Category:Hegeran Hegemony

Hegeran Hegemony

The original Hegerans were a peaceful race that looked very much like human sized hedgehogs [no they are not blue and have a predilection for gold rings]. In 2369 BCE a Tyerian scouting and observation ship visited their home world and found that deep at the bottom of their oceans there were sizable deposits of crystalline minerals that were required to manufacture Molecular Circuitry.

The local equivalent of a king was approached and asked if they would be able to mine the minerals but were refused as the Hegerans considered the blue oceans as somewhat mystical and holy.

However this didn’t stop the Tyerians one whit who against protests of the locals built a floating spaceport off the coast and started mining the minerals, distressed by this the generally peaceful Hegerans went to war and attacked the port and even with massive losses finally drove the Tyerians away but not until after they had mined seventy-five percent of the deposit.

The Tyerians left the planet save for one vessel whose crew was overwhelmed by a force of Hegerans and captured and forced into showing them how to operate the machinery on the port that could also be used to build even more ships if the right modules were manufactured.

The worst part wasn’t known till almost three decades later when crops started to fail and the planets flora started dying off, the Tyerians had left a nasty blight behind that had been triggered early by the attacking Hegerans.

The Hegerans with the aid of the Tyerians who were no longer considered prisoners realized what had happened and started to manufacture modules to be lofted into space and assembled into a small shipyard and started a rapid crash ship building program to evacuate the 100,000,000 or so inhabitants of the planet. The vessels built were crude and would only be able to limp along at extremely slow in-system and hyperspace speeds but would be able to move the population to a backwater system that was marginally inhabitable by the Hegerans.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When the vessels were complete the spaceport and ship building modules were disassembled and stowed away and the ships made their way to the new system.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Hegerans landed their population and started reassembling the shipyard immediately and started arming the ships with crude knockoffs of the Tyerian ship weapon systems and over the next two centuries built a sizable fleet that was held in readiness till they would be able to strike back at the Tyerians.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Using scientific data from the Tyerian databases the Hegerans started manipulating their own DNA they developed launch able poisonous spines along their back and changed the method of birth to that of egg layers allowing them to quickly increase their population and thus having an army to combat the Tyerians once they were ready.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In 1214 CE the Hegerans finally made their move and attacked outlying systems of the Tyerian Empire and fought vicious battles with both Fantan and Tyerian fleets. With the Tyerians power structure crumbling under them they were able to overwhelm most of the forces and take over the Empire.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The main Hegeran Fleet is able to finally conquer the Tyerians home world and wipe out most of its inhabitants; the Hegeran leader leaves behind a sizable fleet and moves off into deep space to scout for more holdouts. Shortly after the planet is conquered a Theban Cluster Fleet headed by the TNS Hoplite and TNS Scota arrives in system and is ambushed the Scota is destroyed by a missile barrage and the Hoplite is heavily damaged and several dozen smaller vessels are destroyed or damaged. The fleet is able to take out the Hegerans with heavy losses and moves to free the local cluster systems from the Hegerans.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">With the loss of the local cluster the Hegerans use captured information to attack what they believe to the home systems of the Theban Cluster [unfortunately the only information they have is from two entries from Sargasso’s All The Galaxies Worlds] but are actually two of the Claremont Confederacy’s key systems Sultan and Forestall, both systems are quickly subdued but the losses taken by the Hegerans keep them from expanding their sphere of influence.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The 3rd Pan-Galactic War rages for decades with horrible losses on both sides, the Hegerans continue their genetic research and start emulating humans and only retain a long quill like main of hair. The war finally ends and the Hegerans return to their home world after realizing they had become just as bad as the Tyerians.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Hegeran Hegemony is founded and with the aid of top xeno-botanists and genetic plant specialists the planet is rehabilitated.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Hegemony’s citizenry consists of over 98% Hegeran, 1% Terragen, with another 1% non-Terragen. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">After the genetic redispositioning of their race into a more humanoid form the Hegerans created the Hegemony and for the first millenia and a half were rather insular and concerned only with their own inner politics and expanding their strength along an axis that no one else had as of yet tapped into.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">More recently with the ascension of Prince Ryunosuke Shiba to the Regency they have started getting more involved in galactic politics and mending fences with the races they had once attacked and dominated. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">While originally the Hegerans had a very strict and rigid class systems [which was determined before the hegeran was ever born] they have started returning to the non-caste system that they had before encountering the Tyerians. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The HALO is the Hegeran’s navy and operates only a few large ships but makes up for it with extremely large numbers of light vessels.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Standard tactics of the Hegerans are swarm tactics with very little regard for loss of life and it is considered honorable to die in battle.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; punctuation-wrap: hanging;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Since every member of the Hegeran Race is considered a member of the military they all wear mono-film duty suits that are dark brown with black and gray markings on them designating their rank and job. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Even though in later years the Watch Dog Alliance Nations became more and more integrated militarily the members of those nations still retained their differing rank insignia and were referred to by their normal ranks. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It should be noted that when off-duty PNF personnel can either wear the full uniform [including jacket] or a metallic version of their mono-film duty suit [most opt for the duty suit as it is more comfortable].

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-background-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Strategic Military Assets

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The HALO has a number of strategic assets and operates a single military shipyard/depot; this shipyard is the Hegeran Shipyards located in the Hegeran System and orbiting old Hegera.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Hegeran HALO also operates a series of orbital fortresses around everyone of its planets with one at each pole and four equidistant on each planets equatorial belt.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The HALO does not operate a Aries-Class space station but does have access to the facilities of the Watch Dog Alliances headquarters station WDSS Kodiak in the Ursanite home sytem [which is supported by all WDA member nations]. <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-background-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">HALO Naval Fleets & Ships

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The HALO operates twenty fleets with each fleet headed by a single Titan and filled with ships from battle cruiser size down. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Over its long history, the Hergan HALO has used hundreds of different weapons and armor some of which are still in service [albeit either as training aids or stowed away in some soldier’s locker].

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The following equipment is what can still be found in service with the Hegeran HALO – <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The ground military forces of the Hegeran Hegemony is collectively referred to as the Hussars [a word that the Hegeran Regent stole from the Neo-Prussians] these are the Hegemony’s ground combat based troops as well as pilots for fighter craft and auxiliaries.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Generally most Hegemony systems have at least 500,000 troops present in each system with more ground forces stationed aboard the Hegemony‘s space vessels.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Standard tactics of the Hegerans are swarm tactics with very little regard for loss of life and it is considered honorable to die in battle. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Since every member of the Hegeran Race is considered a member of the military they all wear mono-film duty suits that are dark brown with black and gray markings on them designating their rank and job. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Over its long history, the Hussars has used hundreds of different weapons and armor some of which are still in service [albeit either as training aids or stowed away in some soldier’s locker].

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The following equipment is what can still be found in service with the Hegeran Hussars –

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