Takamo Universe - The Five Galaxies

If you've been reading the Takamo Universe Blog from the beginning, you'll recall that I have mentioned Dale Hayes, one of our development team who passed away some time ago. Dale enjoyed playing Takamo and he also graciously wrote content for Takamo Universe. He is missed. Here are a couple of his pieces. The Hot Springs Spas on the desert planet Megan-5 The Hot Springs Spas on the desert planet Megan-5 is just the place for a family vacation! We have all the accommodations that your race may need from atmosphere breathers to liquid inhalers. Soak in the mineral baths or enjoy the sand booths or take a dip in the hot lake. Whatever relaxes and soothes the jangled nerves! And for those unique fungal races, our hothouses are really hot! Daily drink specials abound, and for the offspring, we have the sensory playgrounds to keep them occupied. All events are guaranteed safe and will NOT cause any neural damage or disruption! Just enough fun so that parental units can...

    The insignia is the Imperial symbol of the Soelian Twa Empire. Soelian Twa The arthropod Soelien Twa Empire joined the Grand Alliance in 3424 to halt the cybernetic scourge. Queen Soel the 42nd, the first leader in Soelien Twa history to sign a pact with an alien race, remarked at the charter signing ceremony that, “Every ton of ore we mine will be used to fight the cyborg threat.” The queen was true to her word. The Twa fought alongside Grand Alliance to the bitter end. The Soelian Twa despised cyborgs. They had begun fighting KoR cybers and Vorare Carnis clones from the start of the cyber rebellion.  Soelian Twa mining and ore fleets ranged as far south as the Presattan Empire, and they quickly encountered cyber raiders as KoR forces spread north and east out of the KoR cyber reserve during the first years of the rebellion. It wasn't long before Soelian Twa cruisers and destroyers escorting freighter convoys across the void of Watcher's Harbor r...

Grand Alliance Empires and Cyber Reserves (shown in bright green) Sacrifice "The sacrifice of the few is the salvation of all."  That was the rationale of Grand Alliance empires for the destruction of millions of inhabited worlds. It was first voiced by the Briddarri and after two centuries of relentless war, became the mantra of the alliance. The various cyborg production corporations that formed to do the deed were well aware of the cost in lives and integrity, but the overarching need for survival soothed their consciences, and the incalculable amount of revenue that would be gained, purged the shame from their souls.  Salvation Twelfth Legion The Briddarri secretly began research and marginally successful testing of cyborg technology soon after the Naplian invasion of the Baedecker starcluster in 2678. They designated the force of cyborgs they created as the Twelfth Legion. It was loosely based on Truppen technology collected after the retrea...

  Estini The shipyard of Estini was an archaeological find of Radnian origin discovered in 2345 in Attel, in the starsystem of Namii, on the fifth planet. The shipyard was situated in the Estini subsurface starport adjacent the east bank of the Renan River, about 90 kilometers down-river (south) from the city of Estini. The entry portal to the starport was nearly six kilometers in diameter. Its position was three kilometers west of the remains of the sky-lift port of the ancient city of Inan. Before its discovery in 2345, tales of the grandeur of the Estini starport persisted for centuries after its abandonment. Local historiographers had repeatedly mentioned the presence of the structure. The origin of the word Estini is Radnian and it has been used to indicate a place where capital ships were built to for the Radnian Navy. The geographer Tusio Kastra mentioned the location, writing a description of a shipyard of Estini although he believed it was a Proto-naplia...

Terran Destiny Forward to a political treatise Terran Destiny in the 28th Century   by Alabert Chiu, Ph.d., published by New Baltimore Collegium, Mary City, New Baltimore-3, Terran Republic, in 2679, at the beginning of the Terran war with Naplia. Forward Centuries ago the children of Terra were assured by their leaders that interstellar colonization would usher in an age of peace; a Pax Terra. The youth of our empire read the histories of the great wars with the conviction that organized society had evolved to a state of enlightenment. The solemn admonition of our rulers was that we would avoid entangling interstellar alliances and, because we were separated from alien races by the stellar void, peaceful exploration and expansion would become the natural occupation of the human race.  Indeed, what should we fear? Orion and the Columbia cluster would be ours. The whole of the Missian Nebula would become ours also, and our possessions would extend from Medra to...

Hyperjump Mines Operation Glimmer was a military operation during the Naplian wars, in the Briddarri and Dresch theater of operations. Hyperjump capable smartmines were launched into starstream paths from the Dresch frontier into Naplia, to destroy transiting warships and transports. After several postponements insisted on by the Dresch government, fearful of Naplian retaliation, the operation commenced, as luck would have it, at the very time when the Naplian offensive along the Dresch and Audrian border began. The mines caused some damage and delay to Naplian starstream traffic and damaged starbases and orbital installations. Part of the plan was for Royal Briddarri stealthships to drop the mines into starstreams connected to Naplia’s Svenisch ally, but the speed of the campaign ended all hope of continuing operations.  Hesitation Despite the objections of the Dresch government, fearing Naplian reprisals against Dresch starstreams, the operation was planne...

Humans Outer Rim Mining Limited was a Human mining concern that covered all of the Leeward Reaches. The parent firm, Outer Rim Mining Group (ORMG), was one of the six major trade houses known as the Vastas. The other Vasta trade houses are Ecossais Company, Rissid Agricultural Corporation, Maga Corporation, Llyr-Y-Ryll Agriculture, and Crecy Faction, which is a smuggling conglomerate run by the Crecy family. ORML Headquarters Grenal City, Shadang-8, Beiral Province, Outer Rim Mining Corporate Territories Products Fuels, natural gases, lubricants, chemicals Number of Employees 249.142 billion (circa 3015) Parent Company Outer Rim Mining Group ( Vasta Trade House) ORML Outer Rim Mining Corporation or ORML was a Human serjaum and gas enterprise based in Grenal City, Outer Rim Mining Territories. It was listed on most major stock exchanges and also traded in Borthan and Indria. Outer Rim Mining was one of the Estra Galaxy's largest serjaum refining, gas commodities,...