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While the human race discovered and encountered aliens in the year 2137, they werenât unified. Instead, the humans were at war with themselves. Nor did they realize that the aliens they encountered werenât trying to eliminate them, but instead act as an interventionist group to stop the conflict and reduce human casualties. Mankind has always proven to be a stubborn race, however, and therefore they resolved to uniting and fighting the aliens. This is a detailed history of the events long before the alien encounter to after it.
The humans were just beginning to recognize their advances into technology roughly around the year 2040, when they launched their first colonization to what they simply named the Moon. Though there had been efforts to send manned expeditions to the satellite for nearly twenty years, conflict between planet-side governments as well as simple inability to successfully settle on the moon impeded progress. However, the first ship - named I.C.S. (International Cooperative Ship) Messenger - landed with little difficulty on lunar soil. Taking around six months, the first colony was established and to this day the humans maintain a steady and growing presence on Luna, the name of the city and moon.
This sparked steady economic growth and scientific researches. Yet, this also marked the beginning of a rivalry between nearly every nation. During a period of what the humans name the Second Cold War (for apparently there had been one more before it, estimated at ninety to a hundred years before), the nation-state of the United States of America and the collective of countries named the European Union competed for various colonization efforts. Proxy wars occurred on earth, causing massive casualties on the home-planet. Realization for an actual international effort on the new frontierfinally sprung up, and the U.S.A. and E.U. eased tensions and created the International Bureau for the Exploration of the New Frontier. A bit more symbolic than materialistic in nature, the I.B.E.N.F. was really only something to sooth the publicâs hard feelings toward the Terran governmentsâ actions. It worked, actually, and the earth a entered brief era of peace.
During this time, which historians say lasted roughly from 2060 to 2080, the international community on earth worked cooperatively toward friendly colonization and frontier settling. They developed technologies which allowed them to traverse the bulk of their star system, the Sol System. The humans were able to settle half a dozen colonies on Mars, several more on Luna and erected satellite stations orbiting the planets of Venus, Jupiter and Pluto (these were more for scientific observations, as stations at the humans were still small in stature, housing only a few scores of people at a time). Technologies were advanced and in most cases built upon, with developments in the engine field, life support and various other operational systems needed for space flight. The humans were, in effect, well under way to making their first out-of-system space flight.
Back on Terra, however, there was still some nationalist resentment among the nation-states. The United States of America, together with several Central and South American countries, had formed the Organization for American Exploration, and in this case âAmericanâ did not just mean the U.S., but instead the entire population south of it. Canada, because of its heritage to the countries of the United Kingdom and French Republic, refused to join. This was a major push toward U.S. domination of space, as it allowed for higher and more efficient space-ship building because of the Central-South American population, joint-research programs and an increase in, simply, morale. By 2072, the Organization for American Exploration constituted about sixty percent of human colonization.
In response, the European Union came close to repudiating the treaty that established the International Bureau for the Exploration of the New Frontier. It already held very little power anyways, and even if the psychological affect on the Terran population was too profound to ignore, it didnât matter. Literally monopolizing space (how you could ever do such a thing, it is beyond me, but nevertheless the humans used the phrase), the O.A.E. made it impossible for the E.U. and other nations to create successful colonies on other planets, as they claimed that the Americans used âbully-like tactics to overcome E.U. frontier settlements, by cutting off trade with neighboring areas or by naval blockades of the planetâs atmosphere.â
Technically - and actually - blockades are an act of war. But, as the O.A.E. wasnât a representative body of the U.S.A. and its allies, as well as the fact that all U.S. ships bore the symbol of the O.A.E., the E.U. had no claim on the grounds that the Americans were attempting to insinuate a conflict. Therefore, little could be done besides either go back on the Treaty of the I.B.E.N.F., or instead create its own agency. The latter, being the much safer course, was selected by the Europeans. Soon, the O.A.E. would have to compete with the Euro-Asian Colonization Agreement.
Before either the O.A.E. or E.A.C.A. existed, it was virtually impossible to undertake the challenge of establishing frontier colonies for a single nation. The cost was unimaginable, and only increased the further you went. Thatâs the reasons why the bulk of human colonies at the time were kept more so on Luna, and to a certain extent on Mars. However, with nations focusing their efforts together, you can obviously assume that the task was much easier. The cost, the production and supplies were much lower, therefore allowing for mass colonization. Thatâs why the O.A.E., when it was first introduced, was so successful - thatâs why the E.A.C.A. was just as successful.
Toward the end of the 21st Century (as its listed in Terran terms), earth was on the brink of becoming a battleground once more - but this time between two main forces, not several. The O.A.E. transformed into the United American Collective - a relatively simple counter to the already monstrous European Union. When it came to the space-race for colonizing, the O.A.E. found that it was, in effect, beginning to loose. With the U.S. and the Central-South American nations literally pooling their assets to fund the exploration effort, they werenât actually a single economy - but rather several assisting one another. The E.U. was a single economy, with aid from Asian nations, and therefore the E.A.C.A. was beginning to win because of concerted efforts from its member-states. By around 2105, the E.A.C.A. had tipped the scales in their favor, controlling an estimated fifty five percent of human colonized space - a rather slim majority, but still a victory.
To counter such an achievement, the O.A.E. realized that its member had to form into one nation - if not a nation, at least a collective or union like the E.U. Therefore, in 2110, the U.S. and Central and South American states merged to form the United American Collective. This immediately boosted their economy into the lead. It also credited them with discovery of the latest and greatest technology - the out-of-system space drive.
This development in space travel allowed, for the very first time, the humans to send their colonies out of the Sol System. Already around eight hundred thousand humans lived off of Terra (with seven and a half billion of them on it). Though at first timid, the U.A.C. was able to project its colonies to even greater limits. When jumping out of Sol, they discovered - to their very own credit - three systems with dozens of habitable planets. The E.A.C.A. quickly caught onto this information, and with a little spying and inventiveness of their own, they were able to get the new space-ship drive.
From 2110 to 2130, the humans entered a golden age, despite Western and Eastern hemispheric rivalry. Technologies were even better than before, ships could travel faster than ever and the human life was living longer. Its population exploded, increasing an unbelievable two billion. Because of that and advances into medicine, the humans were now an abundant ten billion strong (with nearly half of that living in colonies).
However, though it may appear a golden age, it was, like always, simmering with rivalry and competition. The militaries of the U.A.C. and E.A.U (Euro-Asian Union, formed in 2116 as a response to the U.A.C.) were pleading with their governmental leaders to recklessly test their new weapon systems. Military ships, so far, had had very little engagements other than to quell tiny rebel outposts, but those never included large ship-to-ship battles, orbital bombardments or orbital dropship troops. Also, as more systems were discovered, the U.A.C. and E.A.U. competed for more and more of the colonies, as those lead to not only symbolic power but as well as resources. In 2131, confrontations inevitably lead to a full-scale engagement.
U.A.C. and E.A.U. ships engaged one another outside of a newly established planet - named Xeno 6 - after what both sides describe as a âmisunderstanding, that will be cleared shortly.â Though on the surface it appeared to the public that both sides wanted to avoid a catastrophic war, underneath all the shadows the coalitions desired a fight. After the U.A.C. claimed that the E.A.U. âwas being uncooperative in interplanetary peace efforts, and as such the United American Collective will proceed to eliminate all Euro-Asian outposts to reduce their violent and irresponsible military operations.â The E.A.U. bit the bait, and responded with âThe U.A.C. aggressively confronted our forces at Xeno 6, and if they urge on a war, they will no doubt receive one. The universe shall see that the Euro-Asian alliance shall not be trifled with, neither in peace nor war.â
In 2131, the First Interplanetary War began.
The First Interplanetary War - the named bestowed by the humans upon the massacre, as thatâs what it truly was - absolutely devastated the human race. It didnât set them back (ironically, it advanced them even further as the demand for newer technologies increased with the war), but it did very nearly extinct them. The first major battle - and theatre - of the war was at the colony of Xeno 6, where U.A.C. and E.A.U. first confronted each other. There was a total of forty ships involved in the first battle, and by the beginning of the war, nearly two hundred ships were involved in every single one after it. Thousands perished in each battle, because of humans were unused to the new, deadly weaponry they had created.
From the Battle of the Four Moons, to the Sixth and Final Siege of Xeno 6, the First Interplanetary War desecrated much of the human raceâs accomplishments. Out of the eight score colonies they had possessed at the time, only fifty score remained. The U.A.C. and E.A.U. colonies were in shambles, literally unable to recover from such a strategic cost. The need for âsuccessful exit strategiesâ became apparent, but even those were tossed away as the the U.A.C. and E.A.U. came up with new and inventive ways to kill each other. Advances in ground and space combat - from the behemoth-like armored vehicles to colossal-sized capital ships - only made war worse, and one U.A.C. politician remarked, âNot even all four of the World Wars of old could amount to such death and destruction.â
When the humans discovered their first extraterrestrial species, they were still immersed in the Interplanetary War. By 2137, a billion and a half humans had perished, forty seven colonies destroyed, and the homeworld of Terra (it had been the experiment of the first orbital bombardment, even though its death was not an objective, in fact quite the opposite, but experiments do go wrong, as they say) was no longer habitable. A species known as the Morabians, a peaceful yet deadly group, had encountered a human battle - coincidentally the Sixth and Final Battle of Xeno 6 -after receiving reports that âmass action outside a terrestial-planet have been observed by scouting forces.â When happening upon the brutal skirmish, the Morabians were absolutely appalled. At first the Morabian ships were seen as a new invention by the U.A.C. and E.A.U., and the humans opened fire on the vessels. When the Morabians responded in self-defense, they wiped out a good portion of both the U.A.C. and E.A.U. fleets. Surrendering, the humans realized they had encountered their first alien race.
After the encounter at Xeno 6, the humans believed that they were the targets of a mass extermination by an alien race, as they hadnât yet realized that they were the ones to fire on the Morabians, nor that the aliens were even there to destroy them. Systematically, however, the Morabians traveled throughout the human territories, inflicting crushing defeats on the U.A.C. and E.A.U. forces. Realizing that they had to unite in order to even possibly defend themselves - even though the Morabians, like it has already been stressed, werenât wishing to exterminate them - the humans formed the Joint Defensive Group, which consisted of ships and ground forces from both sides.
By mid-2137, the First Interplanetary War had ended - only to pave way for the Great Invasion.
With the end of the Interplanetary War, despite the fact that the human race was on the verge of collapse, they managed to put together one last effort. The Morabians were putting together a large task force to eliminate the remaining human military forces and then send in a peacekeeping force. The J.D.G. perceived this fleet as an assembly of ships that would, in effect, perform the final invasion on humankind and then push toward the new human homeworld, Mars. Rallying, however, the humans used two fleets and several battlegroups (totaling around four hundred fifty vessels) to pushback an estimated three hundred Morabian warships. With this first victory, the humans hoped to force the fight into favorable terms. They wanted to stage the final battle at a star system known as Torin, a place that had been the site for eight major fleet engagements and countless ground conflicts.
The humans assembled all that was left to them: three hundred sixty five ships, with around two thousand support fighters, and three million marines and soldiers. The Morabians themselves realized that the humans wished to no longer negotiate, that they only wanted to proceed with war. They responded by sending a group of equal numbers, though they possessed a little less ships and fighters. They were confident in their superior technology.
In the Torin System, the Joint Defense Group would face off against the alien Morabians - and hope to win.
The humans were just beginning to recognize their advances into technology roughly around the year 2040, when they launched their first colonization to what they simply named the Moon. Though there had been efforts to send manned expeditions to the satellite for nearly twenty years, conflict between planet-side governments as well as simple inability to successfully settle on the moon impeded progress. However, the first ship - named I.C.S. (International Cooperative Ship) Messenger - landed with little difficulty on lunar soil. Taking around six months, the first colony was established and to this day the humans maintain a steady and growing presence on Luna, the name of the city and moon.
This sparked steady economic growth and scientific researches. Yet, this also marked the beginning of a rivalry between nearly every nation. During a period of what the humans name the Second Cold War (for apparently there had been one more before it, estimated at ninety to a hundred years before), the nation-state of the United States of America and the collective of countries named the European Union competed for various colonization efforts. Proxy wars occurred on earth, causing massive casualties on the home-planet. Realization for an actual international effort on the new frontierfinally sprung up, and the U.S.A. and E.U. eased tensions and created the International Bureau for the Exploration of the New Frontier. A bit more symbolic than materialistic in nature, the I.B.E.N.F. was really only something to sooth the publicâs hard feelings toward the Terran governmentsâ actions. It worked, actually, and the earth a entered brief era of peace.
During this time, which historians say lasted roughly from 2060 to 2080, the international community on earth worked cooperatively toward friendly colonization and frontier settling. They developed technologies which allowed them to traverse the bulk of their star system, the Sol System. The humans were able to settle half a dozen colonies on Mars, several more on Luna and erected satellite stations orbiting the planets of Venus, Jupiter and Pluto (these were more for scientific observations, as stations at the humans were still small in stature, housing only a few scores of people at a time). Technologies were advanced and in most cases built upon, with developments in the engine field, life support and various other operational systems needed for space flight. The humans were, in effect, well under way to making their first out-of-system space flight.
Back on Terra, however, there was still some nationalist resentment among the nation-states. The United States of America, together with several Central and South American countries, had formed the Organization for American Exploration, and in this case âAmericanâ did not just mean the U.S., but instead the entire population south of it. Canada, because of its heritage to the countries of the United Kingdom and French Republic, refused to join. This was a major push toward U.S. domination of space, as it allowed for higher and more efficient space-ship building because of the Central-South American population, joint-research programs and an increase in, simply, morale. By 2072, the Organization for American Exploration constituted about sixty percent of human colonization.
In response, the European Union came close to repudiating the treaty that established the International Bureau for the Exploration of the New Frontier. It already held very little power anyways, and even if the psychological affect on the Terran population was too profound to ignore, it didnât matter. Literally monopolizing space (how you could ever do such a thing, it is beyond me, but nevertheless the humans used the phrase), the O.A.E. made it impossible for the E.U. and other nations to create successful colonies on other planets, as they claimed that the Americans used âbully-like tactics to overcome E.U. frontier settlements, by cutting off trade with neighboring areas or by naval blockades of the planetâs atmosphere.â
Technically - and actually - blockades are an act of war. But, as the O.A.E. wasnât a representative body of the U.S.A. and its allies, as well as the fact that all U.S. ships bore the symbol of the O.A.E., the E.U. had no claim on the grounds that the Americans were attempting to insinuate a conflict. Therefore, little could be done besides either go back on the Treaty of the I.B.E.N.F., or instead create its own agency. The latter, being the much safer course, was selected by the Europeans. Soon, the O.A.E. would have to compete with the Euro-Asian Colonization Agreement.
Before either the O.A.E. or E.A.C.A. existed, it was virtually impossible to undertake the challenge of establishing frontier colonies for a single nation. The cost was unimaginable, and only increased the further you went. Thatâs the reasons why the bulk of human colonies at the time were kept more so on Luna, and to a certain extent on Mars. However, with nations focusing their efforts together, you can obviously assume that the task was much easier. The cost, the production and supplies were much lower, therefore allowing for mass colonization. Thatâs why the O.A.E., when it was first introduced, was so successful - thatâs why the E.A.C.A. was just as successful.
Toward the end of the 21st Century (as its listed in Terran terms), earth was on the brink of becoming a battleground once more - but this time between two main forces, not several. The O.A.E. transformed into the United American Collective - a relatively simple counter to the already monstrous European Union. When it came to the space-race for colonizing, the O.A.E. found that it was, in effect, beginning to loose. With the U.S. and the Central-South American nations literally pooling their assets to fund the exploration effort, they werenât actually a single economy - but rather several assisting one another. The E.U. was a single economy, with aid from Asian nations, and therefore the E.A.C.A. was beginning to win because of concerted efforts from its member-states. By around 2105, the E.A.C.A. had tipped the scales in their favor, controlling an estimated fifty five percent of human colonized space - a rather slim majority, but still a victory.
To counter such an achievement, the O.A.E. realized that its member had to form into one nation - if not a nation, at least a collective or union like the E.U. Therefore, in 2110, the U.S. and Central and South American states merged to form the United American Collective. This immediately boosted their economy into the lead. It also credited them with discovery of the latest and greatest technology - the out-of-system space drive.
This development in space travel allowed, for the very first time, the humans to send their colonies out of the Sol System. Already around eight hundred thousand humans lived off of Terra (with seven and a half billion of them on it). Though at first timid, the U.A.C. was able to project its colonies to even greater limits. When jumping out of Sol, they discovered - to their very own credit - three systems with dozens of habitable planets. The E.A.C.A. quickly caught onto this information, and with a little spying and inventiveness of their own, they were able to get the new space-ship drive.
From 2110 to 2130, the humans entered a golden age, despite Western and Eastern hemispheric rivalry. Technologies were even better than before, ships could travel faster than ever and the human life was living longer. Its population exploded, increasing an unbelievable two billion. Because of that and advances into medicine, the humans were now an abundant ten billion strong (with nearly half of that living in colonies).
However, though it may appear a golden age, it was, like always, simmering with rivalry and competition. The militaries of the U.A.C. and E.A.U (Euro-Asian Union, formed in 2116 as a response to the U.A.C.) were pleading with their governmental leaders to recklessly test their new weapon systems. Military ships, so far, had had very little engagements other than to quell tiny rebel outposts, but those never included large ship-to-ship battles, orbital bombardments or orbital dropship troops. Also, as more systems were discovered, the U.A.C. and E.A.U. competed for more and more of the colonies, as those lead to not only symbolic power but as well as resources. In 2131, confrontations inevitably lead to a full-scale engagement.
U.A.C. and E.A.U. ships engaged one another outside of a newly established planet - named Xeno 6 - after what both sides describe as a âmisunderstanding, that will be cleared shortly.â Though on the surface it appeared to the public that both sides wanted to avoid a catastrophic war, underneath all the shadows the coalitions desired a fight. After the U.A.C. claimed that the E.A.U. âwas being uncooperative in interplanetary peace efforts, and as such the United American Collective will proceed to eliminate all Euro-Asian outposts to reduce their violent and irresponsible military operations.â The E.A.U. bit the bait, and responded with âThe U.A.C. aggressively confronted our forces at Xeno 6, and if they urge on a war, they will no doubt receive one. The universe shall see that the Euro-Asian alliance shall not be trifled with, neither in peace nor war.â
In 2131, the First Interplanetary War began.
The First Interplanetary War - the named bestowed by the humans upon the massacre, as thatâs what it truly was - absolutely devastated the human race. It didnât set them back (ironically, it advanced them even further as the demand for newer technologies increased with the war), but it did very nearly extinct them. The first major battle - and theatre - of the war was at the colony of Xeno 6, where U.A.C. and E.A.U. first confronted each other. There was a total of forty ships involved in the first battle, and by the beginning of the war, nearly two hundred ships were involved in every single one after it. Thousands perished in each battle, because of humans were unused to the new, deadly weaponry they had created.
From the Battle of the Four Moons, to the Sixth and Final Siege of Xeno 6, the First Interplanetary War desecrated much of the human raceâs accomplishments. Out of the eight score colonies they had possessed at the time, only fifty score remained. The U.A.C. and E.A.U. colonies were in shambles, literally unable to recover from such a strategic cost. The need for âsuccessful exit strategiesâ became apparent, but even those were tossed away as the the U.A.C. and E.A.U. came up with new and inventive ways to kill each other. Advances in ground and space combat - from the behemoth-like armored vehicles to colossal-sized capital ships - only made war worse, and one U.A.C. politician remarked, âNot even all four of the World Wars of old could amount to such death and destruction.â
When the humans discovered their first extraterrestrial species, they were still immersed in the Interplanetary War. By 2137, a billion and a half humans had perished, forty seven colonies destroyed, and the homeworld of Terra (it had been the experiment of the first orbital bombardment, even though its death was not an objective, in fact quite the opposite, but experiments do go wrong, as they say) was no longer habitable. A species known as the Morabians, a peaceful yet deadly group, had encountered a human battle - coincidentally the Sixth and Final Battle of Xeno 6 -after receiving reports that âmass action outside a terrestial-planet have been observed by scouting forces.â When happening upon the brutal skirmish, the Morabians were absolutely appalled. At first the Morabian ships were seen as a new invention by the U.A.C. and E.A.U., and the humans opened fire on the vessels. When the Morabians responded in self-defense, they wiped out a good portion of both the U.A.C. and E.A.U. fleets. Surrendering, the humans realized they had encountered their first alien race.
After the encounter at Xeno 6, the humans believed that they were the targets of a mass extermination by an alien race, as they hadnât yet realized that they were the ones to fire on the Morabians, nor that the aliens were even there to destroy them. Systematically, however, the Morabians traveled throughout the human territories, inflicting crushing defeats on the U.A.C. and E.A.U. forces. Realizing that they had to unite in order to even possibly defend themselves - even though the Morabians, like it has already been stressed, werenât wishing to exterminate them - the humans formed the Joint Defensive Group, which consisted of ships and ground forces from both sides.
By mid-2137, the First Interplanetary War had ended - only to pave way for the Great Invasion.
With the end of the Interplanetary War, despite the fact that the human race was on the verge of collapse, they managed to put together one last effort. The Morabians were putting together a large task force to eliminate the remaining human military forces and then send in a peacekeeping force. The J.D.G. perceived this fleet as an assembly of ships that would, in effect, perform the final invasion on humankind and then push toward the new human homeworld, Mars. Rallying, however, the humans used two fleets and several battlegroups (totaling around four hundred fifty vessels) to pushback an estimated three hundred Morabian warships. With this first victory, the humans hoped to force the fight into favorable terms. They wanted to stage the final battle at a star system known as Torin, a place that had been the site for eight major fleet engagements and countless ground conflicts.
The humans assembled all that was left to them: three hundred sixty five ships, with around two thousand support fighters, and three million marines and soldiers. The Morabians themselves realized that the humans wished to no longer negotiate, that they only wanted to proceed with war. They responded by sending a group of equal numbers, though they possessed a little less ships and fighters. They were confident in their superior technology.
In the Torin System, the Joint Defense Group would face off against the alien Morabians - and hope to win.
