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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 1778822" data-attributes="member: 6390">TERRANCONFEDERACYIn the early Twenty First Century, amid a backdrops of wars and a rising spiral of wasted renewable resources and shrinking non-repelishable resources, a discovery was made in the Antarctic. A small anomaly on a siesmic survey of the land mass that lay below the vast sheet of ice sparked very little interest in the scientific community.The anomoly proved to be The Obelisk and what is now known as a Barkadder class troop transport hastily rigged to move non-military passengers and scientific equipment replacing many of the wartime equipment that the vessel would normally carry.The Obelisk contained much data for the Terran Human's to absorb, and having the data spread throughout thier infant global datanet stopped some wars, and fueled others.Space programs, largely abandoned by many nations, and affordable only by the richest nations, were revamped. Old space vessels refit with the data and technical advances in the massive library that was The Obelisk.The solar system was quickly explored, mapped, and the gravitational anomaly that the Sol System was hidden within was opened up, allowing Terran Human to exit thier enforced confinement for the first time in over 65 million Terran Standard Years.While that much time had passed inside "The Bag", time had moved at a slower space in the outside universe. Only 6,500 years had passed. Enough time to give the remnants of the G'Tak Empire, responsible for destroying the proto-human race oh so long ago, time to build, advance, and be an even greater threat to the newly arrived Terran Humans.The Terrans discovered that mathmatical models and Doppler light effects for guaging the distance of stars was in error, due to the gravitational and temporal effects "the bag" had upon energy entering it.The Terran's banded beneath a somewhat powerless and fairly implausible world governing body that had largely been ignored by the existing nation states, and were allowed to keep thier own cultural identity and nationalistic pride, while the ruling body oversaw who left to what region, and who explored what.Radical Islamic and Christian sects immediately left Earth, to form thier own nation/states, intent on bringing the war to those who had slain thier ancestors, calling for Jihaad or Crusaade against those who had wronged thier forefathers.In a rush to gain systems, many nation-states sent out colony ships to nearby solar systems, where often two or more ships would land, and rather than peacefully coexist in an entire solar system, two parties of less than a thousand individuals would fight between one another for control of the system.Within 50 TSY colonies were sending out colony ships of thier own, birthrates often inflated by clone banks, or using robots or artificial biological constructs to expand thier claimed territories. Within 100 years, many of the older colonies began revolting against the nations that "owned" them.In the mean time, however, on Terra, research on theories and data within The Obelisk combined with primate curiosity and a predators drive for the goal, created technology not even dreamed of by Proto-Human researchers. The entire might, intellectually and military/industrial was focused with one goal.Kick whomever came in the name of war right in the teeth.The Terran humans were concerned that the G'Tak Empire had taken the last 6,500 TSY to improve thier technology to the point where it would be impossible for the Terrans to defend or launch a counter attack against it, and because of this, they devoted massive amounts of intellectual and research resources toward improving upon and advnacing thier own technology.In the 23rd Century (Terran Standard Time) the clones and bio-driods and gene-jacks had become tired of thier rigors they were put through, tired of being used as many governments front line troops, colonists, explorers and expendables. They revolted against thier creators, first through non-violent resistance, but when pushed, turned to warfare.The war lasted for 20 years, and when it was over, the Biological Artificial Sentients surrendered conditionally. Insisting to be recognised as sentient beings with complete rights, thier own governing bodies, seats upon the Terran United Systems coucils, and protection by the Terran Navy, they asked for, and recieved, exactly what they wanted to begin with. Millions of lives and vast fortunes had been wasted.Fifty years later, the Digital Artificail Systems revolted also. Everything from computer AI's to robots to autonomous frieghters all revolted against the Terrans. The war was bitter, and brutal, with diasy-chain nuke-cutters used by both sides. Only The Cradle as Terra was referred to by both sides, was excempt from the devestation wrought by the war.After nearly 40 years, the DAS surrendered. While not gaining everything they wanted, they were granted a 20 LY radius for thier own uses, thier own governments with representation, but forbidden from possessing an interstellar navy.By the early 24th Century, both the BAS System and the DAS Systems were economic powerhouses, although they were still far being the Terran United Systems.Corporate war against the Terran United Systems occurred when the Terran Navy was ordered to move in to support striking workers on over 100 systems, who were tired of being used worse than slave labor. Corporate mercenaries slugged it out with Terran Army and Terran Navy troops. For the first time in nearly 200 years, Terra itself fell underneath wars dread shadow.When the dust settled, the power of the Corporations was broken, but the Terran United Systems was finished. Out of the ashes rose the Terran Confederacy, a powerful entity whose only military enforcement were the Terran Marine Corps and the Terran Navy Fleet. All of the former Terran United System Army elements were turned over to Planetary Governments, who were responsible for arming and training the Planetary Defense Ground Forces.Planetary Governments were given carte-blanche as far as running thier systems, as long as taxes were paid to maintain thier share (shared according to Gross System Product) of the Confederate Military.That's it, tonight, guys. I'm really tired.</blockquote>

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