Novis Orbum: The war

Humans have met a challenge from beneath, within, their Earth, they cannot face these villains alone, these villains which have them surrounded, which have them beat, the human governments have banded as one, the Stevian Empire, name for he who brought them together, the Empire launches one last research attempt, which could win them the war, if used correctly, the Empire bands itself with the other species of the surface, and some from the subterranean, dubbing themselves the Stevian League,determined to take on the challenge knocking at their floors, the research allowed for new technology to be developed, allowing drafted or volunteered soldiers to combine with one another, in order to gain stronger, more specialized forms, there are, however, both political and technological limitations to this, the humans cannot combine with one another, and no other species can intermingle, in a process similar to mating, both recruits, human and other, merge, through the use of advanced sensors, scanners, and genetic reconfigurators. The offspring of this process, part man, part beast, is the perfect soldier, and, respectively, each “brand” of soldiers, so to speak, has been assigned to a different part of the league’s army, with their greatest challenge being cooperation, while both recruits may coexist, it is still within the same body, and no action can be done without both recruits agreeing on said action. Due to the fact that this process is so similar to mating, both the recruits must, obviously, be of different genders, and due to persistance by the non-human leaders within the league, the merged soldiers are not of the human’s gender, these species, are, still, the pinnacle of warfare, the greatest of soldiers in this world to date. In response to the aforementioned cooperation issues, the recruits will often spend meaningful training hours together prior to merging, and will participate in cultural activities of both species subsequently, along with basic military training and specialized training intended for the exact brand of soldier they are, namewise, the merged soldiers decide for themselves what they’ll be called, and resulting from this, they are often without names.