Humans organize the moons of Saturn and Jupiter into agricultural planets. To produce food for the ever growing empire. Venus, Io, Eros, parts of Luna are all made into manufacturing centers. Mercury becomes a prison planet, the galaxy's largest.
-The year 2204-
Humanity's quick rise to fame causes other races to either look up at them with wonder, or with envy.
The Academy creates the Ithaca, a spacecraft designed for the ISDF that can warp to other places. It is launched from Luna and sent to the ISDF expeditionary fleet.
The Humans discover the Hylotl, an instant friendship is made between the two. A military alliance is formed between Sol and the Hylotl. The Hylotl and Humans sharing a common enemy, Florans.
-The year 2210-
The Apex announce Sol as its new rival. The Apex being the most powerful empire in the universe scare most other races from befriending Humans. Humans are truly isolated with only the Hylotl to help.
-They year 2213-
The Veriarch people declare war with Humans. Instantly the ISDF is deployed to surround the Veriarch star system. They destroy spaceships that are no match technologically with the ISDF built ships. The ISDF occupies the star system but cannot get soldiers onto the planets.
The Pentagon is designated as the ISDF military headquarters. Earths population reaches 79 Billion people.
-The year 2214-
The Council of Sol creates the EMC, or Earth Marine Corps. They are trained to fight on planets rather than in space. The first Marines are sent to the Veriarch star system and they make landfall on the planet.
The planets the Veriarch people control are mostly jungle, or swamps. Marines find it difficult to fight in such terrain. The battle is drawn out into brutal guerilla warfare with Veriarch people using desperate tactics to slow the Human war machine.
The EMC begins to burn the vast swathes of forest or drop poisonous chemicals over to make the jungle and forest die out and reveal Veriarch hiding spots. This causes a mass die out of many plant species.
-The year 2215-
The Veriarch people surrender. Earth just showed off its military strength to the galaxy, and it sways opinion.
Many races ally with Humans, protection from the ISDF meant guaranteed independence.
The Terrene Protectorate is founded. Its headquarters on Earth, in Berlin.
The United Nations is assumed as the parent organization of the Terrene Protectorate.
-The Year 2230-
Humans are the economic and military superpower, with only the Apex rivaling them. The Solar System exports around 567 Trillion USD per month. The whole Human race exports exceed 780 Trillion USD.
A Academy research station is constructed on Mars, it becomes the Academy galactic headquarters and is the center of all research.
The first space elevator is constructed between Earth and Luna.
A space station is founded orbiting Sol, or the star of Sol. It takes Solar energy from the star and transfers it into usable power. It becomes the main energy source for Humans. The space station also fuels the star with auxiliary nuclear fuel. It will prevent the star from dying as long as the space station is operational. It grants almost unlimited power.
-The year 2235-
The Miniknog constructs its own version of the Ithaca to match ISDF strength. The two follow each other in a buildup of new weapons.
The first protectorates graduate from to become official Protectors.
The FBI, CIA, and KGB are all joined together into the Earth Intelligence and Espionage Bureau.
Earth makes it legal for prisoners to do constructive work as part of their sentence. Prisoners are shipped into the Kuiper Belt, Saturn's rings, Asteroid belt, Io, and Eros to mine valuable resources.
The Terrene Protectorate creates Inter-Stellar regions. Areas where military activity is not permitted. They are only for commercial ships. This calms tensions between the Pentagon and Miniknog after several warships have come close to firing at each other.
-The year 2240-
Most of the tribes of the Florans unite into a single governing body. A Greenfinger is made supreme leader of all Florans. One of his jobs is to reconstruct the planets destroyed in the war with Earth.
The first groups of interstellar pirates and bandits are formed. They buy ships off the black market, mostly from smaller races who want their protection. The pirates gain power and begins taking on daunting challenges like Apex or Human ships.
The pirates organize themselves into the Penn Republic, most of its wealth coming from raids on villages and towns, salvaging and selling parts of ships, or raiding trade vessels.
Business leaders and trade ship captains from all races meet on Earth to discuss how to deal with the Penn Republic. They form the Trade Federation and co-operate with the Terrene Protectorate to defend ships.
The Trade Federation quickly annexes multiple planets and establishes colonies on them, these colonies become trade stations for trade vessels and some sprout into busy cities.
All Humans and Human colonies (including those outside of Earth) join the Council of Sol. A Democratic Republic that is centered around its capital star Sol. The Council of Sol also is referred to as the Solar Republic.
The Colonial Expeditionary Force is established. It takes young men and women under the age of 40 to go to far away planets and colonize them and tame the planets so it can be annexed by the Council of Sol.
The borders of all the races begin to expand quickly and since it is hard to establish borders running through empty space, The Terrene Protectorate creates a border law stating: A planetary border must be established in a full sphere that extends 50-60 AU around the nearest hospitable Star System. A race that is limited to only one planet has its borders around 1 AU around the planet. This allows for Borders to be quickly recognized and kept.
-The Year 2250-
The Alpha and Beta Centauri star systems have been almost completely colonized by Humans and have been annexed by the Solar Republic.
The Trade Federation establishes itself as a Corporate Republican Oligarchy. Its rivals being the Penn Republic.
The Penn Republic begins losing power and wealth as trade ships are armed to defend itself and as both the Terrene Protectorate and ISDF actively hunt pirate ships. The ISDF sets up a patrol route along its own Solar Border to keep pirates and bandits out.
The pirates turn away from larger well-armed planets and instead turn to weaker planets. Notably Hylotl Villages, and Avian villages. They raid those towns and villages as well as steal from trade vessels containing vast amounts of valuables and cargo.
The Penn Republic co-operates with the Apex to develop a new kind of starship model. One that exceeds ISDF starships. It is fast and packs a heavy punch and can take down even the biggest trade vessels. In return the Penn Republic agree to give the Apex 20% of all the money they gain.
-The Year 2255-
A Penn Republic raid on a Human Colony outside the Solar System leads to the bandits getting away with millions of dollars and valuable technology. This hurts the Council of Sol who then boosts its border patrol efforts and funds the Trade Federation.
The Trade Federation creates next generation warships that are highly advanced, co-produced by the Academy. With funding from the Council of Sol they declare war and openly fight against Penn Republic starships.
The Solar Republic decides whether or not to send units out to fight in the war. A discussion is held at the UN Building in New York alongside Terrene Protectorate Representatives. The representative have mixed feelings and the decision is split nearly 50 50.
Earth sends a list of demands to the Penn Republic. Including but not limited to; A end of piracy/ open hostility with peaceful trade vessels; make peace with the Trade Federation; and cut off funding from the Apex.
-The Year 2256-
After almost an entire year of waiting a response is finally given from the Penn Republic. They declined the list of demands and continued with the war against the Trade Federation.
Infuriated all of the representatives of Sol meet again to discuss what to do. An anonymous decision was reached to declare war.
Earth sends a final warning to the Penn Republic, which is ignored. The Solar Republic declares war on the Penn Republic.
Blind sighted by the act of Humans declaring war on their ally, The Apex sends ships to be given under the control of the Penn Republic.
The Terrene Protectorate dispatches protectors to defend non-combatant villages from the war. Usually peaceful Avian villages, Glitch kingdoms and Floran tribal cities.
The Hylotl side with the Solar Republic and declare war on the Penn Republic.
The Apex Miniknog members and authority meet to decide how to respond. Whether to declare war on the Solar Republic or not. 'Big Ape', the supreme overlord, decides to declare war on the Solar Republic.
Galactic War 1 begins.
-The Year 2258-
Two years into the war and it is clear it will be a long one. The fighting on both sides is brutal, ships are locked into massive battles that stretch out for days or weeks at a time, soldiers are deployed onto planets and are slowed down because of the terrain and enemy forces surrounding them, and both sides seem evenly matched.
The Academy begins work on a new generation of Star Ships. Orion class ships, armed to the teeth with the most advanced weaponry, engines and technology aboard. It goes into full-scale production under the Presidential Administrations approval.
The Solar Republic war machine roars to life as it creates ammunition, guns, spacesuits, military uniforms and body armor. Aircraft and space craft, bombs, military technology, drones etc. The Solar economy explodes as the industries rev to full power. Luna, Venus, Saturn's moons, and other industrial planets gain a permanent economy and play a significant role in the Human war machine. With goods and almost everything needed being produced on those planets.
Fighting in the war takes place around and on planets with no intelligent life (ie poptops and others). But some Trade Protectorate cities are attacked and damaged.
-The year 2259-
With the war dragging out to be long and brutal, the Penn Republic economy begins to decline. With no actual means of production and no real industry the Penn war machines dies off. To compensate the Apex assign millions of citizens to work in factories and those who haven't been assigned, drafted into the military.
A Hylotl and Human joint operation leads to the invasion of a very key economic sector of the Penn Republic. A star system where most of the black market activity associated with piracy goes on. After a month long battle the Solar Republic and Hylotl take the sector crippling the Penn Republic.
A desperate counter attack leads to a battle of attrition just outside the Solar System. It takes place in the Kuiper Belt and millions of lives are lost. Solar Defense mechanisms save the day for Earth and the rest of Humanity as space turrets, ISDF Patrol and military bases, and the difficulty of crossing the asteroids surrounding the Solar System drastically slows the enemy down allowing them to be intercepted and defeated.
The Apex launch the galaxy's first inter-galactic missile. It slips through Solar defenses and lands on Earth. It detonates on the Long Island Sound, less than 100 miles away from New York City and Boston. Only a few people were injured but it still scares the Solar Republic.
The Council of Sol meets to discuss military strategy. They decide to launch a full out invasion on the Apex Homefront. The ISDF launches fifty Orion class starships, they are modified so destroyers and smaller fighters can take off from the starship flight deck. They make their way to a very important Apex star system and invade a key planet. The invasion last for 7 hours until Apex forces surrender. The rest of the star system surrenders to the ISDF. Earth Marine Corps soldier (EMC) Occupying the ground while the ISDF patrols the interspace.
-The Year 2260-
After it was clear they are losing the war the Apex go on an all-out attack. They invade Trade Federation planets and Hylotl villages and then they turn their focus to the Solar Republic. Almost all of the attacks are repelled and the Solar republic counter attacks viciously. Consuming planet after planet (just like General MacArthur did in World War 2 during his Island Hopping campaign). Eventually surrounding the Apex.
Earth drafts another letter of demands and sends it to the Miniknog. They demand the Apex and Penn surrender to The Solar Republic, Trade Protectorate, and Hylotl and that a truce will be established between the two sides. Also that and the forced payments of millions of pixels to the Human government.
The demands are humiliating but well received and the Apex accept, begrudgingly.
ISDF and EMC soldiers and ships return to Earth and the Solar Republic economy again explodes with a workforce of veterans who returned home.
-The Year 2261-
The Terrene Protectorate is assumed to be the peacekeeping force of the entire galaxy (like the UN is to Earth except with a lot less power than the UN). Peacekeeping soldiers are recruited and established as part of a regular TP Army. TP Soldiers are of a lower rank than protectors however and aren't as highly trained.
Protectors are allowed to come home from non-combatant villages and kingdoms and return to normal status.
Since almost all of the industry of the other major races were destroyed, both Human and Apex industry begin to export almost triple the amount they did before the war. Economic competition is more organized, Apex vs Human.
The Trade Federation sets up trading hubs in the Solar System (they are under strict guidelines from the ISDF and Solar Republic though). They are trading areas where small ships depart from a planet and unload cargo their and then a larger freighter comes and delivers them to another Trading Hub in another Star System. The goods are unloaded and smaller ships pick them up and transport them to planet surface. This eliminates the need for giant spaceports on the surface of a planet and cuts the need for ships to have armor that help with re-entry into a planetary atmosphere. It also cuts the need for giant landing gear on the ships and helps space traffic move faster. This postal system like style of transport is well received and spreads quickly.
Thanks for reading this next chapter. If it is a little boring to some I understand. I am just fascinated by stuff like this so that's just me. But if you really liked it be sure to let me know.