P.S. This is the image I used for Ukari Rebels that I have added to Aylon and Ishktar as a partisan rebels unit for Emperor Wars Version 2.0
I believe the Ukari Rebels were also on other of there colony worlds as well, but in smaller numbers. Also for starships I remember reading about some Al-Malik missle boat ships that fought agaist Symbiot.
http://www.deviantart.com/traditional/drawings/technical/?q=Fading+Suns&offset=25
I don't know if this is lore or not.
It is said that House Al-Malik's ship designers always did their best to squish as many torpedo tubes as possible in every warship. This was an expensive way of waging war, indeed, however the house was uder a constant threat of Symbiot raids. The torpedoes were one of the few devices the Symbiot were unable to copy, as the enormous acceleration would squish any living cell. This would give the Al-Malik torpedo-armed ships an upper hand.
The Tulwar class heavy cruiser was designed with defence of House's systems in mind. That's why no ship of the class was jump-capable. This was quite rare, since the system defence ships were mostly older ones, which had their jump drives lost or transferred to more modern vessels.
Thus, the Tulwar was unable to jump on her own. To move between systems, a special "gate tug" ship was utilized.
Otherwise, the design was similar to other cruisers of the era, of course done "the Al-Malik way"
The Tulwar class was 255 metres long. Her artillery was a bit inferior compared to other Houses' cruisers, but Al-Malik admirals always considered guns as a finish-off weapon, and relied on torpedoes. Still, the ship had twelve heavy plasma guns and fourteen medium grasers broadside, three heavy bow lasers and four heavy plasmas in individual turrets, of which all could be directed ahead and three abeam, increasing number of heavies firing abeam to nine. These were supposed to be only an addition to sixteen reloadable torpedo tubes buried in the hull.
Seven of these ships were bulit between 4919 and 4962 by Istakhr shipyards. Four remained in the system, while one was transferred to Shaprut and two reinforced the Stigmata fleet.
The Shamshir, stationed on Shaprut during the Emperor Wars, fought as she was planned to - engaging Symbiot raiders at long distance. She also was hit more than once, with boarding pods and rusting spores. The ship was never taken over by the Symbiuot, however wear&tear led to her scrapping in 4998.
The Scimitar and Banadik, which served in Stigmata system, had the most illustrious career of the class. After defection of Camertha Decados's Stigmata Garrison, these two spent over a year in constant fight against the Symbiot, engaging both their starships and ground forces - and proving more than once that a Tulwar is a tough nut to crack, even without torpedoes (yep, they expended their magazines in a month or so). Some incredible luck shone over the two cruisers, as they were hit by boarding pods several times, but the crews would always repel the Symbiots and cleanse the infested sectors. And, Scimitar and Banadik were the ones to meet Alexius's fleet when it arrived in 4991. The future Emperor expected a fierce fight after leaving the jumpgate, but all he saw were two cruisers flying Al-Malik colors and reporting 'jumpgate region secured'.
Awed by their history and combat record, Alexius woved to free every serf from the crew, and raise every yeoman to nobility - and he did so eventually. Both cruisers, after extensive repairs, still form a part of Stigmata fleet.
The other four ships never left the Istakhr system - and two of them survived the Emperor Wars. These would clash more often with Decados raiders and battlegroups than the Symbiot - but still. The lead ship, Tulwar, was caught with her torpedo magazines empty, boarded and lost to the Symbiot in 4989. The captains of Harb and Nabut then turned their guns against the doomed sistership and put her into oblivion. The Nabut was lost in a clash with a Decados strike force, herself heavily damaging the Varyag heavy cruiser, which was scuttled afterwards.
Currently, Harb and Chora are a part of Istakhr's system fleet.
