Terran – The Simplified Histories

November 20th, 2008

Technology raged and spread as the 21^st century saw third world countries rise to challenge those in power. Suddenly gene splicing, cloning and other advanced modern sciences were changing the human race forever. Man submits to cybernetic implants and many experience differences in their genetic coding, despite objections by the more fundamentalist movements of their race. The population soared, crippling the world’s natural resources. People altered themselves throughout the world, while it headed for disaster. Economies failed, the corporations who sold cybernetics and gene mutations fought against the humanist factions. War, terrorism and violence was everywhere, eventually the whole world plummeted into chaos.

The United Nations Failed, instead the United Powers League was created. This power ruled the world, banning religion and eradicating the last vestiges of the separate races. English was declared the only language of Earth as the UPL ruled with an iron fist and a kind of enlightened socialism. This was done in a desperate attempt to unify the human race. Eventually, believing that the human race was divine in itself, they sought the eradication of all mutations and cybernetics that might destroy the pure human gene pool and protect it from the temptations of modern technologies.

Project purification was set in motion, the persecution of all humans that have muddied their blood with altered gene strands, mutations and technological improvements. Almost 400 million people where murdered in an attempt to salvage the original human condition. The UPL used the media to hide the mass murders that occurred, misinformation and propaganda ran rife, but most of the human population remained ignorant of the extent of the violence.

Reawakening the space exploration programs after sabotage and diminished funds shut them down was another priority for the UPL. They perfected new technologies for space travel and together with warp drive and cryogenic technology widened their reach to the stars. In forty years the Terran colonized many planets in their solar system. Doran Routhe, a wealthy influential scientist, consolidated power with the UPL and became obsessed with finding natural resources on planets beyond the Terran solar system. UPL graciously provided him with thousands of prisoners for his ends. Of 56 000 prisoners from the purification project only 40 000 were deemed fit to go by Routhe’s super computer ATLAS. They were loaded onto massive carriers and set in a state of cryogenic hibernation with enough food and supplies to colonize the worlds on the outer rim. It was well planned but fundamentally flawed.

Four carriers, the Nagglfar, the Argo, the Sarengo, and the Reagan were sent into space. ATLAS was placed aboard the Nagglfar to monitor the humans as they slept. He discovered a rare mutated strain in some of the prisoners that would enable psionic ability in nearby generations. Everything discovered by ATLAS was sent back to earth for Routhe to keep. The navigational software linked to ATLAS shut down on the journey, erasing the coordinates of both Earth and the outer rim planet. They drifted in space for thirty years. The engines eventually failed at warp speeds, their stasis chambers were running low on battery power and in a last attempt to save the mission the ships engaged their emergency protocol. They landed on some habitable planets in deep space, 60 000 light years from earth. The Sarengo crash landed and killed all of its passengers, while the Reagan, landed on the same planet safely that would be called Umoja. The Argo landed on a planet later called Moria, but had no idea what had happened to them. The Nagglfar landed on Tarsonis and discovered what had happened to them and that they couldn’t return to earth.

It was difficult for the Terrans, they had no idea on other worlds were more like them, had no communication and little resources at their disposal. For years they were isolated completely. Then on Tarsonis, they developed technologies of their own, and could finally travel into space again to explore their surrounding planets, where they found the other survivors and trade flourished.

Both Moria and Umoja refused to join the Tarsonis confederacy. Seven other planets were colonized, the Tarsonis military influence increased and they claimed the name the Terran Confederacy. The mining areas that were most rich fell in Moria, and the Kel-morian Combine was formed that helped the mining guilds keep their power from the confederacy. This inevitably caused the beginning of the guild wars.

Four years later, peace was declared but only after the mines were given to the confederacy. Umoja formed the Umoja Protectorate fearing the military might of the confederacy itself. The confederacy expanded, colonizing world after world relentlessly, oppressing their own people with radical policy. One of the revolts against them was called the rebellion of Korhal. Citizens on a productive colonized planet, tired of their ties to the corrupt confederacy, rioted and attacked their own militia. Martial law was declared and after the confederacy was all but gone, they sent in assassins to kill the Korhal leader and his family. They were dealt with harshly and became the examples to all the other confederate colonies. From this outrage came the confederacies biggest threat, Arcturus Mengsk the last surviving member of the slain family. He wreaked a savage revenge upon the confederacy but ultimately was the reason 4 million people on his planet were killed by the confederate nuclear missiles. He did not relent forming the Sons of Korhal in retaliation and silently attacked the confederacy every way they could.

Despite rampant war and constant violence the Terran spread far around their new sector. Then…the aliens came, the Protoss. One of their colonies was completely destroyed and soon they found themselves having to defend themselves from a greater threat than each other. Then, mysteriously on their second attack the Protoss withdrew. But Zerg surfaced sometime after that on the outskirts of that second colony and ravaged the lands like never before.

Infighting and political differences divided the Terran and all they could do was watch as the Zerg decimated their planets, one by one.

The coming of the Zerg