Fiction:The Khilai Empire

Description
The Khilai are a relatively young empire of 6800 star systems and a fleet of just over 80,500 space craft. the Khilai wear plate battle armour made from an icredibly robust alloy called Netorium which is created by placing several of the ores found on the planet under high pressure and then imediately exposing them to focused void energy (the Khilai's main power source), Many of the battleships and vehcles are also plated with Netorium alloy.

Anatomy
The Khilai have a peculiar anatomy with large muscular upper bodies and double jointed legs with two sets of knees. They have grey blank skin colouring. The Khilais mouth spealises in ingesting flesh and bone and its saliver is a powerfull toxin which it can launch out of it's mouth.It's powerfull jaw muscles give it a crushing bite of over 22 lbs (10 kg) but Khilai rarley resort (In their sentient state) to this primative method of combat. The Khilai are Incredibly phisically strong and their endurance and speed are a spectacle to behold. The average male Khilai can lift up to more than 550 lbs (250 kg) and females although smaller and less muscular can lift up to 330 lbs (150 kg). Khilai can run at around 34 mph (55 kmph) and can sprint short distances at over 60 mph (96.5 kmph). The Khilai can jump incredibly long distances the current Xavian record for long jump being almost 70ft this long distance jumping is made possible by the powerfull muscles in their feet and lower leg, this also alows them to jump upwards great hights of 20ft or more. Their powerfull legs alow them to run great distance at high speed, Endurance athletes do events the routs of wich go all around the plannet they swim ociens and run the entire length of continents in a matter of weeks. When in combat billions of years of evolution have lead to a pair of hormone sucretion pores that activate when a Khilai is killed, the pores excrete a hormone that enrages and spurs surounding Khilai driving them on.

Location
The Khilai are located at the end of the fith arm of the milky way galaxy. The empire is a dense cluster of stars all of which are regularly patrolled and surveyed. All colonised planets are completely self suficent and requrie almost no suport from the home star system(wartime is an exeption and all surounding starsytems combine a single military forse to protect the combatted star system).

History
Earliest Records/Estimates

Creature Age: As primitive creatures the Khi (as they were then called) were a vicious pack of Bipedal Reptilians who quickly made it their goal to wipe out all other species in their teritory (which in their oppinion was the entire continent on which they lived) they drew this border as it apeared imposible to cross the vast body of water that surrounded them and cut them off from the other land masses. The Khi progressed quickly rarley being challenged by the other inhabitants of the island continent. Eventualy after billions of years of evolution the Khi were now the strongest and most agresive species on the planet, the few creatures that had survived the many nest raids now cowered in small caves and under rocks.

Tribal Age: The Khi now felt that nest were no longer big enough nor gave enough protection from the elements. So the Khi now built primitive structures and started calling themselves in their primitive verbal language Khilaar. they also started making weapons one of which was a set of horns taken from killed wild cretures that they atached to their wrists by means of leather strapping. The Khilaar continued their hostility to others by attacking other sentient species and destroying what structures they had.It was here that the sheer ferosity and strenth was realised, Cave paintings depict wariors with up to three or four spears potruding from them and still being capabel of fighting off several other tribe members. After a relatively short tribal period of a few million years or so The Khilaar's spoken language was one of resonable detail most adult Killar now spoke up to 5000 diferent sounds to comunicate it is also rumered that the written language of the Khilaar originated in the late tribal period.

Civilisation Era: Roughly one milenia later the Khilaar had grown to 100 individuals and their tiny tribal village was geting to small it was now that the Khilai as they called themselves in their now advanced language built their first city. The Khilai now in habited the whole planet of Xavous and were un contested by any other species as they had allready wiped out the other emerging sentient species milenia earlier but the Khilai now stood divided and civil war raged between citys. The world war lasted nearly six thousand years but eventually A city by the name of Inoxsh sent all their forces to destroy the last rebeling city and a democratic system of government was founded. The Khilai remained planet bound for another couple of milenia slowly developing their weapons and technology. At this point the Khilai's wrist blades were Made of the newly discovered alloy Netorium and had mini Ion launchers Built in to them. The population of planet Xavous was now around eight billion.

Inter Planetary Era: After several un sucsessful attempts the Khilai Developed a ship capabell of inter planetary travel. This space ship model was called the Mk 1 Zeneth (the Mk 16 Zeneth is currently used the fighter class space ship of the Khilai empire). with Their Zeneth ships they quickly set about colonising all the profitable planets in their star system. In this time of interplanetary travel many new technologys were developed such as the enormous scientific and weapons reserch facility in orbit around their homesystems sun Nexus. The orbital facility is over 12 mi (19 km) from end to end and houses most of the scientific and weapons research centres in one place in the Khilai empire to this day. The Khilai remained confined within their home system for many more centurys until one untreponeuring scientist descovered the means to make an engine cappabel of inter planetary flight.

First Interstella Period: (known by Most Khilai as the first age of stars) The Khilai now continued their reserch into this new engine and fitted it to their new model of space craft; The Mk 2 Zeneth. The first pilot to leave the Nexus solar system was named Maila Iceail a Khilai female from the Islands of Jamoi on Firon (one of the moons that orbit The home planet Xavous). The first steps to interstella colonisation were tentative and the fist colony in the new system of Demobes lay only 0.5 pc away. But the Khilai were not irritated by the slow progression of their colonys as long as it meant they were growing more powerfull. Another alien race was discovered as the Khilai were venturing into their 6th star system and they picked up a fourein system of contact from their own regular coading. After the colonisation party had discussed the strange discovery with the then emperor Henokie Jemsheg the party decided to attempt first contact. Almost as soon as the grotesk creature on the video comunecation screen had apeared the signal was cut and the Khilai ships were fired upon by weapons on the planets surface four of the nine ships were destroyed by the inital attack. A message was forcibly sent to the ships " We are the Metoc we travel the galaxy destroying small races for it gives us pleasure. This quadrant now belongs to us. Any races will be destroyed beneath our great might! Prepare to flee or be vanquished!"

The Metoc Wars (Known as the wars of freedom) Initially being in their current possition of power (or so they thought) the Threat was largely ignored by the Khilai. This was untill six weeks after the warning when a fleet of four supply ships was attacked and obliterated by a Metoc destroyer. The Khilai then decided that these Metoc whoever or whatever they were had caused enough greif and shame on the Khilai and must be repelled and destroyed. The Khilai being a Largely military and agressive race for millenia saw no alternative than a vengance attack. A full eight weeks later 800 fighters and fifty large destroyer space craft (the entire fleet of the time) flew to the home system of the Metoc and layed bombardment to the planet and enemy fleets. The attack was repelled and more than half of the Khilai fleet was destroyed. In the years following The metock pushed the Khilai right back to their home system suffering minimal losses to their own larger and more technically advanced military. The Khilai now confined and under almost constant bombardment from the super destroyers of the Metoc now resorted not to offence but survival and begun a desperate campain to develop weapons to survive and repel the devastating Metoc attacks. It was in this time that most of the powerfull super weapons were developed (Most of it rather was technology that was salvaged from the wreckage of Metock ships that had been shot down profusely super destroyers, then the technology was repaired and modified by Khilai scientists.) An early version of the Khilais large ion beam was salvaged after surprisingly survived an un controlled plummet of a Metock warship. These modified super weapons turned turned the table of battle and it began to be the Metoc suffering heavy losses. New tac tics were also developed one of which proved very effective against the large battle ships of the Metoc; A boosted escape pod full of heavilly armed Khilai wariors was fired directly at the hull of a large Metock ship and penetrated the armour of the ship. This worked as the armour of the super detroyers was designed to stop plasmer fire but surprisingly not metal objects and one inside the Khilai wariors could take comand of the destroyer and turn the guns upon the enemy fleet. The war raged for another few years but eventually the Khilai were able to conquer the Metoc causeing them to retreat thereafter the Khilai re-colonised their old systems and continued expansion until their star systems numbered in the hundreds.

Second interstella Period After the recovery from the Metoc attacks the Khilai went into a state of rapid expansion claiming hundreds of star systems per year. The Khilai now experienced a properous time and had a massive recorce boom that launched another technology development period into effect. Many new vehcles, weapons, Military and resorce enrichment technology was invented, developed and tested because of the low prices in resorces.

Present Day

Military
The Khilai Military and law Enforcement Group (K.M.E.G) plays a large role in the Khilai empirium. K.M.E.G command controlls all millitary and expansion opperations this includes space flight land sea and air vehicles as well as advances in military tecnology. The leader of K.M.E.G is called Kaz Herubrim and is enourmous even among Khilai he is a war general of a colosal 660 lbs (297 kg).

Training All Khilai do a minimum of ten years military servise and the training regeime begins at 9 years of age with the cadets being taken on 50-100 mile (80-160 km) runs (this is easy for the Khilai but still challenging to younger infants). The young soldiers are also taught war strategy extension (this is taght at school before the age of nine) as well as all vehicle proficiency and maitanance, Electronics both hijack and repair as well as bulding comunication systems from scrap. The Kilai are also taght several ancient matial arts developed thousands of years earlier. this whole training reigeme ends at about 20 years of age when they also finish school. At this point they are given the option to become civilians or continue in the military, About 65% of Khilai continue in the military and will serve until they die.

Vehicles
In this section you will find a detailed list of Space, Land, Sea and Air vehcles used by the Khilai.

Governing System
This section details the dutys and election of emperors as well as other places of power within the Khilai empire.

The system of government used by the Khilai is a unique and ancient one some aspects of it dating back to the very beggining of their sentient state. As the Khilai are based in a political impirium they are lead by an emporor the current leader being Arath Jecon Helthrai. Elections happen once every Khilai generation (roughly 100 earth years) and are done in a series of stages. These are:

Planetary Election Each planet within the Khilai empire selects a delegate from among their strongest and most acheved wariors. They are selected by a democratic planet election where everyone on the planet at the time is allowed to vote for the deligates that nominate them selves and then the planet leader is selected by the people.

Star System Election In star systems where their is more than one planet occupied by the Khilai the delegates of each planet then have another chance to prove themselves to the people of the whole solar system. The champion of this stage moves on to become the elected member of that system.(Note: In star sytems where their is only one planet this stage of election is bypassed as it is un-needed.)

Inter Stella Election In this stage the delegates of each star system go into a large election where only a group of 100 select Khilai finish. The election involves a democratic election where the number is narowed down to only 100 Khilai wariors these people then go into the fist of the trial stages

Initial Trials The group of 100 go into a Knock out combat tornament where the Khilai fight to prove their worth the fights go on until one of the wariors yeild, but some of the fights have been recorded to go to the death becaue neither Khiali would back down. At the end of the tornament 10 elite warriors go into the final stage of emperor selection.

Final Trials The final stage of emperor selection is always held in the purpose built stadium of Nemx (Meaning Bravery in ancient Khiileigh the language of the Khilai) on planet Xavous. The trials consist of 10 days of testing in both physical and mental areas of hardship. The final stage being of Dentoc (strenth) this consists of the final two selected champions both armed with wrist blades atempting to cut through Quazom (the strongest substance discovered by the Khilai) the two atempt to cut through the blocks until one gives up or a block is split. This final event can go for days depending on the matched ability of the two elite wariors. After the final trials the Khilai who is victorius becomes emperor and the other nine elite become his high council of advisors until the next election.

Education
Education as well as military duty also plays a large part in the Khilai empire.

Primary The Khilai begin primary education the day they are born they are taught in individual creàch's and lern language and common manners by age 3. The Khilai then go into bigger class groups and learn arithmatic and advanced language as well as basic military stratergem. The Young Khilai also play compulsory sport witch involves runs of up to 25 mi (40 km) or more. The Khilai play many sports of their own creation as they belive culture of other races poisons their youngs minds.

Secondary After the completion of the Khilais primary education they go into a more structured and detailed secondary education system. In secondary education Khilai who start secondary at age 10 now go back into smaller class groups so learning can be more focused on idividuals to ensure maximum knowlege for the young Khilai. The secondary stage learning curiculum consists of advanced mathmatics including equasions as well as history and science, language and literacy are also expanded apon in this stage. Practical subjects are also taght to great extent these include metalworking, engineering and electronics. Sport is a major focus in secondary education and Khilai are taght sports, games and self defence methods. school education ends at age 20 when Khilai are also given the option to go into full time military servise.

Leasure
Although Khilai have a strict structured system and compulsory military servise many Khilai still find time to relax and participate in recreational activitys.

Weaponary
this section contains infomation on the various weapons used by the Khilai empire.

Super Weapons

Massive Gravity modifier This catastrophic super weapon works by fireing a special container of super dence matter at the planets surface (usually a highly populated area. On contact with the ground the container opens and because of the emence dencity of the matter the gravitty of that area is increased vastly (the largest weapon has a lethal radius of 2 mi (3.5 km) and a destructive radius of more than 10 mi (15 km) this weapon is fired into a city or resorce enrichment area to anihilate all persons and structures. It has never been used in a war situation but testing shows it to be devistatingly efective.

Large Ion Beam this is a planet based super weapon althouh smaller versions have been attached to super war ships. The large ion beam is used for planet defence against invading forces and rarely as part of the planets asteroid defence system. The largest weapon is over 600 m long and can fire 8 beams per hour as the recharge period is very long due to the imence amount of energy expended in the blasts. The beam is a huge burst of negatively charged ion particles. The ion cannon has high orbital targeting and has pin point acuracy of down to 15 inches (30 cm). The weapon was used in the attempted invasion of Mehtous by the dominatus.

Inter stella targeting system This recently invented technology is still largely under development and still has much testing to be done before it can be adapded to space ships or turrets. The system uses a super computer and ultra long range proton missiles to have an aiming system capable of hitting space vehicles and buldings on planets orbiting around other stars!

Vehcle Weaponary

Relations
Allies: Sago Empire, Bastnliues Republic

Friendly: The Hegemony

Neutral:

Dislike:

Enemies: Metoc

Trivia

 * The only emporer ever two be found victorius in two final trials is the current leader Arath Helthrai.


 * A Khilai in Full battle armour can survive re-entry to a T3 planets atmousphere makeing orbital drops a usefull military technique.