The Amon'Tau Flotilla:


First Contact:

The first time human people had contact with the Amon'tau Flotilla it came to a misunderstanding and so nearly to a fight, but in time both sides could find a solution. It wasn't the first alien race humans found, but one of the most technically far more developed species. As they looked at the humanity as neither threat or as well developed enough, they also had no reason to dispense with them. But after the humanity showed great power and military strength, the Amon'Tau Flotilla showed interest and so they made a trade.

For new technology humanity gave them construction plans of their best guns, turrets and fighters. The Amon'Tau Flotilla needed the tehchnology and plans for her military armed forces and the humans could use the new technology for better life-support equipment, shields and medicine. Because the Amon'Tau live very withdrawn in her vessels, it never came to an alliance between them and humanity.


History of the Tau:

The Amon'Tau Flotilla is a organized bunch of ships from small fighters, escort cruisers and battleships up to colossal vessels. It's a huge fleet of several hundred ships, whose number is increasing steadily and can provide themselves. The Tau are humanoid lizard-beings and are known for their strength and advanced technology willing. Since thousands of years the Tau, also known as Zas'Daagar, has travelled trough the galaxy, colonized far worlds and brought knowledge and wisdom to every friendly and intelligent species they met.

They created a huge star empire with her homeworld Naruul'Zavas as center of diplomacy, trade and culture. They created a empire with limitless possibilities and free access to technologies of past cultures of extinct species, but they never had to fight. For sure they had weapons and a hand full Battleships, but they had never been confronted with a real threat.

The openess became their fatal as they found an intelligent, but agressive synthetic spezies, also called Rachna'Vas, which involved them in a conflict that should continue for hundreds of years. Although they had to complain many losses, they fought together with their allies against the new threat and were able to keep the upper hand at important strategic points.

Thousands of people died while the battle of Potschak. Not only Tau's, also the Vuro's, Yaddra's and many other paid a great price, just so that the various colonies had time to escape. But the enemy was too strong and broke the resistance of the united nations and ultimately conquered the heart of the star empire, Naruul'Savar had fallen.

As the home world of Tau's fell it was only a matter of time before the scattered species would be wiped out. So the Tau fled with their ships from their home world and were divided into three fleets, knowing that only a fraction of their race would survive. The Zareel'Tau fleet went into the Rosus Nebula, the Amon'Tau fleet to the Adray Star Cluster and the Peruuvar'Tau fleet to the Vas'Fero Nebula.

For months, there was no contact between the fleets and as the Amon'Tau fleet arrived at the meeting place there were only a few residental vessels and cruisers of the Peruuvar'Tau fleet left, because the the heavy fleet, including battleships and heavy fighters, sacrifised them selfs, so the many residental vessels could live. The Tau swore vengeance to the Rachna'Vas and to conquer back their homeworld, whether it would take years, centuries or eons.

The Amon'Tau Flotilla was founded.