5th Arm Ecclesiarchy

Name of Race: 5th Arm Ecclesiarchy (previously 'the 5th Arm Confederation' (previously the 'Lastua confederation' (previously the '5th Arm Confederation')))

Philosophy: Spreading the 'Light of Civilization', through what ever means necessary.

Faction: 3rd-Party

Sporecast Link: http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=usr-blaster97337%7C2263372434%3Assc-500577130896

Creator: Blaster97337

Description:
Since the Altarian galaxy has been designated a possible war zone after contact was suddenly lost with the colonies in it, 4 battalions of Fire Caste soliders have been ordered to make the area safe for recolonization, this force of marines and Spacecraft has been placed under the control of Armin. the Lastua, the Rylin and the Arten made up the majority of this force, how ever there are numerous other races filling small gaps

The Lastua http://static.spore.com/static/thumb/500/644/418/500644418230.png The lastua are the smallest and most fragile of the 3 races, they are also the most nimble and quick witted, it is this ability to make decisions on the fly that results in them rising in rank very quickly. The Lastua where the founders of the 5th Arm Ecclesiarchy and also the only race permitted to be appointed the rank of Ecclesiarch

The Rylin http://static.spore.com/static/thumb/500/641/684/500641684777.png The Rylin are large and strong, and the best at mélle combat of the 3 main races, they where only recently joined the 5th Arm Ecclisarchy and still occasionally fall back to there medieval styles of combat although this is slowly being trained out of them. The Rylin greeted the first Lastua they saw as either an angle or a sorcerer, and a short but bloody war was waged over weather the Lastua should be followed or killed. The side that wanted to follow the Lastua won in the end, and the Rylin joined the 5th Arm Ecclisiarchy. However a few years latter 'The grand imperium' Invaded Ecclisarchy controlled space and the Ecclisiarchies forces were forced to retreat from the Ioria galaxy, bringing thousands of refuge Rylin with them.

The Arten http://static.spore.com/static/thumb/500/644/417/500644417133.png The Arten of the Firecaste are very accurate and fast, able to identify a target, with out adds from opitics, from over a kilometer away. They are regarded as some of the best snipers in the Ecclisarchy. The Arten where originally an oppressive dictatorship and eagerly flocked to the Ecclisarchy the second they got a chance.

History:
The Lastua where Created by an Ancient race called the 'Caman' who at one point, a long time ago, controlled the entire universe. they created the lastua, and a group of other races to guard the universe and keep it civilized and peaceful once they 'ascended' the guardian races grew quickly and the Caman decided they where ready to be left alone and so activated the Lathini Device, there was one thing they hadn't counted on though. The guardian races had grown dependent on their creators and so devolved rapidly when they left. trillions of years latter the lastua had regained there title of 'civilized' but had reacher another problem... there life was too perfect, they had nothing left to work for, no goal, no real meaning to anything and so began developing technology after technology to try to fill the gap and find purpose. There technology advanced incredibly fast but so did there suicide rates and general unhappiness. Soon they launched their first spacecraft, it was fairly advanced due to there rapid advancements in air craft, on its trip to the near by planet where they hoped to find more supplys of valuable metals they found a small base on one of there two moons. Upon investigation of this base they rediscovered the Caman and once again there life had purpose. The lastua all but abandoned their research to expand quickly and try to reclaim as much of the Caman's old territories, however they soon realized that many other races inhabited the area they where created to maintain. The first of these races that they contacted was friendly enough and they soon allied. As the Lastua's expansion continued they eventually ran up against a race that did not treat them so friendly, up until this point they had assumed race could've unified enough to have a functional space fleet and not have realized the futility of war, so they were forced to quickly re-armed the Fire Caste and once again sent them to front line duties.

After much struggle and lose of life they have total control over 4 galaxies and colonys in countless more each galaxy containing hundreds or thousands of races dedicated to the cause of making the universe a civilized and peaceful place for all to live, even if this means killing those who would bear arms against them. How ever this over extended front has taken a toll on the Lastua military reserves, specifically, they have none. Almost every Fire Caste soldier is on the front lines in one or other galaxy and every front is horribly under manned.

Epic War involvement:
2 years ago the 5th Arm Ecclesiarchy first arrived in the Altarian (milky way) galaxy, they quickly expanded and colonized about 15 planets and during this time 4 races were shown the light of civilization. As always there where a few races that stood against there expansion, most noticeably the Zaretains. The Conflict with the Zaretains was bloody but seemed to be going favorably with a small number of planets falling into the hands of the Ecclesiarchy untill suddenly and seemingly with out warning all contact was lost with the Altarian colonys and the hyperway gate was deactivated, presumed destroyed. A small investigation team has been sent via conventional intergalactic travel to investigate the colonies destruction and if it was a military act as it is presumed to have been, the Altarian galaxy shall be redesignated from a colonisation effort to a war zone, which will call for a large army to be sent to secure the galaxy. If it was not a military act and instead a natural disaster, an accident or just a communications failure then colonization shall resume again.

All traces of the 5th arm in the Milky Way Galaxy were successfully wiped away by the Zaretian counter attack by means of the "Stormcloud" super-weapon on the poorly defended 5th Arm planets. A return of the Eccliesiarchy has not been ruled out by many empires, due to the nature of their empire.

Las Alea
Las Alea was a great pilot and good negotiator, more races joined the 5th arm confederation because of him than any other individual. due to his huge role in the expansion of the 5th Arm the Alea memorial constructed in his honor. the Alea memorial is a planet with a mountain sized statue of Las Alea and many channels and forests perfectly placed to make the area look perfect.

Armin
one of the greatest leader in the fire cast, he started off as a captain and lead the third ranger company to conquer a fortress-world, litasin III, this attack was named 'operation skyray', the name of the empire that controlled it has been long since forgotten, the world fell in just 4 days the defenders had lost thousands of men while the third ranger company had only lost 15. that was the first of many victorys for Armin as he rose through the ranks, he is now a conquest general which is the highest leadership rank a fire cast lastua can receive. he also spearheaded the hyperway campaign, which was a campaign to reclaim every hyperway gate, and the sector around it, in the universe. Armin is always calm even in extreamly bad situations and is often viewed as perfect by lower ranking fire casts officers.

The Emperor
although it is a confederation the lastua nation is still ruled by an emperor, The Creators choose him thousands of years ago and are still influencing the galaxy to make sure he survives, although he is incredibly old he still appears youthful and has gathered a great amount of knowledge and wisdom over the past few thousand years. with the help of The Creators spirits and various living assistants he manages to control the whole confederation closely and knows everything that happens at most 5 days after it happens

Culture:
The Ecclisarchy has a very simple government structure as most of the true leader ship is done by The Caman them selves speaking directly to the people who are involved with what ever needs doing, how ever there are a few unwilling or unable to speak the The Caman and so they ask a priest to do it for them. ever priest also has 5 chaplains under them who are responsible for making sure no heresy arises within those who claim to follow the Caman. There is also the Ecclisarch him self, his job is more as a figure head than anything and he is the living embodiment of the Caman, in fact the Ecclisarch basically forgoes his body and gives the Caman complete control over it to instead be able to move freely amongst them in there energy form.

The Ecclisarcy also has a caste system with a belief that all castes are equal and work together for the good of the universe. The four castes are: The Fire Caste, the soldiers and defenders of the Ecclisarchy, most of there training is in combat although not all jobs available to the fire caste are front line combat. The Stone Caste, the builders and workers of the Ecclisarchy, all of there training is physical training as most of there jobs require very little other than strength and coordination The Sand Caste, the academics of the Ecclisarchy, there training is all education to promote general intellect as all of the jobs available to the Sand Caste require being able to see the bigger picture and understand both complicated concepts and be able to do difficult calculations. The Gold Caste, the money makers of the Ecclisarchy, there training revolves around industry and economics, the Gold caste does not also need to deal with money but all the extraction of resources and production of items, they are often office workers, CEOs factory managers, accountants and other similar jobs

The 5th Arm Ecclisarcy doesn't put any focus on 'family' and most children are raised more by the general community of there caste where they live than by there biological parents. Similarly children who are born at a similar time and so grow up together have a much closer bond than children with the same parents but who were born at totally different times.

overview
the creators are the 'gods' of the lastua and were what encouraged the lastua to make this mighty confederation in the first place, there are large number of them and they're pure energy, they've made sure to only show them selves to those who want to see them so as not to just increase the tension as hostility already in the universe. they believe that the only way to have peace in the galaxy is if one race, or group of races controls everything and is run by one person or small group of people. The Creators have a lot of influence over the emperor of the lastua and so, by extension, a significant influence over the confederation as a whole.

history
many trillions of years ago the creators were a race known as the Caman, they were a fairly ordinary race for there time, and since only a small number of races existed at the time the Caman soon controlled a large amount of space. They had two large corporations that was each very important to the race as a whole, Aplex created all there vehicles in large forge worlds that used the magma at planets cores to power there factory, the Aplex engineers were always using cutting edge technology and innovative designs and Batorian Ltd. built many well designed solid buildings and saw no need to change from what worked, with these two seemingly opposite companys the Caman built large structures and mighty vehicles they soon used this power to expand and seemed to have covered the whole universe.

during there rule of the universe there was peace and civilization. they had incredible technology there most notable achievement was the hyperway gates, which allow for instant travel between galaxys. The Caman eventually reached the pinnacle of possible technology but were sure there was still more that could be discovered, this lead to a few scientists building a large tower with a machine inside called the "Lathin Device". when activated this device turned the entire race into energy allowing them to move much more freely and discover the inner workings of reality.

however the Caman did not want all there construction and civilization to go to wast and so made a number of races to look after the galaxy once they were no longer physical creatures, one of these races was the lastua. but they miscalculated the amount of time it would take a race to develop by many milliner and so the Lathin Device was activated before any of these new guardian races were ready to step up to there roll, with out the Caman guiding and genetically edit the guardian races when ever they needed, as they had been been, before these races soon started devolving and becoming dumber.

during the absence of the Caman and the rescission of the guardians many other races sprung up and soon expanded to fill large sections of the universe, with so many races each trying to expand and grow more powerful there was great conflict and most of the Camans creations that had not already been destroyed by time were destroyed by war.

after the nearly all trace of the Caman had been lost the guardian races finally managed to recover from there massive evolutionary backlash and begin developing again, many of these races appear just like the other normal races having lost any memory of the creators, a few how ever discovered ancient artifacts or encoded messages and begun worshiping the Caman as 'Creators'.

In there energy form the Caman are only able to speak to those willing to listen and have no way of effectively manipulating things on there own, but after these few races rediscovered the Caman the Caman began guiding them again and leading them to the stars. Now the Caman speak to the mortal races often and appear as a glowing green light, visaable only tho those who want to, and try to, see it.

Military:
The expansion of the Ecclisarchy has left their forces very thinly spread, and so even with there advanced weapons and shielding technology, extensive training and near perfect tactics, they are still often out numbered and overwhelmed.

Firecaste combate manual: http://freetexthost.com/ul6sr0v1nq (theres more information in this manual than in my wiki, read it well)

the lastua military is small, made up of well trained, well armed lastua as well as small number of alien allies, every memeber of the military is part of the fire cast. there normal units are a squad (5 men) a company (6 squads, 30 men) and a battalion (10 companys, 6 squads, 300 men). the lastua soldiers are very specialized each one is trained for at most 3 jobs, however they're extreamly good at what they're trained for. there main advantages are mobility and extreamly high tech weaponary, thier weaknesses are numbers and Mélee weaponry. the lastua's lack of numbers is often a serious disadvantage for them, they're often outnumbered 10 to 1, so they tend to avoid direct attacks and instead make sure each soldier only has to do what he's been trained and equipped for.

The Creator knights
The creator knights are complete zealots, they would die or let thousands of others die before letting a single artifact of The Creators be touched, this zealousness and devotion makes them very dangerous enemies and a useful part of the lastua confederation. they commonly use weapons such as flame throwers and don't understand the concept of diplomacy and will not stop until everything there is to know of the Creators is known. if you happen to have a item made by the Creators on your planet, or even near your planet you'd better look out for The Creator knights and if possible stay a long way out of there way.

casts
the lastua confederation is divided up into four casts, each one having specif jobs to do and not being expected to do what its not suited for. all the casts are considered equal so a low ranking fire cast guy is no more or less important than a low ranking sand cast guy. the cast system has been part of lastua culture for longer than any records can remember.

fire cast
these are the warriors, police, guards and generally anyone who's going to be doing any fighting. the fire cast aren't very strong, but they're agile and can make decisions quickly. they are the best suited for harsh conditions and have the most best senses (sight, sound, etc.)

sand cast
these are the leaders, scientists, and generally any job that needs some people. the sand cast is small both in numbers and the members of it are generally shorter and thiner than the other casts, they also take the longest to make a decision who ever they are the smartest of all the casts.

stone cast
the stone cast makes up the workers of the confederation, doing any job that requires strength. the stone cast are dumb, really dumb, but very strong and can lift/carry/pull up to 10 times as much weight as the other casts.

gold cast
simply put, traders, there are no lastua in this cast and it is instead made up entirely of aliens they have obsorbed, the gold cast is pretty much free to do what ever it wants to get money for themselves and the other casts with out the government/sand-cast getting in the way.

Zaretians
from the lastuas experience with the Zaretians is that they are a savage and uncivilized race. the lastua are attempting to remove the Zaretains from the galaxy.

Scyth'Jol
as members of the 5th arm confederation, the lastua are close allies with the Scyth'Jol. how ever the Scyth'Jol still have a few things about them that the lastua dislike, for instance they are allied with the Zaretains.

Kri'Thun
as members of the 5th arm confederation, the lastua are close allies with the Kri'Thun and believe that their race that could easily fit into there view of the perfect universe.

Nepharians
as a whole the Nepharians seem to be a misguided race, but not entirely uncivilized. there worship of inanimate objects such as drills confused the lastua and made them doubt the Nepharians. how ever a large group of Nephairians were sent away from there empire since they didn't worship drills, this group then joined the 5th arm confederation and are good allies of the lastua.

Luminarian
the lastua don't like them, they have proven to be xenophobic and uncivilized, but the lastua have faith that the small group of non-xenophobic Luminarians will expand and that eventually there race will be 'civilized' enough to survive.

Aeveria confederation
they seem to be allies of the luminarians and the lastua and Aeverai both have similar enemies, so far the lasuta are friendly with the Aeveria confederation but they haven't officially 'judged there character' so this could easily change shortly.

other aliens
the lastua are normaly very accepting of civilized aliens, how ever there view of civilized is dependent on the length of time the races has existed for, for instance they will be much more forgiving to a race that has only just begun its existence than one who has been around a long time and should know better. when ever the lastua discover a new race they attempt to evaluate there civilization level they then either attempt to remove it from the galaxy or help it get up to their standereds depending on how good they decide the race is.