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Basically, a planet is colonized by pones, and put under martial law. The planet is coveted by millions of other races for its atmosphere. The planet’s atmosphere self-cleans. It can never become polluted, or damaged. No disease exists, no genetic malformities, nothing. Even radiation is null and void thanks to this miracle atmosphere.
To protect the planet from invaders as well as enforce natural law, the Novaland (that’s the name of the planet) Order and Protection Armada, or “N.O.P.A.” was created. They were always in a constant state of war, so they developed a focus on unmanned automated craft. This turned out to be a huge mistake, as their ships were then susceptible to hacking. So instead, they created a caste system of genetic modifications, and completely reformed their military structure. Alpha Commanders were at the top, and consisted of the ruling council of the Homeworld (they were a bit confused at the terming, but let N.O.P.A. do whatever) Under them and serving on large commanding warships at the center of each defense fleet were the Central Commanders, and “manning” the ships and serving as ground forces were the Homunculi.
This worked pretty well, with the only downside being the lack of people to fit the two available ones, being Central Commanders and Homunculi. (Alpha Commanders were elected and stuff back on the Homeworld) In response to this, they created three Leviathan-class ships that had the sole purpose of acting as nurseries for the exponential amount of young produced in vats by randomly combining the genes of Central Commanders and/or Homunculi together into zygote cells. Aptly, they were henceforth named the Nursery Leviathans.
With that hurdle surmounted, the next arised. Better warfare. Lasers and missiles weren’t cutting it, and their shields and armor just weren’t cutting it. So they began to preform experiments with elements found in Stars when subjected to intense energy: Novaium. Novaium was first discovered when a star went supernova nearby to Novaland (but not close enough to damage it) there were bits left behind that N.O.P.A. harvested and refined. As it was experimented with, N.O.P.A. discovered it was extremely powerful when used as refracting lens for shields, an ingredient in the metallic soup that made up their ships’ armor plating alloys, and even in their power generation. They didn’t stop there. Now that these Novaium shields could allow their ships to fly right through even the hottest stars unscathed, they could use the cores of stars as forges to create even tougher alloys.
Then came the Icarian Lasers. Perhaps the most iconic weapon N.O.P.A. Possesses. It’s shots create a line of space that expands instantly. Not even Novaium shields can protect it. Rather amusingly, they accidentally turned the moon of Novaland into a giant ball of Swiss cheese. Of course, they quickly forged a new one in a star to replace it, one that lights up with “SORRY” during a full moon. The old one was harvested and the largest chunk, being two cubic meters, was sent back to the Homeworld as an offering to the Alpha Commanders. (Who were immediately perplexed by the gift, but just rolled with it and made a sculpture out of it to sit in the lobby of the primary administrative building on the Homeworld.)
As the alien invasions ramped up continuously, N.O.P.A. Continuously built more and more ships, harvesting entire planets and moons and asternoids belts, sucking gas giants dry and inducing Supernovae in stars to get more Novaium. (A process called Inflaming) They killed off about 300 individual alien races by ritual execution, which involved Inflaming their home planet’s star(s) and forcing them to remain in the system while the waves of death shredding their planet. Then N.O.P.A. Would harvest the planets and move on to the next. This era was known as “The Campaign of Extinction”.
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The Campaign of Extinction didn’t mean N.O.P.A. Didn’t have to guard Novaland anymore. Not at all. Barely any time after the Camoagin began, the Central Commanders’ suggested a new system to the Alpha Commanders (it was actually entirely the Central Commander’s idea. The Alpha Commanders were kinda pooping their pants at the almighty terror that N.O.P.A. had become, and said yes to whatever they wanted.) split N.O.P.A. into three Divisions.
Yellow Division - N.O.P.A. That takes care of offensive incursions and were primarily waging war.
Red Division - N.O.P.A. That focused on harvesting and research. The cleanup crew in Yellow’s wake, so to speak.
Orange Division - N.O.P.A. That remained in the Novaland system and oversaw defense and construction, as well as enforcing martial law.
The caste system was revised again as well, due to demand for stronger ground forces and the mental health of Central Commanders. The Alpha Commanders became simply “Alphas”, furthering their dissociation from the real, of mortals by N.O.P.A.. (yeah they worshipped them, despite being infinitely more powerful) The Central Commanders were modified even more, causing increased mental capacity, stability improvements, and Division Weapon.
Yellow Division had their dominant hoof replaced with a metal hand prosthetic made of yellow and black Novaium, with long metallic fingers like blades. Yet they could bend like flesh, and could generate miniature gravity distortions (called Graviton) to hold things if the power was low enough, or crush things if it was high; Controllable via the Central Commander’s mind. Red Division received a staff of black Novaium with an inbuilt super-processing device (it would make Dawn’s comp look like a msdos. And probably get really wet) that they could “telepathically” access, though their brains were already faster by default. It could generate powerful fields of arcing energy (called Arcious) that could be controlled in shape and power by the Central Commander’s mind. Orange received a pair of large metal wings made of chrome Novaium. The broadest feathers were actually autonomous drones the Central Commander could control with their mind, and acted as ways to view a large area from multiple perspectives. In addition to these drones, the wings could release heat energy as powerful beams. (called Thermal)
Homunculi were replaced with Soldiers, which were suits of armor made of Novaium alloy that had a pony bolted inside in a state similar to lobotomy-induced unconsciousness. The Soldiers were basically like robots, but used the pony body as their “computer” instead of an actual computer, to prevent hacking and subversion. Ponies about to be Soldierized were given sleeping gas, (I can’t for the life of me recall the real name for that stuff.) then had the part of their brain that registered pain removed, and from that empty spot and incision, were plugged into the suit for the first time. The rest of their body would follow with similar connections on every joint between every bone.
But Homunculi weren’t entirely removed. They were instead designated to act as permanent and adoring companions for Central Commanders. They still had the same subdermal exoskeleton and regenerating sensory tissue, but also had their hormonal balance shifted so they were permanently infatuated with the Central Commander they served under.

Me.

OP or not, I will NEVER be ashamed of my N.O.P.A..

If you had infinite resources, complete freedom, and 2,239,183 years, (the total period of time this history lesson comprises) you’d be OP too.

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