The last, Prometheus, forms the edge of the Outer System, and its orbit marks the beginning of the Middle System, in which the Capitol Worlds proper are contained.

The Middle System

Eleaxa is also known as the Final Bastion - a last line of defence for the Capitol Worlds. Because of this, the space between Prometheus and Eleaxa is filled with defence stations, an artificial asteroid belt with enough power to annihilate entire fleets. The birth rate and recruitment rate on Eleaxa are one and the same, and the entire world is one vast fortress, designed by the best strategists and generals of Athenia, including the famed General Eleaxus, after whom it was named. Eleaxan regiments are said to be the most disciplined and victorious in the Imperial Army, and they have a service record to prove it.

Beyond Eleaxa lies Superbia - a pleasure-planet, a vast garden that resembles old Earth perfectly. This is the result of deliberate terraforming, and Superbia's cities are designed to be harmonious with the environment in every way, the sheer beauty of it like pure joy. It has a relatively low population when compared to Eleaxa, Athenia or Imperia itself, but more than makes up for it for the sheer splendidness of the aesthetically-designed environment.

Imperia is the next planet on, and is a planet-wide city, the capital of Athenia, filled with beautiful architecture and a population of a thousand billion, containing the Royal Palace, which stretches across continents and is home to a space-platform used by the Royal Family. Imperia is also heavily defended, as much as Eleaxa, and has the Cerberus Guard, an indomitable legion given the very best of Athenian technology.

Athenia is the final world of the Middle System, and is a pure city-planet, given over entirely to urban development. As if this were not enough, it also has a vast orbital ring over the equator, which forms the Commerce District - a vast station given over entirely to the financial transactions that allow Athenia's society and economy to prosper. This is linked to Athenia by a multitude of space elevators and mass-drivers that bind the two worlds together.

The Inner System

The Inner System composes of the volcanic hell that is Typhon and the star 40 Eridani A itself.

Typhon has been classified as a hell-world - a world so inimical to human life that it cannot be settled. Between the volcanic mountains, the superheated atmosphere and the deadly radiation, no colonisation party has ever been sent to Typhon, and it is extremely unlikely that that occurrence will ever happen.
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Killinger Fields

General Physics

Killinger fields are created by the careful manipulation of energy and matter, and are the things that allow faster-than-light (FTL) travel, defensive fields, anti-gravity, and other such wonders of science and technology. They, are, in short, a projected field of space where the laws of physics themselves are mutable, created by the careful manipulation of energy and matter. The mathematics behind Killinger fields were discovered by Michael J. Killinger, although they were never actually created until a century after his death.


Defensive Utility

Killinger fields are commonly used as defences. The reason why is simple: there is often an interface layer of warped spacetime between the normal universe and the area encompassed by the Killinger field. The stronger the field, the harder the interface layer is to break through, and the more chance that the attack can be deflected. These interface layers are commonly called 'shields' or defence fields', and are far more useful than armour against attacking ships. They are also unidirectional, so that a defended ship can fire its weapons, seeing as the shots originate within the Killinger field.

Faster-than-Light Travel

It is obvious that the Killinger field should allow faster-than-light travel - the mechanism is obvious: the laws of physics within the field are manipulated so that breaking the light-speed barrier is possible. The safest place to disengage the Killinger drive, as it is so called, is at the edge of a system, far away enough from dangerous astronomical bodies that the ship is not likely to collide with something.

Other Uses

Aside from these major uses, the Killinger field has a great deal of other uses: reactionless drives, anti-gravity, inertial dampeners, cold-fusion, artificial gravity and a multitude, seemingly limitless number of other uses.

Perhaps the most bizarre usage of the Killinger field is by psychics, who gain the ability to create and manipulate these fields using mental effort via cybernetic devices installed in the brain, which allow them to warp the laws of physics. This makes them incredibly dangerous, and most modern special-operations forces have more than a few in their ranks.
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