Officer of the Fleet (WIP)(~90k words)(Minor Update 5/5/25)

[3ND]

@Murdockchan

admiral dad.

He’s either going to be cool asf Kishou Arima style or a asshole like Endeavor

[Murdockchan]

@3ND

cool asf Kishou Arima style or a asshole like Endeavor

I’d rather he be a Chinese version kind of Li Sun-Chen.

[AnneWest]

@T_Chaney

Slightly smaller than average in most cases and usually covered in some sort of ballistic vests. Others also fought with weapons while most Raptors would simply close to short range and kill with their claws. Such exemptions seemingly had no connection to rank or position and randomly occurred at fairly low rates across all theaters of war.

@BubbaJubbs

Right, I forgot about that part. I personally think they’re being used as shock troops by a more intelligent species like @DashingCoward posed or managed to somehow acquire and miraculously understand the spacefaring tech of a more intelligent species, like with the Protheans in Mass Effect. I think the former is more plausible than the latter, however.

Sexual divergence leading to underclasses, maybe? Like the big brained intelligent Raptors that can reproduce mostly produce large amounts of smaller, sterile and possibly un sexually differentiated, mostly unitntelligent worker grunts and smaller amounts of smaller (but larger than the smallest, still sterile, minorly sexually dirrerentiated, slightly intelligent “drones” and those are the two types humanity has seen as ground troops. Meaning we’ve never seen the intelligent Raptors because there are at least those two degrees of separation between what we’ve seen and them? They may just need space or want what resourses Earth has, because there are just SO MANY “useless” offspring born to get to the ones they want (the other intelligent ones.)

[Cyber0090]

Now that i think about it are the enemy called raptors because they look like raptors or because of the fact their species are lizardlike if so then wont that mean they would lay eggs?

[T_Chaney]

@Cyber0090

are the enemy called raptors because they look like raptors or because of the fact their species are lizardlike

Both. Raptors, in both appearance and size, more closely resemble a velociraptor in something like Jurassic Park rather than reality, where they were much smaller and probably covered in feathers.

Still, this is a rough comparison. Raptors have four arms instead of two, with prehensile claws, and a barbed tail that can stretch out behind them to run low to the ground or curl up closer and allow them to stand almost vertically.

Loving all the theories from everyone BTW.

[Cyber0090]

The most important question is…are they breedable

[Vacco_da_king]

The cursed question

[Cyber0090]

indeed

[kckolbe]

I’m sitting here waiting to play Officer of the Fleet, and you’re already looking forward to Court Martial Simulator

[Cyber0090]

Just disguise it as.. er studying the biology of raptors in preparation for chemical attacks?

[Friedrich]

@Cyber0090

The most important question is…are they breedable

You are supposed slay them not lay them.

(Just pretend that the dragons are raptors and the king is whatever appropriate authority it is supposed to be)

[Cyber0090]

okay but hear me out on that dragon-

[Cyber0090]

i swear corvettes are literally just
frigates