System Alliance Rise to Power

by Konradoziom

Humanity discovered the ruins of an ancient civilization on Mars in 2148 and made their first contact in 2157. However, the galaxy was not what they expected. With relays as the only defensive line between freedom and tyranny, System Alliance will make decisions that will change the image of the galaxy while starting its rise to power.

4. Chapter 4

From: ShadowCub

A: First of all, this is not a militarized humanity, there are enough ships to patrol the entire System Alliance space and defend it in the event of an attack by any of its neighbors. Compared to the navies of this galaxy, it will be just a tiny fraction of Galactic Republic strength in most cases, the Galactic Empire or even some number of sector forces(Kuat, Mon Cala). In legends, the New Republic Fifth fleet has 500+ modern Capital Ships, so ships over 1 km long. Add to this several thousand support ships, like frigates, corvettes, light carriers, and so on, plus maybe super-capital ships, like Viscount-class Star Defender, and you have an entire System Alliance navy outnumbered and outgunned. Plus 4 other New Republics fleets and thousand sector forces, and you have System Alliance outnumbered by 1000:1.

I'm going to give some ME heroes because it's easier than inventing dozens of others, but I won't just copy Shepard's crew.

Chapter 3

= place: Arcturus Station, year 2161 =

"Admiral Grissom." - began the president - "WHAT the hell are you doing ?!" - he shout at the top of his throat as he get up. Fortunately, the room was soundproofed - "You can be the commander in chief of our entire armed forces, but that does not give you the authority to mobilize the fleet without our consent or to initiate the quarantine of the system. And why did you use an aircraft carrier for this, all 12 Alamo-class frigates and 60 Fenrir-class corvettes, all upgraded? You can be the hero of the System Alliance, but if you don't have a good reason to do so, I'll get you out of the navy and maybe even brought to trial by the military! And I really don't want to do this. The colony of your name already has a population of over 60,000. Do you have any idea what a political crisis would be like?!"

"I have a good reason." - Grissom said - "The Rakatan files were wrong, there is another intelligent species on this planet. And it is in the millions with technology equal to or better than ours in some cases."

Of course, the rapid expansion didn't mean that all of these territories would be colonized right away, and the pirates were already starting to take advantage of it. Fortunately, the newly improved Fenrir-class [1] corvettes, simply dubbed the Fenrir Mk 2, were devastatingly effective, thanks to the enormous technological gap between what they had a few years ago and what they have now. One question came to mind.

"If they are mostly at our technological level, and their population is in the millions, why haven't we noticed anything?" - the president asked.

"We assumed they would expand in a similar way to most races, so they should have some satellites, cities, radio waves, and other communications."

"So what? Do they develop underwater or underground?"

"No. They're are mostly like humans. Jus small, very small."

"And exactly?" - The president sat down, but she was still very annoyed.

"Their Adults will grow, with the same proportion of the rest as humans, to about 5 cm or 2 inches tall."

"What?" - The president asked and his expression was exactly the same.

"I know it's unbelievable, but in the Galaxy, there are such species. The reason we didn't notice them is that most of the population has cities hidden behind special shield generators to protect themselves from predators, and their communication works through a network of special tunnels. According to our information, 80% of the population live in only one of the 5 continents. Their planet is also rich in many raw materials previously unknown to us, which can greatly accelerate our technological progress, and maybe even allow us to make a full-fledged planetary shield on Earth."

"I understand that you have already started negotiations." - more, said the president than asked.

"Just the basics of first contact. We will further evaluate their strength, economy, technology and we agree on the best action plan by all our researchers on the spot. In addition, they agreed to establish a small post with them. Of course, for them, it will probably be the largest structure in their history anyway."

"And what did you establish?"

"From a military and technological point of view, we should invite them to the System Alliance."

"Should we invite another species to join us?"

"The Caamas did it."

"But they wanted to join us themselves. Besides, these were the survivors who escaped, and there are only a few thousand, not millions. From what you say, their population could be as high as a billion. "

"But we have some things that may be of great interest to them."

"That is?"

"Protection against orbital bombardment. Militarily, in any war, they will be massacred by W.M.D attacks or orbital bombing. But in the case of a conventional war in which we are to take over their territories, it will be impossible. Their cities are hidden, and their technology will allow them to wage such good guerrilla warfare that they would embarrass the Poles and the Vietnamese. Additionally, their biology has one more point that will make it impossible to seize their world."

"Just explain."

"All their species is forced sensitive. And their planet has huge amounts of Kyber crystals. 99.9% of them are too small for us to make use of, but they are just the right size for them. It is also the secret of their technology. In them, each soldier has a kind of light sword. And it may be small, but it can still easily melt any known metal we can produce in a millisecond."

"So both sides have something the other wants."

"Mr. President, with their help, we will be able to make a full-fledged planetary shield within 2 years, which may be one of the most powerful in the galaxy. Of course, this is only assuming they have a large enough Kyber crystal and agree to trade it."

"They will have to discuss it with the government anyway, but you presented logical arguments for trying to join them with us. I want to know the name of their race and the name of the planet and system in advance."

"The breed is called Oamecini or translated into ours, although bearly, Ichlings. Their world is called Adapolia and their system is called Lumioasa. Of course, we named them differently, but I think we should switch to their names."

At the end of September, a week after the first contact with the Ichlings, the government released information about their meeting and the arrival of their ambassador to Earth. After the entire November of negotiations, plebiscites, marches, debates, arguments, and counter-arguments, talks about the positives and negatives, a few high-profile nationalists, a joint decision was made to join the Ichlings peacefully to the Alliance System.

-Codex-

The information here is written by humans, translated into human units of time, distance, and other things.

The Oamecini, better known by their name Ichlings, are a tiny race of humanoids. Although their average lifespan on first contact was 80 years, this was mostly due to a large number of predators on the planet. In joining the System Alliance, new ways of defending it, the average lifespan have grown to 100 years. And it is predicted that by 2200 it will rise to 120. The oldest known Ichling was 179 years old.

Ichlings have physiology very similar to humans, but with some notable differences. The most obvious one is their height, which averages 5 centimeters(2 inches). Apart from that, however, Ichlings, after reaching adulthood(20 years), age much more slowly compared to humans, and without any genetic modification. However, the most surprising thing is the connection with the so-called 'force'. This allows all members of their species to have telekinetic abilities and significant physical enhancement. A properly trained Ichling, the best example is the members of their armed forces, with the support of 'force', can match trained human soldiers in terms of speed. Coupled with their small stature and technology, Ichling will win in a 1v1 fight 99% of the time. There is still a story, though it is unconfirmed, that a properly trained Ichling can fly. Taking into account their telekinetic abilities, it seems possible, if flying would involve the use of telekinesis.

Their armor forces, before their first contact, had only one branch - the hunters. They are elite warriors who provided defense against natural predators. They mainly used their versions of lightsabers, which were built directly by users. In addition, the cities also had automatic defense systems, consisting of turrets and energy shields. In their military, only 0.1% of the population served and still serves, which, with a population of 1.2 billion, made 1.2 million citizens in the armed forces.

Their society operates on a constitutional monarchy similar to Japan or Great Britain, but the current monarch has far more power than his human counterparts. It is worth noting that the new monarch is not the eldest son, as in most of the old nations on Earth, but the descendant elected by the previous king during his lifetime, regardless of gender, although being an adult is a prerequisite. It seems the world has seen several other forms of government as well, but after they were extinguished, after the first king, founder of the current royal family, and united the entire planet about 500 years ago.

The economy is capitalist, but the government has a monopoly over a few raw materials and industries like Kyber crystals and weapons. The differences in the size of the Ichlings and the System Alliance economy in 2161, resulted in only a small, but remarkably good, trade between the two, through a space elevator, built on a planet around which there is a small city of humans, with a planned population of 40,000, counting personnel in bases and forces assemblies.

Technologically the Ichlings are better advanced in some areas and worse in others. Their technology centered around the Kyber crystals, which had a huge abundance on the planet, and thanks to their small size, even those that would be the size of dust for humans, would have an application for them. Even so, the Ichlings also use other, more conventional sources of energy, such as geothermal energy. Their computer technology is on par, but the dimensions of the components are much smaller. If they made a device the size of a human desktop computer, it could have computing power comparable to the largest computers on Earth. However, the most surprising element of technology is the so-called StarGate[2], which allows you to move instantly from one place to another on the planet. The only known way to fuel them is through the use of Kyber crystals. The most interesting thing is that this technology originally came from an ancient race other than the Rakatana that left this planet about 45,000 years ago for unknown reasons.

Their connection with the force has given their entire society the philosophy of taking the light side of the force, without suppressing emotions, as the former Jedi Order in the Republic did. Their planet reacts if too many members of the Ichling race begin to follow the 'light' of the force, similar way to the Jedi, or the 'dark' side of the force. In such cases, their planet would have uncontrolled growth of plants and animals, natural disasters, and various misfortunes. It is said that this system was introduced with the unification of the planet, but the ruins of an ancient civilization other than Rakatana, it was introduced by this ancient civilization, later forgotten, and once more reintroduced by the First King.

Their contribution to the System Alliance is small economically, but it has allowed to greatly accelerate the development of computer technology, and their Kyber crystal is the main source of energy for the Earth planetary shield generator. At the same time, a small number of people in their armed forces are able to take advantage of the so-called 'battle meditation'. Recent attempts by the Ichlings to exploit this phenomenon in our armed forces have shown a significant increase in inter-unit coordination. As for their hunters, it has become a new branch of our armed forces.

Much of the pre-unification of the Ichlings shows a similar growth and decline of many countries, over several centuries. The last Ichlings war that shaped the present-day society was a global conflict in which all existing nations were drawn into. The main dispute was the ideological thirds between the choice of the light and dark side. During the course of the war, over 80% of the victims were civilians who were attacked by natural predators, when they had neither the technology nor the soldiers who fought at the front lines to defend themselves, and natural disasters such as earthquakes and droughts. In the 10th year of the conflict, when the death toll reached 50 million, about 8% of the Ichlings population at that time, the first king appeared. Apparently, he invented the first lightsaber and had force skills that outclassed everyone else. He started a revolution in many border villages through his teaching. He easily won support, which is not surprising given the tragic situation in which most of the society found itself.

Over the next 2 years, his teachings reached the front lines and began to penetrate the consciousness of soldiers who were exhausted by the constant fighting. It was also the point where over 15% of the population was enlisted in the military. During this time, he also gained enough support to become the leader of the new Ichling nation. Only then did the other countries notice him, as they were too busy fighting with themselves. The soldiers who had been sent to suppress him joined him, not wanting to attack their own families, and seeing it as a better idea than a constant fight with no apparent end. Thus, just one year after the proclamation of the new state, it also became the only state. The first king succeeded in introducing reforms and a new ideology into society, along with lightsaber technology. In just a few years, all post-war damage was repaired, but population losses ranged from 60 million to as much as 80 million. Probably the first king's most important skill emerged here, choosing the right people for the right job.

His rule was so good that the people wanted to make him king, to which he agreed, but he also established a parliament. In this way, the parliamentary monarchy was formed, which leads the Ichlings to this day, and the period itself from the beginning of the reign, to the first contact with the System Alliance, is called the golden age of the Ichlings. The first contact marked the beginning of the cosmic age, which is now.

Planets with special defense systems:

Earth - Humanity's homeworld. For this reason, it receives a full-fledged planetary shield and all former defense systems. The defense forces of the system consist of 12,288 fighters, half of which are arranged in 31 defense bases and the other half on the planet itself, 12 Defender-class defense stations, 192 defense satellites.

Adapolia - Ichlings(Oamecini) homeworld. Due to its importance to the Ichlings and their special location, it was equipped with a 100% automated defense system consisting of 96 defense satellites and a fully-fledged planetary shield.

New Caamas - The world of Caamasu refugees. Due to its symbolic significance, it is the first world to be peacefully incorporated into the Alliance System, it has a planetary shield normally passed to colonies over 80 million, 16 defense satellites and a Defender class defense station. In addition, it also has a wing of 48 fighters.

Shanxi - The world from which the Cerberus expedition to the space of the Galactic Empire was launched. For safety reasons, the hyperspace path to this system was investigated and a Defender-class defense station was placed on it, along with 16 defensive satellites. 72 fighters are stationed at the station.

Earth, Arcturus Station, Terra Nova, Eden Prime, Ontarom, Kanto, Reach - In addition to standard defense systems, fleets are stationed there, which significantly increase defense capabilities.

Fenrir mk2-class Corvette:

Dimensions: length - 66 m, width - 24 m, height - 20 m;

Defense abilities: energy shields; 4 GARDIAN turrets;

Offensive abilities: 1 Twin light turbolasers 6 proton/ion torpedo launcher;

Crew: 10;

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[1]Alliance Corvette Fenrir class by Euderion

[2]Basically a weaker version of the Kwa Infinity Gate

[3]I think about planet like Tython