forth, sometimes with the same person changing more than once during their
life.
For the Kiritas, they were fervently loyal to Star
Force, for in their distant history it had been the Humans that had saved their
planet and race from starvation and utter collapse, but more than that they had
taught them a better way to live and had guided them through stages of
advancement that had led them to colonize multiple star systems within the
ADZ…something that was totally beyond his ancestors, who only had Kirit when the Humans first came to them.
The Kiritas were building and expanding along a plan
that Star Force had set out for them, which everyone knew of from their maturia
training. They were meant to be a home guard and resource production carry
while other portions of Star Force focused on tech development, exploration,
and combat. Kiritas troops and ships were rarely ever called upon for frontline
duty, with their purpose being to defend their own worlds and be in a position
to reinforce others if things went bad and the front was lost. To date that
hadn’t happened, and a lot of Kiritas didn’t like sitting back and waiting
while others did the fighting, but faithful as they were they followed the plan
and so far it seemed the Humans knew what they were doing, as always.
While the Kiritas kept to their own systems and were
continuously developing them into outright marvels of engineering capable of
holding an insane number of people in a workable and comfortable environment,
the Kiritak were the exact opposite and scattered across the ADZ. They had no
civilian population and were all business, doing various tasks for Star Force
that heavily fell into the resource collection and processing categories.
Entire Kiritak colonies were established for no other reason than to mine and
ship the materials collected off to other parts of the empire for use, while
other colonies were industrial-based and used those materials to make parts and
products that were likewise feeding the rest of Star Force, not to mention
foodstuff production.
But more than that, the Kiritak were also heavily
merged with mainline Star Force activities, not in terms of military, but the
cargo naval fleet. The Kiritak had their own fleets built for the express
purpose of shuttling resources to and from their colonies, but even the massive
cargo freighter jumpships that had no contact with those colonies were seeing a
good portion of their crews being made up of Kiritak. It was a mix, with Humans
always involved, but no other race had such a presence in the mainline
operations of Star Force as the Kiritak did, and that was a note of pride that
interested Fatti greatly.
But making it onto one of those crews would be a long
process full of training and competing against others for who had the highest
marks. Only the best got to crew with the Humans, and he knew that 4 jumpships
even had Kiritak Captains, who were literally a legend to all Kiritas. If Fatti wanted to go that route there was no guarantee he
would make it, and to be honest he wanted to start making contributions now
rather than later.
The Kiritak also had a military division, which was
used as security for their various colonies. Those had seen more action than
the Kiritas military had, but only through combat with the Skarrons during the
initial invasion…during which most of them died fighting. That wasn’t the case
anymore, and like the Kiritas they were merely homeguard protecting the valuable resource collection infrastructure upon which Star
Force depended, but they too were elite and required years of training and
competition to rise to a level to earn those positions.
Fatti wanted the notoriety
of a military unit, but feared he’d be bored just sitting and waiting for a
fight that might never come. Crewing on a cargo ship meant he’d be contributing
on a daily basis, which was more to his liking, but it would take so long to
earn a slot that he reluctantly pushed that option
life.
For the Kiritas, they were fervently loyal to Star
Force, for in their distant history it had been the Humans that had saved their
planet and race from starvation and utter collapse, but more than that they had
taught them a better way to live and had guided them through stages of
advancement that had led them to colonize multiple star systems within the
ADZ…something that was totally beyond his ancestors, who only had Kirit when the Humans first came to them.
The Kiritas were building and expanding along a plan
that Star Force had set out for them, which everyone knew of from their maturia
training. They were meant to be a home guard and resource production carry
while other portions of Star Force focused on tech development, exploration,
and combat. Kiritas troops and ships were rarely ever called upon for frontline
duty, with their purpose being to defend their own worlds and be in a position
to reinforce others if things went bad and the front was lost. To date that
hadn’t happened, and a lot of Kiritas didn’t like sitting back and waiting
while others did the fighting, but faithful as they were they followed the plan
and so far it seemed the Humans knew what they were doing, as always.
While the Kiritas kept to their own systems and were
continuously developing them into outright marvels of engineering capable of
holding an insane number of people in a workable and comfortable environment,
the Kiritak were the exact opposite and scattered across the ADZ. They had no
civilian population and were all business, doing various tasks for Star Force
that heavily fell into the resource collection and processing categories.
Entire Kiritak colonies were established for no other reason than to mine and
ship the materials collected off to other parts of the empire for use, while
other colonies were industrial-based and used those materials to make parts and
products that were likewise feeding the rest of Star Force, not to mention
foodstuff production.
But more than that, the Kiritak were also heavily
merged with mainline Star Force activities, not in terms of military, but the
cargo naval fleet. The Kiritak had their own fleets built for the express
purpose of shuttling resources to and from their colonies, but even the massive
cargo freighter jumpships that had no contact with those colonies were seeing a
good portion of their crews being made up of Kiritak. It was a mix, with Humans
always involved, but no other race had such a presence in the mainline
operations of Star Force as the Kiritak did, and that was a note of pride that
interested Fatti greatly.
But making it onto one of those crews would be a long
process full of training and competing against others for who had the highest
marks. Only the best got to crew with the Humans, and he knew that 4 jumpships
even had Kiritak Captains, who were literally a legend to all Kiritas. If Fatti wanted to go that route there was no guarantee he
would make it, and to be honest he wanted to start making contributions now
rather than later.
The Kiritak also had a military division, which was
used as security for their various colonies. Those had seen more action than
the Kiritas military had, but only through combat with the Skarrons during the
initial invasion…during which most of them died fighting. That wasn’t the case
anymore, and like the Kiritas they were merely homeguard protecting the valuable resource collection infrastructure upon which Star
Force depended, but they too were elite and required years of training and
competition to rise to a level to earn those positions.
Fatti wanted the notoriety
of a military unit, but feared he’d be bored just sitting and waiting for a
fight that might never come. Crewing on a cargo ship meant he’d be contributing
on a daily basis, which was more to his liking, but it would take so long to
earn a slot that he reluctantly pushed that option
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