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Cain

A character from the Battlestar Galactica (1978) universe
Commander of the Battlestar Pegasus, thought lost after the Battle of Molocay, Cain is a flamboyant, yet rash Commander. While he respects Adama, he cannot seem to grasp the situation that Adama is responsible for over 200 slow moving, almost helpless civilian ships and that Adama cannot afford to engage in rash milita...

Cal

A character from the Judge Dredd universe
Formerly head of the SJS, Judge Cal seems to have slipped through the Justice Departments pysche profiling. While he was ambitious and perhaps a bit zealous, all vital in the role of head of the SJS, it appears that no one on the Council of Five had an inkling of just how unbalanced he was. Cal tried to get Dr...

Cameron Class Battlecruiser

A vehicle/ship class from the Battletech universe
The Cameron Class Battlecruiser is an SLDF vintage design which was expected to be a compromise vessel between a cruiser and battleship, fast and powerful, while able to avoid those it could not defeat.  Dassault-Shimmon Enterprises of New Earth was awarded the contract, and the initial vessel took eleven years to build. Unfortunately,...

Capellan Confederation (House Liao)

A group from the Battletech universe
The smallest of the Successor States in the Inner Sphere}, the Capellan Confederation has long been as enemy of House Davion. It has had an uneasy relationship with the Free Worlds League. Moreso perhaps than any other Inner Sphere realm, the particular direction that the Confederation takes seems...

Capital ship missile

A technology from the Wing Commander universe
CapShip missiles, armed with an anti-matter warhead are primarily used against ground targets with a much rarer secondary use in capital ship combat. They are slow and easily shot down by moderate point defense, but carry enough payload to severely damage or destroy a large city with one hit. They are standard issue on most bigger capital ...

Capship plasma cannon

A technology from the Wing Commander universe
Plasma cannons were the primary means to destroy capital ships until the more effective anti-matter torpedos were developed at the beginning of the Terran Kilrathi war.  They used large plasma discharges to batter down the enemies phase shielding and were mounted on battleships. Still mounted on some older hulls, they are not used in newe...

Captain Scarlet

Universe
A TV series, Captain Scarlet follows the adventures of the titular hero. He is a member of a near-future organisation, Spectrum, charged with the task of defending Earth from the ethereal Mysterons. Captain Scarlet himself is 'indestructible' due to an unusual chain of events involving the Mysterons. He is aided by Captain Bl...

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

A TV series from the Captain Scarlet universe
One of Gerry Anderson's later shows, it was the first of his Supermarionation shows to have puppets that looked 'in proportion'. The puppets had (relatively) realistic faces. The method of puppetry was also different. The puppets were controlled via a rod that came up from the floor. Due to this method, you will never see any of the characters' leg...

Cardassian Union

A group from the Star Trek universe
A militaristic and fascist civilization, the Cardassian Union controls a large section of territory in the west of the Alpha Quadrant, and its borders directly meet with of those of the United Federation of Planets. Hundreds of years ago the Cardassians were a peaceful and spiritual civilization that excelled in art, and made ...

Carrack cruiser

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Wars universe
The Carrack is a light cruiser, used primarily by the Galactic Empire. The ship is considered relatively small at 350 meters long, but carries significant firepower for its size. Typical weaponry includes ten heavy turbolasers and twenty ion cannons. The ion cannons can be replaced with laser cannons for anti-fighter duty. The Carrack is a...

Carrier

A vehicle/ship class from the StarCraft universe
Carriers are the principle warships of the Protoss. While not the largest or most powerful ships employed by the Templar caste, they see the most combat. Carriers are large capital ships which deploy masses of Interceptor combat drones instead of fighters. These smallish, highly agile drones attack targets in rolling waves, delivering pl...

Carrington Institute

A group from the Perfect Dark universe
Relatively little is known of the Carrington Institute. Their primary goal appears to be to allow for the safe introduction of powerful technologies, and to ease other major social transitions. They have a number of secret operatives apparently dedicated to preventing the abuse of new technologies.

CASE

A technology from the Battletech universe
CASE, or Cellular Ammo Storage is a means of storing voilatile ammunition. Too many mech explosions were caused by chain reactions if a Missile or autocannon storage bin exploded, sometimes with one small piece of damage being multiplied out of all proportion. CASE stocks ammunition in special cells, so that in the event of ...

Cassandra Anderson

A character from the Judge Dredd universe
Psi-Judge Anderson first came to prominence with the appearance of Judge Death in Mega-City One. After Death's physical body was destroyed, she drew in the spirit of Judge Death and she was sealed in Boinng, the miracle near unbreakable plastic. Anderson was regarded as having made the supreme sacrifice, that although she was still...

Cat

A character from the Red Dwarf universe
Cat, as he is simply known is the last known survivor of a colony of evolved cats that came into being on board the JMC Red Dwarf. David Lister smuggled a normal house cat by the name Frankenstein on the vessel and got himself photographed with it. This broke ships quarantine regulations and was done so that Li...

Caton Battle-Scout

A vehicle/ship class from the Trigan Empire, The universe
The Caton Battle-Scout is a basic single seater atmosphere craft of conventional layout. It is obsolete by Lokan and Trigan standards, but despite this, they were able to see off the Lokan Air Fleet when they attacked their country. This is perhaps due in part to the quality of training of their pilots and the ferocity...

Cell Activators/Cell Activator Chip

Technology
Cell Activators stop the aging process in the carrier making him, her, or it virtually immortal. In addition to stopping the aging process an activator can accelerate regeneration of physical damage. It also provides immunity to most bacteria, viruses, poisons and some life draining weapons and psi-powers.The carrier of a Cell Activat...

Centauri Republic

A group from the Babylon 5 universe
The Centauri Republic, once known as The Lion of the Galaxy is a power in decline. Once their Empire spanned the stars but their day is long past. The Centauri seem at first to resemble humans in some ways, except for the hairstyles, but their biology is very different. For example, they have have no major arteries in the wrists and their reprod...

Chandrasekhar Kurita

A character from the Battletech universe
Chandrasekhar Kurita is the Uncle of Hohiro Kurita, and is one of the lesser known members of the Kurita family. Nonetheless, he should not be underestimated and despite his corpulent appearance, there exists a canny mind, both in political and business terms. He hired the mercenary regiment Comanchos Caballeros to initially protect his o...

Chaos

A group from the Warhammer 40,000 universe
Since the beginning of the universe, the physical plane of existence has coexisted with another realm, a realm of constantly shifting energy and potentialities. All intelligent races (with a few important exceptions) are psychically linked to a greater or lesser degree with this realm, and can alter it in ways impossible to predict. Mankind has giv...

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