Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26084195-20161226101759

Buckle up. This is the only racial post I'm likely to make, at least regarding a species in the Terran Alliance. These guys are worth mentioning, as they are the second most populous race in the Terran Alliance, first being the Terrans, and they operate as their own sub-section of the Alliance military. No Veydreth has ever joined the Legions, or the Centurions, or anything like that.

The Veydreth are a race of brutal raiders, native to Muishkin’s Rift in the galactic southern regions of Terran Alliance space. They are large, powerful draconian creatures, fearsome in appearance and nicknamed "Star Dragons" by early Terran explorers.

The Veydreth have no single "nation", but instead are organised into many different tribal groups, loosely overseen by the Ring of Scale, a council of the most powerful chieftains. What unites all Veydreth is their taste for piracy and savage combat.

It is uncertain what has driven the Veydreth to this piratical mindset. Their own worlds certainly give them everything they need. What is certain is that when Terran colonists began to settle the regions around Muishkin’s Rift, they quickly found themselves coming under attack from Veydreth raiders. They struck virtually at random in terrifying lightning assaults, and proved virtually impossible to pin down, with Muishkin’s Rift being exceptionally hard to navigate.

However, the Terrans themselves managed to earn the Veydreth’s respect in the process. The savage aliens admired the sheer persistence and fighting spirit of the Terran military forces. This respect was amplified when the Terran Navy finally made its way through Muishkin's Rift and began to fight the Veydreth on their own terms.

The Ring of Scale was actually pleased by the Terrans, and they called for an immediate cease-fire, and the commencement of negotiations. It took a surprisingly short amount of time for the two to reach a conclusion: the Veydreth would join the Terran Alliance.

It took longer, however, for the Alliance to actually trust the Veydreth. Most colonists, especially those near Muishkin's Rift, treated the Veydreth with a great amount lf distrust. Nowadays, however, the rest of the Terran Alliance has come to accept the presence of the Veydreth within their society, and many have even come to appreciate the presence of the Veydreth. After all, they Veydreth are just about the only part of the Alliance Army that can hope to win a battle against the Razorbird armies.

In space combat, the Veydreth favour swift and manoeuvrable craft. Their vessels carry large weapon arrays, built around the most powerful drive systems they can maintain. Due to this, Veydreth ships easily outpace the heavily shielded Terran ships of equal class.

Veydreth ships do not employ shields, their engineers preferring to rely on speed, strong hulls and overwhelming firepower. They do, however, mount many mine dispensers, allowing them to shape battlefields to their advantage. This has, once or twice, created unfortunate situations when the Veydreth wouldn't tell their Terran brothers their plan.

Veydreth weapons systems are almost always ion weapons, while the rest of the Alliance prefers powerful laser tech. It has often been seen as ironic by the Terrans that their weapons fore red beams and Veydreth weapons fire blue beams.

When their firepower is insufficient, or sometimes out of preference, Veydreth ships will strike at their enemies with massed boarding actions. This is usually accomplished by shooting pods full of warriors at the targwt ship. Veydreth warriors are terrifying at close quarters. They supplement their natural armour with heavy power-assisted battle rigs and wield a huge variety of powerful firearms.

On the ground, the Veydreth are a fearsome force, if a bit... confusing. You see, unlike what one would expect from a bunch of fearsome tribal raiders, the Veydreth actually prefer long ranged combat. The Veydreth are famed for their accuracy with their ion rifles, which in and of themselves boast a range longer than that of a Legionnaire's laser rifle. These rifles are almost always equipped with wicked bayonets, because while they do love ranged combat, they are more than happy to get up close and personal. Some Veydreth even carry around melee weapons, highly advanced ones covered in a matter-disrupting energy sheath. Each Warrior also enters battle with a single ion mine to lay at any time he or she wishes. However, a Veydreth Warrior is much less versatile than a Legionnaire.

The Veydreth field many ground vehicles, each of them incorporate anti-grav technology. The most common Veydreth vehicles are their skiffs, which come in many different flavours. Skiffs are fast, and they mount long-ranged pinpoint accurate ion cannons. They also allow Veydreth on board to fire from the vessel. There are also transport skiffs, of course. In keeping with their preferred space tactics, Veydreth vehicles are unshielded.

It is this maneuverability and speed that makes the Veydreth one of the Alliance's few answers to fighting the Razorbirds. While Razorbird armies can easily outmaneuver and pick apart Terran forces, Veydreth and Razorbirds will perform a deadly dance, and while it is one that the Razorbirds tend to come out on top of, the Veydreth have a far better success rate than any other branch of the Alliance military.  