Alien Cosmic Coalition 3

>Relatively speaking, the exposior to Warp Energies fucked with the Fimir's biology

>All of them are of different size and stock. some come up to your knee while others tower over Space Marines

>All of there Women barren and infertile, leaving there speacies in a Matriarchal society.

>This perplexed the other client and council races until investigation declaired they had a stock in human female slaves.

>all information was swept under the rug and no further investigation is underway

ok then, i might of gone a little over board. lets keep it at only a Handful have the Turner and they make up the Nobility of the Race.

the Reloading mechanism only shoots Ballistic weaponry. (high power ones mind you) and the bullets still need to travel back into the barrel. meaning that there's still a delay between the reloads.

the Military bulk still stays though.

I am now imagining an Emperor Peter Dinklage and you can't stop me.

"Time Blitzes" are only used in time of Emergancy. and by emergancy I mean "oh fuck the Cabal is getting attacked."

the reason they dont do this is because it causes a Lot of unforeseen consequences withing the Time Space whatever.

they also have a Load of Astronomers and solar Historians from the other races to help them whenever they go planet hopping. this presses takes years to filter out, so again, this happens sparingly

and besides. who cares about all that hard science stuff when they can just use space taxis to travel the greater expanse of the Coalition

Agreed, the name is on the nose. We can figure something out

Now, having some religious strife within the coalition sounds pretty cool.

Some grimdark, nice

Also yeah, if the Tech is almost none existent and hard to reproduce, then it can make sense. Also, the ramifications of its use.

>Now, having some religious strife within the coalition sounds pretty cool.

It sounded like the Coalition needs something ongoing that draws their attention internally. Because it's not an external caused problem, the Cabal doesn't get involved.

The war is probably an ongoing thing now due to their FTL being slow, unless some other Client gets involved.

Let's see...

The Deviates are the supposedly original Chaos-controlled faction, accused of Grand Heresy and Sedition. At the Inquiry held by the Pontiff, they seemed at first willing to negotiate their theology and explain, but it ended up with the Pontiff and many high-ranked Deviate leaders dead, pushing the Deviates into open rebellion and the Sacristy declaring the Deviates as Apostate.

The Sacristy (The ruling council) then proceeded to have a multi-factional deadlock for electing the Pontiff, with the the Deviate members of the Sacristy expelled. Due to legal manuvers and support of the established, a Pontiff was eventually elected.

However a sizable minority of the Aggemar were upset over the underhanded but legal manuevers used and declared themselves in Schism with the intent to Reform the Church. Both the Reformists and Orthodoxists have declared each other apostate.

The Orthodox are the majority of the Aggemar, but are somewhat hampered by their legalistic religion and traditions. (Think: Catholicism)

The Reformists are slightly less hampered and more streamlined, and are the second largest Aggemar faction. (Think: Anglican)

The Deviates have tossed much of their religion aside. They have the core tenets, but have radical interpretations of them and are far more innovative than either other faction. However, they only have two or three worlds out of dozens. (Think: Protestant/Hussite).

All three factions accuse the leadership of the other factions of being in league with Chaos. If it's the case, then it's only the various warp-strong leaders.

I imagine this civil war is causing massive rifts to form within the Coalition, as various other members try to pick a side. I imagine the Bug nomads are the least splitbas various Princesses ally with one side or another.

I imagine a lot of weapon shipments and supply runs.

Indeed.

I don't know how the Men of Scrap would handle it. They would probably be officially neutral - they're not atheists, but they don't really think that religion is important enough to make war over. The Bel Riose doctrine the majority follow would have them attempt to mediate and defend neutrals, but not really get involved themselves.

Wanax (the Man of Iron) would decree that everything has been muddied so much by the accusations of Chaos, it's best to keep to their duties under the Compact, and serve as peacekeepers if called.

However, General Iskan and his faction are glory hounds. I can see "Peacekeeping" orders being interpreted liberally.

should we start thinking of Council worlds?just some suggestions.

>Capital worlds are Hubs of Xeno culture of Empires, being the Homes of Council Races.

>CW's are similar of Hive Citys in the since that there massive citys that hold great populations. exept there more spread out than being massive mountains of citys

>however, due to the diversity of life in the Coalition, there usually home to entire populations of Xenos. usually clients of the Council.

>here you can find the Military strength of the Coalition at its height. and many species will sign up for the Corps giving there entire military's for space to live on the planets

actually, quick question.

what does the Military of the Coalition look like? first thread we stated that The Membrains aided factions with there sentinel infantry for fire support. but thats about it.

Membranes provide assistance, the Men of Scrap likely provide the light to heavy infantry as well as their own armor I assume.

The Nomads would likely provide supplies runs and support, but I don't think they would risk their ships in open combat.

I was thinking there is no unified Coalition military.

Each faction or power within the Coalition fields their own military, and the Cabal directs any coordinated action the Coalition needs, primarily by transporting ships via their Jumpcarriers.

If we're talking a 40K style Army List, then you'd probably have each troop type or role being done by a different species, based upon their specialization, but in-fluff you're more likely to see the Men of Scrap fighting their own campaign rather than a mixed Coalition force.

But yeah, if such a mixed force was to be assembled, Men of Scrap would cover Medium to Heavy defensive melee infantry, but they also have some fast hoverbikes. If they have to break out the big guns, they may have some DAoT "light" or "scout" vehicles of questionable condition. I say light and scout in quotes because the Baneblade was classified as a Light Tank during the DAoT

The Hoku-lele probably don't get too directly involved in ship to ship combat, but I see them offering a decent amount of fighters and bombers. The same in terms of ground-combat; they are likely to provide skimmers and other flying forces.

The Aggemar are a very shooty race and would cover ranged infantry and possibly heavy weapons. Their Holy Ones also have a strong connection to the warp and could be deployed as such (Similar to Human Psykers).

Saulx are obvious ambushers. anything the Mechanoids to offer? like legions of machinery modified for war?

Perhaps the Mechanoids could fill the current missing gap, in terms of the vehicles and support?

Heavy tank support with some utility Infantry. using different types of automated alien weaponry

I think there should be a Council that runs the wider military operations of the Coalition and client races that runs a generic sci fi army and armada.

that way we can have a generic brand soldier with the more exotic races filling specialist rolls. like Saulx and Membrains

what was that one Not!Reaper race in the first thread? I feel like they would be good sea/coast guards

>The Coalition Corps are the Hard Military of the Coalition lead by all the Warrior/Soldier/Fighter species of the Council who lead the Military's of the Client races

think of them as a weird mix of Space Marines and Imperial Guard. Warrior cultures who sometimes fight for religious reasons. but are a actual military with hundreds of troops to spare, while Client Races are more among the line of PDF's or Militias.

also unlike the Client Races who use locally made weapons, the Corps use Coalition Manufactured armor custom made to fit there body's by the Gray Race who i forgot the name of.

I don't know. The Coalition has been fluffed up as a decentralized entity that mainly is united in self-protection from outside forces, primarily the Imperium.

What you're describing sounds more centralized than I've been assuming.

Unless it's something like the Specters from Mass Effect, which I guess would be closer in analogy to the Imperium's Inquisition crossed with Federal Marshals; primarily agents of the Cabal when direct Cabal action would be ill advised.

It could also be a small reactionary force whose members are loyal to the Coalition as a whole rather than their nation of origin.

Kinda like how pre-War of 1812 the US Federal Government had a tiny force of Regulars and primarily depended upon State Militias for their fighting forces.

>Kinda like how pre-War of 1812 the US Federal Government had a tiny force of Regulars and primarily depended upon State Militias for their fighting forces.

thats exactly what I was going for.

remember, Council races are Organized. Client Races are more or less just *there*, but still aid the empire in there own ways.

Also yea, we probably should have Space Police/Specter Group to keep council and client races in check.

any suggestions?

They can even be a well-supplied mini-faction on their own, those soldiers that believe on a true unified coalition, instead of an alliance of convenience. The cabal is non-commited on the matter, and support varies from empire to empire, yet they field the best maintained troops.

this

and again, gives us a nice baseline generic soldier like the Guard.

made a Pastbin for that one story from the last thread

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so just for base line Equipment for Men of Scrap

>Low Grade Power Armor thats only as strong as Carapace armor, more acting like a Exo Skeleton than actual power armor
>the Ocasinal DAoT Tanks. usually of the Hover Veriety
>Guardian Spears, the same that the Custodes use
>Missle pikes

so whats the Coalitons stance on Chaos? like the Fimir are a Client race, do they have any discrimination against them for there past or what?

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Missing two things:

Shields. Individually they have a tiny energy barrier that wouldn't be any sort of bonus in 40K tabletop, but when formed into an array in a Phalanx, provides significant protection.

Speeder Bikes. Until recently they were used mostly for scouting and recon, but General Iskan has started massing them for fast lighting strikes.

In case I made it too obscure, General Iskan is a reference to Alexander (Iskander), and his use of speederbikes is meant to be somewhat analogous to the Companions. General Bel Riose, a recently deceased leader who favored strategic offense and tactical defense, is based off of Belisarius. I stole that name from Asimov.

oops, sorry, my bad

I think Chaos is perhaps seen as an insidious threat, but if a force is not actively worshiping, then there's bigger fish to fry.

It's hard to worry about your neighbor's soul when a snarling tiger threatens to tear out your throat.

so I think we've fleshed out the Client races a tad bit. anyone wanna talk about The Council races now?

I imagine that while some races more then others, the larger threat the chaos powers pose realistically are the chaos war bands and raiders wandering through space.

So, should we fluff the council races? Or at least, the main races? And the rest can be left open?

Objection withdrawn, then.

I like it. They can provide Characters or Heroes (Or whatever they're called these days), or perhaps even have retinues like Inquisitors do.

Perhaps even give them powers like the Auditors from the Vorkosigan series - they speak with the Cabal's voice and authority, and people would rather give them what they want rather than try to hide.

Not too bad an idea. Maybe we can call them Unionists. I don't know if I'd go so far as to make them a mini-faction of their own, that sounds like bigger than they would be.

Well. Shit. Maybe I should have spent more time on it, then.

No worries.

Let's talk the Council, then. How many Councilar factions are there?

Did we even define any of them?

if I remember correctly the first thread astablised that Council Races represented various xeno species found in Micro Empires, or even Micro Empires themselves

really these are the Guys who keep the Empire as a whole united.

The it was also establised that they only really meat up whenever the Cabal needs to say something. leading them into a Coruscant esq Mega Structure where they talk about X species well being or how the Imperium is going to launch a Assault

Like the Client races I dont think there should be a Hard Number. but the sight of Hundreds of Counselors in a room with each onethat represents dozens, if not hundreds of species should hit home how much Aliens are united in this effort.

She frowned as the ship gave another lurch. The eddys of the warp were unusually strong here. The Hoku-lele craft shuddered as the currents of the immaterium battered the vessel.

"Sightings," the princess ordered, and her people obeyed. The reports filtered back, about what she had expected. A particularly sharp-eyed observer also reported some beast to port in the distance, but that it was falling behind.

The princess closed off her eyes and instead felt the warp around the ship. Wings outstretched and quivvering, she concentrated as she felt for a path.

She began giving a stream of orders, still concentrating on the Warp. Some sails were pulled in, others let loose, spars adjusted.

The ship turned slowly, then for a moment the Hoku thought they were doomed as the ship shuddered heavily, but then it stilled and a soft moment of elation filled the air as the buffeting stopped.

The princess opened her eyes and took a seat, exhausted. Ever since the Aggemar Wars started, it had been rougher sailing between the stars. Ships could be lost if the crews were not skilled enough.

But the Hoku-lele were skilled more than enough, she thought to herself. The Warp may be rougher, but that just meant they could sail even faster.

"We will arrive slightly ahead of schedule. Shipmaster Second, prepare for arrival at Mannix Prime. The sooner we inform the Council, the better."

I also thing a thing that a Commen thing across the board with Council Races is what races they're willing to deal with/represent.

Some councilors are more willing to work with Aliens like the Fimir while others would be utterly repulsed by there existence

Hell, this is why the Cabal lifted the Sensai to Council race tier,

No one wants to deal with Humans because everyone hates them

Too bad our Federation Roleplay was banned to qst, I hope you guys are allowed to remain. It's good to see such fun creativity on Veeky Forums.
Stay cool Anons!

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Well then.

Council Race: The Bha'Ri.

The Bha'Ri are a vaguely repitllian/humanoid race centered on their similarly-named homeworld of Bha'Ri. Their skin runs from reds to greens, and is smooth with occassional scales.

The Bha'Ri Empire is one of the smaller Council Races due to their racial quirk of needing to be in a system with a Bha'Ri compatible planet, else they go slowly mad. Due to a parasitic (formerly symbiotic) existance with certain delicate plants, Bha'Ri capable worlds are relatively few.

However, what systems the Bha'Ri do colonize are heavily developed and fortified, with a Solar Array Powered Laser system used both for offense and for mining. Bha'Ri often use convict labor for mobile refinery and miner ships that harvest resources from other systems they have claimed, primarily in space.

As a result, the Bha'Ri have a massive and well fed industry, with their homeworld almost as strong industrially as a Forge world. They also trade refined materials to other Coalition nations, and have shipyards capable of building almost any ship.

Their own navy prefers to attack from long distances for a Manticore Missile Barrage - after all, missiles and torpedos are cheap for them and they can make more easily enough.

On the ground, Bha'Ri forces do much the same; prefering to combat at a distance and use expendible munitions. However, they tend to prefer pulling their weight in space.

Governmentally, they are a bureaucratic empire. They worship their creator-god Martun, and have small shrines or effigies to him almost everywhere. Politically, the Bha'Ri enjoy membership in the Coalition, as it helps protect their interests where the Bha'Ri are weak.

actually, think you could get some people from that thread in here? like just to speed the process up a little bit?

Well, so long as they're not roleplaying, and either writing fluff or theorycrafting for new races, shouldn't be aproblem.

Love it dude, masterfully done. I like to think that the Hoku-lele may have been related to the creation of the navigators, possibly.

In any case, The Hoku-lele should be an unofficial big member of the council, with each of the Princesses coming in to make their voice heard.

I'm thinking the council races should be fewer. Since its mini empires and the galaxy is as bad as it is, species large enough to reach council power would be rare.

There can be plenty of associates, cause there are likely hundreds of species seeking help and safety. But I doubt enough are powerful enough to stand among the mid tier council, and serve the purposes of the high tier cabal

Maybe, we have a discord up and running. You can ask there if anyone wants to come here and do some creative stuff

can you link me to it?

There was this robotic alien race, unrelated to the necrons or the men of iron. Or maybe they were several robotic races? I don't remember the details.

The qst thread or the discord?

The Sensei are another council "race". I'm not sure if the martian membrains qualify or not.

Other pastbin
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I was the guy who wrote the Mechanoids, or the Idea of them atleast.

there basically a Organization of Machines who rebelled against there masters and demanded respect. and have a Super Computer as a leader.

so i Guess the SC could the the Council Member for the Machine races.

Membrains are a Micro Empire who do there own thing. they probably follow a Councilor who deals with the Truly bizarre aliens like great race of yith level weird.

Discord, to lazy rn to go to /qst/

AI and 40K don't exactly work well together.

Perhaps cyborgs of minimal fleshiness?

Here's the discord link, but keep in mind not to spam or trying to mess up with the people there as it's ment for our Federation Roleplay
discord.gg/Y6nVwhZ

eh, just there just another reason to have weird aliens for the imperium to face, dont look to much into it.

Thinking about it, having a AI race would probably give the Imperium another reason to kill off the Coalition. there using Technology with souls. The Mechanicus hate and fear them in case of another MoI Uprising.

Thanks, have any suggestions for asking them that wont get me banned or anything? or am i shit out of luck with that?

Just be polite and ask in the OOC room,
we are cool dudes

I'm opposed to the idea of councilors being divided by categories like "mechanical races" or "weird races". I think more organic divisions work better.

Hypocritically, one such division occurs to me. The main themes of this coalition is decentralization (greek poleis style) and micro empires, but many of the races had to, at some point, run from the great crusade and the xenocidal mankind.

It can be that many of the races relocated, while others didn't. From that it follows that a natural alliance could form from the more nomadic species, and those who benefit from their transit.

Maybe there is one or several councillor races for those "routes", like the councillor species for the orin passage, or the councillor species for the magellanic caravan?

The Mechanoids would have close ties, but not because they are machines but because they have been historically united and so and so. A Moi planet could perfectly allign to a different council species.

Thought:

The Cabal member that the Men of Scrap have their Compact with, and the Not!Maui of the Hoku-lele, is the same one.

I base this because the Homeric Greek I'm pulling some influence from for the Men of Scrap had Poseidon as their chief deity. And Maui is well associated with water as well.

>Their earliest legends refer to a "War in Heaven" between their Gods, in which they fought

Forgot to mention that this "War in Heaven" is not the actual War in Heaven. This was a civil war in their original Empire that saw planetbusters and planetkillers used,and the Gods are just ancient Warpstrong leaders.

So,I heard you guys needed species ideas and general help?

So,any specific questions or things that need help?If not,I can just rattle off species.

I'm starting to run out of ideas for physical forms. I might end with furry bait.

hello there, I was asked to give some help with a few races along with and some others.

so an idea for a race, the djinn living with or near the mechinoids are "freed" machine spirits who can infact change from one resident machine to another

Physical forms?Do you need images for a species?I have some in my folders if you want.Just name what you are looking for.

rather adept with machines and can make even the most battered device work to a good standard, rather good with money so in good quality of life in their conclaves. however Very mistrusted due to this

There is no conspiracy to make traditional games politically correct. Characters in fiction and gaming communities simply change with respect to the latest cultural values. But you fedora-tipping cancerous fucks always blame imaginary SocJus boogeymen when people start hating you for the shit that you do. As long as you continue to refuse act like decent human beings, people will keep noticing.

But of course, you will keep blaming imaginary "SJWs", "poseurs" and "normies" when you the public hates you for the scum you are. And let's not even get started on how you all react to games becoming more popular and easily accessible.

neat

wat

Hisss! My cover is ruined! I must inform my fellow Warriors of the Justice Social!

Hissss!

umm, am I missing something? you seem rather angry, care to explain?

He posted to the wrong thread guys.

ok so a guy on the discord helped with the space Hob Goblins a little more. kinda warlike but in a more orderly manor

The Traders Effeciency.
a society of ... "Orkish" humanoids devoted to the idea of individual freedom. Where money is law as everything is private and paid for and made by the individual in a constant economical arms race.
Mosyly fragmented nations that all boast private armies formed up of mercanaries and security companies and weapons manufactorers. With they're economy being a digital war zone as entire nations and living beings are sold in the billions alongside with simple luxuries and endlessly advertised products.
What they can offer is of course the extremely diverse assembly of products and weapons in the forms of luxuries and arms to the Coalition along with their peoples extreme comprehension of advanced math and statistics and prediction.

thanks Ral this helps a lot

Cowardunes of the deserts.
Pathethic little specimens. They're body's weak small and frail as they scamper around the desert worlds scavenging to cling on to their useless lives. Somehow along the way their greatest minds unlocked the secrets of genetic modification and replication turning them into giant daemon esq warriors of great power cloned in endless number as they try to scavenge for more worlds among the stars.
Their military power comprising of the endless hordes of engineered clones wielding the finest spears and war armor they can muster with the barren materials of their planet.
Their economy non existent as everything is merely taken or scavenged.
Offering their vast numbers and endless supply of vast numbers to the Coaliton along with their knowledge of true genetic modification and replication.

some one post art

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Another alien race, the cuscus are psychic carnivorous snails. They are actually quite nimble, but emit a pervasive field that makes others think they are slow. They live in very polished domes, and never go outside their worlds. Instead, everything they sell contains their eggs, which mature quite fast under the right conditions. Very smart salesnails, but not very good at math.

one from Carter

The Dormet are a race of mollusks that resemble long eel like organisms with shells.They can pop out limbs from their shell top to act as baleen to catch any flying plankton before digesting them.They have no facial features apart from 3 large eyes in a triangular shape that are covered in Calcium Hydroxide.However,they can use small stubbs on their bellies to use technology.Although cumbersome,these beings are incredibly smart,being able to expertly compute with their minds.As a result,although their lack of need for calculators has rendered them useless in the fields of computers,they are geniuses when it comes to chemicals and engineering.They use probes in their eyes as guns,that supercharge their fluids in their eyes to act as projectiles.They live under an enlightened dictatorship,and are genetic clones of each other.

I am out for the day guys. Y'all have fun. I'll look for a thread when I wake, maybe I can do some more writing.

posting a race from the first thread

>One of the newest discoverd races are the Hadulax, inhabitants of several ocean worlds.

>They are actually colonial organisms, their bodies are giant shells that double as submarine and battleships.

>They are minor psykers, but their collective power allows them to communicate with each colony across systems.

>They regularly arrive to inhabited worlds, claim the oceans as their due and "acquire" every structure and sapient being in them.

so established race round up

>Fimir, Chaos tainted chaos mutants who are trying to strive to be teachers pet again
>Psiclops, aliens with the Navigator gene
>Saulx, Time Traveling shrimp with weird guns
>MoS, Human remnents weilding DAoT Artifacts
>Aggemar, religous bird lizards who are having a civil war
>Membrains, literally just the Martians from WOTW
>Hoku-lele, Space Polynesians who have a scattered empire
>Bha'Ri. mining lizards
>HobboGobs, A Ork like race of Ancaps

putting these in a pastbin for future reference

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i guess Feral and Void Gretchen too

Didn't we have clever Orkoid like creatures that could manipulate the Waaagh?

yea, HobboGobos or whatever they where called

S in MoS stands in for Scraps
>Mechanoids, a collection of alien machines with a council seat.
>Hadulax, colonial species in submarine mechas.

Wasn't there a race of insectoid merchants?

Hoku-Lele were nomadic traders and merchants

Updated pastebin.com/uW7Er1Hz

I think there where the Stryxis, but I feel they're more of just stereotypical space gypsies than actual traders