The Delphian Empire is home to 50 million beings living in the Cryllian star system with Gomoray being their home world.
The Delphians are generally a peaceful but proud people. They have an advanced technology and are brilliant architects using crystal to produce their buildings and works of art which can be found as valued pieces in Colonial space.
In appearance, the Delphians are upright amphibians, with scaly skin. They are equally at home on dry land or in the water. They have two legs, two forward arms that they can also use as legs and a tail which is used for balance.
They were slow developing space flight and only really got a handle on FTL flight when the Colonials contacted them. The two nations became sporadic trading partners and during the long war with the Cylons, the Delphians supplied fuel and supplies to the Colonials.
The Delphian armed forces, while advanced, is small, the Delphians being a peace loving race, they thought that they had no need for many weapons of war. As such, they operated mainly patrol ships and a couple of old light cruisers which they purchased from the Colonials. The Delphians do not make use of fighters, so their cruisers carried several patrol ships instead.
The Delphians are tech level 10.
Unfortunately, by gaining FTL technology, the Delphians became a target of the Cylons. The Cylons had known about the Delphians for a while, but because they were not a star faring race, they were not considered a problem to the natural order of the Cylons. By gaining FTL drives, all that changed and suddenly the Cylons were confronted with another species that were about to spread their chaotic and unpredictable ways across space. This, of course, was unacceptable to the Cylons.
As such, the Cylons started conducting raids against the Delphians, but these were generally only half hearted as their main interest was against the Colonials. But, by 7330, the Cylons started mounting larger and larger raids against the Delphians, with the last battle being in 7335 where the Cylons finally destroyed the Delphians and exterminated every last man, woman and child eliminating the Delphians as a species. However, with the Delphian race now extinct, the Cylons rebuilt Gomoray with the architecture as they too, appreciated the beauty of the crystalline buildings and art. Unfortunately for them, this was constantly interrupted by the Battlestar Pegasus, fresh out of the Battle of Molecay, conducting raiding and strike missions against them.
Ultimately though, by 7343, Gomoray would be up and running as the Cylon Empire's Southern Capital with no further interference by the Colonials.
Points: 25
Attributes: ST +1 [10]
Advantages: Amphibious [10], Damage Resistance (1) [5], Nictitating Membrane (level 2) [2], Speak Underwater (Interface crossing) [8], Striker (tail) [5]
Disadvantages: Bad Grip (1) [-5], Chummy [-5], Semi-Upright [-5]
The Delphians use patrol boats mainly, and any of the Colonial variants can be used, or versions thereof. They do construct patrol boats of their own, but none have fighters installed. Used normal Colonial rules for constructing these ships.
Larger ships were purchased from the Colonials, but with some slight modifications. All fighter bays are removed and replaced with patrol boat bays - one patrol boat (yacht) box per fighter box. Light Cruiser hulls were purchased for this, but it is conceivable that the occasional larger hull was also bought. Because the Delphians came late into the space scene, they use the Colonial Warship (6400+ yahren) tables.