The Dewiek Elder Nation is an ancient race of what humans would call highly advanced and developed canines or wolves. The Dewiek evolved a bipedal stature, but are still covered with thick, warm fur ranging in colors. Prior to the Architect wars there were eleven Dewiek Packs, each with its own Packleader, these formed the Council Of Eleven or The Dewiek High Council and administered the Nation from the Homeworld in Acrux, after the Great Death by the Bio-engineered plague released among the Dewiek by the Architects the survivors fled and formed into one large pack with one Packleader. To administer the various parts of the pack, The Pack co-ordinator and individual Packlords were formed, these were among the most perfect and strong Dewiek. The origins of the Dewiek along with many other parts of their history are lost. This is due to a massive war which was fought against a race known as the Architects and their allies the TCA. The Dewiek are thought to have originated from the Acrux system, known be in a region of space called the Dewiek Home Systems. Slowly the Dewiek spread out from Acrux and eventually discovered the cluster periphery. Centuries of colonization and expansion passed relatively peacefully. At some time later a group of humans managed to find their way into Noctollis and were allowed to settle there as long as they agreed to various conditions placed on them. with little choice in the matter they agreed. They founded their own colony and coexisted side by side with the Dewiek.
With the technological advances that had been made and a good and basically peaceful attitude the Dewiek flourished and their civilization grew. They researched into transport systems, construction and studied other civilizations that they made contact with. They were not prepared for what was to come....

Around 800 years ago the Architects brought death and destruction. Due to discrepancies in historical records it is unclear whether it was just the Architects we fought. Some records detail battles with another group of technologically advanced Bio-tech aliens called the TCA and their allies. After suffering many casualties in the early assaults the Dewiek started to fight back. A huge war fleet numbering thousands of Wolflords and Claws was assembled and strengthened by a new ship design, the Direwolf. Colonies were built in secret locations, some where built within asteroids and moons, to act as weapon silos and to refit ships. The Dewiek weaponry was never based around offensive beam weapons but relied upon thermal torpedoes which although effective, in long drawn out actions meant that ships ran out of ammunition. After many bitter years of fighting the Dewiek started to gain the advantage and began to push the Architects back. The balance of the war began to swing in favour of the Dewiek. It was now that the Architects committed the greatest atrocity of the war. They released a bio-engineered plague that ravaged the entire Dewiek race. The plague wiped out whole planets and civilizations. The only hope left for the Dewiek civilization were those who were naturally immune to the plague. Ultimately this won the war for the Architects for there were not enough crew to man the ships or build new ones. The active fleet shrunk in size and colonies ran with skeleton staff, with this the Architects were able to travel where they wished destroying planetary populations with impunity. The Dewiek and human ships left were no match for the Architects massive ships. The Dewiek fleet in ruin and a population of tens of billions reduced to a few hundred thousand the Dewiek command took the only action they could by scuppering the surviving colonies and naval bases, sealing the stargates to the cluster periphery and fleeing to their last refuge, the Dewiek Pocket Periphery which now could only be reached via a black hole. The Dewiek survived but the fleet was non existent as many of the ships were badly damaged and had to be left behind when they fled. Many of the technological marvels were lost and forgotten including the knowledge of how to use and operate stargates. Information of the lost colonies, the damaged ships which were left behind and the Dewiek Citizens who could not escape became fragmented over the years due to the haste in which ships and bases where evacuated. Slowly over the last 500 years the Dewiek have regained some of that knowledge and recently have taken to the stars again.

In the last few years the Dewiek has seen a major revival. Upon securing there assets in the Pocket Periphery they began the hard task of reclaiming the Home Periphery. This went well with little opposition. As the DEN continued to move through there old systems they encountered several Architects ships. They were in orbit of a planet that had been the scene of a major battle in the first war. The ships were using debris in the atmosphere to sustain there Plasma weapons. Any ships that tried to approach the planet was attacked automatically and pursued until out of range of the debris field. Fearing a return of the Architects the DEN quickly rallied a fleet and destroyed the ships. The DEN collected hulls and fragments of the ships for study and discovered that they had been running automatically for some time and that a lot of the technology had decayed suggesting they had been abandoned .
The DEN expanded believing they had seen the last of there old foe. On reclaiming Acrux the DEN halted there expansion and began to consolidate there assets and build up. This was a wise move as a few months later the Hexamon appeared in an attempt to recapture Acrux from the DEN. The Hexamon were a race created to serve the Architects and maintain the systems of the Architects. They were supported by the living ships of the TCA. The initial advance was overwhelming with the DEN being pushed out and losing there colonies. Several military blunders such as leaving half there fleet in orbit and the other in the space square meant that the Hexamon were able to obliterate the DEN taking few loses. eventually the HXM won and the DEN retired. However the DOM had supported the DEN in several actions and looking to get revenge for there loses the DEN and DOM talked of an alliance. As talks progressed the DTR became involved and in a few weeks the 3D alliance was formed. It was not long before the DEN and its allies were back in Acrux and the Hexamon were destroyed. There TCA allies fled and took sanctuary in Dyson helping the FGZ. All that was left of the HXM was a Escape pod full of the last few Hexamon which too refuge in Yank under the protection of the KAS.

The DEN continued to gain strength and at the start of 199 they invaded the cluster fighting there old enemies the CLN who had taken over many old DEN colonies when they arrived in the systems all those years ago. The war was supported by the DOM and some DTR assistance. They methodically captured CLN colonies removing there presence from countless systems. A major victory for the DEN was the capture of Fortress Maximus the CLN's second most important colony, rumors have it that the FGZ had been behind the attack but no proof could be found. Upon capturing it the CLN sent 50 cygnets to attack the DEN fleet in the space square, The battle was the biggest victory ever in over 400 years all 50 ships destroyed with no damage taken by the DEN!!!

Now the DEN are continuing there rebuilding. There vast empire requires traders, explorers, colony builders and warriors. Although they are at peace at the moment who knows when they will be at war. Maybe the Architects will reaper? or a new enemy? Maybe one of there allies will need there help? There's only one way to find out.....

DEN Abilities:-

1) Ships Have a 0.5 Base Speed modifier and all shields work at 25% more efficiency

2) DEN crew operate as Green troops and DEN boot camp produce soldier equivalents

3) All DEN ;lifeforms reproduce with a birth rate of 2%

4) The DEN are the only affiliation able to build Teleporters and Thermal torpedo weaponry

5) The DEN operate the Ranger 8/15/9 with a B.S. of 0.9 which can GPI sectors for 5tu's and has built in probes and GPI.

6) The DEN operate the Claw 20/55/20 B.S 1.2, the Wayfarer 9/70/22 B.S. 1.1 and the Trader 5/95/20 B.S. 1.5

7) The DEN main ships are the Wolflord 40/110/30 B.S. 1.5 which has half natural morale decline and the Direwolf 40/130/40 B.S 1.3. which has double life support capacity.

If you are interested in the DEN contact:-

Mark Ellis: mark.ellis12@virgin.net

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