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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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The 24th century galaxy of the Dark Nova universe is a very, very dangerous place outside of the Core Worlds. As such, it's more like a combination of the Wild West and the colonial age of exploration of the 17th and 18th centuries than some Roddenberrian Utopia of fuzzy bunnies and safe passage. Anyone traveling outside of secure space- which is pretty much limited to the Core Worlds, which are within a few hundred light years of Terra while some colonies are seven THOUSAND light years out- had damn well better go armed. Otherwise, they run the risk of being prey for various pirate gangs or syndicates, or predatory aliens such as the Garoudan, Byntai, Serog, or worse. As such, most vessels are armed to some extent, and this creates unique tiers of weaponry and armour.
The lowest are the civilian-grade weapons and armour, basic levels of protection for civilian ships, be they merchant vessels or non-mercenary privateers. Then comes the mil-spec weapons and armour used by militaries and mercenary corporations. Ironically, the more successful merc corps tend to have better hardware than many militaries, but only the national militaries have access to the WMDs of the day- genetic weaponry, high-end gravitic weapons, mass-scale disassembler nanite weaponry, etc.
Hope that helps
Also, don't forget, Jeff is the artist for ships and vehicles, I'm just the writer/game developer. Only thing I draw is deckplans, weapons, and some equipment
the first one's the Calling of Heroes, but they aren't in print yet due to contract issues I want to make sure are settled out first. I have sample chapters in my gallery, way back there somewhere, from the first and second books.
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stats are in there too