History

## Early 21st century

### The fall of the Red Star

in 2025, the red light arrived on earth through the impact of a meteorite having come from the Great Red Fog, which, at the time, had been undiscovered. The meteorite had been dubbed the Red Star for its appearance. When the red light that sat at its core was excavated and retrieved its disastrous effect on the human psyche had been tested and documented, after some catastrophic experiments. For security reasons, the red light was sealed shut in a remote paramilitary installation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest, away from the eyes of the public.

By then, the existence of the red light and its psychological effect had already seeped into public knowledge and caused mass panic. This panic allowed a massive trend of doomsday cults. following the fall of the Red Star, an entire generation was left convinced that the world would end or that society would collapse. This manifested into mass suicides, outrageous short sighted spending, child neglect and prepping. This generation was regarded as being horrible parents which left psychologically scarred children, horrible inheritances and a terrible economical setting for the generation that followed after the fear of the end of the world gradually phased away.

### Corruption and rise of the WWU

###### [1]Main article: Scoundrel Peace

By then, the economy was in shambles, fear dominated the world. The children that had grown up in the doomsday phase were slowly becoming adults and lay broken and pessimistic. This was the perfect setting for crime and corruption to thrive. The youth of that time had lost all hope in secure jobs seeing the mess their parents left behind, and found themselves clinging on to petty distractions like drugs, pornography and prostitution. Instead of working, that youth got involved in criminal activity because they had lost all hopes in capitalism. At the time, it was considered cool and normal for the young men and teenage boys to end up in gangs, and the young women and teenage girls were socially and economically pressured to become sex workers.

In the 2030s, violence escalated as wars between rival gangs raged on while the governments of the world stood helpless. A local crime syndicate from Montreal rose to the top, conquered and assimilated all the other crime groups. They assumed control of the entire world and dubbed themselves the World Wide Underground. Festering on the dire economic situation on Earth, the youth crime culture and having access to the entire black market, the WWU grew rich and powerful, and became a shadow society indirectly controlling the entire world. Entire governments, corporations, media outlets and police forces were in the pockets of the WWU. The only silver lining is that since the entire world was controlled by the same group, there was a semblance of stability and peace.

### The Great Red War

The end of the WWU's hegemony over Earth started when the eccentric billionaire Charles Dalion commissioned the WWU to acquire the red light, so he may buy it. Jack Thirdleg, the man in charge of retrieving the artifact succeeded in doing so, but his transaction with the client failed when a clandestine militant group fighting against the WWU initiated a bust on the exchange. The bust ended in a disaster which unleashed the powers of the red light.

Charles Dalion, inflicted by the corruption caused by the red light, was now in possession of a tool capable of corrupting men to his side, and he used that power to wage a war of domination against the rest of the world. Meanwhile, Jack Thirdleg fled Europe and found his way back to Montreal, where he was captured by the WWU. By then, knowledge of the WWU's involvement in the situation in Europe became known to the public, despite all the efforts from the WWU controlled media to cover it up. The people of the Earth rose up against the corruption of the WWU. A populist politician won the 2044 American elections at the reins of an independent party, and soon started to rid her country of corruption, then the rest of the world. She then created the RLSA, an organization meant to consolidate the military capacities of all the world's governments to fight off Charles Dalion's Red Legion, whose armies were advancing through Africa, Asia and Europe at an alarming rate.

As the Red War endured, the people of the world were starting to accept the possibility that the Red Legion might overrun the entire world. They aimed for a future in the star. Outer space infrastructure has already started to develop before the war, to create luxurious space resorts. The companies who owned these infrastructures only poured more money and effort into these works as they knew people were envisioning leaving Earth behind. The WWU got a hold of this and assigned Jack Thirdleg to take over those companies. The WWU was swiftly losing power and influence and was in dire need of flee Earth to escape persecution.

The WWU has assumed control of early space colonization, and established the first permanent human settlement outside of Earth: Venusia, a city floating in Venus' upper atmosphere, but that city was soon taken over by the RLSA, who had begun to crack down on the WWU controlled space companies and had used their ships to lead an assault on the city. The Venusian city was turned into RLSA-Venus, an important space base.

Under the threat of the RLSA, Jack Thirdleg turned to the gas planets for future colonization endeavours. The scientist Gabriel Jennings helped him develop cities that could survive the winds and pressure deep into the atmospheres of the gas planets, where they would be safe and hidden from the RLSA. Gennings was founded on Saturn and Chandescieux on Jupiter.

By then, only the rich could afford to flee Earth, while the rest were forced to die, trampled by the Red Legion. Jack had a change of heart and started to take in all the refugees, not just the rich ones, which forced him to cut ties with the WWU and form his own society in the gas planets, where he was considered a king.
Having accepted a greater number of refugees, this society was unable to sustain itself on its own, and relied on piracy and trade. They were known for attacking RLSA supply lines and mining asteroids and moons to sell the minerals to Earth, whose people were at the time in need of raw material as the Red War was raging on, but slowly coming to an end. The Terrans would refer to these people of the gas planets as the Rock People.

Eventually, Jack Thirdleg was captured and imprisoned in a cryogenic state, not given the luxury of dying nor living. In his absence, the Rock People became a fragmented and decentralized people as they stretched across the belt and the gas planets. Meanwhile, the RLSA eventually defeated the Red Legion and Wuwuland, the last stronghold of the WWU, was invaded, bringing an end to a dark chapter of Terran history. Following the destruction caused by the Great Red War, Europe, western Asia, central Asia, northern and central Africa were left destabilized, ruined and depopulated, and never fully recovered even after seven hundred years. The old territories of the Red Legion were briefly administrated by the RLSA, who used the same large provincial administration system of the Red Legion to create new states. Even former members of the Red Legion were used as assets by the RLSA to govern these regions.

A few years after the war, the RLSA was officially dissolved. The administration of RLSA-Venus fell to that of the Terran governments (at least to those who supported the RLSA)

### The second cold war

After the Great Red War, China and the United States came out prosperous and both began indirectly controlling the great swathes of territory of the former Red Legion. This caused a cold war between the two countries, which ended with the United States' victory and the subsequent collapse of the people's republic of China, only to be replaced by the second Chinese Republic, centred in Taiwan.

## Late 22nd century and 23rd century

### The crisis of the 22nd century

The later parts of the twenty-second century was marked by massive ecological disasters, simultaneous overpopulation and population decline, lack of resources and famine. The new countries which had formed from former Red Legion territories, like Westasia and Eastasia, were failed states, each of them dragging down the economic capacities of the United States which oversaw them. In this ordeal, many governments collapsed, including the second Chinese republic, which was soon replaced by the authoritarian monarchist Tan dynasty. Australia and New Zealand collapsed and reemerged as the unified Kingdom of Australia and New Zealand, which sought out to conquer much of Oceania. The United States, in the face of imminent collapse, abandoned their constitution and adopted a nationalistic regime, which annexed much of Canada.

Those disasters only inspired a second wave of space colonization. Either as Terran states establishing their own colonies, or as individuals fleeing their countries to join the Rock People.

Venusia, which at the time was semi-autonomous, still being partially administrated by Terran governments, became the key gateway to outer space colonization, becoming an important space trading port. Venusia used its new found wealth to boost its defensive capabilities, being a prime target for Rock People Pirate. Venusia also allowed Terran governments to dock their own warships, in exchange for helping them fend off from pirates. However, when the fleets of the new Rock People state sought to attack Venusia, the Terran governments abandoned it leaving the Venusians to defend the city with its own fleet, which later proved to be successful. This lead to Venusians to slowly cut ties with Earth and form their own society. The Terrans were too busy preventing their countries from collapse to care.

### Formation of the Interplanetary Federation

The Rock People grew and colonized, establishing bunker cities in the atmospheres of the gas planets, mining stations on the moons of the gas planets, the asteroids of the belt and even the martian surface. The pirate clans established ports and stations in orbit and on moons and asteroids. By then, the Rock people were decentralized, united only by a vague cultural unity. Their decentralization allowed them to experiment with a wide range of radically different societies, lifestyles and government systems. There were monarchies, feudal societies, republic, independent mining stations, self managed trade hubs, pirate kingdoms, tribal pirate clans, a Roman inspired pirate warrior society on Metis, a classical Greek inspired democratic society on Uranus. The largest of these states was the Jennan Kingdom of Saturn which was regarded as a direct continuation of the country Jack Thirdleg had founded, controlling Gennings, surrounding towns, several of Saturn's moons and several asteroids from the belt. Their queen, Florence Thirdleg, was a direct descendent of Jack Thirdleg. Because of the crisis on Earth, the Rock People were receiving massive amount of refugees, while simultaneously not being able to afford to feed them. Florence began her initiative to unify the Rock People into a nation state: The Interplanetary Federation. She accomplished that through diplomacy and sometimes through conquest. As she wanted to evolve the Rock People into a respectable superpower, she urged the Terrans to refer to her people as the Stellars instead of the Rock People and aimed to outlaw piracy. The latter proved to a challenge in her attempt to get the various pirate factions on her side. She eventually had to to marry the son of the second strongest Stellar kingdom: the feudal kingdom of Neptune.

### The Terraforming of Mars

###### Main article: the colonization of Mars

by the 2200, the Terran governments, had began establishing their own colonies like Argerive by the Americans and Ceres station by the Chinese Tan empire. Florence Thirdleg had a secret plan to terraform Mars, and now felt threatened by this new wave of space colonization, and feared that some would seek to claim Mars. Instead of leaving the task of terraforming to her son, which was her initial plan, she chose to speed up the process by amassing a stockpile of nuclear weapons. The news of the Interplanetary Federation stockpiling nuclear bombs caused an scare on Earth, which ended at the death of Florence Thirdleg, when Anthony Thirdleg took power and announced his mother's plan to terraform Mars.

The terraforming of Mars took several centuries and was spread out over the reigns of several monarchs. It was only completed after several waves of settlement on the new lush planet, some two hundred years later.

### The aftermath of the Crisis of the 22nd century

After the climatic situation on Earth stabilized themselves, the planet began to prosper once more. The Chinese overthrew the monarchy, and installed a new republic, and so did the Australians and New Zealanders. Space colonialism slowed down, which in turned meant that the economic situation on Venus faltered a little. In 2207, the United States broke out in a second civil war, which brought about the fall of the nationalist government, the liberation of much of Canada, and the secession of Quebec into its own state. The Chinese overthrew the new Republic and adopted a new Maoist government.

## The 24th and 25th century

The 24th and 25 century was marked by the Pax Saturnini, a period of relative peace, stability and prosperity throughout the solar system, disturbed only by a small civil war in the gas planets and a lesser near forgotten reform that followed. The Terrans had stablized their homeworld, they Venusians were self sustaining and the Federation was mostly preoccupied with the terraforming of Mars. The Federation, which had already become the strongest human power in the solar system, only prospered even more after Mars had been completely terraformed. Overpopulation in the gas planets was for the most part solved from the massive colonization projects on Mars, taxes were lessened as the outrageous public expenses attributed with the terraforming of Mars were no more, and with the establishment of Mars as the breadbasket of the solar system, food became plentiful.

The rule of Julianne Thirdleg, and her two short lived successors was considered the Golden Age of the Federation.

## The 26th and 27th century

### The Venusian Revolution

It is claimed that the Venusian orchestrated a revolution somewhere near the beginning of the 26th century. Not much is known about how Venusian society functioned before the revolution, but the Venusian working class managed to collectivize Venus' industries, production and property and shape it into the society it was known to be during the 28th century. The Venusian revolution was believed to be relatively peaceful and accepted as being more a social revolution than an armed revolution.

### Weakening of the Monarchy

The 26th century was marked by the reign of the weak king Felix, who ascended the throne at a very young age and his weakness allowed corporations and bureaucrats more control over the federation, which only weakened the strength of the monarchy. This problem persisted after his reign, which culminated with the Blockader's rebellion.

### The Blockader's Rebellion

With the weakening of the Monarchy, those most effected were the mining communities, isolated from the homeworlds. With greater corporate control over the mines, the working conditions of the miners grew worse, and the underfunding of the military meant the moons were vulnerable from pirate attacks. The king had decreed that the corporations would be in charge of supplying a fleet to protect the moons, but that was largely ignored, as by then, people had started to disregard the monarchy.

After the successful Venusian revolution, many people across the solar system were inspired by the ideas propagated by the Venusian, and seeked more autonomy and freedom, which greatly contributed to the rebellion.

The miners of the moons of the gas planets formed the Moon Miners' Union, centered on Phoebe, to both improve the conditions of the workers and fund an army to defend the moons from pirate, when neither the corporation nor the government could.

The Moon Union succeeded in improving the conditions of worker, which only caused friction with the monarchy. The ineptitude of the monarchy and the choking bureaucracy made the average Gasan lose faith in the monarchy, which had already been put into question following the Venusian revolution. In 2598, after some dispute between the crown and the moon miners, the union used its military power to make a standoff against the government of Gennings. After an intense tension between the two parties, the federation used its fleet against the Union fleet. Both fleets suffered heavy casualties and the remaining Union fleet withdrew to Phoebe. At this point, there was a large social outcry against the state of things, which forced the monarchy in a series of reforms which greatly diminished its own power.

### The blockader's reform

In Athens, Uranus, a youth movement aimed to bring back the democracy that they had hundreds of years ago, before the unification. Them, along with Moon Miners' Union spearheaded this new blockader's reform. The complex patchwork nature of the federation was slowly being simplified. The borders between the duchies, the kingdom provinces, the territories and city-provinces began to fade away. The blockader reformists adopted the notion of planet-province, with a two tier parliamentary system, but kept the government centered on Gennings. Arote remained the capital of the new Martian planet-province, Gennings remained the capital of Saturn, Bondass became the capital of Jupiter, Athens became the capital of Uranus and Merrain became the capital of Neptune. Not everyone enjoyed the change. The Mellena dynasty of Neptune, being from a more traditionalist planet, resisted the change, and refused to abandon their duchies. The Neptunian parliament also had a lot less power than that of the other planets. There were also conflicts between the five planet-provinces over the jurisdiction of the asteroids of the belt. Mars was given much a great part of these asteroids, while Neptune was given none, for its distance from the belt: instead, Neptune was given full jurisdiction over Pluto. Athens was given its own administrative territory within Uranus, which also included some of the smaller moons, and the Moon Miners' Union gained greater autonomy. By then, the monarchy was reduced to a figurehead.

### The discovery of the Great Red Fog

In 2616, a joint Quebec-Canadian interstellar exploration project, sent out over 50 years prior, came back to Earth with tales of a great nebulae of sparkling red light, and the first samples of unrefined kaion were introduced to Earth. By 2618, Liberator corp had produced the very first Interstellar Travel Speed drive, and used the remaining Kaion to go back to Great Red Fog and in 2624, Primo was established as the first settlement in the frontier on the edge of the Fog. After that, the Terran governments flew to the frontier for a third wave of space colonialism. Some of the worlds of the Explorer and Armstrong systems were lightly terraformed within the next two decades and found able to sustain agriculture and open cities.

The opening of the frontier also brought about a new concept which shaped the politics of the solar system: the relay station. Since the ISTS engines were relatively new, not greatly developed and costly, interstellar travel was made via massive ships called relay station, which either carried massive amount of cargo or docked several smaller ships. These ships needed special docks and installations to go out and about. These relay stations were costly to built and their numbers were few. Venusia, who was until now, freely sailing about in Venus' upper atmosphere anchored over Maxwell mount and built the first of the relay stations below their city, with the help of the Terran states. Being, once more, the gateway to the new world. Venus prospered once again.

The eerie effects of the Great Red fog became known when merchant ships who dwelt too close to the fog were swallowed up, returned as Red Raiders. The link between the Red Fog with its red raiders and the Red Light and the shined men of Charles Dalion's armies, which had ravaged Earth some six hundred years before, became informally established. This caused an outcry on Earth and there was a demand for more security. This warranted the creation of the Frontier Armada, an independent armed fleet supplied and funded by the corporations of the fleet to protect the colonies from the threat of the Red Raiders.

### The Martian revolution

###### Main article: the Martian revolution

In the middle of the 27th century, famines and a wave of nationalism on Mars paved way for the planet to declare its independence and wage war against the federation. This was led by the near legendary military leader Sylvian Felter, who allied with the Lunars of Argerive to fight the Federation to secure the independence of both societies. The Gasans sent out a an armed force to Mars, which was partially intercepted by the Lunar fleet, and the rest of the army had a hard time invading Mars because the Martians used guerrilla warfare against the Gasans who were not accustomed to the wild and earthy world of Mars. After chipping away a great chunk the Gasan army on Mars and gradually building a fleet, the Martians launched an offensive and took Athens using a fleet of captured Gasan ships. Seeing their eventual defeat, the Gasans used one of the remaining thermonuclear bombs from the terraforming project and flung it at Argerive, causing it's quasi-destruction. By then, much of the neutral parties took the sides of the Martians, denouncing what they considered a Gasan genocide against the Lunar population. Shortly later, the Federation was forced to surrender and recognize Mars as a sovereign state.

Later, the new Martian republic helped build a relay station on Ceres with the help of the Chinese.

### The Jovian reform

After the war, humiliated by the defeat, a wave of Gasan nationalism took place in the federation, and the Thirdleg dynasty of the Celestial kingdom ruling Jupiter took the opportunity to seize power over the Federation and restructure the country. In 2658, the Capital was officially moved to Chandescieux while the provincial capital of Jupiter remained in Bondass. The reformists also reinforced the title of nobility to the administration of the planet-provinces, assigning three other noble families to rule the other planets as planet-kingdoms, especially the dynasties of the strongest of the old kingdoms. The Thirdlegs of the Jennan kingdom ruled Saturn as the princes and princesses of the princedom of Saturn, the Mellenas of the kingdom of Neptune ruled Neptune as the princes and princesses of the princedom of Neptune. The reformists fetched the Welt dynasty, an almost lost and forgotten families with ties to the old Calean kingdom, a historically weak kingdom. They made them the grand dukes and duchesses of the the grand duchy of Uranus.

The reformists also started a project to build the Gas Giant's very own relay station, built on Pluto.

### The Lunar conquests

###### Main article: The Lunaregnum Empire

After the bombing of Argerive, Lunar society collapsed. Those who hadn't died from the initial blast died from starvation, diseases, gang violence and from the effects of crumbling infrastructures. The 16 rival warlords of Argerive fought each other for the few resources the city had left as they struggled to repair the basic infrastructures. Some found ships and fled away to Primo, some became pirates raiding Gasan vessels.

Amidst gang wars, William Silverheart prevailed, destroying two rival gangs and subduing the other 13. Now united a single leader, the Lunars finally had a functioning state. William tried to rebuild Argerive, but the city was nearing collapse, and there wasn't much he could do, so he went out to find a new home in the stars. The Lunars were the first to find the Chint system, where they established a new settlement on Terken, one of Kempth's moon. The Lunars were inevitably forced to conquer Kempth for its resources, as that was the only way they could survive.

The inhabitants of Tors, living on the planet next door, launched an attack on the Lunars, which was repelled. The new Lunaregnum Empire brought the fight to Tors, in a bloody war that lasted several years, The Lunars fought off shape shifting spies and cloaked ships, before winning the war at the battle of the Misty Valley.

During the rule of William Silverheart and his descendant, Andrea Silverheart, the Lunaregnum Empire colonized several outlying alien systems. The original 13 subdued warlords became the 13 members of the council of Lunae, who grew richer by the conquest and exploitation of aliens. The council of Lunae gained the responsibility of choosing the next head of states.

The Lunaregnum Empire, needing a new relay station to support its flourishing economy, invaded and subdued Ceres station. Given the secretive nature of the Lunaregnum Empire, Ceres was believed to have been held by pirates.

## The 28th century

### The path to war

The events of the 28th century were mostly a response to an important event that happened in the end years of the 27th century: the Great Red Fog unpredictably expanded and swallowed the Armstrong and Explorer system. Millions of people were lost to the Fog, cursed to live as shined men.

Not only did this cause massive panic in the frontier, Earth and unbalanced the competition between the corporations, it also caused a food supply problem, as these two systems were major suppliers of food in the frontier. Meanwhile, the Gasans' neocolonialist grasp on Mars' food export meant that the Gasans were disproportionally fed compared to the rest of humanity. The men and women of the frontier were underfed, Earth's agricultural capabilities strained, the Venusians underfed and for the Martians, this translated as a missed business opportunity.

In the earlier parts of the 28th century was marked both by the influence of the Martian general Camellia Keyes and the coming to power of the Gasan king Iyderan Thirdleg. Both these people were stout nationalists and caused the tension between the Martians and Gasans. Camellia, a young and influential Martian, and a capable military leader, campaigned for Mars' sovereignty over its own world and resources, and advocated the nationalization of all and every food logistic company on Mars. Iyderan also fought to maintain the Gasan's hegemony over Mars, and exert more control over the asteroid belt, He was also more authoritarian and traditionalist than his successor, and aimed to suppress democracy in favour of monarchy and police rule.

Camellia attempted to win the 2708 Martian election, but failed. Instead she backed the meek candidate Keith Hammond in the 2713, this effectively put her in a place of authority in Martian society. Tension escalated between the Martians and the Gasans from 2713 to 2714. Iyderan, who had tried to avert the crisis by investing in roofed farms and seeking diplomacy, resorted to increasing military spending in the later parts of 2713 and early 2714, as well as violently suppressing political opposition.

### The war of 2714

In an act of desperation and to gain an advantage against the Martians, the Iyderan aimed to ally with the red raiders, to spur chaos in the frontier and draw the Martian military away from Mars, leaving the planet exposed to his armies. The red raiders, allegedly following the will of the Spirit of the Fog, agreed to ally themselves with the Gasans if they promised to deliver to them "The founder of the Gasan people" as the spirit of the fog had requested.

Florence Martins, a royal guard and spy of the Gasans, managed to find proof that Jack Thirdleg had been kept in cryogenic state since the days of the Great Red War and was still very much alive. The Gasans managed to free Jack Thirdleg, who gained the power of the red light in the process, was brought to the frontier as was agreed upon. Meanwhile, the Great Red Fog had begun to swallow the Endurer system, where much of the Armada was stationed in. By the time Jack arrived to the Frontier, half of the Armada's manpower had been claimed by the fog. Jack Thirdleg was now at the head of an army of raiders, and a good chunk of the Armada, free to ravage the frontier and was now secretly backed by the Gasans. Their main opposition was the Liberator corp which had vowed to harbour, supply and feed what was left of the Armada in their defence of the frontier.

The fear of war loomed in the solar system, as people had begun to suspect the Gasan's involvement in the crisis consuming the frontier. A movement in Neptune and Uranus, opposed to both war and Iyderan's oppressive regime, started to take root, called the cold movement. The Colds managed to bring Florence Martins to their side and reveal to the Martians the truth about the whole situation.

Understanding the significance of Florence Martins' loss, the Gasans urged Jack Thirdleg's new Red Light army to attack Venusia, and sent their own armies to invade Mars. The Red Light army soon joined the Gasans on Mars, who had met close to no resistance other than in a small mining town called Svidomad. The Martians lured the Red Light and Gasan armies into a snowstorm, where they used the cold and low visibility to pick them off, forcing their armies to march in the cold with no supply lines against the reinforced town, where they were butchered by the Martian forces. The Martians later used guerrilla tactics to wear away the invading forces until they were forced to abandon their invasion.

The Cold movement in the gas planets escalated into a civil war, with the Princess of Neptune: Marianne Mellena, proclaiming herself Queen and siding with the Martians. The Liberator corp, seeing that the Red Light had abandoned the frontier, Mars and Venusia, launched a full scale attack on Venusia to seize its control. With the Pluto relay station taken by the Colds, the Venusian one taken by the Liberators and the Ceres relay station taken by the Lunaregnum Empire, the Red Light found itself trapped in open space, and found itself forced to launch a desperate invasion of Earth. The invasion was half successful, and was lifted when the Gasans regained control of Pluto.

The Red Light retreated off system. Florence, now part of the Liberators' First Company, helped lead the Colds into an invasion of Saturn, which proved successful. The Liberators forced Iyderans government into the confines of Jupiter and pursued what remained of the Red Light.

Meanwhile. Andrea Silverheart died, leaving her young daughter, who had been adopted under mysterious circumstances, in charge of the Lunaregnum Empire. Victoria took advantage of the ongoing war to expand her empire. She seized control of the frontier, Earth, Venus and Mars. She wiped out what remained of the Red Light and attempted to wipe out the First Company, which she saw as a threat to her rule. While flying in Earth's atmosphere, Florence Martins' ship, which was holding what was left of the First Company, was shot down, broken in half and crashed in two parts somewhere in the Cradle of Lunaterra.