Quicklight: Ictus class starship

Ictus class starship

Constructed in early years of the Ringworld Era, the Ictus class starships are some of the most unique ships in the galaxy, and one of the most powerful designs ever created.
Despite it's small spaceframe the ship has a pair of large thrusters embedded in the aft of it's triangular hull and a pair of high power lance cannons affixed to either side of the hull. However the feature that makes the Ictus class both unique, and impractical for mass production is that the ship has no main (or auxiliary) reactor core. In fact, the ship has no ability to generate or store power and relies on the presence of an Illian to power the ship. These ships are the personal ships of the Illians and are used as force amplifiers for their battle tactics. The ictus class ships went out of service shortly after the First civil war, during which they were all destroyed.
 Over the years leading up to the first civil war a few Ictus class ships were lost or destroyed due to various failures and aging parts. However they were all replaced at a rate to keep a maximum of 9 in existence at any one time.

Quicklight: Battle Of Reveran III

Quick note here, I'm going to try a new format, called Quicklights, which are quick spotlights only reaching one or two paragraphs in length. These are going to be for things that don't have enough lore or aren't important enough to write spotlights about. Hope you enjoy!

The battle of Reveran III was one of the most controversial battles in Alliance history. The Reveran system contained 12 planets, two of which were "habitable". The third planet, Reveran III, was similar to Venus with a thick atmosphere, hellish temperatures and intense acid rain. Reveran IV, the system's other habitable planet, by stark contrast, was a cold wasteland populated by large four winged flying lizards, often called Reveran Dragons, although they were technically Wyrens. They didn't breath fire.

The Battle of Reveran III was a ground assault by Monarchist forces during the first civil war. The Equalist instillation was heavily guarded and had hundreds of Anti-Air emplacements. Despite this, the Monarchist forces attempted to land 120 Frontem class dropships, each carrying 40 Marines, without support. Only 12 dropships managed to land their troops, and of those only 6 managed to leave the planet again, the others were either disabled or destroyed after dropping off their marines. Despite the heavy losses the operation was considered a success as the instillation was captured. The overwhelming number of marines sent in compared to the number required to actually successfully capture the instillation lead many Monarchists to question their leadership's definition of "acceptable losses".

Database entry: Planet - Libranis

Description:

Libranis is home to the mighty owlaffian race, a bizarre bird like race, they are a very old race, yet they are also a very recently discovered race, they have features similar to an owl with pitch black eyes. They joined the federation not long after their discovery and are the first of the "New worlders", excuse my Eagiian slang, to do so.

Libranis is a mountainous world, caused by the many small tectonic plates that continually collide, this has two effects, loads of mountains, and loads of tectonic vibrations aka; earth quakes. The area between the mountains is covered with towering forests reaching over 200m tall.

Database entry: Planet - Werzle

Description:

Werzle is a world of daylight, there is no night as the planet is suspended orbiting a Pentagonal star system, it is always daytime and the surface has been scorched by so much radiation that it is a dead uninhabitable planet, however in a twist of fate the planet was hollowed out by a disaster involving a black hole and an elastic band, this has lead to the planet's interior being the perfect place for ship building, it has an atmosphere but it also has nullified gravity leading to its reputation as one of the best ship yards in three galaxies.

Database entry: Planet - Shal'han

Description:

Shal'han is barely even a world, it is a colonised asteroid cluster, with so little gravity that each bio-dome has artificial gravity instead. Although often described as a world it isn't and never was, it was a moon, a small one at that, but when the inevitable destruction came, early, but it came none the less, the moon was shattered into exactly 1,394 pieces of which 154 remain. This moon was discovered and colonized by the Voyron simultaneously, it's thought that their mission brief was something along the lines of:

Commander:"You there, go find some place and colonize it!"

Expedition leader:"Righty ho!"

they then found Shal'han and thought That'll do, we're home. and so it was decided that the asteroid belt was to be colonized.

Database entry: Planet - Po'nith

Description:

The frozen ice world Po'nith is so bleak that not even the resident Voyrons don't know why they live there, the colony being the second oldest of the Voyrons it's thought that the colony ship crash landed there but home world decided to send another colony ship to the original target world and telling the colonists to just make do. after a year about 3/4 of the colonists managed to escape on a homebuilt shuttle, however a few actually became fond of the place and stayed behind. Only other thing to say is that it's damned cold out there.

Database entry: Planet - Alzifar

Description:

Alzifar is the biggest of the 7 Voyron colonies, it's a world of jungle islands and oceans, it's a typical tropical paradise, or it would be if some of the plants weren't quite so aggressive, there are over 20 species of plants that can and will attack animals but they have been cleared within 30Km of the colony borders, and good thing too, with over 250,000 inhabitants.

Database entry: Planet - Byrea

Description:

Byrea is a desert wasteland dotted with jungle oasis's, it is home to a race so unsatisfied with their home world that now over half of their population live off world, the Voyron people have 7 colony worlds and now half their population live in these colonies, they are: Alzifar, Po'nith, Shal'han, Werzle, Hyron, lyor and Frenn. all of these colony worlds are much nicer than Byrea, so if your looking for a good holiday destination, Byrea isn't really what you want. The Voyron people have 2 legs, 4 arms and their entire body is encased in an exoskeleton, they also have one huge compound eye and to top off their buggy appearance they have a pair of pincers on one set of arms. There are two different races of Voyron, there are the described insectoid species and also an ape like species that are similar in appearance apart from their lack of exoskeleton, they have bones, flesh and fur, they also have 3 eyes instead of the compound eye and instead of the pincers they have more hands, these were originally the lesser jungle species but now that they have all moved to the colonies their numbers now equal that of the desert species that still refuse to join any of the colonies, they just like sand too much.

Database entry: Planet - Threl

Description:

Threl is the home world of the Tharg people. Tharg, also known as "The Darkness" are a race who little is known about, they are only ever seen as fleeting shadows and whenever killed their bodies vaporise within seconds, however one was wounded and captured once but he would only say "I am Tharg of Threl" and "they will find you, we are coming and nothing will stop us". he, for it was decided that Tharg was a male name, was a pure black, stood 8 1/2 foot tall and vaporised after delivering his message. it is believed that it was The Darkness that destroyed Freth, they appeared from nowhere destroyed Freth in one attack run then vanished again, it is also believed that they share a hive mind as any sane being would not kill himself for no reason unless being controlled, this also leads to the theory that they're insane.

Database entry: Planet - Il'ith

Description:

IL'ith is the home world of the Oparth. it's an icy wasteland orbiting a tiny star with its two seasons caused by its orbit coming to within 10 light minuets of its sun every year, this causes the brief period of summer when the valleys flood and fresh water oceans defrost, it is a time of great cheer and at it's peak the Oparth have a celebration called y'eo, during which they hold competitions for hunting the many fish that get put into a kind of natural deep freeze during the rest of the year, outsiders are most welcome during y'eo as long as all fish caught are put into the 'fish bank' to be saved for the rest of the year, however the hunting season only season lasts for one of the three months (the IL'ithian calendar has 24 months) that the melt normally occupies, this allows the fish stocks to breed before the freeze. the Oparth people themselves resemble large penguins, white all over and without the useless wings but with arms and hands. they live high on the peaks of the mountains so as not to get flooded during the melt. this makes IL'ith a popular skiing resort. However during the rest of their year IL'ith is subject to temperatures of less than -40 degrees Celsius. the year only lasts for 271 earth days which is 240 IL'ithian days, each month is only short 10 days.

Database entry: Planet - Freth

Description:

The Drath people of the Freth system are a warlike race, everything about them says that you don't want to find one in a back alley on a Saturday night. they look rather wolfish in appearance, their black manes are underlined with sharp barbed spikes and at 7-8 foot tall they strike a mean, powerful pose. They have numerous military instillations throughout the galaxy, and are always watching everyone else's forces. they do have a good reason to be wary of other races, their first contact didn't go well, they were put to war and they lost their home world Freth, they that survive now live in the moon, still orbiting the wreckage of their world, it's cracked into 5 equalish chunks that have fallen back together and now their planet is a dead uninhabitable world, it has huge segments missing or out of place. so as you can imagine they don't welcome any outsiders and are seldom seen, when they are seen however, they are always followed by trouble. Their moon now their home, they have no colonies and no want of any new world to live on.