In high school, and College, I enjoyed writing out ideas I would later use for short stories. They would be companies, alien races, new technologies, whatever would strike up my imagination. Here are a few things that I never ended up using. Feel free to take these ideas and use them for your own stories if you have problems coming up with such things.
Phoenix Power Inc.
This Corporation originated on planet Alpha Seven. It has become the leader in creating impossible feats of weaponry from people’s ideas. Each ship is different in small ways. They do sell base skins and insides, but mostly people go to them because of the level of customization people can get. All weapons and ships that they create are for sale for an unreasonable price while the originals are cheap to get for the designers of the original.
Tenir
This is a metal found in a few mountains on the Demas’ home world. It has been synthetically created for purity. It has strange reactions to energy weapons: they can’t even scratch it. It is so strong that when they first tried to mine it they had to destroy the mountain to get at it. To mold it they had to create a whole new technology center to find a way to melt it. At 85,000 degrees Celsius it began to melt. Any less and it stayed the same. With the augment of other layers on it; the hull of this ship is impenetrable even by its own weaponry.
Quantum Ripper Drive
This was their solution to faster than light travel. It rips the normal layer of space and allows a ship to pass through it into the quantum layer. At first this was an unstable mode of transportation because quantum molecules move a lot and if they hit a ship it would create a quantum cascade that would end in the ship being blown up or pushed so far away that it could never come back. Now it is easily controlled and much faster, but there have still been reports and stories of problems.
Darien Class Fighters
These are totally customized. They are state of the art fighters that push the known limits of acceleration, top speed, weaponry, hull, maneuverability, and shields. Acceleration is zero to half-light speed in 6.8 seconds. Top speed is 9.2 times light speed, which is unheard of in any fighter ever, created before. Most only go no more than half that. The hull is one layer if Tenir which has never been put on fighters before. It is so expensive that only the best ships get it, but here all of the fighters have it. Maneuverability is so high that hand controls are obsolete! The interface used by the pilots is mind to computer. Weaponry is mostly anti-fighter, but 50 have been fitted with anti-assault ship weaponry.
Quetal Class Scouts
These are much like the Darien, but with more speed and a few different evasion methods. The scout’s top speed is 17 times light speed. The evasion methods it has is Vanish, Ghost, Sensor Flare. It also has higher acceleration of zero to half-light speed in 5.2 seconds. The scout ship is also equipped with probes. It has a standard armament of twelve probes that are excellent at scanning multiple frequencies.
Fedra Class Micro-Assault Ship
These are the middle between a full size assault ship and a fighter. It has the advantages of both. It has the speed and maneuverability, the multitude of weapons and the heavy weapons that fighters can’t hold. It has two full layers of Tenir hull plating. For heavy weapons it has two Dentar cannons. It also holds a wide array of anti-fighter weaponry. It has one medical facility. They average about twice the size of a fighter. They have a minimum crew of one and a normal crew of three. It unlike any other ship its size has a Quantum Ripper Drive. This takes up a lot of power and is only used for short periods of time because it hasn’t enough room for a power core powerful enough to power it longer than six hours. After six hours the core can go into overload!
Who are the Demas?
The Demas are a race that has been genetically created over 200 thousand years ago by a race that had to be more advanced than humans are now. They took the best of what was there race and mixed it with some genetic filtering and modification. The original race called Meera traveled to stars about sixty thousand years ago.
Once they got to space they found that even in the artificial environment on their ships they couldn’t breathe. It was a genetic flaw that occurred because of many factors, but the main one being that when there was no gravity a bone in there throat that is for defense from a parasite goes up and blocks the windpipe. This bone wasn’t present in the Demas and so they traveled to space.
They first colonized planets for the Meera and then the Meera were transported in Cryo to the planet. The Meera spread to five planets like this. The Demas began to see possibilities in going alone. The Demas didn’t need the Meera anymore. The Demas thought that the Meera were slowing them down so the Demas just left. Of course a few stayed on each of the Meera planets.
The Meera were done traveling through space. The Demas were just beginning. They set up two planets as building and mining planets and one for research and development. The Demas only need two hours of sleep every fourteen hours to be at tiptop shape.
Their metabolic rate is twenty times a human’s normal rate. Their strength is much beyond a human’s normal or even supernatural strength. They have better agility by sixty fold. They can jump twenty-five feet high from a standstill jump.
They shoot at each other to dodge bullets for fun. They use bullet weapons for this sport of shooting each other. It is one of their planets favourite sports.
They are also very quick learners, which was the Meera’s idea so that they could be trained quickly for a variety of jobs. They are not very violent in nature, but they can be when provoked. They have a very high A.Q. (Aggressiveness Quotient), which is what makes up fighting spirit. They are very vengeful, but they do it in a manner that is very intelligent: they get a third party to avenge the situation. They have never had a war and have no word for war. They do know battle because it was another thing they were well trained for. They are excellent tacticians and have much skill in hand to hand combat.
They are known for being able to reverse engineer any technology they get their hands on.
What do the Demas look like?
The Demas are approximately seven feet tall average. They actually range from five and a half feet to eight and a half feet. They have white skin with blue swirls. There skin is more reptilian like, but very strong. Most normal knives can’t cut it.
They have two eyes that are further apart than ours. They can move independently, but most Demas use them like humans do. The Demas have two strong arms that have two elbows like places on each arm. Their arms hang around their knees. They have three fingers that are considerably thicker than humans do, and considerably stronger too. They have talon like feet that are very versatile and bigger than humans do.
They have two hearts, one on the left, the main heart and one on the right the secondary. They have no nose but they do have three nostrils. They have exceptional ears. They hear things that are undetectable by human ears. This was built into them so they could hunt and so that they could listen to machines for anomalous sounds that even the advanced equipment of the Meera couldn’t scan for.
They wear clothing, but it is usually only a skintight spandex like fabric that covers their genitals. Women wear a white suit and men wear a black suit. They have bone claws for cutting things. The claws come from before the fingertips right above where a normal human nail would come from. They have cat like eyes. They have a skull structure that has basic human form with a long bone bill out the back with a small horn coming out of it.
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