Executive Summary:
The Collective formed from the engineering and security firms who built the first prototype solar plants and built out those facilities close to Lake Mundafen. The group operates with a continued focus on establishing and maintaining a highly efficient energy infrastructure and promoting energy security and self-sufficiency.
Known Territories and Settlements: Tlamacazqui
Known Influence: Power Generation, the SIR teams
Known Facilities: 'Leyline' Transmitters and Receivers, Citlali Power Plant, a Power Electronics Manufactory, Xolotl EM Lab and the Federal Policy Centre in Tlamacazqui
Known Technologies: [REDACTED]
Known Units: Tai Nakonechyk Wings and one Dervish Bomber Wing stationed at Anderback Airbase together with a Niellä Lifter
Founding:
When the first transmissions from Udal were received, their existence was kept largely from the public. A coincidence revealed the existence of the potentially hostile alien creatures to Montgomery Cunningham, Chief of Construction at the prototype Solar power plants near Buna City. Partnering with a young, zealous Chief of Security, Anisa Mata, Montgomery retained the services of the brightest minds from the prototype Solar Plant project and soon negotiated a contract that would bring all of these assets under one organization.
To the public their cause was to serve as a premier energy provider and distributor for the Federation but their true nature was to develop a method of responding to the Udal threat and others that may plague the Federation in the future.
Culture
NEV Axolotl, the purported source of the transmissions on Udal became a subject of minor obsession for Monti and his leadership team during those formative years. Most of the exodus records regarding the etymology of the name was buried in obscure and untranslated texts. After weeks and months of research into the Exodus archives, Monti and his team had volumes of historical data on the Nahuatl language and the ancient Aztec Empire of pre-industrialized Terra. The data they had collected seemed to indicate that the Nahuatl culture had died with the Aztec empire and while the language survived in the small pockets in latin America it had seemed to be extinct as well, the naming of the NEV Axolotl appeared to have little significance beyond referring to a small Terran amphibian.
But all that time spent researching the ship did have a lasting effect. When it came time to name the group, Monti and his team settled on the "Huitzilopochtli Group", named after the Aztec's god of war, a subtle nod to the groups' ultimate goal. Then, a year later, during energy negotiation session with the Buna, Monti's head project manager, Izel Zipactonal, dropped into Nahuatl to discuss sensitive concerns with the lead engineer on the project, Bruce Will.
Technologies:
- Multi-spectrum Energy Transmission:
Building on the ATC's earlier work you manage a test transmission between the Xolotl lab and a collection station deeper into the desert, at a range of eighty kilometres. Your main limit on the planetary surface is the horizon and Comorian's curvature - lab tests suggest a range in excess of a thousand kilometres in space before coherence and collection handling becomes an issue. Blueprints for Ground M-SET Receiver and Ground M-SET Transmitter facility - together with starship equivalent components are available
- M-Set Transducers]
Paving the way for commercialisation, researchers at Xolotl are pleased to confirm a proprietary black box bi-directional M-SET unit with enhanced throughput and capacity. Each of the facilities at Tlamacazqui is upgraded as part of the process, testing the concept as well as the security measures that require a SIR team to unlock their operation. You may construct these new M-SET Transducers for 300 million each, with the capabilities of both a transmitter and receiver. You may convert existing facilities over to this component for 75m each
- Azure Sun Station:
With the weight of the Huitzilopochtli thrown behind this iconic project and expertise drawn from across the burgeoning space industry, Project Azure Sun rushes forward. Working from the sun-baked courtyards of Xolotl and the arid expanse of Sietcee, researchers sleep little and it isn't unusual to find late night debates in one of the daylight lounges between a Sabaki, a Stoic and a Rafiki. Late in the summer, a few days from the equinox, Captain F. Itzmalli launches from Sietcee to perform the first significant near-orbit spacewalk since the recovery of the renamed FNS Mbal Msafiri - whose starmarines remain on ready alert for the mission. Gasps of delight echo through the control room when the featureless tetrahedral-shaped satellite powers up and one of it's faces erupts into light - followed by another as the energy from Tlamacazqui is transmitted on to Mukt Shahar Sietcee You have a completed prototype and blueprints for a M-SET Repeater Satellite, with the prototype in orbit and repeating power transmission, together with blueprints for the various components [Private to Hummingbird; Izel Zipactonal: military medium satellite hull, space solar, super-conductors and super-capacitors]:
M-SET Repeater Satellite: Satellite, Medium Military Class with Hardened Controls, prototype Space Solar Collectors with Super-Conductors and Super-Capacitors, and an M-SET Transmitter and Receiver. [Private to Hummingbird; Izel Zipactonal: Each costs 400m]
Prototype Solar Hulls and Beam Emplacement Upgrade
Following dozens of missions for the 7th Airlift Wing and several careful spacewalks to affix refined collectors, sections of material, or sensors to the Azure Sun, the scientists at Xolotl proudly confirm the stations conversion to rely more completely on solar energy with a reduced profile of delicate components - and hence an increased operational capacity for M-SET transmission. At the same time enhance to M-SET transmission at tested from a new ground based station in the mountains west of Rhee, though with a much denser beam. Designers from BADI express a keen interesting in acquiring this transformative technology. You may enhance starship and station hulls with Solar Gatherers, which provide increased power to the unit or boost the power collected from solar cells. Combined with other technologies, such as the EM Drive, this may mean no central powersystem is required or that innovative new hull types may be considered. Specifics will be provided when the Narrator has finished tweaking the unit mechanics.
- AWACS
First to roll out of the new facilities at Dzhankoi, the Stražar X-1B AEWC picket aircraft is based on the Mbuni frame with extensive C3 facilities and a crew of carefully screened analysts and tacticians. Using the latest in Scraager radar technology and encrypted links, the first two prototypes rolling out of the facility are shipped immediately to Haavee and Anderbacks You have unlocked a new unit and may raise these are required; they provide a +10% to Survive of covered units. Each aircraft costs 100 million
Stražar X-1B AEWC 42/21/21 Air 'Bomber' Based on the Elcar airframe, with Full Redundancy avionics and Gravionic engines and a AWACS C3 Suite, together with Basic training
Facilities:
- Citali Solar Array (Econ)
Tlamacazqui - 75m
Tōsandō for Hishu
Port Chrysalis for the Svthion
Ksar el-Kebir for the Rafiki.
- Energy Grid:
Tlamacazqui - Buna City: M-Set Transmitter + Receiver
Tlamacazqui - Gheristan: M-set Transmitter + Receiver
Tlamacazqui - Azure Sun - Mukt Shahar Sietch: M-Set Transmitter, Azure Sun Station, Reciever
- Xolotl Electromagnetics Lab:
+6 Bonus to Electomagnetics research
- Dzhankoi Gravionics & Aerodynamics Reseach and Test Flight Facility Projects based here receive a +8
- Power Electronics Manufactory
- 150m (+)
- Anderback Airbase
Teams / Assets / Misc :
- Safety Inspection and Rectification Teams (SIR):
Although there is a clear desire for these teams you run into a significant amount of legal red tape - most of it coming from Filk & Filk out of Buna City. Your teams are established however and begin to seed themselves in industrial complexes in the major settlements. You will receive certification fees based on the Federation's industrial base for a maintenance cost of 15 million per budget cycle
Expansion of Cemilhuitl-SIR Teams Across the Federation
Accelerating the existing slow spread of SIR teams with a judicious injection of funds into office space, hardware and the equipment needed to perform a certification inspection permits a much greater volume of inspectors and auditors to be recruited and fully trained, together with an injection of apprentices and graduates from the Federation Services Programme's technical branch Your income from certification increases and workplace accidents should be less commonplace over time
- Crimeran Enclave at Tlamacazqui
With the improved power capacity coming from Citali and the 'Ley Lines' outside the city, the redevelopment of a brown field swathe of industrial land to cater for the growing enclave of Crimerans is both welcoming and an astute economic move. With it centred on a Veteran's Hall that celebrates their society and a roadtrain that links the major military airbases where many still serve for months at a time, the enclave grows, with a small few who find the reminders of their loss or the growing religiosity of the community uncomfortable using the district as a launching point to relocate to Kavacha or Blackwatch or the Wraithguard You receive a small bonus to your industrial modifier from the Roadtrain, together with a strengthened cultural and economic resilience from the Crimeran District and Veteran's Hall
- Huitzilin Training:
You may train up to three wings of modern planetary bombercraft per budget cycle through this training regime (i.e. Mbuni); they receive a +35 bonus (representing training at Anderbacks and purification in the desert) and require no maintenance. Each unit receives a +10% bonus to all traits. You may not retrain existing units to receive this bonus nor train them for service outside the Cuāuhmeh (though they can be deployed to such missions, their loyalty is to the Huitzilopochtli). You should mark these as Huītzilin. Your existing bomber wing is upgraded to Mbuni
- Feasibility and Preparation for Establishing RAPTURE Consulting
With the extremely visible nature of M-SET transmission and the clear promise of solar power, your market nature isolates a number of hurdles and opportunities to it's adoption - feeding into the wider academic acceptance and the business model required to make R.A.P.T.U.R.E. (Rapid Application of Power Technologies using Upgrade/Retrofit Executions) Consulting viable You receive a +8 to the first cycle's attempt to establish the franchise or company
- Ryllians
Daria Southers, a savant cartographer
Abby Reed, a rememberancer from a line of Exodite engineers.
Military:
Cuāuhmeh - Lead by Lt. General Zolin Nelli - (OF-8), formerly of the 1st Fighter Wing and commander of the 6th Fighter Wing, twice wounded in action over Kandar Sietch and Eastmount.
Based out of Haavee Airbase
- 3rd Bomber Wing - lead by Major General Tepi Papaton (OF-7) [list]
- 1^x Mbuni Huitzilin Bomber Wing
- Kelp Seals
- Dedicated to Acero District High Readiness Force
[*] 8th Fighter Wing - lead by Brigadier Milo Pareiko (OF-6) of the Crimeran Confederacy
- 1^x Tai Nakonechnyk Fighter Wing
- Equipped with Missiles and Smart-Explosive Munitions.
- Kelp Seals
- Assigned to reinforcement, rearmament and retraining
[*] 9th Fighter Wing - lead by Brigadier Jaroslav Zuk (OF-6) of the Crimeran Confederacy
- 1^x Tai Nakonechnyk Fighter Wing
- Equipped with Missiles and Smart-Explosive Munitions.
- Kelp Seals
- Assigned to reinforcement, rearmament and retraining
[*] 10th Fighter Wing - lead by Brigadier Itzcuin (OF-6), formerly of the 2nd Fighter Wing
- 1^x Tai Nakonechnyk Fighter Wing
- Equipped with Missiles and Smart-Explosive Munitions.
- Kelp Seals
- Dedicated to Acero District Command
[*] 11th Fighter Wing - lead by Brigadier Rebecca Holt (OF-6), formally of the 8th Fighter wing
- 1^x Tai Nakonechnyk Fighter Wing
- Equipped with Missiles and Smart-Explosive Munitions.
- Kelp Seals
- Dedicated to Acero District Command
[*] 12th Fighter Wing - lead by Brigadier Teyacapan (OF-6), formerly of the 9th Fighter Wing
- 1^x Tai Nakonechnyk Fighter Wing
- Equipped with Missiles and Smart-Explosive Munitions.
- Kelp Seals
[*] 13th Fighter Wing - lead by Brigadier Sam Coatl (OF-6), formerly of the 9th Fighter Wing
- 1^x Tai Nakonechnyk Fighter Wing
- Equipped with Missiles and Smart-Explosive Munitions.
- Kelp Seals
[/list]Based out of Tlamacazqui
- 7th Airlift Wing - commanded by Major F. Itzmalli (OF-3)[list]
- 1x Niellä Lifter
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Ocēlōmeh
- None at this time.
Naphtali Securities
- Alpha - Foxtrot Divisions - 5 x Peacekeeper Divisions
- Crimson & Navy Battalions - 2 x Krait SWAT Battalions with Damche support
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