Kirin

Like ponies, Kirin are small equines. They have bushier manes that wrap around their neck, slightly longer ears, curved horns, scaly carapaces, thin tails, and tufted, cloven hooves. Unlike ponies, they have no subgroups and all Kirin have magical horns. Due to their affinity to fire, Kirin transform into flaming creatures known as Nirik when they lose their temper. They are also omnivorous.

Kirin are the primary race of  Khamrin,  Lan Kir Militarchy, the  Realm of Kiria and  Sen Kinh.

Racial Technology

Vanguards

Kirin Vanguards

• Recon Detachment:
  • Max Speed: +50%
• Enables Vanguards

The Vanguards once made up the front ranks of the Realm's professional army, serving as scouts and quick reinforcements to strike a hammer blow at the decisive moment of battle. Lightly armed and armored skirmishers, the Vanguards excel at moving through the nation's geography, and are capable of mounting stiff resistance in the forest.

Vanguards

• Ponypower: 1000
• Training Time: 150
• Recover Rate: 0.30
• Breakthrough: 0.5
• Soft Attack: 0.3
• Hard Attack: -0.1
• Initiative: 5.00%
• Supply Use: 0.05
• Suppression: 2.0
• Organisation: 70
• HP: 22.0
• Max Speed: 6.0 km/h
• Weight: 0.5

Guerrilla Tactics

• Vanguards:
  • Soft attack: +10%
  • Organisation: +5.0

Stressing the importance of guerrilla tactics during our Vanguards' training will allow them to infiltrate enemy lines as irregular groups, strike crucial targets, and then disappear before an effective response can be mounted.

Hit & Run

• Vanguards:
  • Breakthrough: +10%
  • Organisation: +5.0

Hit & Run tactics allow our Vanguards to identify vulnerable points in our enemies' defenses and strike them with overwhelming firepower to cause devastating damage before a response can be mustered, earning crucial victories while minimizing the risk to our soldiers in the field.

Scout Parties

• Vanguards:
  • Initiative: +1%
  • Organisation: +5.0

The Vanguards are the scouts for the army, but who will scout for the scouts? Only the bravest kirin can be trusted with such a dangerous task, but the reconnaissance they perform will be crucial in allowing their units to seize the initiative and act proactively upon first encounter with enemy elements.

Motorized Vanguards

• Vanguards:
  • Will now require Motorized Equipment.
  • Initiative: +1%
  • Supply Use: +5%
  • Max Speed: -75%
  • Weight: +20%
  • Forest
    • Movement: -30%
  • Hills
    • Movement: -30%
  • Jungle Jungle
    • Movement: -30%
  • Marsh
    • Movement: -30%
  • River
    • Movement: -30%

Motorizing our Vanguard battalions will greatly increase their speed and range, in addition to providing a little extra protection when out in the field. This will allow our Vanguards to quickly respond to breaches in the line or provide crucial reinforcements in the pivotal moment of the fight.

Operational Autonomy

• Vanguards:
  • Recovery Rate: +10%
  • Organisation: +5.0

Our Vanguard units will be given broad objectives from the top, but the creation and execution of these plans will be left up to the battalion commanders. Eyes in the field see what eyes in the command room do not, and the flexibility to plan and organize appropriately will allow our Vanguards to quickly ready themselves for combat.

Compartmentalized Command

• Vanguards:
  • Organisation: +5.0

The Vanguards will have their own command structure dedicated to procuring the resources and plans they need to be a premier fighting force, and each battalion will have its own internal command structure that allows it to seamlessly receive and execute orders in the midst of a chaotic fight.

Valiants

Kirin Valiants

• Enables Valiants

Valiants are rigorously trained and exceptionally disciplined warrior monks who have mastered their control of the nirik state. These monks, few in number but great in prowess, maintain control of their inner selves when wreathed in fire, allowing them to fight in coordination with normal soldiers and each other. The powers of the nirik state make them a terror to behold on the battlefield, and even armored vehicles cannot withstand the inferno raised from their channeled rage.

Professionalized Training

• Valiants:
  • Soft attack: +50%
  • Organisation: +5.0

The Valiant warrior monks shall receive training in modern close-quarters combat tactics and participate in drills alongside the regular recruits, allowing disciplined monk and average soldier to work as one on the battlefield to increase the effectiveness of the division as a whole.

Dare To Die

• Valiants:
  • Piercing: +100%
• Valiants to All Infantry & Mot/Mech:
  • Piercing: +10%

The Valiants meditate before every battle for clarity of the mind and peace of the soul. Enhanced meditations shall teach them not to fear death, for they charge forth in Concord's brilliant glory and will either find strength in Her hottest fires or meet Her in their dying embers.

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Reconnaissance Focus

• Valiants to Racial Special Forces:
  • Soft attack: +7.50%

Intense meditations while straddling the line between kirin and nirik are said to gift those that can walk this delicate balance divine intuition, bestowed by Concord Herself. The division shall always have at least one monk meditating at all times to see the fates of their comrades in Her divine flames.

Organisation Focus

• Valiants:
  • Organisation: +5.0

A warrior must be prepared to find battle at a moment's notice, and even without any notice whatsoever. Our Valiants shall remain ever-vigilant for fighting nearby and shall be the first to respond to any hostile actions, leading the way for the infantry behind them.

Spearhead Formation

• Valiants:
  • Breakthrough: +100%

Arranging our Valiants in a spearhead formation at the leading thrust of a charge shall allow them to sow havoc and chaos amongst enemy lines during an attack, allowing the regular infantry to push through with lessened resistance and fewer casualties overall.

The Cream Of The Crop

• Valiants:
  • Hard Attack: +50%
  • Organisation: +5.0

Nothing means nothing when we are talking about the rise to the top. Soldiers in combat will find themselves justifiably in a position they'd rather not be in. But the cream will rise to the top. On balance, off balance, it doesn't matter. We are on the way, and nothing is going to stop us.

Warfare

Rudimentary Telekinesis

• All Infantry & Mot/Mech
  • Organization: +3
• Entrenchment speed: +3.0%

All kirin are blessed with magic, and though our horns may not be as finely tuned as those of the unicorns, we can perform basic telekinesis and other simple spells with some training. All kirin soldiers will receive training in basic telekinesis before they are deployed to the front lines so that they may better perform their duties.

Outer branch

Our Scaly Armour

• All Infantry & Mot/Mech
  • Breakthrough: +5.0%
  • HP: +75.0%

Our bodies are blessed with a cloak of hard scales that provide armor and protection from all sorts of weapons, even bullets. Training our soldiers to make the most of their natural armor will improve their ability to survive on the battlefield and live to fight another day.

Forest Operations Training

• All Infantry & Mot/Mech
  • Forest
    • Defence: +10%
    • Movement: +10%

Forests can easily conceal troops and supply depots, greatly favoring the defender in any clash. By making excellent use of the forests' dense canopies and establishing trails that only we know about, we shall greatly stiffen our army's ability to resist foreign invaders if we meet them in our woodlands.

Scapulimancy Specialists

• Special Forces
  • Initiative: +1.5%

Scapulimancy has long been a traditional divination practice for the kirin species. It involves collecting one's shed scales and inscribing characters on them before tossing them into a fire, after which the scorching pattern on the scales, the damage to the characters, and any cracks and fissures that emerge from the heat is interpreted to divine an answer. We shall standardize a scapulimancy interpretation guide to aid in standardizing divination answers.

Hills Operations Training

• All Infantry & Mot/Mech
  • Hills
    • Defence: +10%
    • Movement: +10%

Hills can make excellent defensive positions, as they provide excellent sightlines over large stretches of land, and the terrain itself can frustrate an ill-conceived attack. Establishing hill forts, supply stations, and local command centers will allow our troops to easily dig in and defend any elevated positions against enemy attack.

Riverine Auxiliaries

• Army
  • River
    • Attack: +10%
    • Movement: +10%
• Supply Grace: +36 Hour(s)

Rivers are vital to the military effort of any nation. They serve as crucial highways to transport supplies to an army and also serve as foreboding natural barriers for any attacking force to cross. We shall make use of auxiliary units comprised of soldiers specially trained to attack across rivers and are experts at living off the land to aid in any river crossing endeavors we may have to undertake.

Inner branch

Those Who Fight & Run Away...

• Org Loss when Moving: -10.0%
• Reinforce Rate: +5.0%

There is nothing more precious to our army than our soldiers, and nothing is more precious to a soldier than their life. We shall place emphasis on protecting the lives of our soldiers in the field, even if it means yielding a fight, so that our army may live to continue the fight tomorrow.

Perseverance Under Fire

• Army
• Defence: +5.0%
• Soft attack: +5.0%

An army fails not when it is broken in battle, but when it is unable to respond to an enemy's attack. Motivating our soldiers to continue their duties even when under fire will be crucial for improving the quality of our army.

Live To Fight Another Day

• Resistance Target in our states occupied by the enemy: +5.0%
• Resistance Decay Speed in our states occupied by the enemy: -5.0%
• Resistance Growth Speed in our states occupied by the enemy: +5.0%

Even if our soldiers are driven from the field and separated from their regiments, they can swiftly integrate into the nearest population center and use their expertise to move the local citizens to arms against the foreign oppressor. Just because the battle is lost does not mean the war is over; the battle shall last as long as there are soldiers left to fight it, in any way they can.

Drill And Discipline

• Army
  • Recovery Rate: +0.10

Battles are not lost when every soldier dies at their post. They are lost when the line breaks and soldiers stop fighting to flee for their lives. Relentless drill and endless discipline will create an army that will stand and fight until the last soldier falls at their post, and only then yielding the field of battle to the enemy.

Shattered Jewel Doctrine

• Army
  • Breakthrough: +5.0%
• Enables Tactic: Berserker Charge

When all appears lost, when the army is about to shatter and break, we cannot afford to hold onto our religious and moral reservations about the nirik state. The nirik state is destructive and dangerous, but when staring death and defeat in the face, it is the last bastion of strength we have to draw on. Soldiers shall no longer be punished for embracing their nirik state should the circumstances of combat demand it.

Numerology

Numerological Divination

• Helicopter ReconHelicopter Recon
  • Reconnaissance: +100.0%
• Recon
  • Reconnaissance: +100.0%
  • Initiative: +10.0%
• Reconnaissance: +100.0%

Though every species in the world has their own unique languages and cultures, numbers and mathematics are the universal language bestowed on all creatures by the grace of Concord Herself. Attentive study of the patterns in numbers found in the world around us will yield insights that would otherwise be passed over by the untrained mind.

Systematised Arithmancy

• Encryption: +10.0%
• Decryption: +10.0%
• Cryptology Level: +1
• Decryption Power Factor: +10.0%

Finding and establishing complicated patterns in numbers and arithmetic will allow us to apply these patterns to sensitive systems such as codes. Finding prime numbers and using them as bases for our code cyphers will both make our cyphers much more difficult to break and aid in the breaking of our enemy's ciphers.

Mundane Numerology

• Production Efficiency Retention: +10.0%
• Production Efficiency Cap: +10.0%
• Factory Repair Speed: +10.0%

Everything in life is based around numbers, and industrial creation is no different. How many blows of a hammer does it take to forge a sword? How many screws does it take to assemble a rifle? How many turns of rifling are in a cannon barrel? Understanding and embracing these mundane constants will greatly improve the output of our industrial centers.

Algorithmic Forecasting

• Spotting Speed: +5.0%
• Supply Consumption: -5.0%
• Max Planning: +10.0%
• Bad Weather Penalty: -10.0%

The changing of the weather, chaotic as it may seem, is rooted in numbers. All we have to do is find the model that uses all the right numbers and we will known what the weather will be like tomorrow, next week, next month. Extensive effort shall be dedicated toward creating algorithms that can forecast the weather anywhere in the world, which will greatly aid our military's ability to conduct operations and sustain troops in the field.

Sequential Extrapolation

• Resource gain Efficiency: +10.0%
• Production Efficiency Growth: +10.0%
• Production Efficiency Base: +10.0%

Productivity is a measure of patterns put into practice, just like anything else. Mathematic models will be used to determine what are the best patterns to pursue and refine to greatly increase our own productivity for minimal cost.

Arithmetic Computing

• Research Speed: +5.0%

Numbers rarely act in isolation, especially in something as complex as nature. Numbers inform patterns, which inform other patterns that derive numbers. Using arithmetic, we can cleverly create patterns that can receive an input and produce an output with minimal operator interaction, at a hundred times the speed of even our brightest mathematicians: a truly automatic calculation device.

Digital Numerology

• Nuclear Bomb Production Rate: +5.0%
• Research Speed: +5.0%

To perfect the art of numerology, we must break it down into its base components. Every number and every pattern has its basis in two numbers: 0 and 1, no or yes. By using strings of zeroes and ones, we can encode information that can be easily accessed and recalled by more advanced computational practices.

Geomancy

Architectural Geomancy

• Construction Speed: +10.0%
• Factory Output: +5.0%
• Dockyard Output: +5.0%

Everywhere we look, the earth provides clues for the best sites to raise buildings, the best sites to dig for minerals, the best soil to plant crops. If we pay close attention to the clues left for us in nature, we can find greater resource deposits and build structures in favorable spots that will maximize their production.

Landscape Ecology

• Resource Efficiency Gain: +10.0%
• Consumer Goods Factories factor: -6.0%

The best way to coax resources from the earth is not to exploit it like a conqueror, but to make peace with it like a neighbor. Our structures shall be designed in such a way to minimize their environmental impact, so that we may find harmony in nature, not strife.

Informed Defense Positions

• Entrenchment speed: +10.0%
• Max Entrenchment: +5

It is one thing to dig a trench in the ground to repulse an enemy attack; it is quite another to find the ideal ground for digging a trench, where the terrain works to our advantage. Before constructing any trenchworks, we shall carefully survey the ground to find the ideal location for digging, and only then begin erecting defenses.

Propitious Urban Planning

• Max Factories in a State: +20.0%

Erecting buildings and paving streets in a city without a plan wastes space and gives rise to chaotic anarchy. To get the most out of our urban centers, we shall lay out a strict grid pattern before construction, and designate areas of the city for different purposes beforehoof to maximize their efficiency.

Auspicious Offensive Vectors

• Leg Infantry
  • Breakthrough: +10.00%

An enemy's poorly prepared defense may be saved by an advantageous position, and a superior defense may be undone by hostile terrain. Before committing troops and resources to an attack, we shall have scouts survey the land and find where the terrain is most favorable to a breakthrough, and concentrate our efforts there.

Astrology

Scientific Astrology

• Protection Against Bad Luck: +50.0%

One must pay attention to the astrological signs in all things, lest they undertake some important action during omens of bad luck. Encouraging our populace to take decisive action when the signs are favorable and avoid it when they are not shall improve the luck of all of our citizens throughout our country.

Astrological Natalism

• Monthly Population: +10.0%

The stars and the seasons impact a foal's life when it is born, and they can never be changed. A foal born under worrisome signs will suffer their whole life; one born under auspicious circumstances will benefit from the day of their birth for the rest of their lives. Our citizens shall be encouraged to have children in certain seasons under certain signs, and government institutions shall be employed to coordinate with the expected rise and fall in births to provide assistance to these families.

Astrology As Propaganda

• Political Power Gain: +5.0%

The signs of the stars and the seasons can be used to instruct the populace how to think and how to act for the betterment of our nation. We shall make good use of these signs of nature to motivate the populace to work in unison with the state in all things.

Duality of Kirin

The Kirin Condition

• Winter Attrition: +10.0%
• Heat Attrition: -5.0%
• Ideology drift defense: +10.0%
• Cold acclimatization gain factor: +5.0%
• Hot acclimatization gain factor: -5.0%
• Damage to Enemy Garrisons in our states occupied by the enemy: +5.0%

The kirin race was born from the primordial flames that shaped the earth by Concord's divine will. In exchange for our mastery over fire, we are cursed to wrestle with the demon of rage that lives inside each of us. But the nirik state is as much a part of us as our usual selves, and its raging inferno drives us to defend what is ours and never give in to foreign aggressors. Those that wrong us will learn to fear our fiery fury unleashed.

Strength In Temperance

Strength In Temperance

• Attack: -5.0%
• Defence: +5.0%
• Planning Speed: -10.0%
• Max Planning: +25.0%

We are prone to rage and anger even in the best of times, and the nirik state can turn even a loving mother into a blindly hateful creature. Though our nirik forms are powerful, we can find greater strength in controlling our emotions and keeping our minds clear. We shall instill a greater sense of temperance into our education programs to remind our people that the nirik state is a weakness, not a strength, and clarity of thought and mind is our greatest tool.

Concord's Pious Children

• Mobilization speed: +15.0%

We are Concord's children, created to worship Her and act as custodians over the world She created. Every kirin owes it to Her to live their life in accordance with Her teachings and to give Her our unmitigated praise and adoration. By remembering Her teachings, we can control the scourge of the nirik state and protect the world She created, not destroy it.

The Guided Flame

• Recruitable Population Factor: +5.0%
• Ideology drift defense: +5.0%

Concord's divine teachings call to all of us, no matter who we are. Her light is a flame that we reach towards, a beacon of hope in the dark. She is a bastion of safety in a world of danger, but Her flame in this world is a fragile one. All must be willing to do whatever is necessary to protect and serve Her flame.

Twice As Bright

Twice As Bright

• Division Speed: +5.0%
• Org Loss when Moving: +5.0%
• Attack: +5.0%
• Defence: -5.0%

We are creatures born of fire and fury, and we cannot ever forget that. The nirik state is not a vicious monster to be terrified of, but a dangerous tool that can achieve great ends when wielded for the right reasons. We shall use our education programs to begin to relax some of the stigma about the nirik state, encouraging our populace to dip into its power should they find it absolutely necessary.

Society Of Passion

• Political Power Gain: +10.0%
• Stability: -5.0%
• Research Speed: +2.00%
• Ideology drift defense: -8.0%

Everything we do, we must put our heart and soul into it. Just as Concord crafted us in her image, so too must we use the tools available to us to shape the world to our liking. There is no goal that we cannot accomplish if we dedicate all of our being toward it, and we shall use any means necessary to achieve new and tantalizing heights for our society.

Blaze Of Glory

• All Infantry & Mot/Mech
  • Breakthrough: +5.0%
  • Exp. Loss: +5.0%

The modifier to Exp. Loss is a Debuff!

• War Support: +5.0%
• Resistance Growth Speed in our states occupied by the enemy: +5.0%

We are creatures of exceptional fighting prowess thanks to the rage and fury of the nirik state, and we must never be willing to surrender when we are still able to fight. So long as one kirin still stands, then there is still a fight to be had for the fate of our people. It is better to die in a blaze of glory for Concord and our home than to surrender meekly to a conquering foe.