The Star Union
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Now that that's out of the way, without further ado…I give you….
The Star Union.
Without further I ado, I give you the Chapter Idea.
Note for mass effect timeline: wiki/Timeline#Council_Era_-_Expansion_.28900_CE_-_2157_CE.29
Date: 2015/ 03. In the early beginning of the year 2015 Earth is invaded by an unknown extra-terrestrial foe. Their demands are silent, only death and terror appears to be their goal.
In response, the great nations of the earth came together to fight off this dangerous and advance enemy.
X-Com is formed.
Humanity's only hope against the ruthless alien invaders.
Main base deployed in the UK.
A commander is picked from the united nation's rooster.
First name: [REDACTED]
Family name: [REDACTED]
Alias: [REDACTED]
Nationality: [REDACTED]
Age: [REDACTED]
Codename: Commander.
Position: Commander and chief of X-com.
Date: 2015/03/21. Xcom's first mission into Berlin Germany. Skyranger deployed a team of four, mission successful but heavy casualties in first contact with newly identified Sectoids.
Scientist teams under Dr Moira Vahlen is tasked with autopsying the Alien cadavers and recovered pieces of technology.
Date:2015/ 04/ 05. Xcom is deployed in response to alien presences in Paris France. Discovery of an unknown alien material aside from Elerium, designated Meld is recovered. Tactics adapted to the alien menace proved successful in defeating the second contact with the aliens.
Date 2015/ 04/ 14. X-com discovers the potential of Meld. Nano-machines capable of rewriting the human genome, altering the human body by incorporating certain aspects of the alien's own biological traits.
Or using them to assemble Mechanical structures along with specially designed Cyber suits at the cost of the human body for a strong battle field exoskeleton.
Date: 2015/04/24. Contact with new alien variant, named Thin men are met in another alien attack in a harbour port of Venice Italy.
X-com now knows that they are not facing one enemy but a variety of aliens yet to come as test's conducted on Thin men corpses reveal no relations to the first alien species.
X-com's autopsy results to the new aliens have given the other nations information to watch out for the new infiltration unit the invaders have designed.
Date 2015/05/03. Spirits are high as interceptors were deployed to neutralise enemy craft in range of satellites over the US. Interceptor 1 engaged and disabled enemy space craft. Skyranger was deployed to the crash zone, encounter with enemy forces was minimal but contact with a new alien designated Outsider was discovered.
Corpse was beyond recovery.
All hostiles were neutralised and space craft was recovered for salvage and insight into the enemy's motives.
Plans were made by Dr. Vahlen and Dr Raymond Shen to capture a live alien for interrogation.
Project Arc Thrower is deemed priority one by X-com chain of command.
Engineers began work on the Arc Thrower.
Date: 2015/05/22. Successful use of the arc thrower. Xcom strike team sent to America to counter alien abductions. A tense fire fight between Xcom commandos and alien contacts, but no casualties during the strike.
Successful capture of a lone sectoid, and later interrogation led to a greater understanding of their foe through blurred images of the captive's extracted memories.
Afterwards, plans were made to capture a live Outsider.
Date: 2015/06/ 15. Alien invader's response to X-com's counter attacks is retaliation. Terror attack begin in New York City, Xcom is quick to respond in sending a 6 man team of trained operatives to terror zone.
New alien entity is encountered in the warzone.
The alien horror designated Chryssalids changed the war, Xcom fought a vicious battle against the tenacious enemies set upon them and civilians alike as this new foe sought only to kill and replicate its numbers by imbuing its embryos into freshly killed victims.
Reanimating dead civilians and soldiers alike into zombies, and later hatching them into new Chryssalids.
On top of that another alien made an appearance on in the battle.
A nightmarish horror of mechanical parts fused crudely into a being whose torso is comprised of heavy components with the main being twin mounted black jets on its back that allows them to fly over the land.
The advantages this flying foe has been quickly exploited due to their poor accuracy they demonstrated as well as their predicable flanking manoeuvres.
In the end, X-com came out triumphant in this cowardly attack by the aliens.
Flesh wounds but no casualties and loss of civilians was low then predicted estimates by the strike team.
The world was reminded that their protectors were ever there for them. Hitting these invaders harder than they were hitting earth.
Greater support for X-com came from the nations and countries around the world.
Date:2015/ 06/ 27. All was quiet from the invaders until satellites picked up a UFO on their scanners.
Interceptors were dispatched and neutralised the alien scout ship.
Xcom commandos were deployed to the crash site in Texas, new alien contacts upon approach to the crashed ship.
Designated seekers as the flying squid like robotic units cloaked themselves upon their presence to the X-com commandos.
Defensive tactics were taken against this invisible new foe, but no casualties were taken as all were eliminated upon trying to attack the squad.
Outsider was successfully captured as it reverted to a crystalline like form upon being attacked by the arc thrower.
All debris and alien corpses, and equipment were salvaged from the battle.
Date: 2015/07/15. Xcom responds to a convoy hit in Washington DC.
Xcom commandos are dispatched to investigate.
Thin men are encountered on sight yet the damage and destruction on the buildings and APC's do not match previous battle scares of and blast residue used by Alien weaponry. Other bodies not belonging to the attacked convoy was discovered amongst the ruins and damaged buildings in the area.
One survivor was discovered and taken back to X-com HQ for questioning.
Alien attackers were neutralised as they came.
Date 2015/ 08/ 01. Discovery of a Paramilitary organisation similar to X-com was made.
The organisation known as EXALT do not share the same views on defending Humanity against the alien menace.
EXALT's true purpose was to use the chaos generated by the invaders to undermine the governments of the world with their ultimate goal to establishing a sole world government under their control.
XCOMS Covert war with EXALT begun!
Date: 2015/08/20. Operative recovered with vital data about Exalt, narrows down the list of countries harbouring the rogue agency.
Expansions made to Xcom HQ have doubled in size.
Date:2015/ 09/ 05. Xcom discovers Alien base in the Grand Canyon.
X-com commandos are sent in, eliminating the base's defenders with new alien shock troopers being discovered along with strange alien equipment and the bodies of missing people being processed.
The commandos continued their assault, not a man killed.
But they faced a truly unknown element in the final level of the base.
A sectoid commander, capable of extraordinary psionic powers not seen since the first alien contact Xcom went against as this sectoid variant of the lesser breeds the commandos fought against was capable of great mind control.
Thankfully however, no damage or injury was done before the sectoid could initiate any damaged with the controlled team member as it was quickly neutralised and the squad member was back to normal.
With their base eliminated, X-com destroyed their operations for a long period to focus on other threats while the aliens were in disarray.
Much technology and equipment were salvage including a unique beacon that was recovered.
Date:2015/ 11/01. Project firestorm has begun. The first experimental alien fighter X-com constructed. Faster than the standard jet fighters X-com commissions for their bases, along with replaced laser guns then missiles that gives it a longer distance attack then going straight up to any enemy craft.
Research into the hyper wave beacon has yielded results that the alien device is in fact a transmitter or radio to whatever the sectoid commander was communicating to.
X-com begins development into building a hyper wave relay to track where this transmission is going to.
Alien attacks are minimal for the moment but Mutons have been seen alongside floaters and seekers on the field.
Exalt continues to disrupt X-coms efforts to fighting the alien menace.
X-com responds in delaying Exalts operations and their hold over counties, while at the same time gathering evidence and narrowing down their location.
Date: 2015/11/10. X-com extracts and recruits former Triad Operative Zhang after he reached out to X-com contacts about being in possession of alien technology.
X-com sends in its commando's to meet with Zhang in china, upon making contact with the ex-triad, X-com is set upon by aliens looking to re-acquire the stolen device.
Zhang is safety extracted and is recruited into X-coms ranks.
Date: 2015/ 11/ 20. The device recovered by Zhang is discovered to be a transponder to an alien battleship that is approaching earth's orbit.
X-com once again travels to china to lure the battleship away from the city using modified transponders to direct it away from the heavily populated city.
Resistance is met by alien forces trying to disrupt the team's actions but X-com proves successful in the operation and the alien battleship is directed out of city limits.
Date 2015/11/22. X-com boards the hacked battleship hovering over the land, the strike team is successful in eliminating the entire crew of the ship and recovering everything they can get their hands on.
Date 2015/12/01. X-com suffers retaliation from the alien menace.
A series of sabotages throughout the base by mind controlled x-com engineers, scientists and personal leaves the base venerable to attack.
X-com fights furiously against the alien attacks who continuously assault their delta check point. The defenders remained undaunted in their duty to prevent the alien hostiles from getting any further past them and secured the vital check point with no casualties suffered.
All mind controlled personnel reverted back to normal with no memories of the attack or their actions in temporarily opening themselves up to the assault.
No further retaliation attacks were committed against X-com HQ's.
Date 2015/12/09. Xcom responds to destress calls in Canada after responders on sight went dark in a cannery wharf.
Xcom team sent in discovers that it is a breeding ground for Chryssalids who are using the fished out carcasses of large marine life such as sharks, and sword fish as incubation hosts. With the main source of the Chryssalid infestation being the rotting carcass of a humpback whale aboard the HMS Holborn.
Chryssalid infestation was beyond conventional means of elimination. It was decided to bomb the contaminated zone in napalm.
Xcom strike team hastily retreated back to the Skyranger while being hunted by the Chryssalids, all were accounted for before contamination zone was bombarded by aerial strikes, leaving nothing left but scorched earth.
Actions were taken to prevent similar infestations in the near future.
Date 2016/01/01. Constructions on the Hyper wave relay were successful.
The alien artefact integrated into X-com's satellite systems revealed the presence of a cloaked vessel over the earth in its atmosphere.
Firestorms were deployed after the target and with precision targeting, the space craft was disabled and made a crash landing deep in the Russian wilderness.
Skyranger set off with 6 Xcom operatives to the site.
Heavy resistance of elite Mutons protecting a new alien menace which displayed unparalleled Pisonic power.
Only three returned after much fighting against this foe now named Ethereal, soon to be named Elders.
Date 2016/02/01. Xcom dispatched to the Amsterdam Dam after reports of alien activity and gun fire.
The crucial necessity of the operatives was peril as the dam was close to breaking, threatening to burst and flood the nearby towns and community centres.
Xcom faced heavy alien resistance with the first time contact with mechanised Sectoids named Mechtoids which is similar in construct to X-com's Mechanised trooper.
Despite the incursion of aliens dropping in with Mutons, Sectoids and thin men, Xcom proved victorious in stabilising the Dam.
Upon reaching the other end of the dam, they encountered an intact heavily armed truck with dead Exalt surrounding it.
Upon opening the back, they discovered a young woman in her early twenty who demonstrated untrained Psionic potential and expressed that there were others like her being taken by the aliens.
Date 2016/02/05. X-com using the statement given by the woman, codename Progeny. They discover the where about of the captured human psionic and launch a daring rescue at the aliens battleship.
All hostile were eliminated and the captive human prisoners were saved and relocated to an unspecified location.
Date: 2016/02/21. Exalt presence discovered in southern America Brazil.
Xcom, after years of fighting a covert war with their bitter rivals, narrowed down the countries affiliated with Exalt and discover their base of operations in Brazil.
After presenting shocking and unmissable evidence, the Brazilian government caves in and allows X-com into their country.
The Exalt base of operations was assaulted.
The exalt defenders fought to the last man, putting up heavy resistance but in the end, X-com triumphed.
Intel and resources from the Exalt base was taken, and information on remaining cells, backers and government members were given to the UN and corresponding government agencies.
So ended the X-com and Exalt covert war.
Date: 2016/03/ 02. X-com begins its Psionic soldier project.
Using the retrieved psionic artefacts and researched gathered from the aliens, Xcom begins it psy-ops program.
Volunteers and selected individuals of the organisation are tested for any trace of Pisonic potential.
Only a handful amongst the elite squads and base personnel are discovered with dormant Psionic abilities.
Training begins for the chosen psionic recruits.
Date:2016/03/25. X-com begins construction on a Psi-chamber.
The alien artefact recovered from the ethereal ship is the catalyst and base for this new psionically powerful project.
The Gallop chamber is designated a top priority after the alien's Temple ship appeared right over the Atlantic Ocean.
Date:2016/04/10. Alien attacks increase.
X-coms efforts against the alien invaders have the enemy attacking more aggressively than ever.
The world is put on high alert against the alien's attacks.
Yet X-com continues its valorous fight against the alien menace.
Date: 2016/04/24. Operation Avenger.
X-coms strikes a deceive blow against the aliens.
The Gollap Chamber gives X-com the key to entering the Alien's capital ship. The chosen psionic accompanies the strike team into the heart of the Alien's ship.
There they fought heroically with one sacrificing himself to prevent the Ethereals final effort to destroying all of humanity by triggering a psionic self-destruct that would've created a black hole directly within Earths Stratosphere.
The sacrifice of the lone X-com operative and all others like him will not be forgotten, as he gave himself to taking the ship beyond the exosphere and containing the blast so that the ship exploded instead.
It was a victory for humanity.
For what seemed to be a dire time, the nations of the world came together to repel a greater enemy then they could ever conceive of.
Their sword and shield that defended them even when the odds were against them.
Yet despite all of that, the first war against the enemies of the earth was won.
And so the first X-com war came to close with the organisation continuing its efforts in hunting down remnants of the invaders still on earth.
But it would not be the last that humanity will see of the aliens and their Ethereal masters.
For their foe will come back and X-com's will face a greater challenge.
Date:2018. Xcom experiments with new Psionic limitations.
With the technology reverse engineered and adapted to their needs, Xcom shares much of the new upgraded equipment with the nations of the worlds, manly those that aren't deemed dangerous and are more beneficial and passive.
With the psi-labs, Xcom begins to train and adapt the potential of Psionic energy within everyone.
The commander himself becoming a candidate and Psi-adapt after tests shows that he has hidden psionic potential. He undergoes the training and the experimental techniques that enhanced his natural abilities beyond recorded human capability.
Date:2025. For Nearly Ten long years humanity had been at peace and lax after the first x-com war.
Yet in their time of weakness the aliens came again, but this time under a false flag of peace.
The Ethereals reached out to the politicians and Government leaders, offering peace and their technology.
X-com was taken by surprised and could not react to the presence of the aliens as they attack their main base without warning.
Their commander captured and many key x-com personnel scattered in defeat.
Retreating to hidden sites around the world in hopes of rallying support against the alien menace.
Yet the aliens adopted a cunning approached that all but severed X-coms ties to the nations.
Sectoid hybrids were deployed before their main approach, taking over the minds of the nation's leaders and turning the once great heroes of the earth into pariahs.
The governments of the world began to fall as a new world government took its place.
ADVENT. The puppet government to the aliens began to systematically hunt down and destroy any resistance to their control, as well as X-com members.
All military resistance and governmental resistance cease to exist as nations of the world were now under the direct control of Advent.
Yet behind the glamourous look and greater life the aliens promised to humanity, the ugly truth is that the aliens have sinister intentions for humanity.
The gene clinics they sponsored to cure all forms of ailments and dieses are in fact a front for the alien's true intentions of weeding out humans with selective chromosomes and DNA for the Elders Avatar project.
Yet hope remained as X-com never gave up.
One key member of the original X-com team led a resistance against the aliens.
Central officer John Bradford rallied what of the old x-com and the new and began the 2nd emergence of X-com.
Date:2025/04/27. X-com returns.
Due to advent propaganda x-com is seen as a rogue terrorist organisation and a band of renegades.
Carrying out guerrilla and terror attacks on advent control areas, X-com sets out to uncover the whereabouts of their greatest mind and soldier from Advents clutches.
After months and years of insurgent warfare, x-com finally learns the location of their missing Commander hidden deep within the metropolises mega city's under heavy advent control.
Led by Central officer Bradford, X-com makes a daring attack into one of Advents Gene-clinics.
Despite the superior and yet familiar tactics employed by the Advent soldiers, x-com succeeds in retrieving their captured commander after suffering heavy losses of the team sent in to rescue him.
With their commander back, X-com returns to being the greatest threat to the aliens' plans.
With their new mobile command centre being that of a hijacked Alien supply ship named the Avenger, X-com establishes contact with local resistance cells outside the city limits.
The second X-com war begins.
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Date:2025/05/03. X-com re-establishes contact with the Spokesmen. The mysterious council member of the former joint nation's council with X-com.
X-com is informed of Advents secret project. Codenamed Avatar.
X-coms goal is clear in the disrupting and destruction of Project Avatar.
Contact with the region of Africa is set with all resistance cells supporting x-com in their war against the elders.
Date 2025/06/12. X-com hits advent convoys, disrupting supply flow for advent to major city centres.
Advent increases its attention to key control points leading in and out of the city.
Scientists and Advent prisoners are exacted and pool their resources and skills into x-com.
-date 2025/06/19. X-com raids a secret base in Siberia.
After days of gathering Intel from local resistance cells, x-com discovers a secret base out in the vast mountain regions of the snow Siberia's wilderness.
X-com infiltrates the remote complex and discovers the horrible truth about alien's unseen experiments with missing people taken by advent.
The strike team recovers a vial from the site and Evac's from the region.
X-com's mission to stop the elder's plans progresses even further has the elders notice.
They command their top agents. The Chosen to locate and retrieve the Commander of X-com.
Meanwhile, X-coms exploits does not go unnoticed as three other resistance factions' contacts them from three global regions around the world.
The Templars.
The Skirmishers.
And The Reapers.
The war for the earth takes a new turn as x-com faces many challenges to liberate humanity from the aliens' control.
Date 2026/01/02. The war with the chosen comes to an end as the champions for the Elders are finally killed and the aliens lose their biggest asset.
Under x-coms leadership, the three factions that were once at odds with each other now fight alongside one and another and fully join up with x-com as a single force to be reckoned with.
Project avatar faces many delays now that resistance efforts are strongly fighting the Advents efforts to contain them.
X-com propaganda reaches into the major cities inciting riots and destabilising Advents control.
In response to X-coms success, advent launches brutal attacks on communities outside the cities and advent towns.
X-com responds back by repelling the attackers back.
Date/2026/01/ 19. X-com picks up a distress signal on a band not used since the first Xcom war.
X-com discovers the voice on the distress call is used by one of the original key members of x-com command.
Head of research Dr Vahlen.
X-com follows the destress beacon to a crashed Skyranger with clues indicating that she survived and moved to a new location.
X-com begins an investigation to where Dr Vahlen and her team disappeared to.
Date: 2026/01/29. X-com discovers the whereabouts of her base.
Central officer Bradford leads the team to secret alien genetic facility in an undisclosed location.
There they learn the fate of Dr Vahlen and the x-com personnel that came with her.
The experiments she performed on what aliens they found before her unknown fate escaped with mutated or otherwise uplifted variants of the enemies they encounter now in the later stages of their war with the elders.
The Viper King. A male variation of the female humanoid cobra like aliens X-com has encountered as of late and is the true form the thin men fought during the first stages of the first war.
The Berserker Queen. A genetically modified Berserker Muton of the alien shock troopers.
The Archon King. The ruler of the alien race known as the Archons that are the human upgraded versions of their grotesque former appearance the Floaters.
The three genetically modified variants of the aliens escaped from the base and X-com troops only to be hunted down until they were eliminated.
But this was not the last X-com would hear from former key-staff of the old organisation.
Date:2026/04/02. X-com encounters Project Avatar.
During attack on an advent base, Xcom operative Desert snake Skull jacked a codex forcing the rumoured avatar to appear on the field.
The team encountered powerful psionic abilities from this new foe which later revealed to be directly controlled by an elder despite the human physical frame.
The team managed to successfully neutralise the avatar and severed the link between the Elder and its avatar host.
Research into the retrieved form revealed it was human and Ethereal genes mixed together in an effort to create new bodies of the ethereal to transfer their consciousness from their old decaying forms.
The nature of the Ethereals goal is clear now and X-com's mission to stop them has not changed but the efforts and path they take to achieve it has.
Date:2026/06/01. Operation Empty Mask.
Xcom initiates its final mission against advent.
After much time of collecting evidence against advent and its alien masters, Xcom was given a golden opportunity to strike against them hard.
At the cost of his life, the spokesmen reached out to x-com through an undisclosed channel to warn x-com about the alien's genocidal progression to their plans and gives X-com a chance to warn the world about it.
X-com assaults advent's network tower and broadcasts the truth on the day Advents celebrates their breakthrough in gene therapy.
Their broadcast pulse disabled advent troopers in its broadcast range.
The truth was reveal worldwide as the speaker gave his speech, mass riots and rebellions against advent around the world.
While this was happening Operation Leviathan was in effect.
X-com using the Psi-gate enter into the alien's fortress base at the bottom of the Atlantic with the commander himself harnessing his conscious linked into the body of an avatar X-com recovered from their first encounter.
Together with the team assembled, they fought their way deep inside the Ethereals base where the entombed Ethereals resided and fought against their controlled avatars. Dispatching their avatars, the Ethereals without a focus for their powers the psionic gate in and out of their layer collapsed.
The commander used his psionic powers to open the way out for the squad and was the last to leave before the Ethereals made their last ditch effort to take the commander down with them.
But his psionic abilities proved more potent than their combined powers but at the cost of his avatar as he destroyed not only them but their base as well.
Without the Ethereals leadership and their psionic network, the advent administration crumbled as the truth of their intentions came to light.
Humanity began to rebel against the aliens and their puppet government.
Resistance cells and bands of civilians liberating themselves from advent all fought under the flag of X-com.
In weeks advent was dealing in major insurrections around the globe with many leaving the cities to regroup to stronger positions or priority cities.
And it wasn't advent leaving the cities but civilians escaping from what advent still occupied to safe heavens outside the controlled areas.
In the leading months advent was no more and humanity was finally free… however without proper leadership and the destruction of the Ethereals, the aliens that did not escape were now trapped on earth and imprisoned.
The psi-gates once used by advents were destroyed or confiscated by x-com along with what ships they had.
Without nations or a governmental body to bring order to the splintered regions, x-com becomes the unofficial world government in all matter.
The formers counties, resistance factions and cities all flocked under Xcom's banner with the commander himself reigning as the defector leader of the earth.
Reconstruction efforts towards building a new life for humanity was underway and yet at the same time the big question of what to do with the aliens and hybrids on their planet remained a mystery.
Prisons crowded and ill-equipped to handle the number alien prisoners raised many concerns and risks to revolts from the former occupiers of earth.
Former advent cities were transformed into penal colonies where the aliens would be released and live their lives under close watch from Xcom.
At a time, the peace lasted though there were infractions from both alien and human elements with many humans still holding resentment and hatred towards the aliens, often resulting in mob attacks and violence within areas.
And the aliens trying to free themselves from their new jailers and hoping to escape from this new world they are trapped on.
This new problem presented a clear threat to another alien and human war.
To counter this, leadership within Xcom hoped to bring peace between humanity and the aliens.
Date:2035 Xcom Chimera Squad. Despite many objections and outcries toward this peaceful and pacifist approach, Xcom pushes for greater peace to be bridged between their alien neighbours.
The commission and foundations of city 31 is the groundwork where both former enemies would become one.
Aliens having the same right as humans do as the city is built like a thriving metropolises from both human and Alien engineers.
Hybrids and aliens working within the office administration of the city to the point where one female hybrid becomes the mayor of the city.
This action displeased many in humanity, some of whom bare the scars brought upon by the elder's rule.
And while the city did thrive it was also unstable.
Three factions of criminal organisations sought their own agenda that would upheave the fragile balance the city meant to bridge the peace everyone sought.
Xcom deploys Chimera squad to the city.
A special unity of human and alien operatives tasked in keeping the peace that the city's law enforcement agency was unable to handle.
Understaffed and under equipped, chimera squad had the challenge of keeping the peace or the world once more erupts into violence.
Date 2038/07/07. Chimera squad is called into action at the Xcom memorial museum after insurgents took the mayor hostage.
Chimera squad successful dispatches the rogue group of disgruntled human rebels and rescues the mayor.
However upon entering an armoured vehicle, the mayor and several others within close proximity were destroyed in an Elerium blast.
The city is in shock and already fingers are beginning to point, and the city is ready to explode into anarchy.
Date: 2038/07/09. Chimera squad is tasked in investigate the terrorist bombing against the mayor and keeping the peace within City 31.
They are given criminal targets from which their investigation is to begin against.
The first amongst them is Grey Phoenix.
A criminal faction of disgruntled aliens seeking freedom away from earth.
Kidnapping, Theft, Armed Robbery, Smuggling, Resisting Arrest and Murder being the top amongst their various crimes.
All under the dual leadership of a pair of Mutons engineers. Crew Chief Yarvo and Custodian Xel.
The ultimate goal for Grey Phoenix was to escape earth using one damaged spacecraft from the invasion-era to find their home planet.
Xcom could not take the risk that they're escape wasn't a means to re-establish contact with the Ethereals or what's left of their empire in the stars.
Grey Phoenix was ultimately foiled in their attempt, chief Yarvo was killed in the fight alongside many others while his other Xel along with those that remained surrendered to Xcom for their crimes.
With one criminal faction eliminated, tensions and crime rates eased now that no one had to fear being kidnapped or robbed again.
Date:2038/11/02. Xcom focus on the sacred Coil.
A criminal faction of former Advent officers seeking salvation after their severed connection to the Psionic network.
Entirely compromised of Advent hybrids, some Andromedon units and Chryssalids.
They are a criminal group of highly religious advent troopers or when ex-advent troopers found religion.
Sacred coil uses propaganda to recruit other Hybrids to their cause with their famous claim having the cure to The Fade.
A degenerative disease that effects the hybrids yet growing concerns that the disease will jump to other species, human and other alien races that share a common DNA with each-other due to Elder Genetic tampering.
Sacred Coil has been on Xcom's Rader since their establishment, as they are led by a former Advent Commander who was never caught after the war.
Mellus mar.
Their crimes as follows are Armed Assault, Destruction of Public Property, Destruction of Private Property, Destruction of Governmental Property, Mass Murder, Conspiracy to commit Murder and Illegal possession of Weapons and Banned Technology.
Yet what sets them apart from the others that makes them a greater threat to Xcom is their undying devotion to the Elders.
It was later discovered that the Sacred coil were attempting to establish contact with the elders through a psionic gate.
They activated the gate yet what came from it was not what either side expected as a gatekeeper came from the transit it had been stuck in since the war years ago.
With their leader killed and their psionic gate destroyed along with the rogue gatekeeper, Sacred Coil split and fled into small cells yet the organisation itself is no more.
The threat of the elders returning has been plaguing the minds of all, human, aliens and hybrids who fear the day of their return.
With the dismantling of Sacred Coil, city 31 and the earth breathed a huge sigh of relief.
Date2038/03/01. Xcom draws their attention to Progeny.
A criminal faction consisting of purely psionic gifted humans and enslaved thralls.
The factions leader known only as Violet was formerly an advent experimentation that boosted her psionic abilities but at the cost of her mind as her incredible power through their unethical and tortuous trial left her mind fragmented and beyond the ability to reason.
The progeny recruits its numbers mainly from humans who induce psionic powers amongst human followers and recruits, while at the same time they kidnap and indoctrinate hybrids and aliens into subservient slaves.
Xcom later discovers that the progeny were attempting to force a city wide psionic evolution with a custom built psionic network device.
Xcom eliminates Violet and her follows and leaves the rest for the city's PD to handle.
Date:2038/05/25. Shrike is discovered to be the root cause of the unrest in city 31.
As they dealt with the criminal factions of the city, Xcom still maintained their duty in investigating the bombing of the mayor and soon learned that all three groups were financed for their parts in what was supposed to cause great unrest that Shrike was meant to step in and be the heroes of the city.
Yet Xcom's successful efforts forced their hands to reveal their true intentions of breaking the reunification and peace efforts between aliens and Hybrids. They stormed the city hall, taking hostages and killing many civilians.
Xcom was quick to respond and rescue the hostages while the remaining shrike forces retreated to their complex building in the city.
Xcom gave chase and stormed their tower, encountering resistance before reaching the top where their operations room was located along with their leader Sovereign.
In the end Chimera squad achieved the impossible and subdued sovereign, and destroyed shrike.
With the death of the mayor and all others caused by the bombing solved as well as the additional discovering of financing criminals and plotting terrorism. Chimera squad and Xcom once again became the heroes of not just the city but also the world as the importance of city 31 signalled peace between humans and aliens that would last for years.
Date:2045. After years of struggle and tense peace, the reunification efforts between aliens and humans finally paves the way for all of the species to live in harmony under the rule of the Commander now dubbed the Emperor.
With peace and earth now the home to 6-7 species now proud natives, the Xcom initiative dissolves and gives way to the Star Union and begins the efforts to expanding out to the stars.
With great technological improvements left by the Ethereals and Advent. The Star Union has no problems in designing and creating new space craft to shoot to the stars.
Taking inspirations from Xcom's and earth based designs as well as old decommissioned and confiscated advent spacecraft, the first designs for the spacecraft dubbed the Phoenix is underway.
Yet in that same year, a group of scavengers exploring the quarantine area of the old city of Moscow stumbled into boarded up underground entrance.
Destroying the blockage, the scavengers explore in the abandoned underway of the city's old underground train system.
After delving deep into the abandoned tube line, a portion of the flooring gave way to another tube network running under the one they were on and right in the middle of the largest Lost nest in history.
Disturbed from their decades of isolation, the Lost crawled out of their holes and swarmed from all over the underground network of pre-modern Russia.
The Star Union responded as quickly as they could however the size and vastness of the horde was uncountable as they came like a raging flood.
Desperate measures were employed to destroy the Lost before they over run Europe.
The Promethean Division was born as a first line exterminators.
Employing heavy pyrotechnic weaponry and environmental armour, the Prometheans left nothing in their wake as they immolated areas infested with the Lost including cities both new and old.
The Promethean division proved successful in destroying the last remnants of those altered by the alien's pods during the invasion era.
The Star Union saw no need to disband the Prometheans as they saw use in the divisions cleansing tactics, and might need them later on should they encounter threats conventional and quarantine means are unable to handle.
Date:2046. The union successfully constructs its first ever space ship and makes plans to use It to travel to the moon and set a colony on it with the intent on using the planets moon as a base to repel future threats in its solar system.
Luna base became headquarters to Star unions defensive fleet in the event that the Ethereals return once again.
Technological advancements into Dimensional manipulation. Other known as Void Tech, takes flight after years of experimenting with a lighter variant of warp technology found in the Wraith suit.
Experiments of manipulating the laws of space and time are carried out on the moon.
Successful tests into creating phasing technology have produced a phase walk modulator, giving those who possess such an equipment the ability to walk through any form of solid matter in their path.
Minerals and organics alike, as well as making projectiles phase through outer areas of the individuals body.
Date2047. Psionics achieve a greater place in earth society.
Psionics within the various races has advanced both in military use, society and cultural.
Strives have been made to greatly improve upon one's own psionic potential through implants, Meditation, rituals and experimental training.
Many groups and religious cults began to form based on psionic evolution, and from this Two recognised groups are formed from psionic adapts seeking answers and enlightenment in their psionic powers, and both following codex's of psionic mastery.
Those that Follow the Way of the Celestial call themselves Celestians. Following the teachings of the stars, the Celestians become an order of Psionics that strive to achieve inner enlightenment and create balance and harmony not just in themselves but in the universe as well as they believe that their gifts are a blessing from the stars and hence use them to protect their ideals and teachings.
While the second group follow the ways of Psynumbra, viewed as thee darker path of Psionic mastery. Psynumbrians are considered dangerous because of their free use of their psionic gifts and ritualistic practices that go as far as sacrificing to nameless entities from beyond the void for power.
These two groups form into their own religions with the most prominent and still worshipped figure being the emperor.
Yet due to their clashing beliefs, tensions and a rivalry forms between the two cults with the majority of the populous siding with the Celestians.
However prominent figures and rich families are attracted to the Psynumbra cult and help fund, and expand much of its teachings and works across the world.
Date:2049. Psynumbra death cults banned.
Despite their reach and influential backing, the high council of the Star Union inevitably bans some of the psynumbrian practices after cults continue ritualistic sacrifices to other entities beyond the void.
Since the breach incident of 2048. The call for psynumbrian practices to be banned has been pressured by the populous to deal with the ever growing threat of the psionic death cults kidnapping and sacrificing animals, and humans to making pacts with bodiless entities that are summoned.
The Breach incident of 2048 occurred in the city of New York on April when a hole in the in fabric of reality appear and familiar entities categorised by Star Union Psionic research into the void began to pour out and wreak havoc on the city's populous.
The Union responded as urgently as they could as the distortion in the city caused mass depression and suicides as Avatars of Discord and Despair took root into locations that were once hotspots of despair and misery and spread the cries, and woes of the tormented across the city while apparitions of hunger and wraith attacked without mercy or hesitation.
It was the greatest crisis the earth had seen since the invasion era.
The Union sent in an army to eliminate the corporal entities that escaped and escort the group of Psionics to close the breach.
Spear headed by the Promethean division, the union managed to push back and eliminate the ethereal entities as they closed in on the breach.
Despite the loses from the incursion, the Psionics managed to close the tear with aid from both Celestian and Psynumbra operatives.
An investigation into how the breach occur later turned up that it was caused by a death cult that performed ritualistic suicide in order to create psionic tear to summon an ethereal entity into their world.
Outrage surged across the system and fear gripped the hearts and minds of the populous of the horrors that Psionics are capable of, namely those involved in death cults.
A restriction and ban is place on psionic use to contact or summon entities from beyond the void as well as the disbanding of all other religious sects not recognised as an official group that is beneficial to the Union.
Celestians psionic techniques are highly valued for their purification techniques in healing the mind and body, as well as purifying area's steeped in heavy dark psionic energy.
By popularity, their religion is followed almost zealously and extends beyond the reach of earth with such conversion not seen since the rise of Christianity.
Psynumbra however had the political backing to keep them from being expunged, though despite the many restrictions placed upon their practices and secret rites behind closed doors, the Psynumbrians continue their practices with many of its members coming from notable influential families.
Date 2051. Star union begins manufacturing its first series of corvettes.
The alpha series of the first corvettes came out of production.
Titled Orion class, the corvettes were fast moving frigates featuring class 5 Elerium generators, Psionic shield generators, plasma cannons, pinpoint laser defence guns and focus laser turrets. Fusion engines.
Capable of achieving speeds 9 times the speed of sound in an instant, the Orion Corvettes are designed to be vanguard of the Star Union fleet and scouts used to explore nearby systems.
The Frigate's stand at 340M in size compared to previous vessels experienced in the Xcom years.
Date:2057. Cerberus class Destroyers.
After years of relative peace and exploration of nearby star systems, The Star Union commissions the design of a new class of star ships classed Cerberus to defend its borders as the expansion efforts to near stars has yielded in raw mined minerals for the Union as well as the discovery of a new substance found several time on asteroids surrounding neutron stars and Pulsers.
This rare element has been discovered to possess properties of dark energy that enhances psionic powers beyond natural enhancements so it is highly sought after by many psionic groups.
But furthermore it tested with the psionic generators increasing their other all power 10 fold by the smallest amount of the rare element introduced.
So attentions to mining more for military and governmental purposes has skyrocketed with few getting a smaller amount of the classified Element Zero or Eezo for short.
Much of the element zero is put towards the new battleship class.
These battleships are larger than the corvettes with a bit more fire power and armour then the corvettes with frontal plasma cannons, fusion missiles, and flak guns and guess coiled turrets. Their speed is half the total speed of the corvettes.
With lengths up to 800 Metres in size, combined with the fidgets these ships are the masters of space.
Date:2060. Mars excavations reveals alien technology hidden beneath the dunes of the barren planet.
Star Union researchers discover a hidden alien cache buried deep in Mars surfaces containing a treasure trove of alien technology.
Research has shown that it predates the Ethereals arrival to earth and bears no resemblance to any of their technology.
This discovery of precursor tech has awed and inspired the populous that there is much more to their galaxy then what they already know.
Research into the dubbed Prothean device after researchers discovered information in the tech revealing its creators hidden within the device along with other information such as mass effect fields, leading to the development of faster to light travel out of systems.
This technology incorporated with the Star Unions ships allows for greater travel with their new FTL drives.
As a plus a hidden stash of eezo was also discovered with the Alien device.
With the revelation of alien data device on mars, the star union commissions for an agency of Programmers and hackers to crack the alien code.
The Synthesis is born and the first progress in Cyber technology in 3 decades has picked up.
Date:2061 The Star union unearths a mass relay Charon, one the moons orbiting Pluto.
Thanks to the Synthesis group, the Information from within the Prothean device leads the Union to many advancements and greater discoveries within their solar system.
One such discover made was relayed by information translated from the data cache that researchers followed to one of the moons of Pluto to find a Dormant Prothean technology buried within the ice.
Excavated out of the ice, the mass relay is activated once launched into system's orbit.
The first team of explorers travels through the relay which instantaneously transports them to another relay in Arcturus, 36 light-years away. Cutting much time that would've taken them years to reach with their current technology.
It begins a massive explorative and expansionist upraise for the citizens of earth as many take to the stars as explorers to explore nearby star systems for settlements or resources.
Arcturus becomes a forward military outpost to guard the relay to the sol relay.
The Star Union begins advancement in building a strong military force to guard the claimed systems.
The new military force for the Union in the stars is Dubbed the Vanguard Expeditionary Force or Vanguard for short.
The official military for the Star Union.
The Union's fleet size is 100 Frigates, and 37 battleships up to date.
Date:2061. Three habitable planets have been discovered.
As exploration efforts continue to discover new and bountiful worlds full of minerals and ore, so too have there been worlds discovered to be capable of supporting life.
Yet three were habitable to all in the Star Union.
Two were powerful synergised with founts of psionic energy erupting from out of the planet.
The garden world of new Haven was blessed with purified psionic energy that poured out of wells found across the planet. The Celestians claimed the planet as both a religious site and home world for their order.
A mass exodus of the orders highest level masters and initiates made a pilgrimage to the planet, erecting temples near or on top of psionic founts to channel their pure energy greatly across their new world.
New Havens psionic wells has shown to greatly invigorate and heal wounds on both the planet and its inhabitants, going as far as to increasing the longevity of a species exposed to the harmless energies of the planet. As well as slowing down the aging processes of sentient beings living on Haven.
The second planet is of the opposite nature.
Chaotic storms wrack through the hostile planet full of dangerous creatures and terrain, the psionic energies of the planet are raw and potent, reflecting the world's harsh and dark lifestyle.
Through political favours and enough resources, the Psynumbra elite claimed the world of Harvest as their own seat in the union. Awe inspiring gothic towers and citadels are both a shelter to the psynumbrian people as well as focusing rods that harness the Planets powerful dark psionic energies.
The dark energies of the planet magnify the Psynumbrians psionic powers 10 fold as well as aid in their secret rituals and experiments.
The third planet however belongs to the union's people as Demeter becomes the first extra-solar colony world with additional colonies founded on Eden Prime and Terra Nova.
Date:2080 the Psionic war.
Tension reaching their breaking point between the Celestians and the Psynumbra as the two cultures of Psionics clash after failed peace talks broke down with Star Union representatives unable to negotiate peace between the two religions following the assassination attempt on Scion Ayrion by Celestian zealots and the successful assassination of Grand seer Vortus by Psynumbrian assassins.
The star union continues to effortlessly try to mediate peace between the two cultures but is unsuccessful in the first months as Psionic weapons of war are unleashed upon the planets of each culture.
The terrible power of Psynumbrian Psionics wrought such devastation and corruption that planets were no longer habitable even with Celestian power.
While Celestian magic vaporised all those whose very bodies bared even a hint of dark psionic energy.
The union was forced to intervene, demanding an immediate cease fire or else risk war against them.
And miracle that it did, as both psionic groups dare not incur the full might of the union upon them.
The Pack of the Divine was signed by the heads of the two religions, vowing to never use such weapons of mass destruction and a pact of non-aggression.
The star union lost 9 colonies and 4 worlds to the first civil war in its history.
And a bitter rivalry between the Celestians and Psynumbra was made.
Date.2099. expansion towards the eastern fringes and north of the Milky Way Galaxy.
After the Psionic war, the union has put pressure into expanding its boarders into the Traverse.
Embassies and temples are set up in almost every colony with each psionic cult having an equal balance of planets they help colonise with the union.
Great progress has been made in forging new cruiser class warships titled Krakens.
Large carriers capable of holding an entire planet worth of fighters, bombers and transport ships.
The main both of a kraken is its two split hulls that
An experimental fleet project headed by the Psynumbra code named Hephaestus is the launch of psionic battle station deep within star union territory.
The battle station is designed to be fully automated and capable of producing ships by the dozens.
Set in the Poseidon cluster, in the Atlantis system, the battle station sits directly on the Y-axis over the system's sun.
Through both manual labour, Synthesis programming ,and psynumbrian rituals, the battle station will stand as monument of technology and dark energy fused together to create the titan within the stars.
Such colossal type constructions have earned the class of titans, and the Hephaestus projects has kept a secret from the populous under the highest measure that not even those who are not a part of the project are allowed to know of its existence.
And at the same time a sister project is being developed without the Psynumbra knowledge as the Celestians are called upon to aid in the creation of Project Demeter which convert suitable selected worlds into the right habitat for colonisation.
The project is estimated to be completed before Hephaestus in less than a year with hopes of reviving the worlds lost during the Psionic War.
Date2106. Alien home worlds discovered.
After years of expansion and colonisation, explorers have discovered the original home worlds of the union's alien population.
However the planets are devoid of their original life with remains of what had been Vipers, Mutons, Faceless, Archons, Chryssalids and Sectoids in their original genome left to be found amongst the ruins that showed signs of battles.
While tragic that they had not a race or a culture to go back to, the aliens none the less continue to embrace their new home within the Star union. Though expeditions have been made to the desolate worlds in hopes of recovering artefacts and information on their lost culture, researchers have determined that the destruction of their worlds was the result of their species revolting against their ethereal masters once Earth was reclaimed.
Without humans to provide an escape from their decaying bodies, the last of the Ethereals once more turned to their enslaved subjects and began to brutally experiment and liquefy their vessels for an escape from their dying fate.
Outraged after learning the truth, each of the enslaved worlds rebels in a brutal and violent manner against their Ethereals masters and their puppets, resulting in mass genocide that culminated in weapons of war deployed on greater scales as to leave cities wracked with radiation and poison.
However amidst the ruins of their world, a team of scientist discover an untainted alien strain in an abandoned lab capable of advanced evolution and genetic manipulation.
The dubbed Alpha Strain is shown to have a 100% infection rate yet while dangerous the Hyper-adaptive parasitic Xenoplague does pose a danger onto itself. The research and testing of this alien strain has shown it can be beneficial as the parasitic plague can be reprogramed or repurposed into biological blessing as it possesses symbiotic properties that out way its parasitic nature.
Yet the Xenoplague is not welcomed within the star union, and tests are kept isolated and under heavy watch for any sign of contamination by the Prothean division with strict orders by the Union to destroy both the Xenoplague and the scientists should one decide to go rogue and spread the virulent plague.
Date2113. New class of cruisers.
A new class of cruisers manufactured, dubbed Hydra's are the back bone of the Star union's fleet.
Capable of carrying a city's worth of fighters, bombers and transports, they serve as carrier ships to a fleet.
While larger than both the frigates and battleships, they aren't as equipped to handle projectiles or other smaller vessels. Their larger build and greater armour gives them a strong defence with some weaponry to fend off against other ships however their strength lies in their ability to produce large quantities of fighters and bombers in a notice.
Equipped with rapid fire plasma guns and lasers, the Hydra's can fend for itself in small engagements with its enamours 1500Metre sized body
Its cargo are advanced Thunderbolt heavy Fighters.
Heavy long range Laser cannons for space, to air, to ground engagements, Medusa type fusion missile pods that can lock onto enemy ships, and an advance Eerium energy shielding technology. It is also noted to have an advanced targeting computer that can identify enemy and ally contacts from a long distance.
At 23.6Metres, it is the largest spacefaring fighter in the Star union.
The Gorgon heavy bomber is definition of a flying arsenal that is capable of carrying three sets of heavy ordinance. Plasma bombs, Fusion rockets, Psionic missiles, energy torpedoes and Gravity mines.
The Gorgon is equipped with a heavy Elerium shield generator, two dorsal guns on its front and mid body. The one on the front just below the large cockpit is equipped with heavy plasma guns for frontal or air to ground attacks, while the one on the spine just before the head is equipped with Ark energy guns for space or air defence.
A third gun was located in the direct rear with two rapid fire laser cannons for rear defence.
Two large wings stretch out from the thin frame of the bombers body with two smaller wings connecting to the two jet engines fused onto the two larger wings. A third engine is attached on the direct back of the bombers body.
Missiles and other ordinance weaponry are attached to the wings.
At 33.2Metres, it is the very embodiment of a flying arsenal.
Date:2139. Plans for a new capital ship are underway.
With progress made to establishing a large foothold in their galactic expansion, plans have been established in creating flagships to govern whole fleets for defending the union's territory.
Olympus class- capital ships are the heart and soul of the vanguard fleet.
Larger than all the other vessels of the star union.
The Olympus ships are behemoths in their own right, equipped with heavier guns such as large frontal plasma cannons, heavy mid body laser guns, rear missile silos and frontal torpedo tubes.
At 2000Metre it is the largest ship in the unions' history.
Date:2157 The first contact war.