Humans

Humans remain one of the most influential species in the galactic community, even after the end of Humanity's golden age, by retaining political and economic influence through various states such as the Sol Systems Alliance. Sharing a common biological ancestry with the Upyri prior to their genetic modifications and split from Humanity, some tensions remain between their long lost cousins due to the devastating Human-Upyri War with wounds that remain.

## History

### **Early History**

Much of early human history centres around the rise and fall of great empires across the world, and follows much of the timeline of our own world. Antiquity, feudalism, colonialism and imperialism, and the global struggle of the first two world wars remains largely the same until the 1947 Roswell Incident and the continuation of the Nazis through the terrorist cells of the Fourth Reich and their infiltration of world governments. From there, the alien traveller Arzaria shifts the course of Human development permanently with the uplifting of three humans to positions of power.

### Cold War

Marked by the split between the superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union following the end of the Second World War, the Cold War was an era of subterfuge and covert action for either side to try to gain the upper hand in the ideological and political conflict - as well as to dance around making the quarrel into a hot war. But it also was, for a time, a period of united action led by Vance Astro to combat the Fourth Reich, led by Dr. Heinrich Rees von Dreyer, and its activities globally alongside Abraham and Lyudmila and other special operatives such as Lancaster Lancer and Haxton Sael.

In 1959, Vance stopped a rogue missile launch from Vozrozhdeniya Island from a Fourth Reich commander from impacting London but was presumed to be dead once the rocket was redirected and lost in space. From there, the group would lose members one by one as Haxton was crippled by Atomic Might in Cuba while preventing the missile crisis from erupting to full scale nuclear war and Lancer was killed by the same foe during a raid in 1968 that sent Dr. von Dreyer into hiding with permanent scarring. Soon, disillusioned by their governments, both Abraham and Lyudmila would also disappear into hiding.

### **Gene Wars**

As a result of the loss of these crucial super soldiers, Earth's strongest governments began to experiment through the notes and technology left behind by Arzaria to try to replicate the results on a larger scale. Originally for use in covert operations, proxy wars, and military action, these second-rate super soldiers instead were unstable, violent, and in many cases psychotic. Throughout the 70s and 80s, they were utilized as weapons but with the collapse of the Soviet bloc in the 90s things took a turn for the worse.

Now without a state to control them, super soldiers from the eastern bloc rose up and proclaimed themselves into warlords across the Eurasian continent to lead quasi-states in violent outbreaks of conflict. This outright rebellion inspired additional violence from other super soldiers from the United States, China, and other European countries to guerilla warfare, terrorism, and even establishing their own quasi states in more unstable regions such as Mexico, Latin America, and Africa.

This period of violence, known as the Gene Wars, lasted from 1991 to 2005 with the combined military effort and might of these states to crush and liquidate these experiments. The final supersoldier warlord fell in August of 2005 in Kazakhstan with a tactical nuclear strike authorized by the United Nations security council to put a swift end to this chapter of Human history.

### World War III

Despite the disappearance of the genetically modified supermen and women, their effects remained in place for decades to come. The instability and damage they have wrought on global systems permeated in the way humanity conducted itself afterwards as states fought for resources and control. The dwindling supply of natural resources being replenished on Earth led to chronic shortages across the years and sowed the seeds for the conflict that would arise between the Moscow-Karachi Alliance, the Asian Co-Prosperity Union, the European Union, the South American Confederacy, the African Union, and the North American Alliance.

Eventually, these tensions would reach a breaking point as on 1 August 2070 the fighting would commence between an extravagant network of alliances that would then devolve into a free-for-all in the conflict known as World War 3. A limited nuclear exchange by the end left hundreds of millions dead, and decisively ended the war with a total peace between all parties with the Treaty of Reykjavik. This mutual cooperation and understanding between the survivors of the war, and seeing the devastation wrought, led to Humanity's Golden Age as - for the first time in Human history - the Human race was unified in a singular goal and vision to save their planet and species.

## Offshoots

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**Humans** • Kanads • Khergians • Sanghvi • Ayr • Upyri • Cuvish • Ra'locs • Latarius • Ascetics • Vanapods • Vak-Saun • Xurgaths • Torgg • Turstan • Fishmen • Phiri • Tetrians • Lirya • Serek • Zon-Lo • Nymku • Drykai • Mrall • Gorn'ki • Tavissians • Trindrel • El'uth • Brixi • Oxioni • Ursataari • Thaurians • Grell • Yukarii • Rakeed • Turstani
**Extinct**
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