A centralized government was put in place, representing every tribe, clan and other faction, though this was quickly destabilized and replaced with the current system – no tribe or nation is automatically guaranteed representation within the Hegemony and must instead seek to consolidate its power base.

Once the Skinnies started exploring their nearby worlds and star systems, the Age of Hegemony came upon them. The Time of Peace put an end to millennia of world-wide warfare and counter-conquest, though it would never completely unify the Skinnies. Starship Troopers: The Miniatures Game & Roleplaying Game History The Age of Tribes īefore the Skinnies developed the technology to lift them from their homeworld of Ptolemy, a multitude of tribes dominated their society. It is very possible that Tophet is the home world of the Skinnies. Many Skinnies were then fighting alongside humans in the Infantry. However, they did not possess any spacecraft and so joined SICON's military instead. Shortly after this the Arachnids are defeated and retreat from Tophet.Īfter being freed from the Arachnids many of the Skinnies decided to join the war against the Arachnids. With the help of Colonel T'Phai SICON forces were able to locate the Arachnids Slave mines and liberate its Skinnie population. During this campaign it is discovered that the Arachnids had been brainwashing the Skinnies through using control bugs inserted into the back of the Skinnies necks, and that the Skinnies are being enslaved by the Arachnids. SICON launched a campaign on Tophet against the Arachnid-Skinnie forces. However it soon become very apparent that the Skinnies were allied with the Arachnids. At first it was believed that the Skinnies could become a new ally in the war against the Arachnids. The Skinnie race was first discovered on Tophet when the Roughnecks encountered a Skinny village on a recon mission. The Skinnies are tall methane breathers with dark skin and three clawed appendages. They are freed from their Arachnid brain-controlling overlords and their leader, Colonel T'Phai, then fights alongside their new human allies. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles History After several raids on Skinny cities, the skinny government begins to feed information to the Terran Federation on the Pseudo-Arachnids, which the Federation uses to its advantage in offensive operations.ĭuring the First Bug War the United Citizen Federation launched a raid on Skinny space, utilising Nova bombs against them to desuade them from assisting the Arachnids against Humanity. The ' skinnies' during the Arachnid War are a tall, aptly skinny humanoid species initially allied to the Bugs.

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