History of the Sol Dominion
In 2078, three great Ark Ships were loaded with nearly a million human colonists and sent through an artificial wormhole towards the nearest star system likely to contain a habitable world. Things went well up until the last ship passed through the wormhole. Once the final ship was through, the wormhole generation device exploded and sent a shockwave through the wormhole just before it closed. This shockwave threw these ships massively off course and stranded them far from their destinations. While the first two ships were destroyed by the shockwave, the third made it through and arrived at a distant system containing a lush new world similar to Earth. The colonists made landfall on the new world which they named "New Terra" and began to make a home for themselves there.
After a few weeks on the planet, contact was made with the natives. An industrial age civilization known as the Tebazoids called the planet home and proved to be quite friendly. The happily gave the human settlers large tracts of land near the area they had made landfall as their own and for a time, the two civilizations were able to live in relative peace.
However, nearly a century later that peace was shattered when the humans began pressing them for more land to be granted to them. The fact that the land was being torn to shreds by their industrial machines in search of more minerals and other natural resources certainly did not help their case.
The Tebazoans tried to maintain the peace without surrendering more of their land and it even worked for a time but eventually, the peace broke down and the Tebazoans went to war to force the human settlers off their world. But despite their superior numbers, the Tebazoan forces were unprepared for the advanced technology, military organization and innovative tactical doctrine that the human military brought to bear against them.
In just under five years, the entirety of the planet had been conquered by the settlers and the Tebazoids had been either enslaved or exterminated depending on the local needs. Rechristening the planet as "New Terra", the human settlers spread out across the land, claiming it as their own as they spread and prospered.
Regardless of what their intentions had been when they arrived, the war with the Tebazoid people had doubtless changed the humans. No longer were they the friendly, peaceful men and women who had arrived on the planet with such great hope for the future. Now they were violent, xenophobic and prone to lashing out at the slightest provocation.
If their forefathers back on Earth had been able to see what these colonists' descendants had become, they would scarcely have recognized them. But the war had not only changed them philosophically and diplomatically; it had also changed them politically. Where before, they had been nominally democratic and had believed that only a democratic state could govern them fairly and justly, now they had willingly handed over power to a military dictatorship in the pursuit of victory over the Tebazoids.
By the time humanity stood as the uncontested rulers of New Terra, they were united under a brutal, repressive military dictatorship known as the Sol Dominion. Under the newly appointed Grand Marshal Alec Bennet, the Sol Dominion sought to usher in a new age of human glory and prosperity unlike anything ever seen.
As they launched their first spacefaring warships from the newly built starbase of the Utopia system, they looked to the future and hoped. Hoped for the greatness of humanity and the long sought after day when they would return to Sol and claim it in the name of the Dominion. They watched. And hoped for that day to come soon. But would it? They could only guess.
