"We were nothing. Mindless rats scampering and fighting over our worthless world we lived on. Fools bickering over the pointless trifles of material wealth. Yes. We were a flawed species. We could not see the greater meaning of our existence in this universe. But then, how could we? We did not create. We did not advance. We simply lived out our meaningless existences."
"The most we could do was come close to understanding. On the eve of enlightenment, pointless conflict would always impede our species development. We had no right to gaze up at the infinite expanse of the stars if we could not survive ourselves. That much we knew, yet, nothing would be done about it. The cycle continued for eons. We would advance, then push ourselves backward, each time erasing more of our previous advance. We would have destroyed ourselves and our world. Had they not come."
"The Divine Ones arrived as our world was on the threshold of its final conflict, poised to wipe our own kind of the very plane of existence. In the greatest and least moment of our history, we were saved from ourselves by the help of others. They gave us technology to see ourselves and the knowledge with which to use it. For the first time, we saw what fools we were. We saw the devastation we had done to our only home. Through this enlightenment, we learned to forgo the meaningless conflicts, as we did not wish for self-destruction. For the first time, we flung ourselves into the void of space and learned about the multitude of other existences."
"We saw that we were not the only ones that the divine ones had saved. There were others, some even foolish enough to reject their own saviors. We would not. We asked the Divine Ones to provide the means with which to aid them, but we did not receive, for we already had it. We transformed ourselves into what we wished to become - tools to aid the Divine Ones with their efforts. In doing so, we found our purpose. We were not to create, we were to destroy. To destroy those who stand against the saviors. To destroy those who threaten the sanctity of our space."
"We are the Scourge. We serve the Technocracy."
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The Scourge, once known as the Sarralorians, were once a race not unlike humans. However, the endless cycle of war and crude "reconstruction" after depleted their planet's resources and turned it into a stagnant world of continuous acid rain, with civillians either living in overcrowded "shelters", or left to scavenge amongst the ruins. The governments had long since given up looking after its people, and instead turned to squatting over their thermonuclear and biological weapons. The population was forced to adapt to the hostile environment where everything was scarce.
Until the Technocracy arrived and forced peace amongst the now-defunct governments, and Uplifted the Sarralorians into a fully-fledged space-faring race in a matter of days. In an effort to repay the Technocracy for saving them from certain destruction at the hands of the crazed governments, many of the Sarralorians willingly upgraded themselves with mechanical parts, and linked themselves into an insectoid hive mind to prevent further conflict between themselves.
The capital world of Sarralor-VII was left in its devastated state as a memory of the ashes their civilization arose from with the aid of the Technocracy.
Sarralor-VII, a world torn by war and eroded by acid rain.
A Scourge Soldier
Statistics
Capital: Sarralor-VII
Government Type: Insectoid Hive
Leader: Hive Mind
Population: 218,258,366,129
Currency: N/A
Num. colonized planets: 137
Num. mining operations (including gas mining): 388
Num. prison planets: N/A
Num. uninhabitable: 122
Fleets
Designations:
SD - Superdreadnought
OC - Orbital Cannon
Dn - Dreadnought
Ca - Carrier
B - Battleship
C - Cruiser
D - Destroyer
Fg - Frigate
L - Logistics
Classes:
SSG-00 Azazel-class Orbital Cannon
Main Armament:
1x Divinity-type Anti-Fleet Subspace Rift Weapon
ShDn-01 Paimon-class (Heavy) Dreadnought
Main Armament:
8x Corruptor-type Light Subspace Rift Cannon
1x Hell Storm-class Heavy Beam Cannon
SaDn-02 Chemosh-class (Assault) Dreadnought
Main Armament:
10x Hell Lance-class Standard Beam Cannon
1x Hell Fire-class Assault Beam Cannon
SCa-03 Oriax-class Carrier
Main Armament:
2x Vengeance-type Assault Drone Launcher
2x Shard Storm-type Artillery Rocket Pod
1x Maelstrom-type Artillery Cannon
SaB-04 Vassago-class (Assault) Battleship
Main Armament:
4x Hell Lance-class Standard Beam Cannon
1x Hell Storm-class Heavy Beam Cannon
2x Torture-type Swarm Rocket Pod
SbB-05 Leraje-class (Broadside) Battleship
Main Armament:
4x Hell Lance-class Standard Beam Cannon
2x Hell Storm-class Heavy Beam Cannon
SaC-04x Orcus-class (Assault) Cruiser
Main Armament:
1x Hell Fire-class Assault Beam Cannon
2x Torture-type Swarm Rocket Pod
SC-06 Abraxas-class Cruiser
Main Armament:
2x Hell Lance-class Standard Beam Cannon
2x Inferno-class Medium Beam Cannon
SD-07 Beherit-class Destroyer
Main Armament:
1x Hell Lance-class Standard Beam Cannon
2x Agony-type Light Swarm Rocket Pod
SaFg-08a Andras-class (Assault) Frigate
Main Armament:
1x Inferno-class Medium Beam Cannon
2x Brimstone-class Light Beam Cannon
SeFg-08b Vapula-class (Escort) Frigate
Main Armament:
2x Agony-type Light Swarm Rocket Pod
SL-09 Asag-class Logistics Vessel
Main Armament:
6x Brimstone-class Light Beam Cannon
