Post by Insano-Man on Sept 24, 2018 9:13:18 GMT -5
Anchorage
The current date is 2203 A.F. Mankind is displaced and Earth is nothing but a long forgotten memory. And yet humanity is at the strongest it has ever been, holding claim to thousands of planets and hundreds of star systems. Against aliens and the elements, humankind has established itself as the dominant force in the galaxy.
However, man's dominance has been a long time coming. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans were isolated to generation ships as they made their exodus from Earth. Many did not have destinations and many more were lost, and the few that arrived safely did not have an easy beginning. The harsh readjustment to gravity, local diseases and ailments, or even a lack of raw resources plagued the opening steps of the first colonists. Dwindling populations struck down many future nations before some could even land on a suitable planet, many others succumbing to the difficulties of colonial life upon arrival.
A common theme among the even fewer that survived was a lack of knowledge about Earth. Historical records lost to the slow process of inevitable data corruption and oral traditions lost or mutated through the generations have left those with facts about mankind's homeworld a distinct rarity. So rare, in fact, that this information is coveted and kept a closely guarded secret by the few governments that know of humanity's past. Why is likewise hidden and covered up with the utmost scrutiny.
Today, man finds its dominance challenged. Pressures from within, such as the vengeful Verinen Regentic, and from without, as in the rising Inkron Governance Sphere, threaten to challenge the existing order. Superpowers such as the Praetorian Federation and Garrant Commonwealth stand against these agents of change, most, if not all of those defending the status quo being members of the Coalition of Human Systems.
One must keep in mind, however, that no one is truly the bad guy in this state of affairs. For example, while many applaud the Commonwealth for its effective democracy and expansive list of human rights, many also often choose to ignore its constant imperialistic activity and aggressively selfish trade policies. While many outside Verinen territories despise them for their own aggressive tendencies, few acknowledge their quality of life and effective government. The Inkron are simply what they are; aliens carving out their own existence on the borders of human space. So foreign are they to mankind that applying such a basic label of "good" or "evil" is useless and primitive.
With all this in mind, one must remember the tired statement that has been echoed through human history; everything is just a shade of grey. However black or white is entirely subjective.
The arctic planet of Anchorage is one of the central focuses of man's interstellar economy and politics, being the landing site of the generation ship Faith. The Faith was one of the largest generation ships that entered the area of presently known human space, but it was also one of the "least successful", so to say. It landed on Anchorage by almost complete accident, as the colonists onboard had forgotten their original purpose. When they landed, the ship was already badly damaged passing through the debris field surrounding the planet. Conditions worsened as a harsh blizzard set in on the landing zone. The colonists eventually abandoned their vessel in maintenance shuttles, many of which failed before they could reach their destination. While, ordinarily, without the tools and information the Faith would have provided, the colonists should have died out or hardly scraped by. Instead, they survived, difficult as it was, and eventually grew to flourish. Over roughly a thousand years, the people of Anchorage climbed the technological and industrial ladders again, reliving human history in fast forward. Today, Anchorage sits as one of the most populated, well-developed, and significant planets in human space, a result of the long build-up to reclaim their former glory.
Timeline
All dates are A.F., or "After the Fall", a generally-accepted date of reference taking its name and year zero from the Faith's landing on Anchorage. As there is little information about the time span between when the exodus from Earth began and when the first ship arrived in present-day human space, let alone the date when it all started, few alternatives exist. The Earth standard of 24 hour days and 12 months to a year, however, remains, as this was the standard measure of time aboard most generation ships.
-300 (?) A.F.
- The Refuge arrives on Ollenhall. The Rhine arrives on Tervinn.
-230 (?) A.F.
- Ollenhall and Tervinn establish contact through space travel once more. Trade negotiations begin.
-200 (?) A.F.
- Trade negotiations fail between Ollenhall and Tervinn. Ollenhall invades Tervinn in its first interplanetary military victory. The government and at least 200,000 colonists from Tervinn evacuate in the Rhine.
-200-100 A.F.
- Tervinn evacuees settle on Alstannes. The Rhine is rebuilt as the first government building of the Republic of Tervinn. It is at an unknown date following this that the Republic of Tervinn fails and is replaced by the Verinen Permanos Regentic.
-57 A.F.
November 2nd
- The generation ship carrying the colonists that would soon become the Republic of Tharkad arrive on Velkosgrad. The planet is renamed to Tharkad after the first colonial administration forms a government.
-32 A.F.
October 28th
- Internal tensions lead to civil war in the Republic of Tharkad in the first armed conflict seen on the planet.
-20 A.F.
October 28th
- The civil war on Tharkad reaches a final end with a reintegration agreement agreed upon by leading members of the military and resistance movement. In total, a sixth of the Republic's perilously small population dies in the conflict, stunting its future growth.
0 A.F.
- Faith lands on Anchorage and is abandoned by its crew in maintenance and emergency shuttles. Sixteen fail en route and land or crash across the planet. The remainder land on the Garrant continent.
50 (?) A.F.
- Pseudo-tribes across Anchorage begin to unite into the first true civilizations on the planet. The maintenance personnel who remained behind with the Faith are presumed to have completely died out by this time.
67 A.F.
- Timolnilya is founded through the merger of several groups with Slavic ancestry. It begins as a monarchy with Vasiliy Timosi as its leader.
81 A.F.
- The fledgling republic of Pronnelstonia dissolves as a blizzard buries in and kills much of its ruling population in their network of command bunkers. The survivors found the Praetorian Empire in less frigid territory to the north.
83 A.F.
- The pseudo-tribal Gongev Authority collapses and is replaced by the city-state of Freedan. Dissidents break off to found Cehoma in the wake of the Authority's dissolution.
113 A.F.
- The city-state of Junholdt establishes dominance over raiders in its area of influence. It begins friendly trade relations with its neighbors, the growing nation of Cehoma and city-state of Freedan.
153 A.F.
- Growing pains in Junholdt cause outlying territories to declare independence as Nethron. The central government neither supports, nor opposes the secession.
160 A.F.
- The Vannikl Regency is founded after a decade of negotiations between raiders and pseudo-tribes in the northern territory of Anchorage.
189 A.F.
February 9th
- The Republic of Tharkad encounters and engages the Atsron Colonial Group of the Inkron as it attempts to settle in the Republic's home system. A lengthy first contact war results, putting Republican colonial endeavours on hold.
196 A.F.
- Jarronheim is founded by a small assortment of city-states on the islands south of the Praetorian continent.
201 A.F.
- The Marroli Empire is formed from various raider groups and pseudo-tribes on the southern edge of the Garrant continent.
203 A.F.
- Inkron forces cease operations against the Republican Military. However, a formal peace agreement is never reached.
700 A.F.
January 1st
- The Garrant Commonwealth is formed from the nations on the upper half of the Garrant continent.
February 4th
- The Commonwealth Armed Forces are established.
February 18th
- The Marroli Empire attacks Cehoma and meets resistance from the Junholdt Riders.
February 21st
- Marroli forces retreat from Garran territory as Junholdt Armed Forces reinforcements arrive in Cehoma.
February 29th
- The Commonwealth Armed Forces are redistributed across Garran territory and reorganized with a national command structure as opposed to a state command structure.
731 A.F.
June 18th
- The North Praetorian Republic dissolves under internal and external pressure. Its military splinters into raiding groups and pre-national entities.
745 A.F.
February 1st
- The Federated States of the Praetorian Continent, or Praetorian Federation, is officially founded from the remnants of the North Praetorian Republic by Company Captain Albert Drücker of the United Praetorian Army. It begins as a military autocracy headed by the newly-founded Federal Guard.
June 1st
- Albert Drücker becomes High Commander of the Federal Guard, the effective leader of the Praetorian Federation.
821 A.F.
August 29th
- Barrow narrowly avoids Anchorage and shifts its orbital position further from the system's star Faith.
September 10th
- Soldotna passes by Anchorage, shifting the planet's position further away from the star. An ice age results.
829 A.F.
January 28th
- The First Ice War begins as the Praetorian Federation launches an invasion into the Anglossick Commonwealth, igniting tensions between Praetoria and Anglossick's neighbor, Timolnilya.
February 28th
- Timolnilya launches a counter-offensive against the Praetorian Federation in defense of the Anglossick Commonwealth.
1003 A.F.
October 12th
- The Garrant Commonwealth Armed Forces establishes the Ranger Corps to function alongside the Cavalry Corps.
2185 A.F.
July 2nd
- The Timosi War begins as the Verinen launch an attack on the Garran colony of Tsirvana in the Azgovidna system in response to the Commonwealth's threat of war against the Timosi Soivetet Republic should another border dispute break out in the Cronnek system.
2203 A.F.
- Present day.
The current date is 2203 A.F. Mankind is displaced and Earth is nothing but a long forgotten memory. And yet humanity is at the strongest it has ever been, holding claim to thousands of planets and hundreds of star systems. Against aliens and the elements, humankind has established itself as the dominant force in the galaxy.
However, man's dominance has been a long time coming. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans were isolated to generation ships as they made their exodus from Earth. Many did not have destinations and many more were lost, and the few that arrived safely did not have an easy beginning. The harsh readjustment to gravity, local diseases and ailments, or even a lack of raw resources plagued the opening steps of the first colonists. Dwindling populations struck down many future nations before some could even land on a suitable planet, many others succumbing to the difficulties of colonial life upon arrival.
A common theme among the even fewer that survived was a lack of knowledge about Earth. Historical records lost to the slow process of inevitable data corruption and oral traditions lost or mutated through the generations have left those with facts about mankind's homeworld a distinct rarity. So rare, in fact, that this information is coveted and kept a closely guarded secret by the few governments that know of humanity's past. Why is likewise hidden and covered up with the utmost scrutiny.
Today, man finds its dominance challenged. Pressures from within, such as the vengeful Verinen Regentic, and from without, as in the rising Inkron Governance Sphere, threaten to challenge the existing order. Superpowers such as the Praetorian Federation and Garrant Commonwealth stand against these agents of change, most, if not all of those defending the status quo being members of the Coalition of Human Systems.
One must keep in mind, however, that no one is truly the bad guy in this state of affairs. For example, while many applaud the Commonwealth for its effective democracy and expansive list of human rights, many also often choose to ignore its constant imperialistic activity and aggressively selfish trade policies. While many outside Verinen territories despise them for their own aggressive tendencies, few acknowledge their quality of life and effective government. The Inkron are simply what they are; aliens carving out their own existence on the borders of human space. So foreign are they to mankind that applying such a basic label of "good" or "evil" is useless and primitive.
With all this in mind, one must remember the tired statement that has been echoed through human history; everything is just a shade of grey. However black or white is entirely subjective.
The arctic planet of Anchorage is one of the central focuses of man's interstellar economy and politics, being the landing site of the generation ship Faith. The Faith was one of the largest generation ships that entered the area of presently known human space, but it was also one of the "least successful", so to say. It landed on Anchorage by almost complete accident, as the colonists onboard had forgotten their original purpose. When they landed, the ship was already badly damaged passing through the debris field surrounding the planet. Conditions worsened as a harsh blizzard set in on the landing zone. The colonists eventually abandoned their vessel in maintenance shuttles, many of which failed before they could reach their destination. While, ordinarily, without the tools and information the Faith would have provided, the colonists should have died out or hardly scraped by. Instead, they survived, difficult as it was, and eventually grew to flourish. Over roughly a thousand years, the people of Anchorage climbed the technological and industrial ladders again, reliving human history in fast forward. Today, Anchorage sits as one of the most populated, well-developed, and significant planets in human space, a result of the long build-up to reclaim their former glory.
Timeline
All dates are A.F., or "After the Fall", a generally-accepted date of reference taking its name and year zero from the Faith's landing on Anchorage. As there is little information about the time span between when the exodus from Earth began and when the first ship arrived in present-day human space, let alone the date when it all started, few alternatives exist. The Earth standard of 24 hour days and 12 months to a year, however, remains, as this was the standard measure of time aboard most generation ships.
-300 (?) A.F.
- The Refuge arrives on Ollenhall. The Rhine arrives on Tervinn.
-230 (?) A.F.
- Ollenhall and Tervinn establish contact through space travel once more. Trade negotiations begin.
-200 (?) A.F.
- Trade negotiations fail between Ollenhall and Tervinn. Ollenhall invades Tervinn in its first interplanetary military victory. The government and at least 200,000 colonists from Tervinn evacuate in the Rhine.
-200-100 A.F.
- Tervinn evacuees settle on Alstannes. The Rhine is rebuilt as the first government building of the Republic of Tervinn. It is at an unknown date following this that the Republic of Tervinn fails and is replaced by the Verinen Permanos Regentic.
-57 A.F.
November 2nd
- The generation ship carrying the colonists that would soon become the Republic of Tharkad arrive on Velkosgrad. The planet is renamed to Tharkad after the first colonial administration forms a government.
-32 A.F.
October 28th
- Internal tensions lead to civil war in the Republic of Tharkad in the first armed conflict seen on the planet.
-20 A.F.
October 28th
- The civil war on Tharkad reaches a final end with a reintegration agreement agreed upon by leading members of the military and resistance movement. In total, a sixth of the Republic's perilously small population dies in the conflict, stunting its future growth.
0 A.F.
- Faith lands on Anchorage and is abandoned by its crew in maintenance and emergency shuttles. Sixteen fail en route and land or crash across the planet. The remainder land on the Garrant continent.
50 (?) A.F.
- Pseudo-tribes across Anchorage begin to unite into the first true civilizations on the planet. The maintenance personnel who remained behind with the Faith are presumed to have completely died out by this time.
67 A.F.
- Timolnilya is founded through the merger of several groups with Slavic ancestry. It begins as a monarchy with Vasiliy Timosi as its leader.
81 A.F.
- The fledgling republic of Pronnelstonia dissolves as a blizzard buries in and kills much of its ruling population in their network of command bunkers. The survivors found the Praetorian Empire in less frigid territory to the north.
83 A.F.
- The pseudo-tribal Gongev Authority collapses and is replaced by the city-state of Freedan. Dissidents break off to found Cehoma in the wake of the Authority's dissolution.
113 A.F.
- The city-state of Junholdt establishes dominance over raiders in its area of influence. It begins friendly trade relations with its neighbors, the growing nation of Cehoma and city-state of Freedan.
153 A.F.
- Growing pains in Junholdt cause outlying territories to declare independence as Nethron. The central government neither supports, nor opposes the secession.
160 A.F.
- The Vannikl Regency is founded after a decade of negotiations between raiders and pseudo-tribes in the northern territory of Anchorage.
189 A.F.
February 9th
- The Republic of Tharkad encounters and engages the Atsron Colonial Group of the Inkron as it attempts to settle in the Republic's home system. A lengthy first contact war results, putting Republican colonial endeavours on hold.
196 A.F.
- Jarronheim is founded by a small assortment of city-states on the islands south of the Praetorian continent.
201 A.F.
- The Marroli Empire is formed from various raider groups and pseudo-tribes on the southern edge of the Garrant continent.
203 A.F.
- Inkron forces cease operations against the Republican Military. However, a formal peace agreement is never reached.
700 A.F.
January 1st
- The Garrant Commonwealth is formed from the nations on the upper half of the Garrant continent.
February 4th
- The Commonwealth Armed Forces are established.
February 18th
- The Marroli Empire attacks Cehoma and meets resistance from the Junholdt Riders.
February 21st
- Marroli forces retreat from Garran territory as Junholdt Armed Forces reinforcements arrive in Cehoma.
February 29th
- The Commonwealth Armed Forces are redistributed across Garran territory and reorganized with a national command structure as opposed to a state command structure.
731 A.F.
June 18th
- The North Praetorian Republic dissolves under internal and external pressure. Its military splinters into raiding groups and pre-national entities.
745 A.F.
February 1st
- The Federated States of the Praetorian Continent, or Praetorian Federation, is officially founded from the remnants of the North Praetorian Republic by Company Captain Albert Drücker of the United Praetorian Army. It begins as a military autocracy headed by the newly-founded Federal Guard.
June 1st
- Albert Drücker becomes High Commander of the Federal Guard, the effective leader of the Praetorian Federation.
821 A.F.
August 29th
- Barrow narrowly avoids Anchorage and shifts its orbital position further from the system's star Faith.
September 10th
- Soldotna passes by Anchorage, shifting the planet's position further away from the star. An ice age results.
829 A.F.
January 28th
- The First Ice War begins as the Praetorian Federation launches an invasion into the Anglossick Commonwealth, igniting tensions between Praetoria and Anglossick's neighbor, Timolnilya.
February 28th
- Timolnilya launches a counter-offensive against the Praetorian Federation in defense of the Anglossick Commonwealth.
1003 A.F.
October 12th
- The Garrant Commonwealth Armed Forces establishes the Ranger Corps to function alongside the Cavalry Corps.
2185 A.F.
July 2nd
- The Timosi War begins as the Verinen launch an attack on the Garran colony of Tsirvana in the Azgovidna system in response to the Commonwealth's threat of war against the Timosi Soivetet Republic should another border dispute break out in the Cronnek system.
2203 A.F.
- Present day.
