The people of Technological Domion are not exactly sure where they originated from. For many years the prevailing idea was that they had been placed on their home planet, now known as Navda II or simply Navda, by some incredibly powerful being, but recent analysis of worldwide soil samples showed unusual levels of rare radioactive isotopes and some molecules that aren’t even known to exist naturally. This has lead to the theory that they were originally travelers aboard a spacecraft that landed on Navda and then suffered some catastrophe that forced their civilization back thousands of years. Where the ship was from, why it was spreading colonists, or whether any other colonies were established remains a mystery, though.
Today, however, the small collection of worlds collectively known as The Confederacy of Technological Dominion could be described using many words. “Cautious” would probably be the most polite, with “downright xenophobic” at the other end of the spectrum. Their historical refusal to greet other civilizations stems from an early incident in exploration when, while exploring their own planet, the humans that would one day form TechDom encountered another race, native to their home planet. This race, whose name has been lost to time, scorned technology, preferring to rely on their psychic abilities Ironically, it would be this race that would give TechDom its name – according to legend, they referred to the humans attacking them as “under the dominion of technology.” Even after the war was long over, the name stuck, eventually morphing to Technological Dominion and being adopted as the confederacy’s name. The war with the unnamed race continued on and off for nearly a century – and spurred remarkable technological development while it ran. A conflict that had started with the people of TechDom wielding primitive repeating rifles ended in a flurry of satellite-guided, nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles.
To the outside observer, it might seem that Techdom is spreading beyond its home planet very slowly – despite having access to short-range faster-than-light drives for spacecraft, there are no obvious colonies outside of the original Navda system and a pair of nearby systems named “Denc” and “Sevor” by the people of Techdom. The truth, however, is quite different: Around 20 small colonies have been founded in the systems around Navda, although great strains have been taken to assure that they remain a secret to any nearby civilizations – those empires are being watched and studied, their transmissions are being translated, and slowly plans are forming for contact.
Controlled systems:
Navda System: Navda’s star is a fairly normal main sequence star about 1/3 of the way through its lifetime. As the first system to be explored by TechDom, the space around planets is choked with massive habitation colony stations, drydocks for spacecraft, and defence platforms.
Navda I: The first planet barely qualifies as a planet – it is a small lump of minerals, any atmosphere long ago blasted away by close proximity to Navda’s star.
Moons: None.
Navda II (Navda Prime): The original home planet of the Technological Dominion, Navda II is a large rock planet with a gaseous atmophsere. It is capable of supporting a wide array of life, and around 52% of the surface if covered by ocean.
Moons: 2
- Muna: Large enough to affect tides on Navda II, its orbit often causes eclipses on Navda II.
- Mani: Little more than an asteroid pulled into a stable orbit, Mani has no real effect on Navda II and is now used as an orbital defense station.
Navda III and IV: Navda III and IV are a pair of gas giants that, in addition to orbiting Navda’s star, twirl around each other. They now serve as valuable sources of Helium for TechDom’s fusion reactors. Additionally, TechDom Orbital Navy HQ is hidden between the two gas giants.
Moons: Their enormous gravitational pull often drags various interplanetary detritus into orbit. Tons of small objects now circle the two planets.
Navda V: Another generally unremarkable gas giant.
Moons: Again, planetary gravity has attracted many small objects from space.
Navda VI:
Tiny, icy, and far from Navda’s main star, Navda VI is generally ignored by TechDom at large. Orbiting continuously on the ‘dark’ side of the planet, however, is a large intelligence collection station. Hidden by the planet from Navda’s star’s solar wind, this station monitors transmissions from other empires and tracks spacecraft traffic in the systems around Navda.
Moons: None.
THE ARMED FORCES OF TECHNOLOGICAL DOMINION:
Army: Heralding back to the early days of TechDom, the army is responsible for land warfare. Since the expansion of TechDom to other systems, the army has also become responsible for the protection of colony-cities on other planets.
Wet Navy: One of the smaller wings of TechDom’s armed forces, the wet navy has been largely eclipsed by the orbital and air navies, which can identify threats from orbit and in the air, then deliver fire support far more quickly than the wet navy.
Air Wing: In addition to fixed-wing aircraft, the air wing uses fleets of massive heavier-than-air airships to both counter threats in the atmosphere and deliver air-to-orbit fire in the event of an invasion from space.
Orbital Navy: The youngest wing of the TechDom armed forces, the Orbital Navy has also experienced the most growth as of late. Considered to be both TechDom’s first line of defense against any invasion and the most likely arm that would be involved in an offensive operation, the Orbital Navy has seen the majority of the benefits from many recent technological advances.
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