Episode I: The Humans
Many thousands years have passed since the start of the existence of human race. Actually, so much time that humans lost the track of an old calendar, a new calendar being calculated since the creation of the LCT. LCT being the abbreviation of Life Creation Technology had transformed humanity to the masters of the Solar system. This technology allowed humans to transform the lifeless planets of the Solar system into habitable ones and colonise them.But the transformation took very long time. For some planets many hundred years. However, by the 3167 (new calendar) named as Year of Greatness all the transformable planets in the Solar System had been transformed and colonised.
The human race, as it can be affectionate, tender and curious, also can be very vicious, aggressive and intolerant. This long period of time had not been exception. Many interplanetary wars were waged over the power in the System causing billions of deaths and suffering.
By the Year of Greatness six sovereign multi-planetary states were ruling the Solar System, periodically fighting or trading with each other. Another several hundred years required in order them to understand that the trade and peace is the best for the prosperity of all the states in the Solar System.Coming from this concept they established Council of Six in order to end all the hostilities. Council of Six comprised six leaders of the six States, which together decided about all the matters regarding the humanity. Humanity lived in peace and prosperity for the next two thousand years which was called Age of Tranquility.
During the Age of Tranquility humanity regularly tried to reach other Star Systems.The breakthrough came in 5486 named as Year of Success, when the first human outpost was established in the Alpha Centauri System. Intention was to transform and colonise the planets of that System.The future for the humanity had never seemed so brighter than those times.
In 5501, suddenly Home Worlds(since the Year of Success, the Solar System had been called this way) lost the contact with the outpost in the Alpha Centauri System.The scouts which were sent to investigate the issue brought back very disturbing news.All the living beings had died due to unknown type of space dust which engulfed the asteroids where the outpost was established.The further explorations revealed that whole known Alpha Centauri System had been covered with this mysterious dust which origins were unknown. The dust had been classified as a "Dust X" and the humanity gave up its hope colonising the Alpha Centauri System in the near future.
Soon to the horror of the Council of Six, the scientists realised that 'Dust X' was spreading and spreading fast, and with that rate in couple of hundred years would engulf the Home Worlds killing all of the living beings. In order to prevent the panic and keep the order, Council of Six decided to hide this terrifying news from the population and tried to find solution to the impending threat. Nearly two centuries the most brilliant minds of the humanity in the most secretive conditions did the best to find the solution to the 'Dust X'.
Breakthrough came when the 'Dust X' nearly reached the Solar System. According to the scientists, in order to keep the 'Dust X' out of the planets, the special energy shields should have been constructed around the planets. However, considering the time and resources needed before the catastrophe happened , only one planet could have been protected with the energy shield. That meant total annihilation of the rest, 90% of all living beings in the Solar System.
In 5743 the Council of Six approved and initiated the secret project called ‘Project of Noah’s Ark’. According to the Project the shield would have been constructed around the Earth as it was the origin of life and the humans in the Solar System. The works were explained to the public as the construction of the special Star Gates in order to have much easier travel to the other star systems. Also, a secret lottery were conducted among the Home World population in order to decide who would survive the calamity of solar scale. All the planets and colonies were considered in the lottery but one.
An interesting read... but is this supposed to have any sort of relationship with Sins? This hasn't matched up with game lore so far... unless that is to come later.
Episode III: The Advents
The religions had been long forgotten in the Solar System and frowned upon as a deceptive and usurping concept. In such a technological age there was no place for the God in the lives of humans. However, during the Great Trojan Wars (2754-2968) a new religious cult started to emerge in the desert planet ‘Io’ of The System of Jupiter. The members of this religious cult called themselves Advents and followed what they called ‘Unity’. The ‘Unity’ was a religion that believed that everyone should unite mentally into collective mind in order to ascend to perfection. The followers of the ‘Unity’ believed that humans are capable of mental and psychic powers. And they tried to reach those powers through meditation and other forms of mental and psychic practises. The Advents were so successful in their practises that, by the middle of Age of Tranquility their powers were obvious to everyone; they could move the objects with their mental abilities, use and charge their weapons with the psychic powers and even some members of secretive society called ‘Knights of Unity’ could read the minds of other humans. Such kind of superpowers raised suspicion and fear among other people, and consequently caused cautious attitude towards them. The Advents on their part increasingly thought of other humans as the inferior species and even named themselves as ‘Neo Homo Sapiens’. By the end of Age of Tranquility the divide between two societies grew so much that, the Advents were banned to use the powers apart from their home planet ‘Io’.
When the ‘Dust X’ threat emerged, the Council of Six decided not to involve the advent scientists in the search of solution to the problem, mainly reasoning that they were not worthy and not clever enough and also they feared that the advent scientist could use the psychic power and find out about the danger ahead which would have meant instant panic and disobedience among the population if he revealed the secret. However, they could not ignore one advent scientist who was the best in his field and ironically that advent scientist played key role in finding the energy shield solution which was called as ‘Shield of Redemption’ . Additional to the common work, the advent scientist secretively examined the possibility of manipulation of the ‘Dust X’ through mental and psychic powers. Soon he realized that the small quantities of ‘Dust X’ can be isolated using the psychic powers. However, it was not the only secret which he kept to himself. He was a member of highly secretive society called ‘Knights of Unity’ and was capable of such psychic power that only few mastered: mind reading. And soon through this power he found out something which changed the fate of people of the Solar System forever.
interesting adaptation to the lore.... please, continue
Episode IV: Final Straw
The energetic shield was decided to be built around the Earth and people who would be saved in there, was to be decided by the lottery. However, Council of Six conspired against the Advents and excluded the planet ‘Io’ from the lottery, therefore dooming them to certain demise. The Council of Six did not deem the advents to be worthy living. However, despite all the precautions taken, the advent scientist found out about the sinister human plan and escaped the laboratory to tell his people about what to come.
As soon as the Council of Six found out about the escape, they declared the advents out of law and justified it with that their way of life could not be tolerated any more. The Imperial Space Fleet was sent to ‘Io’. After short orbital battle the remnant of disproportionally weak advent fleet fled to the planet itself in order to prepare for the final assault of Imperial Forces. But the final assault never came as there was no reason for that. ‘Dust X’ would have killed whole population of ‘Io’. The Imperial Fleet was there to jam and blockade the communication lines of advents, so they could not spread the most secretive news to other planets and cause major panic and breakdown.
The advent council was shocked and appalled by the treachery by the people which they thought to be their brothers. But even they decided to keep the information secret from the public in order to avoid all the unpleasant consequences. When the war came, the advent public thought the same reasons were the cause to the war as the human public. This war was the final straw in the breakage of the two races. No more the relationship would be same .
Despite seemingly dire situation, ‘Knights of Unity’ soon reveals to the advent council and people(also revealing them about the true nature of the danger ahead) that using the Unity there is a possibility to isolate the planet from the ‘Dust X’. The plan was devised by the scientist who worked on the ‘Project of Noah’s Ark’. As the humans would use special energy shield in order to isolate the planet from the space, the advent would use special psychic powered shield to do so. However, this would require massive organisation, as it would demand huge masses to be united mentally into collective mind. In order to create the protective shield around the planet, the special power channalers were constructed in every advent shrine which could accommodate several hundred thousand prayers at the same time. The day and night shifts would have meditate and pray in order to maintain the shield. After hard but urgent work of all advent society, they were ready what to come. The shift changes, religious rituals and mental practices had been synchronised to the minute detail and precision.
Then came the year 5745 which entered the Solar System history as the Year of Apocalypse which was the beginning of the Age of Renewal.
keep it up
Guys, thank you very much for the support!
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Episode V: Age of Renewal
Year 5745 probably was the most dramatic year in the history of humanity and the Solar System. The ‘Dust X’ engulfed the system even faster than was expected. Planet after planet, colony after colony succumbed to the unstoppable death spree. The entire Imperial Fleet staff perished in their stations during their blockade of the advent planet ‘Io’. At the end, there was a devastated and barren Solar System. However, to the shock and despair of the Council of Six, the advent planet ‘Io’ miraculously survived the calamity which was supposed to annihilate the advents.
Soon after the catastrophe unfolded the Council of Six dissolved itself and ancient instuition of United Nations of Earth (UNE) was re-established. The creation of UNE marked the beginning of the Age of Renewal. Initially the humans lived peacefully under the UNE, but soon the wild nature of the humans started to show itself. War after war was waged between four major coalitions, the biggest being the African Commonwealth. Again many years were required to the humans to understand that the trade, commerce and peace was the best solution for the common good. In 6481 the Terran Economic Confederation (TEC) was created, with the capital in Bangui in Africa. One of the first enactments of the TEC was the ‘Eternal Peace Act’ which destroyed nearly all the weapons on Earth. Peace and prosperity was the way of life once again.
While the humans went through turbulent times in order to reach the peaceful life, the advents had to obey the peace as their survival depended upon their collectivism. However, soon after the Year of Apocalypse the secretive society ‘Knights of Unity’ usurped the power in the advent council and started to appoint The High Priests at their own discretion. The hatred to the humans preached by the ’Knight of Unity’ became the political and social norm.
Two races lived in such an isolated condition more than two thousands years. Both races emerged from the Age of Renewal as a truly renewed societies, with little tolerance to each other.
7823 became to known as the Year of Happiness which marked the end of Age of Renewal. The reason for that was that exactly in this year the first signs of receding of ‘Dust X’ was discovered. As soon as the Solar System became free of the deadly dust, the squabble over the control of the Solar System started between the Advent and TEC. TEC hastily started building weapons and space ships which they had not done for a long time.
But soon the most unexpected events started to unfold in the most distant planet of the Solar System.
A little unfortunate that this doesn't follow the portion of the lore which stated that the Trader Emergency Coalition was not formed until the Aluxite Dynasty fell. Nonethess, keep it up!
your United Nations of Earth (UNE) is my Federation of Earth or The FOE in my mod which had to arm themselves against the evil corporations consolidated as The TEC.
Great job.
I had no idea that there was a Aluxite Dynasty in the official lore. Where can I read about it?
May I ask, what is the name of your mod?
To be more precise, the narrator states that in the opening cinematic for Vanilla Sins.
The thing is, I have no opening cinematic in my game (I bought it online).
myfistO thank you very much for the intros...
Episode VI: The Vasaries
The human kind since its creation wondered if they were unique in the vast universe. Possible life forms especially humanoid life forms in the distant stars amazed the human imagination. Throughout the human history they made the numerous attempts to contact the alien life throughout the Milky Way, but all in vain. That is why what happened in 7825, known as the Year of Contact, flabbergasted the human kind.
The vasaries were the strongest civilization in their home galaxy Knexa. Their empire was formed by peacefully assimilating primitive races and brutally crushing more advanced races, turning the populations of both into second class citizens. However, at some point they started losing contact with their worlds. At first, it was believed to be acts of rebellion, or the work of traitors, but as more worlds were lost, it became clear the situation was very serious. Vast fleets were sent to deal with the problem, but none of them ever returned, and the Vasari still had no clue as to the identity of the attacker. Finally, the Vasari recalled all of the available ships of their conquering fleet, the Dark Armada, and sent them all to the last planet they lost contact with. Only one frigate returned with its crew driven completely insane with fear. It was then that the Vasari Empire as a whole began to flee. They began their exodus, leaving their home systems behind, stopping only to harvest resources, rebuild their population, and to drop warning beacons in order to determine how close behind the unknown enemy was. As they fled, the beacons fell silent one by one, prompting the Vasari to continue their journey. One of the last beacons fell silent very close to the Vasari colony. To the surprise of the Vasaries the beacon was not attacked by any force, it just stopped sending signal. The following beacons stop functioning nearly at the same distance. Then they decided to conduct whole spectrum of analyses in order to find what was causing the shut downs. What they found shocked them. Apparently, they were increasingly surrounded by a mysterious space dust which could kill any life form. That was the reason why the beacons fell silent, as the Vasari beacons worked with the special electric generating bacterias. Soon it was theorized that, the fall of home planets were due to exactly because of this dust. The only frigate which could return, did so probably because somehow they managed to hyper jump when the dust contacted it. Hyper jump changed the feature of the dust and the crew did not die; but they were driven mad.
But the current concern was not how did the home worlds perish, but how to survive the current encounter with the mysterious dust. The models which were prepared by the scientist, projected the gloomy future. The speed of the expansion of the dust was astonishing and would catch up the Vasari refugees in 15 years time. After thorough contemplation the Vasaries took very dangerous road in order to avoid the extinction. They decided to use wormhole in 5 years distance. But where would the wormhole lead was unknown. However, it seemed the only salvation to the Vasaries.
The closest star system of the exit wormhole was populated by two civilizations which called themselves the Terran Economic Confederation(TEC) and the Advent Union (AU). Apparently, they had encountered the mysterious dust which they called ‘Dust X’ as well. The effect was devastating to their system and its civilizations.
Vasaries settled in the volcanic planet Orcus on the edge of the Solar System. Because of the objection of the indigenous civilizations initially the Vasaries agreed to pay tribute. However, soon more radical thinking part of the Vasari society overthrew the government and created more intolerant state which also laid claims to the Solar System. A conflict was imminent between the newly comers and indigenous civilizations.
PS. For the next and last episode I will need to attach a map. How can i do it in this forums? I was not able to find the option to do so. thanks
Could anybody tell me how to attach a map, so I could finish my narration?
You can email it to me (myfist0 at hotmail dot com) and I will put it on the SoaSE weebly or you can try https://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/downloads.aspx which has an upload and download section for maps.
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