(MEGANITES (Mehg-Ghan), Meganite Empire)

MEGANITES - - [Meh-GAN]

ITEMS RELATING TO MEGANITES
MEGANITE PEOPLEsp MEG OCCUPIED PLANETsp SHIPSsp MILITARY RANKSsp QUARANTINE STATIONS

TOPICS in this ARTICLE:
SOCIO-ARCHAELOGY - - A MEGANITE CASE HISTORY EARLY MEG HISTORY XENOPHOBIA AND MORALITY--THE MEG WAY MEGANITES MEET THE MUSSANI ZERO SECOND AND THE ARROWHEAD MANEUVER THE MEG WAR POST-MEG WAR GENETICS, TRUE LIFE AND REVELATIONS

SOCIO-ARCHAELOGY - - A MEGANITE CASE HISTORY
Very little is know by the UNITED ALLIANCE about the MEGANITES (native colloquial: "MeH-GHaN") despite having direct access to their Electro-Memory Network on their Mars LEOUZ Base from 2228 on. Little more has been learned from other captured computer systems during the MEG WAR.
This indicates that despite a technological arrogance by the MEGS that allowed Earth led forces to overtake their base and eventually drive back the Empire, the MEGANITES were paranoid enough to restrict knowledge of themselves in their own databases.
With the information that was available the Alliance has determined that the MEGAN HomeWorld is in the Epsilon Ceti star system (M260 on the Hartwell long range database).
Psychological analysis of the MEG history that is available indicates the culture is xenophobic almost to a fault but driven by an internalized morality resulting from their heavily ingrained state sanctioned religion.
The MEGANITE Empire is, by most estimates, three times as large as the current UNITED ALLIANCE Exploration Zone, the result of MEG exploration which is in it's fourth century.
What we do know of early MEG history provides some insight into their culture, current behavior and possibly their future action.
Doctor Liam GRAYDON of the Council for Technical Simplicity began a socio-archaelogical study of Interplanetary Development and has concluded from various findings that life in the Universe is no where near as rare as was once thought. Findings on the Sfolont homeworld in the New CARACUS Starsystem (Hartwell Starsystem: 900 ) of a pre-historic space faring race matching similar archeological evidence found on the Ghobola homeworld in New SAN FRANCISCO (Hartwell Starsystem: 947) indicate that some 700,000 thousand years ago other people once traveled this area of space as we do now and that they're society which either faded out or moved on was what Dr GRAYDON refers to as First Generation. In respect to the Meganites Dr GRAYDON believes they are early second generation peoples, a species which came into development only in the last part of the last half million years.
EARLY MEG HISTORY
From the MEGS own Elementary School files we know that 126,000 years ago survival conditions on the Meg Homeworld became favorable following an extended DRY AGE which has been culturally compared to Earth's Ice Age. As hunters/gatherers overtook the nomads and established settlements early Meg society began to flourish.
With written records dating from 91,000 years ago it has been established that the Meganites advanced considerably faster than the Earth Standard Model at least in early development with the oldest Meganite cities forming in their Seholonah Valley on the Meg homeworld.
Normal MEG socio-development took an extreme turn approximately 5,400 years ago during what the Meg system refers to as the "SOL'TESH EVENT".
"SOL'TESH" literally means in the Meghan language "First Invaders", the event began with the arrival of an alien scout craft on the Meg homeworld early on in their AGE OF FLIGHT which triggered blind panic and set the Military-Industrial complex into high gear.
Although no indication exists that the "First Invaders" meant any harm or did any physical damage the Megan response was to attack the craft with Jet Aircraft and Ballistic Missile forcing it to crash and destroying it's medium sized mothership in orbit.
This single event caused the formation of a World Council and the development of strategic principles in anticipation of a large scale invasion which never occurred.
The focus however brought the Megs into space only 102 years later and to their nearest neighbouring star system some 3,900 years after that.
It's what the Megs did after that that is the most interesting. Instead of colonizing for the sake of industrial development and commercial advancement the Megs set up remote defence stations using each world they visited as another link in their early warning system while the homeworld continued to prepare against an invasion.
It wasn't until some 1,400 years ago that a Meg Space craft came across any other humanoid life. A Cro-Magnon level people inhabiting the fifteenth star system they explored. The crew of the craft obliterated these blasphemous people and returned home in triumph only to be greeted by a radical change in the Meg popular opinion.
XENOPHOBIA AND MORALITY--THE MEG WAY
Although the Meg believe themselves to be the ONE TRUE CREATION of the ONE TRUE CREATOR the idea of genocide against another species was distasteful. To head off the looming social crisis then religious leader LINDE Eiffe Deska proposed institutionalized segregation of all future alien cultures lest they pose a threat.
LINDE's proposal began the ALDUS Project where thousands of unmanned probes were sent out in all directions programmed to report on each star system they encountered. Any system where humanoid life was would have a follow up GANDER Probes.
GANDER probes would circle the system often disguised as comets complete with cometary fragment material. On each "orbit" they would track the development of the civilization and report that information back to the MEG Home Council.
When the civilization reached a level of technical sophistication and if the culture was at or nearing the Industrial Age then the GUEZ phase was initiated.
GUEZ established COMM-Sensor nets around the planet in question which proceeded to record and analyze in great detail the development of the civilization. If the world was already in it's AGE OF FLIGHT then the GUEZ net would be placed farther out, sometimes even at the system edge.
A whole branch of science was born on the Meganite homeworld, xeno-sociology.
LEOUZ teams would be sent out once the inhabitants developed Mechanized Flight and these teams often set up bases on nearby moons or neighbouring planets. As the inhabitants developed and moved slowly into space the Meganites would pull back, always attempting to stay out of view and not cause the same panic they experienced.
Even outer system markers would be established when the inhabitants began to move out of their inner system.
Early on the Meganites learned that few civilizations advanced very far, very quickly. For the first millennium none of the civilations found were advancing even as fast as the Meganite themselves had. News which simply bolstered the Homeworld belief in their own superiority.
Following one exploration mission returning with a virus that caused a Pandemic the Home Council decided that although service in the Meganite Defence force was a most honourable calling it would come with the greatest sacrifice as no one leaving the Homeworld would ever be allowed to return. Service in the Defence League carried with it eternal self-exile to one of the colony worlds. This was done to ensure survival of the Meg race.
With these policies Meg influence and control spread and the Empire grew farther out into space securing more and more space under a tight lid of Meg dominance.
MEGANITES MEET THE MUSSANI
Meg dominance of space was first challenged when they came across the MUSSANI in 1704 AD (TSC). The Mussani were a space going race based in the DM-54 9222 star system (665 New CHELYABINSK). The Mussani had themselves already explored neighbouring star systems and by the time the Meganites arrived they were in contact with five developing star systems reaching over twenty light years from their own system.
Suddenly the Meganites were face to face with a developed Federation stretching along the Eridani Corridor. This was something they had long since dismissed as improbable. Their immediate reaction (1750 TSC) was to attempt a Quarantine of the region. The Mussani reacted negatively to this and began assisting their neighbours in technological advancements to create a counter Fleet to what they perceived as an Invasion.
By 1780 (TSC) the Megs, unsure what to do, began to withdraw from the area and decided to set up perimeter defences to keep the Mussani Federation from encroaching into their space. The Mussani took this as a line drawn in space.
The Mussani began a huge technological build up moving from a level nearly a thousand years behind the Megs to nearly equal to the Megs in a hundred years. In less than ten more years the Mussani had amassed a Fleet of its own heading for the Meganite Perimeter.
Such a mobilization had not gone unnoticed and the Meganites countered with their best. The conflict lasted over fifty years with neighbouring systems shuffling back and forth between the two powers.
The problem became so acute that the Meganites for the first time in their history established an Outer Capitol on Iota Persei (Hartwell Starsystems: M193) to deal with it. The population of then Mussani affiliates Omicron2 (40) Eridani became the first people ever to face a direct occupation by the Meganite Empire.
ZERO SECOND AND THE ARROWHEAD MANEUVER
It was at 12:15pm Zulu time April 9, 1964 (TSC) that Meganite General HUSSA DEgWAREZ SMECt distraught over personal losses throughout the conflict and backed by a full mobilization of Meganite Battlecraft from the outer frontier ordered the launching of the ARROWHEAD Maneuver resulting in the detonation of more than 30 thousand nuclear warheads across the surface of the Mussani Homeworld. 7.8 Billion Mussani were immediately vapourized ending the Mussani Federation.
Post operative plans were created to avoid similar conflicts and to keep the ARROWHEAD Maneuver from happening again. Over a hundred systems previously studied had MEG QUARANTINE PROBES put in their orbit. Patrols were implemented to ensure that should any of these worlds ever exhibit such potential again that Invasion Ships would be dispatched before Extra-Solar contact could be made by any other world. Harsh battle strategies were drawn up in the event some other Federation was discovered.
Meganite paranoia and xenophobia grew into a full fledged xenohostility but not one directed at destroying other races, instead one committed to containing all potential hostiles.
THE MEG WAR
Although Dullean forces had successfully destroyed the MEG QUARANTINE PROBE in their sector, momentarily giving them relief from MEG QUARANTINE it wasn't until the 655 Squadron led the charge to overtake and co-opt the Meg LEOUZ Base on Mars that the Meg stranglehold on the galaxy was successfully challenged.
Using information taken directly from the MEG Computers by the RAEB First Son on the RIGEL THREE Earth forces were able to develop the RIMBEY Plan, form the STELLAR 20 First Contact mission and improve on Driver, Weapons and Defence technology.
With this edge the Earth forces were able to engage and defeat the Meg Quarantine ship VOS'QUIL before it entered the Sol system which bought enough time for the resourceful Terrans to engage in a massive build up of technically superior offensive craft while the STELLAR 20 set the stage for the creation of the SOLAR GROUP ALLIANCE.
The ALLIANCE formed initially among only ten worlds brought forward a diversity of technology that the Megs simply could not defeat. Although the tide turned many times in their favour the inevitability of the Megs to fail at containing the Terran led forces resulted in a war which lasted only 16 years and it was only a war weary Terran society that kept the battle from ending with complete conquest of the Meganite Empire as some military commanders and the Dullean Council pushed for.
POST-MEG WAR
In the post war environment the Megs have almost completely retreated within their treaty negotiated border.
Only the return of STELLAR 20 Number 20 Robert MacMANUS and his insistence on securing the freedom from the Megs of the ROSS 619 (Hartwell Starsystem: M115 New REPULSE BAY) has led to any communication between the two powers as negotiations continue to secure that systems release. The Megs appear as tired of the conflict as the ALLIANCE is and show no signs of build up or movement anywhere near the United ALLIANCE border or along either Frontier.
Security Council plans along the MEG Border have secured this as true with REAL TIME Tach PIP Communication links running along the border from New VANCOUVER to New LONDON and then out to the Distant Monitoring Post in the New SIBERIAN sector of the Dullean Theatre.
Of late, there has been some intelligence indications that the Megs are engaged in a conflict on another border presumably with another race they have attempted to Quarantine but thus far nothing has been learned that confirms this.
GENETICS, TRUE LIFE AND REVELATIONS
ONE FACT that has only recently come to light is that the Meganite Empire relied heavily on genetically created forces during the MEG WAR for what was originally thought to be a resource shortage but increasingly is believed to be a religious reason.
Specially created soldiers (MEGA TROOPERS), with three times the body mass of a native Meganite, were unleashed as ground troops during the WAR proving to be an unreasonably hearty and difficult to stop infantry.
Similarly a majority of their pilots were genetically created (PROTO-PILOTS) as well, augmented to thrive in the limited confines of a Meg KURL Fighter, requiring zero outside stimulation or exercise, as well as a reduced nutritional requirement while demonstrating superior coordination and reflexes.
Both the MEGA-TROOPERS and the PROTO-PILOTS were considered by the Meg Council to be a sub-species and were created to spare the lives of true MEGS. They were not created as superior beings specially designed to provide better than Megs performance in their assigned duties as was commonly thought.
The MEG Historical TIMELINE string can be viewed HERE
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The MEG WAR Theatre

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MEGANITE PEOPLE - - [Meh-GAN]

MEGANITE OFFICERS

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MEGANITE RANKS - - [Meh-GAN KEYLOW]

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MEGANITE VESSELS (INVASION SHIPS) - - [Meh-GAN SEROTA]

MEGANITE INVASION SHIP

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MEGANITE QUARANTINE STATIONS - - [Meh-GAN SERE TAYNU]

MEGANITE QUARANTINE PROBE

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