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Name: What does your nation call itself.

Government: What type of government does your nation have. Example include Monarchy, Aristocracy, Dictatorship, Socialist Republic, etc. Describe how efficiently the government runs. Describe who run the government and the most important characters. How often do government posts change?

Location and Territory: Describe the extent of all territory settled and claimed by your government. What cities, towns or villages are in your nation. ((Major cities must have their own thread.)) ((Please do not claim the whole world))

Resources: Describe the agricultural, Industrial, Mineral, and commercial wealth of your nation. Describe the nature of nations economy.

People: What are the people who live their like? What is the population? Is it a nation of city dwellers, nomads, etc? Do the people supprot the government? Are many of the people mutants, altered-humans, robots, cyborgs, etc?

Military: Make a list of the military strength of your nation. Include number of troops and reserves. Make it has detailed as possible. List all equipment. Describe the condition of the equipment. Make sure your military fits your nation. Include examples of standard military units. Where did your military come from, and where did you get the equipment? Be sure to describe any equipment that is not comparable to current arms. No pictures.

History: Give your nation state a history from its founding to the present day.

Name: Imperial Delfos

Brief History: Delfos began humbly as a string of agricultural settlements along the Barmis river. These settlements spread along the Sentarian plains until the entire region was settled. Farmland was collected slowly into vast estates, the foremost owner of these estates establishing the Apothos as a commercial hub. Delfos prospered, the empire consolidating its hold of the plains and expanding southward, meeting little resistance from unorganized barbarians. Control of the Sentarian plains meant a steady supply of food and trade along with a growing population, enabling Delfos to established a military organization that managed to wrest three continents from barbarians and smaller nations. For over a thousand years, Delfos controlled the entire continent of Beyon along with most of the large Gaian continent, most of the worlds major cities were under the imperial control. Then, two hundred years ago, the Gaian cities federated into one republic and fought a short war to end the influence of Imperial Apothos on their affairs. The empire continued to degrade, shortly thereafter losing it's dominion over Nordvosk as well.

This was a time when the empire began to show signs of weakness. Inflation and over taxation rocked the world. Various provinces on Beyon proper began to rebel against Imperial control, and secondary divisions broke from the ranks to join rebelling provinces. The rebellion spread until Delfos lost even the last vestiges of control on the secondary continents. Recently, with the independence of coastal areas of Beyon, Imperial Delfos has been reduced to control of Apothos and the surrounding plains.

Location: The city of Delfos is located in center of the Sentarian plains, tucked against the Barmis river. Delfos controls the Sentarian plains and a small portion of land surrounding the plains.

Government: The government of Delfos is an Imperial Aristocracy with executive control exercised by the royal family. The Imperial religion and the maintenance of the tower force field is governed by the priesthood, controlled by the high priest. Farm production is controlled and governed by the noble lords of the nation. There is an Imperial Senate that can exercise certain powers, depending on the strength of the current king, but mainly it is a body of nobles who determine and control the farms of the Sentarian plains.

People: About 58 million people remain under Imperial control. The vast majority of the population are farmers or merchants, there are a few corporations that employ regular people with skill in high paying jobs as well as some industry. Merchants range from wealthy CEO's and businessmen to owners of humble food stalls in the villages. The priesthood resides in the capital, most of them live very sheltered lives. Then there is the noble aristocracy, or the royal class, who make up less than 1 percent of the population. There are over half a million slaves in the Empire, mostly servants of the Tower. Slaves are not counted in the census and are usually from other lands.

Military: The remaining Imperial military is organized into three army groups. Recruits usually come from the agricultural and merchant classes, with officers chosen from among the aristocracy. This arrangement has helped led to the slow downfall of the Imperial army. Equipment is fairly outdated except for the Imperial Goliath which protects the capital in conjunction with the tower shields.

The Goliath:After the loss of the short war and West Falls resulting economic collapse. Three of these units were disassembled in that city and shipped to Beyon. The crews are being trained and advised by agents of West Fall under the purchase agreement.

Fifty nine and a half meters long, nineteen meters high at the center, nine meters high at the front edge, fifteen meters high at the back edge, and twenty three meters thick. At the center, each one was fitted with a super heavy artillery cannon, one a 275mm, two others 325mm cannon, and the remaining two were fitted with 400mm stubby bowl shaped cannon that extended no more than a four meters long; these special cannon were connected to mass of wire and tubes and surrounded by glimmering blue triangular devices.

The secondary weaponry was standard. To the rear were three rotating turrets with 110mm cannon, there were another three in the front. There were over ten smaller machine gun turrets around the edges of them, each fully rotational and at the moment positioned above the armor. More towards the interior were the 60mm anti-personal mortar turrets, ten in all, placed around the vehicle for overlapping fields of fire. There were what appeared to be small, single missile silos throughout the surface for air defense. At the sides there were additional silos for laser guided anti-tank missiles.

These massive land trains were newly christened as Mobile Fortress Goliaths. Each one had the name Goliath along the side, they also had a certain symbol, that looked an eye, etched throughout the surface of each vehicles armor.