Colonial Era

The **Colonial Era**, also called the **Colonization of Cadaland,** refers to the period in time when Earth's human race discovered the **Jane Galaxy** and began to explore and colonize it shortly before and after the nuclear **War Of All Wars** resulted in destruction of civilization on Earth, specifically the lush and peaceful planet they named **Cadaland**, as it had an environment largely similar to Earth with largely identical oxygen levels. The era truly began in mid 2069 and ended circa 2088.

## Before the Colonization: Discovering a new galaxy, Third Cold War & the end of Earth

### Background

Political relations between the U.S.A and South America soured greatly after the massive merger of all South American nations came to fruition in the year 2052, in the form of the vastly powerful super-nation dubbed the Argentine Empire. In reaction to this, the U.S.A formed a coalition with its neighboring nations of Canada and Mexico, forming the equally powerful super-nation known as the North American Alliance (N.A.A). The terms the "**Third Cold War**" and "**Cold War III**" were soon coined, due to several incidents that resulted in major tensions between both of the newly established superpowers.

### Discovery & Exploration

American scientists in Vermont first discovered the existence of a new galaxy at the height of the Quantum Age in the year 2047, and was studied for decades before they physically set foot in it, with an end goal of creating a large Quantum Portal in order to enter the galaxy. The general population of Earth was made aware of the galaxy but many details were kept classified, with more information, such as the existence of another habitable planet and an alien race that supposedly lived there, being leaked in the decades preceding the short but catastrophic nuclear event dubbed the War To End All Wars in the year 2068.

#### 2066: Creating the first Quantum Portal & venturing into the galaxy

In the year 2066, after nearly 20 years of research and experimentation, an American scientific team led by Dr. Cynthia Jane in the Brunswick Facility at Yale University had managed to create an extremely advanced Quantum Portal that would grant humans access to the galaxy, and several international field scientists aided by astronauts ventured into the galaxy in the coming 3 years, with Yale University permanently becoming a high security military base. This era is sometimes known as the Exploration Era or the Pre-Colonial Era, as many trips consisted of simply orbiting the planet that was to be named Cadaland and taking photographs of its landscape from spaceships. The galaxy was named the Jane Galaxy in honor of Dr. Jane.

#### 2067: Setting foot on the planet and encountering the Cad race

Humans first set foot on the planet which was then known as "48-B" on the 6th of July 2067, a feat that was made widely public. Large-scale ground exploration took place in the year of '67, and scientists soon encountered the native sentient species of the island, a primitive, humanoid race who gathered in tribes. The species had met the humans with a peaceful response, and early attempts to communicate with them were mostly successful. The first tribe that humans encountered referred to themselves as a word that phonetically resembled "**Cad"**, a word that soon became the namesake of the westernmost island on the planet and first to be explored, Cadaland Island, and also the planet itself. The species themselves were mostly from then on referred to as the Cads, regardless of which tribe they belonged to. The Cad race had little knowledge of planets and space, and they instead worshipped numerous Gods as part of their native religon of *Zatari.* They were devoid of all forms of technology and electricity, and scientists noted that they were fascinated by humans and their space-travelling vehicles, while some were frightened. Most Cad settlements consisted of large, hive-like communities situated in the forests of the planet, while some resided in river-side villages of mud-houses in the plains of the island. The Cad people were later found all across the planet itself, inhabiting all of the major islands. It was noted that each island's population was virtually unaware of each other's existence, and were genetically unique. No Cad had ever seemed to migrate islands in their modern times.

As time went on, many Cad tribes decided to depart from areas inhabited by human settlers, with many retreating into the vast mountain ranges of their respective islands. These tribes became largely reclusive and peacefully rejected any further contact with humans. Some tribes instead continued to mingle with humans and learn their many languages, mainly English. Although considered largely taboo, humans and Cads could indeed reproduce, with mixed-race individuals being known as *Vivaro.* Vivaro people born of human females largely resemble humans, and share little resemblance to the Cad race other than a green-ish skin tone, while those born of Cad females resemble typical Cads albeit with human-like features.

### Nuclear War: The Grand Migration & Judgment Day

#### Late 2068

Field scientists and astronauts took refuge mainly in temporary bases situated near to Cad settlements, and no large-scale human settlement was established up until after the **Grand Migration** event of late 2068, when a large majority of humans on Earth gradually started leaving their home planet in fears of the looming nuclear war between the superpowers of the N.A.A (North American Alliance) and the Argentine Empire. Since '66, several Quantum Portals had been developed in several countries including the U.K, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Egypt and China, but the N.A.A and N.A.T.O as a whole refused to co-operate with the Argentine Empire (which now consisted of the majority of former nations in South America). The Empire itself had little to no knowledge on Quantum physics, and several covert attempts to steal schematics from research facilities in the N.A.A were carried out by Argentinian spies, which greatly furthered tensions between the two superpowers.

The N.A.A officially declared war on the Empire on the 5th of August 2068 after the devastating Invasion of New Orleans, with a global status of DEFCON 1 soon issued. By this time, several thousand humans had already been granted migration to the Jane Galaxy and were living there, but wide scale access was not available to the general public. On the 1st of November 2090, N.A.T.O and their allies officially announced a wide scale migration to the Jane Galaxy was to be put in place in fears of imminent nuclear war, and millions of humans were placed on massive world-class Galaxus space-cruises and blasted through Quantum portals worldwide, where they would find a new home on the still undeveloped Planet Cadaland. From November through early January 2069, while the "War To End All Wars" waged on, an estimated 20 million people were successfully migrated to Planet Cadaland, with plans to migrate the entire population in place.

#### *14th of January 2069, Judgment Day*

These plans were however cut short when the catastrophic nuclear bombing of the Argentine Empire and the N.A.A aswell as their allied nations in Europe, Russia and China. The event, widely known as **Judgment Day, J-Day** or the **Apocalypse** took place on the 14th of January 2069. An estimated 7 billion lives were lost in an instant. Many societies not bombed soon collapsed, and all Quantum Portals were destroyed. the North American nations were destroyed instantly, along with the entirety of the South America nations and most of Europe. Major cities in Russia and China were obliterated. Roughly 1 billion people survived the event, mainly those inhabiting in the nations of Africa and Australia, and were left stranded on the doomed planet. Further millions began dying due to to the cataclysmal levels of nuclear fallout over the course of a few years. Of all the 20 million humans safely migrated to Cadaland, not one was a citizen of the Argentine Empire, deeming their people extinct. Earth was deemed "dead" in mid 2069, with the planet having become a radioactive wasteland, with no humans returning to planet for the next 50 years.