Chapter 2: Little Big Beginnings

Historians in the following centuries have made many attempts to explain the rapid pace of human expansion after the Great War and the phase of reconstruction that finally continued.
many decades. This looked especially mysterious compared to the history of other species, which usually lost the momentum of technological development after planetary unification,
which is closely related to the wars that are waged.
The story of Holy Terran Reich was completely different, which suddenly, after the stage of the wars for unification, began to develop at a much faster pace.
The specific features of Terran culture, a high level of work ethic, respect for authority, and a higher emphasis on mastering new territories than in others have been repeatedly indicated.

Certainly it all mattered, but no one could point to the fact that the Reich supported its development with technology accidentally taken over from Vree. Being a race of traders and explorers, the Vree expedition undertook an exploration of a primitive planet. As it turned out after many centuries, while entering the atmosphere, their ship broke down, which caused the explorers they could not prevent their vehicle from being shot down by primitive Terran planes.

Reich scientists worked for decades to understand how the ship worked, while the world around them slowly recovered from the devastation. Technologies that then they discovered they had allowed the army to quell the revolts of the conquered nations, the last unrecognized rebels laid down their weapons by the middle of the 21st century. The next emperors, the rulers of humanity elected during the elections in the imperial capital - Frankfurt, they carried out further great projects for the idea of uniting humanity.

Even before the last battles on Earth were over, Terran expeditions had reached Mars, and shortly thereafter, the imperial flag hovered over Titan's dark gorges.

The history of mankind from unification to the Cotto War can actually be compared to the history of ancient Egypt. They will achieve the peak of the hitherto civilizations on trifles, building metaphorical pyramids to the vain glory of rulers. The Earth, contrary to what the propaganda proclaimed, was far from the state of eternal peace and prosperity. Despite the lack of organized, armed resistance, the emperors had to worry about the opposition of cultures that were alien to Europe in terms of the Reich, such as Turks, Arabs or Chinese. The process of their assimilation, which should end with the granting of the rights to representation in the Reichstag and the electoral vote, proceeded very slowly.

The discovery of telepathy in the 21st century became another social problem, the solution of which took a long time, more than it seemed than the empire could let. Very quickly, telepaths made a great but disgraceful career, both in organized crime and in the imperial secret services. The latter later were to become famous across the galaxy as the terrifying Cerberus.

From the time of the Italian triumph of Emperor Barbarossa, the papacy was subordinate to the Reich, de facto one of its ministries. Despite the secularization forced by the diversity of the lands of the empire,
the popes continued to attend the Reichstag, and conducted the coronation ceremony of the emperor elected by the electors.