Human Territory

The territory conquered by the inhabitants of the Old Earth.

During the Age of Conquest someone rebelled and founded the Rubarth Empire.

The cosmopolitan ideals are much more appropriate if the alien empires that once ruled the space around us were friendly and generous towards other races, but history has not played out in this fashion. It is far too late for mankind to change its stance and seek coexistence and unity with the alien civilizations that still remain. The feuds started during the Age of Conquest will never end until only one civilization is left.

During the Age of Stars, the race were newcomers to the galactic stage, and were became dazzled by the breadth and depth of alien technology utilized by the new and unfamiliar aliens they came across. A lot of events took place during this humble stage. Much of which has been deliberately erased from the history books. The tech base was woefully underdeveloped compared to the galactic standard at the time. We did not have the luxury to develop our own native tech base. Many researchers and developers have managed to adapt a large amount of alien tech for human use.

A large proportion of the people that have led us into the stars had effectively become vassals to the surrounding alien powers. Our race would have never been able to break through the net woven around our civilization if not for a number of factors. If not for the fact that the different alien polities were competing against each other, we would have already become subsumed. The delays caused by alien rivalries has given us enough time to move past our most vulnerable period and attain strength that is not conditional to any outside influence.

The Father of Human Dominion Supreme Marshal Caramond Perle was the first leader of our race who managed to unite the scattered nations of humanity into a single union. This allowed all of us to speak with one voice towards the aliens we interacted with. Before this happened, Old Earth and the colonies that followed all treated each other as rivals. Once the Supreme Marshal came along, he managed to convince many different nations and other organizations that they should be directing their schemes at the aliens instead of themselves. What the history books didn't tell was that the opposition against his stance was much more fierce than you realize. Human nations have become so corrupted by alien influencing that they have even waged war against each other at the prodding of their inhuman Overlords. Each major nation was backed by a different alien race. It took an unimaginable amount of effort to break the old power structures and convince the majority of the population to stand up for themselves and reject the temptation of superior alien technology.

The winners of this early conflict went on to spark the Age of Conquest which many consider to be the most glorious time of our history. As for the losers, these disgraced and misguided dissidents went on to live in exile. Even now, they still advocate for a future where humanity lives in peace with alien neighbors.

In the age of Mechs The Greater United Terran Confederation and the New Rubarth Empire loomed as giants in human civilization. They existed long before the Age of Mechs and had partially adopted the MTA and the CFA in the past. Even when the Big Two rose up and stripped the Terrans and Rubarthans of some of their sovereignty, the first-rate superstates still loomed tall over human space. One of the reasons why they were called superstates was because they faintly possessed the power to rival the Big Two.

But there were others that are called 1st rate. A first-rate state must easily be able to defeat numerous second-rate states with ease. In general, first-rate states only emerged in the galactic center and sometimes the galactic heartland. The wealth and force requirements to meet this standard was virtually impossible to attain in the impoverished galactic rim. Owning several star clusters was just the minimum requirement. It was much more important to turn them productive.

Second-rate states was the point where the Big Two slightly took them seriously. The basic requirement to qualify as a second-rate state was to grasp at least 1,000 star systems and meet many other development requirements. A second-rate state should absolutely be able to crush a score of third-rate states in terms of wealth and force. There were certain states in the galactic rim which had managed to conquer several star clusters and ballooned in power. Yet for all of their territory, their wealth and power paled in comparison to even the weakest first-rate state in the galactic heartland. The difference could not be overcome. Yet these humongous second-rate states were nevertheless overlords in the galactic rim. Therefore, a new and rather informal term of second-rate superstate emerged in order to describe these rural bullies.

Third-rate states were the most numerous and generally the most boring kind of states. They usually exerted enough power to sustain a proper government and all of the necessary institutions. Strictly speaking, third-rate states needed to colonize at least 50 star systems to be recognized as such. In addition, their gross domestic product, military power and other parameters had to be up to standard as well. In fact, many third-rate states such as the Bright Republic and the Vesia Kingdom actually colonized many more star systems. It was just that many of them were actually underdeveloped such as Cloudy Curtain.

Fourth-rate states were the lowest of the low. To consider them states at all was an insult to the word. Formally, this definition was usually applied to tiny powers who clung to one or several star systems and for some reason hadn't been annexed yet by a bigger neighbor.