NSC: KAMI: Kombat And Mythical Invaders

New Universe Concept: Now I already made three different posts that talked about this universe before, but it wasn't until now I finally got a title for it.

KAMI: Kombat And Mythical Invaders or The KAMI-Verse for short.

This is gonna be my take on the genre of Tabletop games like GW's Warhammer 40K.

So this is gonna take place in a new location outside of both The Super-Sargasso Sea and The Planet Kern, but that doesn't mean that there won't be any overlap between the three as  The Kami-Verse will be at least in a different Galaxy in The Kern-Verse.

Why? Well considering that in our real universe it's been estimated that there are around 100 to 200 BILLION Galaxies in the known universe, so it wouldn't really be that much of a stretch to have The KAMI-Verse Galaxy exist alongside The Milky Way Galaxy in The Kern-Verse but isolated from each other.

So the main story of the KAMI-Verse is that there galaxy is an utter wreck, with multiple factions across it fighting one another in a multi-pronged war to try and take as much territory as they can with one another.

And here are a couple of said Factions I have at the moment:

The United Humanity

The United Humanity in it's early days was a different kind of human empire more similar to The Imperium of Man in terms of their xenphobia towards any and all alien life. That was until over time the leadership of this empire and it's different worlds underwent a massive empire-wide cultural subversion campaign and they ended up getting replaced by a new government that claims to want to repair relations between the other alien species & factions for what their empire did to them long in the past.

But this was all a ruse, as much like WH40k's Tau, The leaders of The United Humanity would rather go for the more subtle approach in adding new worlds to their empire, making themselves look like they've genuinely reformed and want to make amends. They still see the other species as inherently inferior and only worthy to serve their idea of Humanity, but they need to keep up appearances for their subversion to work. So they indoctrinated much of their empire's youths with propaganda that teaches them that they are as much to blame for the sins of the past as their ancestors had done and they should spend every waking moment trying to be better. To make up for Humanity's crimes against everyone else. Also that they are indeed more powerful than the other species and that they must use that power to uplift everyone else above them at the cost of their own lives.

So the various soldiers and Super Soldiers are all trained to see themselves as effectively sinners who must repent for their ancestors transgressions. But they still get pissed off whenever an alien sees through the scam and doesn't want to join The United Humanity's side and follow their ideology unquestioningly. And they will see this as a massive insult, how DARE this inferior being not accept the uplifting they are trying to do for them?! And they start attacking in retaliation to this insult as a way to say "Let us Uplift you, OR ELSE."

And it's this kind of overreaction that has painted the entire empire as hypocrites to the rest of galactic civilization.

Also due to their changes to society, no one but the elites in The UH owns anything even close to their own property. By law, everything is shared with everyone no matter what. Anyone who tries to keep something for themselves is considered selfish and, if caught, will be punished for it via a Struggle Session that is televised to the people of a UH - controlled planet.

Though one thing about The United Humanity is that while The Imperium of Man is technologically & socially stagnant that see any kind of actual progress as heresy, The United Humanity is all about progress at all costs. Change for the sake of change basically. Even to the point of running their civilians down with how often they change their agenda and society trying to constantly progress towards what they believe to be utopia.

And if you aren't willing to go with the current agenda that changes constantly, even if going along with it will be to your detriment, you will be treated like a social leper caveman at best. And at worst, an enemy of the state.

The Grekx

The Grekx are a short species of imps that have are a knack for building things. Though one of the the things they like to build is robots & battle mechs that are specifically designed after other factions. And The Grekx program these robots to be the most mocking portrayal of whatever they are suppose to parody. However sometimes these robots are programmed to think like what they parody so effectively  that they end up rebelling against The Grekx and join the factions they mocked previously because they actually BELIEVE they are of those factions.

Here's another thing about The Grekx.

What also makes The Grekx rather unique is that there are some who managed to find and call dibs on different abandoned research facilities across the galaxy that involve gene splicing and cybernetic augmentations. And with it came the rise of what are known as Aug-Grekx, The Doctors / Surgeons who modify both fellow Grekx and any allies from other species who joined their faction in various ways. Many of these being from enemy factions who defected and joined The Grekx in their little collective.

Though some more sane human-settled planets have ended up leaving The United Humanity due to the actions of The Grekx, who basically held up a mirror and showed just how utterly stupid this all is using their special robots & mechs for public satirical performances. I mean the average humans that are alive today weren't around when their empire was under the previous management. So why should they have to prostrate themselves and pay for crimes they never committed in the first place? And if they really are trying to help others, why is it that the first reaction to any critique is verbal and/or physical abuse towards the critic & throw slurs at them?

And this form of effective Non-Violent Activism has made The Grekx enemies of the state. And The Grekx have a big target on their backs for The UH's army's to aim their guns at.

Though there have been colonies of humans that ended up defecting from The UH and become part of The Grekx's faction and actually live in conditions that are more preferable to the highly regulated & systematized Tower Blocks of their planet.

The Apocrians

The Apocrians are a species of Giant Psionic Insects that function under a Hivemind. Though unlike other similar species you may've heard of before, The Apocrians as a whole aren't connected by an overall Collective Hivemind. Each Colony of them is One Singular Individual Queen in full psionic control over every single minion it has birthed. These

minions are all basically brainless meat puppets for their nest's queen to control over.

Now the thing about Apocrian Queens or Tiamat Queens as they are often classified as, is that they have full biological control over whatever minion they can produce from their bodies.And depending on the individual queen, you can have vastly different forms of lifeforms they can create. Like some Queens are more combat oriented and produce Organic Bug versions of military units such as Infantry, Tankers, Anti-Spacecraft Plasma Cannons and whatnot. Some Queens prefer more stealthy operations and produce things like Infiltrators & Assassins. And some who are more into the Psychic portions of their biology create minions that act as an extension of the queen and allow her to focus more of their power through those minions than they could with normal ones. And all this requires a lot of calories and a well fed & fully grown queen can produce MILLIONS of minions per week. And when a Queen eats specific forms of biomass, it can produce minions that have some of the properties of the lifeforms that the queen has eaten.

The Apocrians tend to travel around The Galaxy in different organic space ships and find the nearest habitable planet they can colonize. A lot of the times it's on a planet already occupied by one of the other Factions in the galaxy, so that usually ends up causing a rather nasty war to break out if either side decides to fire the first shot. But Tiamat Queens aren't mindless, they are fully capable of performing diplomatic relations with other sapient species to try and have a colony be made without any unnecessary bloodshed. BUT not every individual Tiamat Queen is like this, and is more than happy to produce metric millions of expendable soldiers to overrun the planet's defender at the slightest excuse.

Though there have been VERY rare occasions where a Tiamat Queen ends up forming an alliance with part of a rival faction and they offer their support to said faction such as producing Minions that synergize with that faction. But this can also cause two different queens aligned with two different factions to attack each other due to their chosen alliances.

The Yokai

Now I know what you guys are thinking, "Yokai? Why are they in this universe? Don't they seem to be a bit out of place?"

Well here's the thing: The Yokai as a whole are the main dominant spiritual force within The KAMI-Verse. They are actually a collective of various supernatural creatures that do exist in this galaxy, though they have actually made contact with both Earth & Kern way back in their prehistoric times and our idea of yokai comes from that encounter. Though there are Yokai on Kern that have descended directly from the Yokai that first landed there.

And as The Main Dominant Spiritual Force in this galaxy, one of the more supernatural aspects of The KAMI-Verse is the concept of "The Komoku" or what Earth Japanese people call The Tsukumogami. Objects that survived for over 100 years old that ended up gaining a life of their own and become living creatures. And unlike the Tsukumogami, The Komoku can form from A LOT of different items, including more modern & alien technology.

So due to how long some of the other factions have existed, there's bound to be many different Komokus in each one and each one in alliance with the faction they were built from. And the reception they get from those other factions kinda varies, like The United Humanity will tolerate them as they can be useful tools while some of the more religious Grekx built actual temples to some of the more powerful Komoku.

The Gasspheres

Now to quote from one of their sacred texts:

Once, there was a people, a brilliant; inventive race. These  people lived short, miserable lives toiling in agony, using their  brilliance to eke out what meager living they could take from their  barren lands and to sustain their frail bodies as long as possible.

They  lived in the shadow of a great empire; which had every thing they did  not. They lived in hate and envy of this empire, but they were so small,  they could do little except hate. Until the man came around.

“Why  do you tremble in filth in the shadows of the vulgar; the bloated; the  weak, dear children,” the man asked “When you could walk amongst gods?”

The  man told them he could make them a deal, on behalf of him and his  associates, that they could destroy those who lived in the light while  they died slowly in darkness, while they too ascended beyond them, in  forms perfect and undying; with no hunger or sickness or pain; while  those high above them could suffer as they had.

The  compact was sealed, and they gave up their bodies to the man and his  associates. The man was, of course, not a man, but a gnawing; grasping  thing, and his associates were. But they did keep their part in the  bargain.

No longer would they feel pain; for they lost the  minds to feel it as their bodies became the gas. No longer would they  die, as the power of the living gas was eternal and regenerating; in  masks of cold unyielding metal.

And they easily crushed  that great empire. But they had not the minds to know why they had done  so. And as their future was as the unending soldiers of nightmare, as  the puppets of laughing gods…

-The Parable Of The Gas

So as you can see, The Gasspheres are a race of gaseous entities that are contained within different individual masks. And each one's gas can have a variety of effects on those that breath them in. Like forming a strange mind-controlling cancer that basically makes zombies; can cause suffocation by creating an odorless & colorless gas that their victims can't smell or see; or even cause those that breathe the gas in to experience vivid hallucinations and experience either euphoria or outright, heart-stopping terror.

And finally...

The Space Outlaws

The faction known as The Space Outlaws actually has it's origins in The United Humanity, in that they are humans who, for one reason or another, defected from The UH and became free agents. And the leaders of The United Humanity see any kind of defection as treason and gave their soldiers Shoot-To-Kill orders to any Space Outlaws they find or any settlements that provided safe harbor for Space Outlaws.

One of the things that separate Space Outlaws from the super soldiers The United Humanity's call War Brothers & War Sisters is that Space Outlaws are mostly un-augmented humans that wear a form of modified Power Armor that can vary in appearance depending on the individual while War Brothers & War Sisters have a very uniformed appearance that have little variation.

Another is that The Space Outlaws' Power Armor is more bulky as it contains additional servos and other forms of components that can allow a human to have a much higher level of strength than normal. Though unfortunately usually not enough to out-muscle a fully developed & indoctrinated War Brother or War Sister who takes great pleasure in killing traitors.

While different Space Outlaws can have different goals that they'll follow, one of the most important in their ranks is the defense of Human-Colonized Worlds that have either defected from The UH or that The United Humanity's leadership see as of less importance and thus not worth giving the proper resources to properly protect them from things like an invasion of Tiamat Queen or a conquering fleet of malicious Yokai.

Though that isn't to say that individual groups can't every form alliances with other factions and work as defenders of those factions' worlds. And these alliances do allow different groups of Space Outlaws to acquire different forms of equipment that can have them near equal footing with the War Brothers & War Sisters of The UH.

So yeah, those are the current factions I'm planning on adding right now. If you have your own ideas for what Faction can be added, feel free to share them down in the comments.