Category:Malkenet Nebula

Malkenet Nebula

The Malkenet Nebula is made up of those races that once served the Black Council when they attacked the Milky Way Galaxy.

Historical & Background Information On The Nebula

Currently the Malkenet Nebula Government consists of only a single star system in the Malkenet Rift Nebula that was colonized by the remaining members of the enslaved races of the Black Council.

With their humongous world ship destroyed and the council killed and without a home several factions broke away from the remains of these and became pirates, another faction attempted to return to the galaxy from which they came and were never heard from again.

The largest remaining faction of the BCRs [Black Council Races] headed by a council of 12 Oracles held their disparate peoples together as they searched for a new home.

For over a century the Oracles fleet of over 1,000 vessels wandered as their equipment broke down and lives were lost due to lack of resources until in 5665 A.D. they wandered into the Malkenet Rift Nebula [a large gaseous nebula that has high concentrations of radiation in large pockets throughout it]. After the loss of another ten percent of their remaining vessels the fleet down to barely over 400 vessels landed on a planet in a system bordered on all sides by radiation pockets save for a narrow corridor.

At first the rather warlike races had a hard time adjusting to the idea of having to become farmers and miners to survive. But the Oracles along with their Celoen consorts were able to push and cajole the races into realizing it was this or extinction. To help with the transition the Oracles created a religion that would help give the various races something to focus on rather than just day to day toil.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It was decided that all but 25 of the vessel would be gutted and the materials would be used to build a fairly high tech city on the most temperate continent with the weapon systems from these vessels being set up as planetary defense centers at various points around the planet.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Five of the remaining vessels were gutted of most systems and had their life support exponentially increased and were turned into evacuation vessels that could easily lift the current amount of people from the planet in an emergency if necessary. These vessels were stored in huge hardened bunkers at points around the City Of Malkenet.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The remaining vessels were to be crewed at all times and were used to patrol and defend the rest of the system.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">With only the small amount of production capability aboard the remaining ships the still technologically advanced government of the Malkenet Nebula could only produce small amounts of replacement parts and most of these had first use by the defensive fleet and planetary defensive batteries.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It wasn’t until 6110 AD when the Theban Heavy Industries Exploration Cruiser SS Milargo stumbled across the hard to find system and nearly got potted out of orbit by one of the planets defense batteries.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thankfully the Milargo was able to evade the first attack and establish communications with the surface before another one could be launched.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Oracles seeing an opportunity to expand their technology base and improve the lives of their citizens jumped on the chance to establish a friendly relationship with the mining and manufacturing consortium.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thus agreements were signed to allow THI to exploit the systems many metallic and mineral deposits [chief among which was a huge deposit of palladium - a key component in the manufacturing of molecular circuitry].

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">THI also bullied the Theban Government into making loans to the Malkenet Government which were paid off quickly once the proper mining facilities were built and mining was commenced in the Malkenet System’s three asteroid belts.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The standard of living for the Malkenet races rose sharply and is currently the largest supplier of Palladium to the galaxy

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

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-background-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Outlook & Focus Of The Nebula

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Even after over five hundred years the main focus of the Nebula is to keep its people safe and rebuild their races.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The rebuilding of their populace is slow and has only gone up by 70% but the focus is still on get it build up as highly as possible; not only does the council worry about retaliation from the local group that they helped heavily damage but there is still an almost entire galaxy controlled by the Black Council’s proctors that does not realize that their former masters have been destroyed.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Another focus is sending out long range unmanned reconnaissance vessels to spy on their former home galaxy. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Social classes in the Nebula are a jumble of contradictions and clichés.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Oracles have been trying hard to sort things out and pull people from the niches that the Black council had placed them in.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Black Eld have found a niche as ambassadors and in the areas of law.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Black Nephilim have found a niche as explorers doing surveys and providing cartographic design, generally they do these alone unless they need to do a large area in a hurry.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Celoen spend most of their time as pseudo statesmen as they protect their Oracle counter parts, they also have gone into the security field.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Cicada really have not found a niche and generally when not breeding they spend most of their time doing mercenary work.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Fistians have found themselves as the main starters of manufactories and great mechanical artisans.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Harpies are another of those races that really has not found a niche of their own, although some have taken on the job of protecting the unspoiled wilds of Malkenet Prime.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The twisted genius of the Hunches have found an outlet in their creation and enhancement of the Nebula’s various technological gadgets.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Juggernauts have sunk themselves into the military and massive construction projects that are constantly ongoing in the Nebula.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Oracles have found themselves thrust into roles of rulers both secular and theocratic as they try to hold the disparate races together.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Though not a genetically altered race like most of the others Shedara have thrown themselves into making the new star nation work and can be found in libraries, data research centers, and the like chronicling and researching the histories and origins of the various races.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Of all the Malkenet Races the Ravenkin who like the Shedara were not engineered by the Black Council they find themselves at a loss since they have lost a large number of their bird like companions, however various researchers from other star nations have been helping them to find a way to increase birth rates of the remaining ones. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Families in the Nebula are one of the most important things to the newly born star nation as they try to rebuild their races and once again become a thriving race[s].

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The various races are encouraged to become pregnant and birth as many children as quickly as possible and family units are very tight knit. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Prior to the defeat of the Black Council none of the races under its thumb were allowed to even think about an organized religion and it wasn’t until the death of the last council member that the Oracles [who the Black Council thought were their docile puppets] showed their true strength.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Oracles created the religion of Orcelces a religion put much strength behind peace and unity as well as fully realizing what one can become through a proper path.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Most of the inhabitants of the Nebula are ardent members of the religion [oddly enough the religion has spawned a martial arts based monkhood similar to Earth’s Shao-Lin monks that is mainly composed of juggernauts]. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There are seven major languages in the Nebula, six of which are spoken by the different races that inhabit it and Modern Theban which has been agreed on to be a language bridging the gap between the races and the outside galaxy.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The languages are – Celoa [High/Low] [Celoan, Harpie, Juggernauts, Oracles], The Cicadan Language which no one save the Cicadans know or speak, High Eld [Black Eld, Nephilim], Haldwuer [Fistian, Hunches], Aviante [Ravenkin], Sheida [Shedara], Modern Theban [Bridge/Trade Language]. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The leisure activities in the Nebula are too numerous too list, from the Juggernaut Monkhood meditation fighting to Cicadan Blood Fishing there are hundreds of different activities that can be found. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Like Leisture activities there are tons of different art forms in the Nebula. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Clothing tastes vary from race to race and there are hundreds of different styles –

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Black Eld – The Black Eld wear generally somber, dark colored mono-film duty suits under loose fitting skirts [for both men and women] and long flowing capes/ponchos.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Black Nephilim – The nanno-tex coating that covers their body pretty precludes the use of clothing but often times they will wear loose fitting robes or ponchos [though never when in flight].

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Celoen – The Celoen wear long loose fitting clothes in dark to mid tones.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Cicada – Though not really needing to wear clothes the Cicada wear ragged and tattered robes and other pieces of clothing.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Fistian – The Fistian prefer kilt like clothing with sleeveless shirts in pastels and browns.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hunches – Its hard to say whether the Hunches wear clothing or not since they spend most of their life in a mechanized life support system.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Juggernauts – The Juggernauts wear robes or armor and that is about it.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Oracles – The Oracles general wear white or pastel colored robes with gold or silver trim.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Harpies – The Harpies generally just wear a large oversized robe with a hood.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ravenkin – The Ravenkin generally wear close fitting armor reminiscent to old Earth’s plate mail.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Shedara – Wear no clothes, and very rarely any jewelry. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">With the loss of their masters and anyway to communicate with the area of space that they had come from the Nebula was reduced to what technology they had left aboard the ships they had arrived on and most of these were cannibalized for habitats on the surface of Malkanet Prime.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It wasn’t until the THI survey ship arrived that the level of technology and living conditions started to go back up.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At this point the Nebula’s technology level is slightly below that of the Theban Clusters with a few odds and ends that are above the level of the Clusters. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Looking at the archictecture of the Major cities a person can see three distinctive rings of buildings of the city.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The first ring consists of those buildings built from the cannabilized ships that the races arrived on and look farely high tech and somewhat beautiful even at night with all of the lights; the second ring is the buildings that were built from local materials as the population expanded and consist of monolithic stone and wood structures while the third ring consists of the newer buildings of battle steel and glass that can be found most commonly on other planets.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Malkenet hasn’t found a niche for its own style of architecture yet but some believe that when things settle down more for them that their own architectural tastes will win out and it may be a combination of native materials and more modern ones. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Before coming to the Milky Way galaxy and encountering its inhabitants the various Black Council Races had no encounters with magic whatsoever.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Basically they have a wait and see attitude but are still very leery of any magic users. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Nebula is one of the few places where Espers are openly welcome and one of the worst crimes in the Star Nation is any sort of persecution or hate crime towards even the lowest powered Esper. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Nebula includes a single habitable system with large oort clouds and asteroid belts, there are several dozen systems in the radiation cloud that makes up the Nebula itself but so far the government has only done basic surveys.

<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 Nebula. The following is a list of some of the best-known systems - <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-weight: bold;">Military & Branches

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Malkenet Nebula has two branches of the military and these are the Nebula Army and the Nebula Navy The following section will describe these branches. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Nebula Navy follows the same basic pattern as that of the Theban Cluster Fleet and they currently have five active fleets with a sixth fleet that is just now at 50% strength and it is rumored that these vessels will be held as a tactical reserve and training fleet.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It should also be noted that the Nebula fleets have a completely different composition than most other navies and have replaced most of their escort ships with ships of the line, with most of their ships being super dreadnoughts.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Not counting personnel stationed planet side and at various space installations the Navy has a approximate ship mobile military presence of 6 Million personnel with another 0.25% of the population [or approximately 425,000] being part of the Navy. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Since the Nebula Navy has so many divers races that come in various shapes and sizes [although most do fall into the humanoid norm] their main everyday uniform consists of a mono-film duty suit that is dark blue in color with gray stripes running down the outside of the arms and a black stripe running down the middle of the suit.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As for Dress uniforms generally this consists of a dark blue beret style cover [which is also worn with the mono-film duty suit] a silver/gray tunic worn under a dark blue jacket with a thick black stripe running down the middle with silver detail and piping, and dark blue slacks with black stripes down the legs and bloused into standard combat boots. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Since each race has its own language the English Language words have been used for their 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 MNN 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].

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<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";">Strategic Military Assets

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Nebula Navy and Mercantile fleet maintains a single Armadillo-Class enclosed shipyard/factory yard in orbit around Malkenet Prime, this is where all Malkenet military and civilian ships are built and repaired. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Nebula has a total of 5 fleets in service with another fleet in reserve that is currently being worked up and is at about fifty percent, when ships are lost they are generally replaced from the reserve units but it takes them awhile to replace the reserve units from new built production.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The below table shows the maximum standard for what is in an Evaran Fleet. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Nebula Navy has had only a short existence and most of its military equipment is what is left over from its war against the Milky Way galaxy, however they have started importing weapons and armor from the Theban Cluster and Watch Dog Alliance. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Nebula has a total of 1 fleet in service with another several dozen escort ships in reserve that is currently being worked up and is at about fifty percent, when ships are lost they are generally replaced from the reserve units but it takes them awhile to replace the reserve units from new built production.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-background-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ships & Fleet Break Down Of The Nebula Navy <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Nebula Army follows the same basic pattern as that of the Theban Cluster Fleet Marine Corps and has approximately 4.25 million personnel under arms planet side with approximately that many in service with the Navy. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Since the Nebula Army has so many diverse races that come in various shapes and sizes [although most do fall into the humanoid norm] their main everyday uniform consists of a mono-film duty suit that is black in color with gray stripes running down the outside of the arms and a dark blue striping running down the middle of the suit.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As for Dress uniforms generally this consists of a black beret style cover [which is also worn with the mono-film duty suit] a silver/gray tunic worn under a black jacket with a thick dark blue stripe running down the middle with silver detail and piping, and black slacks with dark blue stripes down the legs and bloused into standard combat boots. <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 MNN 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="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Since each race has its own language the English Language words have been used for their ranks.

<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";">Strategic Military Assets

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Nebula Army maintains a presence on all Navy vessels as well as important space stations as well [the shipyard for one] and they have several dozen military bases across the planet from small outposts to the huge and sprawling space ports and point defense battery stations.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Currently the shipyard is also building five Large Landing ships similar to the Theban Clusters Navajo-Class and twenty-five Command Landing Ships similar to the Theban Clusters Hannibal-Class landing ships. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Nebula Army has had only a short existence and most of its military equipment is what is left over from its war against the Milky Way galaxy, however they have started importing weapons and armor from the Theban Cluster and Watch Dog Alliance.