Warfare in Dimentiara

The integration of Battle Kreatures into warfare was a paradigm shift that changed it forever. With their Nucleo-Auras, Battle Kreatures are impervious to all conventional weaponry. Although they are not invincible, the simplest method to dispatch a Battle Kreature is to use another against it. Therefore, the balance of power in Dimentiara lies with those who can create the most Battle Kreatures and equip them with the most advanced technology.

At the outset, one might think that the sheer variety of different Battle Kreatures would over-complicate things from a logistical standpoint, making them impractical to use in warfare by rendering military standardization impossible to enforce. However, through process of elimination in selecting the best Kreatures with the simplest husbandry requirements, this problem is resolved. Most Battle Kreatures have been designed for use in recreational battles, where the cost of specialized care is offset by the smaller scale of the operation.

There are some drawbacks to using Kreatures in warfare despite their awesome power. Kreatures are fickle and have minds of their own, which can sometimes make them unreliable. They're best kept in reserve and deployed strategically to counter the other side's Kreatures. Battles are fought across a variety of terrains by utilizing a mixture of both War Kreatures and standard Battle Kreatures, in addition to conventional weaponry, which still perfectly suffices for bombing supply lines, eliminating enemy personnel, disabling aircraft and vehicles and taking out strongholds.

The sport of Kreature Combat originated from military exercises to train Kreatures for warfare. The business of both war and Kreature Combat remain joined at the hip. Armed forces across the nations of Dimentiara view Kreature Combat as a giant recruitment scheme, and the Kreature Combat Federation is in on the scam. Local KCF branches receive government funding in exchange for ad-space. Tamers who are down on their luck are preyed upon by recruitment officers, who feed them into the military-industrial meat grinder with promises of work experience and letters of recommendation. Some former Kreature Combat teams have even been bought out and converted into private military companies.

Warfare has had a terrible impact on the environment in Dimentiara. A common tactic in warfare over the ages was to deliberately sew chaos by targeting the enemy's Kreature barracks, forcing them to waste time, resources and manpower rounding the Kreatures back up. This has led to uncaptured Kreatures breeding and siring populations of Feral Kreatures, which are a widespread nuisance. Pollution from the chemicals used in Aura-Blaster cells have contaminated former battlefields across the planet, rendering these territories uninhabitable for generations.

As of DAC5215, there are no major ongoing wars in Dimentiara, though plenty of small-scale skirmishes still occur, mostly in the form of Mindjacker incursions along the outer territories and clashes between Spiritualist factions. It's been speculated that the major powers of Dimentiara, having become too strong to challenge each other openly, are secretly backing proxy wars in an attempt to undermine each other.