[Inaius] The Gardens of the Leviathan-Avalonian Symbiote

[Yukkira]

The Swarm That Blots Out The Sun

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From the Dead They Arise...​

What does it mean to be all-consuming? To be eternal but not? To die yet to still draw breath? These are the questions that the Leviathan sometimes ponders upon as it continuously searches and hunts for the food that sustains itself. Forever on a mission as vague the concept of time, the Leviathan attempts to sustain its ever numerous bodies scattered across its few native star systems within the corridor between the Imperium, the Dominion, the Grohl, the Alliance, and the Primacy. Running out of food sources, the Leviathan reaches for the stars, lashing out at its unintentional creators, the Imperium. The Queen roars her defiance from her adopted home world, and her brood lash out with their claws laced with acid.

Alas however, they are not alone.

With the swarm that blots out the sun, come mighty warships of near alien design. Light arks away from pulse laser arrays. Orbital superiority fighters race away in silver waves. And orbital bombardment batteries rock the very earth that spawned their creation. The Unity of Avalon will have its dues. Armed with advanced weaponry developed on the Leviathan's adopted home world, the Unity of the Republic of Avalon is a culmination of refugees from the various humanoid empires scattered around the corridor. Scientists who have run afoul of the system. Militants who refused to back down when ordered to. Those sent to the prison colony that was Theta 2431 was abandoned by its former owners as the jungle expanse on the world began to mutate at a rapid pace. Leaving the prisoners for dead, they soon discovered a plant, not at all native to the planet, growing abundantly amidst the foliage. It spook to them in their dreams and with its help, the prisoners became unintentional pioneers, quickly proliferating and eventually building up what became the city of Avalon. Ramshackle shakes soon became modern, self-sustaining homes. Farmers turn to cultivators turn to innovators, fathers and mothers in more ways than one. And they came to adopt that strange plant as a sort of god-sent sign; a herald of an epoch of a sort.

A time of preparation and technological enlightenment.

From the ashes of the penal colony comes a thriving technological civilization. Mastering energy and wielding it at their fingertips. The Babylon called Avalon, after a mythic story of a city on a hill that women would tell their children, born of the penal colony by fathers supposedly with no future ahead of them. The city was supposed to be the glimmering hope the wardens of the colony gave to their charges. The hope of somehow, and eventually, buying their freedom...

WIP​

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[Yukkira]

About The Avalonian Military
History

The Avalonian Navy is divided into two branches: the New Avalonian Guard, and the Orbital Ordnance branch.

The Expeditionary branch was first formed during what is considered to be the start of the Age of Reformation around 2234. Originally formed as an underground resistance movement made up of penal colony prisoners and their descendants. Notable movements of the resistance include the SAD Uprising of 2235, the Gun & Run Raid of 2237, and the Burlap Rage Festival of 2240 just to name a few.

The member count of the resistance fighters were up to just around 500 heads. That number swelled to a few thousand after the wardens left. The increase came from the need to field more bodies to both expand the penal colony settlements in addition to purging the encroaching foliage by flame. During the first Purge by Flame in 2261, the resistance, now called the Freedom Frontier Expeditionary Force, first experimented with drone tech as a method to deliver promethean fuel across long distances covered by treacherous jungle often inhabited by dangerous creatures. These mundane drones were eventually outfitted with various other modifications such as heat sensor arrays, the first types of sonic pulse emitters, and weaponized ark coils. These weaponized ark coils would eventually evolve into the Avalonian preferred weapon of choice, the tachyon laser, and the drones soon after the Purge would become an integral part of Avalonian doctrine. The Second Purge by Flame would see improvements to drone design and mass manufacturing methods. And the Third Purge by Flame would see to a massive overhaul to drone programming and the introduction of extremely rudimentary A.I. matrices to their brains.



The Orbital Ordnance branch is relatively new when compared to the Expeditionary branch. When the Avalonians first took to the stars in something more than their rusty prisoner shuttles, the Orbital Ordnance branch was just a division. Alas however, roaming pirate marauders would quickly a change of importance and tactics in relation to space warfare. The Avalonian Guard quickly found itself incompetently outmatched and horribly outgunned. Facing the threat of planetary occupation by wardens even more crueler than death, the Council of Avalon had to quickly come up with a solution to their dilemma.

Their answer... was to turn to their drones. As the pirate raiders closed in upon the colony once known as penal colony Theta 2431 and the last of the Expeditionary branches' orbital fleet is scattered, a new fleet of ships were forming above the planet. Code named "Phoenix," easy to manufacture drone corvettes were sync'd to a command node, the planet, while new, sleek, nodal command frigates were equipped with newly designed armor-reinforced modulated hulls, ultra-heavy ark emitter coils, and anti-fighter pulse-fire arrays. With less lives on the line and more firepower at the ready, the Avalonian Council braced itself for its fate.

That fate was to create a legacy. Not only did the corvette drones prove to be a cost-effective solution to mitigating the pirate threat, the commanders of the new command frigates quickly proved that they could do away with surface-interfacing in relation to the controlling of their new drones. With enough computing power, the command frigates could interface with and control the drones themselves without the latency associated with the time it takes for orders to be relayed from the surface through the nodes (the frigates) to the drones. Project "Phoenix" was a resounding success.

Avalonian Ship Classification, Notable Ships of the Fleet, and War Doctrine

Currently, with the Leviathan taking care of most civilian/logistical needs, the resources of Avalon have become focused upon the war effort with the Imperium. Avalon High Command currently fields several fleets:​

• First Avalonian Expeditionary Fleet - Diversified responsibilities. Main operation area: Avalon and the surrounding systems. Tours include the first ring of expansion.
• Second Avalonian Expeditionary Fleet - Mission main directive is to expand the Leviathan-Avalonian area of influence. Main operation area: N/A
• Third Avalonian Expeditionary Fleet - Diversified responsibilities. Main operation area: First ring of expansion.
• Fourth Avalonian Expeditionary Fleet - Diversified responsibilities. Main operation area: First ring of expansion.
• Fifth Avalonian Expeditionary Fleet - Mission main directive is to expand the Leviathan-Avalonian area of influence. Main operation area: N/A
• Sixth Avalonian Expeditionary Fleet - Diversified responsibilities. Main operation area: N/A
• Seventh Avalonian Expeditionary Fleet - Diversified responsibilities. Main operation area: N/A

The current ship size classification system for the Avalonian Navy goes accordingly:​

• Super-Capital Ships - The largest ships of the line, there is currently only one class of super-capital officially in production. That class is the Nyx-class supercarrier. New plans for super capital ships are drawn up frequently. But with each ship taking more than a decade to produce, for the moment, it seems as if the Nyx will continue to be the flagship of choice for the Avalonian Navy.
• Capital Ships - capital-size ships were only recently demoted to being the second-largest class of the line. Before the Nyx-class went into production, the largest ship of the line used to be the Athena-class carrier. The Athena is not the only capital-sized ship. Currently in production is the Nemesis-class dreadnought and the Deliverance-class transport freighter.
• Battleship - Battleship-size ships used to be more commonplace before the Leviathan. Currently, there is one type of battleship in official production, the Bastion-class. Should the outer defenses of the first ring of expansion be breached and all the Leviathan scattered, once hailed as the first Avalonian dreadnoughts, the Bastion will be called up for service once again. Several serve with the First Avalonian Expeditionary Fleet, while the orbital manufacturing complexes still retain, on-hand, the original design template should the need ever arise. An apt-name for a storied design.
• Battlecruiser - Battlecruisers have taken up the mantle that the Battleship served before the Leviathan formally became part of Avalonian war doctrine. Relatively large and less maneuverable than the common cruiser, Battlecruisers still find a use in the Avalonian Navy as ad hoc capital ships during small the medium-scale skirmishes.
  
• Cruiser - Cruisers are the strong-arms of the Avalonian Navy. They act as the command ship for smaller skirmisher fleets while in larger fleets, they often act as the first ship of the line encountered before the rest of the fleet commits. There are various Cruiser types and they have a variety of roles from providing ultra heavy fire support to screening for even larger craft.
  
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  It should be noted that craft of Cruiser-size and larger deployed by the Avalonian Navy will be much more swifter than their equivalents from other races. The trade off here is that they have exceedingly less armor and are more easily crippled by sustained fire.
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• Destroyer - Destroyers are fast, agile, but most of all, deadly. Since the rise of the Leviathan and incorporation of the Hive into Avalonian combat doctrine, emphasis has been put on having fast and able attack craft able to keep up with the Hive's faster elements. The destroyer was a natural at this role. Destroyers are some of the most numerous ships found within Avalonian space due to their versatility in both war and in peace. The Second Avalonian Expeditionary Fleet in its infancy was actually comprised of only destroyers as a large part of the job was escorting Leviathan organisms.
• Frigate - The frigate serves as the primary support craft for the Avalonian Navy. Their primary use is skirmishing and for policing Avalonian space. They're adept scouting craft with their speed and agility only being exceeded by certain corvette classes. That being said however, their variants are as numerous as there are ship assembly facilities over the planet of New Hope. New templates are cobbled together almost weekly, with experimental designs being tested in as many situations that appear.
• Corvette - The corvette-class is actually one of the founding classes of the Avalonian Navy. Fast, agile, and expendable.

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Listed below are the current ship designs in use with the Avalonian Navy.
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Spoiler: Revelation Supercarrier

Revelation

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Classification: Super-Capital
Type: Supercarrier
Crew: 30,000 personnel
Compliment: ~2,000 Officers / ~8,000 Enlisted / ~5,000 Leviathan Drones
Variants: N/A
Armor: Experimental Ultra-Reinforced "Morpheus" Regenerative Armor w/ Crystal-Carbon Bonded Superstructure
Shield: 3XXUW Omni-Guard Energetic Barrier
Speed: 2,000 km/s (Kilometers per Second)
Powerhouse: 10x Hydrogen Reactor Engine Blocks w/ Solar Captures
Primary Armament: 16x Tachyon Broadside Arrays
Secondary Armament: 24x Tachyon Cannon Arrays
Tertiary Armament: 30x Red Flak Laser Emplacements
Support Compliment: 5x Air-Space Superiority Fighter Divisions
Invasion Capacity: 4x NAG Divisions w/ Equipment & Support Personnel
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Summary:
The Revelation-class supercarrier is the first of its kind and the only super-capital designated for production. Although there are multiple other designs being considered, the Revelation is only design to be vetted for active duty and production.

The Revelation-class was part of the Avalonian High Council's Emergency Military Sequestration (EMS) Initiative. Initial development had actually started earlier as the Naval Engineers Corps (ANEX) looked to upgrade the current Retribution-class assault carriers. But with the additional funding, the ANEX was able to take the upgrade to an entirely new level.

Boasting an impressive capacity to house four entire divisions of drone fighter craft, in addition to having the ability to land four whole NAG divisions, equipment and all, the Revelation-class supercarrier could wage a miniature war with just it and its escort craft.

This ability was tested towards the end of the First Ring of Expansion. Approaching the world now known as the Garden of Blue Lilies, the beastmen had assembled the last vestiges of their space fleet to defend their home against the coming invaders. An impressive fleet for a race that had just managed to colonize another system. A dozen frigates, about four destroyers, and their flagship which was judged to be a cruiser.

High Command decides to deploy their working prototype supported by an Avalon-class light carrier, a Praetorian-class heavy cruiser, two Makos, and their escorts. All-in-all, it was a rare sight: the Avalonian Navy deploying by itself against an enemy, unsupported by the Leviathan. The Captain of the squadron was none other than a Grey Captain by the name of Hya Yura.

The test was a resounding success, and the Revelation was quickly incorporated into the fleets.

Trivia: the first fleet to be granted a Revelation? The then, newly christened, Seventh Expeditionary Fleet based out of New Hope, the provincial capital of the First Ring of Expansion.

Spoiler: Retribution Assault Carrier

Retribution

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Classification: Capital
Type: Assault Carrier
Crew: 10,000
Compliment: ~1,000 Officers / ~3,500 Enlisted / ~2,000 Leviathan Drones
Variants: N/A
Armor: Super-Reinforced "Morpheus" Regenerative Armor w/ Crystal-Carbon Bonded Superstructure. Redundant Modulation.
Shield: 2XXUW Omni-Guard Energetic Barrier
Speed: 2,000 km/s (Kilometers per Second)
Powerhouse: 6x Hydrogen Reactor Engine Blocks w/ Solar Captures
Primary Armament: 12x Tachyon Broadside Arrays
Secondary Armament: 14x Tachyon Cannon Arrays
Tertiary Armament: 20x Red Flak Laser Emplacements
Support Compliment: 2x Air-Space Superiority Fighter Divisions
Invasion Capacity: 2x NAG Force Deployment Divisions
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Summary: The Retribution-class assault carrier is an old and storied design. The Retribution, along-side its more brutal counterpart, the Deliverance-class dreadnought, was largely responsible for spearheading the majority of the First Ring of Expansion. But whereas the Deliverance was a direct reaction to the heavier navies encountered across the new territory, the Retribution was the natural next step for drone force projection, the Avalonian Navy's primary way of combat.

With the ability to field two whole fighter divisions, the Retribution was the force to be reckoned with during its heyday. Often accompanied by at least a light-carrier, and several frigates and destroyers, the Retribution was the first true capital ship of the Avalonian fleet. This was because unlike the Avalon-class light carrier, the Retribution brought a lot more than just than the ability to bring more drones to the fight.

It was the ability to house and deploy two whole NAG Force Deployment Divisions (FEDs) that truly set it apart from the Avalon. Unlike a normal NAG Division, a NAG FED was significantly smaller than its normal counterpart. Their specialization however, went beyond that of terrestrial combat. A NAG FED was a crack team of anywhere from two-hundred to three-hundred bodies with support personnel which could wage both terrestrial and spacial warfare.

On the ground, a NAG FED would act as both marines and as force recon. Their job was to secure the beach-head, set up the initial base-camp, and scout out the opposition present, in addition to sabotaging, conducting terror attacks, and wrecking havoc upon the local populace if the opportunity presents itself. Among their number are often multiple teams of combat engineers able to quickly erect semi-permanent structures which serve to help the Leviathan both seed a world and allow for the larger and more standard NAG divisions to deploy their heavier equipment.

In space, the NAG FED act as an elite force of ship guardians, a compliment to the Leviathan drones already deployed on the vessel, in addition to acting as the ship's raiding party. Often, their deployment is overshadowed by an extreme amount of focus by the local drone swarm before special transports are readied and deployed into the vastness of space. But, should the opportunity present itself, it is not uncommon for a Retribution to pull up along side its prey, broadsides roaring, and for the NAG FED to deploy from hangar-to-hangar.

In relation to the Dreadnought, its armor still lacks. However, in comparison to the Avalon-class, the Retribution's armor is both thicker and able to sustain more damage. The Retribution was designed specifically to able to survive a combat engagement in which the enemy manages to damage or disable forty-percent of all sections/decks on the ship. Much to this regard, in current Avalonian combat doctrine, the Deliverance-class Dreadnought can be seen often side-by-side with the Retribution because both have the armor and the capacity to soak and return significant amounts of enemy fire.

All in all, the Retribution-class assault carrier is the pride of the Avalonian Navy, even with the Nyx making its presence felt all across Avalonian space. It stands as and still is an epitome of Avalonian engineering. Time will tell however if the Nyx can rise above its more storied predecessor.
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