Post by manimal on Feb 10, 2018 20:18:49 GMT
-Faction: The Ynnoch Javuth
-Capital World: Ynnoch Jonguds (Home of Ynnoch, pronounced “ya-nawk jung-guds”)
-Description: Ynnoch Jonguds has an oxygen-based environment with a surface composition which consists primarily of salt and metal. As such, most of the planet is covered in patterns of stalagmites and spires which form the topographical features of the planets. Vast, mountainous points jut from the surface, adorned with much smaller spears of earth; these massive formations form ridges, valleys, and other geographical features. Ynnoch cities are found mostly in valleys, and are all partially subterranean to accommodate mining facilities.
-Capital Station: Azefij (Beacon, pronounced “ah-zah-fee-yuh”)
-Station Location: Orbital
-Cruiser: Miia (Discovery, pronounced “mih-ih-ya”)
-Cruiser Upgrades: Armor 2, Carrier Bay 1, ECM 1, Heavy Batter 2, Point-Defense 2, Surveillance Satellites
-Government System: Authoritarian Technocracy
-Culture: Ynnoch society is a constant challenge to compete with others in contribution to society. While their government is meritocratic, it is also harsh and unforgiving. Failing to publish research is as fatal to one’s political career as publishing faulty research. On a civilian level, Ynnoch determine their role in society early in their lives, and adhere to it fervently until they die. All citizens attend compulsory education, but only for a very short time. From then on, an individual will attend single-subject colleges until they complete a certification for their chosen profession. It is common for career Ynnoch to intermittently take classes, so as to remain proficient in their chosen field but also to fulfill spiritual and philosophical needs.
As the Ynnoch progressed technologically, their fields of philosophy and science became one and the same, in a pursuit referred to as “Pavuth” (theurgy, pronounced “pah-vooth”). Instead of separating science from religion, science instead began to fill all their religious needs. Ynnoch would take classes to answer their questions about life, the universe, themselves, etc. Science became an unrestrained force in the quest of understanding everything, and finding an infinite well of new things to discover.
-History: The Ynnoch were one of the predatory life forms on their homeworld, having adapted to quickly identify prey, and even more quickly pursue and kill them. Their path to sapience did not involve fire, but rather water. In their recorded history, it was the act of cupping water in one’s hands and bringing it to another that spurred their development of irrigation.
As their societies formed, the Ynnoch first coalesced into minute tribes of a dozen individuals or fewer. Then tribes formed alliances of two or more disparate groups with disparate traditions, but shared goals. Tribes would prove their superiority by offering kills to one another; after all, having plenty to share meant that you were a proficient hunter. However, warfare between tribes (though infrequent) was vicious. If two tribes were to find themselves in conflict, it would have been unusual if at least one of these tribes was not wiped out. Their industrial period followed the same sentiment; sharing your profits was proof that you were among the most successful, and competitors were ground into the dirt. As they grew closer to their modern age, a device was invented that would become known as an “oike” (adjuster, pronounced “eh-yuh-kay”). It was a small-scale gravity reactor that allowed for direction of force and matter with controllable momentum. This was first used to irrigate water from the copious rivers which line their planet’s surface. From this gravity technology came overland-travel. Before this, due to the nature of their surface, individual cities were relatively isolated as it simply was not worth terraforming the surrounding landscape in order to facilitate travel. Warfare was a consequence of Ynnoch city-states becoming interconnected. The Ynnoch waged a grand total of seven global wars, each with more time in between than the last. By the seventh, their gravity reactors had been refined into a weapon; short-ranged carbines could direct gravity pulses into a target with force that could pulp a ribcage. The technology used in the seventh global war was so devastating that entire cities would be encased in concrete slag after being bombed beyond any hope of recovery. 51% of the total Ynnoch population died during the seventh global war, the last of all Ynnoch wars. A global government was formed with unanimous support in order to prevent the Ynnoch from warring with one another to extinction. Their society then became a global federation, with parliamentary representation for the remaining city states.
-Military: The last worldwide war of the Ynnoch dealt such catastrophic damage to the planetary population that a global government was elected and all forms of warfare were made illegal between Ynnoch countries. However, it was only a matter of decades before the Luyin arrived, and extraterrestrial threats became a possibility the Ynnoch were aware of. As such, a global military was formed.
Ynnoch warfare revolves around rapid insertion of infantry and IFV support. On flat planes, a Ynnoch is fast, agile, and alert, even more so than on the spiked surface of their homeworld. While many academic commanders will refer to their strategies using phrases like “preemptive” and “swift response,” battlefield officers instead express their missions using phrases such as “blow their brains out before they can lift a gun.”
-Species: Ynnoch are bipedal mammals, but their skin is partially composed of keratin as well. Their hands are four-fingered, with three joints beyond the knuckle. Their feet also have four digits, one of which is zygodactyl; this fourth digit has a ball-socket connection into the bone of the foot, and is capable of maneuvering with an apposable range. As such, their “feet” are capable of almost the same range of motion and dexterity as their hands. Their arms are slightly longer than half their total height, and their legs are nearly three-fifths of their height (the leg includes a digitigrade ankle). Their torsos are proportionately shorter than a human’s, but a Ynnoch stands at an average height of seventy-nine inches. Their heads are slightly elongated along the axial and sagittal planes of their body, and their brains have three hemispheres. The “third” hemisphere is devoted almost exclusively to sensory input and reflexes, and exists largely to accommodate input from the Ynnoch’s six eyes. The eyes are symmetrically arranged in vertical sets of three, but the top two pairs are oriented progressively further to the side of the head compared to the centered bottom pair. Their olfactory apparatus is composed of two cavities in a shallow facial depression; this depression is mostly covered by cartilage “flaps,” such that their faces appear to have in crevasse in the center shaped like an upside-down capital “Y.” Their ears are recessed, and are flat against the length of their head. The Ynnoch possess bilabial mouths with human-like structures, except for their lower bipartite mandible, which separates rhythmically as they speak. Additionally, Ynnoch have two pairs of canines, which are more pronounced than on a human. Their skin is colored like varying hues of stone, as a kind of camouflage.
Point Purchases
-1 Mega Infrastructure (10 points)
-1 Megafreighter
-1 Scanner Outpost (4 points)
-1 Special Forces asset (1 point)
-10 Credits (2 points)
-9 Influence (3 points)
