Earth

**Earth**, also known to the inhabitants of the Andromeda Galaxy as **Terra**, is the third planet from the Sun of the Sol System and home of the diverse group of humans known as **Terrans** (humans that existed on Earth). Located deep in the Milky Way Galaxy, Earth is capable of supporting vast amounts of life.

The planet had the most diverse biomes and cultures that the galaxy has ever seen and is approximately 4.54 billion years old. Its dominant life forms are Humans, of which there are more than 7 billion. Earth has one natural satellite, known as the Moon, which humans visited between the Earth years of 1969 to 1972, and later established military installations on during the Intergalactic Cold War. It is also the capital world of the Terran Alliance.

### Humble Beginnings

Approximately 13 billions years ago, a hypothetical event known as the Big Bang occurred that created the universe. Overtime, millions of galaxies were created including the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies. Within the latter, the Sol System was formed, and eight planetoids began to float in orbit of its star. The third farthest from said star would become the world later known as Earth.

This world would eventually become capable of supporting life, though more complex life would not come until almost 500 million years ago. As of 65 million years ago, large reptilian creatures known as dinosaurs roamed the Earth as the dominant species until they were pushed into extinction by an 6 mile long asteroid that struck the planet.

### Cradle of Humanity

Over the the next 64 million years, life continued to flourish, until modern day humans evolved on Earth about 200,000 years ago. First appearing in present-day Africa, humanity eventually spread across the planet as nomadic tribes. Over time, a number of tribes began to settle near large rivers, mainly near the Nile, Indus, Yellow, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers.

### Ancient Times

As ancient civilizations continued to expand, some became profitable trade centers of the ancient world. Philosophy and the early ideas of democracy began in the city-states of Ancient Greece. The first code of law began in Babylonia, under the rule of King Hammurabi. The modern day monotheistic religions of Judaism and Christianity would also begin in Middle East.

#### The Roman Republic and Roman Empire

On the Italian peninsula, the people of the city of Rome ruled over their homeland after achieving autonomy from their king. Julius Caesar, a Roman politician and general, became leader of the Roman Senate and led conquests around most of Europe until his assassination by the hands of the rest of the Roman government. His son, Octavian, took up the name of Augustus, and proclaimed himself the emperor of Rome, turning the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.

For the next 400 years, the Roman Empire continued to spread its influence across most of Europe, eventually converting to Christianity around the early 5th century. By 400 AD, the western half of the empire was on the brink of collapse, and on 476 AD, Rome fell to Germanic tribes, and the Western Roman Empire ceased to exist. The Eastern half, with its capital Constantinople, continued to exist as the Byzantine Empire.

### The Middle Ages

#### Europe Divided

With Rome gone, the territories of the former Roman Empire were later inhabited by various Germanic tribes, who later converted to the various customs of the region, including religion. The former Roman territories soon formed into various kingdoms that battled for land, honor, or the title of "New Rome". Gaul became the Kingdom of France. Briton became home to the Kingdoms of England, Wales, Scotland, and various Gaelic tribes. The kingdoms of Western Europe were under constant threat of Viking raids. But despite this, they still fought amongst themselves, with England and France developing a bitter rivalry.

During the middle ages the power of the Roman Catholic Church started to persecute every Men and Women who are considered witches and evil wizards accusing them who are using on what they called: *"magic"* which they called them as Heretics, children of the Devil or plague of Humanity. However in reality that they were actually good people in fact, They were helping sick people, giving food for the needs and lastly being faithful to god, this included St. Joan of Arc, the Heroine of France who was burned at the stake. It is estimated that 35,000 to 100,000 innocent people were executed by the Europeans (including in the Americas during the Salem Witch trials) who are accused of witchcraft from 1450 to 1750 AD, this was ended after the Reformation of Christianity in Europe. It was later discovered that those men and women were one of the first force sensitives of Earth after the arrival of the Jedi on Earth.

In the Middle East, an Arab prophet named Muhammad was given a message by God himself. He later began spread his teachings under the religion of Islam. The second monotheistic religion of the world.

#### The Crusades

In 1096, the pope of the Catholic Church, Urban II called for the First Crusade to conquer the Holy Land from Muslim rule. The conflict was the first one between the two religious groups and saw men from all of Europe fight. It was also the first time their was an ease between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. It was followed by the three other crusades, lasting until 1271.

### Early Modern Era

#### Age of Exploration and the Americas

With the Muslim-controlled Ottoman Empire in control of access to the trade routes to India. The European powers wanted a better route for trade without Ottoman interference. Some traveled around the tip of southern Africa, with the Portuguese establishing a trade route. Others like the Spanish, wanted a different route. Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sailed westward, believing that India and China would be there. Instead he discover the Americas. After more than 10,000 years of isolation, the East and West Hemispheres were reacquainted. For the next 300 years, the European powers began to establish colonies in the Americas.

One of the most noted of Portuguese-born explorers was Fernão de Magalhães (anglicized as "Magellan"), who instigated and organized the first circumnavigation of the globe from 1519 to 1522 as he started an expedition in the name of the Spanish Empire and Christianize the natives. One of this discoveries was the he travelled from West to East until he died during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippine Islands, despite of his death in 1521 he somehow succeeded that the World is a Round spheroid and this started the colonization of Asia.

Around this time, the Kingdoms of England and Scotland would unite into the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Their existence and legacy would reach the entire world for the next 200 years.

By the mid-1700s, the European powers had territory all over the Americas. France and Britain would go to war over territory that they both claimed, sparking the French and Indian War. The conflict would end in a British victory, and the latter acquired all of France's colonial holdings in North America.

#### A New Nation Is Born

Despite Britain's victory, the empire had borrowed a lot of money to win the war, placing the British in high debts. To stop this, new taxes were passed on the American colonies. This outraged many colonists, with the situation getting so severe that in 1770, troops in Boston, Massachusetts, fired upon American protestors, killing five. Three years later, the Boston Tea Party occurred.

## Government

Prior to the foundation of the Alliance, Earth/Terra had no unified central government or single leader of the planet, only less than 200 nations, each with their own governments, leaders, and cultures, but all were united by the banner of the United Nations. Yet throughout the Terran Cold War, two nations were the most powerful, the United States of America (U.S.A.), and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). However after the arrival of the Galactic Republic in 1991, and the Terran campaign, the countries of Earth reorganized into a larger, unified planet-wide government known as the Terran Alliance, yet since the people had anti-globalist views, each nation still maintains their own sovereignty in laws, culture, and economy, even though they are part of the Alliance.

## Military

*Main article: Terran Alliance and UN Peacekeeping Forces*

Although the militaries on Earth still retains their roles as National Armed Forces of their respective nations government, the majority of such also serve as unified military branches of the Terran Alliance. These include the US Armed Forces, British Armed Forces, German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr/Federal Defense), French Armed Forces, Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, People's Liberation Army of China as prime examples of such.

## Nations

### North America

* United States of America
* Canada
* Greenland

#### Central America

* Mexico
* Honduras
* El Salvador
* Panama
* Nicaragua
* Costa Rica
* Guatemala
* Belize

#### Caribbean

* Cuba
* Dominican Republic
* Puerto Rico (US Territory)
* US Virgin Islands (US Territory)
* British Virgin Islands (UK)
* Cayman Islands (UK)
* Haiti
* Bahamas
* Turks and Caicos (UK)
* Jamaica
* Guadeloupe (France)
* Martinique (France)
* Barbados
* Grenada
* Montserrat (UK)
* Aruba
* Trinidad and Tobago

### South America

* Columbia
* Equator
* Guyana
* Suriname
* French Guinea (France)
* Brazil
* Argentina
* Chile
* Uruguay
* Peru
* Paraguay
* Bolivia
* Venezuela
* Falkland Islands (UK)

### Europe

#### Western Europe

* United Kingdom
* French Republic
* Kingdom of Spain
* Belgium
* The Netherlands
* Switzerland
* Federal Republic of Germany

#### Scandinavia

* Denmark
* Norway
* Sweden
* Finland
* Iceland

#### Southern Europe

* Italy
* Monaco
* Greece
* Turkey

#### Central Europe

* Poland
* Austria
* Hungary
* Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia until 1993)
* Slovakia (formerly Czechoslovakia until 1993)

#### The Balkans

* Serbia
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Slovenia
* Macedonia
* Kosovo

#### Eastern Europe

* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Estonia
* Belarus
* Ukraine
* Moldovia
* Russia

### Middle East

* Jordan
* Bahrain
* Lebanon
* Israel (Unified with Palestine)
* Palestine (Unified with Israel)
* Saudi Arabia
* Iraq
* Syria
* United Arab Emirates
* Qatar
* Yemen
* Islamic Republic of Iran
* Oman
* Pakistan
* Kuwait

### Africa

* Algeria
* Morocco
* Egypt
* Libya
* Somalia
* Sierra Leone
* Ethiopia
* Sudan
* South Sudan (2011)
* Nigeria
* Kenya
* South Africa
* Zimbabwe
* Angola
* Democratic Republic of Congo
* Zambia
* Tanzania
* Madagascar
* Uganda
* Chad

### Asia

* Mongolia
* People's Republic of China
* United Republic of Korea (formerly North and South Korea, 1945 - 1992)
* Kazakhstan
* Kyrgyzstan
* Uzbekistan
* Azerbaijan
* Afghanistan
* Nepal
* India
* Sri Lanka
* Myanmar (formerly Burma until 1989)
* Malaysia
* Philippines
* Singapore
* Thailand
* Vietnam (formerly North and South Vietnam, 1955 - 1975)
* Laos
* Cambodia
* Japan
* Indonesia
* Russian Federation (formerly Soviet Union, 1922-1992)

### Australia & Oceania

* Papa New Guinea
* New Zealand
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Commonwealth of Australia
* Antarctica
* American Samoa (US Territory)
* Samoa
* Guam (US Territory)
* Northern Mariana Islands (US Territory)

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (first appearance)*
* *The Terran Alliance: A Changing World*
* *When the World Stopped Turning*
* *The Terran Alliance Strikes Back*