8, May, 1945- regarded as the day World war two ends, bringing about an end to Nazi Germany and their expansion, it is also the day a large ship crashes in the Appalachian mountains of American. Within an hour American troops had mobilized to quarantine the crash while American command prepared for possible alien contact. Upon arrival the presence of aliens is confirmed and a diplomat is quickly dispatched.
9, May, 1945- United states diplomat Jonny Rodrigo Bravo arrives at the crash and is met by three alien species, a floating grey skinned species with 4 thin arms dressed in red robes, a large floating grey disc that soon folds out into a medium sized almost shrimp like machine, and a tannish 6 Ft tall bipedal creature with glowing orange lines of energy running up its body and apparently pooling in its eyes. For a time the two parties both alien and human visitor and local just examined each other, then in an act that has since been hailed as both the bravest and stupidest things ever seen or done, American diplomat Bravo step forward and extends the (literal) hand of friendship to the aliens. When the alien in the center (the ethereal) accepted this hand of friendship the whole of human history was changed.
18, May, 1945- After establishing peaceful contact the aliens had been swiftly escorted to area 51 along with their barely functioning ship. It was there that they relayed their message and their request to humanity, it was in that military base that humanity first learned of their newest enemy, and began to plan to defeat it. The aliens had been slaves of an Ethereal called the overlord, the minds of both the ethereal, s and many other races were enslaved by the overlord in acts of galactic conquest and subjugation. First were the ethereal, s themselves, followed by the Adraas, (yes I borrowed that name) then the te,vos a race of bipedal lizerdroid people. The sectoid people were subjugated easily due to the fact that while psionically gifted they were not very strong separately against psionic attack. Thus their minds were reduced to little more than relays to receive psionic commands in compatibly little time. Next to be conquered had been the cyberdisc, s a race of naturally occurring silicon life forms. While able to resist psionic commands they were, however, unable to resist being reprogrammed and having their minds to suppressed to little more than the machines they appeared to be. The last to be conquered were the outsiders, a race of indivual,s able to spawn and control lesser versions of themselves through the extrusion of crystals. They proved the most difficult since the other Ethereal,s for the overlord to conquer, due to their many spawns and hive mind, this allowed to fight the invaders for a hundred years before being defeated. Not however before a large offensive managed to assault and destroy several ships in the center of the Ethereal,s armada including the one the overlords physical form resided on. While not enough to destroy the overlord it did allow several of the stronger Ethereal,s to break his control and flee with their ships and crews.
21, December, 1945- After learning of the aliens history and of the threat soon to be arrayed against them humanity is faced with a dilemma, America alone cannot fight the invaders alone not even with the aliens helping them to understand their technology and replicate it, so it is finally decided to bring in the strongest of the superpowers at the time, it is with a mixture of hope and dread that the president calls for a meeting with The Soviet Union and China.
24, December,1945- After a three day meeting during which tempers flared and war threatened many times an agreement is reached. A council would between the three superpowers and a commander would be placed in charge of the newly created Xcom. The council would be in charge of insuring that all of the funding, supplies and personnel needed by Xcom was received, and would began the task of joining their three government's.
3, January, 1947- much has changed in the world since the arrival of the aliens and the formation of the Sol council, initially regarded as impossible by the rest of the word, the US, Soviet Union and China, with the threat of alien invasion and enslavement looming over them come together as a council and begin turning their attention to space and pour resources into Xcom.
8, May, 1955- All of Earth has been slowly absorbed into the Sol council and the presence and knowledge of the aliens and what is to come in released worldwide. Greeted initially with outrage the people of earth are soon silenced when the first of the 5 Xcom ships are revealed in the upper atmosphere. Apparently it is hard to be outraged when alien invasion is coming and you are trying to survive as a race. At any rate, the people soon unite much as their government's had done and recruitment skyrockets. And while initially weary of their alien allies it is soon put to rest once they begin to work alongside them.
10, September, 1958- All of humanity is tested for psionic potential and it is found that humanity has the potential of being as strong or stronger then the Ethereal,s when it comes to psionic potential. A feat originally thought impossible. Schools and treatment's to open this potential is soon initiated and psionic,s start training.
12, September,1958- Research into the Nanites in Meld yields the ability to reverse engineer not just the Meld substance but the Nanites themselves, allowing them to be used not just in Meld but also in construction projects, this allows not just industry to bloom but also makes construction on ships and weapons on larger scales much easier and more efficient.
24, December, 1962- Dumb AI,s created to monitor and control the Nanites on construction gain sentience, appearing before the council on their tour of a new elerium power plant and asking for authorization to make changes to the design to approve efficiency. Initially greeted with shock after several moment the council hesitantly allows the changes to be made, the AI thanks his "parents" much like a young child would after being told they had had a good idea.
30,December,1962- Controversy over AI,s rages over Earth but after much debate they are granted Human rights and a effort is made to actually improve and strengthen them.
29, November,1964- Using Nanites the composition of Elerium is finally broken and mapped out, allowing a more concentrated form to be created, basically allowing the energy to be harnessed as a "pure" energy source, both for weapons and for power station. Older power stations start being upgraded and updated later that year.
2, March,1965- With the use of a "pure form of Elerium discovered methods of strengthening exciting alloys is discovered, as well as allowing the melding of materials at a cellular level, essentially allowing the improvement or creation of entirely new elements. This leads to two new materials, Surgeite, a Superconductor far superior t any other known to either human or extraterrestrial, and a super hard incredibly dense material jokingly dubbed "unobtanium".
4, March, 1965- 20 years after landing on Earth and 10 years after being revealed to the People of Earth the first Extraterrestrial is elected into a public office,(they hold a council seat but this is more a military ruled society then civilian ruled, like the UNSC during the Human-Covenant war) a young Earth born Ethereal is elected as governor of Rhode Island.
8, February, 1970- Plans for large factory/Carrier/War facilities dubbed "Arm Forts" are submitted to and approved by the council.
12, November, 1972- 10nth Land and Sea Arms Forts are completed, two land Forts are transported to the Luna Base while the other 8 are deployed to strategic areas around the planet along with the ten sea Forts.
15, May, 1973- Plans for Massive Shipyards are created, and two are slated to be constructed, one on the dark side of the moon and the other nestled amongst the resource rich rings of Saturn. Utilizing large "Pure elerium reactors they are going to be powerhouses of production, the moon shipyard focusing on ships fighter threw cruiser weight, and the Saturn focusing on the larger ship classes and the space based Arms Forts. Both are defended with over a dozen Elerium infused mass drivers, three plasma lances, and 300 drone fighters, with a further complement of 500 Cyberdiscs and a ground force of 5,000 marines and support staff to guard the facilities.
27, March, 1983- Moons Shipyard facility finishes construction with the Saturn facility following 6 months later.
29, March, 1985- First ten Titan class Space Arm Forts complete production, due to expenses production is shifted to ships and ODP,s since the ten currently having been created is deemed sufficient for the defense of their space.
1, May, 1987- Listening posts and sensor buoys are completed system wide, putting all of the Sol system under the Sol Councils watchful gaze.
3, March, 1990- 400th ships rolls off the production line, bring the ship strength of the council up to 100 ships in each fleet.
15, May, 1995- The Ethereal races officially become a part of the council, raising the seats from three to 6 and making necessary a change of name from the Sol Council to the United Species Alliance, and officially giving the name of United Species Defense Force to the military force which had previously only been called the sol defense force.
25, July, 2000- Fears that the defense force may be losing combat efficiency threw a lack of action a plan to put commanders in crews threw virtual war-games is initiated. Due to the feeling of dying and pain carrying threw from the simulations it is deemed as close to the real thing as possible and is adopted for use in evacuation drills and is rolled into ground force training. As a unforeseen benefit it is discovered that the sensation of dying over and over again, and having to learn to overcome pain and seemingly impossible situations hardens both the minds and spirits of the troops put threw the training. it makes Psi domination of targets put threw the simulations much more difficult and leaves those who train in Psionics in the simulators and against those who have trained in the simulator's into true terrors to face.
14, February, 2003- 30th ODP is completed and seeded into Earth atmosphere, a further 20 is planned to be placed around the moon, with 25 to be placed around each of the two major shipyards.
17, January, 2005- Terraforming begins on Mars and is planned to be completed in 3 years.
18, July, 2008- Mars Terraforming is completed and two more planets Mercury and Venus, Mercury as a military staging, production and training planet for "classified research and special forces , Venus for colonization.
15, May, 2014- Sensor contact on the edge of the Sol System near the planet Pluto is recorded, scans shows ship silhouettes and hull materials match those of the known Ethereals ships, the First defense Fleet is dispatched while 2 other fleets prepare to reinforce them if necessary, while the other 4 fleets prepare to defend the Sol system, one fleet over each shipyard one over mars and the last fleet as well as the ten Space Arm Forts defending Earth.