[AndrewofDoom]

am i allowed to explain

No. You know everything. =p

[Droid803]

Why is it "I" singular but "Ketrans" plural :/

Can I has cheezbruger?

[Spoon]

Moving this to modding.

[Thaeris]

Well, you see...

The Ketrans are [REDACTED].

[SypheDMar]

It doesn't sound too complicated. Reminds me of the robot species from that one RTS game. Universe at War.

[Droid803]

Novus?
That's rather different isn't it? The Novus are vengeful leftover bots from a race steamrolled by the Hierarchy.

[-Norbert-]

And they are individuals. While they are most likely unable to refuse the founders orders (at least there is no instance in the game of a novus unit doing so) they still each have their own conciousness. When the Founder sais I, he means himself, not all Novus.

The "I am the Ketrans" strongly hints at a collective or something an Overmind/Hivemind/Borg Queen-like thing (the borg queen even said "I am the Borg" in one of the movies if I remember correctly).

[AndrewofDoom]

And they are individuals. While they are most likely unable to refuse the founders orders (at least there is no instance in the game of a novus unit doing so) they still each have their own conciousness. When the Founder sais I, he means himself, not all Novus.

The "I am the Ketrans" strongly hints at a collective or something an Overmind/Hivemind/Borg Queen-like thing (the borg queen even said "I am the Borg" in one of the movies if I remember correctly).

Why don't I just dump you with what I wrote in the internal forum? =p

(With minor adjustments  to avoid spoilers to WoD2 and to put in what I decided during the last days of their development cycle).

Soronans

The results of an incomplete experiment by the Aleyurians for reasons unknown to even themselves, the Soronans are the creators of the Ketrans. Bipedal creatures at heart, they have a combination of blue and light blue fur and, like the Zy, have four arms. Their general appearance varies between a more lion-like appearance, an ape-like appearance, wolf-like, or perhaps something rather hard to describe in mere words. These beasts average around 190-200 cm in height for males and 185-195 cm for females. A Soronan can expect to live around 50-60 years.

The Soronans are a monarchy ruled by the Shoren whose word is law. He is surrounded by his league of 5 advisers who have executive powers should the Shoren not be present in a situation of dire need. The Sentients are the common folk, and then there are the drones who never received sentience before the Aleyurians mysteriously had disappeared.

Everyday life for a Soronan Sentient is very similar to the life of a Zy. The still rather short lifespan of the Soronans leads to a very structured and rigid life. They are expected to be fairly productive in their society and to see a Soronan play is considered wrong and vile. As of late, with the ever larger population (now estimated to be around 200 billion and counting) growing and with more individuals to sustain themselves, the Soronans have begun to be a little more laid back.

War, however, was very common among themselves. Wars even started from minor disagreements between each other, and still they would fight until one faction is left remaining. As such, it became apparent to them that they need to stop before they become extinct. They planned to essentially disarm themselves so that the possibility of war would be significantly reduced. But, then what would they do in case of an alien invasion?

Ketrans

The answer to that was the Ketrans. Created in large numbers some 875 years ago. They serve as ambassadors as well as a large defensive barrier. They were given a goal to prevent any race from entering Soronan space, nor even mentioning them, and in return are given their technology and their own space to live in to do whatever they please. The sudden existence the Ketrans came to feel brought them to such a shock, and as soon as they were set free, many wanted to pretend they were like any other creature and began to develop a society radically different from their makers. Because of that, many will never mention the Soronans by name, but will only speak of them by the name "Father", and in turn refer to the Aleyurians as "Grandpa" respectively and anything about them is said in such a cryptic, nonsensical, and counter intuitive fashion as to throw the listener off for otherwise intelligible speakers. This is in hopes to fool others into thinking they may be following some funny, odd religion of some sorts, but comes off as rather obvious that this isn't the case to some.

Ketrans are open minded and curious about other species and were quick to get themselves going to contact them. Compared to their Soronan creators, the Ketrans are very upbeat in mind set. Unfortunately for them, however, the Soronans designed them to be, like them, carnivorous in nature. This has lead to some Ketrans to practice eating more fruit and vegetables than meat. They possess a strong sense of sentimentalism, and a Terran would find it jarring to see things like conventional cookware instead of food replicators. However, on the other side, the Ketrans were only given the basic idea of what each species was like, so they are rather naive about a lot of things...except war. If the Soronans taught them one thing right, it was how to fight a war.


In terms of appearance, the Ketrans are very similar to Terrans in appearance. The notable differences are that most Ketrans have two tone hair colors that only in the various shades of blue and blue-based colors (ie cyan, purple etc) being the most common, with black and white being the only other possible colors. They also have a pair of binocular eyes that are circular, with in the center of them are a white that serves as a secondary eye that moves around freely. They are used to help improve the field of view while retaining the depth perception of binocular vision, as well as being used to look at someone talking to them without moving their focus away.

Built to be both strong and agile, they are comparable in physical ability to the Zy, and being carnivorous in nature, Ketrans also have sharper teeth than Terrans. This is embarassing to them, and as such will never show their teeth unless absolutely necessary (such as when eating). To see a Ketran smiling with their teeth visible is to be treated as a bad sign, as he/she is going to make one his/her lunch. This only happens when they feel threatened however, no matter how much their instincts want to devour them. If the desires become to strong, they will usually just run away seemingly at random to those around him/her.

Differentiating from male and female Ketrans has been considered to be rather hard by many. Females and males are the same physical size, which is somewhere in the middle of Terran male and Terran female, being around the same height of 190-200 cm, and both live for around 180-200 years. It doesn't help that the females don't have as prominent features as either Cyrvan or Terran females . However, the main difference between male and female is that females have rounder heads whereas male heads are taller.

Crossbreeding with other species is rather hit-or-miss with Ketrans. Some of the Ketran nuances within their genetics to make themselves compatible to other species, with the likelihood being more toward Cyrvans over Terrans.

Their government, the Ketran Conglomerate (KC), is a collective of many industry leaders who grouped themselves together to form a ruling body for their people. What they do, however, is based on what the majority of what the people want. If the majority wants to go to war, they go to war. If they want to stop the war they're in, they'll stop the war. If they want X CEO to do fifty pushups, he/she'll do fifty pushups.

The Ketrans are a communal society who live in large buildings similar to condominiums. Inside, there are many suites along the outer rim of the building for families to live in with a large common space where all the families gather together to do activities. All the families within the building share food, money, goods, and other resources with each other. In fact, the KC effectively counts every household of the 12 billion some people instead of the families inside of it a unit.

The Ketran Conglomerate Space League (KCSL) is the military organization that is responsible for the defensive and offensive power the Ketrans have. They have the ability to muster around 5,000 capital ships and 15,000 strikecraft.

That's what I had wrote for them. It's all in vain now...or is it? =o

...Yes, this writing was in vain. =p

[AndrewofDoom]

So, I've came to the decision that I'm going to finish the whole fleet now in my free time, but it will be slow progress. But now, I present a fighter:

KCSL Kama Interceptor

Later on I enlisted the help of Thaeris to help me with fighter designs, because mine weren't all that great. This is one of the three designs he made taken form. The other two? They're a little bit above my skill level.



Credits:
Original concept by Thaeris
Model by AndrewofDoom with POF conversion by Droid803



Download: Here

For those who are curious, the two other concepts are:

Concept 1 (Was planned to be the Stalker stealth fighter:

Pix 1 Side View

KCSL Scythe (Hands off Quanto!)

Awesome pic


But, in any case, I probably continue modeling up stuff, because there are a few models that are 90% done being modeled and then just need to be UV mapped and textured. Most of them are capships, since I suck at modeling fighters. One last thing, it seems the name Ketran has been taken by Animorphs already. Someone told me this and that made me sad that I coincidentally came up with the same name of a species as a children's book series. I'm taking (serious) suggestions for a new name if anyone can think of one. <_<'

[Droid803]

Name used? Flip it around.

Narteks.

Go go.

[Rodo]

ohhh, shinnyyyy

[Ypoknons]

Soronans: rather intense guys with a bad temper. Might do business with them, might not want to hang out so much though. Not that they'd want to hang out either.
Ketrans: they sound like rather nice mates with some quirks and maybe some daddy issues who just happen to be professional soldiers.

[AndrewofDoom]

Oh hey, it's not like I've forgot about this, I've just been lazy and not working all that hard on getting all of them made. Though, I have made some progress on that.

KCSL Scythe Serenity

Designed by Kestral Defense Corp as its first foray into designing strikecraft in hopes for it to be integrated into the KCSL. Later on, the Scythe, in remarkable event, entered full-scale production  to the KCSL in NC0144 after finally being approved by the Board of Directors in its two year trial period. With a balance between size, armor, and loadout, the new space superiority fighter is built for situations where the battlefield is constantly changing and shaping itself. It comes equipped with a specially-built weapon called the Serenity Cannon, which fires a 3-way spread shot which alternates between horizontal and vertical orientation, that is aimed toward general-purpose destruction and destroys fighters and capital ships equally. Currently, only the 1st Battalion of the KCSL has received a full complement to replace the older Maverick fighter, but it is hoped to replace all the Mavericks within the next 10 years.

As with all Ketran fighters, the Scythe shows no real resistance toward either kinetic or energy-based weaponry.

'Kestral FPP-01a [Syreen]' Advanced Fusion Powerplanet, output rated at 25,470 kW
Maximum forward velocity: 120 + Reverse
Maximum slide velocity: 80
180-degree turn time Yaw: 1.0 second
180-degree turn time Pitch: 1.25 seconds
Hull armor strength rated at 2000.
1st Generation 'KDC1' shield system rated at 2600.

KCSL Scythe Hydra

A recent upgrade to the Scythe very shortly after it's production (dubbed the type 'Serenity' after its special weapon), the new Scythe type 'Hydra' has the Serenity Cannon replaced with the newer and more powerful Hydra Revolver Cannon. It shoots a 5-way spread in a rolling fire pattern, making an already powerful fighter even stronger yet. With the built-in cannon that's notably heavier than the Serenity, the Scythe itself loses some of its maneuverability and it cannot sustain the fire of the Hydra due to drastically increased power requirements. Currently, it is only available to elite fighter squadrons within the 1st Battalion of the KCSL.

As with all Ketran fighters, the Scythe shows no real resistance toward either kinetic or energy-based weaponry.

'Kestral FPP-01a [Syreen]' Advanced Fusion Powerplanet, output rated at 25,470 kW
Maximum forward velocity: 110 + Reverse
Maximum slide velocity: 80
180-degree turn time Yaw: 1.15 seconds
180-degree turn time Pitch: 1.35 seconds
Hull armor strength rated at 2000.
1st Generation 'KDC1' shield system rated at 2600

KCSL Kama

Developed in BNC0068 as Serenian Shipyard's competing interceptor fighter against Davotech Industries's Aurora, the Kama is an interceptor. Compared to the Aurora, This fighter is slower and less maneuverable, but has considerably heavier armor, giving it more staying power. As such, the Kama is a much more commonplace fighter within the KCSL, but many special ops teams have opted for the more powerful Aurora.

As with all Ketran fighters, the Kama shows no real resistance toward either kinetic or energy-based weaponry.

'Serenian Shipyards FR1' Fusion Powerplanet, output rated at 20,471 kW
Maximum forward velocity: 130 + Reverse
Maximum slide velocity: 80
180-degree turn time Yaw: 1.00 second
180-degree turn time Pitch: 1.00 second
Hull armor strength rated at 1800.
1st Generation 'SS1' shield system rated at 2000.

KCSL Reaper

Davotech Industries' successor to the Streyleth heavy assault fighter began production in NC0130. A faster and more durable product than its predecessor, it has considerable firepower mounted on it with 4 heavy cannons and 6 light/medium guns. The Reaper is also the first and still only fighter the Ketrans have made to incorporate an antimatter power plant over the more typical high-yield fusion power plants. As a result, the Reaper is larger than most Ketran fighters and makes itself a larger target for enemies to shoot compounded with it having smaller secondary bays than it could have. These fighters are typically deployed in situations where enemy capital ship presence is large and fighter escort is heavy, and are deployed as escorts to Blackhawk wings.

As with all Ketran fighters, the Reaper shows no real resistance toward either kinetic or energy-based weaponry.

'DTA1' Antimatter Powerplanet, output rated at 30,471 kW
Maximum forward velocity: 110 + Reverse
Maximum slide velocity: 70
180-degree turn time Yaw: 1.55 second
180-degree turn time Pitch: 1.50 second
Hull armor strength rated at 2800.
3rd Generation 'DT Helios-3' shield system rated at 4000.

KCSL Alberio

The Alberio is an old, 261 meter long frigate that was constructed alongside with the Hecatos in BNC0760. It and the Hecatos were the first ship classes to possess most of the common things seen within large Ketran ships. Things like a built-in AI that automates most of the internal mechanisms, a small crew compliment of 25, and the common area being a giant a virtual simulator. Due to its old age, the Alberio rarely is ever seen by itself unlike the Hecatos. It's outmatched by and weaker than  all current LSF, FGSF, and ZGF ships. On the other end, though, the Alberio is the fastest capital ship known, matching speeds with the LSF's Skirmisher class.

Currently regulated to only support roles to larger ships, adding on to their firepower. However, in some instances, wolf packs of 3-6 Alberios have been known to take advantage of their speed by charging at larger ships, going through their shields, and park themselves next to the ship out of view of most of the turrets. By far and large the biggest victim of this tactic is the Hertak's Armageddon class battleship, with 2 being destroyed and 15 being forced to retreat during the battles in Ravi in the final days of the Hierarchy Wars. All Alberioes will be replaced with the new Opotos class 'corvette' within the next 20 years.

Like all Ketran capital ships, the Alberio does not use shields, but rather polarized armor which completly deflects all shots until a certain threshold has been reached in which then it dissipates around that area. This means fighters do not have a shield to fly under, but the armor itself seems to have no real resistance to any form of weaponry.

KCSL Hecatos

The aging stalwart Hecatos class heavy cruiser has been in service since BNC0760 and still remains to be a versatile ship. The 985 meter ship has a crew compliment of 250 and largely serves as a multi-role combat warship. It fills various roles from patrolling deep space to acting as the command ship to smaller ship formations. With 46 high-powered turret, it is still well capable of going toe-to-toe with most modern ships of its size, it's falling behind of the curve faster and faster and become harder to maintain and upgrade. The Board has approved the decommissioning of the older Hecatos ships to be replaced by the new Laeregis class battlecruiser. If the plans proceed as projected, the last Hecatos class ship, the KCSL Garuda, will be replaced in 50 years.

Like all Ketran capital ships, the Hecatos does not use shields, but rather polarized armor which completly deflects all shots until a certain threshold has been reached in which then it disappates around that area. This means fighters do not have a shield to fly under, but the armor itself seems to have no real resistance to any form of weaponry.

Yeah, I've been working on this still. I gave the Hecatos a good makeover in textures and fixed the seam on the Kama and gave it a better shine map.  Just very slowly but surely. But, I suppose I should release these now, because who knows when I'll update next. Though, I'm not sure who would want to use these anyways. =p

Download is heeeeerrrreeeee. Sorry, still no tables for these.

[starwolf1991]

Who'd want to use them, you say? Hmmmmmm.........

 /looks around

Maybe me? 

[AndrewofDoom]

Oh golly gee, someone wants to use them. But....for what purpose? 

[JGZinv]

Hmm I'll have to pick your brain sometime Andy... Vegas in tachyon could use that kind of glowing neon. ^_^

[starwolf1991]

Maybe for a mod. Something I've been thinking of quietly. Isn't in the anime genre as such, but........hmmm, maybe looking at these might turn me into a convert.

[AndrewofDoom]

Maybe for a mod. Something I've been thinking of quietly. Isn't in the anime genre as such, but........hmmm, maybe looking at these might turn me into a convert.

I would feel honored if that was done. I may model more ships now...when I'm not lazy.

Hmm I'll have to pick your brain sometime Andy... Vegas in tachyon could use that kind of glowing neon. ^_^

My brain stays inside my cranium. =p

So, what's the point of this if the Ketrans don't have any ENEMIES?!



As you can see, it's still in the pipeline, and I haven't given this ship a name yet. But this will be the antagonist's ships of a mod I'm making that will be done....whenever it's done.

...I just wish I could come up with a good mission outline. 

[Rodo]

Writers guild ftw.

[starwolf1991]

I would feel honored if that was done. I may model more ships now...when I'm not lazy.

Well, nothing is set in concrete yet. Just all writing that I've got down at the moment. But it is quite possible, so I'll keep writing and take a closer look at the models. Fingers crossed