Omega Octant
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The Omega Octant is a large area of the inhabitable Milky Way Galaxy in the fictional Star Fleet Universe. It serves as one of the featured game settings for SFU game systems, alongside the adjacent (and more familiar) Alpha Octant - which is divided into two settings itself, the default Main Era and the Early Years period - and the Small Magellanic Cloud. It lies beyond the furthest reaches of the Interstellar Concordium, but is separated from the ISC by a large Void which has few planets of any type, and is dangerous to navigate due to large ion storms and radiation clouds.
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[edit] Background
Omega is designed to be somewhat different from the original Alpha Octant setting. The Octant's history is designed to be much more fluid, with different races rising to prominence at different times, before collapsing before another rising empire. This means that borders change considerably over the course of the Omegan history, instead of merely growing more static as time goes on.
[edit] Omega Octant Governments and Factions
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[edit] Races detailed in modules Omega 1 and 2
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- The Maesron Alliance
- A federation-like mix of several races, dominated by three mammalian species (the humanoid Tazol, the batlike Wallimi and the wolf-like Vulpa) that found that working together was more efficient than fighting. The Maesron would eventually become the most powerful faction in the sector until internal strife caused by the aggressive domination of one of the founding races, the Vulpa, nearly destroyed it.
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- The Koligahr Solidarity
- A race of jellyfish-like beings that given a technological boost allowing them to become a space faring race. The Koligahr travel in ships full of water and constructed of connected spheres. They fought several wars with the Maesron.
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- The Trobrin Empire
- A silicoid race that gradually developed a significant degree of xenophobia towards the carbon races on their borders. They seek to further a 'Silicate Plan', which would see them as masters of the carbon races in the Milky Way. Their ships and weapons were noted for their high radiation output, which impeded the use of these technologies by other races, but to which the Thobrin were largely immune. Also, their vessels are more heavily armoured than those of their rivals.
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- The Vari Combine
- A spider-like race that found mammals, most notably the three founding races of the Maesron Alliance, to be quite tasty. The Vari were more of a racial association and had no true central government. This meant that often a hive would go to war while others did not get involved until they were attacked themselves.
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- The Probr Revolution
- A race of genetically engineered salamanders, the Probr revolted against and destroyed their creators. The Probr were relatively poor, and their ships showed signs of being cheap, yet quite effective.
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- The Chlorophon Association
- Huge, sentient trees, the individuals of this race were so large that their ships were literally built around a single individual. The larger ships were simply older Phon who had outgrown smaller ships. They were supported by a race of small, anteater-like creatures, the Keepers, who lived in a symbiotic relationship with the Phon. The Phon had been in space for longer than just about any other race in the octant, but were non-aggressive and considered themselves to be more elder statesmen and historians.
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- The Drex Unity
- The walrus-like Drexari race that had developed robotics to the point that their day to day needs were fully taken care of by their creations. The robotic servants of the Drex created and "manned" the fleets, slowly expanding and tenaciously defending their territory. The robots of the Drex are apparently well treated (or at least programmed) by their creators and have shown no sign of rebelling against their biological masters.
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- The Alunda Host
- A land-dwelling octopus-race from a minerally poor planet, the Mirn were able to capture and use massive interstellar creatures, the Alunda, they discovered near their planets to create starship sized living ships.
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- The Sigvirion Expansion
- A literal virus race able to infect and take over host creatures. Despite several nearly successful attempts to overwhelm the sector, they were defeated each time by the coordinated retaliations of the other races. Their massive territories were eventually retaken by the other Omegan races, and faced with extinction, the Sigvirion made held emergency discussions with the Alunda, and their offer to lend their intelligence to the Alundan bioships was taken.
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- The Hivers
- Bee-like insectiods about the size of a Terran Dog, the Hivers have the advantage that all members of an individual hive are of one mind. On the other hand, their ships are all small in comparison to other races. For example, their Heavy Cruiser is no bigger than any other race's destroyers.
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- The Loriyill Collective
- Small Faerie-like creatures, their ships seemed to defy standard technologies. The Loriyill were isolationists while seeming to be looking for something. This something was revealed to the be the Souldra.
[edit] Races detailed in module Omega 3
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- The Souldra
- Ancient enemies of the Loriyill, the Souldra are a race of energy beings controlling quasi-living crystalline ships, feeding on the life energies of others. After centuries of hiding in the Void, the Souldra made a bold invasion attempt over the entire Omega Octant and were responsible for wiping out the populations of many worlds, including the homeworlds of the Singers and Bolosco. Eventually, thanks to concerted efforts by the other Omegan races and the Loriyill, the Souldra were finally defeated.
- The Ymatrian Horde
- A warrior race that, once they had achieved the status of a space faring race, promptly tried to conquer the galaxy. Unfortunately for them, they first ran into the Drex who drew in and destroyed their fleet, then bombed them back to the "stone-age" to prevent them from threatening them again.
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- The Worb Technocracy
- A race of sentient fungoid creatures, the Worb created much of their technology on recovered Ymatrian ships. While sometimes split within between many rival sub-castes, they provided a unified face to the outside.
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- The Singer Protectorate
- Small, hummingbird-like creatures, they were just reaching space when their system was conquered by the Koligahr. Eventually, they were liberated by the Loriyill who treated them as younger siblings, but they were unable to prevent the Souldra from destroying their homeworld and virtually annihilating them as a race. The survivors found refuge within the protective borders of the Loriyill Collective.
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- Federal Republic of Aurora
- The Republic of Aurora was originally a Federation colony, transported to the Omega Octant in Y130 when the Aurora system was enveloped by an ion storm. They managed to set themselves up as a semi-neutral enclave, with sufficient defences to protect themselves. As the vessels and shipyards transported along with Aurora were based on the old Earth ship designs (as seen in the Federation 'old' light cruiser and police cutter) the FRA fleet based their newer designs on these hull types, as opposed to the saucer-and-nacelle pattern adopted by Star Fleet. Eventually, the same phenomena transported other star systems, such as the Klingon subject colony of Kraknora and the ISC colony PX 123. (When Kraknora joined up, the name was changed, and the 'Federal' in Federal Republic was added.) A number of individual craft, including a Lyran Light Cruiser (which facilitated the development of ESG technology on FRA escort vessels) and an Andromedan Satellite Base (which self-destructed before it could be examined in detail), were also brought through.
[edit] Races detailed in module Omega 4
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- The Branthodon Regime
- A race that managed to capture and use the powerful Space Dragons of the galaxy. They fought several wars with the Alunda before being defeated by them and finally driven out of the Octant.
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- The Bolosco Merchant Guilds
- The Bolosco are multi-cellular, amoeba-like creatures who originally lived on an ice-covered "cold ocean" world in the M-81 galaxy. Fleeing persecution, a nomadic group settled and established the Bolosco Trading Guild within the Omega Sector.
- Pacifists by nature, they slowly began to build friendly links with all the other races within their newly adopted region of the Milky Way galaxy and began building effective trade links with them. For many years they prospered, remaining largely unaffected by the continual wars between the other Omegan races.
- Their idyllic existence was thrown into turmoil by the mysterious Souldra who began a heavy invasion of the Omega Sector, attacking and defeating all races that came into their sights. Unable to resist the overwhelming strength and numbers of the invading Souldran fleet, despite assistance from the Loriyill, the Bolosco Trading Guild was all but destroyed and the Bolosco population was once more forced to flee. The survivors found sanctuary within the re-emerging Maesron Alliance.
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- The Rynish Enclave
- Protected by the Ryn Nebula, the tiger-like Ryn believed for many centuries that they were alone in the universe. With no dilithium at their disposal, they were unable to develop warp technology, but they developed their technology to very high levels of advancement and specialised in conservation, recycling and Quantum Transporter technology which allowed them to transport between planets with minimum expenditure.
- Although their borders were crossed by many Omegan races, including the Probr, Maesron, Trobrin, Koligahr and Sigvirion, the Ryn were more than capabable of repelling those attempts to conquer their territory. Unfortunately, they were powerless to prevent the Andromedans from dominating their tiny sector of space, and on their final attack, the Andromedans were surprised to find the Ryn worlds completely abandoned - their populations, installations, artifacts, technology and resources all completely gone. To date, the true fate of the Ryn remains a mystery.
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- The Qixa Amalgamate
- The Qixa are a small but proud race that resemble rabbits who inhabit a volatile and treacherous gas cloud known as the Qixavalor Cloud. Shrewd businessmen, with a penchant for trade, the Qixa were able to seize advantage of the void left by the irrevocable fall of the Bolosco Trading Guild after the failed Souldran invasion. With the loss of their main competition, they expanded their trade swiftly, growing rapidly more prosperous, and more and more tempting to the likes of the Zosman Raiders, who remain their biggest concern. Despite the size of their race, the Qixa have the highest standard of living within the Omega Sector.
[edit] Races yet to be detailed in an Omega module
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- The Paravian Jihad
- The Paravians are an avian based race that existed coreward of the Gorn home worlds, and appeared to be a genetic mutation of the Gorn species. Despite this, both races went to war, culminating in the destruction of the Paravian homeworld, and the apparent demise of the entire race. However, a cell of survivors made it into the Omega Octant, and established a colony which slowly grew into a minor but irritating rival for the Trobrin and others.
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- The Nucian Clans
- The Nucians were originally colonists on Vulpa worlds which refused to accept their homeworld's membership of the Maesron Alliance. They fled Maesron space and established themselves in a dense cluster. Sharply divided into several warring clans, they were infiltrated by the Sigvirions in the run-up to the Second Great War, and were almost wiped out during the Andromedan War.
- The Zosman Marauders
- These pirates - based in the Phi Sector, adjacent to the three mapped Sectors of the Octant, but originally from elsewhere - plague the trading races of the Omega Octant. The Zosmans and Bolosco shared a particularly bitter rivalry, and the Iridani also fought the Zosmans on a regular basis. They used a form of stealth field technology to mask their hidden bases, which they refined over the decades (the Maesrons would find a means of detecting one level of field and wipe out as many bases as they could find, only for the Marauders to develop a better version and start over).
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- The Echarri Dynasty
- Presumably from the Phi Sector (they fled into the known Octant from there in the Sixth Cycle), they became known to the Omega races as refugees fled an Andromedan invasion of their home space.
- The Jindarian Freehold
- The same Jindarian race seen in other regions of the SFU, the Jindarians have claimed a 500-parsec region of the Octant as their own. Like the other races, they suffer an Andromedan invasion in the Sixth Cycle.
[edit] References
- Star Fleet Battles Module Ω1: The Omega Sector
- Star Fleet Battles Module Ω2: Omega Reinforcements
- Star Fleet Battles Module Ω3: The Omega Wars
- Star Fleet Battles Module Ω4: The Omega Rebellion
- The Omega Sector: What I Did and Why I Did It, Bruce Graw, Captain's Log #19 (ADB, 1999)
