Hiksos Star Empire
| Hiksos Star Empire |
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| Empire |
| TL 6 |
| Small Empire (11 star systems) |
| Player |
| None listed |
| Allies |
| Immortal Alliance |
| Enemies |
| Notable People |
| Emperor Hawthorn |
The Hiksos are a very new player on the galactic stage, controlling less than a dozen star systems, but are militaristic expansionists and have no qualms about invading primitive worlds and subduing the natives. The greatest problem the Hiksos face is not from without, but from within: That of the Azure Heaven Sedition, a secretive alliance of malcontents and insurgents that are trying to restore the Empire to it's former status as "The People's Republic of Meroe' " So far they have failed, but they grow bolder with each passing day and have even proved capable of suborning large numbers of military personnel and stealing an incredibly valuable and powerful prototype military vessel.
The Hiksos Armed Forces are divided into:
- Hiksos Army
- Air Force, Navy
- Planetary Defense Forces
- Sky Lancers: their space fleet
These are a standard set of PDF troopers, at the center you have their officer, denoted by red gloves and his bearing of an officers 'Honor Blade' Which is a special close combat weapon only given to Hiksos officers and never leaves their side thereafter. In adition to the Honor Blade he carries a light blaster carbine, which he is specially trained to be able to fire one handed. To the right in the picture is the squad Medic, who is a technical noncombatant, thus the blue gloves and blue shield. However he does have full training as a PDF trooper, and could if need arose drop the shield in favor of a discarded weapon. One to the right of him we have a standard PDF trooper, armed with a field jacketed plasma blaster rifle, his status as a common enlisted man denoted by Olive Drab Gloves.
On the Left side of the picture in Olive drab Gloves we have the Squad's Rocket Trooper and Ammo bearer. A standard squad has five Serpent Venom class rockets for it's rocket launcher, and is instructed to withdraw or retrench when they are exhausted.
On the far left we come to the Squad's heavy weapons specialist, denoted by green gloves, bearing a MkII Man Portable Assault Cannon, the most common heavy weapon in the Hiksos arsenal.
Finally, on the far right, with black gloves to denote his status, we have the squad's Junior Commissar. All squad's have a commissar to ensure the Squad's loyalty. This Commissar is armed with a prototype Beam Klave and an Energy Shield. These weapons allow him to in theory fight the whole squad and win. In practice they make him the Squad's go to person when the enemy get's into melee range.
Emperor Hawthorn recently purchased a few Raptor mech frames from the Gauntlet Military Corporation. The Imperial Military Bureau of Design, led by Chairthing Ying-Ling, reported difficulties encountered with the Dragon and developed the Dragon chassis.
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An advantage of possessing seventeen inhabited planets includes being able to institute different policies on some of them as a test of the concept, for this reason we have begun issuing 'Wampum' disks on three of our worlds, which are equal to similar Dinari but backed by a certain value of stored weaponry and ammunition. So far we have seen a slightly higher crime rate and a much higher level of accidental deaths.
We also have been forced to arrest not less than fifty nine individuals who attempted to export the weapons purchased from our military surplus stockpiles to other worlds: thus exposing twenty three cells of the azure heaven sedition, and eleven pirate syndicates. So far we consider the experiment a smashing success on the whole, and will be expanding the program on the selected worlds in the near future. Incidentally, the IMBD has greenlighted the production of the Mosquito class Independent LAC as the ultimate reward for those who accumulate truly unreasonable amounts of Wampum... |
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| Emperor Hawthorn, on Hiksos financial policy
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It should be noted that no major BrikVerse financial institution will accept or exchange Hiksos dinari due to the lack of strong backing or prominence.
