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Contents 1 Timeline 2 Industrial Age 2.1 Cowboy 2.2 Slavery 2.3 Steam Engine 2.4 Drugs 2.5 Utensils 3 Flight Age 3.1 Pilot 3.2 Airship 4 Emancipation Age 4.1 Soldier 4.2 Pterabat Bombs 4.3 Air-Wing Biplane 4.4 Dome Tank 5 Atomic Age 5.1 Infantry 5.2 Ball Turret Wheel Tank 5.3 Orphans 6 See Also

Timeline

Civilization Stage

Industrial Age – 559,150 to 559, 350 (200 years long)

Flight Age – 559, 350 to 559,700(150 years long)

Emancipation Age – 559,700 to 559,850 (150 years long)

Atomic Age – 559,850 to 559,950 (100 years long)

Industrial Age

Cowboy

I know i jumped the Imperial age (Earth's 1500-1700 AD) but had a great idea for this Industrial Age picture.

This picture is the Industial Age River Tribe. As you can see it is very much like America's Cowboys or other Colonies like Australia or South Africa. Durring the previous age they discovered a new contentent and have already started colonization of it. Which are still within the River Tribe Empire.

In his hand is a revolver which is better than the flint lock of the previous age. In the 6 sacks attacked to the tail is ammo and supplies. He also has a quill dagger which is a current version of the Quill blade once used. His hand helps keep the glare hot sun off his eyes and he wears gloves and floots made of a new world beast's hide.

As more and more industrialization comes the more polluted their homelands becomes and they must ever seek out new clean areas to get resources from. This is one of the most destructive times where many creatures become extinct do to over hunting. Also there is talk about anti-slavery of the Ocean, Mud and Jungle Tribes who were enslaved by mass during the Imperial age by the River, Grassland, Cave, Mountain and Desert Tribes.

Slavery

Here is a River Tribe plantation owner in the new world with a Jungle Tribe slave. This is during the Industrial Age but slavery has been going on since the Imperial Age. As you can see this slave is picking the red fang berry shown before in the Naucean food list. These are extremely hard to pick because they berry has a poisonous stinger on the end. Sadly over worked Jungle Tribe slaves die all the time from this berry due to their small size. However their dexterous tentacles are small enough and carefull enough to avoid the stinger alot more than any of the larger Naucean races.

The Jungle Tribe have been shipped by the boat load but not all make it to the new world. Only the deepest Jungle tribes have escaped slavery. But slavery is not forever, for in the future there has been anti-slavery wars which eventually lead to freedom and equal right for all Nauceans.

Here is a Ocean Tribe Slave and his Master. The Ocean Tribe race is the largest of all Nauceans. Grassland Tribe may be a little taller but Ocean tribe had to be the strongest and most massive. The Desert Tribe height is about 3/4th the size of a River Tribe Naucean so these guys looked huge compared to them. Due to their primitive lifestyle they were easily captured and forced into Slaver by the Grassland, River, Mountain and Desert tribes. It was until later during the Anti-Slavery Age did this change. However during the whole war the Desert tribe allied with the Plantion and Slavery rebel tribe to fight against the allied Mountain, River and Grassland tribes. After the war even though the Ocean, Jungle and Swamp tribes were destroyed and taken over they still lived on within the population of each slave owning tribe.

Ocean Tribe unlike the Jungle tribe (shown before) were used for hard labor rather than picking Red Fang Berries. They were prefect for mining for precious ores. In the Desert Tribes land they had lots of silver mines and were used to get much of that. Since the desert stand were so hot and the Ocean tribe was adapted to the ocean rather than the desert many died in the head and had their "fleet" badly burnt and cut up. Some Ocean Nauceans said that those in the sun were the lucky ones because in the mines terrible cave in would crush many of them. Conditions for these slaves were some of the worst ever seen on the planet.

Steam Engine

Here is a River Tribe Steam Engine from the Industrial Age. These were alot faster than caravans of lystrophants. They like Earth's locomotive ran on steam power. The tracks ran East to West from the River Tribe to the Grassland Tribe and Also North to South from the Mountain Tribe to the Desert Tribe. The Railroad did not get to the jungle tribe until later when it was taken over by the Desert and Grassland Tribes and the Swamp Tribe region was not developed until the River Tribe took over. Also around that time New World was filled with tracks connecting the colonies and later plantation and slavery tribes. By the Atomic Age most lay in ruins due to the devastation. It was not until the reconstruction did any rail roads get put back in but by then it was mostly mag-lev trains.

Drugs

Here are some Naucean drugs.

Red Fang Berry This has been seen before with the great plantions in the new world worked by mostly Jungle Tribe slaves. The quills are very poisonous but it turns out when smoked it has the addictive qualities of tobacco and coffee combine but with the scent of mocha chocolate. It takes alot of skill to get this addictive juice from the plant without being hurt by the poison in the quill. It is smoked using a berry smoking pipe in which is inserted into the nostrils on the top of the head. The nostrils can open and close like a whales which simulates humans lips opening and closing on a tobacco pipe.

Red Olivenuts These have been used for a very long time by the Hydromanctic Priests. When cooked they turn pink and give off an incense. When eatten they have healing properties and work as a pain reliever like aspirin as well as cleaning out the digestive track like prunes. This effect is known as "the great cleansing".

Turmabegga This common tuber has been used in sports such as turnabegga ball as well as brewed into turnabegga ale. It has a similar taste as tequila and will make Nauceans drunk. Ironically it also is great as a sports drink when fermented properly (as seen by the Flowit walker drawing). This is the preferred drink at rave/discos during the Modern Age.

Quill Sponge This is an animal and not a plant but its protective spines are actually contain a sticky liquid. When dried out it makes a light blue powder. This substance is usually rubbed on the oral tentacles. When this is done they are inflamed and get the sense of hot and col as well as great pleasure. After this takes place they usually experience hallucinations as well as "stoned" quality to their behavior. Some Naucean claim it is is a good a sex, but with cravings for food.

Utensils

Here are Naucean Utensils and other cookware. Since Nauceans do not have teeth they use diffrent methods to eat food. Either Girding it up first with a meat grinder, or using chewing rings they wear on their oral tentacles by rubbing them together then sicking the squished and chewed meat in their beak. Or the one they used before even sentient, gizzard stones. Gizzard stone rub together in their stomach and grind up the food. They also have some unique utensils such as the "Sporife", which is a mixture of a spoon, fork and knife. However they are very long to reach to the mouth. Some familiar items are a ale bottles, bowl and cutting knife. They also have tea pots but they fill from the spout and spherical teacups too but fill them by screwing the top off. But one of the most weird items of all is the juice pan. The Juice pan is used by skewering a fruit on a pike on a dome on a pan. The juice drips down out of the fruit and the Naucean dip other food items in the juice or use straws to sip it out of the bottom. Lastly theire is the Naucean frying pan which is a mixture of a frying pan, wok and shish kabob.

Flight Age

Pilot

After the Naucean Industrial age is the Flight Age. Unlike Earth the Nauceans did not have a World war. But they did develop air travel. During this mostly peace time planes were developed to move things around faster than boats, lysotrophant pulled cart or even the industrial age's steam machines. But not all time of peace last for long. more and more anti-slavery is becoming prevalent and soon a war over it will be inevitable. Aircraft are still not advanced enough to travel betten the old and new worlds but by the next age they will, which will change things for ever.

Airship

Here is a Flight Age River Tribe Airship. These were used to transport Nauceans and shipments.However it is also equipped with a cannon on a turret on the bottom for defense. There are also small aircraft during this age that i will eventually get to. But i thought you guys would enjoy this Laputa style air ship that the Nauceans use. You can also see the similarities betwen this and the other Bronze Age Reed Ship.

Emancipation Age

Soldier

Here is a soldier from the Emancipation age. This is when the first conflict between those who thought slavery was wrong and those who thought it was right. this conflicted so much so that the colonies split and made their own new tribes of the Slavery and Plantation tribes. It was not untilthe end of the Atomic age and they were wiped out with the atom bomb did slavery finally end. Much improvesments from this age to the atomic age came along.

On the solder you can see i has much of the unchanged items of past ages like a floot with ties, the neck poncho and side bags. However the hat was improved to a helm and the armor was changed to hardened leather. The shot gun had to be reloaded at it was not until the atomic age that the machine gun was introduced. Overall the mistakes of this age were solved by the Atomic Age.

Pterabat Bombs

After the Flight Age tention mounts and the World is thrown in to its first true "world war". But unlike Earth's this is over slavery. The River and Grassland Tribe for the fist time in history have join forces in the idea of anti slavery. But The Desert, Mountain and New World conies do not want anything do do with it. The reason is the Desert Tribe uses them to convert their barren desert into a lush agricultural center, the Mountain tribe use them for plentiful mining and the new colonies use them for plantations. Due to the River and Grassland Colonies separate from their home tribes into the Plantation (River tribe's colony) and Slavery Tribes (Grassland Tribe's colony). For the Slavery tribe would get rich off capturing salves from the ocean, swamp and jungle tribe while the Plantation tribe would get rich of selling plentiful crops off the plantations to the desert and mountain tribe. Also the cave tribe is neutral during this time.

As the War escalates the 2 super powers Grassland and River Tribe create amazing new aircraft, sea craft and ground vehicles. One of the lesser known but very effective weapons is shown here in the "pterabat bombs". Pterabats are nocturnal desert creatures who roost in caves and under the bootom of Desert Tribe sphere homes. Taking advantage of this behavioral trait the River Nauceans developed the "pterabat bomb". This bomb drops out of their bombers and opens up its parachute. Once open the compartments slide out with sleeping pterabats on them tied to thin strings. One awake they see a roost because its day. Attached to them is a timed explosive that when they break the thin string activates it for a limited time. Enough so that the bats can find roosts all over the Desert tribes city. And then when the timers run out ... BOOM! Sphere homes bust into flames and the cities are inflamed.

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On a side note America during World War II developed this same method with Mexican Freetail Bats with Naplam attached to them to drop over Japan. This project did not get to be applied in the war due to the Atom Bomb which made this very effective method obsolete.

Air-Wing Biplane

Durring the Emancipation Age the first world war occurred and fighter planes were developed. The picture shows the first of this generation with the Air-Wing Biplane. It is called an air wing because the wings are filled with air like a balloon of an airship. The propeller is near the back with an airship like rudder in the back. Like the air ship it has an air cannon. The craft can hold 2 Nauceans (one pilot and one gunner) it also can hold enough ammo. Unlike the air-ships that ran on steam power the bi-planes ran on combustion engines (just like the dome tanks of this age).

Naucean Pilots were very brave an many lost their lives during this first war. During this time the first air battles happend to where they would chase each other through the air. One of the more famous squads of biplane pilots during the Emancipation Age and the 1st World war were the Silver Squaks (named after the Nauceanican animal) who painted their plains a silver color to blind their opponents in the shine of the paint. The parachute was also invented during this period after learning from air ship crashes of the Flight Age. Their parachutes were very similar to Earth's but were a but more spherical in shape.

Dome Tank

Here is a dome tank from the later Emancipation age. It was the one of the first tanks ever used and was the first military vehicle equipped with radio thus catapulting it into the Atomic Age. Un-Like the River Tribes Wheel Tank in the Atomic Age the Grassland Tribe's Dome tank had many wheels and was equipped with many cannons. These are reminiscent of the Flight Age. It was powered by one of the fist combustion engines. This was revolutionary since before this everything was steam powered. The tank was run by 1 Naucean driver and 4 cannoneres (one for each directional side). These Nauceans got so good at reloading that they were nicked named the "Iron Tentacles". The driver sat up top while the cannoners were at the bottom. These were virtually impenetrable from riffle, cannon and even calvary attacks. Only air bombing was their weakness, but even then they stood up to alot of punishment.

Atomic Age

Infantry

Here is a River Tribe Infantry during the Atomic Age. Durring this time was one of the most destructive periods in Naucean history. So much so it almost wiped out the species. This age is between the anti-slavery age and the rocket age. This war was mainly over the Plantation and Slavery Tribes forming.

As you can see from the picture during this age was the first time radio was used and the River tribe took advantage of this with their own version of the walkie talkie. They also discovered metal zippers in this age as well as the use of camouflage clothing and war paint. His clothing is also an early version of a bullet proof vest. They have not discovered kevklar yet but it is a light body armor none the less. They also are wearing a gas mask due to chemical warfare at the time. They would use stinging gas as well as poisonous gas.

Sadly many Nauceans died not only in battle but were bombed. Those that survived that died from the fallout and there was Nuclear winter in various places for at least a decade or more. The only reason the Naucean survived at all was because e of their mountain bunkers. The most surprising outsome of all this is the fact that after most of the radiation went away the Cave Tribe got a boost to technology and begin to dominate in later ages until the genocide plague in the Biotech Age.

Ball Turret Wheel Tank

Here is a River Tribe Ball Turret Wheel Tank used during the Atomic War. These were painted with desert cammo so when not moving it could hide from the Desert Tribe. These wheel could move over sand dunes with eases and reverse direction quickly. Like a Earth wheel bike the outside wheel spins while the internal wheel stays stable. This movement works like a gyro scope. Inside is a ball turret similar to the ball gun turrets used on the bottom of World War II air craft. These can turn 360 degrees around as well and rotative up and down and diagonal. The only way it cannot move is completly over the top because of the guns. Gunner of these were very accurate and it had a fail safe system in which if the gun was behind the wheel it would not fire. Once it cleared it it could continue.The cockpit holds 2 Nauceans side by side one looks out the window and shoots while the pilot reads the controls with a primitive view screen. This was the first use of any sort of screen since televesion was not invented yet. The displace showed a black and white image from 4 cameras that were positions on either side of the conical coll um that held the sphere in place. This part never moved thus 2 faced forward and 2 backwards once they were traveling in reverse. If the wheel fell over to one side to the other for any reason hydrolic lifts on the wheel part will pop it back up. The Wheel tank was not only very fast and could go on any terrain but was actually well armored. everything from the treads to the ball turret its self was heavily armored. Since they did not have brakes they had to use reverse to get it to a stop. The plots of these were called "Blind Tornados" because of all the sand it kicked up and how most had to use their other instruments rather than the cameras to even know where they were going.

Orphans

Durring the Atomic War many Nauceans died and many young Nauceans were orphaned. So many were orphaned by all of the waring tribes that many were left at the cave opening of the Cave Tribe, since at this time they were separate from the rest of the world. This desperation despite the tabboo actually allowed the Cave tribe to jump start themselves into the Modern Age. Infact the only tribe that did not do this was the desert tribe because of their strong hatred towards the cave tribe and their believe they were vampires. In the picture you can see a young little girl Naucean with her dolly morning over the passing of her mother. Durring this time there were so many dead that proper burrial was not performed because there were not enough supplies to make a casket.

See Also

Naucean: Basic Info, Geography, Creature Stage, Tribal Stage, City Stage, Civilization Stage, Solar System Stage, Galactic Stage, Universal Stage Overview, Naucean Civilization Video, Time Sphere