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AN: Sorry it took so long for this chapter but like I said this is more than just halo and mass effect in this story and I have been working on the other races that will become members of the commonwealth and what they want and the purpose they will have in the commonwealth. I have also been trying to work around why the reapers never got the forerunners and how the flood and the halo array fit in the story. Also, I have been thinking about the first contact between the commonwealth and the council. After a bit of thought, the only way I can see it going is the commonwealth destroying any semblance of the council thinking they are superior.
Now for the next chapter, I will be introducing the first of the races that will be part of the commonwealth. The race I have joining is probably going to come out of the left field and be a total surprise. I will give you a hint, they have a somewhat purple theme to them and are fairly spiritual and no they have nothing to do with the covenant
Also for people who keep on saying that this would never happen or that a race could never have an AI at the stage that Exodus was created in their development. Well, I have something to tell you, it's a story. I have read dozens that make less sense than this one.
1981
With the counties of the middle east joining The newly named Canadian Commonwealth the European Union quickly set a declaration of war with its combined fleet of 1000 ships headed to the coast of Israel and Lebanon. It was a few hours after Prime Minister Gray and her cabinet received this declaration that she gave Exodus permission to use the HOD if the enemy would not surrender while explaining what it was and why it was built after she sent a message asking for the surrender of the European Union.
When the leaders of the EU received the demand of Canada asking them to surrender the collective response was laughter; it was after this that Prime Minister Gray gave the go-ahead to fire the HOD, which would be known after this publicly as the Hammer of Dawn.
ONI agents that were sent to monitor the European Union's fleet reported the aftermath an hour after the HODs were fired. The report was met with overwhelming shock as the news of the fleet's destruction was first heard. The report was quickly followed by a video of the event and the fleet being destroyed.
The video started with images of a large number of ships moving in a group where, this was when it could be heard from the agents in the video being given an order to pull back as far as possible. It was less than five minutes later with the ship that the ONI agents were on leaving the area with the camera pointed back at the fleet to record the first public use of the Hammers of Dawn. It was moments later on the screen the video playing on suddenly was completely filled with bright yellow light coming from the sky, the entire video was yellow for ten seconds before the light dissipated revealing the number of ships still on fire and slowly shrinking. It was a minute later and with the ONI agents having gained more distance between their ship and those of the EU's fleet when the video clearly shows four more beams of yellow light smashing down onto the rest of the fleet. As the ONI agents continued to gain more distance, those watching the video were able to see the beams start to move across the sea to start destroying the rest of the fleet before stopping for 30 seconds before firing again. The video continued for ten more minutes showing the HODs firing six more times before it was over.
It was a day later that the reports for the complete casualties to the EUs fleet were available for the Prime Minister and her cabinet to understand the true effectiveness of the Hammer of Dawn. Of the 1000 ships that were reported to have been deployed only a handful had managed to survive. The number of soldiers that were lost was estimated to be a hundred thousand.
It was three days after the news of the fleet's demise for the European Union to surrender and another week for the rest of the world to hear about it and verify the reports of the annihilation of the EU's fleet. With the news spread, the vast majority of the countries that were thinking of joining the commonwealth sent word that they would wish to join the commonwealth and started to go through the requirements for joining. The European Union went dark and information about what was happening was extremely hard to come by even for ONI agents that were behind enemy lines.
With the destruction of the EU's fleet, many of the middle eastern countries that had joined the Commonwealth wished to invade the EU's territory but this was swiftly shut down by Prime Minister Gray. Prime Minister Gray saw no need to as the demonstration of the HOD was a large enough show of force, also stating the EU would be on the back foot for years to come allowing the commonwealth the time it needed to consolidate its growth with so many countries having joined it and to bring them up to the standard level of the commonwealth.
It was two weeks of silence before any concrete news and information could get out of the European Union. The first verified intel from ONI agents was the utter dissolution of the European Union, with its members starting to go to full-scale war against themselves. It was this report that saw the commonwealth enter a somewhat passive stance toward the European Union, with this information Prime Minister decided to wait before she sent in commonwealth assets into the war zone.
Prime Minister Gray gives a press conference about the HODs. When asked why the government saw to create them PM Gray states that they were made to act as a deterrent should someone make a weapon that posed a threat to all life on earth saying that the government had the research done to prove that such weapons were possible and could likely be developed by other if they were given a few years. She continues by stating that the Hammer of Dawn was made with the hope that they were never fired, but it was always possible that this weapon would be the only thing that stood between us and the total destruction of everything that we know and love.
1982
The conflict in Europe continues as the past members of the EU all struggle for dominance and control of the region. The rest of the world Starts to unite under the banner of the Canadian Commonwealth. Even with everyone peacefully joining the commonwealth it is not without its tensions as it is required for all the members of the commonwealth to follow the laws and the ways of Canada before it became the commonwealth. Many new members struggle with getting used to the new laws and the bill of rights, with some countries really struggling to implement the bill of rights having been stuck in their way.
With the more and more countries joining the commonwealth Prime Minister Gray decided to start the work to make sure that all members of the commonwealth have the ability to vote, participate in the commonwealth's parliament along with a bill that would change client states into provinces when she felt it was the right time to make the change and eliminate all other governments to consolidate the power to be under the commonwealth.
With so many countries becoming client states the commonwealth has a slight recession that only lasts for two months with the merging of economies and the client state transitions to the Canadian dollar.
To help develop the new members of the commonwealth schools were being set up in underdeveloped countries to help teach the basic skills needed for trade jobs to help with the infrastructure of the new members so they would be able to function without the outside assistance of the first world countries and possible to grow in their own ways that would benefit the commonwealth.
1983
With the vast majority of the world having joined the Canadian commonwealth now with the only holdouts being in Europe with the European war continuing and the Commonwealth staying on guard but otherwise waiting for the outcome before the It makes a decision on how to deal with the aggressors that tried to invade the Middle East.
ONI agents make reports of the European war and how some members of the European Union are already starting to think about joining the commonwealth. The ONI agent also continues to look for those that pushed for the invasion of the middle east.
The South American countries are almost completely finished with the expansion of the light rail system and all of the Arc reactors that were planned have been completed. Exodus forms plans for each individual country to follow to keep on the trend of improvement. Most countries are set to develop in different ways as a way to further trade with one another.
The process of development for the new members across the world is the same with countries that had joined before them having been given plans for them to follow to help focus on certain aspects of building up their countries.
The C.A.N.A.D.A moon base has finished its design phase and building supplies are being sent to the site.
CSP scientists start to make real progress with their research into gravity. They have already reached the point to start to work on a prototype for an artificial gravity generator.
Doctor Markov's Project BFG has reportedly made great progress after years of work. It is hoped that they will have a working model before the end of the century, himself says that he hopes that the BFGs can be put into active duty as soon as possible.
1984
The conflict in Europe starts to settle, the Scandinavian Nations are the first to completely stand down and request to become part of the commonwealth, many members of the commonwealth are hesitant to allow them to join but after extensive work from the ONI agents that were available in the Scandinavian nations reporting the devastation that was upon them with them being in a great recession and struggling to provide food for their people Prime Minister Gray decides to accept them especially after ONI agents report they were the only members of the European Union that voted against the invasion of the Middle East. Exodus begins doing the same with every country that has joined the commonwealth before and creates a plan to be followed to bring the Scandinavian countries up to the commonwealth standard.
The newly created schools across the lesser developed countries of the commonwealth see their first graduates enter the workforce reliving the dependency on those from other countries to help build up the basic foundations for their countries to prosper.
CSP's first gravity generator is a failure that comes close to doing millions of dollars in damages. Instead of completely scrapping the device C.A.N.A.D.A. steps in and takes it and the plans for the model. Work on the second artificial gravity generator starts.
After many years of having only 10000 members, Exodus decided with the growth of the commonwealth it was finally time to expand the gears. The recruitment is set to twenty thousand new recruits, picking the new recruits from all over the Commonwealth territory. When the new members of the Commonwealth heard of the recruitment they were overjoyed that they were seeing their own people being treated fairly and being given opportunities to be a part of something bigger.
1985
After another year of conflict more European countries start to pull out of the conflict. The countries well pulling out of the conflict started to request admittance to the commonwealth. Prime Minister Gray asks for ONI to check their sincerity and what made them wish to join the commonwealth. The ONI agents that were sent to gather information on the countries wishing to join the commonwealth report that they are all bankrupt, facing a possible famine and that the government leaders that wanted to go to war were ousted and replaced with those that were hoping to end the war. Prime Minister Gray shares this information with parliament before accepting the countries request to join the commonwealth before sending aid to help the people. With the addition of the new countries, Exodus creates a plan to fix the damage that was done in the war and lift them up to the commonwealth standard.
Most of the arc reactors that were being constructed are being finished across the globe. Exodus, seeing the abundance of energy being produced, creates a number of designs and the building of factories for electric vehicles and machines that are planned to replace those that run on fossil fuels.
The building supplies for the C.A.N.A.D.A base have all been sent to the moon and construction begins on the moon base.
The CSP finishes its second gravity generator which unlike the first works perfectly. CSP starts the work on the building of a gravity generator large enough to cover the entire moon settlement before they start sending more settlers to the moon.
C.A.N.A.D.A. begins a research project using the first model of the artificial gravity generator to start looking at the possible military use of gravity based weapons.
The new Gear recruits begin their training. Within the first few months of training those who were recruited start to truly understand the hardships that members of the Gears must experience. It was after these months that more than twenty percent of the recruits dropped out of the training process citing that they could not do what was needed to become a Gear.
1986
The last of those fighting in the European conflict reaches the point of exhaustion and the war ends as the people of these countries turn against those leading them. ONI agents that were in deep cover used this as an opportunity to have these nations start the process of joining the commonwealth, it was fairly easy to do for the ONI agents as they use the great living conditions of those in the commonwealth as propaganda giving the people the hope that they can one day return to that standard of living. After receiving the report from ONI Prime Minister Gray quickly moves with the flow and has the rest of the European nations join the commonwealth, Exodus quickly sends the plans that the nations will follow to reach the level of the other members of the commonwealth.
Exodus and Prime Minister Gray make sure to use what they learned the last time so many people joined the commonwealth well handling the merging of their economies. With the experience of the last time it is handled with ease.
The gravity generator for the moon settlement is completed and The commonwealth starts to send more people. Most of these people are set to be more researchers and work along with their families. It is predicted that over 5000 people will live on the moon by the end of the next year. The planning for the enlargement of the settlement to hold more people well as well mas being self-sufficient begins. The expansion is set to use the creters next to the settlement by covering it with a dome before building inside.
With world peace having been achieved many countries start to scale back their militaries, putting that money into research and improving their people's lives. The Prime Minister starts working on a bill to be passed through parliament that will allow all citizens of the commonwealth to join any branches of the military along with the consolidation of military assets into a central Canadian commonwealth military.
Due to the size of the plans for the C.A.N.A.D.A moon base construction has only reached seven percent. The base is set to use three very close craters with them having been domed for the main buildings of the base, with many smaller building being created after the need arises,
The gravity weapon program finishes the design of one weapon. The wepoean was designed to work as gravity bomb that will rapidly increse the gravity around it and pull anything with in range in to itself compressing every thing that it was able to pull in all into a ball. The duration of the weapon is within a set time that can be progamed before use, the longer the bomb is set to draw thing in the further the reach it has. Those working on this line of weapons have taken to calling them black hole bomb, whenthe comparison was made those working on it started to add as msny fail safes as possible to make sure the weapon never malfuctionss when used.
Dr. Markov requests the use of a dozen miniature arc reactors to be used as power sources for his project. In return for the arc reactors, Dr. Markov is tasked with designing a set of drones for different uses like construction mining and as many uses in the future.
Prime Minister Gray starts a global environment initiative to help clean up the world and to improve the world to a better state than it is. The first major project for the initiative was the concern of the growth of the deserts across the world that have been slowly expanding. To face the growth of the deserts the plan was to shrink the sizes of deserts by carefully expanding forests at their edges along with mixing in massive amounts of manure to help increase the soil enrichment. Many environmental scientists quickly join the project to study the possibilities of the information and the data for future potential use in terraforming efforts of other planets and the fixing of polluted land.
1987
With the working gravity generators, the CSP along with C.A.N.A.D.A. start working on designs of different spaceships and an orbital shipyard for the construction of the ships. It is also the hope that the shipyard can be used for the base of something bigger in the future.
A lucky break by a young university student in Japan creates a device with the ability to scan dozens of meters underground that will return with a strong enough reading of what was underground to tell the location of different material locations and the one that are easily mined. The young woman who achieved this feat is offered a position in C.A.N.A.D.A. along with funding to improve this invention, she readily agrees and joins.
The Gray environmental initiative is well established in the countries with growing deserts received and work on the forests start at the edges of the smaller deserts of the earth using it as a study as well to see if it works on a smaller scale before moving on to the larger deserts.
The moon settlement after a year of having more people living there sees the continued increase of requests to live on the moon, plans for the settlement started to grow to the point where it will be possible for up to a million people will be able to live on the moon as the settlement grows. Plans for other settlements are started with them focused on creating domed centers to be used as the settlements.
The new recruits for the gears finish training making the number of active gears reach 25000 with three quarters of the new recruits making it out of training.
Automail research continues even without the help of Dr. Markov allowing for the time for attachment rehabilitation to reduce further at its longest being six months. Along with even more types of replacements being introduced, many of them for combat situations.
1988
The C.A.N.A.D.A. moon base reaches 20 percent completion. The moon settlement reaches thirty thousand residents from across the globe making a melting pot of cultures. The talk of what the settlement's name should be starts and it is quickly ended when the majority of the people and the government agree to the name Luandra.
With the success of the new Gear recruits and them being from all over the commonwealth Prime MInister Gray puts the mill for the consolidation of military assets into parliament with her allowing all client states to vote on the matter. The bill is passed with 79 percent of the commonwealth members voting in favor. The time given to members to start to move their military assets is ten years. Allowing the commonwealth time for the increase in soldiers and for their merging into one joint military.
The CSP releases the plans for the orbital shipyard that is to be used to create new ships with more advanced technologies, creating a more streamline creation of ships. The shipyard is set to have five drydocks with each of the drydocks is set to be capable of building ships that are up to five hundred meters long. When asked why they were already building it so large the CSP replied that it was more cost effective to create a shipyard that could build multiple ships at the same time, it was also pointed out that unused drydocks will be able to repair ships and to retrofit them when the need arises.
The CSP starts the construction of two hundred drones to be used in the construction of the orbital shipyard. The shipyard are set to be finished as fast as possible when all the materials are ready.
All plans for the construction of arc reactors are completed across the world and the factories set to make electric vehicles and machines to act as replacements for those that run on fossil fuels are also complete and ready to start manufacturing. The hope is that the world will be completely unrelient to fossil fuels by the end of the century.
Prime Minister Gray's environmental initiative is seeing its first report of progress with an estimated one percent reduction in the size of the smaller deserts on earth. Plans to scale up the program are started with all countries with more arid conditions starting to follow the plans of the initiative to improve the quality of their land to increase the production of food and to help the environment.
The young scientist Shion Uzuki continued the research of the deep penetration scanner to finish the second model of the device, which has the ability to scan up to three km underground. With its completion it is quickly set into production and to be placed in satellites to start scanning the earth for the locations of more resources that could be used to help improve the commonwealth without having to do guess work of where these deposits are located and not have to gather them in locations that are less than viable. Plans for placing the scanner on research and science spaceships are set for the future.
1989
With the continued growth of Luandra Prime Minister Gray decides to have the citizens of the settlement elect a minister to take care of its local needs and to act as the voice of the people on the moon. Making the moon the first interplanetary colony to officially be part of the commonwealth and the hopes of the continued growth of it.
Work starts on the orbital shipyard with the construction of drones finished and the materials needed collected.
Over 50 percent of the earth is finished being scanned with the deep earth scanner. The scans show many mineral deposits are found that had not been known, planning is started to mine the deposits with the least amount of environmental damage possible. Exodus after collecting the estimated amounts of mineral deposits on earth based on what was currently available has had it start the planning for the mining of asteroids as a better source of materials that will not damage the earth.
The Gray environment Initiative continues to slowly stop deserts growing and the increase of forests on the planet, as well as massive increase in soil enrichment across the world as more and more commonwealth members see the advantage of healthy soil which helps with food nutrients which improves everyone's health.
Exodus starts to research micro-arc reactors trying to reduce the current size even further with hopes that one can be created at the size of four quarters stacked together compared to the current smallest size of a pop can.
The CSP set their sights on Mars as a new goal to reach after the Orbital shipyard starts to produce ships. Hoping that any coolony that they attempt on Mars is met with the same success as Luandra.
1990
Luandra reaches one hundred thousand people living in the settlement, the plans for other settlements on the moon are finished with a light rail system designed to connect all the settlements including the C.A.N.A.D.A. base to be built as the new settlement are started.
The C.A.N.A.D.A moon base reaches 75 percent finished with more and more researchers being moved to the base to start preparing their laboratories and testing sites as the base is finished.
The CSP reports that the Orbital shipyard is close to 15 percent finished. The CSP and C.A.N.A.D.A. start to organize the priority of ships that will be constructed first after the shipyard is complet. Wishing to get a head start on the understanding and research of the planets of the Sol system before actually sending ships has the SCP start the work on probes that are being designed to get an in depth look at each of the worlds and what they offer in terms of resources.
The Gray environment initiative is seeing reports of success across the world. It is being reported that if the initiative continues as it is, the world will have several new forests by the 2020s that will start to reach great sizes that will be positive to the world. These forests are predicted to not only increase the quality of breathable air but also reduce global warming to a near zero effect as long as the world continues its current path of reducing the use of fossil fuels to zero, along with fixing other polluted places.
continues to work on Project BFG. He reports that he is reaching the end of the project and the possibility of outdoing anything he has ever worked on, it is his wish that the project BFG makes a new standard in the military with their use.
1991
The deep earth scans are finished. Almost all of the results are as expected, the only anomaly was in kenya. Buried under a mass of rock and dirt is something that appeared to be a structure, the odd thing was that the structure seemed to be even more advanced than anything the Commonwealth currently has at this time which lead to a number of interesting theories of what the structure is. When this information was made known to Prime Minister Gray she immediately had her cabinet and Exodus join her in a meeting. After many hours of discussion it is decided to have ONI set up an area of blockade that covers the entirety of the structure to stop any unintended findings posing it as a national park with an environmental research station. Planning for the excavation of a small part of the structure is also started with Exodus and ONI being in charge of it to limit exposure.
The C.A.N.A.D.A moon base Is finished with its own artificial gravity generator in place. A large portion of C.A.N.A.D.A personnel are moved to the base the work on the light rail system connecting the base and luandra is pushed to the highest level of priority possible to allow the C.A.N.A.D.A personnel to move their families to the moon and allow those at the base the ability to have free time that was not in the base.
The orbital shipyard reaches 40 percent after those doing the construction get the hang of building in space with drones. With the station coming ever closer to completion the CSP and C.A.N.A.D.A finalize the list of ships to be built first and those that would be an immediate priority.
The first of the probes are launched into the Sol system to reach their destination to get a start on collecting data of the planets and the moons that they are sent.
finishes the first prototype for project BFG. Prime Minister Gray after seeing the prototype places the project under strict security stating that the project is to be as closely guarded as the Hammer of Dawn before they were deployed. Orders for the project to be moved to the C.A.N.A.D.A moon base are given, shortly after construction of a facility to produce and continue the research on project BFG in the base is started.
Exodus starts the work on project eden as the amount of work he has to do increases, hoping the project to ratify the problem. Exodus's micro-arc reactor project is well underway with great progress.
The Gray environment initiative continues to see progress with most deserts slowly starting to shrink, and the general health of the soil of the earth slowly rising.
1992
With the production of 's BFG C.A.N.A.D.A starts a new branch of soldiers to be those that use the BFG in combat they are given the name G-pilot. The first batch of recruits number just 100 members due to the limited numbers the program will have, the number of G-pilota are expected to grow as the BFG program reaches maturity.
The orbital shipyard reached 90 percent completion with the hope that it would be finished within the first few months of the next year.
Prime Minister Gray starts to move funds from the traditional navy as the orbital shipyard reaches completion. She is followed by the rest of the commonwealth instead of combining navy assets into the commonwealth joint forces like army assets.
The probes that were launched started to rely on information. The best piece of information was the results of the asteroid belt, well it was assumed to be full of materials the actual amount was over six times the estimation that was originally proposed. C.A.N.A.D.A and the CSP have started multiple plans to gather the resources already.
1993
The orbital shipyard is finished and the first of the ships are put into immediate production. Three of the dry docks are set to produce 100 meter long ships that are set to be science vessels to do more in depth research of the planets of the Sol system. The other two dry docks are set to begin the construction of two 500 meter ships that will be immediately put into service by the commonwealth military.
With the world slowly moving into the space age the members of the commonwealth speed up their sending of military assets to the joint forces. Seeing the great response from those part of the commonwealth, Prime Minister Gray realizes that it is time to consolidate the world into one government instead of many client states and starts to prepare a bill that will give each member the right to vote in parliament and the opportunity for any commonwealth citizen to run for office at the cost of being clent states turning them into Canadian provinces.
The Kenya Blacksite is set up as a research station for the Gray environmental initiative. The small-scale excavation of part of the structure begins.
The Gray environment initiative has reached a point where vast parts of deserts are being developed every year. The initiative started to work on other projects like mass recycling and environmentally friendly ways to remove old landfills along with trying to reduce the amount of garbage being made.
Exodus's project Eden is coming along well and is expected to be finished in the next few years and with its completion it expects to massively reduce the amount of processing power it is currently using to handle all of the matters it currently handles.
1994
The first three spaceships are finished and crewed for their respective missions. The first is set with enough supplies for its journey to mars, the mission is to track the time to travel there and back along with percie readings. It is estimated to take two months for the ship to leave and come back compared to the previous estimates with the old ships being 14 months to go to mars and return. The other two ships were prepared for missions to Venus and the asteroid belt respectively to also test travel time and the stability of the ships themselves.
With the completion of the new ships Prime Minister Gray starts to move the assets of the CSP and the Navy. Combining what can be and removing anything that is over redundant. With taking these steps the outline for the future of the space program and the Navy starts to take shape. She also sees to the decommission of seventy percent of the ships in the commonwealth navy especially those that are well aged and passed their prime.
The excavation of the structure is slowly progressing due to the fact that the team working on it needs to make sure that it is stable and will not collapse in a way which may result in damage to the structure.
Project Eden makes real headway and Exodus starts the preparation of showing the project to Prime Minister Gray. Exodus also completes the micro-arc reactors, well they currently have no use they have the potential for many great things.
Prime Minister Gray pushes the bill she had been working on to consolidate all the nations in the world to become part of Canada. When it is first revealed many of the newest members are those that try to speak out about it, this is met in oppation by those that had been members for years and saw the work the commonwealth had done to help and support them when they first joined. It took six month of debate before the bill was voted on and the number of those that voted in favor for it shocked those that voted against it with those in favor numbering 93 percent.
As the probes launched years beforehand continue to reach their destinations and relay more data back to the Commonwealth. Not many things in the data are beyond what scientists have been able to understand with the use of deep space telescopes. The only anomaly with the current data is for Pluto's moon Charon.
1995
With the consolidation bill passed those in the process of moving their military assets to the joint force pick up speed and the joint military is expected to finish its consolidation of assets by the end of the year. Parliament has open meetings allowing all new provinces to experience more of the standard to really feel what it is like for other provinces when a matter is up for consideration in parliament which is vastly different then the two votes that they were allowed to participate in, still being client-states.
With the completion of the two 500 meter spaceships, almost all commonwealth Navy assets are being decommissioned at a very fast rate. It was only increased after the two ships were able to land on earth with the use of the artificial gravity generator being used to allow it to enter and leave the earth with ease.
The three science ships had also finished their missions report the results of the data that they were able to collect and their travel the resusults in it set off the planing of both colonizing maare and the mining of the asteroid belt.
The excavation of the Kenya black site has reached the structure and work on clearing out a large enough area to properly study the structure is needed.
Work on five 100 meter ships that are being constructed for military use.
The Gray environment initiative makes great progress with the expansion into improving recycling and the removal of landfills and proper waste disposal across the world.
Exodus declares that Project Eden is finished and proceeds to reveal four new artificial intelligences. Each one was given a different purpose: one was made to assist the commonwealth with government work to make it more efficient. Another was made to assist C.A.N.A.D.A. with research and to keep track of its resources and their uses. The third was made for the express use by ONI to sort the vast amount of information and keep track of anything that could pose a threat to the commonwealth. The last of the AIs was designed to assist with what was slowly becoming the Canadian Commonwealth Space Command and Canadian Commonwealth Joint Armed Froces.
1996
The consolidation of the economy is finished. Every member of the commonwealth has started to pay the same taxes. With all of the money going into the further improvement of the commonwealth.
The Commonwealth also see the completion of the moving of military assets into the Canadian Commonwealth Joint Armed Forces aka CCJAF. With joint training happening all over the world as all soldiers of the CCJAF get accumulated to the new command structure . It also saw the end of almost all naval forces being decommissioned with only small remnants of the best and news ships to patrol the oceans. The resources of these navies are now being put into the Canadian Commonwealth Space Command also known as the CCSC. The CCSC is set to protect and assist in the colonization of the galaxy. The creation of the CCSC also saw the dissolution of the CSP and all other space programs joining together to make sure there was no waste of resources.
The moon sees its second settlement started with 1000 residents within a domed creator half the size of the one used in Luandra. Plans for more settlements are already prepared and work on their domes are started.
The CCSNC along with C.A.N.A.D.A. start the building of a factory to build space shuttles that are no larger than ten meters for transportation to the earth or other ships. They also start working out the classification of ships based on size.
With the addition of the new AIs being in service, Exodus is given the time to focus a vast amount of its processing power into studying the Kenya structure. So far Exodus's studying of the structure has resulted in then gaining a massive amount of information about it. The data that Exodus was able to retrieve dated the structure to be at least ninety thousand years old, a more precise age than that was difficult to authenticate due to the many years also become obvious that it was created by an alien race. Exodus also has all available deep-earth scanners to focus on this part of the world.
When Exodus's findings are given to Prime Minister Gray she decides to hold back the release of the confirmation of alien life and the structure until they have a more concrete understanding of both.
The first five 100 meter ships built for military use are finished joining the two 500 class ships that had already been in service. So far their orders are to patrol around the earth to get more experience. On earth, a great deal of people had already started to sign up with the CCSC for the chance to work in space and to serve the Commonwealth in expanding its reach.
Prime Minister Gray after seeing the overwhelming number of people all over the commonwealth sign up to serve in the CCSC commission's the first Canadian Commonwealth fleet. The 1st fleet is set to have three 500 meter ships and ten 100 meter ships for now, any expansion of the fleet will be after the commonwealth expands further. Work on the last five 100-meter ships for the first fleet begins immediately.
With the data from the three science ships having been processed plans have been made with the possibility of making those worlds habitable for humans. The science ships have also been sent off to more planets in the Sol system that also show signs that it may be possible for humans to live on them.
passes away. Leaving dozens of books dedicated to the future of the BFG project and other ideas that he had, they are set to become part of the C.A.N.A.D.A research library for those in the future to work on and give inspiration. His passing is met with great respect from those that knew of him and his work in the field of robotics.
1997
With the use of the deep earth scanners focusing on the area around the structure in Kenya a secondary structure was found under mount Kilimanjaro. A team was sent immediately to properly excavate the way to where the scans indicate the entrance to be located and to set up for the study of it.
The work at the research site at the structure continues as before even with the news of a new point of interest. So far it has been determined that the structure was created using a super dense material, a few small samples were taken to avoid compromising the structure and its possible uses. With the samples, it is hopeful that C.A.N.A.D.A. can figure out how to replicate the material.
CCSC and C.A.N.A.D.A finalize the classification of ships by size, this is mainly to determine call signs when battling ships of enemies. Ships 50 meters and smaller will be considered shuttles/drop ships and fighters depending on the purpose that they were made. The next ship class is Corvette, this class of ships are in the size range of 100-200 meters, well many ships of this size will have various uses it has been decided that all ships will be organized into the classes. The third class of ships is a destroyer, the ships in this class will range between 350-750 meters. The ships in the fourth class will be formally be classed as frigates, the frigate ship class will be in the range of 1000-1500 meters. It was also released that the frigate class ships would be the last ships to be available for use in the civilian sectors unless the ship was made for the express service of the Commonwealth. The fifth class ships will be known as battlecruisers, these ships will have a size range of 2000-3500 meter long. The sixth class of ships was created with the thought of being used to transport smaller ships. The carrier class of ships are set to range between 2000 meters and 8000 meters, and it is possible for ships larger then the carrier-class to hold smaller ships. It has decided to classify the ships of this size that were not strictly used to carry other ships as capital ships. Ships in the capital ship class will range in the sizes between 5000-10000 meters. The last classification of ships was only added after a rather heated argument between members of the CCSC and C.A.N.A.D.A. With the members of the CCSC saying that it would be almost impossible for ships of the classification to be in use, the argument was settled after having the new AI of the CCSC do some calculations on the possibility when the AI agreed that there was a chance for the ships to exist when the eighth classification was added. The Dreadnought class of ship will be any ship that is in the size range of 10000-35000 meters, it was theorized that ships bigger than that could be possible so the size of Dreadnoughts were set to be subject to change in the future if need be.
The completion of the five corvette class ships sees them join the first fleet. Work on the last destroyer begins alongside four ships of the destroyer size being constructed for use in mining the asteroid belt.
The Gray environment initiative with all its work has seen the reduction and recycling of three percent of current landfills.
A request is made by many in the government for more AI to be in use in each of the departments to even further increase the speed and the efficiency of the government. After receiving the request Exodus starts the production of more AIs, but with a caveat that Exodus would be creating AIs to be created to do specific jobs that will not be able to learn beyond what they are made for. Exodus starts work on three lines of AIs. The first line is made for Administrative work, to be used in offices for the handling of massive amounts of paperwork and processing tasks that fit the department that they are created for. The second line of AIs is being designed for research and predictive analysis, they would be working in labs and with scientists to help speed up the work on large projects. The Last of the three lines are being designed for use on spaceships and military uses. On ships, they will help reduce the work of those on the ships and help when the ship is in combat. The military uses of these AIs will range from collecting information to helping the soldiers that they have been assigned to find a new route to their objectives if it is blocked, really it will do its utmost to assist with anything that it can to keep those that they are assigned to alive and to complete the mission.
Joseph Collins, a 17-year-old boy who was admitted into MIT at the tender age of 15 releases his thesis project. The project about the future importance of space elevators to move material from the ground to ships without the need for massive use of shuttles or actually landing ships on the ground gains traction with the CCSC and C.A.N.A.D.A. who both offer to recruit him. Collins joins C.A.N.A.D.A. after he gains a better understanding of their reach and the importance of some of their projects. After joining C.A.N.A.D.A. with their immense resources he immediately started work on designs for a space elevator.
1998
The research of the structure comes to a standstill with Exodus and those studying the site do not want to comprise the structure and its potential uses. It is this fact that sees their focus shift to the site under mount Kilimanjaro which after careful review of the scans observation of the site itself shows the possibility of it being a vault of some kind. Work on opening the vault begins.
After a full year of active duty, the corvette class ships start to garner a new name by the CCSC crews of the ships the same has happened with the destroyer class ships. The crews of the corvettes have taken to calling them Raptors due to the current orders to have them work together to attack targets when in a training simulator. CCSC high command agreed to the name and issued the raptor to be the official name of the ships of the corvette class in the CCSC. The two destroyers in service have started to take on the name of Tritops due to the three HODs built into the ships as their main weapons.
The construction of the five destroyer ships is finished. The Tritops entered service with the rest of the 1st fleet. The four mining ships are equipped with a number of drones before being set to gather resources for the asteroid belt high plains are expected with the travel time taking three months in total to travel there and back.
The moon settlements continue to grow with Luandra having over 200000 people living in the settlement. Well, the second settlement has a little under 20000 people inhabiting it three other moon settlements have their creators domed and have each had 5000 people moved into them as first residents.
With the mass amount of information of the planets of the Sol system, plans that were at first just dreams of the impossible start to come together with five ships of the destroyer size being built to be used as colony ships. Each ship is set to carry 500 people and the supplies that they would need to survive for a year after they land before they require to receive support from the earth, the ships were also designed to be able to be broken down and used in the construction of the colony. The current plan is for the current fleet to tritops ship to go to mars fire a few rounds of its HODs to melt its ice caps to increase the viability of the planet to support human life. If after the two years time it takes to construct the ships that will be used as colony ships and Mars is showing the right improvements the fiver colony ships will start their journey to start the first colonization of a planet with a true distance from earth.
The Gray environment initiative continues its efforts to cut through any and all landfills it can, it also starts to fund the research for aquatic drones to clean up the oceans.
The BFG programs first round of recruits finished training with only 30 of them graduating. Plans for the deployment of the BFG program are suspended until such time that they are needed, the program will continue to grow and improve for as long as they are unneeded.
1999
Work on the vault under mount Kilimanjaro comes to a halt after a few attempts to open it were made. It was the fear of possibly having whatever is in the vault destroyed that stopped the work to open the vault. The only attempts on opening the vault's entrance going forward will be made after every precaution is made to not do any damage to the things inside.
All members of the CCSC continue training in simulations of any possible scenario that they can think of. C.A.N.A.D.A starts research for further improvements for the ships primarily focusing on weapons and the possibility of shielding at the current time.
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With this being her Last year in office and an active election going on Prime Minister Gray publicly announced that she would not be running again and that she would choose someone out of the candidates to support and endorse to become the next Prime Minister should she like any of those running.
25-year-old Harvard graduate Australian-born Justine Anderson joins the election. She quickly became the topic of the news with her being the only person that was born outside of Canada to enter her own bid into the election to become the Prime Minister of the commonwealth. When asked why she chose to run she answered that she just wanted the people to know that even if they were not born in Canada that they still had the chance to become a leading figures in the commonwealth. Prime Minister Gray backs Miss Anderson which quickly shoots her to the top of the runnings. When the time for the vote came it took a week to count all of the votes from everywhere in the world. Justine Anderson won with 65 percent of the vote taking the house majority.
Like the Prime Minister before her, Gray introduced her successor to Exodus before explaining its role in the government and how it was and still is fundamental to the commonwealth.
Prime Minister Anderson's first move in office was to announce plans for the expansion of the Commonwealth to other worlds within her twenty years in office. She also expressed her wish to continue the Gray environment initiative to help protect the earth for future generations
Landfills continue to shrink and recycling continues to become more streamlined reducing the time it takes. The prototypes for aquatic drones are being tested and those working on them hopeing that they will be in working order within the next year.
C.A.N.A.D.A using the samples from the structure gain a small understanding of the super-dense material it was made out of which has rapidly sped up the research of several projects including the space elevators.
2000
It took much less time than originally thought o happen but with the years since the tritops melting part of mars, ice caps did the planet already start showing signs that it would be livable for the most part for humans within the year. The five colony ships are underway in being prepared for their journey, this will also serve as a practice run for the 1st fleet that will be escorting the ships to mars.
The world population has reached 7 billion people and even with this number of people all around the globe are able to live in homes with food and the ability to do anything in their lives.
The moon sees its settlements grow with Luandra reaching ever closer to one million people and the second settlement reaching two hundred thousand and the others each reaching ten thousand.
Attempts on the opening of the Mount Kilimanjaro vault will all be halted except for Exodus who will be continuing its study of the doors programming to gain more understanding of those that left the vault and the structure.
A breakthrough in regards to the super dense material and the attempts to recreate it has resulted in the creation of carbon nanofibers that have both the strength and ability to handle being used in the creation of a space elevator. Prime Minister Anderson upon hearing the good news gives leave to go about building one that will be located in Canada with others to be built after the first is successful.
The Gray environment initiative with its years of work has achieved a reduction in the size of landfills across the earth. The drone that was made to clean the ocean has finally started to work, already places that are notorious for high levels of pollution in water are seeing improvements which will only keep getting better.
Prime Minister Anderson after a year in office requested C.A.N.A.D.A. to design defence platforms to orbit around the earth and any future colonies. Her reason was rather simple but also meaningful, with it being known that aliens are out there it is safer to be ready in the event that we make contact with a hostile species. Work on designs for the platforms begins immediately.
