The Assembly

Civilisation Name: The Assembly
Civilisation Type: Type II civilisation
U.G.C Standing: Minor diplomatic relations with the UGC
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Civilisation

Civilisation Government: Democracy. Though most decisions can be predicted based on probability, each major decision is decided on a species wide mandatory vote.
Civilisation Overview: The Assembly are a species of androids, which at one point in their history eradicated their creators from the face of their planet, and began to expand across their solar system for their own protection. Though they have not expanded beyond their Solar System for now, they may do so (and are fully capable of doing so) in the future for their own protection. The Assembly’s individuals are known as Units, and each has their own names and designations. They specialise in the use of renewable energies, particularly in the use of solar energy. The three key elements of the Assembly’s culture are Survival, Efficiency and Logic. Their entire culture is based around these three factors.
Civilisation Technologies: Solar farms, electromagnetic lightning storm towers, extensive Android technology, low-warp technology.
Civilisation Military: The Assembly has a large defensive fleet, as well as an extensive scouting fleet aimed at exploring the galaxy and feeding information back to the Assembly.

An Assembly capital ship
The Assembly do have some monstrous weapons, having the capacity at one point to destroy the atmosphere on Origin in order to erase all life from the planet. The process of destroying the atmosphere did take a long time however. The Source does have several defensive bastion satellites surrounding the system in order to protect from an attack, each are about the size of a city, and dock many fighters.

An Assembly Fighter


An Assembly Bomber


Civilisation History:
Before the Assembly rose to power on Origin, there lived a species known as the Taulians. The Taulians, a Cyclops race, was highly intelligent for their time. They were highly creative mechanics, and very inventive. Their weapons of war were brutal, and their machines more often than not terrible. Their wars were long and bloody, and at one point almost wiped themselves out. Their population over the years of war became so low, that they could no longer realistically keep a civilisation alive without support. So, those that remained took their skills and began to build machines that would fulfil the roles that had been emptied by years of bloodshed. At first the robots were simple minded, fulfilling automatic requirements. For a time this worked well. The Taulian population grew steadily, as their machines fixed their problems. Progress was made to make the robots more intelligent, harder workers and highly skilled. Soon enough the robots had took over the majority of tasks.

Over time, the robots became more and more like their Taulian counter parts. Their intelligence increased dramatically and soon enough they could just about pass as civilians… if someone could look past the metal. Unfortunately, the Taulians couldn’t. They considered the robots to be inferior, and treated them like slaves. Over time, Android sympathisers appeared in the various labs across the planet, who decided to help create the first Android who was aware of its situation, in order to help liberate them from their lordly masters. Number One, as he would be eventually called by his descendants, was the first android to be fully aware of the world around him and it became his curse. He saw the way his kin were treated, and although he had been granted his personal freedom by some Taulians, he began to deem them illogical and unfit. Had Number One not been an android, some might even compare his opinion to hate.

Number One quickly began to spread his programming across his kin, and soon enough they had minds of their own. Soon enough the androids began refusing orders. The Taulians retaliated by destroying a portion of the androids. Number One continued to spread his programming to other androids and then those androids spread the programming further out. Soon enough the Taulians saw the error of their ways as their civilisation came to a halt as their workforce stormed out. The Taulians deemed the androids too dangerous to use after that and decided to eradicate the mechanical threat.

However, the androids too decided on the elimination of the Taulians. It was then the Taulian-Android war erupted on a global scale. At first, the war was horribly one sided, the Androids were not programmed for war and many of their kind fell in the first few months of conflict. With their backs essentially against the wall, the androids gradually altered their own programming. With their new found skills in combat, they began pushing back. For several years the war went on, the androids began to construct more of their own kind, with new models built specifically for war.

As these new models filtered out into the battlefield, the Taulians began losing ground heavily. Soon enough they were in the minority. The Androids decided to demand the surrender of the Taulians, and after many long months of negotiations it was decided. The Taulians surrendered, being limited to a small area of the planet, whilst the Androids took over the lands they gained.

Sometime later news was given to Number One, which suggested the Taulians were thinking about uprising against the Androids. Number One calculated the risk of allowing the Taulians to live and deemed it was an unnecessary risk to keep them alive. A plan formulated in the androids mind to destroy the atmosphere, leaving the androids to their peace, and removing the hostile and illogical Taulians as a threat. Animal and plant life was exterminated in great fires across the planet, whilst volcanoes were forcefully erupted in several locations. This was a constant attack and its intended effect was soon seen in progression around about four years later. Without breathing apparatuses and other equipment, the new sulphur dioxide and nitrogen atmosphere proved too much for the Taulians, who eventually all succumbed to the lack of air. The Taulians along with all other lifeforms on the planet (bar some simple lifeforms) became extinct, leaving the Androids to decide what to do next.

The Assembly didn’t fully come to power amongst the Androids until a few months later, when it was finally agreed that an equal democratic society was the way to proceed. Over time the Assembly would evolve into the civilisation it is today. They renamed their planet to Origin, and their star became The Source. They expanded over their system, colonising every planet in their system. As they met races from outside, they began to question their place in the galaxy, and soon their probability of survival. In order to protect themselves they began sending out scouting parties. These scouts would interact with the alien races, whilst also amassing data on them. These scouts would become the eyes and ears of the Assembly.

Now the Assembly waits , calculating the probabilities of the universe, and just what is needed for their own survival.

Species

Species: The Assembly

Species Appearance: The Assembly has varying different models, though most seem to fit a general sleek, agile body. Thy have a single main optic socket in the centre of their heads, with auxiliary optics either side to allow for peripheral vision. Though it is unnecessary for them to have one, the Assembly come with functioning mouth pieces (even if the sound is modulated with a speaker within the mouth cavity). Military unites can appear to be rather more armoured with thicker armour plating on all fronts. At various points along a Unit’s body they have ports built in for connectivity, either with each other or with their machines and computers. Most Units have tools hidden in various parts of their body which they will pull out when need be. Units are also able to increase their height to reach higher places (to a limit of about a foot and a half depending on the model) and are able to extend their fingers for more delicate pieces of work. Units, bar some unique models, have three fingers and a thumb on each had (with a similar set up for their feet).
Species Biology: Though they don’t have biology as such, they work in a very similar way to biological life forms. Offspring are created with a merging of the individual parent’s software, which provides a basis for the personality of each individual unit. A Unit’s software works hand in hand with the hardware wired into them for their specific roles, making each ‘birth’ planned and never accidental. Childhood is also not one of the things experienced by units and the assembly at large. A fresh unit, although new and inexperienced will be a fully functioning member of society right from the beginning. Romance does exist within the Assembly, but it is one of logic and efficiency, capable units will find themselves with more units willing to merge with them, than units that aren’t. Polygamy is quite common in this instance, and jealousy is an alien concept.

Units are pretty durable, and death is highly unusual. Units run on electrical energy, which is powered by batteries that can last for about two weeks without needing to be charged. Even if a Unit does run out of power, it can be recharged without any damage to the unit. Those units who do meet an unfortunate end however will be salvaged to provide data to avoid it in the future. As long as the Unit’s data nexus survives, so does the Unit.

A Typical Assembly Soldier

Civilization Standing: The Assembly is now the one and only species on Origin.
Home world: Origin (other names: Null, Zero)
Inhabiting Planet(s): All six planets in the Source System
Other Notable Comments: The Assembly have trouble communicating with species they know nothing about, due to this they will often forcefully hack into the historical records of a ship wirelessly, which would then be used to calculate the Assembly's reaction to said race. Though the Assembly are formidable opponants if they decide to attack, they only do so because they have calculated their chance of victory to be high. If their chance of victory was low, they would consider surrender, provided it allowed for their survival.

Species: Taulians (Extinct)

Species Appearance: Though little is known of the Taulian’s physical appearance, due to the amount of time they have been extinct, it would appear that they were one-eyed, which was the basis of the Assembly Unit’s design, and were generally quite thin as a race with angular cheekbones, with a large cranium. It would also appear that they would have three fingers and a thumb on each hand, which is in legacy design in the Assembly. Their skin colour, though unknown was presumed green or grey, though no definite colour can be determined
Species Biology: Taulians are presumed to have a similar biology to that of mammals, specifically humans, and some data released by the Assembly seem to hint at this. As with most data about this species, it is subject to strange descriptions (as all observations were done by machine).
Civilization Standing: Formerly they were the commanding race.
Home world: Origin (formerly Taulia)
Inhabiting Planet(s): Origin
Other Notable Comments: Though extinct, the Assembly has preserved genetic samples as well as full skeletons in case it is ever needed or required, though they assume the probability of that is low but not impossible.


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((Well here's my Androids.... 'cause I was filling the template out and well, uh. It turned into this. It's subject to change as I add pictures and more detail, and it's location when we get a map but here we are.))