Earth

First Human-made picture of the entirety of Earth

### Significant institutions

Terran Supreme Scientific Council, Senate, Assembly of the People, Ministries and many others

### Species

Human (90%)
Aliens (10%)

### Languages

Latin, French, English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic and others

## Historical information

### Important events

* ~250000BC Appearance of Homo Sapiens
* ~10000BC Agricultural revolution
* ~4000BC First cities
* ~3300BC Invetion of writing
* ~1000BC Beginning of Iron Age
* 27BC Beginning of the Roman Empire
* 50 Birth of Christianity
* 632 Birth of Islam
* ~1000 Invention of Gunpowder
* 1400-1550 Renaissance
* 1453 Fall of the Roman Empire
* 1492 Discovery of America
* 1500-1900 Colonial Age
* 1765 Beginning of First Industrial Revolution
* 1789 Beginning of French Revolution
* 1802-1815 Napoleonic Wars
* 1815-1888 End of Slavery
* 1837 Invention of telegraph
* 1859 *The Origin of Species* published
* 1903 First aircraft
* 1905 Einstein's Annus Mirabilis
* 1914-1918 World War I
* 1939-1945 World War II
* 1945 First nuclear bomb detonated
* 1946 United Nations formed
* 1957 First artificial satellite in orbit
* 1961 First man in space
* 1969 First man on the Moon
* 1970-1995 Birth of the Internet
* 2028 Chinese housing crisis
* 2030 Last nuclear devices put out of service
* 2033 United States collapse
* 2036 Peak population reached - 10 billion
* 2038-2049 Great Famine
* 2055 Custodian takes power in European Federation
* 2062 TAU formed by Custodian
* 2072 First Commonwealth formed by Custodian
* 2093 First commercial fusion reactor
* 2097 Terran Federation formed by Custodian
* 2156 Discovery of graviton
* 2160-2175 Invention of anti-gravity, artificial gravity and FTL
* 2495 Attempted military coup

**Earth**, sometimes called **Terra**, is the homeworld of Humanity and the capital of the Terran Federal Republic. It is the second most populous planet in the Galaxy. Earth has immense cultural, societal and religious significance to Humans. Additionally, it is the political, economic and diplomatic heart of the Terran Republic. The planetary administration is the **Commonwealth of All Peoples of Earth**.

Earth has hosted sapient life for the longest time of any homeworld: whilst other spacefaring species appeared around 200,000 years ago, Humans appeared over 250,000 years ago. Humanity was however one of the last species to achieve meaningful space travel. Alien scholars consider humans to have entered their space age in the early 2200s, over a hundred years after Earth was unified by a single government. Earth has also unlike most other species' homeworlds hosted nation-states rather than a permanent single government. Humanity is notorious among species for being incredibly divided. However, with centuries spent under Terran federal rule, these divisions faded away, and Humans from Earth are now considered similar societally to many aliens when it comes to internal divisions.

Earth is different from most other planets in and out of the Federation, as most of its population is concentrated in arcologies. These encompass over half the population, and can house over half a billion people. The largest one of these by volume, the Tower of Babel is considered one of the Six Galactic Wonders, and is home to over half a billion people. The remaining population is spread out in the so-called [[Old Cities] , which were built before the Unification. These house most of the government institutions and most prestigious institutes and universities.

Earth today is home to over 9 billion people. This however is not the peak population Earth reached, as in the late 2030s earth's population was nearly 10 billion. The population was drastically reduced during the mid-21st century crisis, notably during the Great Famine, where the population of Africa and a large chunk of Asia was reduced nearly tenfold. The Unification Wars further reduced Earth's population, and by the time of the Unification the population was only around two billion. Earth's population has steadily grown ever since, with no large bumps in population since the first years of the Federation. Earth has the highest national emigration rate of any planet in the Federation, but it also has the highest international immigration rates. Earth has every sapient species represented on it. Since the formation of the UCO and the end of the Great Galactic War, millions of aliens have migrated to Earth. They now make up around 10% of the total population, or around 910 million people. The most numerous are the Dermkha, Surben and Tesrat, which are biologically and anatomically close to humans.