Category:Crystan Geode

Crystan Geode

The Crystan Geode actually existed in several forms previous to the founding of the Watchdog Alliance but was decimated twice.

First by the Tyerian Empire and then later by the Hegerans it was until the founding of the Watchdog Alliance that Geode was able to reform as a political entity.

Historical & Background Information On The Crystan Geode

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Crystan Geode Timeline

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Outlook & Focus

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Crystan Geode includes approximately 263 systems with thousands of planets.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The following is a list of the Star Systems that belong to the Geode.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Crystan Geode has two branches of military the Geode Naval Forces and the Geode Feldspars. The following section will describe both these branches.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-shading: white; mso-pattern: solid black;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Geode Navy Forces [GNF]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Geode Navy follows the same basic pattern as that of the Theban Cluster Fleet with a single fleet for every 100 systems in the star nation.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-shading: white; mso-pattern: solid black;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Uniforms & Insignia of the GNF

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Uniforms of the GNF consist of a mono-film duty suit.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The mono-film duty suit’s coloring is dark green and light green with gold piping and the reinforced soles and heels are a dark gray color.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The reinforcing for the built in sole covers the toes and the back of the heel, and there is a panel of light Green that runs around the top edge of the toes and approximately halfway back on the sides and then the panel becomes the darker Green.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Starting at mid-thigh on the outsides, a lighter Green paneling starts that runs all the way up the sides of the duty suit and covers the arms in the same color. The rest of the duty suit is of the darker Green color with a rectangular panel of light Green also runs from the collar [which itself is reinforced and of a dark gray color similar to that of the shoe soles] to just above the waist. All the lighter Green panels have the gold piping around the edges the wrists about halfway up the forearm are also dark gray as are the suits integral gloves.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The second part of the uniform for men is a tunic with matching color scheme of the duty suit that magnetically seals at the waist to the duty suit, for women a single piece dress like uniform is worn over the duty suit.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Both male and female members of the GNF wear a hip length jacket that has a pyramidal cut at the lower portion of the jacket all the way to the waist and at the chest/breast area is a diamond shaped section cut out of the jacket.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The jacket has extremely pointed thick padded shoulders that cause them to stand up to the sides and the sleeves are of the lighter Green color with dark gray at the wrists and forearms and piped in gold with a high open collar that comes to just below the chin.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Rank insignia is present on the forward part of the shoulders and at the cuffs of the uniform; division and branch patches are worn on the right shoulder while the star nation flag is worn on the left shoulder below the padded shoulders. On either side of the collar are additional rank pins that are actually personal IFF transponders.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The duty suit is made of mono-film and has Damage Deflection 1 while the uniform and uniform jacket are made of a mixture of silk and liquid Nanno-carbons that stiffen on impact.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dress uniforms pretty much consist of the same thing save that, the jacket is longer and more ornate than the standard one and a standard uniform cap like a captain’s one with a dark Green body and light Green brim with gold piping. The heels of the duty suit are much higher with an almost cowboy style heel on the men’s and a stiletto style heel on the women’s.

<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 GNF 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 GNF has a number of strategic assets and operates a single military shipyard and two repair yards/depots, the first of these yards is the Geodesic Shipyards in the Crystan system orbiting the second planet. The other two yards are repair, refit, and maintenance yards which are also used as depots and mothball centers for retired craft and are quite often used to repair civilian vessels as well too defray the costs of operating the two yards; these yards are the Malachite Yards and the Jacinth Yards located in orbit around the first planet and at the Yushima Limit respectively in the Crystan System.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Geode Navy 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="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Over its long history, the Geode Navy 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 Geode Naval Forces –

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Geode Navy operates eleven fleets with the entire navy headed by a Titan the GNS Emerald and includes several thousand vessels, 3,256 vessels to be exact.

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

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Geode Feldspar are the only planet and ship based multi-purpose troops used by the Republic and are heavily based off of the Theban Cluster Fleet Marine Corps.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Uniforms of the GF consist of a mono-film duty suit.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The mono-film duty suit’s coloring is light Green and dark Green with gold piping and the reinforced soles and heels are a dark gray color.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The reinforcing for the built in sole covers the toes and the back of the heel and there is a panel of dark Green that runs around the top edge of the toes and approximately halfway back on the sides and then the panel becomes the lighter Green.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Starting at mid-thigh on the outsides, a dark Green paneling starts that runs all the way up the sides of the duty suit and covers the arms in the same color. The rest of the duty suit is of the lighter Green color with a rectangular panel of dark Green also runs from the collar [which itself is reinforced and of a dark gray color similar to that of the shoe soles] to just above the waist and all the dark Green panels have the gold piping around the edges the wrists about halfway up the forearm are also dark gray as are the suits integral gloves.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The second part of the uniform for men is a tunic with matching color scheme of the duty suit that magnetically seals at the waist to the duty suit; for women a single piece dress like uniform is worn over the duty suit.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Both male and female members of the GF wear a hip length jacket that has a pyramidal cut at the lower portion of the jacket to the waist and at the chest/breast area is a diamond shaped section cut out of the jacket.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The jacket has extremely pointed thick padded shoulders that cause them to stand up to the sides and the sleeves are of the dark Green color with dark gray at the wrists and forearms and piped in gold with a high open collar that comes to just below the chin.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Rank insignia is present on the forward part of the shoulders and at the cuffs of the uniform; division and branch patches are worn on the right shoulder while the star nation flag is worn on the left shoulder below the padded shoulders. On either side of the collar are additional rank pins that are actually personal IFF transponders.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The duty suit is made of mono-film and has Damage Deflection 1 while the uniform and uniform jacket are made of a mixture of silk and liquid Nanno-carbons that stiffen on impact.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dress uniforms pretty much consist of the same thing save that, the jacket is longer and more ornate than the standard one and a standard uniform cap like a captain’s one with a dark Green body and light Green brim with gold piping. The heels of the duty suit are much higher with an almost cowboy style heel on the men’s and a stiletto style heel on the women’s.

<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 GF 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";">Equipment Used By The Geode Feldspars

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Over its long history, the Geode Feldspars 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 Geode Naval Feldspars –