Editing Dystopian Wars (section)

===The Sultanate===

The Ottoman Sultanate is The Ottoman Empire, no longer split in 2 & has been promoted to Great Power status! Was in something of a decline until a wise & great Sultan followed by his OK son set about reforming, it wasn’t until The Order showed up & gifted them some enigmatic technology that the former sick man of Europe saw a change of fortunes & is now firmly on the up & up.

The Sultanate’s unique tech is mainly from the Order, including the special engines they use to make their ships go fast as well as portal generators & really killy Particle Beams (laser guns from space).

'''Turkey'''

Having gone through a similar decline as the real-world Ottoman Empire until Sultan Mehmed the Learner took over & turned things around. Not sharing his predecessors propensity for the appearance of progress over actual progress, Mehmed proceeded to unglamorously drag his nation into the modern day, revitalising industry, reforming institutions & reinvigorating the armed forces. Stabilizing much of the crumbling empire in the process. While these weren’t the flashy shows of wealth that the people expected from their Sultan, as time went on & his public projects bore fruit the people realised the good his “New Learning” was doing for Turkey & by the end of his reign he was regarded as one of the countries greatest leaders. Though while he was a great ruler, he was lacking as a father. He only had 2 children; an elder daughter named Scheherazade. & a younger son sired from a Concubine, name Prince Mustafa. Scheherazade was neglected & could never truly win her father’s approval, no matter how well she did in her academic studies, while Mustafa, being the only male, was doted on by the Sultan & could do no wrong in his eyes. Scheherazade started to spend more & more time abroad in the universities of Europe, finding better company in her scientific peers while Mustafa was prepped for the throne, Scheherazade was notably not invited to her brother’s coronation & instead given a generous stipend in return for studying with the Enlightened & never coming back. Mustafa share’s his father’s passion for The New Learning, Striking a deal with The Order for new alien tech. But he also has the propensity for large shows of wealth with small, short-term benefits had originally caused the Ottoman Empire to decline as it did. So extravagant is the Sultan & so willing is he to spend money that his people call him Mustafa the golden, or Mustafa the Gold Plated behind his back, for he has actually managed to drain the royal coffers to the point that his vizier has started borrowing money from the Ottoman mafia just to keep the parties flowing, & though the Sultan is a wise diplomat able to successfully convince The Order to share technology, said vizier may be the only thing keeping the actual Turkish government afloat.

The once decrepit Turkish navy has been brought back from the brink, first by the New Learning & then by shared Order technology these second-hand British hulls have been turned into lean-mean-killing machines. The Great Powers like to think the Sultanate is a paper tiger, fast sure but useless if actually challenged. & that’s a delusion the Sultan is all to happy to let them keep.

In battle the Turkish are speedy glass cannons, their ships are fast, can turn batter than anyone else’s & are even faster if they choose to move in a straight line instead. They aren’t super durable, but they are more then manoeuvrable enough to keep out of the enemies best lines of fire. In battle the Turks want them to be where the enemy doesn’t want them to be, if the opponent wants to sit back & shoot then the Turks can close in, if the enemy wants to get close then the Turks can keep them away, if the enemy have forward facing weaponry then the Turks can hit them from the sides no problem etc. etc. on top of that they can stick any 2 Cruiser sized ships together to make a single Mass 3 Catamaran that acts as a kind of pocket battleship, letting them cheaply bring multiple large ships to act as a more durable core for what might otherwise be a rather delicate force. A difficult force to pull off correctly but very deadly if you do. 

Actually, have a very large array of Mass 3 ships since every variety of Cruiser has a Catamaran form it can be built into.

'''The Order'''

OK. so. The Hex yeah? You know that broken alien god-thing? The One the Enlightened are milking for Rj-250?  Yeah well the Order are a group of Religious Zealots formed in direct opposition to the aforementioned alien god thing & all it’s horrible followers. It’s probably been shattered into a bunch of shards by them & has been chased all over the galaxy by them as well, with Earth being it’s last refuge. Invading Earth is out of the question since the Hex-Shards that fled here centuries ago are now hidden all over the place by its gribbly alien cultists & invading a planet just because some refugees fled there without the worlds knowledge is a dick move & against their code (it would inspire all the Earthlings to join up with the Hex & use the resulting gribbly mutations to fight of the Order). so The Order have gone in as small sects of religious warrior-zealots to places showing Hex activity to kill Hex-Cultists & maybe capture a Hex Shard while they’re at it. Humans are considered neutral parties usually unless; they want to join the Crusade in which case they may be allowed to prove themselves, attack members of the Order/have joined the hex in which case they must be purged or show signs of beings horribly mutated by the Hex’s terrible influence in which case they are in desperate need of a mercy killing. This was until extremist Greek rebels showing signs of Hex mutations started using Hex weaponry to raid ottoman positions. After sending in the Templars to do a purge the Order forces started working alongside the Sultanate to purge the cultists & forced the Hex back into hiding, at which point Sultan Mustafa convinced Order leadership decided now was a good time to make a friend amongst the natives & the Order began sharing tech with the Sultanate. The shared knowledge & technology was well received by the Sultanate admiralty & in return this small militant order of crusaders get a Great Power on their side in the fight against the Hex, which is presumably how a faction who can just about whip up a Skirmish sized warband in Wild West Exodus is now also able to build equip its own navy, the Sultanate is providing the raw materials & manpower to make the things & do all the Donkey work onboard while the Order just provide the technology & do all the exiting boarding actions & captaining.

Yes this is a faction of Aliens, there are probably humans mixed in but this is an alien faction using alien technology to hunt down other aliens. No, this is not related to the Alien spacecraft crashed in Antarctica that the Enlightened are studying, those are different aliens. No, they can’t bring their spaceships to join in the fun, don’t know why it’s probably explained better in Wild West Exodus where they are also a faction alongside the Hex & the 3rd race of aliens who built those spaceships the Enlightened are studying.

In battle the Order play much like a smaller more elite Turkey, their ships apparently packing even more advanced tech than some of the Enlightened ships they sure do talk the talk with deadly Judgement-Lances on their vessels, making them an even cannon-ier glass cannon. 


'''Egypt'''

The Egyptians don’t have much lore yet. And they don’t have models either but they do have artwork & all their ships have test-rules in the Orbats so we know what their navy looks & plays like.

The Egyptians like their hovercrafts. Everything they have is a skimmer. From small Hovercrafts to massive Hover-Strongholds Egypt is the Skimmer faction through & through.

Look very similar to France’s Levant Fleet in that fact, except they pack a different variety of laser.

'''League of Crimson'''

Remember Scheherazade? The eldest Daughter of the Mehmed the Learner who was paid a healthy stipend to stay in the Enlightened & never come back? Well, she’s back now & she’s brought an eclectic army & gentlemen Rouges with her to act in the Sultanate’s best interests, whether the Sultan wants them to or not. If she’s planning to take the throne for herself once all of the Sultan’s debts get called in or if she really is just here to help her brother out is unknown.

Don’t have rules yet, much like the Scions of Jutland or Honourable Eclipse Company these guys are just a mystery merc fleet for the moment. Scheherazade was a pioneer of hovercraft technology during her time in the Enlightened & probably brought over most of the tech that the Egyptians are using, so perhaps the League will be released alongside them similar to how the Black Wolves were released alongside the Ukrainians.

'''Tripoli'''

Tripoli is also here. Every faction has 3 different static “ocean platform” units for mission types that involve them. One big gun platform, one regular gun platform & one support platform. For some reason these are all being given to a random minor power that only exists in game as the crews of these immobile platforms, & in the Sultanate this is Tripoli’s job, I guess the Ottomans just ship Tripolitania crews out to the Platforms & Tripoli just controls all of the Sultanate’s platforms & that’s it.