Made it to Friday without a cough!
Here is another subsector: Subsector K:Storm
https://geirbloodaxe.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-beyond-subsector-k-storm.html
In my version of The Beyond, the Storm Knights are a large part of the history of the sector, spending a thousand years in direct conflict against Aslan expansion and spending the next 700 as defenders of the Stormhaven Republic.
Part of that history comes from combining one old version of the sector, which had the Stormhaven Republic as a big piece and another that had the Federation of Garrone occupying that same space. My answer: Garrone is the original name of the world now known as Stormhaven. But then I had to write the story, so this post drones on for about 6200 words. My intent when I finish the last five subsectors (Cough willing) is put the entire document into a pdf format with sections for governments, subsectors, aliens, ships, etc, so some information that overlaps because of the way it's presented in these chunks (world, government, organizations, ships all in a row for the same region) will look less redundant, and by then better edited. And then I'll post a link to the file for download and move on to something else, unless there's demand for more work on it (I do intend to still lobby for my version to be considered a replacement for the current mess, though). Anyway... Subsector map and some ships for those who don't want to read the whole story.
Scimitar-class Frigate
Stormhaven's interstellar warfighting branch is the Order of the Inconstant Star, tasked with rapid deployment and offensive operations against ihatei incursions into both the neutral and Republican space. By convention, nearly all this capability is contained in destroyer, frigate, or corvette-sized starships, with support vehicles filling out a small task force. The current core fighting vehicle specifically designed to counter incursion by Aslan
Halaheike and
Sakhai warships is the 2400-ton
Scimitar-class frigate. While unable to hold the line against a major clan incursion, these ships are more than sufficient to counter raids by smaller clans and families seeking to test the limits of the Republic's resolve. Heavily armored, fast, and armed with a medium fusion bay to deliver a devastating punch in close combat, and, for stand-off attacks, dual missile bays plus four each of particle and torpedo barbettes, the ships can defeat either a
Halaheike or
Sakhai in a fair fight; on occasion, a single
Scimitar has defeated both. For the past century, command of a
Scimitar has become the most common criteria for achieving status by rank as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Inconstant Star.
Stargrazer-class Pinnace
The
Stargrazer pinnace is the standard small craft of the Storm Knights. As a general purpose heavily armed and armored fighting ship with 8.2 tons of available mission-specific space, it is a decent vehicle, but despite its name, it lacks the heat shield protection of the equivalent Nakris Confederation Star Force
Hornet. It also lacks aerofins for high performance atmospheric flight. Still, it has a sturdier hull, assault escape pods for the base crew of six, and performs equally well in space combat. It is also almost 15% cheaper than the
Hornet.
Sword of Oberon
The
Sword of Oberon may only be a myth, based on little more than a cleric error and some wishful thinking, or it may be part of a grand conspiracy. The only known "fact" is that a mothballed
Cemplas-class dreadnaught named
Kaskii disappeared from the inventory of the Imperial Navy's Deneb Sector Depot in around 1100. The
Cemplas-class of 288,000-ton warship was active in the last years of the Solomani Rim War a century earlier. The ship, based on a massive spinal meson gun design and supplemented by a dozen each of large mass driver, torpedo, missile, particle beam, and fusion gun bays was designed specifically to crack bypassed Solomani worlds with overwhelming firepower. Capable of only jump-3 and 5-g acceleration, the warship could not keep up with a fast moving modern Imperial fleet, and these characteristics, plus the infamy of being responsible for the destruction of megatons of orbital infrastructure and bombardments that cost tens of millions of lives, turned the entire class into something of a pariah, and all
Cemplas ships were either mothballed or scrapped by the 1030s. Only one of these ships,
Kaskii(998), was mothballed at the Deneb Depot. It was recorded as present in the inventory conducted in 1098 and missing in the one conducted in 1101. Whether it was ever present, or if its disposal at some earlier date was poorly documented because of incompetency or corruption is uncertain. In some circles within the Stormhaven Republic, the rumor persists that agents of the also likely apocryphal Order of the Thirteenth Expedition stole the vessel and transported it to a secret base somewhere in The Beyond in preparation for a strike against Aslan clans that, according to some versions of the rumor, have not signed the Peace of Kaiear, or, in other versions, have signed it, but don't take the treaty seriously, or have in some way offended this secret Order. Some stories have Imperial Navy sympathizers as coconspirators, others credit, or blame, GeDeCo. In any case, the starship could destabilize the entire region if it were ever crewed and put into action. If it exists at all.
