Section Command

Section Command was borne out of necessity.  The Political Officers were already aboard the UTN Fleet and were instrumental in their many victories.  However they failed when they crash landed on Eave.  In the early years they were as fractured as the petty warlords that split up and threatened the fledging state.  With the coming of the Church of Man they were basically hamstrung and no longer needed.  Remus Coviso saw that the Church of Man was gaining in secret power.  When Tullson II convened power and pulled all the fractured nations together, Remus proposed to reinstate all the Political Officers and to teach the youths of Tulath.  He proposed to have a system of schools and with the schools the political system of the new Empire could be taught and learned and reinforced.  There has been many births since the crash and there was still no way to teach them, so Tullson II agreed.  The youths of Tulath were forced to go to school and with that were then exposed to all the propaganda the state could throw at them.

Section Command was born then.  Slowly Remus started to build his command.  They needed spies internally, so Section 3 was born.  When Danaan was found, Section 4 was founded.  They are a vast network of information.  They let the Emperor know of their existence only when it suits them and they have eliminated certain Emperors to allow others to take his place.  They are loyal to their Nation and not to the man, despite what the propaganda machine may turn out.

• Section Zero: Section Command leaders.  It consists of the Duchess and the lead for each of the Sections.
• Section 1: Propaganda.  The largest propaganda machine on Eave and they work for the Duchess Coviso.  Their front is a publicity and marketing company.  They secretly work on forming, organizing and implementing propaganda in the Empire.  It was Section 1’s idea to allow the an assassination attempt on the Empress and Section 5’s job to see that she was never in any real danger.
• Section 2: The Teachers.  The Teachers look for those student of special worth and slot them for possible recruitment.  Not all of the teachers are members of Section Command but you can bet there are at least one in every large school. 
• Section 3: Internal Security, the secret police.  They just report what they find, they don’t do anything else to make sure that they aren’t found and Section isn’t compromised.  They have infiltrated the Church of Man and know about the secret vaults, but have yet accessed them.
• Section 4: External Security, the spies.  By mandate, they are not allowed to spy on the Empire of Tulath itself.  They currently have at least twenty spies in the Northern Kingdom.
• Section 5: Special Forces.  Made up of Spartans and non-Spartans alike, they are very dangerous force.  If they do their job right, you don’t even know that they are there.  They are there to eliminate those factions that are too dangerous to let live, but too public to let die senselessly.  They are masters of that “accident.”
• The Political Officers.  Political Officers (or Commissars) are publically known not as part of the Section Command but as part of any large, non-Spartan unit.  They are all part of Section Command however and keep the loyalty of the troops in line.  The lead Commissars know of Section Command.
• Section X: Experimental.  They make and experiment everything that the Section may need from weapons to gadgets.  What they are currently working on is rather unsettling as they take prisoners and experiment on them.  They are trying to create bio-weapons that target the eladrin!  They are also working on the nature of magic.  They have come up with some technological items that negate the magic fields that they produce.

The Kingdom of Danaan, Part I

Danaan is a bucolic nation of generally good and hardworking people.  Descendants of the Earth Fleet that crash landed on Eave it took them a great long while to gather their forces together and make the best of the world.  It all started with their main Battlecruiser Danaan crashed into a large lake at the base of a plateau.  Many of the crew were forced to evacuate the ship and the eladrin of Hanali collected them all.  The ship’s captain, Admiral Markan Andahar was surprised to see a boat come out greet them.  A single eladrin armed with only a slender sword and a bow, was on the boat that seemed to glide in the water without any means of propulsion.  They were both rather fearful of each other, but curious as well.  Admiral Andahar was surprised to see a somewhat intelligent being, seeing as how in orbit, nothing technological was found.  Tovar of the Hanli was surprised to see these humans that dropped from the heavens.  It was tense at first, until Tovar cast a spell that allowed them to communicate with each other.  They say that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and for all their advanced technology Admiral Andahar and his crew could not figure out how Tovar could do that.  When he asked, he just said it was a simple spell.  Magic.  Needless to say that Admiral Andahar unsure about what to do, but the decision was taken from his hands.

The eladrin had just found out how evil the human were.  Prince Elaor and the Aragoi was just slain by the humans of Tulath.  Suddenly the flight deck where the parlay was being held was filled with eladrin, all armed and armored.  Overhead flew an eladrin airship borne aloft by magic.  It seems that they were all invisible, the humans only getting a glimmer of some weird energy from their sensors.  It became tense as they faced off against one another as more humans came out including a mech.  They came to extract their prince and Admiral Andahar stopped his people from firing.

The next couple of years were intense.  Danaan was slowly collecting there people that was scattered across the land.  They eladrin found many of them and returned them.  The eladrin found out that they were two separate forces of the human that fought in the stars and that the ones from the Earth Ship Danaan was not aligned with them.  Eventually the elves seeded them the plateaus, seeing as how the humans could not leave their world.

Tir was the name of the lake that the Earth Ship Danaan landed in.  Danaan Tir soon became the capitol of the Kingdom of Danaan.  Soon they shot out and claimed other plateaus after they developed the airships.  They began to map out this world which they had taking a more and more feudal aspect to their society.  This was mainly due to the eladrin, because when Prince Tovar asked them who their king was.  They have a king now along with eight baronies, each barony acting as a state that works for the betterment of the whole.  They have knighthoods and orders and guilds, very much in opposition to what Tulath has.  Danaan is about the people.

The other cities, the capitols of the Baronies are as follows:

• The Barony of Crosstaal, ruled by House danGael.  The current Baroness of Vorra danGeal.  They stand at Harro’s Wall to the South.
• The Barony of Eastaare, ruled by House danEvan.  The current Baron is Distan danEvan and his wife Jhass.  They are on the Eastern shores and have developed into great sailors
• The Barony of Holdingford, ruled by House danAven.  The current Baron is a man named Coaran danAven and his wife Hylise.  The danAven family are in the center of the kingdom and are the richest family.
• The Barony of Kassingtonne, ruled by House danHanno.  The current Baron is Martin danHanno and his wife Sera.  The developer of the first airships.
• The Barony of Leavestonne, ruled by house danRahn.  The current Baroness in Kanna danRahn and her wife Tully.  A full 60% of the food for the Kingdom is grown here. 
• The Barony of Maarke, ruled by house danTaere.  The current Baron is a widower named Kemmon danTaere.  The Colleges of Danaan are located in this Barony.
• The Barony of Stormtonne, ruled by House danTaven.  The current Baron is Aylen danTaven and he is married to Beyissa of Hanali.  This is the first union of man and eladrin and they are the emissaries between the two kingdoms.
• The Barony of Torringtonne, ruled by House danKavel.  The current Baroness is Syval danKavel and her husband Forret.  They have the active space program of the Kingdom of Danaan.

[If anyone would like to know something specific about the World of Eave, do let me know.  Feel free to leave comments on anything and I will answer as I can!]

The Empire of Tulath, Part I

The majority of cities that are under the control if Imperial Tulath are old dwarven holds, keeps and cities, so much of Tulath is located underground.  Much of what is theirs are connected by impressive train lines that keep the flow of trade goods and most importantly food.  Because of their mountainous terrain they are in they have little to no arable land in order to grow crops.  The ancient fields that the dwarves once used are no more, having been reclaimed by the forests and jungles of the elves.  To feed their large population they have had to beat the elves and slash and burn incredible amounts of land and then hold it from the elves.  Some years are lean, some years are feast.

The capitol of Imperial Tulath is a city named Narimath, to honor Admiral Tullson Narimath.  It was a medium-to-large dwaven city, the first city to ever found by humans.  Over the course of time they have spent on Eave they have dug out the sides of the mountain in which the city lay so it can breathe.  It is a serious feat of engineering.  The Imperial Court is there running the Empire, a huge bureaucracy that seems to be running well.  A cathedral to the Church of Man is there and it shows Admiral Tullson Narimath as a saint in the stained glass.

The Empress is a young girl of thirteen, but to say she is a figure head is a lie.  Corrine Norimath hautTulath is Spartan Blooded.  Even though Tullson II was not Spartan Blooded, it is common for the Emperors and Empress to take Spartan Blooded for their significant other.  She already stands close to two meters tall with blonde hair she keeps short due to the rigors of combat.  She is consoled by the Duke Koromikos and trained by the First Spartan Elite Guard and schooled by the Church of Man.  She has already seen an assassination attempt and she ended up having to slay the two elves form Galadon that tried to kill her when she visited the UTN Tulath.

The UTN Tulath is the spiritual center of Tulath.  It is a hard won battle to take it and keep it and keep it they have.  They have cleared a massive perimeter around the ship and it is the heart of their military.  Tulath City has sprung up around the massive ship and the train line that goes to it is heavily patrolled by Spartan troops on the ground and fliers from the Air Corps protect in from the air.  It is from there they control the various bits of the forests.

The largest city Tulath is Altair.  Named for the star system Altair, it the central home to the Duchy of Coviso.  The Church of Man controls the largest foundries on the planet and they are found here.  Unfortunately the Tech Priests and the current Duchess of Coviso do not see eye-to-eye.  Duchess Dheyla Coviso controls most of the propaganda for the Empire, a job at which they excelled.  She also secretly leads the spy cabal, The Section that along with The Church of Man keeps the Empire strong and unbroken.  They eliminate those that seem to be unassailable and do stuff like let the elves know of a secret ways through UTN Tulath to attempt to assassinate the Empress.  She was in no danger, but the boost to popularity among the populace went through the roof.  They do what needs to be done.

There are like six other large cities and countless towns throughout the Empire. 

Harro's Wall, Part I

Harro’s Wall was found in Year 185, toward the end of The Dark Times.  It was a huge fortress constructed by the dwarves when they were still a viable people.  Harro danGael was a hearty man (a remnant of the Spartan Project) and a quick look of the defenses showed that the wall defended the Northern side from the Southern side.  This frightened them.  Here was an absolutely huge and seemingly impenetrable fortress which bisected the continents that lay in the ruins of a mighty battle.  The skeletons of the dwarves, beasts and an unknown humanoid creature that looked to be slightly shorter that the dwarves but with exaggerated skulls.  They skeletons they found with the exaggerated skulls numbered over a hundred thousand.

Harro spent his remaining years refortifying the wall, just in case the creatures ever came back.  He found foundries and forges underneath the wall and when he died in Year 221, they had just a quarter of the foundries up and running.  The mountains proved to be impassable for a number of years due to impossibly heavy snowfalls.  Even with the development of airships, all that they were able to do was make preliminary scouting reports or were lost.  Vancent danAndahar, the king at the time, stated that this was the southernmost edge of the kingdom.  That suited the danGaels just fine as the refortification of the fortress took much of their time, in addition the surrounding mountains where a treasure trove of minable ores.  Soon the fortress was bristling with weapons both old and new.

In Year 239 their fears were realized as they got reports of seeing strange humanoid creatures.  Short, green skinned, with exaggerated heads that struck in the night or in the darkened tunnels of the mines.  The goblins where not dead.  For years they have struck at the men and women of Crosstaal.  Sometimes they would slaughter everyone and other times not a sign of survivors was found as if they were taken.  Not many survivors of the attacks where ever found, but the few that survived where surprised at the bloodthirsty viciousness of their attackers.  This was the start of The Goblin Wars which lasted for over a hundred years, countless raids and four massive attacks on the wall.  The wall held and the goblins would not be seen until Year 467, the year that Tulath arrived and tried their hand at taking the wall thus beginning the Age of Sorrow.

The Church of Man, Part III

Science is not a forgotten lore to the Empire if Tulath.  Magic is mainly just used to bolster the prevailing science.  Like the trains that use the superheated metal to create the steam required.  In fact, the factories were dirty affairs but have cleaned up significantly.  This was found out after the Church of Man discovered that magic failed to work when it got 143.62 kilometers above the surface of the planet.  Nothing could change the fact that everything stopped working when it got to that height.  If they wished to return to the stars, they would have to use science.

The Tech-Priests have done a lot of for the Empire of Tulath.  They have saved their society from barbarism and strengthened it to be a dominant force.  That is not all the Church of Man does however.  They have terrible weapons of mundane, magic and science-make within their vaults.  They are now searching the world for the portals that brought the eladrin here from a distant planet, thinking that if they could recreate the journey that eladrin took, they could find their way to Terra and eventually home.

The Church of Man, Part II

The Church then spent many a year on supporting the fledgling Empire.  One thing that they pondered long and hard on were the ancient dwarves that lived in the cities that they now occupied.  What they found was magic and it both freighted and fascinated them.  They collected as many of the ancient dwarven arms, armor and miscellaneous items that bore and enchantment that they could get their hands on.  They then began to study them and were baffled at what they had found.

Magic was locked away from the people of Tulath for over four hundred years.  It was not until a young smith by the name of Thom Nakamura paved the way.  It was Thom Nakamura that uncovered what was needed for the Tulathians to understand what was needed. He worked the forges for many a year making some fine weapons and armor because that is what the Chruch of Man told him to do.  He wanted more.  He wanted to make a weapon that could shatter a gate, blow away a stand of men or be hurled the length of a hundred paces and return to the hand that threw it.  Thom Nakamura found an eladrin that could speak the ancient and now dead language and forced it to teach him the language.  He figured, correctly, that the chants of ancient power were needed to forge the arms and armor.  He then forged a weapon using the forbidden words spoken in dwarvish.  The first weapon he ever made was a dagger that to this day, by the Emperors of Tulath.  It is said that the Dagger of Nakamura can cut though any metal put to the test.  It has never lost its keen edge and cannot be destroyed by any means.  It was then that the Tulathians has a renaissance of dwarven engineering.  They began to understand the myriad of ancient dwarven items that they had in their vaults.  The next part of their plan was to figure out a way to incorporate the ancient magic with their fading technology.

The Tech-Priests of the Church of Man soon became even more powerful and the only way to make the enchanted items was to learn dwarvish and the only way to learn dwarvish was to be initiated into the Church of Man.  The Tech-Priests have made great advancements in not just arms and armor but also public works, transportation and materials.  They have made the incredible trains that goes though there lands using their magic to continually heat a piece of metal to incredible temperatures to replace the use of coal.  They have made incredible public works such as open gates to an incredible source of water for drinking and sanitation.  They have made the Grand Imperial Palace nigh impregnable to attack my magic or science.

Stay tuned for Part III

The Church of Man, Part I

The Church of Man

The Church of Man started out as a club of various Captains, Admirals and the like within the United Terran Navy.  This club, Unified Man, came about choosing their members from the best and the brightest of the eugenically and genetically engineered human of the Navy and they espoused greatness of the human body and mind and as such housed many great minds of the time.  Admiral Nerimath was one such leader of Unified Man and the current Church of Man revere him and the defense of the UTN ship Tulath as a saint.

Unified Man has changed a lot in the thousand years since Tulath crashed onto Eave.  Disbanded after Admiral Tulath’s death because Antor Koromikos was afraid of them staging a coup, they still lived on in secret.  The people were disillusioned and breaking up into petty states in the years after they had fled Tulath for the mountians.  They needed a strong leader so Unified Man began to secretly take in orphaned youths to train them in the ways of combat, the pursuits of the mind and honor of leadership.  When they had a proper candidate who was trained in the right way they approached Antor Koromikos in his last year (he lived until he was ninety-six), a bitter and broken man trying to hold the remnants of his people together.  They proposed a deal, one that Antor could not refuse.

Three things happened.  Antor “found” the last remaining child in the line of Tullson Nerimath, never mind the fact that his wife was on the world of Terra, the capitol of United Terra.  Soon after Tullson II was proclaimed the leader of all those who had fled Tulath.  Finally the Church of Man was fromed.  Over half of the petty warlords flocked under Tullson II banner and those that didn’t where quickly conquered by Tullson II.  He reorganized those families that supported his claims as Dukes, Counts and Earls and those that he had to bully into submission he made into Barons.  He soon afterwards declared himself Emperor of Tulath and promised the people that he would lead them to victory and prosperity.  He did not disappoint.

Remnants of the Spartan Project on Eave

Spartan Project

The ancient Tulathians of United Terra began a eugenics program to create a better man.  The project was successful and gradually the whole society was using eugenics to breed their entire population.  The eugenics program eventually lead to the Spartan Project in which they began to use more serious genetic engineering to create super-soldiers.  Slowly the governing of the nation was being taken over by a line of genetically bred and engineered tyrants, for lack of a better word.  They were good and bad leaders of the United Terra and they built a great and somewhat successful Empire.  But like the emperors of old, they wanted more and so they started a war with their galactic neighbors.  The war lasted for close to a century as they gobbled up all their neighbors.  The Earth Directorate was the only power that was great enough to stop them and even though they outnumbered United Terra by at least three-to-one, they did not have the brilliant minds such as Admiral Narimath, Admiral Coe and General Itanshi.  Through incredible skill, luck and sheer brilliance, The Earth Directorate soon found itself on the losing end of the war.  The end of the war is not known…

Not all of the genetically engineered folk where of the mind to conquer and many of them defected to the Earth Directorate during the war.  The most famous of them Patrick Gael who lead the defense of the Aldeberan Prime and the evacuation of Titus Five.  They were two major victories for the Earth Directorate.  Other genetically engineered warriors joined the Earth Directorate and created families.  On Eave they include the danGael, Chan and Kray.

Tulathians are a hearty race.  Their average height for a man is six-four and woman are five-ten, compared to the average height for a Danaan man is six feet and a woman five-six.  The Tulathians were bred for this and the eugenics program made for people sound in body and mind.  Those family lines who have proved themselves were qualified to be genetically engineered.  On Eave they are the Veklo, Coryaku, Travati and Tonn.  There are many other families that have the Spartan blood in them.

After many generations on Eave, Spartan blood has weakened.  They have taken it upon themselves to marry into others that have the Spartan blood, a eugenics program in itself!  The families listed above are those that have held on to their Spartan heritage.

Fate of Kingdoms, Part V

·         The Uncertain Years: This period in time Tulath has been at war for over a century, but not even a population that has been bred for war can sustain a war for that long.  Even the vaunted propaganda of Duke Coviso and his house could not keep up with the wars.  So they pulled back and consolidated their forces.  They are at an uneasy peace with Danaan and still at a war with the Kingdom of Galadon.   The Uncertain Years are brought to an end when a marriage was proposed to cement the Tulaths and Danaans.  Because the Empress was a single child (and thirteen years old to boot), she offered the Evandur narKoromikos, the heir to the Arch-Duchy of Koromikos, to marry the princess of Danaan, Itami danAndahar.

The Main Kingdoms of Eave

·         Kingdom of Danaan

o   Everyone is Part of the Kingdom (they are a very accepting and generous people).

o   Freedom for All

o   Live in Peace, Prepare for War

·         Empire of Tulath

o   The Empire is Always Right

o   Militaristic to a Fault

o   The Weak Shall Be Culled (prowess is to be admired and weakness to be despised.  This goes back to the time when they were genetically engineered.  The weak and deformed are euthanized.  Warriors who are forced to retire because they are missing arms and/or legs though, are held in high regard).   

·         Kingdom of Hanali

·         Kingdom of Ceaneli

·         Kingdom of Galadon

·         Kingdom of Ealvehonri

·         Darkholme

Fate of Kingdoms, Part IV

·         The Age of Sorrows: This Age is marked with wars.  Tulath gained their first contact with Danaan in almost four hundred years when they found out that Danaan had found and occupied what was to known to become Harro’s Wall.  Harro’s Wall was a dwarven city that bisected the continents.  Tulath also attacked and regained the ancient Fleet Carrier Tulath.  They regained the weapons and vehicles that made them a force to be reckoned with and they carved out and held only great tracts of forests which they had burned down and cleared with the weapons they have gained.  They attacked Harro’s Wall, but were repulsed at great price.

·         The Bonding: Tulath was relentless.  They had giant walkers and jets and weapons and the willingness to use them.  They looked to the north and the Kingdom of Danaan and were very jealous of the rich farmlands that they possessed.  They probed here and there and developed massive airships themselves and sent out reconnaissance, looking for weakness in the Kingdom’s defenses.  A few years later, they attacked en masse at the Barony of Leavestonne.  This was a barony that was on western borders and was a very lush and fertile garden land were most of the food was grown for the Kingdom.  The Barony was lost in a single day.  The Empire of Tulath pressed forward as the Baronies fell, one by one.  Danaan-Tir was under attack, the ancient weapon systems coming online for the first time in centuries.  The city would have fell if not for Adragore danTaven.  He convinced the elves of the Kingdom of Hanali to come to the Danaan’s defense.  The elves awoke themselves in great numbers and came to the aid of Danaan and with their help they were able to push back the Empire.  Afterwards, the humans Danaan and the eladrin of Hanali pledged support for one another, as long as the humans behaved themselves.

Fate of Kingdoms, Part III

·      The Dark Times: this was the period of time after the crash landing and the nuclear devastation of the Kingdom of Aragoi.  It is a period of time that lasted some two-hundred years.

o   Eladrin: the devastation of Aragoi put some pause in the elven step.  These strangers from the stars were very dangerous.  They harassed the Tulath for many years and when they found out that the no longer had any more weapons that could incinerate a whole city, the eladrin attacked without mercy.  Admiral Narimath was slain when the elves overran Tulath.  They had Tulath but could not destroy it so they used their magics to bury it.  In the North the elves and the humans of Danaan reached a peace settlement.  The humans could take the high plateaus where the elves had no interests in.

o   Tulath: The first officer, Commodore Antor Koromikos led the people into the mountains where the elves refused to go and found a city under the earth.  What they found was the remains of ancient dwarven city.  The dwarves were all but an extinct race that died as the goblins overran the cities.  They found an amazing wealth of metals and stones that the dwarves had dug up.  They sat there, regrouped and bided their time.

o   Danaan: The high plateaus were a hard land but the people of Danaan did their best with what they were given.  They still had their ship that had crashed in the Tir and it soon became a bustling city.  There were some trouble with the elves in those early years including an armed conflict, but as with always, cooler heads prevailed.  Danaan, the ship, became known as the capital.

·      The Age of Expansion: In this age, both Danaan and Tulath expanded their borders.  Danaan through hard won negotiation and Tulath through the sword.  Infact, over the centuries since they have crash landed here, the items of high technology had faded and were highly placed artifacts and family heirlooms.  Armor, weapons, vehicles, medicine and computers.  Danaan had built great airships that connected the high plateaus.  This was modeled after the elven ships that were carried aloft by magics.  Slowly, the humans became more active and stretched out their borders.  Tulathians used rails in their underground cities, their priesthood, The Church of Man, slowly deciphering the magic of the dwarves used to strengthen the minerals that they now were they inherited it all.  The Tulathians had found six great cities and numerous outposts.  Slowly, the Tulathians were biding their time however, for on their Carrier was the means to strengthen themselves.

Fate of Kingdoms, Part II

        The Age of Stars: Over a thousand years ago there were two interstellar communities of humans involved in what had become a civil war.  Tulathian fleet chased the Danaan forces to a remote system and after a bloody battle the forces on both sides were caught in the gravitational forces of the planet and were forced to land.

o   Eladrin: the eladrin viewed the battle from the stars as a dreadful omen.  As the watched the stars overhead explode in bright flashes.  They called the nights that followed the Death of Stars as the two fleets engaged with each other.  At the end of the fourth day, they let out a collective sigh of relief.  The heavens did not fall from the skies.  Humans did.

o   Tulath: Tulath was the name of the UTN Fleet Carrier that crash landed in the forested foothills near the elven Kingdom of Aragoi.  The city size ship that would become the Capital of the Empire.  Soon after the ship crashed, Prince Ealor of the Kingdom of Aragoi came to visit the strangers from the stars.  Due to a series of mishaps, Prince Ealor and his party were slain.  This started a war between the Fleet Carrier and Aragoi that ended when the Carrier fired its remaining nuke at Aragoi, decimated the elves, causing enmity between Tulath and the elves to this day.

o   Danaan: Danaan was the name of the Earth Ship Danaan that crash landed a lake the elves called Tir.  The elves from the Kingdom of Hanali were very suspicious of the humans but Captain Andahar proved to be a better diplomat than the Admiral Narimath of the Tulath.