Post by Insano-Man on Sept 24, 2018 10:13:55 GMT -5
Lost in Space
The Landed Navy was a military organization that appeared in late 2211 A.F. in the Nhillius system during the time of the Nhillius Incident. They, at the side of the Nhillian armed forces, were one of the primary participants in the conflicts of the time and are credited as instrumental to the eventual Nhillian victory in the war. Despite their crucial involvement, there is very little information on the Landed Navy, the reasons behind their intervention, or much more than their basic hierarchy and composition.
The Landed Navy was a multi-species organization evenly split between humans and a humanoid alien species that has yet to be identified. In addition, both species demonstrated a wide variety of cybernetic modifications, once again showing a half-and-half composition of modified and unmodified individuals. Both species shared cultural elements and a common language that they used for internal communications, which remains untranslated and unidentified to this day.
Further setting the Landed Navy apart from the galaxy at large was their sheer level of technological sophistication. The organization routinely employed advanced combat drones, infantry particle cannons, and medical technology capable of literally raising the dead - a trait they shared in common with the Nhillius opposing force. It was the Landed Navy's means of travel, however, that most identified them - and yet remains the greatest unsolved mystery of their involvement and their strongest similarity to the opposing force.
Technology
From the smallest detail of an infantryman's personal equipment to the heaviest gunship in the Landed Navy's employ, advanced technology defined the Navy's impact on the battlefield during the Nhillius Incident. The appearance of every soldier emphasized this detail; every individual, whether alien, human, cyborg, or unmodified, wore a fully-sealed combat environment suit regardless of the conditions around them. Be it in the depths of space or the comfort of a garden world, finding a face in the Navy's ranks was a task that verged on impossible.
In addition, combat drones fulfilled many of the roles in the Navy, ranging from armed vehicle recovery drones working without supervision to crewless, multirole gunships operating in tandem with crewed counterparts. From infantryman to indirect fire support, there was no task that one of the Landed Navy's myriad automated elements could not handle. Despite this, combat operations rarely relied on them and living members were preferred. It remains unknown as to whether or not artificial intelligences were employed by the Landed Navy.
Medical technology ensured that the use of live personnel in even the most dangerous of assignments was of little consequence to the Landed Navy. Whether by cybernetics, synthetic tissue, or precision-grown cloned parts, there was no injury in the Navy that was permanent - and time spent out of action for injured personnel was often as little as an hour. Even death seemed a slim barrier to the Landed Navy and individuals believed irrefutably dead were often recirculated into active service following the recovery of their bodies. The technology behind the Navy's ability to circumvent death remains unknown to this day.
Weapons technology in the Landed Navy centered around three primary focuses; particle cannons, high-intensity lasers, and an unidentified form of energy weapon that commonly featured on heavy vehicles. Particle cannons made up the bulk of weapons in the Landed Navy, from infantry small arms to gunship anti-armor weapons, while lasers often featured in tandem with either of the other two. The energy weapon used by the Landed Navy, which took the form of a black beam with a precisely-defined range, remains without explanation, but routinely demonstrated an unmatched level of performance.
The Landed Navy's ability to travel between planets in the Nhillius system - often when superluminal drives failed the Nhillius Defense Flotilla just in patrolling their own territory - remains one of their most puzzling technological accomplishments. There was never an explanation for it; by all means, whenever it was deemed necessary, the Landed Navy disappeared, either in part or in entirety, and reappeared where they needed to be. Reinforcements and replacement equipment appeared from nothingness as if they had simply been there all along.
Be it individual personnel or entire groups of fighting vehicles, containing the Landed Navy was simply impossible, but their means of transit were not flawless. For all its ethereal mobility, the Landed Navy was still vulnerable to flanking maneuvers, encirclements, and other conventional tactics. Likely as a result, communications and sensor equipment were virtually faultless at every level of their hierarchy, enabling them to capitalize on every tactical advantage that presented with little interference.
Aliens
Roughly half of the Landed Navy was populated by an alien species that remains without a name or background. The alien members of the Navy were tall humanoids with an average height several inches taller than that of a human, but an overall body weight typically in line with their human counterparts as a result of a more slender build. Further similarities were demonstrated by strongly familiar sexual dimorphism; alien personnel of the Landed Navy were themselves a half-and-half mix of male and female with most, if not all of the same differences as their human counterparts.
The most noticeable differences between the Navy's alien half and their human cohorts are primarily limited to small elements of skeletal profile. Their hands and feet demonstrate the most significant alterations, featuring only three, noticeably longer digits with more individual dexterity than human fingers and toes. Scattered reports of Landed Navy casualties - which were the only occasions that Nhillian soldiers saw the aliens out of their combat suits - suggest grey, stark white, or even translucent skin with a strong resemblance to human flesh. Facial structure - or lack thereof - remains little more than hearsay, however.
In addition, while the Landed Navy's alien half brought with them an unknown language, their human partners could understand it without issue and speak it with full fluency. In the same way, the aliens were fully capable of speaking English and other human languages without difficulty, even so far as fully understanding local Nhillian customs and languages with minimal introduction. Handfuls of accounts from Nhillian soldiers suggest a shared culture between the alien and human halves of the Landed Navy, further emphasizing their interwoven nature.
The extreme similarities between the Landed Navy's alien members and their human counterparts has led to rumors suggesting that they were, in actuality, mutants of humankind rather than outright aliens. While there is no evidence to confirm this theory - and, contributing to its continued popularity, none to disprove it - the belief persists in various circles across Nhillian space. The most prominent enclave of these rumors - and the believed source - are core members of the Mizar Reservists, who hold curiously close positions to Valerian Otetskov, the Navy's sole contact in the Nhillius system.
Structure
The Landed Navy's structure was itself another mystery in both composition and operation. The Navy was wholly a military organization and all its members were trained for fighting in virtually any environment or situation. Despite this, no industrial basis or non-combatant population was ever identified within the Landed Navy, leaving their involvement in the Nhillius Incident - which saw three years of sustained fighting - a feat difficult to explain.
The Landed Navy was split between three, loosely-structured tiers of leadership, beginning with their common soldiers and ending with their uppermost leadership, or, as part of a self-aware misnomer, "admiralty". The admiralty of the Landed Navy were charged with overseeing and administrating the five supposed branches of the organization, but the identity and function of these branches remain without any explanation. The admirals themselves, however, were identified and met with by Nhillian officers several times during the Nhillius Incident.
Beneath the admiralty were their advisors, as per their official title, who functioned both as advisors to the admiralty and officers to the rest of the Navy. The advisors were a mixed assortment of frontline and rear echelon leaders that performed the bulk of the work involved in leading combat operations during the Nhillius Incident. In addition, they served as the primary liaisons between the Nhillian armed forces and the Navy, acting both in diplomatic and military capacities whenever needed.
The bottom tier of the Landed Navy, which comprised the bulk of its personnel, was made up of non-standardized, ad-hoc units with duties often delegated by species or cybernetic modifications. Human personnel made up most conventional frontline units, while low-level officers, special forces, and aircraft crews were most often made up of alien personnel. Cyborgs were preferred for roles where their modifications permitted superior performance and many unit leaders were heavily augmented as a result.
Despite preferences made towards species-specific roles or biases displayed towards cybernetic individuals, there were no signs of dissent within the Navy's ranks throughout the Nhillius Incident. Despite lacking standard forms of organization for its lowest ranks, the Navy maintained cohesive and effective performance throughout the conflict. Only once, at the beginning of the revolt on Nhillius III, was the Landed Navy struck with division - which ended quickly when a lone advisor began operations against Nhillian partisans.
Members
Below is a list of the Landed Navy's admiralty and the advisors identified during the Nhillius Incident. It is strongly believed that there were more advisors supporting the admiralty, but supporting evidence remains difficult to come by in the wake of the Nhillius Incident. In addition, the Navy's advisors never operated with their actual names and worked exclusively with weather-related codenames. The responsibilities of each admiral and advisor are unknown.
Admiralty
- James Leeson (Human)
Substantial cybernetic modification to most of his body. Regularly involved in diplomatic contact with Nhillian representatives.
- Wulen Krandarl-Fettun (Human)
Body profile suggested origins on a high-gravity world. Believed responsible for the Landed Navy's actions on Nhillius II.
- Jall Kaim (Alien)
Cybernetic right arm and left hand. Believed killed in action by Nhillian partisans, report remains unverified.
- Res Haala (Alien)
Identified only in name by James Leeson, never encountered by Nhillian representatives.
- Valeem Foirria (Alien)
Refused to meet with Nhillian representatives on most occasions.
Advisors
- "Cyclone" (Alien)
Admiral Leeson's personal advisor, personally involved in opening hostilities against the Nhillius III uprising.
- "Monsoon" (Human)
Admiral Fettun's personal advisor.
- "Tornado" (Alien)
Alien, Admiral Kaim's personal advisor.
- "Typhoon" (Human)
Human, Admiral Haala's personal advisor.
- "Hurricane" (Alien)
Alien, Admiral Foirria's personal advisor.
- "Waterspout" (Human)
- "Thunder" (Human)
- "Lightning" (Alien)
- "Hail" (Alien)
- "Downpour" (Alien)
- "Gale" (Human)
- "Flurry" (Alien)
- "Aurora" (Human)
- "Vortex" (Human)
- "Overcast" (Alien)
- "Heatwave" (Alien)
- "Coldfront" (Human)
- "Fog" (Human)
- "Flashfreeze" (Human)
- "Thaw" (Alien)
- "Storm" (Human)
- "Drizzle" (Alien)
History
For information on the Landed Navy's history, please see the Nhillius Incident topic.
The Landed Navy was a military organization that appeared in late 2211 A.F. in the Nhillius system during the time of the Nhillius Incident. They, at the side of the Nhillian armed forces, were one of the primary participants in the conflicts of the time and are credited as instrumental to the eventual Nhillian victory in the war. Despite their crucial involvement, there is very little information on the Landed Navy, the reasons behind their intervention, or much more than their basic hierarchy and composition.
The Landed Navy was a multi-species organization evenly split between humans and a humanoid alien species that has yet to be identified. In addition, both species demonstrated a wide variety of cybernetic modifications, once again showing a half-and-half composition of modified and unmodified individuals. Both species shared cultural elements and a common language that they used for internal communications, which remains untranslated and unidentified to this day.
Further setting the Landed Navy apart from the galaxy at large was their sheer level of technological sophistication. The organization routinely employed advanced combat drones, infantry particle cannons, and medical technology capable of literally raising the dead - a trait they shared in common with the Nhillius opposing force. It was the Landed Navy's means of travel, however, that most identified them - and yet remains the greatest unsolved mystery of their involvement and their strongest similarity to the opposing force.
Technology
From the smallest detail of an infantryman's personal equipment to the heaviest gunship in the Landed Navy's employ, advanced technology defined the Navy's impact on the battlefield during the Nhillius Incident. The appearance of every soldier emphasized this detail; every individual, whether alien, human, cyborg, or unmodified, wore a fully-sealed combat environment suit regardless of the conditions around them. Be it in the depths of space or the comfort of a garden world, finding a face in the Navy's ranks was a task that verged on impossible.
In addition, combat drones fulfilled many of the roles in the Navy, ranging from armed vehicle recovery drones working without supervision to crewless, multirole gunships operating in tandem with crewed counterparts. From infantryman to indirect fire support, there was no task that one of the Landed Navy's myriad automated elements could not handle. Despite this, combat operations rarely relied on them and living members were preferred. It remains unknown as to whether or not artificial intelligences were employed by the Landed Navy.
Medical technology ensured that the use of live personnel in even the most dangerous of assignments was of little consequence to the Landed Navy. Whether by cybernetics, synthetic tissue, or precision-grown cloned parts, there was no injury in the Navy that was permanent - and time spent out of action for injured personnel was often as little as an hour. Even death seemed a slim barrier to the Landed Navy and individuals believed irrefutably dead were often recirculated into active service following the recovery of their bodies. The technology behind the Navy's ability to circumvent death remains unknown to this day.
Weapons technology in the Landed Navy centered around three primary focuses; particle cannons, high-intensity lasers, and an unidentified form of energy weapon that commonly featured on heavy vehicles. Particle cannons made up the bulk of weapons in the Landed Navy, from infantry small arms to gunship anti-armor weapons, while lasers often featured in tandem with either of the other two. The energy weapon used by the Landed Navy, which took the form of a black beam with a precisely-defined range, remains without explanation, but routinely demonstrated an unmatched level of performance.
The Landed Navy's ability to travel between planets in the Nhillius system - often when superluminal drives failed the Nhillius Defense Flotilla just in patrolling their own territory - remains one of their most puzzling technological accomplishments. There was never an explanation for it; by all means, whenever it was deemed necessary, the Landed Navy disappeared, either in part or in entirety, and reappeared where they needed to be. Reinforcements and replacement equipment appeared from nothingness as if they had simply been there all along.
Be it individual personnel or entire groups of fighting vehicles, containing the Landed Navy was simply impossible, but their means of transit were not flawless. For all its ethereal mobility, the Landed Navy was still vulnerable to flanking maneuvers, encirclements, and other conventional tactics. Likely as a result, communications and sensor equipment were virtually faultless at every level of their hierarchy, enabling them to capitalize on every tactical advantage that presented with little interference.
Aliens
Roughly half of the Landed Navy was populated by an alien species that remains without a name or background. The alien members of the Navy were tall humanoids with an average height several inches taller than that of a human, but an overall body weight typically in line with their human counterparts as a result of a more slender build. Further similarities were demonstrated by strongly familiar sexual dimorphism; alien personnel of the Landed Navy were themselves a half-and-half mix of male and female with most, if not all of the same differences as their human counterparts.
The most noticeable differences between the Navy's alien half and their human cohorts are primarily limited to small elements of skeletal profile. Their hands and feet demonstrate the most significant alterations, featuring only three, noticeably longer digits with more individual dexterity than human fingers and toes. Scattered reports of Landed Navy casualties - which were the only occasions that Nhillian soldiers saw the aliens out of their combat suits - suggest grey, stark white, or even translucent skin with a strong resemblance to human flesh. Facial structure - or lack thereof - remains little more than hearsay, however.
In addition, while the Landed Navy's alien half brought with them an unknown language, their human partners could understand it without issue and speak it with full fluency. In the same way, the aliens were fully capable of speaking English and other human languages without difficulty, even so far as fully understanding local Nhillian customs and languages with minimal introduction. Handfuls of accounts from Nhillian soldiers suggest a shared culture between the alien and human halves of the Landed Navy, further emphasizing their interwoven nature.
The extreme similarities between the Landed Navy's alien members and their human counterparts has led to rumors suggesting that they were, in actuality, mutants of humankind rather than outright aliens. While there is no evidence to confirm this theory - and, contributing to its continued popularity, none to disprove it - the belief persists in various circles across Nhillian space. The most prominent enclave of these rumors - and the believed source - are core members of the Mizar Reservists, who hold curiously close positions to Valerian Otetskov, the Navy's sole contact in the Nhillius system.
Structure
The Landed Navy's structure was itself another mystery in both composition and operation. The Navy was wholly a military organization and all its members were trained for fighting in virtually any environment or situation. Despite this, no industrial basis or non-combatant population was ever identified within the Landed Navy, leaving their involvement in the Nhillius Incident - which saw three years of sustained fighting - a feat difficult to explain.
The Landed Navy was split between three, loosely-structured tiers of leadership, beginning with their common soldiers and ending with their uppermost leadership, or, as part of a self-aware misnomer, "admiralty". The admiralty of the Landed Navy were charged with overseeing and administrating the five supposed branches of the organization, but the identity and function of these branches remain without any explanation. The admirals themselves, however, were identified and met with by Nhillian officers several times during the Nhillius Incident.
Beneath the admiralty were their advisors, as per their official title, who functioned both as advisors to the admiralty and officers to the rest of the Navy. The advisors were a mixed assortment of frontline and rear echelon leaders that performed the bulk of the work involved in leading combat operations during the Nhillius Incident. In addition, they served as the primary liaisons between the Nhillian armed forces and the Navy, acting both in diplomatic and military capacities whenever needed.
The bottom tier of the Landed Navy, which comprised the bulk of its personnel, was made up of non-standardized, ad-hoc units with duties often delegated by species or cybernetic modifications. Human personnel made up most conventional frontline units, while low-level officers, special forces, and aircraft crews were most often made up of alien personnel. Cyborgs were preferred for roles where their modifications permitted superior performance and many unit leaders were heavily augmented as a result.
Despite preferences made towards species-specific roles or biases displayed towards cybernetic individuals, there were no signs of dissent within the Navy's ranks throughout the Nhillius Incident. Despite lacking standard forms of organization for its lowest ranks, the Navy maintained cohesive and effective performance throughout the conflict. Only once, at the beginning of the revolt on Nhillius III, was the Landed Navy struck with division - which ended quickly when a lone advisor began operations against Nhillian partisans.
Members
Below is a list of the Landed Navy's admiralty and the advisors identified during the Nhillius Incident. It is strongly believed that there were more advisors supporting the admiralty, but supporting evidence remains difficult to come by in the wake of the Nhillius Incident. In addition, the Navy's advisors never operated with their actual names and worked exclusively with weather-related codenames. The responsibilities of each admiral and advisor are unknown.
Admiralty
- James Leeson (Human)
Substantial cybernetic modification to most of his body. Regularly involved in diplomatic contact with Nhillian representatives.
- Wulen Krandarl-Fettun (Human)
Body profile suggested origins on a high-gravity world. Believed responsible for the Landed Navy's actions on Nhillius II.
- Jall Kaim (Alien)
Cybernetic right arm and left hand. Believed killed in action by Nhillian partisans, report remains unverified.
- Res Haala (Alien)
Identified only in name by James Leeson, never encountered by Nhillian representatives.
- Valeem Foirria (Alien)
Refused to meet with Nhillian representatives on most occasions.
Advisors
- "Cyclone" (Alien)
Admiral Leeson's personal advisor, personally involved in opening hostilities against the Nhillius III uprising.
- "Monsoon" (Human)
Admiral Fettun's personal advisor.
- "Tornado" (Alien)
Alien, Admiral Kaim's personal advisor.
- "Typhoon" (Human)
Human, Admiral Haala's personal advisor.
- "Hurricane" (Alien)
Alien, Admiral Foirria's personal advisor.
- "Waterspout" (Human)
- "Thunder" (Human)
- "Lightning" (Alien)
- "Hail" (Alien)
- "Downpour" (Alien)
- "Gale" (Human)
- "Flurry" (Alien)
- "Aurora" (Human)
- "Vortex" (Human)
- "Overcast" (Alien)
- "Heatwave" (Alien)
- "Coldfront" (Human)
- "Fog" (Human)
- "Flashfreeze" (Human)
- "Thaw" (Alien)
- "Storm" (Human)
- "Drizzle" (Alien)
History
For information on the Landed Navy's history, please see the Nhillius Incident topic.
