The flag of the Free Sinapan Commonwealth
Background:
The Sinap species were introduced to the galaxy by a race they refer to as the Overlords. While they were still in the middle of a medieval age the Overlords came and settled on their home-world, Domanica. What commenced was centuries of genetic modification and enslavement. The SInap were modified to be strong and brutish. They were forced, through slavery to do all manner of physical labor - mostly on world.
The Overlords had a limited capacity for Sinapan slaves, however, and did not out right conquer the whole planet. Many small feudal kingdoms remained untouched during this period. It was these kingdoms that first began to organize the revolution by providing refuge for escaped slaves and bases of operation for the resistance once it began. All this they did as stealthily as possible, as they knew that if the Overlords caught wind of their assistance they could be easily discarded.
The Revolution:
The period that followed is collectively referred to as simply The Revolution. The grand strategy during the early years of The Revolution was to conduct a slow burn. The Sinapan knew that if they stood any chance of defeating the Overlords they would have to reverse engineer Overlord technology and bridge the gap between themselves and their captors technologically. Once they had a proper understanding of Overlord technology their first target was taking control of Overlord military outposts to gain control of the surface. To their benefit they were able to catch the invaders sleeping, they had no idea that a revolt on such a large and prepared level was coming.
With ground military bases under control the Sinap Revolutionary Forces went about liberating large population centers and focusing on capturing and repairing crashed space craft. During this stage the Overlords began to harshly bombard the planet, aiming for large population centers first and foremost - hoping that they could kill morale on the planet. Instead it invigorated those still not liberated into revolting on their own. All over Domanica the Sinap were breaking their chains.
After many years the Sinap were able to finally strike back in orbit with a fleet of reconstituted commercial ships and patched together military vessels that they had shot down. They made it to orbit and in the final battle of the revolution shot the Overlord capital ship out of the sky as they rest of the Overlord fleet retreated. The site the ship landed on the surface became a monument to the Revolution and Sinapan freedom.
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About this AAR and what to expect:
Ok, so I am a big role player when it comes to Stellaris. I have a ton of custom made empires (altered versions of vanilla empires, Sci-Fi based empires, and empires created off races generated in random play throughs), probably about 30-40 in total. I like an element of randomness though so I play with random spawn on (and cranked up to 60 or 65%) so I get a solid mix of premade and random empires.
I also play a heavily modded game, like a lot of mods. For the most part I'll probably keep this role-play oriented so most of the in game functionality won't matter too much. I am using New Ship Classes, which apparently has a breaking change coming in the next few weeks. I've created a local backup of the current files in case it does break the save like they are claiming. If so hopefully the backup will allow me to continue this - otherwise I'll start another (with a different empire most likely).
At the moment I'm around 2250 in this save and like the way its shaping up in terms of narrative. I already have a nice backlog of interesting places, people, events, and stories that I hope to share.