Lore

This is just a place to deposit lore for your nation. The lores can be contradicting, since no one is quite sure what the past was like and every nation has their interpretation.

## Dark's Lore (Rustmond, IMC)

Thousands of years into the future, humanity has expanded to billions of stars. It spans the galaxy, reaching all time highs with every passing decade. Xenos and other aliens existed, but they were of no threat to the ballooning human empire. Great system-wide factories and grand million-ship fleets carried arsenals to level planets and demolish stars. Society in the empire was grand, fully automated, allowing all humans to pursue a life of pleasure, or if they preferred, a life of adventure and exploration.

But beneath the shiny exterior, the old faults within the human condition still persisted. Within the empire was a loose collection of federated states, usually remnants of the superpowers of old, still holding some degree of autonomy within the greater empire. Each one of these states worked together to comprise the empire, but largely maintained their own colonies, cultures and fleets. This would come to be mankind's downfall.

In an miscommunication kicking off a cascade of called in favors, alliances and treaties, the Human Empire erupted into Civil War, the likes of which had never been seen, and has not yet been seen since. In the final acts of the war, an event called the Great Reset happened, when the descendants of the American-Russo Alliance, on the verge of losing the war, triggered the the hyperlane bomb.

The hyperlanes were what had allowed FTL travel up until that point, their maintenance by the Human Empire is what allowed the galaxy to be connected, becoming the highway system of the galaxy. All at once, the Human Empire shattered, along with countless other alien nations which had become dependent on the hyperlane system. Thus began the Human Diaspora, as pockets of fighting continued centuries later when the causes for fighting had already been long forgotten.

It is this time when the first Rustmondians emerged on Earth, tectonic weapons used in the past had shifted around the Earth's continents, such so that Eastern Europe now touched China. The Hungarians, the last stable nation of Europe had been taking in refugees from all over the continent. Contacting the last remnants of civilization still left on the Earth in Canton, which had begun collecting the remnants of Asia, they banded together to survive.

The Earth had been badly damaged by the Last War, and was heavily reliant on the outer galaxy for its supplies. As nuclear winter set in, the survivors went out to find the last thing they thought could help them; Alan, an American supercomputer who had been in charge of their anti-missile defenses. Making the trek across the frozen Pacific to the Americas, the crust had been so torn by the conflict that the once deeply submerged supercomputer now laid on the surface.

Alan revealed that the Americans had experimented with warp travel, but had abandoned it as hyperlanes became faster and more reliable. Now with the hyperlanes broken, warp travel was their best hope of escaping Earth to somewhere else. Alan could build a ship that could carry off some of their DNA to the stars. The survivors spent day and night constructing this ship, as their numbers dwindled to the low thousands. But upon completion, it was obvious it was too small to contain everyone.

Alan explained that the ship was not meant to carry human beings, but sperm and egg samples, so at least their descendants could live on on other worlds. There was also a cultural database, which would give the distant descendants something to remember them by. The Hungarians provided their Catholic faith, along with a copy of the Bible, and their language. The Chinese-Cantoners provided Confucius thought, and some of their architecture and festivals. Alan, not without his own loyalties, and not knowing if there were any humans left, included a copy of the US Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and many American ethos, so perhaps the American dream could live on elsewhere.

The rocket launched into the sky, the bright light emitted by its tail representing the hopes and dreams of everyone still left on the surface, going at sub-light speeds until it could escape the warp bubble which enveloped Earth, and it could safely warp to other worlds. The rocket crash landed on the planet of Rundia, along the Jas Rivers, kicking off the modern history of Rustmond. The data within corrupted over the years, with bits and pieces being swapped between each, eventually culminating in three divergent religions of Christianity, Confucius thought, and eventually Rallahism.

After its final establishment on Lapis, refugees continued trickling in from all over the galaxy of English, Dutch, and Japanese descent, the Human Diaspora still ongoing. With them they brought less corrupted versions of the Bible, more knowledge about the history of the world, and a better picture of their origins.