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The Peladine Republic

A Race for Star Fleet Battles

by Jessica Orsini

(JR1.0) THE PELADINE REPUBLIC

The Peladine are one of the "also rans" in the history of the Alpha Quadrant. Technologically advanced and adept, they actually developed warp technology earlier than the Lyrans and Hydrans, but failed to exploit it. This failure was a result of several factors, the most significant of which was that the Peladine were two different intelligent races on the same planet that had kept their populations under rigorous control. As part of controlling their populations, the Peladine rigorously controlled their planetary resources. The effect of these two decisions was to avoid the population and resource pressures that drove other races into space exploration.

It was generations before the Peladine felt a need to expand into their own planetary system, much less beyond its boundaries. This is not to say that they did not gain some benefits. The Peladine were able to quickly scrap technologies, even ships, that became obsolete, recycling the materials into newer technologies. The advent of small warp-capable ships made movement around their system highly efficient, and their recycling technology was soon copied by their conquerors.

Their conquerors were the Lyran Star Empire, who arrived in Peladine space shortly after the Peladine government had finally reached the conclusion that it was time to expand to other stars. Some Peladine exploration ships had preceded the decision, and new colony sites had been chosen, but unknown to the Peladine a Lyran survey ship had spotted one of the Peladine ships and followed it to its home system. Seeing the wealth of that system, the Lyrans spent years preparing for an invasion. The Lyrans arrived in the Peladine system in force (their reconnaissance having revealed that the Peladine did not have any outlying colonies). The Peladine had a handful of ships constructed for the their colonization effort, but based on their lack of experience had no real planetary defenses or even a good tactical doctrine to employ the ships they had. They had developed weapons to arm the ships (based on scans of a few space monsters observed by their survey ships), but these weapons were not much better than those used by the Lyrans themselves. The Lyrans took less than a week to eliminate the Peladine space capability, but another ten years were required to subdue the population.

Few Peladine, of either species, have been encountered outside the Peladine home system (where the Lyrans keep them bottled up) or in Lyran zoos. They are usually those with an exceptional wanderlust, or whose "crimes against the Lyran Empire" are so infamous that flight to the Orion Cartels is their only option other than death.

The basic design of the Peladine ships was entered into Lyran Computer simulators, and as time passed, ships were modified to allow Lyran command candidates to train against a race with unusual weapons layouts. Most of the ships seen here flew only in the simulators, and there they remain a shadow of what might have been.

(JR1.1) Peladine History

(JR1.R0) Peladine Refit Information

(JR1.0) Peladine Ships

(JR1.200) Peladine X-Ships

(YJR1.0) Peladine Early Years Ships

(JR1.F) Peladine Fighters and Bombers

(JR1.PF) Peladine Fast Patrol Ships

Peladine (R1.0) Units

Peladine Master Ship Chart in .PDF format

Peladine Counters in .PDF format

Peladine R-section in .PDF format
for easy printing and addition to your rulebook

Peladine Unofficial Tournament Cruiser