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WarGene
The (Basic) Premise
You are one of five Stalkers, Phobetor's crew, officially known as Unit 23, you are veterans of the Gaian Marine Corps. The GMC was formed from what remained of the Gaian slaves who were liberated sixty years ago. Each of you were hand picked for training in Stalker doctrine twenty years ago.
Under the leadership of Colonel Daniel Grant, you have have wrought chaos throughout Exile space for the past ten years, creeping out of the void like a spectre, to rend your enemy, only to dissolve back into the blackness.
Aboard Phobetor, after ten long years, you now wait for a scheduled courier ship, or more importantly, the briefing for the primary mission. What it brings, however, will turn the universe on its head. The road to your final destination is paved with lies, betrayal and madness.
Under the leadership of Colonel Daniel Grant, you have have wrought chaos throughout Exile space for the past ten years, creeping out of the void like a spectre, to rend your enemy, only to dissolve back into the blackness.
Aboard Phobetor, after ten long years, you now wait for a scheduled courier ship, or more importantly, the briefing for the primary mission. What it brings, however, will turn the universe on its head. The road to your final destination is paved with lies, betrayal and madness.
Timeline
3663 - A Golden Age
3666 - The First Clones
3667 - 40,000 Reach Gaia
3669 - Gaian Revolt
3699 - War Begins
3749 - Present Day
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3663
Thanks to enormous leaps forward in the fields of nanotechnology, quantum computing and Genetics, humanity had steered themselves away from a terrible abyss, and up into the void; united under the newly formed Terran Federation, mankind looked to the stars.
Due to limitations in first generation EM drives, Federation ships could travel a maximum distance of just one hundred light years. It was a fantastic achievement, but only a single world with a breathable atmosphere had ever been detected within that distance: Gaia. Green, stable, water rich, and deadly. At 4.7 times earth's gravity, Gaia was too heavy, No human heart could pump blood to the brain under that kind of weight .
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3666
The Federation chose not to wait for advances in Em-drives, but instead decided to remove the heavy restrictions imposed upon Genetic modification and high-yield cloning. The first generation of purpose bred colonists, Forty thousand men and women were grown in just three weeks. Pre-educated, fully adult.
Designed for a heavy world. Bone density, heart size, and muscle mass were altered. If the Gene and although irrelevant to the mission, genes governing cognition, intelligence, logic, and memory were also manipulated; But with dire consequences.
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3667
Barely a year after completing the first settlement on Gaia, thirty-two thousand colonists began to display the first symptoms of what would later be called "Clone-psychosis" a genetic disease which turned eighty percent of the original colonists into predatory, Darwinistic psychopaths. -
3669
In just several weeks, the eight thousand colonists who'd remained loyal to The Federation were rooted out, and put to work as slaves, fabricating machines of war. The Federation would often send courier ships into Gaia's orbit. Because of Gaias enormous gravity, the surface was a no go for regular humans. The Impending conflict was easy to conceal. It would have remained concealed had it not been for an intelligence leak. A lone slave had been slipping information to the regular Terran courier ships. Earth would be ready. -
3699
The Gaiain navy stumbled into an ambush three million Kilometres from Earths surface. Contrary to Gaian assumptions, the Federation navy was armed, it was prepared and it was waiting. Yet even with surprise completely on the Federation's side, thanks to an underestimation in Gaian technology, two ships not only slipped the net, but completed their contingency plans.
The Terran fleet pursued the craft bound for Gaia. A decision which would cost the Terran Federation two billion lives. The captain of that rogue ship, hid vessel nowhere near as damaged as she appeared, had no intention of slowing down. The Gainan ship raged past the orbitals at near 50% light speed on a direct collision course with Earth. A lucky hit from one of those orbitals, which broke ship into smaller pieces, was the only reason why, instead of just two billion souls, life on earth was not completely eradicated.
Unaware of the catastrophe back on earth, the Terran fleet arrived in Gaian orbit just in time to save the lives of two thousand slaves left to die in escape pods jettisoned into space. They could only watch as what remained of the 'Exiled', as they would come to be known, vanished into the vastness of space aboard a new generation of craft.
- 3749
Factions
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Terran Federation
With the golden age of peace now a fond memory, the Federation is now focused on one thing and one thing only; the extermination of The Exiled, and all of their offspring. Gaian researchers have so far been able to retain the Relative technological superiority that was achieved just after Gaia's liberation, but that edge grows duller with every passing day.
Gaian research may have gained the TFN a technological edge over Exiled ships, but parity is not far away. The pain of two billion dead still weighs too deeply upon mankind's cultural memory for the universal ban on cloning to ever be repealed, so the Federation must avoid a war of attrition at all costs. Especially when they still have no idea where the Exiled home-world is located.
Star-system: Sol
Home Planet: Earth
Population: Twenty billion
Colonised Planets: Gaia
Outposts: -
Terran Gaia
Of the eight thousand clones stuffed into escape pods by their captors, only two thousand were ever recovered after the Federation liberated Gaia. The Exiled hadn't executed the others, not exactly. They'd simply removed, seemingly at random, the location equipment from six thousand of the escape pod before ejecting them into space. No sensor could find something that small without such a crucial piece of equipment. The (Terran Federation Navy) had no hope of ever finding them. This final act of cruelty, on top of thirty years as slaves, has solidified Gaia's people in their single minded determination to eradicate The Exiled.
For the past fifty years, Gaia has known nothing but war. Created by R&D technicians on the surface, Gaian orbit is now home to a new generation of ships, and the main TFN operating base; Eostre. Gaians not involved in R&D, serve in the GMC (Gaian Marine Core) or in roles such as the heavily specialised 'Unit 23'.
Home Planet: Gaia
Star-system: Beta Solaria
Population: approx two thousand -
For the past fifty years The Exiled have spread like a plague, using cloning technology to populate several regions of space. Minor dents have been knocked into their clone production capacity, but apart from that, their expansion rate continues to increase.
Home Star: Unknown
Home planet: Unknown
Population: Unknown
Military units & Important people
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GMC
The Gaian Marine Core was created almost fifty years ago, not long after the Exiled fled Gaia. They traditionally serve aboard Federation Battle Cruisers as boarding forces, and have the highest capture record within the Federation Navy.
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The Stalkers
An experimental Federation black opps team, exclusively populated by Gaian nationals. Each member, five in total, were drafted from the GMC twenty years ago. Their unique doctrine was created around a new Gaian stealth ship and its extra-human crew, with the intention of unleashing surgical destruction, sabotage, and terror upon crucial ground, and space targets within Exiled territory. Answerable directly to the high admiral, they operate unsupported, sometimes for years at a time, constantly searching for the Exiled home planet. -
The first of it's kind, Phobetor is a PlanetStalker Class Stealth Cruiser. PlanetStalkers are built using the same frame as a modern Battle-Cruiser, and have a similar mass of approximately 2.5 million tons, but the similarities end there. The newly developed on board AI allows for a crew of 6 instead of the usual 800 for a ship this size, and along with weapons systems, accounts for almost half of the ships mass. The new stealth technology, which effectively blinds Exiled sensors to Phobetors presence, takes up the rest.
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Clones
The start of war signified the end of human cloning and non-medical gene therapy on Federation Worlds. Non-compliance incurs the death penalty. clones themselves are dealt with according to their 'class', of which there are three:
Class 1 - Gaian Nationals - 1st Generation.
Physical Age after Gestation: 25
Present Age: 83
Present Physical Age: 30
Original Gaian colonists. Recognised as Human. Full citizens of the Terran Federation. Cannot reproduce naturally. Theoretical life span of approximately 400 years. Extensively genetically augmented both physically and mentally. cloned at random from forty-thousand individual human donors.
Class 2 - Exiled - 1st Generation.
Physical Age after Gestation: 25
Present Age: 83
Present Physical Age: 30
Original Gaian colonists. Exiled from Humanity, subject to a general kill order. Not protected by interstellar law. Cloned from same pool of 40 thousand individuals as above. Received identical augmentations as above, however, developed 'clone-psychosis' as a side effect of their gene therapy
Class 3 - ExGens - 2nd Generation (Exile Grown)
Any clone developed with Exiled technology. Not recognised as human; not protected by interstellar law. Subject to a general kill order. Genetic augmentations vary.
Under repair for the time being. Don't RP under the influence kids, and stay in school.
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