The 23rd Century

## Summary

**The 23rd Century** is the time period the series starts in, most of the main characters are born at the start of the century, and the story currently takes place in the early parts of it. This Century is both the most advanced and the most crisis heavy that humanity has ever dealt with, and nearly became the last century humankind ever lived in.

## Age

The 23rd Century and the 22nd Century before it so far make up humanity's **Space Age**, an age of incredible technological advancement and many colonies across the stars, along with being an age of new understanding and connection where humans and aliens can mostly coexist, barring the war with the Netraxians.

## Technology

During the mid 22nd Century, a somewhat crystal-like metal known as **Huscil** had been discovered on **Proxima Centauri II**. Huscil was about one through ten times as strong as Tungsten, one through ten times as light as Titanium, heat resistant and capable of bending and reflecting light and electricity. Bullets, armor and swords are all made of Huscil, as are many of the electronics of the time. and Huscil is the primary metal used to fight **Socqreath**, due to its aforementioned unique abilities to manipulate light. Not only that, but humanity had also managed how to use light and various other electromagnetic and gravitational forces to create forcefields, and also developed the technology to warp space and control antimatter. Humanity has also used special dust found on Mars to enhance the senses and speeds of future human generations, being the current generations.

### Weaponry

**Rifles:** These are the primary weapon of this era, much like in the Modern Era of the **19th** to **21st** **Centuries**. Rifles in this period are made with two barrels on them, one firing high velocity rounds made of Huscil that are much faster than sniper bullets and stronger than anti tank bullets, and one that fires lasers. These rifles also have combat knives attached to them below both barrels. These rifles have the insides of them made of Huscil to prevent them from breaking or overheating, and to ensure as much accuracy as possible. Should the rifle be compromised, it also has a self-destruct option built into it, which causes the rifle to explode with the force of an M67 grenade of the past.

**Missiles:** Missiles in this era are on average as small as the rockets fired by rocket launchers, but with the speed and power of Jet missiles. The ICBM equivalent is a vast array of warheads as powerful as nuclear weapons but with none of the radiation. Though not as common as rifles, missiles still take second place, being held by some soldiers and mounted on every war vehicle, including tanks.

**Grenades:** Grenades in this time are capable of wiping out portions of towns with their explosions, and as such are typically only used if as many soldiers as possible have all the protection ready. Though not as common as some other weapons, grenades are the third most common to be used on the actual battlefield.

**Pistols:** Pistols in this time period can range from simple bullets to lasers, and widely have HVRs made of Huscil. They are favored by military officers who will not often be on the battlefield and civilians wanting to defend themselves as well as possible. However, pistols are still at times used in warfare.

**Knives and Daggers:** Knives and daggers in this period have blades made of Huscil, and have much more reliable switchblade mechanisms. They are often serrated on one edge and bladed on the other, with a disc shaped guard that has a multitude of qilins curving upward around the disc as a makeshift swordbreaker. They can of course be used to stab, cut, throw, and saw, and now also have the capability of going through light constructs like forcefields and a Socqreath's Psychic Weapons, though the latter is unlikely to be damaged by them due to being much more erratic than forcefields.

**Swords:** Swords are used as sidearms by soldiers, and as at times primary arms by civilians and officers who will be expected to rarely if ever be on the battlefield. Most swords are made of Steel, Tungsten Carbide or, predominantly, Huscil. As such, these swords can reflect bullets, lasers and rounds made of Huscil, but usually the wielder will not be fast enough to do so, hence them being merely a sidearm in large scale warfare, as they can do nowhwere near as much damage as rifles can.

### Armor and Forcefields

**Electrogravitational Shields:** Invented by **Betram Bartrop**, humanity has at this point used these kinds of shields for defending all sorts of things, such as important buildings, payloads and devices, as well as soldiers and even entire planets. It is due to these shields that swords became viable in combat once again, and that humanity has averted many crises from space, including a gamma ray burst in 2194.

**Huscil Armor:** First forged during the **First War For Huscil**, which largely resembled medevial warfare at the time due to the lack of modern resources sent to the colony. Huscil Armor has been another major reason why swords were reintroduced into warfare, as it along with forcefields has made the soldiers with these items effectively untouchable by anything.

### Transportation

**Electromagnetic Roads:** Holographic roads are the primary means of vehicular transportation by car, as said cars have no wheels and are electricity based, using antennae to power themselves. These cars move along the roads via electromagnetism and nothing more, and rarely ever crash. Trucks usually go along roads with more powerful electromagnetics, to avoid falling through the hologram and exploding.

**Warp Drives:** These are used for interplanetary and interstellar travel, as they warp space to allow for a rudimentry form of FTL travel. Normally, one's first time on a Warp Drive is disorienting and nauseating, suggesting that though space is warped, the ships using the warp drive do still themselves accelerate. Warp Drives can also be attached to missiles to use to cause mass destruction to planets. However, humanity has deemed the usage of such a weapon a warcrime, after Procyon Ic was destroyed by one.

**Portals:** Though largely unstable and experimental, human-sized wormholes are a technology currently being researched by the military, and they have made multiple breakthroughs with them.

### Biology

**Superhumanization:** It seems technology from centuries ago has long been perfected, as there is an entire group of superhuman **Socqreath Killers** under **Lieutenant Richard Robinson**'s command.

**Cures:** Thanks to **Arthur Grant**, there is now a cure for effectively every known disease.

### Miscellaneous

**Hard Light:** The technology to create hard light constructs is widely available, and has many applications. Many see it as reality warping, though it is not truly.

## Political System

The planets inhabited primarily by humans are known as the **Human Star Realm** and led by **King Philip Rosenstock I**, King of Sciarhiel and the Human Worlds. Apart from Sciarhiel, there is also the unnamed country that **Kasiya Kouri** supposedly illegally lorded over, as well as Snuaj Clium and Whuyx Strella, the hot and cold sides of Proxima Centauri II, who constantly war with each other, and the countries of Earth. Mars is its own country, and Procyon's 'country' exists only in the men who live on the space station orbiting their destroyed homeworld. The ranks of the military are largely similar to today, however various figures hold power they likely shouldn't have with such low ranks, Richard and **General Erwin Buchardt** most well-known among them.

## Important Figures

**King Philip Rosenstock I:** Rosenstock is the leader of both Sciarhiel and of the Human Worlds. He is regarded as the single best swordsman in the series, and is fully absent from the struggles **Jackson Holland** and **Andromeda** face in their civilian lives. Rosenstock seems to be the glue that holds the Human Worlds together, and upon his death, it is believed by many that a new era of warfare would erupt between the Human Worlds.

**Emperor Arcturus I:** Arcturus is the one who started the **Netraxian - Human War of Conquest** as he called it (Though humanity calls it the **Human - Netraxian War of Defense**), and is the Emperor of his people, having killed the previous Emperor and started a war that has raged fifty years from its start to this day. He is considered the greatest threat to humankind and the galaxy as a whole.

**Proto:** Proto is considered to be the greatest warrior in the galaxy, and all fear the enigmatic swordsman. Proto is hinted plenty of times to be a robot, as they are a member of the Shazarak and seem to have a screen for a face. However, whatever is behind that screen is unknown. Regardless, Proto is feared everywhere, and seen as completely unstoppable.

**Karim Kouri:** Karim is seen as the most dangerous criminal in the galaxy. He is a superhuman who has lived in three seperate centuries and is known for favoring a simple M1911 pistol as his main weapon. Nothing seems to even slow him down, let alone kill him, and he has thus far proven to be the biggest challenge to the protagonists for a 'villain of the week'.

**Grimwald:** Grimwald was formerly known as El Mejor Pistolero de la Galaxia, The Best Gunman in the Galaxy. He was an outlaw who acted as a Semi-Modern Robin Hood figure, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. Grimwald joined Rosenstock's **Royal Guard** after they fought, took out an eye each and gained each other's respect, and Grimwald attempted to bury his past as an outlaw to avoid fame. Grimwald did most of this while using Western revolvers, too.

**Allen Davidson:** Allen is a former Colonel of Sciarhiel's military, but was dismissed from it after revealing that he and his closest allies had developed a **bioweapon**. They go on to form **Darkstar** and unleash a reign of terrorism that lasts around twenty or so years, give or take. Allen is also seens as being as good in martial arts as Rosenstock is in swordfighting, Allen supposedly being one of two equals to Rosenstock.

**Principal Adrian van Kooji:** Kooji is an immensely popular and intelligent man, who aided all the teachers known to work with him in revolutionizing their fields of science. Kooji is knwon for his terrifying combination of unbeatable brains and overwhelming brawns, as **Asaka Kazuyuki** wold have lost to him had the latter not resorted to treachery to win.

## Dates

2200: Andromeda is born.

2213: Andromeda meets Jack and is captured by Darkstar.

2216: Andromeda escapes Darkstar, as she and Jack attend school with the others, surviving **Romuald Compere**'s battle and defeating Kazuyuki.

2216: Andromeda and Jack are captured by the Shazarak, before escaping them. They then go on to fight, and barely survive, **The Wicked Prodigy**.

2216: The attack on **Straykua** happens, and Kasiya is killed.

2216: Darkstar's final few assaults on Sciarhiel's castle.

2217: Karim attacks, and subsequently vanishes. In between this, **Hakim Harper** is taken down, Kazuyuki escapes and **Saparbek Sadulaev** is discovered to be behind an urban legend.

2217: Cygnus and Tsunoi capture **Artemis**, which leads to the moonbase being raided and war being declared between humans and Socqreath.

2217: The war between humans and Socqreath, and the near destruction of the world. Andromeda reveals her full power. **SPT7** Dies.

2218: Jack's birthday, which Karim crashes.

2218: Arthur joins the Royal Guard.

2218: Jack and his friends are drafted into the military.

2218: Jack and his friends fight a resurrected Allen, Kasper is reported as dead.

2218: Jack and his friends start training, Sechsgrad and Karim's respective teams join forces.

2218: Jack and his friends are captured by **Atsumichi Kazuyuki**, and made to do battle with the villains.

2218: **Brigadier and Head Science Officer Fulke Yelverton** is discovered to be treasonous.

2218: Jack and his friends aid in a space battle, **Grand Admiral Hilbert** is killed by Proto.

2218: Darkstar's remnants attacks the castle again, **Vice Admiral** **Lev Lehrer** is discovered to be a double agent.

2218: The **Juggernaut** is completed, and taken to **Zukai'Netraxia**. Jack and his friends work to kill Atsumichi and destroy the **Star Eater**, as Rosenstock, a supersoldier, Lev and **Admiral Serena MacDonald** combine forces to defeat and kill **Emperor Arcturus I**.

2219: Jack and his friends are attacked by an assassin and discover the existence of **Phantom**, and later approached by **Richard Robinson**. Arthur dies.

2219: Jack and his friends fight **Malas'Vilin** and finish off **Asaka Kazuyuki** with **Falqo Distler**'s aid.

2219: Jack, his friends and Falqo destroy the last remnants of Darkstar, as they escape Phantom with the help of **Amaya Kiyomasu**.

2219: Phantom kills **Copernicus** and destroys his compound, Saparbek resurrects Arthur from the dead.

2219: Arthur fights Phantom and then fights an allies with Karim, Phantom loses his Anti-Socqreath Dagger during the battle.

2219: Phantom reveals Andromeda's crimes.

2219: Andromed and Phantom have their final battle, Richard and Phantom die.

2220: **General Reuben Hammond** introduces the **Olympian Holites**, Jack and his friends go on vacation on **Odriuq** and are attacked by Karim.

2220: **Demetrius Arnold** discovers Arthur's work, Grimwald and **Dione** go on a date, Rosenstock puts the Human Star Realm under high security, **Maibaum Manor** is destroyed.

2220: Jack and his friends learn of Arthur and Karim's alliance, and go to try and stop Karim from infecting **Lacenope** and **Gnayiliv 5X**, failing both times and being discharged from the military. Karim attacks them again on **Rinnagua** and heads to New Earth.

2220: Rosenstock, Grimwald, and Demetrius are killed, Sciarhiel Castle is destroyed and the Human Star Realm is thrown into chaos.