''We're looking at an extinction-IeveI event.''
-Dr. Nogrady to The Pentagon
The Regents (also unofficially known as "Garenonian Regents") are advanced space-faring alien species and the main antagonists in the Battleship film and video game.
History[]
Early civilization[]
Little is known about their past, but based on their actions and abilities, it is evident that they, too, have undergone a long history of evolution and development. It is likely that they advanced their civilization hundreds, if not thousands, of years ahead of humanity. At some point in their distant past, they rose to become a highly advanced civilization, capable of interstellar travel, exploring the cosmos, and conquering planets — ultimately forging a mighty empire.
Regent's massacre on another alien planet[]
At some point in the past, the Garenon entered an era of interstellar expansion, exploring and conquering planets and that may have led to clashes with other races and caused interstellar war, when a Garenon commander was being held captive on the USS John Paul Jones, he showed Alex Hopper a past where the Garenons massacred, invaded and destroyed an alien planet, the battle showed a Thug walking on the planet's surface with explosions, the sky was overwhelmed by a huge Archer fleet and then many large explosions on the planet like a nuclear explosion seen from orbit, Striker ships can be seen orbiting the planet then leaving the planet and flying deep into space at a very high speed. Perhaps this was one of the planets they conquered.
21st century[]
In 2005, when NASA scientists discovered their world, planet G. Humanity created advanced communication equipment placed in Hawaii and began the process of contacting planet G every 24 hours after scientists were excited that this place was completely compatible with Earth's environment and for humanity to live and also have civilization there, but did not know that it was humanity's fatal mistake. In 2012, the Garenons finally caught the signal and responded immediately by sending a reconnaissance fleet of five ships: Mother ship, Stinger, Archer, Striker and Lurker, to find out which world was trying to contact them.
Landing on Earth[]
With their advanced technology, they were able to cross almost the entire Solar System at a very fast speed (hundreds of times faster than light speed) before reaching Earth's orbit. While traveling between the stars, all five spacecraft merged into a giant mass several kilometers long before separating into five separate ships as they flew past Saturn and its moons. As soon as NASA scientists discovered that it was currently in Jupiter's orbit, Dr. Nogrady had to exclaim if this was a joke. He was then shocked because at this moment, the alien reconnaissance fleet was about to cross Mars' orbit and rush towards Earth at a very fast speed. The foreign object warning system in the scientists' room started to sound. Nogrady had to exclaim ''Oh my God''. The alien spacecraft had arrived at Earth in extremely fast time right after entering the edge of the Solar System.
Upon entering Earth's atmosphere, the Lurker accidentally collided with a human satellite at extremely high speed, with such great kinetic energy that both were destroyed, the Lurker quickly became unstable and deviated from its orbit and fell over Hong Kong and collided with many tall buildings causing many to collapse and crush each other, killing 25,000 people before completely plunging into nearby Lake Victoria, its debris was also scattered over several European countries such as Germany, Scotland and the US state of Iowa, notably one of the Lurker's escape ships landed on a farm in Scotland, the rest of the fleet landed in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii, hidden deep under the ocean, waiting for recovery ships before starting to explore this new planet.
Encounter with humanity[]
While many news reports about the discovery of 4 UFOs in the Pacific sky near Hawaii as well as the investigation of the Lurker debris in Hong Kong caused panic for most of humanity as well as high-ranking officials, when scientists suspected that the strange objects were the response of aliens from planet G to Pentagon officials, the alien ships soon became active again under the ocean, the Mother Ship soon emerged partially with a magnetic energy generator and a tower creating Shredder drones, coincidentally at this time offshore there was a naval exercise RIMPAC 2012 with many countries, the navy soon received notice of the collision with Hong Kong as well as in the Pacific near their exercise area, Admiral Shane soon ordered two US destroyers, USS Sampson and USS John Paul Jones as well as additional support from JS Myoko from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force to the alien area to investigate. After a long journey, the sailors soon discovered the floating part of the Mother Ship with binoculars but were confused because they could not detect this object on radar, proving that the alien ship was completely invisible to human radar, it could only be detected by visual inspection. After that, Alex Hopper's team was sent to explore the mysterious floating structure by small boat, they had absolutely no idea what it was, only guessing that it was lost goods from China or an artificial satellite.
Battle with the human navy
When Alex Hopper touched the mothership's tower, it knocked him out with electric-like energy then released energy from two magnetic energy-emitting panels which made a force field 300,000 feet high and about two nautical miles deep.
A Regent Thug
A Regent squad on patrol
Physical Characteristics[]
The Regents came from a newly discovered extrasolar planet named Planet-G by NASA scientists. When NASA sent out a signal to the planet, five Regent ships arrived in response. One of which collided with a satellite and crashed in Hong Kong. In appearance, the Regents have ape-like characteristics, such as their faces, hands, and bodies being light brown and looking roughly humanoid. They also possess lizard-like eyes and feet. They wear special metal space suits that are color-coded to represent different ranks. Other Regents are cyborgs built with heavy-armored suits and inbuilt weaponry. Regents are possibly amphibians, and their home world is likely to be a water planet with a small amount of land, as much of their technology, such as their Stingers, are focused on being adaptable to water.
Behavior[]
Unlike other alien species from other movies, the Regents are not shown to be entirely cold and ruthless towards humanity because they almost look human and are not seen as an immediate threat. Why exactly is never fully explained, though a possible explanation is so they can avoid as few casualties as possible. If scanned objects get green on their HUD, it means they are unarmed and not a threat. They ignore them, and if they get red, which means they are armed and ready to attack (for example, when a ship is pointing guns at them) or if an immediate action must take place (for example, when one of the Regent captains or high ranked being turning red on the HUD) They are shown to have their own personalities; some are obedient and logical to orders, while others are curious and harmless.
When it comes to hand-to-hand combat, the Regent Thugs are quick and aggressive. The Regents are shown to be sensitive to sunlight or any form of bright light, and if their eyes are exposed to continuous beams of sunlight, it can leave them half-blind and vulnerable. This could indicate that either they're a nocturnal species, or their home planet has a different, but similar atmospheric makeup to Earth, due to them requiring the use of the helmets while in direct sunlight but still being able to breath without the use of them.
Technology[]
The Regents are shown to be a powerful and more advanced species as they possess spaceships that can take them from one star system to another, plus many other advances, including heavy armor, cybernetics, robotics, energy weapons, advanced scanners, and even the ability to disrupt electromagnetic waves.
Types of Garinonian Regents[]
The Regents come in four different types, both in the movie and in the video game. Their functions are different between the movie and the game.
Alien Soldiers ( Blue) :[]
The most basic soldiers in the Regents' ground forces. In the movie, they were unarmed and acted mainly as workers, scientists, and technicians when setting up equipment or studying the Earth. In the game, they were armed with KRAWs, a laser based rapid firing machine gun that fired a “plasmachinegun” spread of blue laser pulses. They were the most common enemy faced by the players on land.
The leading Regents are those who give out orders and lead squads on patrol. In the movie, they were unarmed and never directly fought the humans, unlike the Thugs. One commander was captured by the crew of the John Paul Jones but was rescued by a team of thugs. In the game, as well as leading the troops, commanders were armed with alien railguns, a long-range heavy weapon that can be used to snipe enemies from a distance.
Thug:[]
The special forces and heavy infantry units in the Regents' ground forces These are large, muscular beasts enhanced with cybernetics and heavy armor, which makes them the toughest of the Regents' troops. They were incredibly strong, and their heavy armor made them invulnerable to rifles and resistant to physical attacks.
Their whole right arm (possibly amputated) could transform into multiple different tools and weapons for different tasks. Because of their strength and abilities, the thugs were the ones doing the dirty and dangerous work. Like an extra terrestrial Spetsnaz. whether it would be guarding an outpost, committing rescue missions, or sabotage.
In the game, they attack the players up close by charging at them, leaping up, and slicing them to death with their multipurpose claws.
Spaceship Crewman:[]
Briefly seen in the movie, these aliens pilot the Regent spaceships. They wear simple black suits and don't wear any helmets, unlike the troops, as the ships provide them with darkened protection against sunlight. And also have a mark or rank determination signature vertically going over their left eye.
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