Affiliation: Darkside
Starting Planet: None
Board: HERE
Uneducated sea monsters? Hardly.
The Sando Aqua Monster is simply the only known tie to the extragalactic species of creature known as the Sando. What we have come to know as the rarely sighted Aqua monsters are in reality the last remenants of a failed advance scouting party of what remains of the Sando race. Having barely survived a botched crashlanding on Naboo's surface, their Body Ships ruined beyond repair and with no way to contact those that would come after them, the Sando scouting party quickly adapted to the enviroment in which they had been placed in. Loyal to their own, and not wishing those that they would hide from to discover where they had been, the Sando hid deep under the surface of the planets oceans, using their second lung to filter the water from the first and recieve the attainable oxygen from the abyss they now called home. With this time, the many years of simple hunter gatherer life style took its toll on their minds and the Sando became what we know today as the Sando Aqua Monster.
The original Sando wasnt even an aquatic creature but evolved from a typical landbased predator. In its own system it was the top of its foodchain, which was odd since most times than not the top seed of the food chain did not evolve without need. The Sando home system had but one moonless world, well within the Alice zone this world was twice the size of Jupiter with a gravity of about Earth equivalent. As time progressed the and the Sando achieved the hieght of their technology they began to settle across all of known space, their predatorial instict pushing them to dominate all they percieved. Thus the galaxy became theirs without so much as a wimper.
It was this way for two Millenia or more, the subjigation and slavery of entire sectors of the galaxy for Sando use became common place. They were the overlords and over all they ruled. There was a specific species of very small humanoids they used to high degree in their Body Ship construction yards, in which the Body Ships the Sando used to traverse the galaxy and a wide variety of planetary enviroments were made, they were the Vong and with the Sando they had been spread to a great many worlds in their steed. It was with this they sewn the seeds of their own destruction.
The Vong were not the mindless workers the Sando had attributed them to be, they were intelligent, learning about their cruel masters and developing their own culture in secret, one of rebellion and discent when the right time shown itself. With all their forced indulgance of technology they learned to loathe it with an almost religious zeal, instead opting to use that with which they could attain, themselves and the creatures around them, lending to the Vong bioscience.
As always happens in time, the slaves revolted against their masters, at first not openly. Sabatoge had been the word of the day, many Sando began dying in deep space for no obvious reason, and for those without companion their would be no record. This remained a quick wavering though as the Sando race wasnt a prolifent reproducer, prefering instead for their women to bear a young once every twelve years. Over time the Sando were reduced to a few holdfasts of power as the Vong began to expirement with their newfound 'biotechnology' in the open, discovering they too could achieve spaceflight and even that the smallest of things could combat these monsters in suffiecent numbers.
In what took the Sando a few millania to solidify it took the Vong half to tear apart. The first open revolts were overlooked. The slaves fought sometimes, it was accepted, and the Sando had more of an issuie to deal with in repopulation than worry about a few slaves on a few outer worlds of the galaxy. As one world turned to dozens to hundreds the Sando could not overlook this new threat to their top dawg status on the predatorial notch and openly engaged the Vong in combat across the galaxy. Alas it was too late for the Sando, there were too few left to throw down the rising rebellion of those they had so easily spread across all known space. World after world was freed from their hold by these puny slaves and all the hapless Sando were to do was watch as it seemed their Race was to die off.
It was in this time that the homeworld came back into fashion, the remaining Sando gathered and ready as the last of their holdings fell to the newly created Vong warfleets. The old Body Ships still worked, they had been held behind when the new technologies were developed, the Vong wouldnt have been able to tamper with these. Thus it was so, that when the Vong fleets came to destroy their masters once and for all, they found nothing but an old abandoned world, the Sando had escaped and in the gradest fashion of all, they left the galaxy itself.
It would be for not, as a Vong expidition was sent to track the remaining Sando, wherever they may go, the hatred they felt for their former masters was without retrieve. One of these refugees was tracked from the begining, and knowing they were tracked they lead the Vong away from their brethran, never to return, this breakoff swam the interstellar space to a most remote world from the true Sando hiding and beached themselves upon it. They had lost the Vong, and themselves. The Vong, unpurterbed, returned to their home galaxy with the knowledge they had gained and the probobale location of the Sando remenant. Over time the cuase for the Vong's hatred was forgotten, but not the urge for conquest, they had their eye set on the Galaxy of Man and his technology and it would quake before them.
Outside the Galactic Rim the remanants of the Sando civilization remain in waiting for word of their comrades, but the wait is soon to be over, though they can wait no longer, The Sando will become again that once they were. They will repopulate this galaxy to reclaim what was once thiers.
<h3>OOC</h3>
Instead of starting with a planet we propose to begin with 30 Bodyships and roleplay the conquest of our first Galactic world. This we feel would be an excellent way to continue our storlyine as first appearing in the known galaxy. These Bosy Suit stats are listed below and reflect the current level of technology the Sando posses. With them in tow are also cryopods of Sando eggs to repopulate.
<h4>The Sando Body Ship</h4>
Designation: Body Ships
Scale: Capital
Crew: 1
Consumables: Indefinate
Cargo Capacity: None
Length: 500m
Life Support: Indefinate
Power System: Quantum Reactor
Propulsion System: Quantum Stream/SwimDrive
Speed Rating: 100 MGLT
Atmospheric Speed: 1,200kph
Manoeuvrability Rating: High
Weapons:
Primary: Electromagnetic Pulse Battery
Secondary: Ion Vibro Claws and Teeth
Armour: 1,152 RU
Special:
Electromagnetic Pulse Battery
It is used to disable Starship's in order for the Sando to destroy them by more conventional means. It is a short-range weapon that can disable even the most powerful of Starship's and Starbase's shields. Unlike most weapons the EPB can only be fired once per turn. This is to account for the weapon being charged up. So, it would take one turn to charge the weapon even before it could be fired the first time in battle.
Ion Vibro Claws/Teeth/Tail
A special design that mimics the effect of a vibroblade with an ion tip. Used in defense and offensive actions, these weapons will typically tear into disabled vessels and rip them to pieces. When encountering shields these blades will tear into them as well, but if not accompanied by a great deal of force, will not penatrate them. The damage cuased by these weapons is dependant completly on the way in which they are used.
Quantum Stream
The quantum stream is actually a narrowly focused, directed subspace field that is initiated by manipulating the fabric of the space-time continuum at the quantum level. It works by focusing a quantum field to generate massive changes in local space curvature; this creates a subspace tunnel, which is projected in front of the vessel. Once a ship has entered this tunnel, the forces inside propel it at incredible speed. The stream is large enough to accommodate more than one vessel, so a ship without a quantum drive can enter the stream and accompany the vehicle that is generating it. The greatest difficulties involved lie not ingenerating the stream but in maintaining and navigating it. Even a slight phase variance can cause the stream to collapse, with disastrous consequences for any ship inside it.
SwimDrive
Similar to the Quantum Stream drive, the SwimDrive is activated with the fluid motions of its user. When the user preforms a sliding motion as if they were underwater the vessel will propel itself forward at an incredable rate with the manipulations of the space arround it. This curvature of the immediate space allows for quick motion an comfortable sublight motion. Additionaly, the SwimDrive has an added ability called the "sidestep" drive. The sidestep (actually, a gravimetric translational propulsion system) allows the ship to dodge beam weapon fire directed toward it. The drive moves the ship either to port or starboard several meters when engaged, "sidestepping" incoming fire without changing course or banking. This allows the ship to close quickly on a potential target without requiring traditional evasive maneuvers, which would change the ship's course and increase closure time. These drives are able to enter a planets atmosphere and land without harm much the way a VSD is able to.
Fluidic Materials
Instead of having to deal with the problems of a mechanical and bulky frame, the ancient Body Ships were designed and built from a fluid formed material that allowed for an extreme range of motion instead of the hindering possibilities of raw materials. These materials have the strength of normal ships hulls with less of the problems.
Protection Fielding
A power absorbing layer of thick fluidic material are placed over the outside of the ship to defend against energy weapons. This layer, when struck will redirect the energy of the blast to other minimal systems to charge them with additional power as to be siphoned off with ease. Additionally under the surface the ship has a repulsar field coverage system as well. As part of its atmospheric landing system the repulsar field can be used as a defense to missle type weapons if need be.
