Commonwealth of Man

The Casta, a simplified depiction of an Eagle

> Of all the known species, humans are most likely the ones you get along with the best. But i don't recommend provoking them...if you managed to do that, you pretty much just screwed your entire nation.
>
> Ambassador 'Makaro speaking to an assistant of him

The Commonwealth of Man is the unified government of all Humans across the stars.

## History

The Commonwealth has a colourful history, reaaching from near destruction to the ascendancy as a galactic superpower.

### Pre-First Contact War

In the time before the First Contact War, was humanity still divided into several smaller countries. There were already Superpowers such as the European Hegemony, but not a total world government. These countries fought each other in a seemingly neverending back and forth of war and peace. That was until the Lagasa arrived in the Sol-System in 2130.

The Lagasa quickly overwealmed Mankinds rather primitive spaceborne defensive installations and it was quickly realised that Humans had to work together to defeat this common foe and then in 2134, the Commonwealth of Man was founded. This founding process was initially started by Marcus King, who has since been nicknamed the "Father of the Commonwealth".

### First Contact War

Even as all Humans united unter this one governing body, were they still no match for the Lagasa, who swept across Earth, crushing any Human resistance in the process. And just as the Humans were about to surrender, did the Kirum also arrive on Earth, comletely undetected thanks to their cloaking tech.

The Kirum were originally believed to be another hostile nation, but they turned out to be Mankinds ally and together, the Lagasa were defeated in a matter of just 2 years, in 2136.

The Kirum helped Humanity rebuild their homeworld and were shortly after declared Mankinds first alien ally. After Earth has been completely rebuilt in the 2140s, and the Kirum gifted some of their spacefaring technology to the Commonwealth, was the first initiative by Humans the re-colonisation of the Sol-System and expansion to other solar systems.

### Pre-Eternal Conflict

There was a relative time of peace until 2240, with Mankind developing relations with many other nations and their continuous expansion to the stars. The Lagasa were deemed defeated and weren't thought to pose a threat after their humiliating deafeat in 2136. However, as it turned out, was this presumation wrong and the Lagasa returned in 2245.

### Eternal Conflict

With the Lasagas return in 2245, was the entire galactic community boggled. The Lagasas first target was Humanity. However, this time was Mankind prepared, as they had built up their Armed Forces, and fortified their worlds to te extreme. The Lazarus Protocol was enacted by the Galactic Council and all ressources were diverted to the defense against the Lagasa.

The Lagasa had developed a technology, that allowed some of their ships to "teleport" to any place in the galaxy, which they used first on the Humans to transport an entire Invasion Fleet into the Commonwealths heart: the Sol-System. With this Invasion Fleet came a weapon of mass destruction, a weapon that was able to destabilize a planets core, making the planet explode in a matter of 20 minutes. This weapon was used on Earth.

The Destructions of Mankinds homeworld sent every Human into a frenzy, making them eager to completely annihilate every Lasaga they see. This devotion then also ultimately lead to the Lasagas second deafeat. Human fleets swept across the stars, destroying Lasaga fleet after fleet, invasion army after invasion army and liberated world after world. Eventually, some military scientists found the Lasagan homeworld.

This discovery was shared with the Galactic Council and a decision was made, a retalatory strike against the Lasaga: The destruction of their Homeworld and any other Lasaga world. The Commonwealth was tasked with this endavour, and the Eternal Conflict ended.

### Operation HAMMERFALL

Operation HAMMERFALL was the last great military action taked against the Lasaga. The largest battlegroup ever assembled by Mankind was put together in the Epsilon Eridani System; Battlegroup "Dagger". This battlegroup included the Commonwealths own weapon of mass destruction, which was developed in secret by scientists of the Office of Military Intelligence and Development; the CXD-10 Defiant, a massive mobile space station, equipped with a experimental superheavy plasma cannon, which basically shot a hole through a planet.

This fleet then swept across the Lagasa home systems, which all were relatively undefended as all their military assets were lost in the Eternal Conflict. The arrival of the Human fleet was broadcasted to the entire galaxy...and so was the firing of the Defiant. The explosion of Lasaga Prime, was visible in many close systems, but the fleet stayed intact.

This process was then repeated on multiple Lagasa worlds, effectively turning the species extinct. This act was received with mixed response form otehr nations, even though the Lagasa were also responsible for millions of deaths. But the big mass of people saw this as a massive victory.

## Humans

Humans are the dominant species in the Commonwealth. Humans are in general a bit more held back when it comes to making contact with a new nation, as their first contac with aliens saw the near annihilation of the Human species.

### Mindset

Humans are super patriotic for their nation and are proud of their accomlishments they made. Once a foreign nation has been declared as a national enemy, are all Humans in military service eager to defeat them at any cost. One can also not ignore the frenzy every Human was sent in, when the Lasaga blew up Earth...