"You would think after decades of bloodshed we would come to grips with how pointless this war has become but sadly, and predictable, we just keep on slugging each other with more bodies and spent rounds. You know that hellhole, Marda Prime? Yeah that used to be a thriving commercial hub before it became a mass graveyard that grows everyday. Exul, Res, Fratri, and numerous other factions keep trying to claim that husk and for what? I'll tell you why, they are to prideful to turn back. That's the root of all of this pride! The last 40 years of constant warfare have been due to pride!... I tell you we have fought so much that I don't think peace even exists anymore, heck I don't even think decent people exist anymore let alone heroes... Well lads another drink on me. To our old friend death cause he hasn't picked our tab up just yet.
~Anonymous Res soldier
LORE
History seemed to repeat itself in the 21st century and the hopes and dreams that were held leading up to it were dashed on the rocks of reality. Many hoped that with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reduction of the threat of thermonuclear annihilation fading away that the next century would be a golden age for all of humanity yet conflict erupted again, mind you not at all at the level of the World Wars but war nonetheless. For the first decade of the new century everything seemed like it would blow over and not last long at all, how wrong they would be, by 2020 tensions were so high that the presidential elections in the United States were called off and martial law instated after a series of terrorist attacks crippled infrastructure in numerous cities across the Western world. The attacks were coordinated by Russia and China who decided to provide cover and escort the terrorists into position so that they could deal a near crippling blow to the Western world and allow them to capitalize in the chaos. This was soon discovered by the US and EU intelligence services and a declaration of war followed, World War 3 began.
Back in America an insurrection began as many people wanted an election and wanted their freedoms back, inadvertently this led to the lengthening of martial law to the wars end. With most American forces tied up on the domestic front the EU was left to fight the combined military might of Russia and China and all their allies, with Chinese support North Korean soldiers are able to take over South Korea and Japan and the Philippines were taken soon afterwards with Australian and New Zealand forces sent retreating back to their homes. On the European front Russia was steamrolling the token resistance they faced in Eastern Europe and were batting away the EU forces as quickly as a counterattack was launched. It took a year but a stalemate was able to be reached but in this time the war expanded into the whole of the Americas and Africa. A Cuban invasion force was repelled by a combination of rebel and governmental forces in Florida. 2022 was the third time nuclear weapons was used in warfare and seven more would be used before the warring sides came to the table in neutral Switzerland. The cities of Havana, Cuba, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Paris, France, St. Petersburg, Russia, Washington D.C. and New York City, America, London, England, and Beijing, China were all victims of nuclear bombardment.
On December 21st, 2022 the Bern Armistice was signed bringing an end to the war and creating new borders where the current battle lines were at leaving much of Europe in Russian hands and much of Asia in Chinese hands. Repeating interwar Europe the losing side of WW 3 soon fell to a movement called the Tranhumanist Socialist Party, an incredibly militant and vengeful movement that vowed to bring Russia and China to their knees and bring about a golden age for all of humanity free of the shackles of previous generations and the human body. While gaining control of the remaining Western world through a combination of democracy and brute military force the Transocs were resisted by a large percentage of the population and so had to deal with what America had to deal with in WW 3 an insurrection. Taking advantage of the insurrection and using it as a means to grow their military power the military was expanded in every regard. The Russo-Sino War in 2034 gave the Transocs the perfect opportunity to expand its territories further with an invasion of Central and Southern America. The mounting tensions erupted into World War 4 in 2040 after the Transocs successfully created their first AI for purely military functions and fearing this could put them at a massive disadvantage in the future, unlike the past war it was the Russians and Chinese who were outgunned. In only a year the Russian and Chinese militaries were defeated and both empires were conquered leaving the world under the rule of Transocs.
By 2079 the world is on the verge of another set of revolts against the Transoc movement but instead of fighting them the rulers of Transoc offered the dissenting sides the option to leave the Sol system and make their home on another world in a nearby star cluster. Originally this was not taken up all that much but after a few of the dissenting groups almost completely eradicated groups began lining up to emigrate from Sol. Neo-Nazis, Carlists, French Ultras, Stalinists, Maoists, Libertarians, Sedavacationists, Jacobins, Islamists, and other fringe and radical groups were exported first from Sol to the cluster named the Desperatio Cluster to make their new homes as far away as possible from the Tranhumanist Socialist Party. Using a one way warp gate and erasing the coordinates from the ship logs the dissenters were sent hurtling away never to be seen on Earth or the Transoc ever again.
2110 was the year the first two stellar nations made contact with each other, the infant Holy Exul Empire and the Platonic Republic of Osiris. Only a year later war would transfer over to the stars as the two nations began to war with each other contacting hundreds of other human inhabited worlds. 2119 Osiris was defeated by the HEE and absorbed into their ever growing empire as they had the fortune to be located near other European monarchist factions. After absorbing additional monarchies and three Stellar Crusades the HEE rose to be the first superpower in the Desperatio Cluster in 2130.
The Res Commonwealth began as a small trading world but soon grew to extreme power through the negotiations of President Thompson Alrite and the backing of a powerful Res navy. Slowly expanding through diplomacy and strong arm negotiations the Res Commonwealth solidified its standing amongst its allies through the Loyalty Pact creating a federal republic system with the capital on Res. By 2137 the Res Commonwealth rose to be considered a threat to the Holy Exul Empire and an equal on the diplomatic field, backed by a small but advanced navy.
Stalinists were the creators of the final superpower to rise, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Fratri, a totalitarian regime that is a manufacturing giant with the manpower to field giant armies and fleets though they do lack high quality weapons. A command economy and highly disciplined and hardy people the SSRF expended through brute force and intimidation with a mission to spread the glory of communism to all of mankind and tear down the wealthy bourgeoisies to free the enslaved plebs. 2150 was their first run in with the other two superpowers and after a month of border skirmishes a treaty was signed but both the Commonwealth and Empire recognized the great threat that the SSRF pose to both parties, even though they despised each other enough to not even sign a non-aggression pact.
The War of Three Crowns began on 2185 for unknown reasons Holy Exul Empire ships opened fire on Soviet Socialist Republic of Fratri ships catching a convoy of Res merchants in the center. Things quickly escalated with massive mobilizations occurring in all three superpowers and war being officially declared by all three sides, the HEE and SSRF declared war against each other and the RC declared war on both the HEE and SSRF due to their refusal to pay reparations for the lose of the merchant convoy. At first the battles were minor with no real investment of forces in any one area and each side thought the war would be over in a few months. As the months dragged on the battles grew larger and more pitched as all sides began committing more and more assets to the war effort and began to expand their spheres of influence to normally neutral systems to get their manufacturing and commerce. Some of the hottest of the fighting rages around material worlds, uninhabitable planets that only serve as a place to gather metals and other minerals for industry.
The year is now 2226 and the war is still in full swing with no signs of letting up any time soon and many worlds ravaged by the claws of war, an entire sector of the Desperatio Cluster named the Desolation Front due to the totality of the destruction. Yet as the behemoths continue to slug it out between each other a long forgotten threat begins to reemerge from deep space and to stem the coming storm and return peace to the Desperatio Cluster heroes are needed... but as we all know heroes are drowned by the blood of stars nowadays.
Theme- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvexv1_r9bU
Rules
-All NS rules apply to this RP
-No godmodding
-You can be a jack donkey in IC but not OOC
-This is a plot driven space opera RP
-There are roles that need to be filled and once those roles are filled no more apps will be accepted unless the need arises for another role
-Technology is a mixture of Firefly, Stargate SG-1, and Battlestar Galactica so if you have any ideas that are not similar to those technologies put it forward here and we can deliberate about it
- Absolutely NO deus ex machines!
IC: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=370836
