General of the army's POV
We had used up Mars' resources to build our initial fleet and then fitted them with power cores that used helium for fuel. Basically, it shot lasers at helium atoms, heated
them until they where hotter than the sun, then harnessed the resulting energy. I surveyed the fleet from the 'capital ship', The U.S.S. Earth. She wasn't the most
sophisticated ship, but she served us well. She was several times larger than older Nimitz class Aircraft Carriers. She almost looked like a thick saucer. She had many
cannons and turrets, which, at this point, used kinetic and explosive rounds. In one sentence I sealed the fate of many alien races.
"Let the conquest begin!"
We began harvesting from the asteroid belt, supplying us with millions of tons of building material. We covered Mercury with solar panels, at least the parts not
covered with strip mines. The majority of power for the inner planets came from Mercury, while Venus was second. Venus was used mostly for geothermal energy and
research. Pressure resistant materials were researched on Venus, alongside heat resistant materials. The gas giants supplied a great amount of wind energy, along
with the discovery of life in the clouds of Jupiter and Saturn. The moons were used for a great many of things, ranging from civilian population and military bases to
research labs and weapon testing. The only moon left untouched was Europa. It was the discovery of life in the oceans that made it a protected area. Sadly, it was
known that sentience would never bloom on the moon. Even sadder, life would cease to exist on the moon entirely.
Pluto was made a research facility, mostly on weapon development. The Kuiper belt was used for mining of water and ores. After several years we moved out of the
solar system and made an empire. We actually just teleported in research ships and moved war ships to the outer edge to claim it as earth territory. The teleporting
was somewhat dangerous for the crew, it would be impossible without supercomputers to keep the molecules arranged correctly.
The first few planets we came across outside of our solar system were barren but mineral rich. The next few had nothing. These were turned into civilian population
centers or military bases. After the civilian population was spread out we built Dyson spheres around lifeless stars to completely harness the star's energy when the
area had no military value. Then we encountered some primitive aliens. We took what we needed and left them to their own devices. Others were more advanced.
Some were almost on par with human technology. We added them to the human empire and used their resources for the state. Then we began to receive advanced
alien transmissions. Some were gray aliens ranting about empire collapse and the others were green insect like aliens talking about snacks and galactic conquest. That
was when we knew we were nearing our expansion limit. Or so we thought. The Irkens, the green ones, regarded us as annoyances, with their buggy eyes and
lowered antennae, the Furons, the gray ones, regarded us with fear and suspicion.
We lived in peace for quite a few years. But our hunger for power grew. And we began building and researching military weapons to use against the advanced armor
of the Irken ships. Designs changed and we started researching anti-matter usage, mostly for bombs. We still had no effective way to harness the energy given off.
Then we began to plan the invasions of the Furons and the Irkens.
A.N. The next chapter will be a little bit of Furon and Irken insight to the human empire Any improvements to the story will be made over time. Chapter by chapter. Auf Weidersen!
6/28/13 Still sucks. Slightly better.
