Fiction:Slukatian Empire

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-Rey'met, Moostake's grandfather, after his father gave him the crown, in 2 653 AD

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The Slukatian Empire, also known as the Slukatian Union is an empire consisting of around 90 000 colonies, though most of them are entirely dedicated to ressource production, such as spice extraction or army training, or even scientific research. If you exclude these colonies and keep only the large and developped planets, the empire consist of around 7 000 planets. As the name implies, the dominant creatures of this Empire are the Slukatians, a specie of slug-like creatures living on Super-Earths and breathing hydrogen. As such, the Slukatians vehicles tend to move pretty fast, as they need a lot of power to take off the Super-Earths colonised by the empire. The Slukatians originate from Cloytake, a super-earth with a dense hydrogen and nitrogen atmosphere, and over 4G of gravity.

History
The empire was officialy founded by the Slukatians when the first colony was etablished on Karam, the first and only moon of Cloytake, in 1,545 BC. Although not really an "Empire", with only one colony, the Slukatians claimed it was already a full empire. Afterward, the Slukatians had a large problem, as their ships weren't fast enough to reach other planets in time. The slukatians, extremely disapointed, decided that "space isn't really the future after all", and for hundreds of years, no progress was made in the sector of space travel.

One day, in the year 900 BC, an astronomer discovered a large chunk of pure gold on a distant planet. This amazing discovery made the researchs about space travel skyrocket. Large colony ships were built, and cryogenic technology was invented to solve the speed problem. Tons of volunteers rushed to try to get accepted into this ambitious project. Only a few Slukatians got accepted, and they became known as the original space pioneers. In the following year, tons of ships were sent to all four corners of the solar system, and soon enough, the Slukatians had bases on every single planet and moon of their system.

But the Slukatians didn't want to stop there, as they wanted to colonise more planets. Thus began what is now known as the "Years of research". During several years, thousands of scientists united their efforts to try to find a key to interstellar travel, and, in the year 680 BC, the answer was found. The interstellar spacecraft was going to use a technology similar to the cryogenic pods found in the interplanetary ships. Thousands of Slukatians were frozen inside a large ship, and sent to the nearest star. Unfortunately for them, this star system was actually a Grox outpost. The Grox, angered because of the intruder ship, blasted it into pieces, killing every single frozen crew member. This incident scared the Slukatians so much that they litteraly never sent a ship near this star again, and instead decided to colonise planets as far as possible from this deadly star system.

For hundreds of years, the empire expanded and colonised planets, always using the cryopod technology. In the year 200 AD, they had an empire with 100 star systems. But, the Slukatians expert deemed that this method of interstellar travel was far too slow, and if they wanted to become a powerful empire, they needed a faster way of transportation. Unfortunately, they couldn't figure out a way to cross the huge distances between stars in a lifetime. In the year 712 AD, when the space race madness was pretty much over due to that speed problem, an alien ship of unknown origin crashed on Cloytake. After a close examination, the scientists found a nearly intact warp drive inside the crashed spacecraft. When the discovery of the strange warp drive was made, thousands of theories began to appear. Some said the warp drive was a weapon of mass destruction, others said it was a pocket dimension machine...After years of research and reverse-engineering, it was confirmed that the device was a FTL engine.

Unfortunately, the engine required some sort of negative exotic matter, something which was impossible for the Slukatians. Howewer, the scientists did figure out a way to accelerate to a large fraction of the speed of light using antimatter found in the warp drive. Quickly, a gigantic particle accelerator was built, and in the year 550 BC, the particle accelerator was complete. Using this device and some sort of magnetic field box found in the warp drive, they managed to create and collect enough antimatter to power an engine. This engine was placed on a ship, and in less than 25 years, the ship arrived at another star. Using more antimatter devices, the empire managed to multiply it's size very fast, and in the year 1 500, they had an empire with over 4 500 stars systems.

This large empire rapidly broke, though, as the lack of a quick interstellar communications prevented decent relations between parts of the empire. Rapidly, differents regions rulers decided to cut their part of the empires and become an independent space power. But, the rulers wanted to rule the entire empire, and a war known as the "1 700s-1 900s Great Rampage" began. During this war, entire fleets of starships were sent to capture more colonies. This war killed millions, if not billions, as the ennemies used weapons such as prototypes antimatter bombs or superlasers without any regret. This war, however, was stopped when one Slukatian, known as Kleete the Blaster, in 1 923 AD, revealed a new superweapon : The "Dead-End Electroblaster", a gigantic blaster capable, with an extremely high energy cost, of stripping off the crust of a planet. All factions quickly stopped fighting, fearing the deadly blaster. Of course, this Slukatian didn't reveal the fact that it could only be fired once every year. Kleete the Blaster then united the ennemy factions into a large empire, known as the Slukatian Union.

A few years later, the Slukatians managed to create a fully working warp drive. Once this warp drive was built and replicated thousands of time, the empire spreaded extremely quickly, and by 2 100 AD, 50 000 systems were colonised, even if most of them were military or industrial colonies. In 2 300 AD, the Slukatians started to need a lot of antimatter to power their power plants, so they started building large particle colliders in low orbits around stars, powered by large solar panels. To this day, there is over a thousand colliders in orbit around various stars.

It's not until 2 750 AD that Moostake the Hairy decided to start building a gigantic Dyson Swarm around Cloytake's star, a red dwarf. This project costed so much that the quick expansion of the empire was stopped very rapidly, to focus all the workforce on the building of the swarm. The swarm is still being built today, but it's already operationnal, and it provides 80% of the empire's energy. The Slukates decided, because of the swarm's huge cost, to focus on the exploration and charting of exoplanets. From 2 770 AD onward, many starships were sent to explore the galaxy to chart and learn about the exoplanets and the wildlife of these strange worlds.

The Dyson Swarm was recently finished, and, every single satellite deployed large solar panels, entirely covering the star in several layers of solar panels and solid structures. Moostake decided, to build more Dyson Spheres around more star, officialy making the Slukatian Empire Type II on the Khadarshev scale.

Starships Fleet
The Slukatians' fleet is not very large, and consists mainly of cargo ships and other peaceful vessels, as the Slukatians aren't a war-based specie, but they still possess an army of starships in case they needed to fight.

Fighter Ships

The Slukatians' fighters are fast and mobile, but they lack a strong armor, so they cannot stand a continuous assault. Fighter ships always fly in swarms, so they can assault the ennemy on every side when attacking. The first fighter ships were created in the 1,600s. They are usually twice the size of an Earth car.

Cargo Ships

Slukatian cargo ships are entirely dedicated to transport things from a solar system to another. 90% of a cargo ship volume is actually empty space to put merchandise, ressources or even troops in it. Even though the cargo ships do possess small guns, it is always found with an escort of smaller fighters.

Carrier Ships

Carrier ships are large, slow and bulky ships made to carry smallers starships such as fighters to the battlefield safely. Carriers possess six hangars, three on each side, from which fighters can enter or exit the carrier. Inside the hangar are robotic arms made to repair damaged fighters who came back to the carrier. The bigger carriers can reach up to 2 km long, and the smaller ones are usually around 400-700 meters long.

Destroyer ships

Slukatian destroyers are massive and expensive ships made to anhiliate the ennemy fleet. Only an handful copies of this ship exists in the Slukatian army. Nevertheless, a fleet comprising of a destroyer and other ships will most certainly dominate in battles. Theses ships even include a land area for smaller ships, so they can be repaired. The downside of these beasts is that they are extremely expensive and slow to produce, so the destruction of a destroyer means billions of Sluros are lost. A destroyer is about 10 km long.

Location in the galaxy
The empire is located in the C2 supersector, near the frontier between C2 and C3. The colonies are spread out in a 1 000 light-year radius, but of course, not all stars in that radius are colonised. It can be noted that a Grox outpost exists in that radius, and no colonies exist in a 10 light-years radius around this outpost.



Culture
The Slukatians are similar to the Scientist and Bard archetypes, as they want to know as much as possible about everything they see. As such, they are very inquisitive about their environment. This curiosity for the universe is shown by the numerous vessels they sent to explore the Milky Way. This specie is very light-hearted and cheerful, and they tend to smile most of the time. They only frown when subjected to extreme sadness or a deep emotional trouble. The Slukatians live together, in large cities. Slukatians hate being alone and separated from the group, so it's very rare to see a lone Slukatian.

Government
Slukatians use a Monarchic Democracy, this means that there is one leader, who takes decisions, with the populations voting for or against said decision. Leadership is transmited from father to son, as when the old ruler dies or give up his duty, the crown is given to his oldest son. A particular traits of leader is the presence of hair on their body. Most leaders only have facial hair and "head hair", but the current leader, Moostake the Hairy, is entirely covered with a dense layer of fur, hence his name. Due to the rarity of hair, owning a piece of it is said to bring luck and fortune to the owner. A king's reign usually lasts for around 70 to 90 Earth years, although the longest reign lasted for 130 years (Achieved by Kitio the Young) ! Monarchs usually die at an older age than regular Slukatians (Around 20 years older). The Slukatian leader lives in a large castle located on Cloytake, guarded by defenders equipped with the latest technology, such as antimatter sabers (sabers using a small amount of antimatter to power a large, superhot plasma blade capable of cutting through even the strongest alloys), and BR Guns (Background radiation guns, which focuses the background radiation of the universe and mixes it with some antimatter to create a red, electromagnetic beam capable of disabling most electronic and killing many lifeforms).

Behavior toward other species
The Slukatians are very, very open-minded to learn about foreign cultures and technologies, even sometimes integrating parts of a foreign culture into their own. The Slukatians are only agressive in case the other specie attacked them first, and will never attack an empire if not provoked. They believe that democracy can solve many problems, and that violence and force should only be used in extreme cases. As such, their fleet consists mainly of cargo ships, colony starships explorations crafts, and vessels jused for diplomatic purposes. However, they do possess some mighty "Destroyers", massive kilometer-long ships capable of destroying an entire fleet of vessels, but they are very expensive and the Slukatians only own a few of them. A fleet consisting of multiple destroyers is nearly unstoppable, but very slow.

Relationships with other empires
Cephalodians : We like their biologic technologies and their culture! We also agree to the fact that life should be protected, and that they aren't a warlike, violent, brutal specie. They have an embassy on Cloytake. French Colonial Empire : We like this Empire. We are about to etablish a trade route with them, and also begin diplomatic relations. They will also help us etablish colonies in Andromeda. They are really nice!

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