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TIMELINE 2010: 2011: 2012: Nasa is already employing it's first Metas (technically Emily is on attachment from Starfire but it's much the same). However it would be way outside her scanning range unless someone's got an amplifier on line. 2013: Spies within Utopia hand over everything about the aliens to The Directive. The US and Russia understand exactly why Utopia decided to cover up the alien fleet, but the UK and Japan are displeased. The Directive concludes that this is obviously a Utopian conspiracy against the free world which constitutes a threat to humanity on its own right. Tension between the Directive and Utopia increases. 2014: Despite these differing points of view a decision is made to put Utopia in charge of making a real Strike Force and stage a counterattack. Team Tomorrow moves its main headquarters to the lunar colony. A training camp for the Strike Force is erected on the backside of the moon. The Strike Force includes Caestus Pax and several other powerful novas. This leaves a reduced pool of powerful novas on Earth. To fill out the gaps metas have to be recruited. Eventually the metas and the novas are separated because they disrupt each other too much and the meta version of T2M is created. 2015: 2016: Increased tension within the UN causes several nations to leave the Union - the nations who leave are largely the same nations which constitute the Directive, and some sympathizers. The renegade nations (secretly controlled by the Directive behind the scenes) create their own assembly, unimaginatively named the National Assembly. The NA headquarters is located in Berlin. 2017: The UN continues to lose members. The NA picks up some of the nations as they leave the UN, but quite a lot prefer to stay away from any new unions. 2018: Although several members of the Strike Force made the ultimate sacrifice and died on duty, seeing Caestus Pax return to Earth reduced to a mental vegetable was probably the most dreadful experience of the war to most inhabitants on Earth. His condition is feared to be permanent and incurable. Caestus Pax gets the best possible care Earth can offer and a team of the best experts in the fields of medicine is gathered to find a cure. With the arrival of the captured spaceship UN and Utopia is no longer able to cover up the existence of the alien fleet. The announcement causes riots and panics all over the world. Governments fall, revolutions and general uprisings add to the turmoil and chaos keeps spreading. The National Assembly announces its intention to create a space fleet of its own to defend Earth. Several new nations rally under the NA, who later the same year becomes a military alliance as well as an economical. The UN is forced to act in a similar manner, which means that the world is more or less divided into two super-blocks. 2019: NA accuse UN of keeping discoveries made from studies of the alien craft to themselves when they should be the property of all of humanity. The UN denies this, of course, but the hard feelings between the blocks continues to grow. 2020: The NA requests to send its own team of scientists to study the Coalition craft. The UN denies access to the craft. Explanation given: "We are in a sensitive phase of the exploration right now. It can not be jeopardized by allowing a team unfamiliar with the processes to board the vessel. Come back later." This was of course interpreted by the NA as: "We are busy figuring out how these things work so we can build our own ships and crush you. Piss off!" Later the same year a huge explosion disintegrates the alien craft and the team working on it, as well as a few novas positioned there for research or defense. A religious terrorist group claims to have done the deed but rumors are spreading that it was in fact a nuclear missile fired from NA territory. Accusations fly and pretty soon warmachines are scrambling. 2021: Teams like these gradually replace conventional armies as it becomes clear that quality rather than quantity is what's important. Assault teams perform surgical strikes against important targets, while similar teams on the opposite side tries to intercept them before they can accomplish their goal. This tactic dominates throughout the war, with a few exceptions either failing miserably or at least failing to provide better results. Civilian losses are significantly lower than anyone expected, although collateral damages to property and equipment has never been higher. The ones suffering the most during this war are the novas. It is believed that almost 10% of the entire nova population dies as a result of the war - either in actual combat or during supposedly peaceful missions aiding the victims. The Teragen are partly responsible for this. Enraged by how their brethren are exploited by baseline armies factions within the organization starts waging war against both the UN and the NA. The Teragen quite unexpectedly suffers great losses during these attacks - possibly due to placing too great trust on their powers to defend them from the effects of conventional weapons. In the end it doesn't matter; the Teragen attacks does not end the war but just add fuel to the already raging fire. [There should be some more details about the war and its consequences here but I haven't had time to think about that... Maybe later.] One side-effect of the war is that many novas are forced to push themselves beyond their normal limits, which increases the Taint. Research of the Taint on both sides of the conflict result in the P.U.R.G.E treatment which enables heavily tainted novas to get rid of the negative energies clogging up their bodies. This organization's headquarters is located in Switzerland. Now there are two super-nations and they aren't too friendly: the UN controlled by Aeon / Utopia, and the Confederate Nations controlled by Directive. Of course these two must face off somehow...And their quarrels turn into more or less full scale war for a few years. After a while things settle down. Not too much collateral damage was caused, mostly because neither side used Mass-destructive weapons. Thanks to the war the Coalition spaceship is lost, destroyed in an attack...So the studies of the coalition must be ended before they find out everything about them. Now this means that nobody figured out that the real ETA for the coalition fleet is in fact 2029...Nasa Metas will spot it at about 10 ly distant lather though or so you think. Thanks to some weird Coalition tech they don't discover them in time...Only when they are about 100 A.U. away. Anyway, with the coalition appearing on the doorsteps of the Sol system earth
faces a common enemy, and now the CN and the UN can join forces again to fight this threat. Wonderfully planned
by Aeon don't you think? They got their world government after all. They didn't plan the war though, Ok, maybe
they didn't plan the whole thing but they adapted damn quick. 2029: Massive destruction is headed Earth's way as the Coalition pulls asteroids the size of Japan from the Oort belt and grav-a-pults them towards Earth. If just one of them hits or even passes by close enough it would mean the end of all life - except maybe nova life. Novas from both sides of the conflict set aside their differences almost as one, and head off into space to avert the threat. Stripped of their fighting force and in the face of mutual extinction the super-blocks see no better way out than to form a makeshift peace and create a new union - The United Earth Council - with the immediate goal to defend the planet. The United Earth Defense Force is formed as the first sub-division of the Council, consisting of experts and officers from all nations of the world. All standing armies (under former UN or NA control) are assembled into the UEDF, controlled by the UEC. 2030: The Coalition is laying siege on Sol system from a distance of about 20 a.u. effectively surrounding it. From this position they are launching asteroids, missiles and other weapons of massive destruction towards Earth and its defenders. The novas manages to keep the fleet away and protect Earth from the missiles but they are hard-pressed and unable to fight back. Until the fleet is ready there is no way to launch a counter-attack. Earth is busy building a space fleet of it's own but in the meantime novas and metas must defend earth themselves using the bio-spaceships provided by the Cirrus, or their own Quantum forces The earth fleet is being built in earth orbit, the moon colony is rebuilt and more colonies are planned for the other planets. Of course a seige with teleporters and warpers is not all that effective. Well, the siege was just a term... not adequate perhaps... unless the Coalition spacefleet erupts a non-teleport field around Sol System...If they can...They are trying, and that's one of the first things earth must prevent... The Coalition have novas of their own! They didn't waste them all on the attacks in 2016-17, just a few of the spaceworthy combat-heavy ones. Since then they have been popping them out as fast as they could, and trained them for war... Most of them aren't even human to begin with. Can you say Kuh-Thoo-Looh? Note: the Coalition novas are generally less powerful than human novas, but far more numerous. Some of them have displayed completely unique powers never developed by human novas. A few of the Coalition novas are very powerful - luckily they seem to be locked in combat with Earth's novas in space. By 2030 there's a meta version of T2M and don't forget several anti nova, meta terrorist groups and at least one religion that is giving the Church of the Immanent Eschaton a run for it's money based on the psi experience. Oh and some clairsentient chick has invented something similar to Muezzin bang(from Trinity). The Cirus did sense a Doyan scan in 2009 so they gave warp tech. The Cirrus will help, they have the idea for boosting human meta latents to active
using biotech but are working URBAN LEGENDS 2030 Catgrrl becomes a villan so to speak leading the followers of the bestial of earth to form their animal society. Raging Monk goes mystic on us and retires to some mountain top on venus. Catgrrl devoures the Campground Monster and The Bestial and this forces her into the Cacooning that "evolves" her the the level of the Bestial...and beyond. Ruby Wyvern continues to be the blight of Russia and continues as normal. Big Bertha is killed by.....SUPERION. |
