Mak'to'ran (3) by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2016-08-17T23:00:00+00:00

6

January 14, 3636

Vviot System (Fi’ti territory)

Navirashonmety

Mak’to’ran’s rebel fleet didn’t encounter any resistance when they entered the system, for all the Fi’ti warships were in orbit of the single world they exclusively held while their Zen’zat operated some mining operations on the others that were airless save for one, Dargonziat, but the air there was dry and they’d left that to their Zen’zat as well. It held a sizeable shipyard for the smaller vessels that Zen’zat operated and were built specifically for their diminutive size, all the way up to Domjo-class warships.

The Fi’ti lived on the waterworld of Navirashonmety, which had all of 2% of its surface area occupied by land and those scattering of islands were covered with airborne infrastructure in addition to many other spires rising out of the oceans that held small cities on top of them, though most of the Fi’ti civilization was beneath the waves.

Unique amongst the V’kit’no’sat, the Fi’ti were the only race to straddle the aquatic/avian divisions. The seal-like swimmers had skin patches that concealed massive wings that they’d unfurl once above the waves and take to the air with, looking like giant kites and slow moving until they pulled in their wings and dove for the waves. They were very quick descending and could use gravity to their advantage, angling into decent agility then struggling to gain altitude again.

That made them almost a joke to the other avians, and as far as aquatics went they were undersized. Given that they lived on waterworlds they had found their allegiance with the aquatics in most cases, but they were reluctant to share worlds and as a result had less territory that the other races, but most of what they had was theirs and theirs alone.

This system only had a Dak’bri and 4 Wur’ki assigned to it, with the latter ships being less than 3 miles wide and manned exclusively by the Fi’ti Zen’zat, probably having been built in this system along with others that had been sent out to their other systems. Natural resources here were plentiful, but narrow in selection. Imports were necessary for some requirements of starship production, but the bulk of the raw materials were available here and the Fi’ti’ had made good use of them so far, save for the fact that most of the ore in the system had yet to be collected. The mining operations were sufficient to supply what they needed, but had the system been under Era’tran control a much more aggressive industrialization would have been pursued on the extraneous planets.

The reverse was true beneath the waves of the primary world. Era’tran didn’t expand much in the water, but the Fi’ti did and the sensor readings coming from the planet indicated heavy work going on beneath the seafloor as the population of some 3.9 billion Fi’ti and nearly 10 times that number of Zen’zat had been beefing up the planetary defenses in recent decades, and wisely so, for the loyalists here had taken control of the system and been recruiting others.

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