Design+2+Races

__Races__

The races of Battle Group are varied and different enough to allow many different styles of play. This will make the game attractive to a larger field of players and allow them to play it 'their way'. While there is alot of information here, it was felt that an MMO needs the 'fluff' and while it is not required to play the game. Indeed only a rudimentary knowledge of the game is, it would be of interest to players.

The Reclann were a peaceful race that loved to develop and push the boundaries of new practical and theoretical technologies. Due to their peaceful nature they have never had the need for large quantaties of weapons and such never developed them. They especially take pride in their intersteller starships that were all crafted in large hangers underground, the reason for this is mainly for safety, in the almost unheard of event of any reactor incidents. On day however an extremely barbaric race, the Marg'ih, appeared in orbit above their homeworld and attacked for no reason at all. They quickly fell to this new, terrible race, that they would later find out is called "The Marg'ih". After almost two centuries of being occupied, the Marg'ih invaders just got up and left after stripping the planet almost barren. The Reclann however are a clever people and managed to keep secret from the Marg'ih the true extent of the underground hangers that contained the fleet of ships they had been working on. Filled with a genocidal rage that has never been felt by any of the Reclann, they upgraded and modified their transport and luxury ships into machines of unrelenting war, the likes of which the universe has never seen and if the Reclann have their way the Marg'ih wont see it ever again. Worse still, there are hard-line elements within the Reclann technocratic government who, so blinded by rage, are close to declaring virtually all non-Reclann species as enemies to be cleansed from the stars.
 * The Reclann**


 * Time Line: The Reclann**

2049 Reclann become unified pacifist race 2123 Reclann send out hundreds of probes to explore the galaxy for them and report what they find 3084 Reclann probe finds aggressive race organizing to leave their homeworld on the far side of the galaxy 3030 Reclann recieve this information and begin developing (for the first time in a thousand years) weaponary that is comparable 3031 Reclann realize they cannot win a straight fight with the Marg'ih but do not believe the Marg'ih will completely exterminate them due to their technological advance, they plan to hide fleets of ships underground where they cannot be found, destroy all paper knowledge of them and wait for the Marg'ih to leave the homeworld before literally digging them up and counterstriking. This plan is only made viable due to the long-life of the Reclann species (140-180 years) 3078 Hidden fleets finished 3086 Reclann first military encounter with the Marg'ih 3087 Reclann homeworld conquered by Marg'ih 3305 Marg'ih abandon Reclann homeworld 3307 Reclann arm their hidden fleets and begin crusades against Marg'ih warlords across their home sector 3310 Reclann extend crusades to all Marg'ih holdings, Reclann/Marg'ih conflict begins and has not ended yet

The Marg'ih are a barbaric race when compared with others, they live for the rush and honour of battle. Due to this fascination they are some what, lacking, with their technology. Recently they have been bored fighting amongst themselves and went in search of a better prey. The first planet they came across was extremely technologically advanced compared to the Marg'ih. Naturally they took this new race as a worthy opponent and swiftly moved in to occupy. The race (later found to be the Reclann) they came across was a peaceful race that has never known combat of this scale. The Marg'ih were very disappointed with the lack of resistance and forced the Reclann to help them upgrade their comparatively primitive battle and command ships with faster interstellar star engines, a huge array of offensive weapons but keeping in with their barbaric nature and culture - an almost total lack of defensive capability. With this new technology they have drained the occupied planet of what resources they can and gone out in search of a more "worthy" fight.
 * The Marg'ih**


 * The Marg'ih**

2087 Marg'ih leave their homeworld (now a barren destroyed waste) in search of a better fight in the galaxy 2087-3085 Marg'ih rampage across the galaxy fighting anyone and anything they meet. They steal much techonology and take billions of slaves 3085 Marg'ih discover the Reclann homeworld and start to plan attacks 3086 Marg'ih begin attacks on Reclann homeworld 3087 Marg'ih conquer Reclann homeworld 3305 Marg'ih abandon Reclann homeworld 3310 Marg'ih begins fighting Reclann guerilla fleets all over the galaxy

The Hive is the youngest of all the races, only being capable of interstellar flight since 5845. Since then, they have spread more rapidly around the galaxy than any other race, pushing out all other interstellar races or displacing those without sufficient technology to flee. This has, understandably, generated huge amounts of hatred for the Hive. Unlike other races, Hive has no concept of individuality, there is not even a group conciousness, only the will of the Queens on the Swarmworlds and the Young Queens on their vast bio-ships. All other Hive, including their bio-fleets, are not truly self-aware - instead only reacting to pheromone or psychic instruction and will blindly follow any command to whatever result. They have no known homeworlds as all Hive worlds eventually end up the same - stripped of all resources or turned into nests for a Queen to make planetfall where she essentially becomes a permanent structure and beacon for all Hive and enemies displaying the indomitable will of Hive. Extremely little is known of Hive (or The Hive in some circles). This is because they have no spoken or written language, no written history of any kind and generally do not communicate at all by any means with anybody but other Hive beings. When they do communicate, Union negotiators and diplomats claim a "strong voice materializes inside your head who identifies itself as the Queen on a world, or Young Queens on particular bio-ships". There is no known method of initiating dialogue with Hive, but they can also communicate with you. This psychic communication abilility, much the other races relief, does not allow the Queens to mind read, only talk with. Ther cumulative effect of all this is that no one knows where they came from, if they do actually have a culture or indeed what they want other than to reproduce, if indeed they want anything else.
 * The Hive**

<5845 Nothing known by any of the major races 5845 Estimated year that Hive Queens birth first self-sustaining interstellar bio-ships 6017 First contact between the Terran Union and the Hive results in the total obliteration of a Hive fleet trying to land on a Union colony, two cities were destroyed by falling Bio-ships 6039 Hive recognized as major threat by all races
 * Time Line: Hive**

Modern Terran history begins with the carpet nuking of the nations of Central and South Athrik in 4652 by the Obisidian Alliance. This signalled the begining of the Earth civil war between the Obsidian Alliance with the Eastern Coalition and the Trans-Eurodann Pact. After decades of struggle, the Trans-Eurodann Pact successfully occupied the Obsidian Alliance in 4676 and the Eastern Coalition captiulated shortly afterwards in 4677. This left the Trans-Eurodann Pact with only a few smaller coalitions to deal with before declaring themselves sole-ruler of Earth in 4679. This was made official a year later when the Trans-Eurodann Pact became the Earth Government. After a long period of rebuilding and reorganizing, a mission to found the first off-world colony was divised and was successfull on Mars in late 4721. Soon after wards four more colonies were setup and later, the rest of the habitable system was fully colonized. With all these resources and man powernewly available much thought and energy was put into the first interstellar engines. Upon completion of a small test jump across the solar syste, preparations were made for a second test out of system and to the nearest celestial body, Tau Ceti. The success of this was given to a rapturous population and immediate plans were made to explore and colonize the first worlds possible. Shortly after the colonies were founded that the Earth Government felt that the colonies and Earth needed a unifying title. In 4940 the Earth Government was officially renamed the Terran Union. The peace and unity of the Union did not last long however and discontent began to brew in many of the furthest colonies. This discontent would catapult the Terran Union into the longest and bloodiest conflict so far. In 4966 Beauregard colony at the edge of Union influence and many smaller colonies from around the Union formed the Free Confederate Colonies and declared themselves and independant power. The immediate reaction from Terran Union Central Command was a declaration of war. For ten years however very little fighting took place, it took a very long time for the Union to arm large enough fleets and mobilize enough men to take on the not inconsiderable might of the Confederates. The fighting raged across the Union for almost 450 years before finally, in 5411 at the cataclysmic battle of Ghedar Cloud where virtually all the remaining ships of both sides took part, the Confederate fleet was completely smashed. Upon defeating the Confederate fleet, the Union, instead of landing troops to capture Beauregard colony the Union leaders chose to make an example and used biological weapons to 'de-populate'. This tactic was used on several other major contributors to ensure no further insurrection could ever take place again. Even with these devastating blows, it took another two years before the Confederates completely capitulated to the Union and their surviving leadership executed publically. This prompted several decades of rebuilding, repopulation and an accelerated program of colonizations across and expanding Union space to take them back on track, but it was not until 5568 that the other major communicable races truly recognized the Terran Union as a power-bloc in the galaxy. First contact with Hive came as a shock to Union Central Command. At Mirriams Edge foundry colony strange ships approached and refused to identify themselves to Militia Command. Wary of this militia command picketed around the newcomersin an attempt to halt them. Hive ignored this, simply flew around the militia ships and made attempts to land ships on Mirriams Edge. At this point Militia Command gave permission to fire on the aliens. Relatively quickly, all enemy ships were destroyed save two large craft which where already descending into the atmosphere when they were fired upon by ground defence stations. They hurtled down smashing into two dense population centeres, totally annihilating them and everyone who lived in them. As of yet, Union Central Command is unsure how to deal with Hive threats. Many argue a more aggressive stance must be taken with all the incursions and sightings of bio-ships through-out the border regions of the Union.
 * The Terran Union**

2015 First human mission to Mars 2016 Mission to Mars deemed a success, first team supplied and supplemented from Earth 2032 Third World War begins as Russia and China clash over Siberian oil 2033 Americans inadvertantly brought in after Chinese/Russian fighting spreads to Alaska, America persuades UN to intervene with it 2033-2097 War rages across the earth, all orbital launch pads destroyed or made inoperable by the war. Mars colony no longer supplied and considered lost 2098 Peace declared by all sides in order to recover from the effects of widespread chemical and biological weapons towards the end of the war  4652 Central and South Athrik are carpet nuked by Obsidian Alliance, Earth civil war begins 4676 Trans-Eurodann Pact conqures the Obsidian Alliance 4677 The Eastern Coalition capitulates to the Trans-Eurodann Pact 4678 Trans-Eurodann Pact sole rulers of Earth 4679 Trans-Eurodann Pact renamed Earth Government 4721 Mars colony estabilished. Other human remains found on Mars, kept top secret and eventually forgotten 4724 Deimos and Phobos Colonies established 4732 Europa and Io Colonies established 4751 Remainder of Sol colonized 4798 First interstellar engine built 4800 First successful jump made by the "Unity - 1" across the system 4801 First sucessful jump made by the "Unity - 2" to Tau Ceti and back 4810 First interstellar colonies founded 4940 Earth Government renamed Terran Union 4966 The Free Confederate Colonies established on Beauregard colony and declares UDI. Terran Union declares war. 4977 Union and Confederate forces engage in heavy warfare 5411 Battle of Ghedar Cloud, 30,000 ships destroyed across both sides, Beauregard colony defence grid smashed. Terran Union uses biological weapons to depopulate Beauregard colony and three other major contributers in the Free Confederate Colonies. 5413 The Confederates capitulate to the Terran Union 5453 Terran Union recontinues expansion on accelerated program 5568 Terran Union becomes recognized interstellar power 6017 First contact between the Terran Union and the Hive results in the total obliteration of a Hive fleet trying to land on a Union colony, two cities were destroyed by falling Bio-ships 6048 Present day
 * Time Line: Terran Union**