There will inevitably be some confusion regarding the 2 new factions, the Argosians and the Polaris Confederacy. I'll explain it all.
Faction: The Argosian Empire
Known as: The Argosians
Technology Advantage: 7
Military Advantage: 1.25
Homeworld: Argos VII
Size of faction: 1 homeworld + military headquarters somewhere near neptune.
Agenda: Stop the Talos
The Argosian Homeworld is too far away for any fleet to possibly make it there in under three generations. It's a remote, tiny planet about half the size of Earth. The Argosians have evolved societally to the point where they have no word for violence or war. They are 100% human of Asian origin, but how they got there was a mystery.
Ships
(url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/img/arg_fighters.jpeg")Nightmare-class interceptor(/url)
Crew: 1
Fairly rare and easy to destroy, but the advancement in miniturization has given them weapons of light capital ships. The cockpit is held in orbit to the wing via strong gravitational generators. These ships, while hard to destroy with blunt force, can be easily split in two with a strong magnetic pulse.
(url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/img/arg_destroyer.jpeg")Equilizer-class destroyer(/url)
Crew: 36-50
The staple of the Argosian fleet. Their shields are capable of withstanding the force of an exploding sun, but that's about their only advantage. Armed with extremely primitive kinetic weapons, destroyers are capable of holding their own against nothing. Although a few Destroyers have been refitted with light EMP emitters, they still pose little threat to enemies. Despite their massive shielding, Destroyer hull is as thinas tin foil and just as strong. Once a destroyer's shields are down, anything can utterly destroy it.
(url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/img/argos_1.jpeg")Battlecruiser(/url)
Crew: 13-15
Despite it's fierceome name and appearance, the Battlecruiser is little more than a mobile base. It's the only ship in the Navy, however, that is capable of dealing out much more damage than it can take. The entire frontal section is little more than a giant emitter, capable of being adapted into a sensor array, an extra shield generator, or a massive EMP cannon, the Battlecruiser is highly adaptable and usually used on science missions. Each battlecruiser contains a single scout that can be launched.
Scout
Crew: robotic
Because it contains no pilots or crew members to worry about, the Scout can travel at phenominal speed without consequence. Armed with nothing more than a sensor aarray and an EMP emitter, the Scout has no shields whatsoever, and only enough armor for it to make it back to it's Battlecruiser on it's galaxy-far hour-long missions.
(url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/img/arg_hvd.jpeg")The Chimaera(/url)
Crew: 1
Argosian Legend tells of the Founders giving a gift to the children of Argos as they left the galaxy. It contains easily-duplicable Jjaro technology, but it is not fully functional. The Jjaro did not wish to give Argos the full extent of their technology, as it could be analogous to giving an infant a chainsaw. Instead, they gave them the jjaro equivalent of safety-scissors, but even still it is capable of massive destruction.
So far it has collapsed an already-collapsing Red Giant into a black hole, but as the Argosians discover more about their past and the founders, more and more of the Chimaera is is unravelled and the stronger it can be used.
Faction: (url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/img/eclipse.jpeg")The North Star Federation(/url)
Known as: The Polaris Confederacy
Technology Advantage: 3
Military Advantage: 5
Homeworld: North Star
Size of faction: 1 homeworld, four core worlds, 12 outlying colonies
A strong and authoritarian Confederation of worlds, The polaris are as stalawart in unity as they are in military strength. Guided by the mighty Polaris Navy, the Confederacy rules it's space with an iron fist. Not particularily war-like, the Polaris are also far from indolent. By the age of twenty, a typical Confederate is expected to have served a year in the Navy.
100% human of caucasian origin, the Polaris grew up with war as a fact of life. Their homeworld, contrary to it's name, is a steaming earth-sized tropical planet.
Ships
(url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/planetarion/ships/gunboat.jpeg")X-19 Gunboat(/url)
Crew: 2
Armed with twin swivel missile pods, each containing 9 missiles, the gunboat is capable of wreaking total havoc on slow-tracking enemies. They are capable of individually crippling capitol ships and shooting wings of fighters out of the skies. They are dodgy and extremely fast-moving, but all this sheer firepower come at a cost: one hit, and it's destroyed. Also, when a gunboat has used up it's ammunition, it becomes essentially useless and must return to it's carrier for refeuling and restocking.
(url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/img/polarisfrigate.jpeg")D-14 Battle Frigate(/url)
Crew: 50
Heavily armored to endure the sears of battle, the aptly-named frigate is little more than a thick shell with guns in it. Unfortunately, the heavy 'Grand-Mére' launchers located in the foreward section had the nastiest habit of snapping clean off during the heat of battle. The frigate was never widely-used, though it was quite effective against heavy targets.
(url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/img/Pursuit.jpeg")Achilles-class destroyer(/url)
Crew: 20
Once the backbone of Polaris Navy, the Destroyer has slowly turned from a widely-used warship to a reserve and backup plan. It's beam-weapons are now old, outdated Polaris technology and widely available on black markets across the galaxy. Though it is old, slow and obsolete, the Destroyer still has a lot of fight left in it, and is still widely used behind the front lines. It has reasonable firepower, but weak armor and slow speed and maneuverability.
(url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/planetarion/ships/battleship.jpeg")Viking-class battleships(/url)
Crew: 190
In the early days of the Confederacy, these dreadnoughts were feared across the galaxy as the most vicious and powerfull ships of the Confederacy. However, after the Alduran wars a decade later, it became clear that the Viking was no longer the menace it used to be. This ship design is almost forty years old, and a Viking hasn't been built for nearly a decade, yet their sheer (but fading) power and reminder of the old days of the Confederacy still give is a vital position in the Navy, even as only a mere support Battleship, it is still far from the scrap-heap. (also the first ship I ever made in 3D) Energy weapons are rendered ineffective by it's grid-hull, but ballistic and explosive projectiles deal great damage to the Viking, tearing into like a chainsaw in a loaf of bread.
(url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/img/cruiser.jpeg")The Dirae-class Cruiser(/url)
Crew: 375
The zenith of Confederate military advancement, the Cruiser is a natural outgrowth of the older Battle Frigates, with many improvements. The Dirae cruiser is one of the only ships in the Polaris Navy equipped with a functioning shield-emitter, and is fixed not only with standard torpedo-tubes, but the new Norse-class turrets, designed specifically for attacking capital ships.
Unfortunately, the Cruiser has one fatal flaw: it must be guarded against ravenous swarms of fighters at all times, as it can only fire upon large ships.
(url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/img/Colossus.jpeg")The Colossus(/url)
Crew: 200
Only the Elite of the confederacy ever get the priveledge of serving aboard these grand ships. Almost two whole kilometers long, the Colossus-class carrier-dreadnoughts are the Confederacy's final say in Capital Ship field. Of the three Fleet Admirals of the Confedrate Navy, there are three carriers, each assigned his own. Equipped with stolen Argosian shielding technology and armed with a variation of the powerfull B-16 Torpedos, the Carrier wouldn't be a carrier without two full squadrons of the lethal X-19 Gunboats. Each Carrier serves as fleet command for the Navy, and so while they may direct massive wars and campaigns, they usually never see combat.
Despite the measures taken to secure the Fleet Admiral, incidents do happen and whn the Carrier is cornered, it can put up an extremely nasty (url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/img/Duel.jpeg")fight(/url).
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