History

**2020:** Pandemic hits the world, which instigated World War 3, which lasted for 30 years.

**2050:** War World 3 comes to a close, but over a third of humanity is dead with nuclear hotspots all over planet Earth, destroying the ecosystem and livable environments for years to come.

**2052:** Rapid climate changes due to nuclear fallout force the remaining population of Earth to come together or die trying. Thus numerous survival projects are put into place.

**2055:** Three years and the population of Earth is keeping itself alive. Also Earth's brightest minds stumble upon a new never before seen source of energy called Ether. Using this new source of energy science has revolutionized. Including the invention of warp travel also known as FTL. Allowing a journey to the moon which usually took months, to only taking a few hours.

This change bringing about a new era saw fit to change the calendar to ED year 1 or Ether Discovery year one in honor of the new energy that gave hope for the future back to mankind.

**ED year 5:** After five years of training with ether humanity plans a mass expedition to the stars to look for resources. Their first stop is Mars and the gas giants. But due to the harsh conditions of said planets mining resources is hard and extremely dangerous.

**ED year 6:** Just a year after the mining crisis the Atlas Company on Earth develops the very first Ether Core, placing it inside a mechanized worker which they name Mech Drivers. Selling these workers to the world's remaining governments, resources are able to be mined from other planets with ease.

**ED year 10:** Just four years after the Atlas Company develops the Mech Drivers humanity is rising once again. They are now mining resources all over the solar system. But as with all things, changes come. Not all of them good.

Certain countries feel they deserve more resources than others, and as such decide to take drastic measures. They take ether and try to develop weapons from it. The same with Mech Drivers This leads to an entirely new arms race, with ether at the center of it all.

Seeing this, certain factions want no part in another war and thus decide on a different outcome. They wish to find another habitable world where they may live. So this turn about of new warfare also gives rise to the age of space exploration beyond the Sol system.

**ED years 30:** 20 years have passed since humans have weaponized ether as well as started to explore deep space. In doing so they've already discovered a number of planets Earth-like. But no other intelligent species like them. Leading humans to realize they may be the only sentient race in the entire galaxy.

Even so they are not too discouraged. They go ahead with colonizing these Earth-like planets.

Also during this year a strange phenomenon also begins to take place. Certain individuals begin to exhibit extranormal abilities such as precognition and enhanced strength. But due to their small numbers people dismiss them as mere rumors.

They had no idea how wrong they were.

**ED 70:** Forty years have passed since humans began to settle other worlds. They are now thriving on these planets. But more than that the rumored extranormal phenomenon is not a rumor anymore.

Members of the new generation have begun displaying said abilities in large numbers. A study of them reveals that intense and high exposure to Ether has awakened latent hidden abilities within the human race, allowing certain members to become more than normal. This new subgroup of humanity has become known as Arcanist, based on the fact that the powers they display are akin to magic in a sense.

**ED 100:** Thirty-years have passed since the Arcanist first began appearing and in that time many things have transpired.

Arcanists have been discovered to be extremely adept in many fields, and their abilities come in many different varieties, some more powerful than most others.

But even so many still do not trust Arcanists and look down upon them or with fear. There is a lot of anti-Arcanists propaganda and hate groups abound, making Arcanists and their family's afraid for their lives.

But more important than that, humanity has finally formed a centralized government that encompasses the galaxy. This new government is called the United Earth Federation or UEF for short. Many rejoice at this new government but many do not.

While the UEF brings stability to many parts of space, it also begins infringing upon the rights of others as well. The UEF begins strong-arming a number of space colonies and colonized worlds to join under the prospect of unity. But many see this for what it is. The UEF wanting its nose in all business for everyone across the galaxy.

**ED 106:** Six years have passed since the UEF was formed and they are still performing the same tactics, strong-arming outlier, or as they prefer to be called Fringe Worlds and colonies, into the fold of the government while ignoring any compromises proposed.

This conflict causes those on these worlds and colonies to rebuke the actions of their government and protests erupt all across space and even some within the UEF itself.

This is only the first spark that will change the galaxy forever.

**ED 108:** Tensions are at an all time high between the Fringes worlds and colonies and the UEF. Then things take a turn for the worst.

**April, ED 108:** On the space colony of Marigold a peaceful protest is being led by Janice Laurence, who is a leader among those calling for independence from the UEF since the beginning. Not only that, but she was born on a Fringe World and is an Arcanist as well.

Janice being a mighty pillar rallied many to the independent cause. People came out in droves and so did the UEF military force.

The UEF military became highly aggressive towards the protesters, and in no time at all a riot ensued.

Then the overzealous commander of the forces called for lethal fire and the first to die from this call was Janice herself as she tried to de-escalate the situation. Then a slew of other protesters were killed as well, before UEF high command called for a cease-fire. The soldiers involved were jailed but it was already too late.

This violent act became known as the Marigold Massacre and it was the straw that broke the camel's back.

**December ED 108:** Six months have passed since the Marigold Massacre has has taken place and during this time many fringe world and colonies leaders have met.

They have finally had enough of the UEF and their strong-arm tactics, as such they make a bold move. They form a group known as the Terran Confederacy of Independent States and declare their right as a sovereign state. They also declare they will defend themselves if necessary.

**ED 109:** The UEF challenges the Terrans Confederacy independence claims and so begins the First Galactic War of Independence.

**ED 140:** The First Galactic War of Independence comes to an end. After over thirty-years of fighting, the UEF and Terran Confederacy signed a cease-fire treaty.

An action which shocked the top brass of the UEF to no end. They assumed they would win the war within a few years.  But as the war progressed the fledgling Terran Confederacy held their own, even grew. The war changed the rag-tag group of fighters into a galactic power now rivaling the Federation itself.

A welcome change for many, especially the Arcanist who flocked to the Confederacy during and after the end of the war.

That is because during the war the rights of many Arcanist within the UEF were heavily violated and disregarded. Some were seen as nothing more than weapons in human skin. But the Confederacy was different. It welcomed Arcanists and treated them as equals. So when Arcanists wanting to tell their stories of the horrors they experienced during the First Independence War appeared within the Confederacy they felt it was their moral obligation to help them.

When the true outlook on Arcanist in the UEF was published throughout the galaxy a mass exodus of Arcanists to Confederacy space and anywhere outside of UEF space took place. This not only painted the UEF as monsters towards Arcanists, but also shined a light on the fact the Confederacy deserved all it got after the war.

**ED 190:** Fifty years have passed since the First Galactic Independence War. The Confederacy and the Federation are still growing and both still regard each other as enemies. But they are not the ones at the center of this conflict. Instead several burgeoning space nations in undefined, Confederacy, and Federation space make their own calls for Independence on the fifty-year anniversary of the Marigold Massacre.

So begins the Second Galactic War of Independence.

**ED 250:** The second Galactic Independence War sees its end, after double the time it took for the first war.

The end result is that both the Confederacy and the Federation survived and several new Star Nations have appeared.

One in particular is the small nation, Principality of Asahi. Which despite being one the smallest new Star nations held its original borders and even expanded during the war.

Speaking volumes for the star nation's future prospects.

**ED 425:** More than 400 years have passed since humanity has spread to the stars. There are now various factions across the galaxy ruling over multiple star systems, each with their own unique culture. This is also the year our young reincarnate begins his journey among the stars.