The Lastua

lastua_units (made by Blaster)

Summary
Faction: none Philosophy:use technology to make sure the will of the creators is done, at any cost. Home Planet: Euroa (its in another galaxy) overall goal: get the universe back up to the level that The Creators expect as quickly as possible, and by what ever means necessary.

description
the lastua are small, about 5 and a half feet tall, they have hollow bones and are physically week compared to other races of the same size. the personalty of a average lastua is to make a choice and then stick with it unless there is a serious reason for them to change their mind.

history
the lastua where originally created by a race called the Caman who at the time controlled the whole galaxy, because they where the only sentient race in the galaxy (another race of mine) the Caman then placed the lastua on there current homeworld, shortly after this the Caman disappeared (like the ancients ascending on stargate). the lastua thrived on there planet but had no real purpose for there life and turned to inventing more and more advanced technologys to try and find happiness. eventually they found a underground facility on one of there planets two moons, it had been left by the Caman, when the lastua discovered this and decoded/translated all the information inside the base they suddenly had a purpose to there life. there goal was to "recivilizes" the universe and return it to the glory of when there creators controlled everything, this was what they had been made to do, they left there solar system for the first time a year latter and found an abandoned city with guard drones, the lastua 'removed' the city (and any tall hill) from the planet using there new gravity wave weapon since ruins of some lesser race lying around doesn't fit there vision of a perfect and civilized universe, they soon found a race known as ice rangers who happily joined the lastua and interstellar trade was soon established. with a good economy and efficient interstellar travel the lastua began spreading further colonizing uninhabited worlds, inviting inhabited ones to join and destroying the the ones that refused. the lastua spread incorporating many races into there confederation and then discovered an ancient artifact, a hyperway gate, which could teleport you many millions of miles to another hyperway gate, only a few seemed to exist and the lastua used them to establish bases in the far flung corners of there galaxy. Lastua scientists eventually unlocked the encoding system the Caman had put on the hyperway gates when they built them and discovered there where more hyperway gates, thousands of them, at least one in every galaxy in the universe. it seems that the Caman had become quite efficient at traveling when they had trillions of lightyears to go and only a few hours to get there. the lastua then began the hyperway campaign, a campaign to discover and secure every hyperway gate and build sectors of colonization around each one, then expand and take over that galaxy. the lastuas quest for universal civilization seems endless, but there belief in there creators will and power gives every warrior, explorer, colonist and diplomat courage that even if they fail in one attempt they will succeed eventually.

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

military
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.

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.

language
the language of the lastua is called Lastoria. Lastoria is greatly different to many other creatures since it's based on Camanin (the language of the creators) which died out when the Creators ascended. lastua conversations often sound like a series of clicks, chirps or squawks but its actually a constant sound but changing pitch, but few races can hear all the different pitches used in Lastoria so only hear about half the conversation. the language is very complicated and lastua often don't learn to talk until they're about 5, and if it wasn't for translation technology other races would find it very difficult to communicate with the lastua.

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.