Awakening a Leader
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September 29th 2023, Outside of Columbus, Ohio
The launch was prepared. A single rocket carrying a single probe carrying a single man. The first Interstellar Flight using the Fusion Pulse Propulsion designed by Justin Schwin himself. The system was similar to the Orion Nuclear Pulse Propouslion System but instead of going at 10% the speed of light this cheaper, multi-use system propelled ships at 45% the S.o.L. It was known that the power generated from the fusion reaction would not only be used for propulsion but also to power the ship itself, recycling, and the statis chamber. The ship would also draw power from the sun to charge the back-up batteries within the ship prior to leaving the Solar System. It was correctly called a Multi-Use System.
One thing the public didn't know was that he wasn't going to come back. He was elected by the United States government to be sent to the one Habitable planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A. Found in 2015 by the Terrestrial Planet Finder. The had decided that his skill in government and space travel would make him a great asset to a galactic Human Empire that he would run when he was found and revived, becuase by that time he's leadership skills would be essential.
And today was the day. The American public watched in awe as the first interstellar ship lifted off using old chemical thrusters and once it had safely passed out of Earth's gravity, activated it's Fusion Pulse Propulsion system and began it's 10 year journey to Alpha Centauri.
April 1st 2058
In the thirty years since the launch of Interstellar 1 a massive era of imperialism had come among the Earth. Nations waged wars and claimed their lands, and the world drew towards a major global conflict.
As of the past year there had been no wars as the nations of China, America, the European Union, Russia, Australia, Brazil, Arabia, and Egypt had all expanded massively. Egypt now controlled the enitre African Continent and Madagascar, Brazil controlled South America, China controlled all of Southern Asia all the way to Iran. Arabia controlled the entire Middle East, Russia controlled all of northern Asia. The European Union completely unified Europe, America also controlled the entire North America continent. Australia now included all of the Indonesian islands.
Strangely Antartica was still untouched.
June 13th 2058
As predicted by many people across the globe a major conflict had broken out. Luckily the little Lunar Colony was spared.
Within a year many cities had been decimated by the armies and many others nuked into non-eistance. Only about 10,000,000 people remained in each nation.
August 11th 2060
A global peace had been reached as reconstruction started. It would be a century before the scars of this war had been healed.
March 27th 2151
The wrold has been mostly rebuilt, and nature has taken back almost 30% of it, well, the un-nuked parts anyway. Population was around 1 billion and there were only a few major cities in each nation. The world was looking up, and it would continue on this path all the way to Global Unification in 2197.
January 1st 2200
The Terran Alliance is completey established and Columbus declared the capital in memory of Justin Schwin whose probe had lost contact with Earth during the Omega War. Humanity had already began reaching into the stars through the limited means of Star Gates.
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My next post is where the actual game will begin. Figured I give it a little back-story.
The launch was prepared. A single rocket carrying a single probe carrying a single man. The first Interstellar Flight using the Fusion Pulse Propulsion designed by Justin Schwin himself. The system was similar to the Orion Nuclear Pulse Propouslion System but instead of going at 10% the speed of light this cheaper, multi-use system propelled ships at 45% the S.o.L. It was known that the power generated from the fusion reaction would not only be used for propulsion but also to power the ship itself, recycling, and the statis chamber. The ship would also draw power from the sun to charge the back-up batteries within the ship prior to leaving the Solar System. It was correctly called a Multi-Use System.
One thing the public didn't know was that he wasn't going to come back. He was elected by the United States government to be sent to the one Habitable planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A. Found in 2015 by the Terrestrial Planet Finder. The had decided that his skill in government and space travel would make him a great asset to a galactic Human Empire that he would run when he was found and revived, becuase by that time he's leadership skills would be essential.
And today was the day. The American public watched in awe as the first interstellar ship lifted off using old chemical thrusters and once it had safely passed out of Earth's gravity, activated it's Fusion Pulse Propulsion system and began it's 10 year journey to Alpha Centauri.
April 1st 2058
In the thirty years since the launch of Interstellar 1 a massive era of imperialism had come among the Earth. Nations waged wars and claimed their lands, and the world drew towards a major global conflict.
As of the past year there had been no wars as the nations of China, America, the European Union, Russia, Australia, Brazil, Arabia, and Egypt had all expanded massively. Egypt now controlled the enitre African Continent and Madagascar, Brazil controlled South America, China controlled all of Southern Asia all the way to Iran. Arabia controlled the entire Middle East, Russia controlled all of northern Asia. The European Union completely unified Europe, America also controlled the entire North America continent. Australia now included all of the Indonesian islands.
Strangely Antartica was still untouched.
June 13th 2058
As predicted by many people across the globe a major conflict had broken out. Luckily the little Lunar Colony was spared.
Within a year many cities had been decimated by the armies and many others nuked into non-eistance. Only about 10,000,000 people remained in each nation.
August 11th 2060
A global peace had been reached as reconstruction started. It would be a century before the scars of this war had been healed.
March 27th 2151
The wrold has been mostly rebuilt, and nature has taken back almost 30% of it, well, the un-nuked parts anyway. Population was around 1 billion and there were only a few major cities in each nation. The world was looking up, and it would continue on this path all the way to Global Unification in 2197.
January 1st 2200
The Terran Alliance is completey established and Columbus declared the capital in memory of Justin Schwin whose probe had lost contact with Earth during the Omega War. Humanity had already began reaching into the stars through the limited means of Star Gates.
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My next post is where the actual game will begin. Figured I give it a little back-story.