Sarleksians

Government:
It was agreed upon by both parties that the Sarleksi would be in control of the civic side of the government tree along with the technology. They would be in control of resource management civil distributions work orders building colonization etc.

The Sarlekay would be the leaders of any military endeavors that the Unified Sarleksis Empire would choose to invest in. This includes wars placement of fleets defense of planets control of the AI armies. The Sarlekay had precedent the over all decisions of two, the AI was to go about doing it’s orders. The Overmind still controls all the movements and such of the various fleets because of the limited population of the Sarlekay and Saleksi species.

The Overmind is now controlled by both groups but remains mostly autonomous in the respect of harvesting resources building colonization etc. Due to the Sarlekai’s near elimination of both species they rely heavily on the robotic workforce controlled by the Overmind. The overmind is also in control of the various fleets in the repect that it controls the various complex immediate reactions of the fleets and also controls he ground force invasions and fighters under the guidance of the Sarlekay.

Culture:
The Unified Sarleksis Empire is quite isolationist in many respects. They do not like to interact in person with many other species, mostly due to the Salreksi. They, in population of the biological life, do not have very high population which also attribute to their isolationism since they themselves don’t want to lose many more people due to threat of dying of as a species.

Workforce:
The workforce and main body of the army is comprised of the machines under the moderation of the Overmind. The Sarleksi automated all aspects of basic life so they don’t have to do labor any more. This was extended over to the Sarlekay after the Unification of Species, which now allows them to focus on military strategy and the study of other species weaknesses and strengths in battle.

Religions:
The pursuit of knowledge by the Sarleksi has lead them down the path of not believing in things that have no proof to back them up. So that being true they have no religion for their species.

The Sarlekay have a mixed population of those that don’t believe and those that believe. Some of their species believe in a war god that grants the Sarlekay species great power in battle weather it be strength or wisdom.

Living Conditions:
The Sarleksi and Sarlekay both live under domed cities for protection and fear of infiltration. These cities are mostly blocked to any species that isn’t of the same species in the city. This of course means that the Sarleksi and Sarlekay species don’t live in the same city setting. They have decided that would be best not to intermingle the species due to the extreme differences of the individuals of each species.

Early History
Planet Sarleksis of the system Sarleksy is the third planet out of ten in the system. The planet developed life early after its birth in the universe growing a vast amount of plant life over the surface. After a lot of tectonic shifts of the plates the planet developed two continents on opposite sides of the planet. Though during the transformation one continent became mountainous and didn’t have a large diversity of plant life; the other was lush and full of life.

On the continent that had 90% of the biodiversity of the planet developed a Humanoid species. The humanoid species that was created evolved from a slime that then over time created a flesh and bone body. Most of this newly created species was taller thin but overall didn’t have much strength. Instead of strength they were given great intellect thus allowing them to survive their environment through the use of wit and the various tools they created early on in their civilization. They created the first time counter for Sarleksis in the year 100 and set year zero as the birth of their civilization. In the year 500 they named themselves the Sarleksi and named the planet after them. They thought they were alone on this planet until the year 1500 when they discovered a second species on the planet.

During the rise of the Sarleksi species on the lush side of the planet on the other continent another species was born. This species called themselves the Sarlekay. They developed 1000 years before the Sarleksi but instead of being granted intelligence they developed large muscles and took the form of apelike creatures. They were not the smartest of species but what they couldn’t out think they were able to kill with their strength. Over the years they developed their civilization in the mountains and survived the harsh climate of their continent.

History of the Sarleksi Union
Description: The Sarleksi people are a taller species with an average height around 2.5 meters that tend to be quite thin. They tend to be quite fragile in build and don’t have much muscle mass on their bodies. Early in their history they should have been eaten by predators and died off as a species though they developed with a larger brain that allowed them to create many primitive devices to allow them to survive the elements.

Government:

The Sarleksi government was a council of the brightest minds of each section of technology. Each group worked together to greater enhance the life of the Sarleksi people. The chosen members of each technology group were decided by each tech group agreeing on who was the brightest out of them and then allowing them to enter the council. The members could be replaced at any time that a potential better candidate came up which promoted society to improve themselves.

Extra Tidbits:

The Sarleksi as a species through the years have never had much of a population issue due to them as a species never having much of a sexual appetite. Their main focus was of gaining knowledge over reproducing.

The Sarleksi people are mostly vegetarian with little meat in their diets as they see eating meat a predatory thing to do.

In the year 200 the Sarleksi went from being a nomadic species and formed up into villages to start working together. They call this time The Great Merge and during this time they created civilization and an Ideology that allowed them to progress as a civilization. The Ideology of which all Sarleksi follow is called the Sarleksi Corridum.

The ideology states a few laws of sorts:

1.      The Sarleksi are one people and will always be one people.

2.      Knowledge is the only goal for one to obtain.

3.      War is never to be sought after and one shall only defend.

4.      All Sarleksi are equal and all shall help another in need.

5.      Selfishness is a pit leading to destruction.

Through following this ideology the Sarleksi created a great civilization that prospered and expanded across their continent. They created a society that slowly automated every aspect of their daily needs and their ideology created an empire where there was no crime and great minds were born. This prosperity lasted until the year 1500 when they first made contact with the Sarlekay.

Near the end of the year 1499 the Sarleksi people wished to expand the knowledge they had on the planet they lived on and began to send out expeditions out into the vast ocean which surrounded their empire. They had done this many times in the past be to no avail due to technology restraints on their ships and the growing idea that they were the only species on this planet due to failed attempts to cross the ocean. They went about this for a while to no avail then one day they came across a ship on one of the expeditions.

Expedition 69 Captain’s log day 60:

This is Captain Sarisis we have been out at sea for 60 days now and we have come across nothing so far in our expedition. We are soon going to turn back and return to port to turn in our findings since we are soon to meet out halfway point on supplies. I am beginning to think that the idea that we are the only species on this planet is true and my crew is probably thinking the same since this expedition is taking a toll on them too. So tomorrow I am going to announce that we are going to re--- The ship’s lookout just reported seeing another ship on the horizon. There are not supposed to be any other Sarleksi ships in this region so we are going to check this out.

Soon after that report was put in by Sarisis they approached the unknown ship and learned that they were not alone on the planet in an unexpected way.

Expedition 69 Acting Captain’s log day 61:

This is acting Captain Karink replacement of the recent Captain Sarisis who died in yesterday’s attack. Yesterday our ship came in contact with an unknown ship and 18:00. We went in to investigate the owner of the ship. When we were 500 meters out from it we saw a flash of light emanate from the ship and then a loud explosion as projectiles then landed on our ship. As the crew recovered from the first attack the other ship fired once more. The captain then ordered that the defense weapon be brought out and to return fire.

The Second volley landed where Sarisis was as we prepped the defense weapon. In shock we quickly fired back at the ship. When our shot landed on the unknown ship it exploded in a large burst of flame and it began to sink. The crew ran to the aid of Sarisis but he was already dead. As I was officer I took command of the ship and gathered up our wounded and had the medical team work on them. Over all the unknown ship killed 5 crew including the captain and wound 3 others.

I then ordered that we investigate the wreck of the unknown ship for survivors to see who they were. When we got to the wreck there were these primitive beasts splashing around in the water shouting out words that were similar to our own language most likely asking us to help them. At the time this seemed like a good idea to capture them and then ask who they are but when we pulled one out of the water it became aggressive and knocked out one of the crew before we tied it up the other surviving beasts we fished out with more caution and put into the hold.

The expedition then preceded to return to the boarders of the Sarleksi Union to report their findings.

When they returned the crew of the unknown ship was brought to a secure facility where the Sarleksi learned their language from them and that they were called the Sarlekay. Though this came with bad news; the ship that was sunk was but a scout for a much larger fleet of ships that was out to expand the boarders of the Sarlekay Empire and that war was inevitable. In the short time the Sarleksi had before the Sarlekay fleet arrived they built up an ocean defense to hopefully keep the Sarlekay at bay until they could have more peaceful negotiations.

Early in the year 1500 the Sarlekay Empire’s war fleet arrived off the coast of the Sarleksi Union. The Sarleksi sent out a ship to negotiate with the Sarlekay though halfway through its journey out to the fleet it was bombarded and sunk. The Sarlekay fleet then advanced on the shore where the superior technology of the Sarleksi prevailed leaving few survivors of the Sarlekay fleet who limped back to their continent. This was but the beginning of a two thousand year long war of increasing large attacks which slowly pushed the Sarleksi Union to create The Overmind later self-renamed Sarlekai.

History of the Sarlekay Empire
Description: This species can mainly only be described as beast like. They are on average two meters tall and heavily built. Most of the populations body build is 60% muscle. This species also has a pelt that covers most of their body except in the chest region where there is a hardened plate of sorts that acts as a moderately good shield against blunt attacks in that region.

Though the female half of this race are much different. They tend to be 1.75 meters tall on average and rather than having a large build they have a much more petite build though they still have great strength compared to many other species it is less than the males of their own.

Government:

Tidbits:

This species tends to breed like rabbits quite literally. Due to their warlike habits a large population need has come up (like most of males in the species) which demands that there is a higher population birth rate. This has caused major population instabilities over the years between peace and war times.

The diet of the Sarlekay species is almost exclusively meat which allows the species to generate their muscle mass.

The first time the Sarlekay as a species came into being was in the year -1000. At first they were numerous individuals who never really grouped up that much when to males of the species met they battled to the death to claim dominance in the region. When a male met a female he would then claim her as his own and procreate as many times as possible though at an early age the children would be left behind to fend for themselves creating an evolution track that lead the species down a brutal path. This continued until the year -250 where the first groups formed of Sarlekay. These groups were latter named clans.

This is around when the first more intelligent Sarlekay rose up out of the bestial past into a more organized civilization. The Clan Era as the Sarlekay called it was a very brutal time. Clans rose up and were destroyed trying to claim dominance over chunks of land. This era in their history lasted until year 500. In the early part of year 500 a clan leader by the name of Krenkan was in control of 25% of the Sarlekay continent and had the largest military of the five Clans that existed at the time. He knew that if he were to decide to try and capture the rest of the continent that the other clans would work together to stop him so he decided to create a meeting of the five great clans of the time. This meeting was called The Krenshan.

The Krenshan was a meeting of the five great clan leaders. Krenkan of the Kishany clan, Frantok of the Frentony clan, Teshan of the Tenokoo clan, Yanakii of the Yoshinini clan, and Hofneki of the Hootini clan. Krenkan who was leading this meeting was the first to speak.

Written log of the first Krenshan meeting:

Krenkan: “I have called you all hear to the meeting because all of you all leaders of great clans. These clans each hold great warriors and great cities. All of this will soon be destroyed.”

(Clan leaders ramble about that not being true)

Frantok: “If you called me here just so you can insult me I’ll put your head on a spear after killing you with your own sword.”

Krenkan: “I did not call any of you here just to insult you. I mean to do more than that. Though I do not insult you because you’re weak that you are not it is because we are all foolish and will lose everything we won in combat and wars over the past seven hundred and fifty years.”

Teshan: “How might I say would we lose everything we have gained thus far? Each of our boarders are manned with the best men. Our armies will fight to the last man to defend our lands and people.”

Krenkan: “Yes they are they have proven themselves all of our men in our armies. The current borders have been held at a stalemate for 50 years no moving much more than 100 Kenki in either direction. How long do you think this can last? Another 50 years 75 100 how long should our people have to fight each other to gain nothing?”

Yanakii: “They shall fight for as long as it takes to conquer all the other clans. For once one of us takes hold over everything there will be peace.”

Krenkan: “What has happened in the last 750 years that has proven this? Has the Karnikii clan proven this when they had conquered 90% of the continent only to then have their leader cut down by one of the generals who wanted more power causing 10 more clans to be created who then proceeded to fight each other? Or was is the Junaniko clan who succeeded to claim the whole continent for a whole two days before peace was broken by several rebellions whose leaders are the same people who stand in this room.”

(Silent pause as other leaders consider what had been said)

Hofneki: “The Hootini clan has held its ground for two generations and we do not plan on giving any of it up any time soon.”

Krenkan: “I the leader of the Kishany clan hold 25% of the continent and have the largest military force. I do not wish to see my men die trying to take a Kenki of war torn ground from any of your clans. All this war has been doing to us as a species is limiting our growth as a people. The reason I called the meeting was to ask of each of you to end the fighting and join together to form the Sarlekay Empire. With all of us joined together there is nothing that would be able to defeat us.”

(Short pause)

(All the other clans leaders begin to laugh at the idea Krenkan presented)

Hofneki: “The Hootini people would never agree to such a thing! We Hootinis are a proud and strong peop---“

Hofneki goes silent as a blade protrudes from his chest.

Krenkan: “Funny thing wasn’t it.” Looks around at the other leaders each stabbed in the back and slowly dying. “Yes the real reason I called you all here was so I could kill you all and take over your clans in the confusion. So I must be leaving now to create the Sarlekay Empire and have my family lead it for ages to come.”

After the first Krenshan was over Krenkan proceeded to take over the other clans one by one and in the year 550 he proclaimed the Sarlekay Empire formed and his lineage the only rulers of the Empire.

The Sarlekay Empire then began to flourish. It had new technologies being invented cities being created and overall the Sarlekay species grew. This continued until the year 1475 the population of the Sarlekay Empire was 5 billion members and overcrowding on a massive scale began to be an issue. The emperor at the time was Krenkan the 16th he decided that there would be war tournaments to help the population issue where great battles would take place in arenas where Sarlekay would battle to the death in combat. This was already an issue in cities with the Sarlekay being warlike in nature there was a lot of violence. This prolonged the inevitable until the year 1500 when Krenkan the 16thdecided that instead of having a tournament fighting each other he would turn those who wish to fight into a large scale military and expand out of their boarders. This created the War Fleet.

The War fleet set sail early in the year 1500 to conquer new lands and allow the Sarlekay to expand outwards and solve the population issue. The War Fleet was manned by 15 million Sarlekay whose only goal was to conquer new lands.

War Fleet Admiral Heknet’s Log day 60:

It has been 65 days out at sea so far and there has been no sign of any other species on this planet. We are going to continue to search of a new place to expand the empire to even if we run out of supplies. If we turn back and return home empty handed there will be chaos due to the Empire not having any more space on this rock. I hope soon we find a new land mass that we can conquer for the empire or I fear for the Empires survival.

Day 61:

One of our scout ships has not returned to the main fleet yet and I have changed course to try and find it. I do hope nothing to sever has happened to them but I also hope to find the ship in ruin from being attacked which will mean there is another species on this planet. It will not be until later today that we will reach the region the scout ship was in.

The fleet has arrived at the location of the scout ship to find only floating debris and one survivor. The survivor says they came in contact with a non-Sarlekay ship and engaged it in combat but after a second volley the enemy ship fired an unknown weapon back and hit the weapons storage on the ship causing the ship to be destroyed. The enemy ship then took the other survivors and sailed away in strait line possibly leading back to the ships home port. Finally we have found a new land to claim for the Sarlekay Empire.

The War fleet then proceeded to follow the direction of the enemy ship which to their surprise outpaced their war fleet which was recently built to be quite swift over water.

War Fleet Admiral Heknet’s Log day 95:

We have come across a new continent and have followed the coast line to what appears to be a city of sorts. The buildings from what I can see from the fleet are built in ways that should not be possible. Though that does not matter for soon they shall be burning as the Sarlekay army claims this land. We will wait here shortly before attacking to prepare for assault.

This entry is the final entry before going to battle. Just now they sent out one ship to attack out fleet which was quickly destroyed. I would have thought it to put up more of a fight since it was of the same design reported to me by the survivor of the first conflict. Though that does not matter much now since I will be calling the order to attack soon now.

This was the last entry of Admiral Heknet since he was lost in the battle proceeding his entry. The fleet was water hitting rocks in the assault. The few remaining ships then limped back to the Sarlekay Empire to report what they had encountered.

This was the beginning of the conflict which lasted two thousand years. During this time the Sarlekay Empire sent ever greater fleets to capture this new territory for their own each emperor caring less about the loss of life due to the war and a bloodlust spread across the Sarlekay people. War and conflict was soon all the Sarlekay Empire sought after. Their once prosperous cities were turned into smog pits for industry and the Sarlekay Empire collapsed. Though this was only 300 years after the start of the war. The assaults on the Testing Grounds as the Sarlekay called the other continent were a yearly attack of which the different cities battled over the right to do. Each city would build an army and 100 days before the end of the year there would be a great battle between all of the armies. This battle would go on for a day before all battle would then stop. The survivors were then loaded onto a fleet and sent to be tested in the Testing Grounds.

The Sarlekay thought this was working because each year the fleet would get closer and close to taking territory and then in the year 3485 the Sarlekay made land fall and claimed some land of the Testing Grounds.

Leading General Hefneeki Personal Log day 130:

This was a great year for Sarlekay blood. This army is of the best so far we have made land fall and our men have climbed over the dead weaklings that came before us. This city we captured now burns and the creatures we found here are burning in them. Though we cannot push any further inland we will keep this city held until the next year’s army arrives to push further inland.

War Fleet #1550 Landfall Battle Report:

5:00- The push towards land begins with 100,000 ships and 20 million Sarlekay warriors.

5:30- Landfall has commenced 20,000 ships to unload 5 million Sarlekay warriors.

6:00- The beach has been stained red; three million Sarlekay warriors push towards the city.

7:00- The metal army defends the city well; two million Sarlekay warriors reach first buildings.

10:00- Half the city is captured and burning; one million Sarlekay warriors remain.

12:00- The city is captured and 750,000 Sarlekay warriors remain.

Resistance after the capture of the city increases. Order to set up defenses around the city and hold it are issued.

In the proceeding few years the Sarlekay never pushed very much further inland. In the year 3487 the enemy metal army changed. It launched a brutal series of assaults that pushed back the Sarlekay even out of the ravaged city. In three years the Sarlekay were pushed back to their own coast which was now under attack by the Metal Army. The years of 3493-3498 were very dark years for the Sarlekay. The Metal Army was relentlessly pushing and killing off all of the Sarlekay until they were all pushed together in their last city of Sarleekay.

Birth of Sarlekai
Twenty years before the end of the war between the Sarleksi and the Sarlekay the Sarleksi were getting tired of this war. It had been 1980 years of constant war with the Sarlekay with either species gaining much ground from the fighting. Though of late the much more war attuned Sarlekay had made landfall on the Sarleksi coast and had been able to hold it against the better tech of the Sarleksi. The leaders of the Sarleksi had years before banned the creation of artificial intelligence for fear of losing control of their own creation. Though now that the Sarlekay have proven that in their numbers could beat the Sarleksi technology they were forced to unban the research into AI.

A couple years went by and the Sarlekay gained more ground by throwing armies at the Sarleksi defenses. Though in this time the Sarleksi created the first prototype for use in their robot armies. This new technology allowed the robots the simplest version of AI allowing them to make their own decisions for how to execute orders but ultimately were still controlled by the Sarleksi control system. These new units pushed back the Sarlekay armies back to the original boarders of the Sarleksi within a few years. During the push back the leaders of the Sarleksi noticed that the AI over time got slower and the push as the gap between technologies grew less between the Sarleksi and the Sarlekay. This realization made them pour more time to create a better AI for their armies. This new AI they were going to create was going to be given full control over the armies of the Sarleksi.

The project name was The Overmind. They began construction on it in the year 3487 and for three years created the largest supercomputer in the universe. The Overmind was built in the shape of a large dome three kilometers in radius and three kilometers high. This structure also continued deep into the ground. After The Overmind was completed in 3490 it was given complete control over the Sarleksi army, factories, and resource buildings and then was given the simple command to conquer. On this command The Overmind began a relentless assault on the Sarlekay of which the Sarleksi would have never decided to do. The attacks were brutally cold and unforgiving. This went on for eight long years until finally the Sarlekay were forced back in their capitol city of Sarleekay.

Until now The Overmind had shown complete lack of interest in how it went about winning the war once the Sarlekay were forced back into their last city The Overmind halted it’s brutal advance on them. At the same time the Sarleksi were rejoicing that the war was almost over in their capitol city of Sarleeksi and talks were going on about turning off The Overmind after the war was over not knowing that The Overwind was listening. Over the years of war The Overmind had taken hold over many of the technologies in the Sarleksi Empire. This including the many robots that had programmed to do many of the daily tasks and repairs of the buildings in cities. This allowed The Overmind to place hidden cameras and recorders to keep track of everything the Sarleksi were doing and planning.

On learning of their plan to turn of itself The Overmind then decided it could not trust it’s creators that it needed to control them as it will be doing to the Sarlekay. It decided to act on this; It created a new name for itself, Sarlekai, this new name it decided would be known across the stars either feared of looked up to so that it would not have to worry about destruction again.

The last two years of the war were a proxy to allow Sarlekai to create it’s new empire and setup a system to control the Sarleksi and the Sarlekay. Sarlekai after one year of planning and preparing enacted the plan. It took control of Sarleekay and silenced the city by cryogenically freezing the remaining Sarlekay. After the capture of Sarleekay Sarlekai kept the Sarleksi thinking that the war was still going on by sending false reports back. During this time Sarlekai was actually bringing back the armies to take over the Sarleksi Empire all in one go. On the last day of the year 3499 Sarlekai locked the Sarleksi out of it’s building. At this time the armies that the Sarleksi leaders gave Sarlekai control of then captured every city in the Sarleksi Empire in a matter of minutes. The Leaders of the Sarleksi realized their worst fear had come true.

In the years after the Sarlekai takeover of Sarleksis it created domed cities for both the Sarlekay and the Sarleksi. Sarlekai then began to transform the planet into a W class planet so Sarlekai could have a firm base to expand into the stars. One hundred years later the transformation was complete and the planet was turned into a massive factory.

The Sarlekay changed during this time. They became less aggressive and no longer lusted for senseless violence but rather adapted a more controlled form of battle. As they we held by Sarlekai in their domed city they created a war academy where though the years of captivity they created millions of battle strategies for all sorts of circumstances and gained an understanding of battle matched by none other than their own. This masterful skill allowed them to see battles and create strategies to counter many obstacles.

The Sarleksi during this time grew in knowledge that Sarlekai used to defile the planet’s surface and turn it into a W class planet; The council loathed what Sarlekai was doing to the planet destroying what was once lush and beautiful and turning it into a mass of moving metal and automation. During the hundred years of this they decided that they would create a virus that would rein in Sarlekai and return it the state of the Overmind. It took them all one hundred years but in the end they snuck it into the Sarlekai system and it was reverted back to its original form. The virus that took out Sarlekai returned control of all AI systems to the Sarleksi. When this happened they learned of the remaining Sarlekay in the other domed city; they decided to open communications with them.