Attempt number two at a story. Hopefully this will go better. I don't own Mass Effect. Please review.
2021 WWIII breaks out between Russia, China, the United States, and India it last for seven years. It kills nearly a billion people. China looses and is divided among the three victorious nations. Tibet and Hong Kong are given independence, Mongolia is united, Russia gets Manchuria, and Korea is reunited.
2042 First Human base is built on Mars
2050 Terra forming begins on Mars. Other locations are explored as well, such as Venus and the moon Titan.
2074 Mars is marginally habitable; the first true colonists begin to establish permanent settlements. Population of Earth reaches ten billion.
2080 Terra forming of Venus begins, progress is slow.
2100 Population of Mars reaches one million. An outpost is established on Titan.
2140 The space station Jump Zero is established to test FTL technology. The terra forming of Venus is completed and millions of people begin to settle. Population of Mars reaches one Billion.
2148 A survey team, investigating Mars' mysterious southern pole discovers the ruins of an ancient civilization. After analyzing the ruins, Humanity discovers mass effect physics and true FTL. It also leads them to the Charon relay in orbit around Pluto. The discovery of mass effect technology leads to the greatest boom in human history. Cheap space travel allows for the creation of interstellar empires and the greatest nations of Earth race to stake their claims in the stars. The smaller nations expand out into the solar system, taking over Mars and Venus. Now with room to grow, the human population almost quadruples over the next two decades. China experiences resurgence in power.
2177 The nations of Earth have spread across dozens of planet, reaching a total population of about twenty seven billion. China founds a colony on the planet Shanix. Russian and the United States lease land there to build bases to facilitate exploration into the nearby systems.
2189 A Turian patrol fleet attacks a Chinese fleet attempting to activate Relay 314. The First Contact War begins.
2190 The Turians quickly push past Shanix and attack other human colonies. They are only repelled when their supply of food is threatened by Human raiders. This gives Humanity time to supply their forces on Shanix and fortify their sided of the relay leading into human space. The war turns into a stalemate that last for seven years.
2195 a slave revolt in the Batarian Hegemony destabilizes the galactic economy forcing the Council to acknowledge the human nations as sovereign states.
2196-a peace treaty is agreed upon by both the Human nations and the Council. Turians are forced to pay hefty war reparations for technically starting the conflict, while the Humans are forbidden from (publicly) activating more mass relays. In addition, they are forced to agree to the terms of all Council treaties regarding weapons and war. John Shepard is born
2198- Humans discover the Vorcha and see their potential as workers and soldiers. The first Vorcha raised from birth by humans begins work on a remote mining station in the Terminus. Within three years, the Vorcha labor population of Human space reaches one billion. The Vorcha form an underclass, not treated poorly by humans, but, due to their short life span, they receive limited respect. The militaries of various human nations also take advantage of the Vorcha, using them as cannon fodder in their frequent wars with various Terminus factions.
Also during this year, the Batarian Hegemony restructures itself after the slave rebellions. But rather that abolish slaver, it is changed into a radically different system. With much of the former aristocracy killed in the revolts, a new upper class is formed from the business interests of the Hegemony. This new elite, shun the gaudy shows of wealth that were common in the old Hegemony, instead preferring to show their power and wealth with the sear quantity of their holdings. In addition, a new middle class of slave holders is created, those who own between ten and one hundred slaves. This middle class becomes the driving force in a new cottage industry that sprung up in the wake of the destruction of the Hegemony's industrial base. Finally, the government established a new almost communistic system in which they took ownership of almost half of the Hegemonies slave population. These slaves are given more freedom when compared to the average slave, but are bound to the land and government their area in a form of serfdom. These slaves produce almost everything that the state needs, from weapon s to food, effectively making the government independent of the economy, making the government independent of the economy.
2199-the Nations states of Earth are quick to form political connections with the new Bataian government. Because both of them are galactic pariah, they agree to stand together against any future Council aggression, a very real threat as the galactic economy rebounded. At the end of the year, they sign a mutual defense pact, making an attack on one of them an attack on both of them.
2201-Using the defense pact as a base the Batarians and Humans for the UIR, or Union of Independent Races. They form this union in response to the growing economic and military power of the Council, to balance the council out with their own official galactic government. They form a central government, made up of a congress and a Premier. It is given six solar systems that are roughly in-between the Hegemony and Human space. They contain three habitable planets. Two levo-amino acid base worlds and one dextro-amino acid based world. They are given sovereignty over these worlds. Their powers over member states however are different. The only influence that they can enforce on a member state is the requirement of the tithe of their resources and military units. And member states cannot attack an outside power without the consent of the UIR Congress and Premier. Beyond that the UIR only serves as a unified military for all member factions. They symbol chosen for this new government is a lightning bolt in a circle with horizontal lines extending for the sides. Underneath, were stars representing each of the member races. Representation is based on faction, not necessarily race, with every Human nation having at least one seat in congress. Representation is based on population, divided into units of one representative for half a million population, with states smaller that that given one representative.
2210-the Migrant Fleet is given full membership into the UIR. The deal that allowed this had two parts. First, the Migrant Fleet had to establish a permanent deep space shipyard, and produce ships for the UIR. Second, the UIR had to reclaim Rannoch, at an unspecified date. In addition, the Quarians received all of the protections of a UIR member.
2215-the War of Secession begins between the Systems Alliance and UIR backed nations of Earth. They Systems Alliance were formed by the Chinese in an attempt to create a unified Human government. Allied with them were a number of border colonies, many of which were independent of Earth based nations. The UIR proceeded to put down the rebellion, pouring millions of soldier into the theatre. The UIR forces were ruthless in their attack on what they perceived as traitors, burning whole cities to the ground in a savage blitz across the rebelling territory. Many historians later compared it to Sherman's famous march to the sea in the American Civil War. It was during this blitz that John Shepard's parents were killed in an attack on his home city. He had been serving with Systems Alliance military at the time. The system's alliance was saved however, by the Council, first with aid, and then with a treat against the UIR that further aggression would lead to full scale galactic war. Knowing that they weren't yet strong enough to defeat the resurgent Council military, the UIR allowed the Systems Alliance to leave the Union.
2217-War of Secession ends. It is later records as the War for the Future in Alliance histories because they theoretically rebelled in order to escape the backward UIR and enter the more advanced Council. Shepard enters the newly formed N7 program.
2225-Shepard becomes the first human Specter
