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LORE
| Small Superstitions, they never leave us no matter how far we evolve.
Sailors are no exception. In fact, you could say they’re some of the most superstitious. When all you’ve got between you and a Lonely, deadly void is a thin sheet of steel, you tend to make up a story that protects the mind. One of these you can see, right now if you so choose, is the mast of the ship. Silly as it sounds for a ship in space, but it does have a mast. It’s thick Oak or Redwood, real wood, never fake. If it were fake the magic wouldn’t be there. It’s our link with earth and every other sailing ship. The constraints of physics and engineering means that it doesn’t support anything except itself, and the spirit of the crew. You can find ours outside of requisitions. Time and many, many hands have worn it a bit. Ours was even part of a real sailing ship! She was called the HMS Victory. Floated and fought for over a hundred years according to the plaque. |
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Sons of Mars
Overview:
Back in the 2100's, Mars was a colony under the Space Authority with a few million people and very ambitious terraforming plans. Unrest from poor treatment and appropriation of resources after the crash of '09 caused rioting on Mars. Because of it's industrial importance the Authority's forces were eventually called in to quell the rapidly escalating situation. Tensions ran high and the revolt was ended with violence and bloody force. The survivors chafed under Authority rule, but made plans in secret with the assistance of other stations. In 2160, nearly the entire planet's population left in a first- generation STL ship, pulling a coup on the newly-formed TerraGov, but also taking the biggest source of opposition to TG outsystem.
One of the Big-3 members, the Sons of Mars are based on Cydonia, a small, partially terraformed world ringed by orbital stations and the occasional cometary impact. The Sons are a major industrial power, due to the very large number of initial colonists, and due to their initial expertise. They're the only member of the ICC that can build a Cyanspace drive and are the primary naval and engineering supplier of the ICC. They're the least friendly with TerraGov out of the Big-3.
Statistics:
- Their home world is a Martian analogue, currently undergoing terraforming, it's about 2/3 finished, and the atmosphere is now breathable.
- 8 additional extrasolar colonies, most notable Hesparus (1.2 mil).
- ~40 million people.
- Standing army of 200,000.
- 175 FTL ships, of which 15 are dedicated warships, with 40 more being converted merchantmen.
- Biggest fleet yards outside Sol system
- Member of the ICC
- Army well-trained in engineering techniques
- Enemy of TerraGov
- Armor is expensive and lacks certain protections
- THE go-to target for the TGMC if war breaks out.
Behind the scenes:
- The Sons of Mars are getting ready to leave the ICC and make a go of it on their own. The ICC really wouldn't like that...
- The Sons run a guerrilla academy, with some exercises being live-fire deniable raids on TGMC outposts.
- They're searching for LOST TECHNOLOGY so as to regain the glories of the technologies they once had.
- The Sons have a working BLUEspace teleporter and drive design, one without all of them pesky downsides.
- The Sons have began experimenting with viral plagues, in order to drive down the TerraGov population advantage.
TIMELINE
2019
Calendar starts. All events up to present unaffected.
Earth- 7 bil
2023
Rising tensions between China and the U.S. lead to a trade war, causing a stall in their respective economies. As two of the largest economies in history, their sanctions cause the world’s economy plummet as a result.
2025-2027
A terrorist organization united under the ideal of a radical new religion manages to detonate dirty bombs in 37 major cities in Russia, Europe, Asia, and North America, leading to acute desolation of ecologies in various countries. Billions die from localized fallout and crop damage. This further escalates the cold war between the nations, as both sides attempt to point fingers at each other. Meanwhile, protests begin to end the war and avoid further death.
Earth- 5 bil
2034
Research into metallic hydrogen synthesizes a new fuel, a super-compressed witches brew of organics code-named Plasma. Production is limited during the war, but is expanded in the post-war era. Plasma-powered rockets are capable of reaching both earth orbit and the inner system without special design, and can reach the outer system with mild design work. This creates a space race between the still at war countries to get defences in space as well as build better ICBMs.
2037
First orbital habitat completed, built into a main-belt asteroid dragged into earth orbit by a Plasma drive, the biggest ever built even in the present day! The hollowed out hulk is used as an agricultural station, sending fresh, un-blighted crops down to the starving millions left in China. The station also serves a prototype powersat, with steam-driven turbines cranking out as much Plasma as can be charged. The excess power is transferred to the power-starved cities on the East coast of the US. The drive is detached, and sent to fetch another. These asteroids were pulled in by a Russian agency, making Russia the unexpected mediator between the US and China. Though tensions are still high, both nations spend the next two decades restoring their own economies.
Earth- 5 bil
Earth orbit- 10k
2050
With 3 Plasma drive assemblies bringing asteroids in at 1 every 4 months, there are over a dozen habitats in orbit, some of which are entirely residential. Many of these habitats are neutral territory, having no association with existing nations.
Earth-5 bil
Earth orbit- 100k
2057
Asteroid moving accident. A half-mile wide chunk grazes the Earth's atmosphere, melting everything in a swath along the equator 200 miles wide by 2000 miles long. This "accident", caused by a rock that was on an approved trajectory, causes public outrage against the disparate current governments, and increases pressure for an international organization that will control space-based activities. The truth leaks to the public: the accident was caused by an armed US vessel attempting to maintain US-controlled space. The Space Authority is formed as an advisory body to the UN, thus planting the seeds that would later become the TGMC and TerraGov council. This moves the nations to drop their borders and effectively brings an end to the Chinese-American Cold War. The Space Authority serves as a neutral force to enforce space law and is given funding to put weapons in space with the purpose of defending Earth's orbit.
Earth- 4 bil
Earth orbit- 100k
2100
Main belt asteroids mined out for the most part. Over 200 habitats in Earth orbit, and some in the belt. Nanotrasen, an up and coming interstellar RnD company, releases a plasma engine 150% more efficient than previous models. Thanks to NT’s advancements in interstellar travel, focus of mining moves to Jupiter's trojan points. More than 20% of Earth’s resources come from space. NT tech also allows humanity to establish a thriving colony on Mars, as well as settlements on Jovian moons.
Earth- 5 bil
Earth orbit- 10 mil
The Belt- 1 mil
2109
Due to negligence in maintenance, one of the orbital habs blows out a cylinder wall on the habitat, killing 250,000 of the 300,000 people onboard. What started as a regrettable action in one area turned into a mass disaster as the habitat lost structural integrity, and came apart across the sky, filling sections of earth orbit with house-sized chunks of rubble like something out of Star Wars. Of the remaining, 200+ habitats, over half of them were destroyed, with nearly all of the rest holed, but surviving intact due to good emergency procedures. The Space Authority stepped in during the disaster, using all 8 of its patrol cutters to shoot down as much debris as possible, and confiscating plasma drive assemblies to move habitats into solar orbit away from the debris field. People start to question the effectiveness of the space forces of the individual nations, who were either not close enough at all to help or didn't have equipment to combat such a threat. Increased funding towards the SA is put forward by the UN to develop further, but only enough so they can expand to Mars as well as work on the station security section that would eventually become the TGMC.
Earth- 5 bil
Earth orbit-100k
Belt- 10 mil
2150
Debris cloud in Earth orbit finally clears enough to allow travel to and from the surface. Due to loss of orbital resources, there was mass starvation and disorder, but not many deaths thanks to the Space Authority stepping in to throw one-way mass-driver loads of food from the surviving habitats to the surface. SA Security teams are sent to retrieve food from the SA controlled colonies, forcing the colonies both in orbit and on Mars to ration themselves, something they feel like they shouldn't be doing. Some space born citizens begin to question why they should even be worried about Earth. As for the planet side of things, the SA pressures the UN to elevate their position due to how much back work they have been doing.
Earth- 5 bil
Earth orbit- 500k
Belt-20 mil
Assorted other solar colonies- 1 mil
2154
Evidence is uncovered exposing leaders of multiple countries of storing the food meant for Humanitarian aid and instead for select groups of wealthy people and politicians. The UN starts cracking down on this and sends UN Peacekeepers to forcibly stop the situation. Additionally, the SA presses the UN to give them a seat at the UN, a questionable act as it recognizes SA to be sovereign. SA top brass try to suck more money, claiming to see if colonial leaders are doing the same. This angers some colonists further as those left after the great exodus thought they were trusted due to their loyalty.
2167-2174
Seven of the old Earth orbit stations are converted into generation ships and launched at nearby (unspecified) stars within 10 LY. At .05 to .1 lightspeed, the journeys will take nearly a century, but they've decided to leave rather to stay and watch SA cement control of the system. SA start to prepare for the next step in their plan as their power within grows more and more. Mobilization of the SAN and the new SAMC unsettle quite a few of outer colonies, including Mars, but no one questions why. Additionally, the SA takes direct control over the habitats and instill appointed leaders in addition to the starting of the Colonial Marshal system to universalize security. This comes with mixed reception, some people supporting the move while others dislike the delocalization of the policing forces.
Earth-6 bil
Earth orbit- 100k
Belt- 40 mil
Assorted other solar colonies- 2 mil
Colony ships- 400k
2180
Mars, radicalized by the Sons of Mars, Martian citizens rebel on a massive scale. The SA was not quick enough to mobilize to prevent riots from breaking out, but from rebellious rioting the revolutionaries instead went to cause as much damage as possible. Security Stations were overrun and the SA supportive NT corporate was burned to the ground. Sons of Mars agents stumbled into NT labs to find a new engine capable of Faster Than Light travel. In order to both weaken control of one of the biggest suppliers of the SA, they stole the information and moved to take the Faster Than Light device, known as a BLUESpace drive. However, before they could take the drive, SAMC divisions arrived at the planet and they were forced to flee to retain the data. The drive would be assumed to be lost as military grade explosive charges leveled the NT facilities.
2200
Earth has recovered to about 80% of what it was before the war in 2035. There are still a few colonies in Earth orbit, a TON in the belt, and more around Jupiter and Saturn. However, easily accessible metallic resources are nearly used up in the system, so work begins on interstellar travel. Research into singularity induction begins to bear fruit, allowing the development of the first controlled singularities, which can convert matter into energy at exactly 100% efficiency. Over the next 50 years, 27 more slowships are launched to farther targets, as they are capable of higher speeds (.2-.3 lightspeed).
Earth-6 bil
Earth orbit- 200k
Belt- 80 mil
Assorted other solar colonies- 4 mil
Colony ships- 3 mil
2247-2250
The SA make their move and perform a coup d'etat on the UN, finding that Earth was becoming more and more helpless. With the ability to hold the entire world hostage, most countries cave in. Because the SA had helped defend and redevelop Earth so many times in the past, public opinion is quite high and many citizens approve of the SA’s control. However, some stubborn countries resist. With full control of the UN’s resources, the SA is able to respond with heavy military force towards the countries that rebel. The SA waste no time sending ships to low orbit and using rapid response transports full of infantry troops to land at specific LZ points and work fast to fortify them, a new doctrine the SA wanted to test out for a while and are largely successful with in the beginning.
Earth-10 bil
Earth orbit- 100k
Belt- 40 mil
Assorted other solar colonies- 20 mil
Colony ships- 3 mil
2264
Amidst the war, NT experiments with Human DNA come to a head. Several projects had spun off of it back in the 2100s, including cloning and mutation. The mutation project finally releases a product, an incredibly controversial move. However, the war distracts the main population as these cat people are spread without and made citizens. They have no recollection of the NanoTrasen experimentation, but have the same cognitive abilities as a Human, being more wiry and well conditioned in sacrifice of strength and intelligence. They are classes as Felinids as noted for the feline genome selected.
2270
The victories of the SA slow down. What’s left of resistance forces result to using guerilla tactics as well as mechanized infantry, something the SA had not developed or anticipated. In response, veterans from the UN militaries are allowed to reenlist in the SA and go right to the front. Requisitioned tanks and their reinstated crews proved worth the introduction and led to an Armored Corps being formed the SAMC, leading to a new area of research for tanks that could easily be deployed but still maximize effectiveness on the colony worlds.
Earth-9 bil
Earth orbit- 120k
Belt- 42 mil
Assorted other solar colonies- 36 mil
Colony ships- 2 mil
Extra-solar colonies- 2 mil
2272
The SA has gained full control of Earth. Stylizing themselves as the "Terran Government", they proceed to turn their attention back to space. The TGMC and TGN are repurposed for colonial escorts. They assured the populations of Earth that the TerraGov is a Humanity first government and enacts the Humanity First Charter, essentially making anyone who attempts to split or resist the TG labelled as race traitors.
Earth-9 bil
Earth orbit- 130k
Belt- 42 mil
Assorted other solar colonies- 37 mil
Colony ships- 2 mil
Extra-solar colonies- 3 mil
2300
Another dirty bomb attack is made, this time including the habitats above Earth. An anti-Human insurgency uses mass suicide attacks in a all or nothing gamble to destabilize their control. More than a fifth of the population of Earth is killed off and the survivors are galvanized towards the TG regime as they offer planetary-wide aide. This organization is tied back to the original group that put the Earth in fallout back in the 2000s, but their motives are unknown.
Re-development of the Earth proceeds. Total survivors on the surface number about 4 million, left of the 6 billion. Most survivors concentrate in Central America, and flee from orbit. TGMC academy and boot camp is established, and all recruits are shown the devastation of the terror attack as a way of instilling motivation to NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN. Space largely quiet due to lack of additional accessible resources.
Earth-7 bil
Earth orbit- 7k
Belt- 80 mil
Assorted other solar colonies- 40 mil
Extra-solar colonies - 12 mil
2322
Colonial Marshals bust a black market deal to find a decrepit machine with an old NT logo on it. After investigation by NT agents, it was discovered that the machine was none other than the lost FTL drive. Scorched and damaged, scientists try to repair the machine with summaries from emailed reports from the Chief Of Science, who was one of the many murdered back in 2120 during the raid. With success at getting the device operational, they quickly move to get TG the drives to their Navy. Their FTL drive is widely inaccurate and requires at least the travel of 1 light year. Still, moving colony ships are now possible. The only problem now is subluminary communication.
2325
With the influence of the new engine, dubbed bluespace for the color of everything seen outside the drive interface when active, expeditions are launched to nearby stars to meet up with the new colonies. Unfortunately, TerraGov made a mistake. The first wave of ships had made 3 successful colonies, with 2 failed colonies, and 2 unaccounted for. TerraGov gave them the plans for the Cyanspace drive in the first flush of optimism. However, this first wave still resented TerraGov for what they did to their ancestors, and after 6 years, many unified into a loose group, the Independent Colonial Confederation, behind the three strongest members, the colonies on Gilgamesh, on Caelus, and the Sons of Mars, grabbing as many of the second generation wave of colonies as they could. No war is fought, due to the lumbering state, expense, and rarity of singularity-drive ships, but both sides prepare for conflict, with both the TGMC and ICC expanding as fast as they can afford to.
NT develop a way of communication over light years, inventing the first ever communications tech to reach colonies reliably, coined as Galactic Communications, or GalCom for short.
Earth-8 bil
Earth orbit- 30k
Belt- 120 mil
Assorted other solar colonies- 60 mil
Extrasolar colonies- 25 mil
2350
Expansion and skirmishes continue. Contacts with an unknown, non-human party confirmed on multiple occasions via telescopic observations and radar plots, but no communications established. However, it is noted the ships are insectoid in nature and wink out not too long after observation.
Earth- 9 bil
Earth orbit- 200k
Belt- 160 mil
Assorted other solar colonies- 80 mil
Extrasolar colonies- 50 mil
2397
Breakthrough in artificial crystalline structures by NT research into phoron allows TerraGov to create Supermatter, a proprietary polymer that stores massive amounts of energy in its structure. If charged by a singularity generator, it contains enough power to activate a cyanspace drive nearly a dozen times, WITHOUT the weight of the singularity to carry along! This made ships more nimble, cheaper, AND more powerful than before! Both sides began building as many SM drive ships as possible, and converting existing ones, preparing for war.
2400
TG, in reference to the Humanity First Charter, declares the ICC enemies of Humanity. Mobilizing the largest war fleet ever seen, special warships and warship classes are designed with the intention of invasion, such as the Jericho-Class Auxiliary ship designed by NT to better employ their combat doctrine of FOB landings. The fleet is sent out to engage the ICC, who prepare for the worst.
In a distant part of the Galaxy, another space faring race decides to make their move before it is too late.
Earth-11 bil
Earth orbit- 500k
Belt- 320 mil
Assorted other solar colonies- 160 mil
Extrasolar colonies- 100 mil
2414
After the TG launches their war fleet, a colony ship returns to the Sol System. Strangely enough, the ship was one of the first wave colony ships sent out and lost. Attempted hailing by some leftover TGN vessels are unsuccessful and escort fighters hold close as it passes by the Saturn colony.
Suddenly, emergency life pods shoot out and violently collide with the station. The ship proceeds on course, speeding up to dangerous levels and causing the security forces to open fire. More life pods are shot into the asteroid belt and the ship continues drifting towards Earth, its engines destroyed. The ship launches the last of its pods before trying to suicide into Earth. A TGN ship, not wanting to see Earth under threat again, rams into the vessel and cuts its progress off, both vessels destroyed in the process.
But that was not the end of it. Saturn finds itself attached by insectoid aliens as they power through bullets and overwhelm the Colonial Marshalls. The entire colony goes dark. Mars and several habitats within the belts follow shortly after. The TGMC sends forces to Mars to lay warfare against the aliens in the first known battle between them. Recovering NT before it was lost, Sol forces are nearly wiped out by the Martian retake. Local ships try to dock with Saturn, but are boarded by the aliens not long after. Scared by the Martian battle of the planet, TG orders the destruction of the habitats affected by the aliens, the ships boarded and now controlled by the aliens, and the Saturn colony. Declaring all colonies and warships lost with all hands, no one questions the order.
Not too long after, NanoTrasen names the aliens "Xenomorphs" based on the aliens of a popular movie franchise back in the late 1900s, for which the aliens have an uncanny resemblance to. Tests on recovered Xenomorph samples show that they are incredibly vulnerable to fire and other burning techniques whereas bullets would not suffice. In order to prevent the TG from being caught off guard again, production for flamethrowers and newly innovated lasguns are strengthened for the Sol security fleet and preparations to equip the greater TGMC go underway.
2415-2470
(TGMC PRESENT DAY)- Not long after the Sol System was attacked, colonies suddenly went dark. Attempting to locate the source, the Office of Naval Intelligence tried to find the ships harboring the colonies before their disappearances, but had nothing on record. Regardless, too many worlds were disappearing and the TG panicked. They dispersed their war fleet mid transition to ICC space. Breaking the fleet apart, ships were sent to every planet that they could cover. Seeing as a inter-Human war was delayed, the TGN made the decision to further break down the patrol groups and stretch the fleet out as much as possible. NanoTrasen sent corporate officials to take over xeno research, using their weight within the TGN to apprehend survivors and evacuation shuttles to get eye witness accounts, causing a stir within MC HIGHCOM as the populations they are trying to save end up being ripped to research facilities for God knows what.
Meanwhile, the ICC, suddenly seeing the TG fleet scatter, get the wrong idea. Thinking a scout messed up intelligence with their Military, they move on the offense to capitalize on the retreat.
2550
(TGSTATION PRESENT DAY)- Phoron rush in full swing on the destroyed worlds. TGMC in advisory role, stepped down from a mobilized military due to reduced need, many retired personnel working on research stations...
| TGMC Roles 
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| TerraGov Marines | Command | Captain, Field Commander, Staff Officer, Pilot Officer |
| Engineering and Supply | Chief Ship Engineer, Requisitions Officer, Ship Technician | |
| Medical | Chief Medical Officer, Medical Officer, Researcher | |
| Marines | Squad Leader, Mech Pilot, Squad Smartgunner, Squad Engineer, Squad Corpsman, Squad Marine | |
| Civilians | Corporate Liaison | |
| Silicon-Based | Combat robots, Synthetic, AI | |
| Xenomorphs | Tier 0 | Larva, Minions |
| Tier 1 | Drone, Runner, Defender, Baneling, Sentinel | |
| Tier 2 | Hivelord, Carrier, Hunter, Wraith, Bull, Warrior, Puppeteer, Spitter | |
| Tier 3 | Gorger, Defiler, Widow, Ravager, Warlock, Behemoth, Crusher, Praetorian, Boiler | |
| Tier 4 | Shrike, Queen, King, Hivemind | |
| Others | Zombie, Emergency Response Teams, Sons of Mars, | |