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It is the year 2976, mankind has for the last 800 years experienced a golden age of peace and prosperity. Under the rule of the Commonwealth of planets man finally left the cradle and spread across the stars. With the invention of the Iterdrive and the Itercom, man could, for the first time in history, travel and communicate with each other beyond the solar system. From travels that would have taken generations it would now take merely a few weeks to cross from one system to another. From these new technologies new companies would emerge, ones who could on occasion slip out of reach of the central government.
Much to the disappointment of one, and the relief of another. There was no intelligent alien life to be found, although it was concluded that this was because mankind had only just begun its first steps in the galactic pond and as such could not expect to know everything about the milky way.
But alas not even the unified government could keep itself free from the poisons of corporate influences and corruption. More and more senators and representatives were being bought and bribed into giving these entities more and more of a free hand.
Yet it wouldn't be the private sector that would end the unity of man. But some of the very institutions that were trying to save it. In the late 2700s after the last President, Desmond Yang demanded the resignation of his Prime Minister, Ronald Mbesa the two spraked a political crisis that let Supreme judge Konstatin Zelkov to plot with Grand-Admiral Alvaro Obrador, chief of the naval staff, and Grand-Marshall Horace Whitfield, supreme commander of the combined ground forces.
The armed forces had already begun to resent the ailing government, with its constant budget cuts and increasing embezzlement. The last straw for them was when the megacorporations lobbied for the legalisation of private military forces. A flagrant violation of the monopoly on force.The bill itself was defeated in the senate after the navy had placed it’s ships over the senate building.It is the year 2976, mankind has for the last 800 years experienced a golden age of peace and prosperity. Under the rule of the Commonwealth of planets man finally left the cradle and spread across the stars. With the invention of the Iterdrive and the Itercom, man could, for the first time in history, travel and communicate with each other beyond the solar system. From travels that would have taken generations it would now take merely a few weeks to cross from one system to another. From these new technologies new companies would emerge, ones who could on occasion slip out of reach of the central government.
Much to the disappointment of one, and the relief of another. There was no intelligent alien life to be found, although it was concluded that this was because mankind had only just begun its first steps in the galactic pond and as such could not expect to know everything about the milky way.
But alas not even the unified government could keep itself free from the poisons of corporate influences and corruption. More and more senators and representatives were being bought and bribed into giving these entities more and more of a free hand.
Yet it wouldn't be the private sector that would end the unity of man. But some of the very institutions that were trying to save it. In the late 2700s after the last President, Desmond Yang demanded the resignation of his Prime Minister, Ronald Mbesa the two spraked a political crisis that let Supreme judge Konstatin Zelkov to plot with Grand-Admiral Alvaro Obrador, chief of the naval staff, and Grand-Marshall Horace Whitfield, supreme commander of the combined ground forces.
The armed forces had already begun to resent the ailing government, with its constant budget cuts and increasing embezzlement. The last straw for them was when the megacorporations lobbied for the legalisation of private military forces. A flagrant violation of the monopoly on force.The bill itself was defeated in the senate after the navy had placed it’s ships over the senate building.It is the year 2976, mankind has for the last 800 years experienced a golden age of peace and prosperity. Under the rule of the Commonwealth of planets man finally left the cradle and spread across the stars. With the invention of the Iterdrive and the Itercom, man could, for the first time in history, travel and communicate with each other beyond the solar system. From travels that would have taken generations it would now take merely a few weeks to cross from one system to another. From these new technologies new companies would emerge, ones who could on occasion slip out of reach of the central government.
