THE SUN NEVER SETS ON THE BASTONIAN EMPOCRACY

~~cuz its in space~~

(link to previous page for past interactions:
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Motto:
Justice. Prosperity. Equality.

History:

Pre-founding age
Little is known about the Brits home planet. Earth or Sol Prime or even sol III in the Milky Way was home to many civilizations. Britain was one of them. Britain was being pushed back by an Earth originating empire referred to as the “Holy Monarchy” today. These earth empires colonised their home galaxy, creating many distant colonies. Because of their distance and lack of communication, they grew distant from the central governments of earth. One of these governments, led by an immortal emperor who had founded the developed colonial block of Canthrianda, the Holy Monarchy, sought to claim the earth and the valuable biology on which the organic section of the colony had been based on. Britain, fearing for its removal on the galaxy, constructed and launched multiple worldships towards the planet and civilization rich G-S16 galaxy. As the Holy Monarchy was advancing on its capital. The worldships used the warp drive to travel to G-S16 within a 500 year period.

Founding period and golden age
The British Monarch State of Culture and Civilization was founded in G-S16 as an imperial totalitarian militarist state. The ruling elite consisted of the original founder of their individual colonies. They cloned themselves so that they would “love forever”. As the population could claim direct or indirect heritage to them, they were accepted into positions of power. The empire expanded rapidly with the technology they had already gained from old Britain. The military quality then also rapidly expanded with the pace of the empire. Most neighbouring nations who were at most early spacefaring nations were taken over and colonised. The nation was then renamed the Galactic British Empire. The GBE had alien nations within its borders and collected them like cards all in the name of the totalitarian elite and the superiority of the brit. Despite this it was a relatively prosperous age for the middle class. As long as they did not opposite the government they could enjoy a life in a nation built on the blood of slaves.

End of the golden age and the great uprising
Once the Galactic British Empire had hundreds of systems, dominating the sector with its superior technology. However the clone leaders and royal families opted for a new technology. Instead of cloning themselves, they would become part-machine, either preserving their brain within machine constructs or transferring their consciousness over to a computer. The leaders grew old and weary, losing a certain fire within them. Without the urgency that death created, there was nothing pushing them to achieve and move forward. They became stubborn and lost interest. The empire didn’t only stagnate, it rotted. Widespread poverty, constant famines, limited freedoms and a totalitarian dictator which ignored the cries of their people made the population’s miserable existence a nightmare. Crime levels rose with the high instability and unrest. Riots began and a spark of hope was revealed as surrounding factions, who had historically been robbed of their territory, handed paramilitary groups weapons and supplies. Groups organised miniature governing bodies in defiance in order to push change in their local areas. These bodies merged into larger factions who had control over individual planets. They cooporated with paramilitary groups. Revolutions spread across the empire and it was thrown into chaos, with different factions fighting each other as much as the government. Aliens governments seeking to liberate their species or take territory, humans attempting to defend their claims or loyalists defending the throne. Lokion, aided by mercenaries and sponsors from the GBEs enemies was an important human revolutionary leader, even though he fought the GBE regime he also fought the alien empires that wanted to tear the GBE apart and take it for themselves. He fought for a free GBE. A infamous group of mercenaries were the Winds of Liberty, a squadron of fighter pilots that wreaked havoc on GBE supply lines. It was on the brink of anarchy and the empire crumbled beneath its own weight. The miniature governors turned into warlords that formed territories which they battled over. The HMS Imperial, the greatest ship of the Quadrant was destroyed when thrown into the star of “Blazing Beacon”. The only law was that the strong rule, and the weak obey. But amongst the chaos, Lokion, no longer a human rebellion leader but an admiral, brought back hope once again. He united the little of what was left of the empire’s stable territories and formed a new democratic government after his insurgency on Anrillia. Lokion successfully took control of the Royal Navy in which he had previously served. He formed the Star corps. branch of the military which carried out merciless airstrikes against those who still wrought chaos on his new nation. The people were ruthless. They killed aristocrats mercilessly and bombed the palace on Anrillia killing the royal family inside. He took the royal navy and repelled the alien invaders, united with the warlords either through peaceful measures, or crushing them. New independent nations formed in the GBE’s old territory and colonies, distancing from it in time. GBE went into hiding, monitoring the entire galaxy with billions of probes. The GBE recovered their strength until their public reveal when the Bloodcult declared war on the galaxy later. After the shock government was replaced with the democratic one, the nation underwent a free thought campaign. After the first election the new GBE constitution was written and it stated that the nation would never have another authoritarian government. The constitution is considered the most important piece of writing in the empire. Everyone abides by the constitution like it’s a holy script. To preserve democracy, equality, prosperity and most importantly justice in the nation. Parties that are unconstitutional are considered extreme and removed. The constitution dictates when the GBE can go to war and when it can’t. It dictates how democracy will be run, through parliamentarism. It states the equality and rights of every sentient being in the galaxy and how immortality and cloning will never be used again.

Re-emergence
The GBE always despised the Bloodcult. In a declaration of war to the galaxy, the bloodcult was met by a direct invasion of its territory in the core. The GBE had officially re-emerged and had formed the first coalition, a mutual trust between nations that were unfamiliar to one another. When the Bloodcult mysteriously went silent during the invasion the coalition served no purpose and it disbanded, but the emergence would have dire consequences on the people, however the first noticeable change was an increase in economic development. As the nation isolated itself it only traded with a few neighbouring nations and had fallen behind in the galaxy and its own sector.

War with TIE
When TIE (Thrawn’s Infinite Empire) attacked the GSR (German Space Regime) it was Stantines idea of a coalition to defend the GSR. The Reich Shield Coalition was formed, the second coalition. The GBE brought in many allies to the Coalition. Using a portal, TIE launched a surprise ground assault upon Anrillia, the GBE coreworld. The attack hurt the British economy severely. The GBE launched the assault fleet at TIE’s capital in response. The battle of Yashinda was one-sided with the GBE destroying almost the entire defensive fleet, until the High Imperiums sudden return with reinforcements to Yashinda multiple times stronger than the GBE fleet. Upon the High Imperium’s return, the British navy would not falter, though the Delta threat launched the Dooms Strike, a massive simultaneous internal bio-bomb attack across the entire RSC, hurting the GBE’s economy enough to bring them out of the war and the coalition collapsed. To everyone’s surprise, TIE has won the TIE-RSC war, forcing the GBE to pay war reparations. The economic shock from the Doom Strike threw them into an economic crisis.

Judgement day
The Brits were definitely not over their defeat in the war. The GBE formed the third coalition, the Union of Judgement. The GBEs population had been awaiting Judgement Day since the constitution was written. High minister Kayelin Astra announced Judgement day when revealing the Reckoning fleet and declaring war on Thrawn’s Infinite Empire and the Viridian Remnant once again. The GBEs great crusade has begun. Ex-TIE admiral Ezekiel and a fleet of the High Imperium formed the Infinite Dominion which attempted to stop the invasion of TIE. They allied themselves with the GSR who had the intentions of fighting the GBE’s allies, the Vaiaelon War Pact.

Politics and policy:

The empocracy is a social democracy with a mixed economy. The GBE has a welfare state and the economic model is based on socialism within a capitalist framework. Corporations work in a free market together with private people with collective bargaining and government interventionism to prevent economic and moral failures in that free market. Through these policies the GBE has essentially eradicated poverty and granted social and economic prosperity to all its people. The welfare system has allowed for incredible economic equality. Discriminating any group of people is strictly unallowed and there’s a large emphasis on social equality. As such the GBE is characterised by economic and social equality and prosperity.

Government structure:
Decisions are made by the council, which are selected members of the different parties. The seats are determined by a proportional representation system. The more votes a party has, the more seats it has in the council. There are a total of 549 members or seats in the council. The head of government of the empocracy has the title of High minister while the head of state is the chairperson. The chairperson is a nonpolitical person who acts as a way to get decisions made instead of endless discussion, they will make sure the voting happens on time. A decision made by the high minister must be voted by the council, as such the High Minister does not have legislative power. Instead it is their task to form and lead the executive branch. The high minister is a part of the directorate. The parties must vote and form a directorate every election. But only if the high minister and directorate is voted in by the council. The directorate is the government's executive branch. The current High minister is Kayelin Astra who was the former Minister of war who sits in a minority government for her block. Smaller decisions and general things on individual topics are made by respective ministries. The largest ministries are the ministry of war, ministry of foreign relations and ministry of politics. The ministries are controlled by a minister. The ministries are divided into departments. A department's leader is called a director.
The tax rate is high in the GBE.

Current council seats:

Fundamental rights:
Poorer people pay less tax in proportion to richer people. Poverty is considered a failure by the government or a crime (not literally or legally). This causes hostility towards nations that allow for living conditions that are not acceptable to them. The GBE’s organisations, culture, systems and declarations to prevent poverty, mental illness and homelessness is their masterpiece and the GBE has entire archives dedicated to plans to give other nations the utopian living conditions, often beginning with force. Not only that, for the cases that poverty arises, maybe from immigrants that have not taken part in that culture, the welfare state helps them, supporting those who recently lost their job, cannot find employment or suffer from illness.
School is completely free. Who gets into a certain school or university is decided by the grades of the student. The morals and schools are designed to, together with the good living standards, craft loyalty and educate the people in the ways of democracy. As good education is so accessible and widespread, the population is highly educated. Healthcare is also free and the national healthcare services ensure the fastest and best treatment. There are private options for healthcare to allow for a wider reach, more jobs, hospitals and the option for those who can afford it. Poverty is extremely rare and the GBE has ensured that all citizens have all basic rights; food and water, shelter (housing), security, freedom of expression, equal treatment, democracy, healthcare and education.

Economic policies:
The GBE has a mix of socialist and capitalist ideas. The government has control over markets to prevent monopolies and to destroy companies which are immoral for the sake of monetary gain or using people for their own advantage. A system similar to Rhine capitalism is used to force companies to compete, awarding innovation and low prices. The government also is completely responsible for the production and distribution of essential services such as education and healthcare. Private businesses dominate the distribution and cooking of food. Private people also sell older technology to other private persons which is a large market in the GBE. The GBE provides good business opportunities to individuals with future growth in both technology and markets.
Media is encouraged to be unbiased. AI check or even write articles or scripts to make sure they are not biased. This type of knews are called “Factionals.” National news is aimed at providing information only. Opinion pieces are not checked though since they’re supposed to reflect an opinion.

Intelligence:
Since the GBE hates oppression it’s kept to a minimum. But all nations must oppress. The state never decides to oppress but organizations like MI8 and MI9 do censor prompts to violence against different races, prompts for terrorist attack and propaganda employed by authoritarian nations or terrorist organizations. MI8 is a state organisation that protects the nation from foreign threats, while MI9 focuses on threats within the nation and is subject to a large number of conspiracies.

War- and conventional crimes:
War crimes are strictly unallowed. There is no official list of war crimes in G-S16, but the GBE employs its own list of war crimes for its own forces. As of yet the current government of the GBE has committed no major war crimes, unless counting defecting extremists. The punishment for war crimes is one of the harshest in the nation and the current only way to get the death penalty other than slavery. As written in the constitution, the GBE is hostile to foreign use of war crimes even within conflicts in which it is not involved. This may cause interventionism.
The nation has a rehabilitory policy on punishment, with a low crime rate on most worlds. Prison is actually pretty pleasant and is considered a place to learn, not be punished.

Infrastructure and corporate landscape (wip)

GBE territory is covered in a net of civilian warp lines, gateways and interdiction. Apart from the systemwide interdiction and the blockade, the GBE has several classified interdiction strips that block off many routes to parts of GBE space apart from civilians lines, which are still stopped at certain points for security reasons and for tolls. For quicker travel the GBE has a network of gateways. Each gateway can be remotely shut down incase an enemy attempts to use it. The gateway net is currently being expanded for easier transport. High power laser lines are being constructed like a type of space railway. When transporting objects from a planet's surface, mass drivers are used effectively to catapult ships, parts, goods, resources etc into space. Space tethers are utilised to cheaply distribute supplies and resources around a system cheaply.
Because of the growing demand for products because of the expansion and development of colony worlds and the new availability of military grade materials and their production facilities, the GBE industry is rapidly growing. So is the amount of business. The state welfare creates business opportunities for every individual in the nation allowing for a massive growth in businesses. These businesses have started profiting by using a growing market to sell internationally. With more corporations wanting to produce products cheaply, the construction industry, which had grown during the reconstruction efforts after the dooms strike, has begun constructing factories and industry rapidly. The increase in businesses has not only increased the need for innovation, but curbed unemployment, increasing the population purchasing power. With a lowering of inflation, the business boom is likely to cause a new golden age for the GBE.

Culture

Cars and ships:
Ownership of hovercars is standard for many families/adults. Loans are taken or rent is paid to afford hovercars. Your average family car will last about 8 years before needing to replace parts or being replaced. Cars are only used for travel across a planet if there are skyroads of course. Though GBE transport infrastructure is focused on public transport. Vacuum mag-lev railways, metros, sky-busses and massdriver bullets dominate local transportation. Ships however are used for space travel between planets. Your average family does not own a ship. Some do though. Traders, haulers, transporters etc own ships or just people who don’t want to pay for space flights throughout the GBE and the galaxy. They might do space travel as a hobby, or do exploration. Companies and private people may charge to transport people to different planets. There are quite a few people who live on their ship.

Food (and drink?):
The GBE’s food culture is diverse as many different cultures were brought to the GBE during the expansion and the golden age. GBE food is often stereotyped for being based around different types of cheese and artificially grown meat. The average lunch is a savoury packaged meal from a corporation similar to a fast food meal, prepped in a heat-point-oven for 20 seconds at home. Breakfast typically is a large high-calorie meal with a diverse selection of things to eat. Commonly people like to go out late to eat dinner in one of many restaurants from hundreds of different cultures. Sweet foods in the GBE are often packaged snacks. The GBE citizen does not care much about food being “unhealthy” as they use advanced medicine and nanomachines to eliminate or remove things like fat and calories. As a result of this GBE citizens don’t have bad teeth. Alcohol was deemed as a danger by the state. Bars and pubs are still commonplace in the empocracy, but there is a regulation on the percentage of alcohol a drink can have.

Education:
GBE is a nation in which a lot of people continue studying beyond the mandatory school point to get a higher form of education. Like many school systems, the schools of the GBE are flawed. Universities are infamous for giving their students a copious amount of work. There is a lot of debate around education systems and rules.

British influence:
The GBE is obsessed with old Britain. Its history, its artefacts. Anything. Their flag and their name are in honour of the valiant men and women who gave up their lives, so that the GBE can continue their legacy. True selflessness. Does the GBE even consider itself worthy of the title? Do they live up to the name? That’s what they’ll strive for. Most artefacts of old Britain have been lost or destroyed. Most information in archives and books has been lost, deleted, altered, locked, the location of the Milky Way unknown. The GBE swore to never forget their sacrifice, and as such began the obsession with anything British.

Language:
Historically the national language of the GBE would be Anglish (known as Inglish, English, Earthspeak). But as to adapt to the galactic front Bastonian schools have shifted into teaching galactic standard as the first language. The state declared G-S16 galactic standard as the national language of the GBE.

Drones:
Since drones do the most work the GBE has established a culture to create jobs out of it. A lot of people own a drone for maybe farming, exploration, mining or recon. They might send it out for its designated mission as a side job, or one can own an entire army of drones and do it for a living.

Agriculture:
The most common forms of agriculture are corporate city farming and large-scale agriculture farming. Corporate city farming usually involves tight packets of rooms with perfect conditions within, on top of or under buildings in a residential area. Typically they are fully automated with drones handling the plants. The other form of agriculture is done over vast sections of land. Typically a farmer will use large automated machines to harvest an area of genetically modified crops, or they will release drones and genetically modified pollinators over an even bigger natural landscape to harvest fruits, berries, oils and other naturally occurring resources. Genetically modified animals do exist but they are a dying industry as lab grown meat is more popular.

Random culture facts:

The currency of the GBE is the credit sterling. Otherwise known as the Bastonian credit.
Military personnel that rescue slaves in a high-risk missions are praised as national heroes.
Referring to someone by their surname is disrespectful and dismissive in the GBE.
The GBE has a national food, which is in fact not food. Rather it is the beverage tea.
The word xeno is offensive in the GBE.

Races:

The GBE is a human nation. The majority of the population in the GBE are humans. But because of the large expansion of the golden age, migration and the GBE xenophilic policies, there are hundreds of different races in the GBE. They are all registered and all species have to be checked before entering the empocracy after the delta crisis.
Human: The main race. The GBE human is rather adaptive. Rare GBE humans have high psionic potential. Stantine is slightly psionic. Most psionics are offered large amounts to join the military, often the SSS. The GBE humans are genetically modified, for increased intelligence (which was already above average), decreased stubbornness and increased ability to see things from other perspectives and more adaptiveness for other gravitational and atmospheric environments. They have the ability to “close their ears” to lower the volume of sound they hear. The average GBE human lifespan is 150 Earth years. The GBE human has enhanced organs and an advanced immune system that will deploy biophages.
Ash'ka'nach: A race of slightly furry people with brown-orange-ish skin and a horse-like face. Nicknamed "Ka" they come from the nation formerly known as the Free Marketing Confederation. Their homeworld Quasar has the highest percentage of non-human inhabitants in the empocracy at 90%.
Ienfs: A formerly primitive race, forced to be enlightened by the golden age GBE, some may be found roaming around. They have two “claws” by their mouth much like an arthropod. They have four small beady eyes and brown beige-ish skin. They’re like humanoids in other bodily features.
Crangus:
A species with green skin which is kind of loose and a shrinkly face. Hair only grows very short and is grey with exceptions like brown facial hair on younger Crangus. The average lifespan for a Crangus is 170 earth years and their intellect is superior to those of humans.

Worlds:

The empocracy has 49 systems. Each system has 1 or 2 populated planets and some other planets are used for mining. Systems are often referred to as their main planet name, such as the Gelu system, unless they’re a larger system such as Novetera. Keep in mind I cannot specify every planet, Just because the planet doesn’t exist here doesn’t mean the GBE doesn’t possess it.

Coreworlds

Xolvia:

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(art by Marco Gorlei, not mine)
system: Eteruo
moons: three
This coreworld is the main planet of military production and the development of technology in the Great Bastonian Empocracy. Factories cover the entire surface. It was made a production world because two of its moons are rich with resources for military ships and advanced technology. If the empocracy had the money and resources, this world could crank out an entire armada. Xolvia houses a large number of shipyards and habitats in orbit.
The planet is very grey with an orange tint. The sky is often grey and the gravity is 4 (earth is 5). Size is rated 6 (earth is 5)

Anrillia (formerly Gnar):
system: Novetera
moons: one

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This is the political and social centre of the empocracy. It has most of the iconic buildings and the largest population of all the planets in the nation, which means the Bastonian state gets a large portion of its income from this planet. The Council sits there. Almost the entire land surface is covered in the city. The great city has three levels. The upper levels do not block those under them but are more like massive balconies. They often connect to the tall buildings and connect via bridges. Most platforms don’t exceed 7500m2. The streets have green bushes, plants and trees and there are plenty of green spots. One can often spot a red banner with the Bastonian lion on. The winter often coats everything with a thin layer of snow if you’re above the equator. The planet's gravity is rated 5. The size is rated 7. The only surface not covered by buildings are parts of the ocean. It is the trade and market capital of the sector. The planet's surface has massive markets, companies, empires come here to trade.
The city centre is one of the GBE’s ten great wonders.

Ismo:

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system: Eteruo
moons: two
The capital of military bases and academies. This planet is used more by the army as most of the ships shouldn't have to travel from the other planets. All the reserves are located there. The planet also has significant production. Size is 3 and gravity 5.

Antaka:
system: Novetera
moons: none
Though outshined by the glory of Anrillia, Antaka’s significance is not to be understated. Its rings have valuable resources and its surface is more natural. there’s still forests and rivers, waterfalls and tropical islands integrated beautifully into the massive city and industry (mainly refineries) that cover 50% of the surface. Size 5 and gravity 5. The planet's environment is diverse and different throughout the entire planet thanks to its strong electromagnetic field.

Inner-rim worlds:

Brightus:
A pleasure planet, for vacations. Though not as beautiful as Giathia Prime, this world's environment is controlled to an impressive degree for tourists. Brightus’ cities provide a rich experience for those who don’t want to sit on a beach all day. The Brightus system is home to the Erusikam belt where mining operations are conducted. The planet houses many beautiful environments inside paradise domes, though the planet's natural beauty lies in the rich jungles.

Diherf:
Important mining world in the inner rim. Has high amounts of neosteel and Arcite. It has no breathable atmosphere and the people live on floating platforms or paradise domes. Its size is rated 3 and gravity 8.

Petov:
A multi-environmental planet with a large population. Production is also good. Is home to an aggressive Feline known as the Petcat.
Petovs capital city is called Tanphis. Petov is home to the great wonder: The Ice City. The northern part has frozen over in an incredible landscape of ice clear as glass. The sky often lights up in blue and yellow light shows by particles from the blue sun hitting the atmosphere.
Size 5 and gravity 6.

Mid-rim worlds

Giathia Prime:

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A mountain-lake-forest hybrid, Giathia Prime is considered the naturally most beautiful world in the GBE. It has important resources often used in military-grade tech. It has large cities and is one of the GBE’s most important planets for income. The planet is paradise, the mountains reach to the skies and waterfalls and lakes flow through the planet. Size 6, gravity 5. This world also houses plenty of refineries. It’s the main hub for tourism and modern architecture.

Melody Prime:
A tropical world with a harsh environment. It is a massive supporter of food as the large variety of animals and tropical fruits provide a large part of the GBE’s food production. Port Onnius, a major GBE military base, lies in the Melody system.
size 7, gravity 5

Catrina IX:
Catrina nine is a cold rocky planet with important resources. Its people live in habitats on the ground and in orbit. Its atmosphere isn’t breathable so the habitats are covered by “bubbles” of carboflexglass which are the precursor to the paradise dome. Trains carry people from different habitats to others.

Melody VI:
A continental world undergoing an ice age. The southern part houses a large population as the northern part has various research bases studying the strange reasoning for the sudden ice age.
Size 5, gravity 4.

Idien:
A continental world with many different cultures and specializations.
This planet is moderately populated and a popular destination for tourists and merchants. a lot of trade is conducted here.

Returx V:
The fifth planet in the Returx system. It appears to be an ocean world but the navy jams scans of this world. The planet has a military presence and ships trying to get close are intercepted. Civilians are not permitted to visit.

Outer rim worlds:

Gelu:
An outer rim arctic world with a breathable atmosphere. Has multiple bases and is an all-round kind of planet. It is an important forward operations base for the GBE forces being the closest point to their rival “The Planetary Coiss’oa Hegemony”. Under its thick ice it has common resources. It also has important listening posts on orbit. Size: 4 gravity: 5

Quafui:
An agricultural world with vast fields and hills. The planet has massive dome environments for growing or raising animals, crops and fruit. Near the equator, unlike the rest of the planet, has warm beaches and vast island networks and small local cities.

Woln:
A desert world with construction resources.

Gate:
Continental colony with a central warp gateway.

Jeyt prime:
Newly established outer colony. The Jeyt system is home to the volatile recourse used in torpedoes called Bedryllium.

The great wonders of the GBE

The ice city:
The ice city, built by a GBE sub-culture long ago is an area covered in towers made out of compressed water on Petov. The water has become a brilliant see-through type of ice into pointy buildings that form a city. One can live in only one part of the city, if you can afford it of course.

The Flying City:
The flying city was made by the GBE to intimidate the unhappy population of its planet. It was unstable and was easily destroyed by a small group of terrorists. The flying city has been crowned as one of the top three “most stupid ideas” in the GBE.

The Waterfalls of Giathia Prime
Water running down natural platforms between the rich surface of Giathia Prime, a sight that attracts many tourists.

The Royal Palace:
A beautifully architectured building in the city of Gnar, it stands tall and proud, glimmering in gold and banners waving in the wind

The Monarchs Hall:
Just like the Royal Palace it is one of the most beautiful buildings made, a collection of different cultures. It was eventually vandalized and taken over during the great uprising

The City of Gnar:
The grandest and largest collection of the grandest and largest buildings in the empocracy. It is considered, by the Bastonian people, the ultimate, most glorious thing ever created by man. A true utopia.

Black Hole Bomb:
The King once proposed the idea of building a Dyson sphere, a megastructure that would certainly make the GBE be looked upon with great admiration. Though it was considered a waste. Instead, they built a black hole bomb around the smallest black hole in the empocracy, generating more power than a Dyson Sphere would.

The HMS Imperial:
A mega-ship, though being small to a lot of ships during that time it was a bane of all its enemies. During the great uprising, it was disabled and thrown into a star.

Fighters:

The Great Bastonian Empocracy focuses on fighters (inspired by modern combat) that use missiles as their main weapons and are hard to hit. These fighters are expensive and have a short-range. Few have warp drives. (They might come across as OP in combat but are extremely limited.)

SP-4 Cthulhu-a:

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class: Bomber
Description: At first glance, this bomber may seem fragile since it sacrifices the energy and speed the other fighters rely on. But its devastating firepower makes up for this.
(ship no longer in service)

Emperor C-5e:

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class: Fighter
Description: This legendary fighter line was the saving grace for the empire during the darkest ages. Its ability to simply get out of the way of any incoming fire made it almost unkillable to the opposing forces when first introduced. It remains the main fighter of the Great Bastonian Empocracy. If it loses too much energy its shield can tank a missile.

Emperor C-5f:

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With new tech comes new fighters. Seeing the e-variants poor performance in combat against laser-based point defence the new f-variant has discarded some manoeuvrability for stronger shields.

Shark CN-3

Class: fighter
Description: These fighters were made to be operated cheaply out of larger ships but ended up still costing more than desired. It has a tiny range and has a small profile. The ship is barely in service, never participating in anything important.
(Being replaced)

Colonizer C-8a:

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Class: Fighter
Description: This ship is the creation of decades of research. It is one of the most advanced creations ever to enter the empocracy. Only the best pilots (storm, reptile and golden green squadron) are trusted with it. It can dance around other nations fighters with its extra thrusters which allows it to hover in the air and pull incredible manoeuvres. It rarely loses energy. Its stealth technology allows it to become invisible to sensors. It has a considerably smaller and lighter airframe which limits its firepower but increases performance.

Reever SP-5a:

Class: Attacker
The new attacker designed for combat against the uncivil! The Cthulhu had limited protection and performed poorly against dedicated point defence. The Reever has more powerful shields as well as improved nuclear payloads

Salamander SP-6a, b, c, d, e, f:

Class: Bomber, long-range strike craft, escort, special operations ships, gunship
The Salamander is an advanced multirole platform that can be modified with low cost and effort to go on different missions. The main configuration has three large torpedoes and a large Gatling gun attached to the nose. Its firepower is unmatched in the starfighter category. It carries a warp drive which means it can operate outside of a fleet.

C-13a Sky Hawk:

In atmosphere its pilots claim it to be immortal. A fighter which no one can see. A shadow that moves above the enemies head and rains down destruction. Fast, heavy firepower and most importantly, stealth. Considered undetectable, the C-15 supports the groundies safe from anti-air fire.

C-15b Archon:

One of the first fighters developed to carry mainly guns in the assault fleet. It is also the first military fighter in mass production for the Royal Navy which is not made by any national company. It was made by the company Guardian Aerospace, from the GBEs demands. It has missile hardpoints that are used to carry plasma cannons or railguns. It has more ECM and countermeasures than other fighters and it is also equipped with a warp drive. The ship is the go-to aerial celebration vessel and it is used in the royal guard.

C-18a Sky Warden:
BAe systems latest fighter. An expensive fighter. However it is almost impossible to hit by capital ships by using countermeasures, stealth technologies and misleading countermeasures which lead up to the ships being detectable, but being detected in the wrong place. Its shields can be set in a mode to reflect light, or the ship can be modified to cloak, with the expense of armour. The fighter is supermaneuverable and can outperform any ship in the GBE arsenal. It is only slower in space than the newer variants of the emperor. Its performance in atmosphere is poor. It can only carry a payload of about 12 larger missiles as opposed to the C-8f’s 18. But it features a nuke missile swarm system that launches tiny nuclear missiles at disabled, slow or unmaneuverable targets.

Battleships:

HMS Lokion:

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Flagship of the navy and part of the assault fleet.
length: 17 km

Arrow of Justice:
Created to be the second GBE battleship in service, it started production, but alas, due to the delta crisis the project had to be stopped since the GBE realised they could not support or create such a ship if the Reckoning fleet was to be complete. So it was stopped mid-production. It is ready to continue production when the ministry of war decides to.
planned length: 14 km

Capital ships

(just because it says it has a certain weapon doesn't mean it only has them. Every weapon isn't worth a mention. And if a ship has a lot of missiles expect it to have fewer normal cannons for example.)

GBE ship doctrine:
GBE ships are generally very tough. The armour of the ships can take considerably more damage than the shielding can. GBE ships use long-range weapons and computers to calculate how to shoot for maximum accuracy. Computers also calculate incoming projectiles and how to evade as many as possible. Since there’s an exclusive use of long-range weapons, evasion and toughness GBE ships are extremely hard to destroy to fight at long range. The GBE employs a heavy quality over quantity mindset as the time and cost for each ship is considerably high because of their complex nature. Each GBE ship as a result are very effective and powerful with the complexity and overengineering of their design.

Pride-class battlecruiser:

There is only one Pride-class as of yet and it wields the most powerful weapon owned exclusively by the GBE, named the Liberator, the ship's spinal neutral particle lance. The Pride-class is so heavily armed it destroys fleets, if not using fleet sized munitions and supplies to upkeep it. Its armour is just the GBEs budget composite stacked in layers. The behemoth has a complex electromagnetic “train” system that transports supplies, drones and personnel across the ship. The ship is barely atmospherically capable and is one of the few GBE Battlecruisers in service. The Pride-class is designed to be a mobile base. This ship can be the base of an entire campaign or even wars. It is also made to dish out as much firepower as possible. The coil guns mounted on the battlecruiser are tremendous and required the GBE engineers to try to reach the level of technology and engineered perfection they did with the Sunrise-class. The amount of weapons mounted on the ship does make the frame less sturdy and the reactor a lot larger, making it more explosive.
length: 7 km

Raider-class battlecruiser:
The Raider-class is a heavy battlecruiser. It has long-range heavy missiles as well as torpedoes for maximizing its potential in tactical combat. It is meant as a flagship for various fleets. It is optimal for leading fleets and operations. The flagship of the entire reserve fleet commanded by fleet admiral Phoenix, the HMS Chariot, is a Raider-class.
length: 7 km

Hurricane-class battlecarrier:
The hurricane is supposedly the biggest single threat to the fleets of the “uncivilised galaxy”. The GBE is still producing enough fighters for it, and once it is full its total cost will be equal to a battleship. The ship is filled to the brim with fighter upkeep drones, deck personnel bunks, fighter rehabilitation systems and repair drones and nanobots as well as fuel tanks and missile storages and arming machines.

Archangel-class heavy cruiser:

The largest ship that’s atmospherically capable without support, the Archangel is a gleaming beacon of the GBE navy and a symbol for sophisticated and fine Bastonian engineering. A new addition to the GBE navy and the only heavy cruiser in service, this ship is of the 5th generation of Royal Navy ships. However, it is a logistical nightmare, fitting all the extra radiators for the weapons, the weapons, their ammo transportation systems, hangars and the repair systems. But through this they have made an insanely heavily armed ship. It has mastered what youngsters call “the gun spam”. Essentially an insane amount of weapon systems. The hull is quite fragile because of this, that is why it has heavy shielding instead of advanced armour. Another reason for this is that heavy armour increases the ship’s mass and the ultradense layers require anti-grav that could instead be used to support it in flight. All the cooling systems, interdiction and radiators eat up power. To solve this the auxiliary reactors were switched out for an additional, though smaller, KAEPE reactor. It does have a spinal mount lance. It is equipped with plenty of casaba howitzers, a fairly new addition to the GBE arsenal. The Archangel has compressed boxes of materials onboard converted into shells onboard the ship’s factories.
Length: 3.5 km