Spell-Cross Project

The Spell-Cross Project, also known as the Spellcross Project, is a joint Novayan-Saiyanese and later Triumvirate and multinational military modernization program created by Grand Marshal Borealis Norsoutha III in collaboration with President-Chairwoman Saku Otonashi. The Spellcross Project involves the creation of new military equipment necessary for allied forces to win battles and suffer less casualties. As part of the Spellcross Project, the Novayan and Saiyanese, and later the Nova Romans and other nations will commence testing on untested designs and prototypes that would increase the survivability of their forces, organize studies and operations groups on foreign nation's military capabilities, and upgrade their military technologies and paratechnologies to their modern extent.
The Spellcross Project sparked major protests in Novaya and Saiyane, where most oppose each other's nations for political reasons. Despite the protests, many sees this as the beginning of the Novayan-Saiyanese thaw despite the cold war evolving into an economic kind of cold war. This project would become involved in Borealis III's Reformist Wars, during which he led a Novayan expeditioninto various medieval fantasy worlds and fight evil nations and reform them and their religions and churches, but would later call in Novayan and Saiyanese worlds after realizing the massive scope of the wars.
==Objectives==
#Understand the strengths and flaws of Novayan and Saiyanese military forces.
#Study and observe foreign military forces and their capabilities.
#Study the lessons of the previous wars and events related to Novayan and Saiyanese military capabilities.
#Research untested and new designs and ideas to increase the survivability of Novayan and Saiyanese forces and win events.
#Field test the prototypes in a number of environments in military exercises in conjunction with affiliated forces of varying technology levels, then apply changes to variants for additional testing and final approval.
#Produce the new para/technologies to help develop the Novayan and Saiyanese militaries and later other militaries as well.
==List of projects==
===Infantry projects===
Name	Results	Application	Description
 	 	 	
====Universal New Type Armor====
The Universal New Type Armor is an untested design for a complex battle suit, dubbed the Collision Units, that never got off the drawing boards due to conservative think tanks seeing them as cumbersome and can complicate the soldiers' abilities to fight. The first variants of the UNTA vests were made from flexible plastic foils, light enough not to overcumber infantry squadrons. After being tested in a number of exercises involving different environments with affiliated forces, infantry units equipped with such armor were sent to a medieval fantasy world which contain a medieval empire ruling through oppression and terror and utilize black and light magics and enslaved humanoids and spirits. While able to protect the troops from glancing blows from axes and swords, the UNTA vests didn't protect them from the swords being thrusted through them.
New variants of the UNTA vests saw compact solid armor being used instead of flexible plastic foils, which were used by rear-line ground troops. After further testing, the first batch were approved to a few infantry battalions for field testing, and the results were very stellar, protecting the ground troops from not just melee weapons but also arrows as well. After several more battles, new versions of the Collision Suits will see the solid armor to be incredibly flexible, thereby undercumbering the ground troops.
After encountering enemy dragons, the dragons' scales were taken to laboratories where, after thorough examinations, they were artificially replicated. A thin layer applied on a suit with a specially adapted foil is enough to improve the resistance of armour by one hundred percent. The armour was not only tested for resistance to projectile hits but also the resistance to high-power cutting and stabbing which gave the same excellent results. The quantity of the material used for the armour of one light battle vehicle equals the quantity sufficient for improving a thousand infatry suits. And thus earned this new armor the name of Dragon's Armor.
====Infantry weapons and equipment====
Shockhandle: The Shockcandle is an offensive weapons system that allows infantry troops to not only target distant objects but also hand-to-hand combat. This is made from modern electrical systems that would have otherwise been for general purposes. Based on old Future Soldier projects - especially those of the Imperial Novayan Army's Advanced Peacekeeper program, the Federal Saiyanese Army's Future Force Warrior program, and the Imperial Roman Army's Future Legionnaire program - it was the very revival of such Future Soldier programs and concept intended to bring wearable and man-portable cutting-edge computer and materials para/technology to infantry units.
The Future Soldier programs of Novaya, Saiyane and Nova Roma were notably overexpensive and impractical and saw little or limited use even before they reached to the stars, but after the end of the Novayan-Saiyanese War did the two militaries dug up the old, original project and provide the funding necessary to rework it, this time with thaumaturgy providing the opportunity to make a version more employing. Also as part of this revived program, now dubbed Shockcandle, an investigation into the causes of the projects' problems and issues by members of the nascent Triumvirate member-states' respective military investigations divisions found that corruption, differences between R&D groups and hardliner stances against the use of thaumaturgy is to blame; the ones who plagued such projects were utterly removed, tried and imprisoned. A civil-military commission was established to direct and supervise the revival of these projects.
Under the initial Novayan-Saiyanese program of Spell-Cross, later joined by other nations, infantry armor has been reinforced with light but highly durable plates of alchemical metal reinforced with defense runes, alongside gun-integrated systems which allow infantry troops of all sorts to hold their weapons more steadily while reducing the effects of recoil. Because of the inclusion of thaumaturgy, the system became very affordable and would provide the much needed but also welcomed boosts to all infantry units' fighting capabilities, and the first batches of the Shockcandle systems were produced and given to all eligible combat personnel.
Flame Launcher: The Flamelauncher, or Napalm-launcher, is a new flamethrower weapon capable of not just spewing forth fire but also shoot rocket-propelled incendiary grenades at a large distance.
====Mobile Infantry and Hi-Tech Infantry====
After numerous improvements into optical and targeting systems, internal communications systems, artificial intelligence and light weapons systems, Novayan and Saiyanese research groups were able to improve the Collision Suits, turning them into literal complex battle suits. While it is definitely cumbersome, Novayan and Saiyanese ground troops have grown a liking to it and some soldiers used them to assist regular ground troops, leading to less casualties. After learning of an unauthorized test involving a makeshift jet engine and a Collision Suit, it was further agreed to improve the battle suits by adding jet engines, giving them the ability of unaided flight. Those who worn the first iteration were given the name Hi-Tech Infantry for the complex equipment, and those who wore the second iteration were called Mobile Infantry.
===Vehicle projects===
====Main battle tanks====
A number of main battle tanks were developed as part of the military modernization programmes. Ever since Novaya, Saiyane and Nova Roma - and later others, such as the Chinese Empire and then the All-Sarakan Black League - formulated the program conflicts arose as a result of differences on which tanks they would all use. Eventually it was settled for the combination of all aspects of their tank designs into two specific tank designs, the K1 Atlas tank and the Panther tank. It was also agreed that the results of the Atlas and Panther projects should be replicated into existing armored tanks.
====UDES====
====Destructor====
===Naval projects===
====Project Union dreadnought====
The Project Union dreadnought, or the Union-type dreadnought, is a project series of dreadnoughts created for both Novayan, Saiyanese and later Nova Roman fleets, and at 21 km in length is the largest dreadnoughts to date, surpassing the 19km-long Atlas-class dreadnoughts of the NSC Navy. While capable warships, they were designed also to be equally useful during emergencies, equipped with extensive power plants, water treatment facilities and medical units to support or replace planetary infrastructure during a crisis.
Due to the costs of this ship class, only ten were produced each by Novaya, Saiyane and Nova Roma. The Novayan-built dreadnoughts fall under the name Crusader,the Saiyanese-built dreadnoughts fall under the name Serpentine, and the Greco-Roman-built dreadnoughts fall under the name Caesar. Like the Atlas-class dreadnoughts, the Union dreadnoughts were assigned to a larger sector fleet, and rarely deployed independently without at least an accompanying task force. However, due to the ongoing Operation Sovereign Justice, twenty more of the Union-type warships had begun to be constructed in the naval shipyards.
===Technology projects===
====Guns technology====
====Armor technology====
====Optical and targeting systems====
====Internal communications systems====
====Artifical intelligence====
====Light weapons systems====
===Other projects===
====Evadit====
====Archotral====
====Archotral munitions====
====Archotral engines====
====Unknown materials====