The Kayeshi Empire is a human empire founded originally 345 years ago by Alyssa Kayesh. I started as an earth colony, which was the result of a poorly calculated hyperspace jump, and a solar storm. The colony ship ended up lightyears past the target they had aimed for, and the ship was damaged on arrival, which stranded the colonists. The colonists made for the nearest inhabitable planet (of which there are two in this system) and started a colony. Unfortunately, one of the local parasites took a liking to the new arrivals, and the population started dying. At that time, Alyssa Kayesh was the ships doctor, and she immediately started working on an antibody to stop the parasites. Of the nearly 6000 colonists that had been onboard, approximately 1000 died before she finished.

Alyssa became convinced that the current leadership was part of the problem, and hid the cure.... only doling it out to those who swore absolute loyalty to her. In the end, another 400 refused and died......alongside the original colony leadership. Which Alyssa had already decided to allow to die. She then began to re-organize the colonie. She set up artificial breeding equipment, that basically allowed each couple to have 6 - 8 children at a time. Each couple would donate genetic material, and it would be combined and used to create large "batches" of children. The end result was a total of 800,000 people within 35 years. From there, she began building a militant society, where everyone has a preset place and job. Everyone works, or faces punishment. As she was dying, she named one of her daughters as the new Empress of the Kayeshi Empire.

The society has spent the last 3 centuries building up a a military force and preparing to create a larger empire. During this time, they colonized the second planet in their own system, and started branching out.  They soon discovered another race that lived in a nearby star system, and in the now typical Kayeshi fashion, proceeded to conquer it. This new civilization was somewhat more advanced in a lot of technologies, but unfortunately for them, the Kayeshi weren't all too interested in trade. Had the Kayeshi actually considered a peaceful means of negotiation, they would have had a chance to learn........ instead, they decided that the other people had nothing to offer, and spent nearly a decade destroying all of them that they could find. During this war, the Kayeshi managed to back-engineer some of their opponents weapons, giving them a +1 tech level in that category. However, their rigid government and belief system, does not allow them to integrate new tactics or ideas very easily. Hence, they have never discovered stealth generators or cloaking devices. ECM is limited to lighter ships, usually Hull 6 or less, and they have not developed spinal mounts. They prefer to use Torpedoes (drones) Tachyon Accelerator Cannons, and Fusion Shell Cannons.  Recent encounters with the Slyth'Kra have convinced them of the use of fighters, and anti-fighter, Gatling Lasers.  However, as these are somewhat new developments, they only use standard fighters, and even with a high rate of fires, the Gatling Lasers do not have the repeating ability (thier fire control systems aren't quite that advanced) They also have never developed boarding pods with marines, as why would anyone want to capture inferior technology?

Currently, they are working on expanding their sphere of influence, and at war with the Slyth'Kra.

::ship designs will be added later, as I am at work, and can't enter them from here::
(any comments on this are welcome)

To be continued