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Moriath/Budoka Weapons:
Macil - The traditional armament and symbol of the Moriath, the Macil is a Force Artifact and weapon that can be used in a variety of different ways. Skill with a Macil is typically exemplified by one's ability to wield the Force through one's Macil. The usual form is some variant of Uremacil, a Macil with a blade encased in plasma. A rarer but more powerful form of Macil is the Mormacil, which has a Folded Space blade. The difficulty of using a Mormacil rises from the need to directly manipulate the blade through the Force, to overcome its inertia, with the Macil serving only as a focus and point of reference.

In addition to the energized forms of Macil, Uremacil and Mormacil, there are many shapes that Macil may take depending on how it is intended to be used.



Valmacil - There is an additional type of Macil, rarely seen and legendary for the skill required to wield it. A Valmacil is a form of Macil created entirely through the Force without the physical focus of a Macil. Valmacil are typically more powerful than conventional Macil because they require greater strength and skill to wield. This gap is so significant that the Valmacil equivalents to Uremacil and Mormacil are termed Narmacil and Lostmacil, respectively.

Quesse - The second traditional weapon of the Moriath, Quesse have been declining in popularity but are still used in some capacity by most Moriath. Quesse are crafted in the same way as Macil and are also Force Artifacts. They differ in use and function. Quesse may extend in the same way as Macil and may also link with eachother or a Macil in chains. Quesse are also capable of locomotion through their own field drives and emitting plasma either for thrust or as projectiles. Quesse can be used as armor, as missiles, or in conjunction with Macil to form a greater variety of weapons, such as chain whips.


Andamacil - The Andamacil is the traditional weapon of the Budoka. It is primarily a melee weapon, similar to a two handed axe or a quarterstaff in use. However, it is also capable of firing a blue-white plasma projectile out from between its two blades. Inherently not the most accurate weapon, Budoka train with their personal weapons extensively so that they may each have precision and accuracy.


Cannon and Directed Energy Weapons:
Beam-Projectile Weaponry - The primary form of directed energy weapon used by the Empire, mostly found on ships of the Empire. There are two components to any Beam-Projectile weapon, an EM field projector and a Plasma Fusion cannon. Initially, the weapon fires a powerful electro-magnetic beam down the line of the barrel. The beam is unique in that it has an oscillating charge that results in a net neutral charge, so it cannot be deflected by other magnetic fields. Inside the weapon, plasma particles (Deuterium and Helium-3) are generated and energized, the particles are then shot along the EM beam, accelerating them to within 80% of the speed of light, instigating nuclear fusion. Additionally, the particles are imbued with rotational velocities by the beam, resulting in a rifling effect that significantly increases the inertia of the projectile. The final result is a weapon that uses an initial EM beam, traveling relatively instantaneously, to guide a powerful projectile to a target. However, the beam is also highly tunable in range and power, so that the weapon can appear to fire single projectiles without any apparent beam. The beam guidance of the projectile means that this weapon does not lose effectiveness in atmospheres because the beam isolates the projectile from the atmosphere until it impacts the target. While these weapons fire projectiles which undergo Fusion, this is not a radiological weapon because Deuterium/Helium-3 Fusion is aneutronic, meaning there is almost no neutron radiation, which is the harmful kind. The projectile part of this weapon is so powerful that, to comply with the Peace Accords, the beam component has to be severely attenuated to the point where it does little if any damage to the target, serving only to guide projectiles. This does have one benefit of the beam being sensitive enough to make it possible to determine the target's shield frequency by analyzing the feedback in the beam.

Tachyonic Blaster Cannons: Tachyonic Blasters work by taking tachyonic matter, similar to the hypermatter found in ordinary hyperfusion reactor cores, and giving it so much energy that it crosses the lightspeed barrier to sublight speed. In a sense, it is the inverse of a hyperdrive, which takes sublight matter and propels it to superluminal speeds. The result is a bolt of particle-wave energy traveling at nearly the speed of light and having an extreme amount of momentum. The energy blasts from these weapons are more powerful than the Heavy Turbolaser batteries of the Sith Star Dreadnoughts, but they also require massive amounts of energy and therefore have a slow rate of fire, about one per minute. Tachyonic Blaster Cannons far exceed the weapon power restrictions of the Peace Accords so they are currently not used on any Imperial vessels; however, the nature of picocytic technology allows the ships to be refitted with the Blasters easily and at a moment's notice.

ECHO Weaponry - Energy Compressed Hyper-Ordnance, ECHO, is the standard projectile used by the Empire's projectile weaponry. ECHO guns fire picocytic projectiles that store energy through a form of Quantum Compression. Typically, the rounds are energized and propelled by anti-/matter reactions within the guns, accurized with Field Drives and rifling. The primary benefit of ECHO rounds is their ability to have atypically high inertia and/or velocity because they can store energy. Furthermore, the amount of energy absorbed, and whether it affects inertia or velocity, is tunable on the fly for each round. Therefore, for stealth missions, rounds can be subsonic, but still have their usual power by increasing their inertia. Mirai weapons also don't need sound and flash suppressors for stealth because the rounds can simply be set to absorb more energy from the gun.

Necrotizing Rounds - "Necro" Rounds are bullets designed to maximize wounding capability. A silicon-based coral-like projectile is grown in such a shape that the bullet embedded in mobile tissue is pushed forward while cutting through the tissue. This motion causes the release of self-similar subprojectiles radiating out from the bullet by the same mechanism. This continues with progressively smaller projectiles down to microscopic silicon triangles. The bioengineered surface shreds soft targets while the silicon composition kills carbon-based tissue. The rounds are designed to be armor piercing, but failure to penetrate will still release its subprojectiles into the air to cause irritation to exposed tissue and limited necrosis. When a target is hit by one of these rounds, there is intense pain as the projectile works deeper and releases subprojectiles. Additionally, the target's own circulatory system will spread the microscopic projectiles and toxins released by the necrotic tissue.

Semi-/Autonomous Weapons:
Mines and Grenades - Mirai infantry often carry multiple grenades and possibly several mines of different types. While both are types of explosive charges, Mirai grenades are reusable where Mirai mines are destroyed when they explode. Grenades are also generally weaker than mines. Grenades can be reused because they don't carry any explosive materials, but are instead particle emitters capable of generating several different types of matter. To be used in an explosive capacity, the grenades often emit some form of plasma, but the same grenade can also emit photons of light, various chemicals and gases, or even some liquids.

Mirai Drone Weapon - The Mirai Drone weapon is a semi-autonomous missile of variable yield that is powered by a MergeSpace connection to the power core of a large vessel, at least as large as the Meneltarma Ship of the Line. The Drone is capable of exploding destructively or emitting an energy field that disintegrates matter allowing the Drone to pass through a target or completely destroy it without the Drone being destroyed. Drones are the primary armament of the Meneltarma and larger classes of ships. They are controlled from a Control Chair and can be guided precisely to specific targets, but also have on-board intelligence that makes control intuitive for whomever is using the Chair.

Mirai Drone Weapon, Deactivated and Energized


Vinyanar Bomb - The Vinyanar Bomb is a high yield semi-autonomous weapon designed to function as a fighter-delivered heavy ordnance capable of destroying even a space station of moderate size. It is equipped with a Field Drive that provides limited mobility and is inert up to the point of detonation. At that point, a Quantum Duality field is generated in the core of the bomb and a quantity of neutronic stellar matter from the core of Regulus is transported into the core of the bomb. Once the field dissipates, the neutron matter rapidly decompresses in an astronomically massive explosion on the order of a stellar nova.

Vinyanar Bomb


Elennoth Bomb - The Elennoth Bomb is essentially a weaponized Stargate. It is a high precision semi-autonomous weapon designed to function as a fighter-delivered heavy ordnance capable of highly accurate strikes against multiple targets. Built using the Vinyanar casing, the Elennoth has a Field Drive to provide limited mobility. But instead of the Vinyanar warhead, the Elennoth bomb has three Stargate Event Horizons, without the wormholes of course. These materialize thirty ILM's each, which then attack targets based on the initial instructions of the Elennoth bomb. They are used to destroy a large number of specific targets at once or to focus a concerted explosion against one or more targets. Once the ILM's are detonated, the original casing follows and detonates with the force of a Calinehta missile.

Elennoth Bomb


Calinehta Missile - The Calinehta missile is one of the oldest modern munitions still used by the Empire. Without a doubt, it is the most used ordnance, specifically designed to be easily and quickly modulated to meet a wide variety of needs. The missile itself is composed of three Field Drives and a picocytic warhead. The warhead is the most advanced feature of the Calinehta. It creates a fully variable transphasic explosion by using a Quantum Field and particles generated by its Field Drives to form a contained microcosm that decays in thousandths of a second and produces the explosion. In addition to the explosive power being fully variable, it is also impossible for the missile to be detonated prematurely because it has no chemicals or fuels to explode.

Calinehta Missile


Weapon Platforms/Satellite Weapons:
Cirinci Defense Satellite - The Cirinci Defense Satellite is the penultimate defensive line of Sanguinos, followed only by the people of the planet herself. In low orbit there is a dense, automatically replenishing, field of Cirinci, small satellites with independent drive, power, networking, and weapons systems. The weapons system for each satellite is simple, a Plasma Fusion beam fired from one of the four vertices of the satellite. However, each weapon is also capable of communicating with its neighbors to produce a geometrically stronger beam with greater range by focusing the beams of several weapons. The satellites can also project beams between each other to transfer power or to form a sort of defensive field. Cirinci are wholly autonomous, ignoring any communications not from other satellites and only responding to specific information from other Cirinci. Each satellite is programmed to target and destroy anything with charged, non-Mirai, weapons, which it determines by an analysis of a device's power output and use. If a satellite is incapable of doing so, it will ask other satellites to attack with it, first with multiple beams, then a single focused beam if the first fails. If that also fails, the new satellites will ask others near them to attack as well. This pattern can continue on up to all satellites over the planet firing one massive beam, with those satellites unable to acquire the target transferring their power to satellites that can.

The satellites move at random within a particular range of altitudes, slowly circulating over the entire planet to ensure that defective satellites will be discovered quickly or at least will not cause critical faults in the defensive net as a whole. Each satellite is also quadruply redundant, internally, to minimize the chance of malfunction and make the satellites more robust.

EM Cloak - Even with the advanced technology available to the Mirai and the development of more effective cloaking devices, it has been found that certain operations are particularly suited to a simple electro-magnetic cloak that still permits a subject to be heard and felt. The Imperial EM Cloak induces a modulation in the movements of electrons in the atoms of a cloaked object. The altered electron clouds pass photons around the nucleus without altering their overall trajectory or significantly affecting their energy levels. The overall result is that a cloaked object becomes almost entirely transparent to all forms of EM radiation. The EM cloak requires very little energy, only an initial charge to affect a few atoms or to reverse that affect. The modulated electron clouds induce an identical modulation in adjacent atoms, though only solid phase matter retains the modulation for an extended period of time and it takes prolonged exposure to extend the cloak. An additional benefit to this cloak is that it can be passed on to objects picked up by cloaked individuals.

ConShift Cloak -

The primary medium for communication in the Empire is the Force. All Imperial citizens are raised to 'speak' through the Force in the Mirai language. This language is used to command picocytes and operate Imperial control interfaces. It works by sending vibrations through the Force, requiring knowledge and very fine control, but not power per se, so even the weakest Mirai can use it. Most Imperial machines also communicate through the Force, such as the hyperbeacons, but they use their own computer languages that use different frequencies of the Force and are 'inaudible' to all but the most sensitive citizens. Additionally, while all Mirai can communicate through the Force at conversational ranges, it takes a powerful Force-user or some type of communications relay to communicate over greater distances.

Citizens are also trained to speak Basic and read and write many common languages.

Picocyte Circulatory System - Picocyte Circulatory Systems are networks of conduits filled with flowing picocytic nanomachines that can distribute power, communications, and sensors. They are usually used in conjunction with power cores, but the systems can provide lower level power on their own as well.

Crystal Power Core - One of the oldest and most used Imperial power sources is the Force-based Crystal Power Core. These systems are based on specially designed crystals specifically tuned to the Force. The crystals automatically focus and convert Force energy into more usable types of energy and draw that Force from the very fabric of the universe.

Micro-Singularity - Typically, Quantum Compression fields are modulated negate the Compressed mass. Micro-Singularities are Quantum Singularities of relatively low mass created by reversing the negation of the compressed matter's mass. They are then used in high-output independent power systems.

UniSpace/MergedSpace - A MergedSpace-based power unit simply creates a link to a remote power plant, usually the power core of a parent capital ship. UniSpace power units connect to the core of Regulus, the pulsar at the center of the Mirai system. UniSpace units are capable of providing significantly more power than MergedSpace units.

Uniforms:
Armor Uniform -

Unarmored Uniform -

Exercise Uniform -

Weapons:
21.5cm Combat Knife
Blade Length - 21.5 cm
Blade Width - ~3.4 cm
Blade Thickness - 0.2 cm
Handle Length - 13.9 cm
Overall Length - 36.5 cm


43 cm Combat Sword
Blade Length - 43 cm
Blade Width - 8 cm
Blade Thickness - >1 cm
Handle Length - ~ 9 cm
Overall Length - ~ 54 cm
Description - Even in these modern times with blaster and missiles and plasma rifles, some soldiers prefer the reliability of a good solid blade. Crafted from Elennium, Mirai combat swords have a broad, flat blade for blocking and deflecting, but thin for piercing stabs.



5.56x45mm Semi-Automatic Pistol
Caliber - 5.56x45mm
Range - 800 m Maximum; 150 m Effective without Aiming Augmentation
Round Capacity - 300 per Magazine, 1 Magazine held in Stock
Rate of Fire - 40 Rounds per Minute
Firing Modes - Semi-Automatic; Semi-Automatic, Stealth;
Projectile Modes - Inert; Proximity Explosive; Impact Explosive; Delayed Explosive; Pyrophoric; Homing;
Sights - Partridge Sights
Description - This is the standard sidearm worn by all Mirai except those issued the Marksman pistol.


9x30mm Marksman Pistol
Caliber - 9x30mm
Range - 1200 m Maximum; 300 m Effective without Aiming Augmentation
Round Capacity - 180 per Magazine, 2 Magazine held in Stock
Rate of Fire - 70 Rounds per Minute
Firing Modes - Semi-Automatic; Semi-Automatic, Stealth; Two Round Burst; Two Round Burst, Stealth;
Projectile Modes - Inert; Proximity Explosive; Impact Explosive; Delayed Explosive; Pyrophoric; Homing;
Sights - Partridge Sights
Description -


5.56x45mm Assault Carbine
Caliber - 5.56x45mm
Range - 1500 m
Round Capacity - 300 per Magazine, 5 Magazines held in Stock
Rate of Fire - 900 Rounds per Minute
Firing Modes - Semi-Automatic; Fully Automatic; Semi-Automatic, Stealth;
Fully Automatic, Stealth;
Projectile Modes - Inert; Proximity Explosive; Impact Explosive; Delayed Explosive; Pyrophoric; Homing;
Attachments - Under-barrel Bayonet; Under-barrel 20mm Shotgun; Under-barrel Beam-Projectile Cannon;
Sights - 3-300x Reflex Scope with Top-mounted V-Notch and Triangle Iron Sights
Description - The Mirai Assault Carbine is the standard armament for all Mirai. Its extremely small size and light weight allow the Carbine to be carried as a secondary weapon by soldiers wielding other larger weapons as their primary weapons. While it fires a very small 5.56x45mm round, the picocytic composition of the projectile enables the weapon to damage targets through a number of different mechanisms easily selected by the rifleman. Additionally, this gives the weapon a very flat trajectory, but long range, even when firing rounds in the subsonic stealth mode.

With Bayonet

With 10mm Beam-Projectile Cannon

With 20x45mm Under-barrel Shotgun


20x45mm Combat Shotgun -
Caliber - 20x45mm
Range - 1500 m
Round Capacity - 100 per Magazine, 7 Magazines held in Stock
Rate of Fire - 120 Rounds per Minute
Firing Modes - Semi-Automatic; Fully Automatic; Semi-Automatic, Stealth;
Fully Automatic, Stealth;
Projectile Modes - Shot; Proximity Explosive; Impact Explosive; Delayed Explosive; Pyrophoric; Homing;
Sights - 3-300x Reflex Scope with Top-mounted V-Notch and Triangle Iron Sights
Description -


5.56x45mm Precision Rifle -


5.56x45mm Four-Barrel Suppression Rifle -


ILM Launcher -


Additional Equipment:
MIRDRAL -

Class A Mine -


Class B Mine -


Class C Mine -


Disc Grenade -


Stick Grenade -

Class: Capital Cruiser

Designation: E.M.F. Blue Hell

Race/Product Manufacturer: Dimer Morcel

Physical Description/Dimensions:
Crew Capacity: 1500 Souls
Height: 72 m 47.77 cm, without Pylons; ~130 m, with Pylons
Length: 500 m, without Pylons; ~540 m, with Pylons
Beam: ~200 m
Decks: 25


Affiliation: Unified Empire

Rank: (N/A for Mechanics)

History/Design Features:
Pylons - Like the Meneltarma Ship of the Line, Blue Hell has pylons attached to the main fuselage that house Calinehta missile launchers and drone launchers in the thousands. The pylons also have the massively oversized sensor arrays of Blue Hell. These pylons show that Calinehta missiles and drone weapons are meant to be the ship's primary weapon.

Cannon Batteries - Cannon Batteries replace the recessed turrets of most Imperial vessels. Their primary advantage is that their weaponry does not need to be extended before firing. Also, each cannon in the battery can be moved along the length of the battery so that multiple weapons can track the same target simultaneously. Finally, in addition to having twenty Beam-Projectile Cannons per battery, each battery has three Tachyonic Blaster cannons. The cannons violate the Peace Accords and as such are kept secret by the crew and not listed in the ship's schematics.

ILM Defense Ports - Blue Hell has twelve strategically distributed ILM launchers positioned around its hull. Through these ports, ILM's form an automated close defense of the hull. Any point on or near the ship's outer surface may be reached by an ILM in under three seconds. Coupled with advance warning from the ship's powerful sensor suite, ILM's can repel anything from boarding ships to incoming munitions.

Science Sections - Blue Hell has dedicated Science Sections linked directly to the sensor arrays. These sections contain labs, advanced computers, and research offices. They enable Blue Hell to develop and immediately implement radical solutions to problems and countermeasures to enemy tactics and defenses.

Fabrication Sections - The Fabrication Sections are capable of producing materials and technology on demand, which primarily comes from the Science Sections. Together with the Science Sections, the Fabrication Sections are the cause for Blue Hell's versatility and flexibility in combat.

Cirya and Deathviper Hangars - Blue Hell has a flight of Cirya and three squadrons of Deathvipers. These are used to deliver marines to the ground or ordnance to targets beyond the range of ship-launched Calinehta missiles.

Type Omega Power Plant - Blue Hell is powered by a Type Omega Powerplant with an output able to power a Menelos Carrier Station. The massive power is to ensure all the ship's weapons may function simultaneously. Using the technology for building Micro-Singularities, the Omega Core weaves an artificial Cosmic String. The string is unstable and promptly destructs, releasing energy. One hundred percent of that energy is harnessed to power the ship.

Master/ Operator: Dimer Morcel

Weapon(s): Drone Launchers; Calinehta Missile Launchers; 10x Cannon Batteries, each with 3 Tachyonic Blaster Cannons and 20 Beam-Projectile Cannons; 12x ILM Defense Ports

Company: 192x Deathvipers; 16x Cirya

Defensive Capabilities: Reactive Armor Plating; Ellipsoidal Reactive Plasma Shield; Projected Quantum Matrix Shields

Ship/Mode of transport/Propulsion: Field Drive; Quantum Emergence Drive

Specialty: Flagship; Scout Carrier

Strengths: Powered by the height of Imperial Technology; Dedicated scientific research facilities; Long Range, High Resolution Sensors

Weaknesses: Relatively small

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Class: Imperial Cargo Ship

Designation: Nithrond

Race/Product Manufacturer: Unified Empire
Physical Description/Dimensions:
Crew Capacity: 16, Crew of 4; Can be outfitted to carry 256
Height: 11 m
Length: 60 m
Beam: 40 m







Affiliation: Unified Empire

History/Design Features: The Nithrond class is the cargo hauler of the Unified Empire. While an old design, picocytic technology keeps it on the cutting edge of Imperial science. Unarmed, Nithrond have a large internal cargo space that can be outfitted to accommodate anything that needs transporting, including personnel. They can even be made to hold an operational Stargate. Nithrond also have onboard Ring platforms that transport directly to their holds, in addition to three traditional airlocks. And while not usually armed, there have been instances where a Nithrond was loaded with Calinehta and rigged so they could be fired either straight out an airlock or using the Ring transporter.

Master/ Operator: Imperial Citizen

Weapon(s): None Standard, may be outfitted to fire Calinehta missiles from the Cargo Hold

Defensive Capabilities: Reactive Armor Plating; Ellipsoidal Reactive Plasma Shield

Ship/Mode of transport/Propulsion: Field Drive

Specialty: Material/Personnel Transport

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Weaknesses:

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Other: Onboard Ring Transporter