Sauran Solidarity

Planet Name: Aradan

Aradan is a very hot planet that is divided into two parts, In the middle you have the Ring of Seas. The Ring of Seas is a very deep and watery region that was one of the main regions where life had begon. At those seas various lifeforms exist and there is plenty of life around there. This is also the area where the sauran evolved. The Ring of Seas is hold back by the Mountain Walls. These are extemely high mountains that contain the water in the circle that is most in the midle of the planet. They also contain most of the rain so all of the water is kept inside the walls. Beyond those walls, huge jungles have grown due underground tunnels that were created by the water. In those jungles there is also plenty of life and diversity of lifeforms. After the jungles the amount of water decreases and the landscape is becoming more dry. Eventually when you got either up or down from the Ring, you will end in a almost lifeless desert. There, only the toughest of creatures live and most of them are very small due to low amounts of food and water. And if you go to the poles of the planet you will find the Dead Fields. The Dead Fields are nothing more then fields full of rocks and there is little to none life there. The only creatures that live there are small insects and a few reptiles. However, the Dead Fields are very rich of minerals and there are also a lot of diamonds and other rare stones in the ground.

History

The coming of Balance

Before the Sauran were nature respecting creatures, they were more of an industrial profit race. Long before the Sauran sollidarity was formed the Sauran were at war with themself for several times. They fought for various reason such as religion, resources and just cultural differences. After years of war and peace their mindless expansion caused the destruction of most of the natural habitat and social balance. Small groups were rich and controlled most of the planets economy and every worked under the economy, a forest was cut down if it could give profit and diseases were cured only if the people who sold it made profit. Meanwhile the leaders of several countries made sure that they knew what everyone did, anyone who tried to stop them was put in a bureaucratic loop or was hindered in every footstep. In the end the population became dissatified with the way things went and slowly did the people revolt. However, the goverments(which were partly companies) did everything to stop global revolution or anything close to that. In every place where a revolt against the goverment started there were govermental agents who infiltrated the rebel groups and tried to destroy them from inside out. This worked untill a group of hackers and a group of rebels succeeded in revealing a very large amount of the government's secrets. This caused so many revolts and demonstrations that the government couldn't stop it. The world was about to fall in anarchy and many deaths and much destruction would follow if it hadnt been for that one group. A small group of saurans has been working on a new way to lead the world allong with a new style of life. The group brought unity to many saurans because many of them disliked the old ways of leadership and gladly accepted a total-truth goverment. It would be the otherway around in privecy terms, not the people would be monitored but the government would. Combined with the ability of every citicen to see and check every plan of the government. The government simply couldnt be corrupted unless all of the people were also corrupted. The new style of life would be centered around nature and the way they used to survive before technology made them spoiled. The motive of profit was replaced with the care for nature. Nature was them and they couldnt live without if they wanted to be part of it. After many unstable years of rebuilding and reforesting their planet, the saurans finaly aimed their sight at something different. They knew that somewhere between the stars, there would be other creatures. Perhaps with sentience, perhaps not. It didnt matter for the Sauran, because they were eager to learn how big the universe is..

First Contact

When the Saurans were about to venture into space, their world was still recovering from the scars that the older generations have done to it. But certain regions simply couldn't help the planets recovering so they spend their time looking at the stars and thinking of ways to get to them. They first launched several probes towards dense clusters of stars thinking that they would have more chance of finding life there. They were looking for all possible signals of life, radiowaves,deformed landscapes, chemical mixtures, structures and other sentient creations. After a few years they found a mixture of radiowaves and the Saurans decided that they would send a ship with some saurans that would be almost frozen so that they would be alive when they got there and it would also save lots of resources and food. (since saurans are reptiles they use less energy when their body is cold so that almost freezing them preserves much energy) They also calculated a path around planets that would give them more speed as they went around planets and use their gravital force to increase acceleration. The calculated time of travel was around 4 years, but after 3 years something remarkably happened. The ship was still a year away to be somewhat close to the cluster of stars, but one year before they should send a signal the ship returned to the planet, instantly and it wasnt alone. One a clear night that Aradan hadnt seen for a long time since the industralisation, a brigth flash emitted near one of Aradan's moons and the ship that the Saurans send 3 years ago appeared allong with another ship. The othership was unlike anything that the Sauran had seen before, it was sleek and looked fragile compared to the sturdy look of the Sauran ship. After the stunning reappearance of the ship, the Sauran checked the ship to see if there was anything that happened with the crew onboard the ship. The crew was still in a sleep freeze, practically untouched for 3 years. It looked like the alien ship had transported the ship back to its own planet by calculating the route it took and then used some form of FTL to bring it back instantly. After a short discussion it was decided that a shutle should try to make contact while every radio broadcast was checked to see if they were trying to contact them. The shutle was launched from one of the spacestations that orbited Aradan with a crew that didnt know what to expect to happen when they got close to the alien ship. They equiped spacesuits incase something went wrong with the ship or when they inside the alien ship. When the shutle approached the ship a bright hole appeared in the ships hull and the shutle crew flew into it and was amazed by the ships interrior. It looked like the whole ship was made of glowing strings of light in many different colours. The ship was dragged by a few of those string to an orb like formation of strings somewhat higher in the ship. The ship was dragged into the orb and when the crew looked outside it looked like somesort of room, it had a few pillars of strings and some holes that probelly connected several rooms together.

(for this part it would be best if you listen to this song while reading for more atmosphere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWFm2LIYNjg)

Then it was silent, nothing happened besides the moving strings and some of the lights became brighter or darker. Following the curious nature of the saurans, the crew decided that they needed to get out the shutle and try to find a way to the owners of the ship. They got out of the shuttle and felt a strange feeling all around the area, it was like the ship was vibrating but not in a visible way. They could feel a physical wall when they tried to push against a wall, they couldn't touch it as if an invisible force pushed them away. After a while when they were somewhat less stunned by the beauty of the ship, they went into one of the tunnels that seemed big enough for them to fit through. After a few rooms they found a dead end but when they all got in the room, the tunnel closed and they were trapped. The saurans were slightly panicking, but stayed hopefull that the aliens weren't after their flesh and that this must be some sort of test. They waited for a few minutes when the surroundings suddenly became blindingly bright and the crew closed their eyes until the room became darker again. When they opened their eyes there were standing several snake-like aliens around them. Again the saurans slightly panicked but remained as calm as they could, they didn't talk as if speaking would break this precious moment of first contact. The alien were examining the saurans with bright pupil-less eyes, coming closer to the saurans. The aliens slithered closer and one of the saurans stuck out its hand and tried to touch the outworld creature, and the alien did the same. When they touched they looked into each others eyes and the sauran could see sadness in the aliens eyes. As if the aliens didn't really want them to be here.. The aliens distanced themselves a bit and came together till they made a small group and then one of them spoke. The saurans couldn't understand what they were saying but they waited until the alien had spoken. They noticed that when the alien spoke that the ship looked like it reacted to its words, the walls almost flowed like waves with every word. The alien looked at another of its species and then looked back at the saurans who were still amazed by this beautifull moment. The alien spoke again, but this time the saurans noticed that it spoke differently. The words almost made sense, as if it was trying different frequencies on a radio and was missing the right frequency just a bit. It paused for a second and then spoke again, making more sense with every pause. The strange thing was that the saurans could not really hear what it was saying, but they felt and saw images of things they knew. The alien paused again, but this time it spoke with words they knew. We are..happy, to see your patience. were the first words that the saurans could understand, and they lowered their head as a sigh of recognition. Do you.. fear us? The saurans looked at each other and were unsure how they could answer with no, they didn't had any speakers on their suit and removing their helmets didn't sound like a logical option. The alien seemed to know what was going on and pointed at their helmets with a long and sleek finger which flowed perfectly into some sort of hand. The saurans looked at each other and one of them would remove his helmet and hoped that they would survive. The sauran removed his helmet and the air inside it escaped, terrified but still hopefull, the sauran continued. When he had completely removed his helmet he let it fall to the ground as he watched the air flow around his head like a fish boil. The other saurans were amazed and soon removed their helmets too. Meanwhile the alien watched them and they waited for the saurans to get used to this strange events. Then a sauran spoke and said: We appreciate your hospitality The aliens looked at eachother while speaking but this time the saurans couldn't 'hear' what they were saying. Then the alien who spoke before spoke again, We think that you are worthy and compos mentis, we will teach you new patterns of elements to aid your race The saurans were surprised, these strangers were prepared to help them develop? While still being stunned by this news, the alien spoke again: We will go to your home and discuss this matter further The saurans were not sure how to react, the news was so sudden. The saurans agreed that the best reply would be: Thank you.

Meanwhile on Aradan the whole planet was watching the alien ship while the shuttle had gone inside and was gone for almost an hour. Suddenly a small flash appeared near the ship and the shutle was there. The whole world wanted to know what had happened inside the ship. The shuttle returned to the space station and the crew told that they had recorded the whole event and said that they wanted to tell the people on Aradan directly what happened. After they landed on the planet they were greeted by a crowd of saurans all wanting to know what had happened, but the crew remained silent until they started their speech and they told the world about the aliens and that they were here to help them. Not long after the information about the aliens had been spread across the planet's people the aliens transported themselves at the city where the crew of the shuttle was. The aliens said that they were pleased by the ways the saurans lived and that they wanted them to be prepared for the galaxy. They warned them that there were many other races and that not all of them were peacefull. Because of this the aliens, who called themselves the Hyfon, wanted to help the saurans develop technology. They wouldn't simply 'give' them the technology, because if they did the saurans could be too inexperienced and cause dangerous situations. A period of rapid development in technology followed after these events and during this period the saurans developed their Fold-space engines that enabled FTL travel and many other technologies.

But the bliss of discovering alien life would not last permanently.

Kyran Deception

After the Hyfon left, the sauran with the aid of the Hyfon knowledge the first sauran FTL capable ship was created. It was am exploration vessel that could bend space itself with a ring shaped construction, after the planet had rejoiced from the succesfull jump it left to scout out planets that before could only be looked at. Within a year, hundreds of planets were examined in detail, confirming and debunking countless speculations. But among the excitement of discovery a longing came about, if the crew of the exploration ship could go to other worlds why not more? Out of this desire the sauran government with the help of prominent industries created plans for larger FTL vessels and selected which planets would be most suitable for sauran life. But the government was carefull, isolated sauran could be abused by those in charge if they were left unsupervised. While the production of the first colony ship was underway, the government came up with plans for an interstellar government to maintain peace for their people. Keeping the government transparent while also keeping a strict structure, they made a hierarchy that similar to that of states. In the next following years the sauran rapidly expanded, firstly to worlds similar to their own as they developed more and better technology to handle alien planets and later to worlds that were more hostile. Several mineral rich asteroid belts and planets discovered and later exploited to help out with the diminishing resources of the home system. More ship types were designed and build to help out with the now respectable space empire. Robots and more automated machines were utilized to help with everyday tasks and mining operations, there were simply not enough sauran to populate the new colonies and the high quality living conditions the sauran had lowered birthrates almost globally. This let to large numbers of sauran from poorer nations to be the main populous for the new colonies for a long time. However, the first exploration vessel hadn't stopped and was the furthest the sauran had ever even send a probe to. While looking for new planets to discover, they found that the planet they were looking for looked quite different than their earlier images had shown them. Upon arriving in the system the planet appeared to having giant fires rage across the planets surface. Surprised by this new data, the crew flew closer to the planet to investigate but when they got closer they were in for another surprise. A small fleet was orbiting the planet but they were unlike ships they had seen before. Assuming it was another alien race, the crew send them a data package that would help the aliens to communicate with them over them. However, the alien fleet replied just as the sauran ship was leaving the system. They had send a similar data package which contained examples of their language and customs for future communications. But they also sent a crude message the sauran could understand immediately. It told them to go a system nearby and to prepare to talk. The crew wasn't sure what to make of it and rushed back to the home system to relay the information.

Meanwhile the Sauran empire or Solidarity as it was being called, was embracing its new way of life. By now the initial expansion stage had slowed down and the colonies were more self sufficient while improving what they had build over time. When the message that the exploration vessel brought came to the government they were quite surprised but figured that it was only a matter of time before aliens would be part of their everyday life. After a short while they figured out where the Kyran ,as the race named themselves, wanted to meet and when they send a small fleet to engage the conversation the Kyran were asking for. Unsure what to expect they prepared for similar condition they had when they met the Hyfon, meaning they could potentially meet in a vacuum if need be. Several weeks later they arrived with the diplomatic fleet at the Kyran appointed system but the Kyran were not present in the system. After arguing over what could have caused this miscalculation the fleet decided to wait to see if the Kyran would show up later. A day later several ships which they identified as Kyran, entered the system and they opened radio contact. The Kyran dismissed the sauran their lateness and asked them to send a shuttle for the conversation they wanted to have. The sauran complied and send a shuttle with their diplomatic crew to what appeared to be the flagship of their fleet, the ships towered in size over that of the sauran. The massive ship dwarfed the shuttle that entered it and the inside was surprisingly hollow and spacious. After docking and accommodating to the ships inner gravity the crew stepped out of their ship and was met with a group of Kyran. The Kyran appeared to be bipedal creatures..

Biology

The sauran can be described as large reptilian humanoids which are very good swimmers. The scales of saruans are very shock resistant and are, if fed properly, around 8 milimeters thick. This also makes saurans quite heavy, but that is compensated by the large amount of mucles the sauran have. In general they are good runners but are much faster in the water. And although they dont have much fins, they can easily outswim many other races. Their streamlined head is a remain of their ancient past when they were fish. Although they can not breath underwater, they can hold their breath for a very long time (around 3 human hours). Saurans are usually very strong and fast but are also a bit clumsy, because they could easily crush or deform small object and could also easily hurt someone when they do not look carefully enough. Another important fact of sauran biology is that that have 4 eyes. Because of their large head they can not see very well in front of them, so they use their 4 eyes to see depth whithout looking forward. It is not very common for a sauran to be able to move their 2 pair of eyes separately, but they sometimes can. When defending itself a sauran can use it sturdy head to deliver powerfull blows and their tails is a formidable weapon too. If the tail is severely damaged, the tail can come loose. After the seperation, the tail will regrow within a human week or 3 the time varies with the amount of tail lost and the thickness of it. The sauran general personality can be described as: Defensive, Protective, Honourable and Intelligent. These are the personalities that are the most common, but that does not mean that sauran cant be Mean, Aggresive or Sneaky.

Lungs

Sauran lungs work relatively the same as those of other races, with one exception. In an earlier time an algae had infected the lungs and causes sickness and death among sauran predecessors, however either because of a change or mutation in the algae or sauran the cells of the lungs and algae allowed eachother to live. When a normal algea infection happens in the lungs, the algae try to cover all of the lungs for the most moisture. But this new algae created a pattern that partly covered the lungs but still left plenty of room for the sauran to breath. As a side effect of this saurans that have this algae on their lungs can hold their breath much longer because the algea produces breathable air for the sauran. Over the course of decades the lungs and algae have adapted to be at the maximum efficiently. This allows saurans to hold their breath much longer than most other races. However, saurans are not born with the algae inside them. Within a few weeks new born saurans usually have get this type of algae on their lungs but it takes quite a few weeks before the algae and lung cells get used to each other.

Culture

In Sauran culture is focussed around nature, from buildings to ways of thinking. Before the Sauran changed their way of life they defiled the landscapes with blockish buildings, now they build them in the shape of trees. The saurans realise that everything that was formed naturally has its shape for a reason and function. They tried to replicate the shape of the Great Guan Tree, the largest trees that ever lived on Aradan. With adjusted design they managed to make huge living towers, but not only the design was based on something of nature. The materials that were used to build them were also designed as certain other creatures, walls became much stronger after they were shaped internally like the carapace of insects. Even war became something that had something of nature aswell, no one can deny that we all still think like animals. Infact, every race is an animal with a little mutation that caused sentience. Depending on the kind of animal the race originated from a hypothesis can be made, group creatures will surrender or flee when outnumbered and solitary creatures do not coorperate with their fellow creatures as good as group creatures do. These are guidelines for commanding saurans but adaption is always important to win a battle just as planning and improvising.

Another part of culture that is based on nature is that variation is vital for survival, this translates into companies. Companies may not buy out other companies and market rules are strict. The Sauran wanted to be free from mind attacks from money hungry people who abused the natural instincts of the brain. Because of this, commercials may never be decieving. This caused the commercials to be rather boring for awhile untill the companies realised that the time of deception was over. Another side effect was that reputation, trust and people became important factors for a succesfull company again.

Notable Figures

Advisors and Commanders

Commanders are in charge of sauran capital ships which are the main way of battle and defence of the saurans. Every Commander is coupled with an Advisors to secure that a battle is seen in multiways, therefore the combinations are as opposite as possible at the time they were coupled. Although Commander sounds like he is command, nothing happens with the agreement of the Advisor and the otherway around.

Vakarai Uru and Shar're Sascus

Vakarai is a male sauran from the desert region of Aradan, he values a fair battle and motivated soldiers. His positive character made him a likable person among his crew, but he sometimes goes around important matters by making a joke. He is skilled with fire arms but prefers to aid his soldiers by defending them with his combat suit. He is coupled with Shar're who comes from the sea regions of Aradan, she is a member of the Observers faction and keeps all her emotions to herself. She is a great strategist but lacks understanding in certain matters such as fear.

Lunéss'zru and Asul Kah

Lunéss is a female sauran from the sea regions which is noticable by her blue-whitish scales, she has proved herself as a great tactican and talented fighter. She speaks with a strong authority and few dare to go against her will, even when they are legally allowed to express their opinions about the Commanders choises. She has served the Sauran Solidarity for quite some time and has a great reputation among the citizens of the sauran. Recently Lunéss younger sister Mai'zru has been spotted at mercenary spacestations which implies that she has become a mercenary. Lunéss has asked to not investigate this further as there are more important matters at hand. Asul is a male sauran from the jungle regions of Aradan who has a lot of experiance from his many years in the millitary. He has ,however, joined the Ascended Faction as he believes that there is more than factual science. He is friendly but not very talktive and he is know from both his intelligence and his knowledge about war and combat.

Maresar Barr and Versah Obes

These two saurans have been send to deal for the margan threat that is destroying the nature of many planets. Both Maresar and Versah are part of the Forces of Freedom faction and both are from the jungle reagions of Aradan which is noticable by their blue scales. Maresar showed excellent skills and fast thinking during various test and battles and proved himself to be a great commander. In battle he prefers a light (for commander standards) armour with double coil guns, he uses them with great skill as he showed at target practice easily taking out twice as much targets in the same time as most soldiers could take out half of them. Maresar is a kind and hopefull person and is only truelly serious when war or combat is at hand. Besides being able to use weapons to their maximum potencial he also keeps as small storage of unusual weapons both for show and for study. Unofficially he declared his love to Versah but since ,according to previous test, this didnt caused a change in his skill or judgement it is allowed by the council.

Versah didnt appeared to be a commander or advisor at first but during various battles she has shown that she really thinks in long term strategy. What look like seemingly useless details can become an enemies downfall when properly used. Such an example would be during a recent Nalstros raid she and her battalion were stationed close by the colony that was being raided, instead of directly assaulting the pirates they sabotaged their ships to prevent them from escaping. Before the pirates could repair their now useless ships reinforcements arived and the pirates were taken care of. She has also unofficially declared her love but the council decided that because they worked so well together that they had to drop the fact that love interferes with their actions.

Factions

Within the Sauran Society several ways of thinking turned into three main groups.

Forces of Freedom

A faction based around the idea that everyone should be free when they are not harming others. They strongly dislike dictators and slavery in general, much like most saurans but the difference is that this faction often requests the Ministers to attack planets where the population isnt free. Sometimes the faction secretly invades alien planets to start revolutions among the people of that planet which sometimes result in massive bloodshed. Because of this the Forces of Freedom are seen as more ruthless saurans because they do not think everything through as much as saurans would normally do. This is one of the larger factions and has specialised disruption technology and is the most experianced in urban warfare of all factions.

Sustainers of Nature

The Zealots of the saurans basically. They would give their lives for nature so to speak. They focus around preserving natural worlds and defending them against any un-natural thread. They have a strong dislike against anyone who is preventing nature to flourish. Because of their even bigger love for nature than regular saurans they are at home at any natural habitat, making them dangerous in close combat. In their vission every planet that is capable of life should be left alone for most part so that nature can do as it pleases. When planets have been damaged this faction deploys Seeder-Mechas, metal gaints made for planting and scattering seeds all around the planet for a much quicker regeneration. Their technology is more specialised in terraforming and natural weapons such as poison. This is the other large faction and has got around 25% of all sauran forces under its command.

Observers of Science

While their name suggest they arent part of invading military forces, they are also active in attacks. This faction has less emotion than all of the factions and has been known to be very effictive at all most everything. They want to discover technology of any alien empire and strike with precision to avoid the damage of enemy forces their equipment. However, often the enemies infantry suffers from this because of their taste for doing almost anything to hinder the enemy is many ways. Knowledge is the most powerfull weapon is something that the Observers would say everyday, however this sometimes resulted in slow victories. They specialise in every technology that any regular sauran would name 'Destructive' or 'Inhumane' they are not the most liked faction but effective nontheless.

The Ascended

A very small faction but very noticable because of their different view on religion. They believe in many things that saurans disregard as lies of the past, when their world was falling apart religion was appointed as one of the causes. Because of this most of the saurans are atheists and barely believe in any thing like magic. However, this faction is made of all the saurans who were feeling like they missed something, thus they explored the only thing saurans werent looking at yet. Spirituallity was chosen and within The Ascended faction there are sauran that are called 'Ascended'. They are called so because they say that they have contact with higher dimensional beings which sometimes share information. The Ascended Ones guide their followers and may attack or defend anything for their own reasons. This faction is the smallest and has around 2% of all sauran forces at its command and it is disliked by a large number of saurans.

Relationships

After the war with the Kyran the sauran became more suspicious about other races. They also became more carefull when meeting other races because the reason for the war with the Kyran was a difference in greeting. Here is the list of all the races the sauran have met (with the exeception of certain races) in chronological order. There is also a short description about how the sauran think of them.

Hyfon

A race of very intelligent snake-like creatures, they helped the sauran develop most of its technologies and were the first race the sauran met. However, this race commited suicide shortly after they had met. The sauran think of them as great thinkers and wonderfull friends, and the sauran still mourn about their death.

Kyran

A race relative small mammalian creatures which had a very large will to expand. When the Sauran met the Kyran the sauran insulted their race which caused a heavy war. The insult was something the sauran never heard of, and in the beginning the Sauran didnt know what they did wrong. At the time of the war, the Hyfon had already commited suicide so the sauran had to fight this war alone. After a few decades the Kyran had been defeated and none of them survived. It were not the sauran that killed them, but they killed themself indirectly.

Zaretians

Small green reptilians that are part of the Warlords. They are the first race we have encounter that was part of a large organisation called The Warlords, they are very dangerous and have murdered many people of other races. We met the Zaretians in quite a special way: Our sensors noticed that some spacecraft were disappearing in an nearby starsystem. When we took a closer look we saw that there was a large base on the planet that had been cloaked against electrical signals, meaning that sensors could not notice the base. Our long range photo satellites showed us that the base was used to mine metals from the planet and that they used slaves to do so. We launched an attack towards the base in order to free the slaves and discover why they were mining in secret. We never discovered why they were mining in secret of why they had to do it there, but we did free the slaves and joined a very dangerous war..

Diabloians

A race of large mammals that are easy to spot because of their large wings and horns which cover most of their head. Their are honourable warriors and are physically stronger than us, their planet is the golach of the universe. Only the strongest of creature can survive such conditions, and those are the Diabloians. Although the seem to be a little bit too 'warlike' according to videos they enjoy a good fight above much else. Their weapons are sturdy and powerfull at long and close range, making them excellent fighters. Besides this they also have very advanced Gravity technology, this requires further study.

Necraal

A race of humanoids that are very smart and great designers of mechs. The sauran are allways in awe when they see the craftmanship of the Necraal. They inspired the Sauran to enchance their mech designs and made the Sauran stronger. The sauran think that the Necraal are very reliable allies and see them as friends. Despite the fact that Necraals are physically not very strong, the sauran see them as equals because not only strenght is important.

Luminarians

A race of small odd looking creatures, they are know for constructing very large battlestations. They have excelent techonology and have great electrical shields, but they are not very strong from nature. Their biggest power is their ability to create amazing great vehicles.

Kastalians

A race of flight-less birds that has suffered a lot and has become very focused on survival, we do not think of them as lower creatures. They have a great will to fight and survive and would be great allies in battle. Their technology is pretty good and they are great tacticans.

IAE

A race of standard sized humanoids who are very intelligent and have great weapon designs. Recently the Saurans and the people of the IAE signed a NAP treaty after a team of diplomats meeted with the IAE. They have treated us very reasonable and seemed to be friendly towards us, in return we showed them our planet as a sigh of respect. The specialise in compact weapons and have the widest variation of vehicles in the known universe.

Asanians

A race of small aquatic and amphibious creatures they have an unnaturally high drift to expand, bringing destruction to all that lives. They are physically weak but their minds are like a fleeing creature, they speak as fast as lightning and they fight as if they cant die. Asanians act selfish and do not care about other races if they are not usefull to them, the death of other means nothing to them. They should never be trusted untill they change their ways drastically. They have several 'companies' that suply their army with various weapons and troops, Commanders should watch carefully to counter act the 'companies' to increase chances of succes. Another note should be that the Asanians are mentally unstable and capturing them would help us understand their mind.

Technology

Weapons

In general sauran weapons use a barrel with a number of coil rings attaced to it to launch a metal shell. However, after many years of small alternations most of the weapons have newer systems or combined other firing mechanisms with the coil rings to provide better results. For example the sauran military assault rifle uses coil rings combined with a high presurised gas in order to launch the bullets at a higher speed making it more deadly. This new method of launching bullets has later been improved with a system to recycle the gas that was used to launch the bullet, however it also resulted in a slightly heavier weapon and it also needs more energy than the previous model. Because this weapon shoot bullets than dont have their own launch method, the bullets are alot smaller but are still powerfull.

Armour

Sauran armour is know for its sturdyness and endurance, however this comes at a cost. Because of their strenght the armours are very heavy compared to other races their armours. Soldiers almost allways wear full body armours that give great protection, but make them less flexible and easier to detect and shoot. The main principle with sauran armour is that it has multiple layers of metal which have liquids between the plates. The liquids absorb some of the impact and also spread it out so it is harder to penetrate the armour. Because of this small caliber weapons have little impact on the armour or the sauran wearing it. Again, this causes the armour to be quite heavy and expensive.Another armouring method used for very importanted equipment/personel is Nano-steel. Instead of just shaping molten metal into a desired shape, name-steel is made by nanoscopicly placing iron atoms in a certain structure that makes it much more resistant to presure. This process is very expensive and slow and because of that it is only used for the most important of armours.

Space Travel

Saurans have considered many of the possible ways of space travel. Because of their nature orientated culture they did not wanted to use combustion engines like rockets did and searched for a way of transport that had unlimited fuel. The result of this is the ion-engine. Basically, the engine emits ions that push the ship away. The ions are stored in batteries that were charged by solar panels. This way the saurans had a readily aviable way of transportation for short range travel in space. The advantages of ion-engines are that they are very stable and no chances of exploding from disturbances and they dont produce heat, making them more efficient. However the drawbacks of this type of engine is that they accelerate quite slowly, making them less usefull for fast ships like fighters. But since the saurans do not want to go back to the old ways of transport ion-engines are used the most.

In order to travel faster than the speed of light the saurans invented what they call the most safe way of FTL travel. The concept of the space-bubble is based on the fact that space and expand and retract faster than light. Because of this natural space-bubbles could be forming almost at any place where space gets affected (such as blackholes and very large stars). When something gets inside the space-bubble everything within it acts normally because space within the bubble is normal. It works somewhat like a train, the train moves at a high speed but you wont notice it because you move equally fast. The only difference is that within a space-bubble you dont move as fast as the bubble but you are still moving. Because everything within the bubble reacts normal non of the natural laws of physics are broken. The saurans use this to transport their capital and transport spacecraft. Both of these ships are incredibly large because it is more efficient to transport more in one bubble because of the energy cost.

Psychology

Warfare

Unit Descriptions

Amphimarine

Strong and flexibe not only physicly but also strategicly. The armour and training of Amphimarines was designed for quick attacks to surprise the enemy with powerfull soldiers that can attack from less expected areas. The Amphimarines are dropped from several meters above water from a dropship and then proceed with swimming towards enemy territory. Once the squad reaches the enemy they will try to surprise them with powerfull weapons ranging from explosive bullets to heavy assault rifles. These weapons are mounted on top of their left or right arm depending on the sauran that uses it. This will often result in significant damage within a short time, however the armour of the Amphimarine is not able to withstand a lot of force and often they are used while the main attack has begon. This way the Aphimarines can retreat to the water while the other forces keep the enemy from persuing them. Besides their main arm-weapon they are equiped with a steel claw that assist in eliminating enemy troops that come too close to use their gun effectively and their shoes have webbed toes to increase swimming speed.

The Amphimarines act like a quick-strike force and have showed to be usefull for assisting the main forces, but besides that they arent used much. Because they lack any stealth equipment and are dependent on water/liquids around enemy bases/forces there arent many Amphimarines present in the sauran army. Plans are being made to expand the Amphimarine section into new special forces with wider areas of effectiveness.

Uniter

The core of the sauran military, Uniters provide fire power and are resilient to enemy projectile weapons. They wear the standard armouring of the sauran which is basically a thick layer of metalplates that are shaped in a way that they still can move reasonably. The chest is the strongest part of their armour, this is because the chest is the mosty likely to be hit and because several devices such as the computer to keep commonucations up. As saurans say: Information is more usefull than the strongest weapon. Therefore sauran share all the information they recieve with their fellow soldiers to ensure that they will be met with little surprises. The camera eyes that the helmet has records everything that the soldier sees, this is stored within the computer that is located at the back of the chest armour. During battles sauran soldiers can use several commands that can be used to mark certain enemies or areas so that appropriate weapons or soldiers can be send to deal with it. This can also be used to request missle strikes or other in-direct weaponry.

Uniters are often armed with automatic coil-gun weaponry which is mounted on their arm to provide a more steady aim. This arm has mechanical assitance from the suit because the weapon is actually too heavy to be used with one arm. Again the helmet's camera eyes and marked target help to aim the weapon but this can be turned off by the wearer of the suit. The suit is made more for protection than mobility this is a reason why it has the ability to mechanically enchance the wearers strenght. This can not be used against enemies in a direct way though. The suit can move certain parts of itself so that the wearer can move with less effort.