Schliraum Sternreich

ReLOE

Background

Genre: Mecha Space Colonies

The Schliraum Sternreich achieved independence from some three decades ago in a vicious civil war that culminated in a colony drop and the loss of some eighty million lives. The event left the only survivors – the once minority spacenoid inhabitants of the orbital colonies – to form the Sternreich. Said "reich" has remained without a kaiser, with the function of head of state handled by a reichsregent from the Zornaus family. Zornaus, together with about a dozen major families and a hundred smaller ones form the political and military elite of the present state.

The devastating Freedom War left Schlireans with a vast force of starships and mobile suits and philosophical objections to using it without good reason. Hence, the Sternreich is somewhat isolationist and does not go out of its way to get involved in the affairs of others. Likewise, attempts by the Zornaus to instill unity under a single flag have been loud-mouthed rather than heavy-handed and the noble families of the Sternreich remain as disparate and prone to intrigue as ever. The state has not one but five more or less separate military commands and house loyalties map to their boundaries of responsibility (that is, contentious yet overlapping) rather well.

Characters

Reichsregent Sloven Zornaus

Ambassador Marstad

Traits

Space Dwellers

Barren World

Magic Intolerance

Pariah

Weak Government

Technology

Biology: 500
Chemistry: 500
Engineering: 500
Physics: 500
Psychology: 500

Infrastructure

Population: 54,288,828
Wealth: 165
Industry: 144+27
Ether: 120
Research: 25

Stockpiles

WU: ~600
Ether: ~3500
Geodes: ~50

Terrain

Orbital

L0 (Very Crowded)
Population: 6,000,000
Wealth: 15
Industry: 7
Ether: 25
Research: 0
The L0 sector (which is obviously not a real libration point) indicates the high orbital space around the world from which the colonies were once ruled. While the colonies are orbiting too high to be badly affected by the severe debris storms in the immediate vicinity of the planet, it does make it somewhat unfashionable to live here.

L1 (Very Crowded)
Population: 8,000,000
Wealth: 25
Industry: 24
Ether: 10
Research: 0

L2 (Very Crowded)
Population: 14,000,000
Wealth: 45
Industry: 30
Ether: 35
Research: 10
The capital of the Sternreich and the center of political and military power for the noble house of Zornaus and its allies. L2 sector is dominated by the artificially orbited asteroid Zellerfield.

Near Midsystem

Core areas of the Sternreich that are not core areas for the Zornaus family.

L3 (Very Crowded)
Population: 8,000,000
Wealth: 26
Industry: 29
Ether: 10
Research: 10
ZMK HQ. Where most of the people who like the ruling family least live.

L4 (Very Crowded)
Population: 7,000,000
Wealth: 23
Industry: 19
Ether: 10
Research: 0
VMK HQ.

L5 (Very Crowded)
Population: 7,000,000
Wealth: 21
Industry: 21
Ether: 10
Research: 0
DMK HQ.

Outer Midsystem

Where the starway termini are.

Narse Orbit (Scattered)
Population: 500,000
Wealth: 4
Industry: 1
Ether: 0
Research: 0
Despite its distance from the sun, moonless Narse is warm due to a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere. It also has about 4G of gravity. However, a small colony lies in the scattered disk around the planet, mostly as an interstellar truck stop and minor military base.

Der Alfren (Crowded)
Population: 2,000,000
Wealth: 3
Industry: 10
Ether: 0
Research: 0
Leading Narse trojans. Oddly enough has become the center of a large community of Belmarian expats after a recent population surge.

Der Dwergen (Crowded)
Population: 280,000
Wealth: 0
Industry: 0
Ether: 2
Research: 0
Trailing Narse trojans. Originally just part of a ring of military bases to watch the inbound starways, it has developed a small economy centered on a single ether rich asteroid

N-Field (Empty)
Population: <10,000
Wealth: 0
Industry: 0
Ether: 0
Research: 1
A military watchpost rounding out the midsystem surveillance.

Outsystem

Beyond Schlirea's five starway termini is the outer system dominated by the gas giant Bramd and its community of moons and trojans. The center of activity here is Edda, a tiny oblong moon floating in a debris cluster just inside the roche limit where newly prospected ether extraction facilities now supply some 15% of the Sternreich's ether. It is also HQ of the FMK and where the newest (or ugliest) mobile weapons are tested and morally suspect experiments may or may not be carried out.

Edda (Very Crowded)
Population: 1,500,000
Wealth: 3
Industry: 3
Ether: 18
Research: 4

Military

Space Colonies (1778pp)

100 x NOMk.450 Listening Post (TL4 Picket Fort: 40pp)
(+1) Unmanned
(+1) Sensors
(-1) Firepower
(-1) Fragile
FMK. Distributed in all ten mid-system space zones.

100 x Transports (TL4 Freighter: 80pp)
(+1) Forcefield Drive

10 x Super Transports (TL4 Superfreighter: 40pp)
(+1) Forcefield Drive

Zellerfield City (EMK)

Zellerfield City (TL4 Mega Fort: 116pp)
(+1) Subterranean
(+1) Communications
(+2) Mega Microwave Cannon

50000 x Sternreich Infantry (TL4 Skilled Infantry: 20pp)
(+1) Armoured
(-1) Heavy Weapons
If Sternreich infantry ever had an edge back during the Freedom War, they've mostly lost it. While well protected, they eschew heavy equipment to avoid structural damage to colony interiors.

1000 x EV.3 Ross (TL4 Infantry Carrier: 4pp)
(-1) Heavy Weapons
An altogether uninspired APC based on a disarmed war era chassis mostly kept around because most colonies are indeed large enough to drive around in.

120 x EMS.105 Jenice Ausf-C (TL4 Hyperadvanced Armour: 96pp)
(+1) Fusion Boosters
The standard domestic production variant of the Jenice is equipped with a pair of 35mm autocannons in the head, a 100mm machinegun and a plasma hawk.

L0 (EMK)

9 x L0 Colonies (TL4 Battle Fort: 36pp)
(-1) Firepower
L0 colonies are centuries old, continually repaired Bernal spheres in highly supersynchronous orbits far from the planet (the ones close by were colony dropped or destroyed).

90000 x Sternreich Infantry (TL4 Skilled Infantry: 36pp)
(+1) Armoured
(-1) Heavy Weapons

180 x EMS.105 Jenice Ausf-C (TL4 Hyperadvanced Armour: 144pp)
(+1) Fusion Boosters

L1 (EMK)

3 x L1 Colonies (TL4 Super Fort: 30pp)
(-1) Firepower
The Sternreich's Lagrangian colonies are placed in trios at each point. They are O'Neill cylinders.

60000 x Sternreich Infantry (TL4 Skilled Infantry: 24pp)
(+1) Armoured
(-1) Heavy Weapons

1500 x EV.3 Ross (TL4 Infantry Carrier: 6pp)
(-1) Heavy Weapons

120 x EMS.105 Jenice Ausf-C (TL4 Hyperadvanced Armour: 96pp)
(+1) Fusion Boosters

L3 (ZMK)

3 x L3 Colonies (TL4 Super Fort: 30pp)
(-1) Firepower

60000 x Sternreich Infantry (TL4 Skilled Infantry: 24pp)
(+1) Armoured
(-1) Heavy Weapons

1500 x EV.3 Ross (TL4 Infantry Carrier: 6pp)
(-1) Heavy Weapons

120 x EMS.105 Jenice Ausf-C (TL4 Hyperadvanced Armour: 96pp)
(+1) Fusion Boosters

L4 (VMK)

3 x L4 Colonies (TL4 Super Fort: 30pp)
(-1) Firepower

60000 x Sternreich Infantry (TL4 Skilled Infantry: 24pp)
(+1) Armoured
(-1) Heavy Weapons

1500 x EV.3 Ross (TL4 Infantry Carrier: 6pp)
(-1) Heavy Weapons

120 x EMS.105 Jenice Ausf-C (TL4 Hyperadvanced Armour: 96pp) (+1) Fusion Boosters

L5 (DMK)

3 x L5 Colonies (TL4 Super Fort: 30pp)
(-1) Firepower

60000 x Sternreich Infantry (TL4 Skilled Infantry: 24pp)
(+1) Armoured
(-1) Heavy Weapons

1500 x EV.3 Ross (TL4 Infantry Carrier: 6pp)
(-1) Heavy Weapons

120 x EMS.105 Jenice Ausf-C (TL4 Hyperadvanced Armour: 96pp)
(+1) Fusion Boosters

Outer Midsystem and Outsystem (FMK)

Narse Orbit

Narse Prime (TL4 Battle Fort: 16pp)
(+1) Communications Antenna
+Secure Harbour

10000 x Sternreich Infantry (TL4 Skilled Infantry: 4pp)
(+1) Armoured
(-1) Heavy Weapons

40 x EMS.105 Jenice Ausf-C (TL4 Hyperadvanced Armour: 32pp)
(+1) Fusion Boosters

20 x FMS.301 Aleydis (TL5 Hyperadvanced Armour: 20pp)
(+1) EAM Boosters

Der Dwergen

Dwergen Asteroid Colony (TL4 Battle Fort: 12pp)
(+1) Subterranean
(+1) Communications Antenna
(-1) Firepower

10000 x Sternreich Infantry (TL4 Skilled Infantry: 4pp)
(+1) Armoured
(-1) Heavy Weapons

20 x EMS.105 Jenice Ausf-C (TL4 Hyperadvanced Armour: 16pp)
(+1) Fusion Boosters

Der Alfren

Der Alfren-A (TL4 Battle Fort: 8pp)
(+1) Subterranean
(-1) Firepower
Contains 7 Industry and 1 Population.

Der Alfren-B (TL4 Battle Fort: 12pp)
(+2) Subterranean
(-1) Firepower
Contains 3 Wealth, 3 Industry and 1 Population.

Der Alfren-C (TL4 Battle Fort: 20pp)
(+2) Subterranean
(+1) Communications Antenna
(+1) Reinforced Construction
(-1) Firepower

30000 x Sternreich Infantry (TL4 Skilled Infantry: 12pp)
(+1) Armoured
(-1) Heavy Weapons

60 x EMS.105 Jenice Ausf-C (TL4 Hyperadvanced Armour: 48pp)
(+1) Fusion Boosters

N-Field

1 x Nixe Station (TL5 Medium Fort: 17pp)
(+1) Particle ECM
(+1) Beam Cannons
(+2) Capacity
(+1) Experimental ZPE Receiver
(x1) TL.4 Communications Antenna
Located at Sun-Narse L3.

1000 x Nixe Station Guard (TL4 Elite Infantry: 12pp) (+2) Powered Armour

5 x FTMS.019 Hortensia (TL4 Superfighter: 28pp)
(+2) Transformable
(+1) Fusion Boosters
(+1) Long Range
(x1) Beam Rifle
(x1) Beam Shield

10 x FMS.044 Geerta (TL4 Hyperadvanced Armour: 36pp)
(+1) Armour
(+1) Beam Rifle
(+1) Fusion Boosters
(x1) AA Missile Pod
(x1) AS Bazooka
RAVN-10X Pack (TL4 HAA Rocket Booster)
(+1) Fusion Boosters
(+1) Long Range

Edda

Edda City (TL4 Mega Fort: 121pp)
(+2) Subterranean
(+2) Mega Mass Driver
+Kaiser-1 Prototype ZPE Transmitter

30000 x Sternreich Infantry (TL4 Skilled Infantry: 12pp)
(+1) Armoured
(-1) Heavy Weapons

1000 x EV.3 Ross (TL4 Infantry Carrier: 4pp)
(-1) Heavy Weapons

20 x EMS.105 Jenice Ausf-C (TL4 Hyperadvanced Armour: 16pp)
(+1) Fusion Boosters

20 x FMS.301 Aleydis (TL5 Hyperadvanced Armour: 20pp)
(+1) EAM Boosters

20 x FMS.044 Geerta (TL4 Hyperadvanced Armour: 72pp)
(+1) Armour
(+1) Beam Rifle
(+1) Fusion Boosters
(x1) AA Missile Pod
(x1) AS Bazooka
RAVN-10X Pack (TL4 HAA Rocket Booster)
(+1) Fusion Boosters
(+1) Long Range