Yep. this is an actual thing in hollow stars. used by the krelian empire as a orbital defense platform.
It is also equipped with a bayonet because why the hell not?
you are at some fancy ass gala with your new gf who of course is a vampire... and across the room your bro is dancing with her best friend having the time of his life.
fun fact: in my project vampires dont really hunt people, they pay collaborators called businessmen who smuggle human blood to them for money.
they dont kill people, but they dont stop any deaths either
For the flag, I just thought; "what if I combine WW1 Germany flag with Chile flag?
The meme is what brought out the fact that I did not have a flag for my country.
This is the same country with the nuclear powered airships and deep seated disgust for jet propulsion.
relevant post; airships airships airships
And the third image is what it was before I used MS paint on it.
Small context:This is from a project of mine called 9999 which is about a war between two factions: the United Commonwealth of Mankind (UCM) and the Unified Coalition of Free Stars (Freestars)
To fight this war, the UCM created a kind of "Artificial Samsara" with which they can reincarnate their soldiers in cloned bodies. In response, the Freestars decided to dust off the Duplicates (Androids from the time of the Old Imperium which were containers into which the consciousness of humans was put inside)
These were offered to people with physical disabilities or terminal illnesses as a second chance at life although in exchange they would have a debt to the government which they would pay by fighting in the war
If you have any question, leave it in the comments
The Nether was not found by armies, but by curiosity. Around the year 600 AE, Redstonia philosophers and alchemists experimented with obsidian and energetic harmonics, trying to fold space itself. When a scholar named Aldren Vess ignited the obsidian, he tore open the first stable Nether Portal.
The world he glimpsed was alien yet familiar: gravity and air, yes, but bathed in crimson light. The ground shimmered with black basalt and dusts of gold. Streams of lava replaced rivers. Vess’s expedition returned basalt, glowing fungus, and ores that defied smelting.
News spread across the Overworld faster than ever before. By 610 AE, every major nation sought to light its own portal.
Exploration replaced warfare for a brief, golden moment. Many nations saw the Nether as a hotbed of exploration and wealth, but they didn't see the people who lived there.
The Nether was not empty: it was home to Piglin Kingdoms, Wither Lord fortresses, nomadic Lava-Ocean riders, and untold numbers of tribes. Each ruled their share of fire and gold long before the Overworld ever dreamed of portals.
Within twenty years, the Nether became the hottest location, a world within a world. Every nation wanted its slice. The Nether was rich in resources and prized trinkets; however, its greatest prize was travel. Traveling a few blocks in the Nether equated to many blocks in the Overworld, which made it key to travel, as now they could cross entire oceans in half a day's ride. Every nation wanted to map out the best portal routes for trade and power.
The Nether tribes and kingdoms wanted to exploit this by having toll booths and taxes in the form of a share of exports or opening trade with the Overworlders to access the portal routes.
Empire of Diamondia
Diamondia approached with military precision. Legions constructed fortified colonies near their portals, then pushed outward through the Basalt Wastes. When Piglin rulers demanded tolls on trade routes, the Empire answered by storming their legions forward. Entire bastions fell. From these ruins grew the Shogunate of the Nether, where Natives were forced into serfdom; however, they knew that the Nether Mobs outnumbered humans in their colony by 20:1, so they decided to be more lenient, giving Nether mobs more rights and even appointing Bathur Bay'ur, a Piglin Warlord, as Shogun of the Nether. The Shogunate became both colony and shield—a frontier forged in blood, controlling key highways of obsidian roads known as the Crimson Veins.
The Union of Minecraft
The Union began as traders. Their merchant houses—Forgefront, Sunspire, Amberline—built warehouses around stable portals and promised fair exchange: Redstone machines for Netherite and gold. But profit breeds empire. When rival Piglin clans quarreled, Union companies funded one against the other, then “protected” their new allies with private troops. They often would also have trade agreements with lots of Wither Skeletons, sometimes even making sneaky treaties to convert their fortresses into company towns and a base of operations for their interests. Mines followed, and with them, exploitation. Though the Union’s flag rarely flew in the Nether, its corporations carved out invisible provinces bound by contracts instead of crowns.
Veinheim
The Venish saw the Nether as a new world to plunder and live in, and they moved settlers over to create colonies across the Nether's highlands and ocean shores, learned how to ride Striders thanks to the help of Lava tribes, and started plundering various tribes and fortresses.
One of their many tactics involved storming a Wither Fortress and killing all the Blazes before taking their rods, then harvesting all the Nether wart with lightning speed.
Wither Skeletons, who relied on blaze powder and warts to trade with Overworlders (and using Blazes like war dogs in battle), soon suffered.
The High Blades
The High Blades alone sought partnership. Their mystics believed the Nether was a holy reflection of the Overworld’s soul. They traded words instead of wars, merging with several Piglin monarchies. Yet even idealists have ambitions; the High Blades secured exclusive rights to major Netherite veins, which supplied entire armies with Netherite and built temples that doubled as forts.
By 650 AE, the Nether was a chessboard of competing outposts, each nation laying claim to tunnel systems and fortress routes. Control of portals meant control of travel itself; whoever mastered the Nether would shorten journeys between Overworld continents from months to hours.
One of the things that changed Nether warfare and politics forever was the introduction of crossbows.
Union traders introduced the crossbow to Piglin as part of a trade deal. Within months, Piglin Smiths had replicated and improved it. This was revolutionary, as before, warfare in the Nether was often bow with often upclose conflict, plus some bows, but crossbows provided extra range and combat. For the first time, the Piglins could strike across the vast lava seas.
The Wither Lords often had an advantage over the Piglins due to their skeleton archers; however, now the Piglins had better range, which made it harder to fight. This led to Wither Skeletons opening trade with Overworlders for better armor and enchantments for their bows and swords.
This sparked an entire arms race between competing sects in the Nether, fueled by Overworld greed.
The Gold Wars are a series of proxy conflicts between native factions in the Nether, stoked by the Overworld. The Nether Mobs couldn't go to outright war with the colonizers, as the Overworlds had diamond, iron, and other weapons, while many Nether tribes and kingdoms only had gold and stone tools with occasional netherite and mages.
The Piglin Kingdom of Ashfang ended up gathering lots of power due to immense trade with Diamondia. The kingdom had mixed views on the Overworlders, but they knew better than to get on the bad side of the Empire of Diamondia, so they stuck with having lots of commercial trade and toll booths, which gave the kingdom lots of commerce, resources, and weapons, which they used on other Overworld nations, plus other native groups.
One of the many groups that suffered during the Cold War was the Lava-Ocean tribes. These were nomadic groups of Piglins that rode on Striders across the Lava Oceans of the Nether. They'd often stop at the shores of various kingdoms and take what they could before fleeing. Before, this was a problem as they would effectively flee capture when any local troops tried to chase them since they couldn't be pursued across lava, but the introduction of crossbows made it so that other Piglins could hunt the nomads like animals and shoot them down from great distances.
Union mining companies also pushed many Piglins off their land, which also included chasing Lava-Ocean Piglins away from their usual migration routes. Meaning the nomads would have to travel into other territories, including those of larger, more fortified kingdoms.
In 671 AE, refugees chased out by the Sunspire Company crossed into the territory of the Ashfang Kingdom. Mistaking the caravan for raiders, or not caring about the difference, the captain ordered his crossbowmen to line up and open fire, shooting the Piglins off their Striders or shooting the Striders and causing them to fall in the lava... Mostly women and children were in that caravan.
The captain justified the massacre as “border defense,” blaming human expansion for driving the refugees there. Overworld nations being the root cause of many of these conflicts doesn't mitigate their brutality.
The Wither Lords fared no better. Union companies would convert their fortresses into company towns, subjugating them and forcing them to do labor; the Union did nothing to actually control these gross abuses of native rights. Others had to face attacks by Piglins, who now had better weapons and even medicinal properties from trade to prevent their wither swords from hurting them.
The Betrayal of Dustfort was another incident in the Gold Wars, where a Diamondian Officer convinced a Chieftain to help the Diamondians lay siege to a nether fortress called Dustfort. The Chieftain rallied a warband from 30 Piglin tribes, around 2,000 warriors, and charged at Dustfort, but the Diamondians weren't there, leaving the warband to face the Wither Skeletons on their own. It was a tight and brutal battle, which led to the entire warband being killed off and most of the Wither Skeletons plus their Blazes being killed. Diamondian legions then stormed the region and annexed the undefended tribes and the fortress.
At the heart of the Cold War was not ideology, but metal.
Netherite, the rarest and most durable substance known, became the strategic resource of the age.
Every block of Netherite changed the balance of power. But extraction was dangerous. The Piglins controlled most of the richest deposits — ancient fortresses built directly atop veins of ancient debris.
To access them, Overworld powers armed rebellions, sponsored Piglin uprisings, or simply bombarded the fortresses with TNT and enchanted arrows until they fell.
The Union-High Blade Alliance struck a silent bargain to divide the Netherite trade and deny Diamondia supremacy. But even within the Union, corruption spread. Mining companies kept most of the Netherite for their private militias, giving them netherite swords. The Union's inability to hold them accountable for this would lead to the UCM Crisis.
Today, the Nether is divided across both foreign lines, with Overworld nations claiming territory, but also between native lines, while conflicts between Nether Mobs and Overworlders persist, the Nether Kingdoms have focused more on each other and their politics.
Today, thousands of Overworlders live in various colonies. There has been a global exchange of culture and design across entire continents, and architecture and industry have changed in Minecraft forever.
In the Shogunate of the Nether, most of the mobs there identify as Diamondian, mixing Diamondian culture with native culture, and their language, Netheric Creole, is a combination of native Nether language and Diamondian language.
Brief summary: For over two thousand years, the Long War has raged. The once great empire holding uncountable worlds from galactic rim to galactic rim split and torn asunder, its thousand shards left to grind and gnaw against each other in a never-ending cycle of attrition warfare on an incomprehensible scale.
The Good Witch - "My fairy godmother is secretly the benevolent witch who goes around wearing skimpy outfits, even in the fields of war? What kind of horrible joke is that!?"
The Knight Dragon of Cornucopia - "I cannot imagine the cyborg-mutant defector from the ancient evil empire to be needing diaper changes every morning."
The Light Lord Ursan - "The word 'ursa' means bear. Hmm... Though he redeemed himself and now goes around helping people, he still has that Dark Lord arrogance around him. Hiding in plain sight is too much for Sir Ursan."
"To make thing even funnier, what are the chances that I accidentally adopted the whole tragic family and none of them knows each other's secret identities? Oh how silly and paranoid of me!"
This is part of my setting, Latoria, which was discovered by the US, which attempted to colonize it.
I like to think that after the Avalonian Wars, which were a series of conflicts between the US and multiple indigenous factions in Latoria, other countries would try to develop their own portals to try and colonize "Avalon" for themselves. This was the Portal Wars era, where the Earth nations would try to carve out territories across the moon world and establish communications with the indigenous people. This is one of those conflicts that emerged.
The years following the Avalonian Wars marked the beginning of a new geopolitical era on Earth. The destruction unleashed by the United States in Latoria had horrified the global public, but among governments and military planners, the reaction was far more complicated. While newspapers condemned the atrocities and international courts debated the legality of interdimensional warfare, military analysts around the world focused on a different lesson entirely: the existence of Latoria had changed the balance of civilization forever.
As the United States descended into political scandal following the exposure of the Avalonian Genocide, other nations accelerated portal research programs in secret. China became one of the most aggressive participants in this new race.
To the Chinese state, the discovery of Latoria represented a once-in-history opportunity. The Communist Party viewed dimensional expansion not only as a scientific achievement but as a chance to secure strategic resources, economic supremacy, and global prestige. Chinese officials repeatedly insisted they would not repeat the mistakes of the Americans... they were lying.
The Sino-Elf War was a conflict between the People's Republic of China and the Empire of Valindor. When trade negotiations led to border disputes, which then led to outright war, the Chinese hoped they could either annex the Empire as a protectorate or install a Chinese-friendly monarch for better trade agreements. Meanwhile, the Valinese High Elves found themselves once again at the opposite end of conquest/colonialism.
Tankies and apologists of China will claim that the Chinese could use total war tactics, but chose instead to accept defeat out of mercy and kindness, but the truth was... not even close to that.
In February of 2038, after years of classified experimentation, Chinese scientists successfully stabilized GATE-14A beneath a military-industrial facility in Qinghai Province. The project combined reverse-engineered American portal research with independent advances in quantum resonance and thaumic field stabilization. The original portal that led to the discovery of Latoria was created by pure accident; as such, it was crude and unstable. Later designs would modify it for better transport. Similarly, GATE-14A was designed for permanence. Entire convoys could move through it continuously. Troops, vehicles, industrial equipment, and prefabricated infrastructure flowed into Latoria within weeks of activation.
The portal opened in western Illora, a continent radically different from Autonomia in both geography and political organization. Rather than fractured resistance groups or isolated tribal territories, the Chinese encountered fortified borders, organized patrols, taxation stations, and state-controlled infrastructure. Western Illora was firmly under the influence of the Empire of Valindor, one of Latoria’s most powerful and centralized nations.
The continent of Illora was the original homeland of the Elves; here, many Elven races developed all with distinctive tribes, nations, and empires. The most populous being the Dwarves and High Elves, who ruled as the majority populations in various kingdoms. The most prominent of the High Elf states was Valindor.
The Empire of Valindor was one of the great powers of Latoria. It was ancient, bureaucratic, militaristic, and highly organized. Its society combined imperial aristocracy with magical industrialization, maintaining standing armies, formal academies of magic, complex taxation systems, and heavily fortified frontier territories.
The Empire had directly participated in the Avalonian Wars against the United States. High Elves in the thousands fought and gave their lives to protect their land from the demon incursion. But, pay no respects, Valindor fought not out of altruism but self-preservation and the promise of increased territory. Valinese battlemages, strategists, and officers had studied American military doctrine for years. The Valinese already understood what Earth militaries were capable of..
The Chinese did not fully understand what the Valinese were capable of.
For nearly a year after first contact, relations between China and Valindor remained tense but peaceful. Diplomats on both sides genuinely attempted cooperation. Chinese envoys brought:
The Valinese offered:
Both civilizations quickly became fascinated by one another.
Chinese researchers became obsessed with the scientific implications of magic. Many within the CCP believed thaumaturgy could revolutionize industry, energy production, and military technology. Some planners claimed magic represented “the next industrial revolution.” Meanwhile, many Valinese intellectuals admired Chinese discipline, engineering, and bureaucratic organization.
The effects of the Avalonian Wars didn't just change Earth, but Latoria herself. The US's campaigns had left entire regions destabilized, killed millions, and left massive power vacuums that many kingdoms and states jumped to grab.
Valindor was now stuck in a Cold War with their former allies, the United Sovereigns of Autonomia, both sides stuck in an arms race due to ideological differences. The Valinese hoped this alliance with China would give them a push to help outcompete against the Sovereigns, who had a headstart when confiscating as many guns and machinary as possible.
But Valindor's courts and feudal houses were divided on two sides. One side claimed they needed to open trade with the Chinese to advance their technology, but others still haven't forgotten old wounds.
The Avalonian Genocide brought war and death on a scale no nation in Latoria had ever seen. Memorials were made in honor of the death with so many names that they've covered the floor. Many in Valindor, and in various parts of Latoria, saw Earth people as nothing more than demons who wanted to kill everything they saw.
Even those who favored diplomacy feared that China might eventually attempt to dominate Illora economically before moving toward military annexation. Ironically, many people back on Earth all feared the Latorians would try the same thing.
As negotiations continued, China quietly expanded relations with anti-Valinese Dwarf kingdoms throughout western Illora. These kingdoms had long resented Imperial dominance over regional trade and mining rights. Chinese diplomats exploited these tensions carefully, offering:
From the Chinese perspective, these alliances were practical and defensive. If relations with Valindor deteriorated, local allies would be necessary.
To the Valinese Court, however, the alliances looked increasingly threatening. Many Regents interpreted Chinese diplomacy as a slow encirclement strategy designed to isolate the Empire economically and politically before eventual subjugation.
This growing distrust poisoned negotiations even while both sides continued publicly advocating peace.
The Empire decided to sign a treaty that gave the Chinese extraction and settlement rights in specific zones, with the main rule being that they couldn't go beyond the border. They had hoped that by doing this, they would quell tensions with the Chinese and give them access to the technology... This failed.
Chinese corporations had begun expanding beyond agreed extraction zones, particularly near the sacred forests of Silvergrove. Local Valinese populations became furious. Imperial authorities demanded immediate withdrawal from unauthorized territories.
Chinese corporations refused, often delaying compliance while claiming bureaucratic misunderstandings or logistical necessity. Soon, Imperial soldiers were dispatched directly to dismantle illegal extraction facilities and evict personnel.
At the same time, PLA troops were ordered to defend those facilities. Neither side, however, was allowed to start a war. This led to some of the most absurd military confrontations in modern history.
Imperial troops were ordered to get the Chinese off their land by any means necessary, but they were forbidden from outright fighting or hurting them. Chinese soldiers were ordered to protect the sites to the best of their ability, but not to do anything that could be a diplomatic nightmare (ex, shooting, stabbing, punching, literally anything involving self-defense).
Valinese troops would physically attempt to remove workers from extraction sites while PLA soldiers formed barricades around them. Imperial officers ordered settlers expelled, while Chinese personnel refused to comply. At several facilities, Valinese soldiers literally dismantled pipelines by hand while Chinese engineers attempted to rebuild them simultaneously.
Imperial authorities dispatched a heavily reinforced detachment into Silvergrove Woods to dismantle several unauthorized Chinese extraction sites permanently. PLA forces established defensive positions around the facilities and refused entry.
For hours, soldiers on both sides attempted to avoid violence while physically confronting one another. Then someone fired. No one ever determined who shot first.
Some accounts blamed a nervous Chinese conscript during a struggle. Others claimed a Valinese archer released an arrow prematurely after mistaking a movement for hostile intent. The result was immediate catastrophe.
Within seconds, Silvergrove Woods erupted into total warfare. Chinese automatic weapons tore through Imperial formations, chasing the High Elves out of the woods. Within a week, both governments formally declared war.
The opening phase of the war strongly favored China. PLA doctrine emphasized overwhelming industrial superiority.
Initial campaigns devastated Valinese frontier defenses. Entire cavalry formations were annihilated by machine gun fire. Fortresses fell under coordinated artillery bombardment. Chinese commanders initially believed the Empire might collapse within months.
Many Chinese officers quietly assumed the Valinese would eventually suffer the same fate as countless technologically inferior forces throughout Earth's history.
But unlike those historical enemies, the Valinese adapted rapidly because they already understood modern warfare from the Avalonian Wars. They knew exactly what they were fighting.
Valinese battlemages developed large-scale anti-technological warfare methods specifically designed to cripple Chinese military systems. Electromagnetic disruption spells destabilized communications and caused drones to malfunction unpredictably. Targeting systems failed during major offensives. Entire command structures collapsed because units could no longer coordinate effectively.
At the same time, Woodland Elf mages from Valindor's South Illoran and East Autonomian colonies transformed Illora itself into a weapon. Forests were physically shifted around by invading armies. Roads vanished overnight. Rivers changed course. Supply convoys disappeared inside, magically reshaping terrain.
Meanwhile, Valinese special operations units adopted many tactics first pioneered against the Americans during the Avalonian Wars.
Chinese casualties rose sharply. More importantly, the war stopped looking winnable.
China did not seek peace because it morally rejected genocide or imperial conquest as propaganda states. In fact, they were 100% willing to go that direction. In the occupied territories, they had interned many Elves and were planning scorched-earth or even genocidal tactics.
The Chinese chose peace because the Valinese were winning. Not necessarily through overwhelming battlefield victories, but through attrition, adaptation, and environmental warfare. The Empire had successfully leveled the technological playing field by destabilizing Chinese systems and forcing the PLA into prolonged asymmetrical conflict.
The PLA was heavily outnumbered, even with their Dwarven allies. Even if they attempted harsher methods, it would've led to more PLA casualties, increased budget spending, and they still would've lost.
In June 2041, China and Valindor signed the Peace of Yishan.
The treaty established:
China retained economic access to Illora.
Valindor retained sovereignty.
The war ended not because either side abandoned imperial ambition, but because both recognized that total victory had become more dangerous than compromise. Valindor was crowned the de facto winner.
That's all I have to say because I want to sleep now.
An insectoid human-like species from across the stars, the Voth are a formidable warfaring race of colonizers from the planet Vothar, and are constantly at (not always violent) conflict with humans over contested planets.
Rising up from primitive beetle like alien insects and eventually usurping the throne as apex predator due to their increasing intelligence, strength, and survival mechanisms, the Voth became space-faring and built themselves a colonial empire over the course of millennia.
So the whole premise is that Earth discover that the terra infinita theory (if you dont know it, search it) is partly true, but not in the traditional fashion way. Instead of a flat surface, it is several large aurora portals located in the north and south of every individual realm planet that connect all of them into a large flat planet located somewhere called Gandaria.
Earth itself is a middle civilisation in the system and layered by other two civilisation realm. One is a heavy fantasy realm with magitech techs and alternative ww2 nations with multi race civilisation and the other one is a scifi-fantasy civilisation. In earth there were also fantasies mythical nations from our myths and fable which hides themself until one day nations of earth discover the mega aurora portal (They live in fear of persecution of another large powerfull civilisation that often mendle and enslave with other civilisation including earth realm. They wait until earth nation discover the truth and ally the other two realm to finally fight this powerfull civilisation and free other civilisiation)
Btw this post is still correlate with my previous post about logistic: United Terran when logistic came be like:
The history of Arorea can be traced back roughly 2 billion years. The Dark Forest and Empty Eternity are what rise from the ashes. When their last star dies, and when the first star of Arorea did form, any macroversal traveller will telll you-there are still Umbrae. Native lifeforms of Tindalos, the Otherworld below, beside, and above Reality, they're subsapient unless occupying a sophont host, persona constructed from the person inhabited. Even with all the changes to mortal and Other species throughout infinity thrice over, the Umbrae have remained baffilingly consistent, almost seeming an essential aspect of existence itself.
Little context: this is from a project I have inspired by Mickey 17, Ersatz, Emesis Blue and Don't Join Team Red called 999/9999 (I still haven't decided on the name)
The story takes place in a future where Humanity (now unified under the banner of the United Commonwealth of Mankind) is in an era of constant war to such a degree that more soldiers are dying than they can replace. This leads the Ministry of Science and Advances of the UCM to create Machines known as "Samsaras" with which soldiers are "Cloned" every time they die (although it is more similar to Reincarnation since they possess all the memories of their ancestor, including the way in which they died). This leads to victories for the UCM in the war but in turn leads to the dehumanization of its soldiers
If you have any question or advice, leave a comment