Mauryavana
History
Drawn from Indian and Hellenic stock, the people of Mauryavana labored under the yoke of a minor Goa'uld tyrant, mining Naquahdah from their planet's moon and tending vast fields to feed his armies. The Tyrant grew rich and and his Jaffa marched forth to conquer, but it was his undoing. A Prophetess, Darya, rose up and denounced him as a false god, and led an army against him. She stole his divine instruments, and gave them to her soldiers, who she had prepared in secret.
The Tyrant reacted with practiced brutality, spacing the revolting mine workers and marching his Jaffa home. The Mauryavanan warrior laid an ambush at the gate, burying it with a landslide. That was when the prophetess revealed herself as one of the Tok'ra, and slew him personally. She took over the Ha'tak under construction as her personal palace, and began rule as an Empress of the people she had risked so much to set free. She was a renegade even among renegades, desiring to rule as a wise and immortal leader rather than a God-Queen. And so she did for centuries.
The Mauryavanan people rose up through the ages like the people of Earth, but considerably fast with the guidance of the Undying Empress. The universities of the Southern continent bred a democratic ideal that spread to the local citizens of Gandhara. Did not the Prophetess show the true path was of greater liberty? "ELEUTHERA!" The cry rose up from the populace of , and several local militia garrisons defected to the revolt. The Empress's elite guard fortified the isthmus that connect the continents, and sailed a fleet to the capital. The Southerners fought back hard, using heavy armored cars and even arming aircraft for combat. The Imperials hit back with copied equipment and naval superiority, but were unable to achieve victory. Thus the Zariaspa Republic was born. The cold war continued for many years.
When researchers in Zariaspa excavated the ancient Stargate, the Empress herself visited the Zariaspan leadership, explaining the threat to the entire Mauryavanan people from the Goa'uld. The Mauryavanan Alliance was formed from the resulting peace talks. The Stargate Operations Division began accessing known safe systems, and became masters of guerilla warfare, using Tok'ra tactics to avoid arousing suspicion. Using this method has gained them considerable Goa'uld technology.
Later exploration found a safe world for a colony and diplomatic contact with the Reetou, a race of invisible insectoid aliens with advanced technology in the middle of civil war. A large number of Reetou have settled on Mauryavana, and they eventually joined the Alliance, creating the Mauryavana Triumvirate. All diplomatic contact with the Mauryavana is handled through Ariana, a planet easily accessible via Stargate.
Faction Information
- Leadership
- Empress Antigone IV Darya, Eternal Empire
- Demarch Theodorus, Zariaspa Republic
- First Arokor, Reetou Enclave
- Stargate Operations Division
- General Amanatidis
Traits
- Early Spacefaring
- The Triumvirate has a number of native-built naquadah reactors and spacecraft, as well as a flotilla of light craft. Their Stargate is inside of a fortified transshipment center, and there is a useful defensive barrier except at scheduled times for offworld shipment.
- Combined Arms
- The Revolutionary War led to the use of armored vehicles, artillery, naval vessels, and combat aircraft, and the colonial skirmishes only heightened this.
- Reetou Allies
- The Reetou Enclave is a full member of the Triumvirate. Having invisible soldiers is a powerful edge, but the Goa'uld can sense them naturally and detect them with TERs.
- Elite Training - Ground Stealth
- Combining the above with an Tok'ra mistress of deception and intrigue creates an amazing skill with covert operations.
Units
5 x Special Tasks Group (15)
Stargate Operations Division has multiple covert operations units, most of whom have extensive diplomatic and archaeological training.
Many x Vanant II starfighters
Many x Tel'Tak shutles
4 x Al'Kesh assault craft
1 x Liberator Cruiser (40)
Facilities and Structures
Mauryavana
Shipyard (20) Mining Operation (20) Research Facility (25)
Ariana
Major Off World Base (40) Colony (30) Airstrip (30) Training Facility (20)