Well my readers on I'm having massive writer's block regarding Sibling Stars ch.4 right now, and am doing my best to break through it. (Trust me, getting your little sister mad at you for not continuing your story makes you feel guilty…) So partly out of frustration, but mostly out of boredom and want of something fresh I've decided to do something fun and a bit odd that requires much less creativity than a normal fanfiction. My new fanfiction isn't really my creation but the creation of many different people on a Gundam RPG site I'm on. "Gundam Starlight: The Tragedy Chronicles" is in fact really a kind of compilation of the events on the site with some elaboration and extensions to fill in certain gaps in events or give the characters a little more fleshing out. I don't think I've ever read a fanfic like this before so I'm really curious about how it will turn out.
The first chapter is more of a prologue to help all of you begin understanding history of Gundam Starlight while I get permission to use characters from the site and what not. If you get the urge to join, feel free to do so! I'll be putting up a link on my profile page you can just click.
Just know that since this is based on an RPG site a lot of people like to use characters from different animes will make appearances, perhaps with different appearances, different personalities, and different backgrounds, and even different names (I'm using a Touya from Tsubasa as the model for Shadow's character appearance and my sister is using Saya from Black cat for Sakashi). Basically if you're going to be a canon personality freak this fanfic isn't for you.
For all my fellow members of Gundam Starlight, let me once again remind you that seeing how this story being written by me, a human being, (though some claim otherwise) I'm most definitely going to make my share of mistakes whether it's slight misreads of personalities and ideas or an unintentional bias or focus on Shadow and Sakashi since those characters are played by me and my sister respectively. I asked for your permission to use your posts and characters, but if for one reason or another you did not give me permission to use your character(s) I will construct an OC of similar background and personality and try to capture the spirit of your character.If something bad happens to someone's character(s) during some of my elaborations or extensions such as muttering among crewmembers or dirty looks, please remember that I am not attacking you or your character. I am merely expanding on what I believe may have happened as a result of stupid and/or needlessly brutal actions that your group didn't like. For example: You're told to pull back from a battle and stop engaging the enemy but you don't listen and instead continue attacking the enemy despite your superior's orders. Even should you return unscathed and victorious this reckless action will probably earn you some anger or irritation from at least some of your peers even if you don't go into that in your posts.
I think that covers just about everything, so right after the disclaimer and writing key we can begin.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Gundam franchise or any other cameo mecha/characters you may see in this fanfiction, including the Super Robot Wars pilots I'm using as NPC's on the site. I do not own the original storyline idea for the site either, that was done by our head admin Michael. I also do not own most of the Original Characters you're going to see in this story. Heck! I don't even own about 90 percent of the story itself!!! Come to think of it… I don't own Sakashi either in this story! This time she belongs to my sister! About the only thing I do own or have partial ownership of is any story concepts and events regarding Shadow, my character on the site! If I did own everything that was involved in Gundam Starlight I'd say, "Screw you U.S. companies! I'm buying the rights to all mecha shows in America and I'm making English versions of all the mecha crossover games all we English speaking mecha fans are begging for and you can't do shit!"
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Gundam Starlight: The Tragedy Chronicles
Chapter 1: The History of Tragedy
The year is Galactic Century 0908 (GC 0908), after over population on Earth began to become the greatest worldly concern, the many nations and governments of Earth united under one government and established themselves as the United Earth's Front or UEF for short. With this crisis in mind they began constructing orbiting space colonies to allow Earth's population to move into space and help with the problem thus began the Galactic Century. Soon the colonies surrounded most of the space around Earth and after much hard work and dedication Mars itself became a livable planet as it was dreamt it would be. Over 300 years passed as the various projects grew humanity seemed to have tamed to space as they had dreamed about doing so long ago.
Unfortunately, humans are rarely content with what they're given, and soon radical factions on Earth began to grow more and more greedy as people in their ignorance and arrogance grew discontent with the world's current system. These factions held immense political power within the UEF and as a result the government slowly began to dominate the colonies and the people who were born in space and Mars, with the radical factions claiming that they, the one's born on Earth, were the elite and sole rulers of all human beings. Soon the people of space began to grow angered by this betrayal that had occurred to them. After slowly growing tensions built to a near breaking point over the next two and a half centuries, on Mars a small council of people led under the powerful mind of a man whose real name is forgotten but is known to history as Dragon began to create a new government and army to oppose the UEF. The new government was called the Rights of Spacekind or ROS for short, and soon after the ties between the UEF and its colonies began to break. By the year GC 0602 the UEF had lost approximately half its respective territory to the ROS keeping only the Moon and its local colonies in its control, while the colonies around and behind the border of Mars joined ROS.
Not long after, war broke out as mankind pitted itself against each other in a war of unprecedented ferocity. Later called the First Starlight War, millions of people both soldier and civilian died during the battles that destroyed entire colonies, but 37 years after its initiation there was no end in sight even if it had become mostly a cold war. It was then that Dragon tipped the scales of power with the introduction of a brand new weapons technology, mobile suits. Armed robotic machines piloted by soldiers into battle these weapons before had only existed in mankind's imagination and soon began to dominate the space fighters and battleships employed by UEF. Within two months of the introduction of these mobile suits, the UEF withdrew from ROS space and agreed on a treaty stating that ROS's territory would consist of the solar system behind Mars while the UEF would be allowed to control the other. Thus in GC 0639 the ROS became the formally recognized government of Mars and all its surrounding colonies and the two governments fell into a war weary peace ending the First Starlight War.
For a while peace was restored and over the course of the next century, Mobile Suit patrols became more and more uncommon within the ROS's territory until eventually they were only ever done sporadically on the border. The ROS's residents were content and Dragon became a legendary hero for his exploits during the war on and off the battle and became the ROS's beloved leader leading them even when his body could no longer support itself without mechanical implants. Even people who lived in the UEF territories respected the man, and acknowledged his wisdom and strength. However in GC 0757 tragedy struck as Dragon was assassinated by a secretly developed UEF mobile suit, ordered there by the "Earth Born" political group which held sway even all these years after the war. Dragon's daughter Wyvern took her father's place at the head of the ROS and within a week of his assassination, the Second Starlight War began with even greater ferocity than the first as massive mobile suit battles ripped the solar system apart and Nuclear weapons were used indiscriminately until their ban by both parties after losing a tenth of their populations within the first three months of the war. After the first 7 years of the war, neither side could gain an upper hand and 47 years after the intense fighting began, a truce was signed by both Wyvern and William Heracles, the UEF president of the time. In this truce both sides agreed to cease the research on mobile suits as well as any other form of advanced weaponry, both knowing that the spies that the other had planted would instantly inform them if they broke the agreement. It was under these circumstances that the Second Starlight War came to a bitter close in GC 0804 as both sides began to rebuild after losing over a quarter of their respective populations and seventy-five percent of their military strength.
After the harsh events of the Second Starlight War, the two factions fell into a cold war, in which both sides used their remaining mobile suit forces to patrol their borders. Over the next 76 years the two sides would rebuild the extensive ruin and devastation caused by the war. And though neither side trusted the other the two sides both fell into a state of contentment. Unfortunately, peace rarely lasts and in the year GC 0880 "Earth Born" initiated yet another war by assassinating Wyvern in retaliation for their losses in the war. Hydra, Wyvern's son, was the next to take over the leadership of the ROS and like his mother before him declared war almost immediately after assuming his role with full support of the ROS people.
The Third Starlight War began much slower than the first and second due to the highly reduced forces both sides experienced as a result of the past war and the arms and research restrictions put on both sides as a result of the peace treaty and lack of a sizable army as a result. The war quickly escalated however as both sides began investing heavy amounts of time and effort into the development and production of mobile suits. The UEF however gained a major advantage with the discovery of beam technology mid way through the war as the ROS forces had no counters for such a new and powerful weapons and the UEF looked like it would win a long and costly victory in the war. This would change however, when the UEF was dealt a blow that would be forever remembered as the greatest tragedy ever known to man.
Fearing that they would lose the war and once again be oppressed by the UEF, on June 9, GC 0895 the ROS in an act of desperation launched and succeeded in dropping six uninhabited space colonies on Earth. The initial impact alone killed over 2 billion people, but that wasn't the worst of the tragedy. The six impacts kicked up millions of tons of ash and dust into the air blotting out the sun and throwing the Earth's biosphere into chaos and resulting in a nuclear winter. Evacuation attempts began almost immediately, and millions of lives on Earth were lost in the chaos following the panic inspired by the impacts. 2 weeks after the impact however the Earth's biosphere had degenerated so far that not even the UEF's most advanced ships and mobile suits could operate on the planet's surface. In the end, about half the planet's population managed to evacuate before the planet was made impossible to live on. Fortunately, the UEF at this time had just finished the creation of giant colonizing towers on the Moon so the remainder of Earth's population was moved and settled there while others left for the colonies and some even sought sanctuary with the ROS, disgusted by the "Earth Born" and the costs of the wars they instigated. All over the Moon, the UEF constructed massive towers with simulated Earth environments, the last mementos of their now lost home. The "Big Freeze" as it would be called by history ended the Third Starlight War on a decidedly tragic note, both side's desire to just make the fighting stop greater than their desire for revenge. In the treaty signed by both sides, in return for not continuing the war and utterly obliterating the ROS in retaliation for the "Big Freeze", the ROS agreed not to attack any of these new towers on the moon, now called Neo Earth and Hydra agreed to his own execution as demanded by the enraged UEF citizens for planning and spearheading the "Deep Freeze" leaving his 11 year old son Serpentine to take over when he became of age.
13 years have passed since the "Deep Freeze" and tensions between the UEF and ROS are once again at a breaking point. In the aftermath of the "Deep Freeze" people both of the ROS and the UEF have grown discontent with their governments. In recent years a mercenary faction with the power of a medium-sized army known as the Outlaws has been established, willing to work for either faction and controlled by neither. This third faction may be the catalyst to change this vicious cycle of war and hate, but whether these changes will bring about salvation or destruction however remains to be seen as the lives of people from backgrounds as numerous as the stars will change the course of history, each in their own ways.
AN// Well that was the first chapter. Good? Bad? Wait… It was a history lesson… Oh well! The action begins next chapter, and we'll start it all off with an assassination! Read and Review people! Even though I know most of you will ignore this plea I'll still ask. I have only had 3 different reviewers for Sibling Stars with over 500 hits.
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