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Isaiah nodded at the scientist.

"Well, my empire is interested in the pursuit of knowledge. If you like, I can send you files that detail our anatomy, physiology and psychology in return for yours. I'll redirect you to my science Minister if you redirect me to your Councillor."

((I don't mind a few skirmishes like starfleet vs klingons in Into Darkness but I think a full-scale war this early defies all logic. It needs to develop into one and even then there should be room for a peace settlement and negotiations without total annihilation of one or the other. Purely antagonistic RPs aren't fun after all. I was previously in a conflict-based RP in Nationstates and the whole thing kept turning into a bipolar cold war and the victor essentially came down to who's more tactical and strategic or who has the biggest doomsday device. Leaves very little room for story-telling and creativity.))

There was one, from Tardis. "EIIIIIIEEEEE!!!!!!!!"

*A GSE Transport loses engine power and inadvertently drifts into Sengan space*

Ghyt nodded in admiration at the humans seemingly open to engaging in the practice of discovery.
"We would greatly appreciate that. We shall gladly exchange in this information." they said.
Finding the channel to redirect Isaiah to Councilor Ulyre. The leader of the Cogniut was at the front of the communication panel, already focused on the psionic message sender with the rest of the Council in the background.
"Doctor Ghyt informed me you wish to form an alliance with us." they said.

The head of the crew went to find Tardis as the rest of the crew went to find the source of the readings they were picking up.

((Please use more Time Lord characters to fully convey the aspects of your Empire and dynamic relations between a variety of characters.))

(( I will! X3 ))

The screaming slowly died out.

The Plutonian outpost detects a blip on its radar as an unidentified spacecraft enters the Sengan system. A flight of 4 spacewolves are dispatched and a fighter-class starship mobilised to be on standby. Captain Kiran, the flight commander of the dispatched spacewolves, was the first to hail the unidentified spacraft.

"Unknown spacecraft, state your intentions or we will open fire."

Isaiah was somewhat taken aback. "An alliance at this time may be presumptious," he cautioned, "after all, this is first contact for us. What we would like to do, however, is form trade relations as we expand not only our empire, but our understanding of the known universe."

The exploratory crew reached out to figure out what the cause of distress was.

(1-4 The psionic reach gives no clue of what the threat is.
5-7 The Cogniut find where the threat is.
8-10+ The Cogniut Identify the threat.)

((Orose, remember to use a dice roll for any combat situation. DJ will most likely remember that too.))

"We are glad this has now been made clear to us. Trade relations are a suitable starting point. Are they certain resources of our own that interest you? What do you have to offer us?" the Councilor responded.

(( Oh! Sorry! Xp ))

The threat is- Child?

((That's OK, but I'm still going to need something more clear than that.))

Isaiah sheepishly scratches his head as he said, "well... we don't really know what you have to offer, but I suppose anything that we can study which isn't from our system at the moment, and fuel sources. My system is down to about 20% of what it once had and supplies are dwindling. We could probably only survive with power for another 60 years but no more. We can offer research technology, military arms and medical supplies in return."

Empire Name: The Tri-Abol Mechanus
Planets(Territory):
Home System - Tri-mechanics: 5 planets
Tri-Astera - Homeplanet and Citadel class world
Tri-Morda - Hive class world
Tri-Adera - Swarm class world
Tri-Kalesa - Hive class world
Tri- Saren - Factory class world

Manta System: 3 planets

Manta-Feras - Citadel class world
Manta-Quor - Hive class world
Manta- Jires - Factory class world

Quas System: 3 planets

Quas-Slias - Citadel class world
Quas-Nadar - Hive class world
Quas Syl - Swarm class planet

World classes- Citadel is the capital of the system and from which the Tri-Abol Mechanus control their operations. usually with only one or two heavily defended spire cities. Hive is the next class and most commonly seen as the living quarters of the Mechanus. Home to dozens of spire cities which protrude from the planets like infections. Factory class worlds are entire worlds dedicated to the production of machines, the lifeblood of the Mechanus. The only living things on these polluted worlds are Tri-Abol, encased in protective suits. The final and rarest type is the Swarm class, the staging base of the Tri-Abol fleets.

Fleet:
Named ships:
The Tri-Astares - flagship of the entire Mechanus and a Converter class (Dreadnaught)
The Manta-Astares - Dreadnaught in control of protecting the Manta system
The Quas-Astares - Dreadnaught in control of protecting the Quas system

10xHive Beasts - Gigantic ships which carry in their belly full compliments of Tri-Abol ground forces, each one a miniature space locked factory.

10xSwarmers - Smaller ships ready for space combat, usually 2 escorting a single Hive Beast - they carry with them massive numbers of fighters and heavy ordinance. Able to hold their own in a fight but require the swarms of fighters to win them.

2xCorruptor - Massive single entities which go from planet to planet setting up factories and corrupting their atmospheres before moving on.

Empire Strengths:

The Mechanus have incredible robotics technology, with roughly 60% of their population being AI in nature. As such they are able to exist on nearly every planet regardless of the conditions since once the factories are there they will begin churning out machines. As a result, they are a group that is hard to stamp out, with countless machines burrowing all over the surface of every planet. The Mechanus also has most of its high level AI, paticularly those that contol the most important of affairs interlinked so that every machine knows what happens to each other and so can react accordingly to changes.

Empire Weaknesses:

The insectoid Tri Abol themselves are very physically inferior to most other space-faring species, to the point where many would simply die without protective suits. Considering the are entirely reliant for expansion on the corrupters who take a long time to convert worlds to Mechanus needs they expand extremely slowly. The Tri-Abol violently oppose genetic manipulation so have created both a major eradication of this but also suffer large black markets in return, trading in genetic upgrades for boons on the massive underbellies of the spire cities

((shit we got necrons in da house))