The Alari Systems Federation

The United Federation of Star Systems, widely known as *Alari Systems Federation* or alternatively *Systems Federation,* is the largest Nation within the Galaxy. It has achieved this position due to a recent colonization fever although it still had its costs having parts of the nation being unstable for a while. It has several allies by some assumed to be puppets although that is apparently not the case. Its species had existed for around 150 thousand years and the faction itself 5500 years. It counts time in 'before/after Calamity' Calamity being a disastorous event from what is known.

## History

### **Year 38’000 - Year 100 before Calamity**

**Year ~33’000 Before Calamity**

**-**First Alari ship manages to cross the ocean and return with knowledge of an untouched landmass to the East.

-The colonial race begins.

-Gunpowder and first primitive guns are invented.

**Year ~29’000 Before Calamity**

**-**War of the Golden Gulf erupts over a scandal regarding the trading rights of a Tonrar merchant ship in a Continental port.

-Naval buildup across all coastal nations.

**Year ~28’700 Before Calamity**

-Golden Gulf peace treaty & new world trading act signed.

-Continentalia becomes a trade superpower.

-An exploration ship navigates across the whole world and reaches the southern polar regions, making a small camp.

**Year ~28’200 Before Calamity**

**-**Empire of Cascadia descends into civil war over a minor scandal.

-First ancient terraformer discovered by an explorer in the middle of a desert in the South.

-Main religion on the planet diverges into two following the discovery.

-A series of minor religious conflicts appear in Continentalia.

-A religious nation called the Ascended Yfaria breaks away from Continentalia.

**Year ~26’000 Before Calamity**

**-**Empire of Cascadia collapses into the Cascadian Kingdom and the Noverian Republic.

-Electricity is discovered. First coal power plants appear.

-Industrial age begins

-Telegraph cables connect the world.

**Year ~25’000 Before Calamity**

**-**Noverian Republic collapses due to unknown causes. A power vacuum forms in the Noverian plains.

-Continentalia rolls out the first coal-powered ships.

-A shift in weather creates a food crisis across the central continent.

-Cascadia requests aid from Continentalia, but the request is denied.

-Cascadian treaty of non-aggression is broken.

**Year ~20’000 Before Calamity**

-Cascadia and Continentalia enter a cold war, aiding wars in smaller countries around them.

-First internal combustion engine is invented.

-Corporations seize control of the Noverian plains forming the Noverian Conglomerate.

**Year ~19’000 Before Calamity**

**-**Cascadia and Continentalia enter open conflict. Casualties begin to climb.

**-**Cascadia torches its own cities to stop Continental army advancing.

-Tonrar builds a defense line on the border with Continentalia.

**Year ~17’000 Before Calamity**

**-**Cascadian peace treaty signed, bringing an end to a two thousand year war. Cascadia becomes a subject of Continentalia.

-First manned airplane takes flight in Noveria.

-Noveria invests heavily in the navy.

**Year ~16’000 Before Calamity**

-A series of small nations between Noveria and Continentalia surrender to Continentalia.

-Noverian navy blocks a Continentalian freighter.

-Continentalia “accidentally” causes an explosion in the capital city of Noveria.

**Year ~15’700 Before Calamity**

-Noveria declares war on Continentalia. Trenches are dug and chemicals are first used in combat.

-First combat airplanes take flight in Noveria, taking photographs of military bases.

-Cascadian rebellion begins. Continental flags are torn down and sympathisers are shot in the streets.

**Year ~14’500 Before Calamity**

-Cascadia declares independence. Corporations quickly take control of the weakened state but are expelled by armed forces.

-Continentalia is winning the war against Noveria. Several million have been lost already.

**Year ~14’000 Before Calamity**

-A shift in perspective. Continentalia signs a peace treaty with Noveria.

-Golden age of technology begins.

-First atomic power plant is built in Tonrar.

**Year ~13’200 Before Calamity**

-Cascadia reforms into a republic.

-Corporations enter Cascadian markets once again.

-Breakaway communist state of Cascadia forms as the OmniState Directorate.

**Year ~10’000 Before Calamity**

-Beginning of the digital age. Energy becomes cheaper and more available.

-First computers are invented. Large, bulky and inefficient, they speed up the wheels of progress even more.

-A massive corporation in Noveria collapses. Noverian economy goes into freefall.

**Year ~9’000 Before Calamity**

-Continentalia and Cascadia declare war on the OmniState.

-First jet engines are invented. The era of globalisation begins.

**Year ~8’500 Before Calamity**

-OmniState surrenders following a long, but uneventful conflict.

-Continentalia launches the first space satellite.

-Cascadia challenges Continentalia to a space race.

**Year ~8’400 Before Calamity**

-Cascadia launches the first satellite with a camera into orbit, taking the first photos of the planet.

-Continentalia launches the first living organism into orbit.

-Tonrar reforms into a Federation.

-A number of smaller nations are integrated into Noveria.

**Year ~8’300 Before Calamity**

-Cascadia wins the space race by launching an Alari to a passing asteroid, where he plants a flag and collects rock samples.

-Continentalia works with Tonrar to establish the first permanent space station “Overlook-1”.

-Unrest in Continentalia causes a colony on the Eastern continent to peacefully secede from Continentalia in exchange for an open trade treaty. Republic of Agnolia is formed.

**Year ~8’000 Before Calamity**

-Agnolia and Tonrar sign a mutual defense treaty.

-Agnolia unites the Eastern continent.

-Continentalia launches a probe to collect atmospheric samples of the gas giant above. It is destroyed by a passing meteoroid.

-Golden Gulf City becomes the first city to fully embrace clean energy sources such as solar and wind.

**Year ~7’600 Before Calamity**

-Continental and Cascadian satellites connect the world, bypassing the undersea cables.

-Volcano eruption in Tonrar causes a global decrease in temperatures by one degree.

-Radiant Sword submarine manages to dive down and touch the deepest point of the ocean.

**Year ~7’400 Before Calamity**

-A nuclear power plant in Continentalia explodes. The capital is quickly evacuated. Over five million people are displaced from the contaminated zone.

-Agnolia takes in Continental refugees as a show of good will.

-The Global Federation is formed, an assembly of all nations to avoid war.

**Year ~7’000 Before Calamity**

-The Global Federation forces a minor nation to surrender to Cascadia.

-Several minor nations form into the NeoState to combat the Global Federation threat.

-International organizations enter space with private starships. “Talon-1” project begins.

**Year ~6’900 Before Calamity**

-Global Federation investigation discovers a Tonrar superweapon project.

-Tonrar closes borders to Continentalia.

-Continentalia reforms into a constitutional monarchy.

**Year ~6’500 Before Calamity**

-Continental Tanker sunk by Tonrar forces.

-Continental forces blockade Tonrar ports.

-Agnolian president assassinated by NeoState insurgent.

-Agnolia declares war of “liberation” on the NeoState. Reports of war crimes are suppressed.

**Year ~6’000 Before Calamity**

-Noveria attempts a takeover of Cascadia’s markets. Cascadia expels several large Noverian corporations.

-Infighting between two corporations in Noveria grows into a civil war.

-Continentalia aids the Noverian Republic.

**Year ~5’900 Before Calamity**

-Agnolia suppresses free news reporting on the NeoState war. “Agnolia does not use napalm on civilian targets in NeoState. Those reports are greatly exaggerated.”

-Noverian insurgents roll out combat drones.

-Continentalia withdraws support forces from Noveria.

**Year ~5’700 Before Calamity**

-Noverian Republic falls to insurgents. A shift of power causes a different corporation to take control of the nation.

-Continentalia apologises to Noveria and begins buying automated weapon systems from them.

-Tonrar navy attempts to blockade the new Continental capital but are boarded and brought into port.

-Tonrar diplomat yells on TV about the Continental threat. He is found dead in his apartment three days later.

-War of spies begins between Continentalia and Tonrar.

**Year ~5’100 Before Calamity**

-Agnolian navy fires upon Tonrar civilian ships.

-Agnolia signs a military cooperation treaty with Continentalia.

-The nations of the sandy Southern continent unite under the Saur Alliance.

**Year ~5’000 Before Calamity**

-Tonrar enters a war against Agnolia. Cascadia enters the war as well.

-Tonrar capital shelled by Cascadian navy.

-Agnolia loses the war against NeoState.

**Year ~4’700 Before Calamity**

-Tonrar capital is captured by Cascadian forces.

-Tonrar navy massacred by a mercenary aircraft squadron in the Sauran Straight.

-Cascadia signs a treaty of cooperation with Noveria.

-Noveria begins transitioning to renewable energy sources.

**Year ~4’500 Before Calamity**

-Price of crude oil drops on the market.

-Saur Alliance enters a civil war.

-Tonrar is on the verge of surrender.

-Cascadian and Agnolian forces aid in rebuilding the former Tonrar capital.

-Tonrar unleashes its superweapon, nuking its own capital and chain-firing several nearby volcanoes. Tonrar government goes to ground.

-The Global Federation passes a ban on weapons of mass destruction.

-NeoState illegally takes over a chain of Cascadian islands.

-Cascadia denounces NeoState during a Global Federation session.

-Cascadian fighters tempt NeoState border defenses.

**Year ~4’200 Before Calamity**

-Cascadia sends a liberation force to the islands.

-NeoState and several smaller countries for an opposition.

-Agnolia conducts several air raids on a seemingly unimportant oil rig, later confirmed to be the hiding spot of Tonrar government officials.

-Continentalia begins rebuilding efforts in the new Tonrar Protectorate.

**Year ~4’000 Before Calamity**

-Southern polar region under threat of melting glaciers. Planetary temperature levels are pushing the ice back.

-Continentalia establishes the Oceanic Protectorate with the main goal to restore the environment of the polar regions.

**Year ~3’600 Before Calamity**

-Cascadia, Continentalia and Agnolia establish the Ark Project, seeding emergency vaults with seeds and genetic samples across the world.

-NeoState coalition forms the new OmniState.

-Continentalia establishes the first permanent off-world outpost on one of the other moons of the gas giant. A small outpost of just 12 people grows to nearly 500 by the end of the century.

-Noveria becomes the first nation to fully transition to renewable sources of energy. Price of fuel drops dramatically.

-Saur Alliance ends the civil war, focusing on tourism rather than industry this time. The Southern continent becomes a tourist hot spot.

**Year ~3’200 Before Calamity**

-Tonrar Federation finally finishes rebuilding efforts under Continental leadership. The modern city becomes a must-visit place full of modern tech never seen before.

-Cascadia enters the war against OmniState.

**Year ~3’000 Before Calamity**

-Continentalia enters the war against OmniState

-A mercenary group temporarily seizes control of the Global Federation hall, but is quickly eliminated.

-Agnolia finds a connection between the mercenaries and OmniState.

**Year ~2’900 Before Calamity**

-Agnolia enters the war against OmniState.

-OmniState uses tactical nuclear weapons.

-Noveria launches an orbital weapons complex.

-”Talon-1” station brought out of orbit following an onboard explosion. No survivors.

**Year ~2’500 Before Calamity**

-OmniStat calls for a ceasefire and begins de-escalation talks.

-Cascadian forces finally take full control of their islands.

-Agnolia deploys the world’s first atmospheric carrier.

-Unknown person by the pseudonym “Mr. Menagerie” uploads schematics to an atmospheric stabilizer to Oceanic Protectorate.

**Year ~2’000 Before Calamity**

-Oceanic Protectorate begins constructing a series of megaprojects over several volcanoes in polar regions to use their power for the atmospheric stabilizers.

-Chemical catastrophe in Continentalia causes a massive region of tundra to become uninhabitable. People are evacuated and quarantine is put in place.

-Three more extraplanetary outposts appear on the other moon of the giant. Several asteroid stations are also established.

**Year ~1’500 Before Calamity**

-A-grav technology is developed in Noveria.

-Oceanic Protectorate weather stabilizers are turned on. Slowly ice begins to return to the polar regions.

-Remaining smaller nations form a new nation by the name of the “Kinnagit Republic”.

**Year ~1’000 Before Calamity**

-90% of Ascended Yfaria population mysteriously disappears. 2 million Alari are unaccounted for. Continentalia takes the abandoned cities with no resistance.

-Continentalian scientists discover that Yfarians have managed to crack the language of the ancient terraformers and bring one of them back online.

**Year ~700 Before Calamity**

-Radical uprising in Tonrar Federation throws Continentalia off-balance.

-Tonrar Federation reforms into Tonrar Directorate.

-Tonrar Directorate signs a mutual defense treaty with OmniState.

**Year ~400 Before Calamity**

-Noverian scientists develop the first true AI.

-Noveria reforms into a technocracy.

-Oceanic Protectorate reports minor weather anomalies.

**Year ~100 Before Calamity**

-OmniState peace talks break down. Threat Condition Saber One is declared in Agnolia.

-Tonrar navy moves to positions to shell Cascadian capital.

-Fight breaks out on the assembly floor of the Global Federation.

-Kinnagit Republic invests in bunkers.

-Off-world outposts stockpile food.

-Agnolian atmospheric aircraft carrier goes AWOL.

-Continentalia reforms into a Federation.

### **Year 50 before - Year 1000 after Calamity**

**Year ~50 Before Calamity**

-Noverian AI is connected to all national functions. It is made public and many citizens consider it a “friend”.

-Kinnagit capital finishes a colossal underground citadel project.

-Skirmishes begin between Cascadia and OmniState.

-Tonrar aviation harass Continental defense lines.

-Saur Alliance leadership evacuates off-world.

**Year 1 Before Calamity**

-An all out war begins between Cascadia and OmniState.

-Agnolia joins Cascadia.

-Continentalia joins Cascadia.

-Saur Alliance joins Cascadia.

-Noveria declares neutrality.

-Kinnagit declare neutrality.

-Tonrar Directorate joins OmniState.

-Global Federation collapses.

-Tactical nuclear warheads are deployed. Millions dead across numerous cities.

-Wildfires spread across the central continent.

-Noverian AI goes mad. Noverian operations break down as automated systems attack their masters.

-Noveria launches nukes towards all nations.

-Saur oil fields chain-fire. Deserts light up with oil fires as cities go dark.

**---[Age of Calamity]---**

**Year 1 of Calamity**

-Wildfires and radiation ravage the world.

-Noveria collapses.

-Saur Alliance collapses.

-Cascadian refugees flee the cities.

-OmniState completely annihilated. No survivors.

-Tonrar defense lines cut down waves of refugees coming from both sides.

-Remains of Global Federation observer forces flee to Agnolia.

-Nuclear submarines continue nuclear exchange.

-Agnolian capital receives an orbital strike as Noverian AI gains access to orbital weaponry.

-Continental refugees flee to surviving areas. Once quaint villages have been transformed into adhawk metro areas where refugees have to build basic prefabs for shelter.

-The Alari population of nearly 20 billion reduced to 791 million by year one.

**Year 2 of Calamity**

-Oceanic Protectorate weather stabilizers explode in violent explosions. Cause unknown. Weather anomalies appear all over the world.

-Tsunami levels the second biggest Agnolian city.

-Food shortage on asteroid outposts. Infighting begins.

-Shortage of drinking water in remnants of Saur Alliance creates death regions.

-Talon-5 orbital installation falls out of orbit and lands on top of a Tonrar surviving city.

-Radiation poisoning kills off large numbers of people among the surviving population in Cascadia.

-A fleet of remaining Cascadian and Continental ships alongside whatever civilian ships were still able to move after the collapse take off into the ocean, calling themselves the “Damned Flotilla”.

**Year 3 of Calamity**

-The Damned Flotilla manages to reach clean ocean waters and modify an oil rig into a water desalinator.

-Kinnagit slides into dictatorships as the underground cities look for leadership.

-Food shortage across the extraplanetary outposts. Infighting begins.

-Emergency Agnolian government emerges from bunkers and look over their now-ravaged lands.

-Water levels begin rising dramatically following the demise of the Oceanic Protectorate.

-A mercenary flotilla links up with the Damned Flotilla. They distribute out their limited supply of anti-rad medicine.

**Year 4 of Calamity**

-Agnolia begins the process of rebuilding a small number of settlements that were not too ravaged by the calamity.

-An unmarked battleship arrives to the floating city the Damned Flotilla has become. The captain speaks of some shadowy organization that will rebuild the war.

-Yfarian population resurfaces, quite literally, in a fleet of submarines. Key leaders are brought back from cryostasis.

**Year 5 of Calamity**

-All off-world installations suffocate as the Noverian AI hijacks their life support systems.

-An unknown transmission is caught by every transmitter on the planet. It gives the coordinates of the far north of the Central continent and the name “Oasis”.

-A hastily assembled airship takes off from the Damned Flotilla to investigate the so-called “Oasis”.

**Year 6 of Calamity**

-Agnolia reconstruction efforts yield results, as they are able to establish uplink with the orbital satellite network.

-Two explorers in a small tug arrive at the Damned Flotilla. The rogue AI has been contained in a floating installation and then sunk in the Tonrar Bay.

-The airship relays back to the fleet that there is in fact an “Oasis”. Among a frozen tundra stands a massive white tower with a dome of enormous proportions at the bottom and a small lighthouse at the top.

-The Damned Flotilla begins moving towards the Oasis.

-An Agnolian submarine resurfaces to contact the new government about the Oasis and gets sent to investigate too.

**Year 7 of Calamity**

-The worst is over.

-Most of the wildfires have been extinguished by nature.

-The Damned Flotilla reaches the Oasis, and upon investigating, discovers that the Oasis has a colossal underground city, fully operational, but empty, just under the tower. Most choose to disembark and enter the Oasis.

-The Agnolian submarine sent to investigate the Oasis discovered that the reports were correct. An enormous tower was present on site, and a fleet of civilian and military ships in various conditions. It was tasked with making contact with them and notifying that there are still nations alive. Or at least one of them.

-And this was the end of the Calamity age.

**---[After Calamity]---**

**Year 1 After Calamity**

-The Damned Flotilla, now citizens of the Oasis make contact with the creators of the Oasis, the Horizon Initiative. Citizens of the Oasis accept Horizon as their leading authority.

-Agnolian government is contacted by Horizon and also submits to the Initiative in exchange for assistance.

-Horizon Initiative begins deploying technology never seen before, stabilizing the environment, clearing up radiation and restoring biological life.

-Horizon drafts in refugees with backgrounds in biology, engineering and physics.

**Year 20 After Calamity**

-Global communication is restored. A basic version of IntraNet is established.

-Several surviving city-states submit to Horizon rule. Survivors evacuated underground while the Horizon terraformers clean up the overworld.

-Yfarians are intercepted by an automated fleet, however do not submit and prefer death to evacuating underground. Their submarine fleet is sunk. No survivors.

-Kinnagit cities are made contact with and integrated into Horizon authority.

**Year 50 After Calamity**

-Several regions on the Eastern Continent are deemed safe for overground habitation. A group of settlers is sent to restore some of the ruined cities and establish new ones.

-Agnolian Protectorate is established under Horizon.

-Atmospheric scrubbers clean up the radioactive dust in the upper atmosphere.

-Automated probes are sent to orbital installations.

-Horizon revealed to have a basic version of FTL engines.

**Year 100 After Calamity**

-Automated systems give an all clear. North of the Central continent is safe for overground habitation. Several cities are established, drawing water from the oceans and purifying it. Enormous wind and geothermal plants are established to power the cities and the Oasis to give the Oasis ability to shut down the nuclear reactors that fed it.

-Some civilian government functions are re-established. A loose federation of cities is formed, but not given a name, referred only as the “Federation”.

-Several corporations rise from the ashes of the ruined world. Recovering lost technology and reverse-engineering them.

**Year 200 After Calamity**

-Horizon gives an all-clear signal to the Federation to rebuild all government functions.

-Corporate Council is established.

-Southern Continent ready for settlement.

-Oceanic Protectorate survivors recovered from cryostasis in one of the remaining sunken facilities.

**Year 500 After Calamity**

-Horizon accepts a guiding role in the Federation under one condition: Only they will control the space force. Federation accepts.

**Year 1’000 After Calamity**

-The Alari reach a pre-calamity level of life.

-Planetary surface is mostly safe for habitation.

-Horizon shifts its focus on rebuilding the weather patterns.

### **Year 1500 - 10000 after Calamity**

**Year 1’500 After Calamity**

-Federation establishes the memorial to all those lost in the calamity.

-Spiritualism levels drop across the planet.

-Federation bans fossil fuels as an energy source.

**Year 2’500 After Calamity**

-Pre-calamity nuclear explosive device is defused in one of the biggest cities.

-Stellar Bay nominated the capital of the Federation.

-All pre-calamity cities charted again and outposts established. Global rebuilding efforts are in full swing.

**Year 3’000 After Calamity**

-Federation society moves into castes. A clear meritocracy appears.

-First off-world outpost restored to operation.

-Efforts to chart the system begin.

**Year 5’000 After Calamity**

-Global weather patterns stable. Water levels drop as ice returns to polar regions.

-Horizon begins research into arcane terraformers spread throughout the planet.

-Second Golden Age of technology begins.

**Year 6’200 After Calamity**

-First manned Alari FTL craft takes off. Colonies established across the home system.

**Year 6’800 After Calamity**

-Alari explore, chart and colonize the nearby systems, as nearby worlds appear to also have these arcane terraformers, making them near-perfect for Alari habitation.

-Federation officially passes the law to have it be called the United Federation of Star Systems (UFSS)

-Caste system set in law.

**Year 9’000 After Calamity**

-Horizon prevents a corporate uprising by bringing the corporations under Horizon protection.

-First Alari colony established around an alien star.

-Quantum Entanglement Buoys are established between colonies for near-instant communication.

-Slipway Gates and Accelerators established between systems for small starships to be able to traverse interstellar space.

-IntraNets united into a single system called “The Grid”.

**Year 10’000 After Calamity**

-The Calamity has become a distant memory now, as the Alari are living in a new golden age.

-The Federation gradually expands into unclaimed space at a steady space.

-Life finally is normal…