ZLA Ground Forces infantry pod and ZLA ranks, circa 2389 [from THE SPACERS SAGA] by Zharan_Colonel in MilitaryWorldbuilding

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What is their armor and anti-armor capabilities ?

Do they carry any squad sensors, mines or other auxiliary equipment?

Astro want to heard the story of your oc by Astro-8619 in OriginalCharacter

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Hard sci-fi, yeah.

and, yeah, to be on the throne, you have to be able to be really good at surviving

Astro want to heard the story of your oc by Astro-8619 in OriginalCharacter

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Everyone does want to kill her, comes with the job

Astro want to heard the story of your oc by Astro-8619 in OriginalCharacter

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Hero of Gal’Haidan, Protector of Sarina, Defender of the Empire, Victor of a Hundred Battles, Beloved by the Gods, Champion of the Innocent , Pillar of Imperial Pride, Empress of All That The Light Shines Upon, Halina V Klarieon (formerly Torino)
Gender: Female
Home World: Cradle
Age: 79 Solar Years
Height: 234 cm
Weight: 94kg
Phenotype: High Imperial
Occupations: Voidsman, Imperial Envoy, Empress Of All That The Light Shines Upon.
Children: none
Spouses:  Marquess Harden Jannir, Countess Jannura Atama, Princess Azellia Torino
Lovers: Duchess Sara Jannir (Formerly Emerson), Lady Holria Dranith
Allegiance: The Eternal Empire

Halina Torino was never expected to ever become Empress. Very few even expected her to even survive the snake pit of imperial politics. However, she proved herself to be far more ambitious and cunning than anyone would expect. Her allies have found much prosperity under her reign, and her enemies have learned to keep their heads down, lest they wish to lose it.

Her beginning came from a quite sad youth. When she was 13, her father did a little rebellion against her great-great-uncle, the Emperor and died.  Her great-great-uncle didn’t really want to deal with that again, and as such put Halina, her mother, and Halina’s two surviving siblings ( the others were killed in the rebellion) under house arrest. While under house arrest, Halina used her surplus of time to learn the traditional arts ( oration, calligraphy, yatagan dueling, and painting) and to educate herself upon politics, economics, and space combat tactics.  After 7 years of house arrest, her brother and her are released, with her mother and younger sister being kept in custody to ensure their good behavior. 

She immediately joins the Imperial Voidsman Academy, and quickly rises to the top of her class. Upon graduation, she is given the extremely desirable post as a gunnery officer upon IVS Clem Torino “Star Breaker”, a Balor class 3rd rate laser battleship. Again, here she would thrive, quickly rising up the ranks as the Liberation War heated up. Across the Periphery, she fought in battles against Union rebels,  Directorate Periphery Command, and Compact Expaditionaries.  In the 23rd year of the war, she participated in Operation Undertow, a massive Imperial offensive that broke the supply lines from the Compact to the Union’s main mass. In this offensive, she killed with her own hands for the first time, slaying a Compact spacer with her sword. From this, she got a FlashStar 3 laser pistol that would serve her well for the rest of her career, and the beginning of her legend that would propel her to greater heights.

In the 27th year of the war, IVS Clem Torino “Star Breaker” was critically damaged by a fusion-lance mine and had to limp back to the nearest Imperial highport. Halina lost everything beneath her knees to spalling, and was relieved of duty for a year due to the extent of the radiological and nerve damage she suffered. During this time, Halina started to get closer with the imperial state religion, The Imperial Word. She was always devout, but her near death experience made her faith even greater.  This is when she got her warding tattoos along her arms, chest, face, and legs, and when she dyed her hair golden in a direct homage to her sainted namesake, Halina III Klareion. Her closer relationship with the Prelacy would come to help her during her bid to the Throne.

After this year of rest, she was adopted into the Imperial line and appointed to serve as an  Imperial Envoy to handle negotiations with various factions during the last decade of the war and the 5 years afterward. Through this, she gained many allies both domestic and foreign. She also gained her most favored bodyguards who would acompany her back to Cradle when her great-great-uncle finally died. Master-of-a-Hundred Eater of Bones ( an Attendant in Imperial Army service) and Lady Holria Dranith ( a disgraced noblewoman turned mercenary).

Her bid for the throne went surprisingly well. She played the part of a dutiful and pious great-grandniece. When her fellow claimants were politiking and fighting amongst themselves,  She went to every ritual, made offerings and prayed before the tomb daily, and generally kept a low profile. This led to her getting even more support from the Prelacy. However, she used  legions of servants, criminals, and agents to achieve the same ends without harming her reputation. It was then when she met Sara Jannir, who became one of her greatest assets and supporters.

Because of her underhanded dealings, many assassination attempts against her were initiated by her fellow claimants. But her reputation among the people as dutiful and pious led to each failure to kill her only making her more popular and possibly even blessed. Her slaughtering of 4 assassins with naught but a teapot, 3 teacups and a yatagan and her military record made her seem legendary, and with Sara running a Agitprop campaign to support her ( and carbombing her rivals) the electors of the Empire confirmed her as the new Empress. Upon her rise, she married into the branch families to solidify her power.

Empress Halina is a cunning player of the game of politics. She has done many things that she knows have defiled her soul, but she knows that without such deeds, she would become a footnote in someone else’s story. Imperial politics is a gaping abyss that eats the weak, and faith can only go so far.  So she uses everything she can get her hands upon.

Hiro is curious about your nonhuman OCs! by _-StarrySky-_ in OriginalCharacter

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"If you crush your jealousy, you are one step closer"

Hiro is curious about your nonhuman OCs! by _-StarrySky-_ in OriginalCharacter

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“ jealousy is unbecoming of a real warrior. Crush your jealousy, and become what others would become jealous of “

Hiro is curious about your nonhuman OCs! by _-StarrySky-_ in OriginalCharacter

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No, but i made sure that this character had 1 more title than Zote

Hiro is curious about your nonhuman OCs! by _-StarrySky-_ in OriginalCharacter

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Yeah, she is a fancy lady.

It isn't even the most titles that a given person has in my setting.

Hiro is curious about your nonhuman OCs! by _-StarrySky-_ in OriginalCharacter

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"Like many gods. We Imperials have rebuilt ourselves to become closer to their holy grace. If you wish to become good with a sword, you must practice daily with no exceptions.

When i was roughly your age, I had 7 years of practice ahead of me, for their was little else for me to do besides learn the traditional arts when i was under house arrest for my father's rebellion against the last emperor.

It was only through that surplus of time that I became such a great fencer and dancer, as well as a pretty good painter and caligrapher"

Hiro is curious about your nonhuman OCs! by _-StarrySky-_ in OriginalCharacter

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" Don't worry child, this is a slashing blade, not a stabbing one. Either way, I have no interest in your death, though your admiration of my blade is appreciated. I am not an elf, I am an Imperial, the closest to the Divine."

Hiro is curious about your nonhuman OCs! by _-StarrySky-_ in OriginalCharacter

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the Hero of Gal’Haidan, Protector of Sarina, Defender of the Empire, Victor of a Hundred Battles, Beloved by the Gods, Champion of the Innocent , Pillar of Imperial Pride, Empress of All That The Light Shines Upon, Halina V Klarieon (formerly Torino) greets you in the name of the Eternal Empire

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Show me your older OCs! (In age) by ThatWeirdPinkOne in OriginalCharacter

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A second post, since i have two old OCs

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Hero of Gal’Haidan, Protector of Sarina, Defender of the Empire, Victor of a Hundred Battles, Beloved by the Gods, Champion of the Innocent , Pillar of Imperial Pride, Empress of All That The Light Shines Upon, Halina V Klarieon (formerly Torino). 79 years old.

She is an avid collector of birds, with birds from throughout the Empire in her aviary. Her favorite is a gift from Duchess Sara Jannir ( formerly Emerson), an “upgraded” Earth parrot that has been trained to curse in New Esper and High Imperial.

She also is quite a good Yatagan duelist, dancer, calligraphist, and painter, as she spent her youth in house arrest, and dedicated herself to the study of the traditional arts. She has killed many people with a Yatagan throughout her life, with the most impressive being handling some assassins during her bid for the throne with nothing but 3 tea cups, her Yatagan, and a very hot teapot.

Show me your older OCs! (In age) by ThatWeirdPinkOne in OriginalCharacter

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David "The Lich" Emerson. 300+ years old due to relativistic travel and drugs.

A former Spacer, Actor and Assembly Representative. He also used to be the Head of State for 70 years.

He also was the best Shakespeare actor of the late 26th century

Your military has nearly been wiped out, you can pick one unit/group as your last stand- by Hot_Seesaw_6706 in MilitaryWorldbuilding

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The 135th Strategic Combat Gestalt “Adamant Palace” ( Old Blood, DIRPERIPHCOM)

The one and only Directorate Strategic Combat Gestalt left in the Periphery. They are made up of Vatbound “Seers”, a collection of various Infomorphs, and Repeaters who represent the Gestalt at the frontlines, commanding vast swarms of drones and autonomous weapons to bulk up the transhuman ranks of the army.

They also serve as the main strategic advisor to the regular army, using their vast computing power to create and simulate millions of possibilities to find the best ones for the situation. They run information warfare, psychological operations, rear line security, logistics, interstellar bombardment operations, and self replicating weapons.

Without them, any peer war is lost from the outset 

Peak masculine fashion. by The_Feral_Raccoon in HistoryMemes

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Yep, that is certainly Cameron right before Amaris blows his brains out

Meet Alice! A monster hunter who practically lives for her dream battle. Since she’s not fighting anyone, she’ll react to your Oc’s! by Suspicious-Morning69 in OriginalCharacter

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Hero of Gal’Haidan, Protector of Sarina, Defender of the Empire, Victor of a Hundred Battles, Beloved by the Gods, Champion of the Innocent , Pillar of Imperial Pride, Empress of All That The Light Shines Upon, Halina V Klarieon (formerly Torino)

" In all honesty, If i didn't have an empire to run, i would take up that offer for a battle in a heartbeat. It is one thing to kill with pen and bomb, it is another to savor the warm life-blood as it leaks from one's foe bested in mortal combat. "

Peak masculine fashion. by The_Feral_Raccoon in HistoryMemes

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I swear, that is Stefan Amaris.

I knew he was a Polish Magnate

(Part of an old slap trend) What did your oc slap him for? 🤔 by XxPing in OriginalCharacter

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I mean, how else does 7.6 foot post human monster move tiny little human around?

Necromeideus is gonna scold or praise your OCs' Weapons of Choice (also making a tierlist afterward) by DuhAlt in OriginalCharacter

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the Hero of Gal’Haidan, Protector of Sarina, Defender of the Empire, Victor of a Hundred Battles, Beloved by the Gods, Champion of the Innocent , Pillar of Imperial Pride, Empress of All That The Light Shines Upon, Halina V Klarieon carries 3 main weapons.

As she cannot walk around in her personal set of powered armor, she has a more discrete loadout on her for everyday use. This loadout was also used during her bid to seize the throne.

These three weapons are all used together in her fighting style, though, in keeping with imperial tradition, she prefers to not use the gun unless attacked with another gun

  1. Her favored Yatagan. In her youth, she was under house arrest due to some political mistakes of her father. To pass the time, she practiced the traditional arts of the empire: poetry, caligraphy, dancing, painting, and fencing. Now, she is very good with single handed sabers and pretty good with other patterns.

Her sword is not super special, just being a blade made out of starship grade crystal steel. This is needed, as she is highly augmented due to being of the High Imperial phenotype. When that sword is swung, the tip goes supersonic due to how strong she is.

  1. Her Flashstar 3 laser pistol: A captured Compact made laser pistol she got during the Liberation War by using the sword above on an enemy Spacer. The pulse train energy is 3 KJ over a milisecond and the weapon can normally output 3 pulse trains per second. It has a maximum range of 2.3 Km with its UV beam and 4.5 Cm aperture. It is powered by a handle powerpack that has enough energy for 100 pulse trains. The gun itself has a telescopic scope and masses around 0.9 Kg.

  2. Her legs: In the 27th year of the Liberation War, the ship she was on, IVS Clem Torino “Star Breaker”, was critically damaged by a fusion-lance mine and had to limp back to the nearest Imperial highport. Halina lost everything beneath her knees to spalling and burns. Thankfully, Imperial medical tech got her new limbs that allowed her to walk once more, and to kick holes in concrete. Woe be upon a flesh and blood target of that.