Satellites

Satellites are celestial bodies that orbit around Welt.
== Types of satellites ==
Natural satellites
Natural satellites are small asteroids that the Dalmer pull from space via Skycaller Holds, modify them with their technology for a certain function, and then send back into space to orbit the planet. 
Artificial satellites
Artificial satellites are platforms or machines sent into orbit in order to serve a function. While artificial satellites can have the same functions as natural ones, they tend to be more military and scientific in nature when compared to the more polyvalent natural satellites. 
DCDEA
After initial mishaps and breakthroughs concerning the usage of satellites natural and artificial, the Dalmer created the Royal Celestial Array, also known as the Dalmeran Celestial Defense and Exploration Array (DCDEA), or the Celestial Array, whose job is the maintenance and creation of Dalmer satellites, and to a lesser degree, the exploration of space.
Mantides
Mantides are military personnel destined to guard and enforce the rule of law concerning the launch of satellites into orbit. They mostly police artificial satellite launches. Armed branch of the orbital guard, responsible for the patrol and enforcing of Dalmer law on launch sites around the empire.
== Natural satellites ==
Bastien
Prison satellite.
Arachnid
Communication and Aetherweb relay satellite.
Bark
Repair satellite
Wilhelm
Alien defense, anti satellite satellite
Scrambler
Orbital command satellite
== Artificial satellites ==
StormSat
Main Article: StormSat
Satellites in orbit of Welt that can form a climate disruption array. Electrical storms and other extreme weather events would begin to ravage targeted areas. This is achieved by aiming lasers at a body of water to raise the temperature in order to create a hurricane, this supercharges the amount of water vapor feeding the hurricane, the lasers being much more concentrated than the sun's rays punches a hole into the atmosphere, rendering the population below being bombarded by unfiltered solar radiation. This in turn turns the air into plasma, at over 170 000°C, taking a purplish hue and boiling anything caught in the array of the StormSat. The StormSat array is so effective it can render an area of up to 15 square kilometers uninhabitable in a matter of hours, beyond that point, the entire planet of Welt would become extinct. Naturally, using stormsat for military purposes if forbidden, and stormsat itself is considered à forbidden weapon.
The Howard
Spy satellite, designed to prevent crimes before they happen
O.M.E.N
The pinnacle of Dalmer technology is a weaponized levitating satellite that can fire a laser beam virtually anywhere. However, once a shot is fired the O.M.E.N must return to base to reload. The O.M.E.N is cloaked and doubles as a mobile missile base capable of launching Trollsbane missiles virtually anywhere thanks to a laser pointer design using Technorunes, allowing the user to call in a missile strike onto the designated target with pinpoint accuracy.
Magnus
A shield satellite capable of generating shields onto the battlefield from orbit.
Teardropper
Orbital bombardment platform, launches powerful ordnance when in position above the target.
Audacity
Autonomous unit deployment activation, coordination, intelligence, transport and yielding satellite.
Strongbox
Gliding mountain deployment satellite
====Satellite based orbital printer====
Allows the auto construction of buildings and devices. Keep
Autonomous flying castles use support satellites called wings to get around powered by a “Living generator”, has a terraforming shield to protect its citizens, can teleport, has heating and lighting, and can regenerate energy wirelessly. Keeps often come equipped with power plants, munitions factories, an experimentation wing, laboratory and a prison.
Ward
Pylon array coordinator satellite. The pylon array is an immense array of underground pillars that the Dalmer can rise from the ground, or call down from orbit to create a mass magic nullifying field to even the battlefield. Especially useful against undead and demonic forces.
Orbitals
Hexagon skypiece, create the illusion of sky. Are in reality orbital weaponized satellites. 
== Technology ==
Tractor beam
The Dalmer empire has no space capable crafts powerful enough to deliver satellites into space, instead they developed powerful tractor beams that can attract meteors nearby the planet of Welt, and then repulse them back into the atmosphere once they are done with them.
Interplanetary transmissions 
Go through 3 broadcast towers that compose Orbital Command.
Orbital stations are kept afloat by 4 cooling towers.
Skycaller holds
Skycaller Holds are DCDEA bases in which asteroids are converted into artifiial satellites. in Skycaller holds, asteroids are pulled from space, modified with technology for a certain function, and then sent back into orbit.
The nature of these holds (and the staves they protect) are to maintain large asteroids in orbit and control their descent as a weapon of mass destruction. 
Preliminary testing of the comet control staff by sending the asteroids into the sea resulted in massive tremors that awakened a Gigacetidae, a monstrous bipedal aquatic mammal, invulnerable to Dalmer weaponry, which went on a rampage and destroyed a Dalmer coastal city. The staves electromagnetic pulse causes the Gigacetidae intense acoustic pain, causing it to chase the user until the staff has been safely returned to the Holds nullifying powers. The end of the pulse added to the Maresun’s allowed the Gigacetidae to be put back to sleep peacefully.
Learning from this, the Dalmer created the (DCDEA), who installs tractor installations all over the planet to attract meteors from orbit using tractor/repulsor technology, outfit them with Dalmer technology, and send them back.
Seat of Seeing
A seat that connects the seated to a satellite, allowing vision for hundreds of miles.
Lights out initiative
Positions a satellite in front of the sun, creating a tactical temporary eclipse.
Near orbit dropper trooper
N.O.D.T’s are Unbound units are encased in meteoric rock with boosters attached before being sent into the atmosphere. Once in orbit, they can be sent down and deployed via satellite control.
Anti-satellite weapons
target orbiting satellites.
Anti Corruption Satellite Launched Crystal
Orbital corruption defense mechanisms tuned to the elements composing the invasive species and upon activation release an energy wave, weakening or destroying the targeted element (for example, plant matter or mana). Over time these crystals break down.
The Wave
REDRAM, or Resource Detection and Rig Allocation Magnetic Shockwave is a scan made by the satellites found over Liptic (and stuck there for some reason), which detects resources and potential habitation sites. This wave makes Dalmer industries manufacture Floating Rigs and City Blimps destined to pave the area for explorers and pioneers automatically.
== Stories concerning satellites ==
Atmospheric dragons
Once a satellite was eaten by a vengeful dragon
Space Raiders
Sometimes, asteroid farm transports are raided by unknown space entities on their way back to Welt
Down to earth
Dalmer that fall from satellites are a rare, but not unknown occurrence among the other races. When the other races loot the crash and steal the corpses, the Dalmer often retaliate violently, adding to their mystique as quasi gods to the other races.
== Misc ==
Meteor mining
Meteor mining eliminated the need for mines, this was done by the department of extra planetary resources. Traction/repulsion technology and celestial body mining quarries.
Satellite issues
Dalmer satellite lasers constantly fall back to Welt.
Companies that develop satellite equipment and technology
The Tintazel corporation builds satellites.
====Satellite operator====
Requires training in personal tow cable and magnetic boots.
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