Introduction
The TerraGen Dominion
Volume 1: Sol System
It was the first century.
Mankind's Darkest Hour.
In 1918 Classical Calendar, after four years of fighting one of the most horrific wars in Human history, peace was finally declared.
It was not to last.
In 1945 Classical Calendar, following another horrific conflict that saw the deaths of tens of millions of people end with the nuclear devastation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, a frail peace descended on the world.
It was not to last.
The untimely death of President Franklin Roosevelt put into jeopardy the tentative alliance between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, and tensions spiraled into what we now call the First Cold War. Numerous local conflicts were fought as proxy wars between the two global powers, and hundreds of billions of dollars were spent by both sides on their respective campaigns as the fate of the planet rested on the doctrine of mutually assured destruction. Highly notably, in 1969 Classical Calendar, the first moon landing took place.
The world breathed a sigh of relief in 1991 Classical Calendar as the Soviet Union collapsed, and with it, the end of the First Cold War.
It was not to last.
Tensions between East and West never truly ceased. US policy of the expansion of NATO into a defensive alliance, and Russian desire for friendly nations on the western border led to the first true war on European soil of the twenty first century. Outright war on Russia's western border had been delayed by the militarily strong US presidents of Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump, but the Biden administration saw Russia take advantage of the weaker US leadership to begin an offensive war in Ukraine; an act which would have almost certainly seen full scale response from any of his predecessors, Biden instead largely left the US role at pro-western propaganda and trying to take former Russian weapons exports. Russia had been expected to sweep to victory by many people in a matter of days; renewed fears of a Russian invasion of Europe became a topic of worry for many, especially in Eastern Europe. Instead the war ground on to a bloody stalemate as a desperate Ukraine fought on, and Russia was discovered to be a paper tiger dependent on conscripts and badly maintained equipment, mauled even more in the propaganda sphere where they were too left behind. Eventually, backed by Western support both on the record and off, Ukraine begin to push back.
Russia was left with the choice of continuing with failing strategies that were leaving it weaker and weaker while collapsing the value of it's weapons exports, or to use nuclear attack, or ask for Chinese aid.
Unwilling to risk nuclear response, and unwilling to pay the price of Chinese aid, Russia fought on.
Eventually, after a very great deal of US negotiations with anti-Chinese nations like India, China took the opportunity to end the war; in the summer of 2025 Classical Calendar, everything east of the Urals was seized in a matter of days in a show of joining the western world. Putin was deposed, and the world celebrated the new peace.
It was not to last.
The new tensions were marked by increasing US and European decadence as the centre of power and influence shifted to the Far East. The vast resources of Siberia were stripped by the economic might of China to fuel the rise of a new Chinese hegemony that led to the formation of what the West would call the Indo-Pacific Defence Alliance. (IPDA) China in response poured development into Africa, aiming to secure the continent with a network of client states. IPDA then acted to contain the threat, backing dissident forces. Clashes broke out as native groups formed reactionary African independence movements that rejected the neo-colonialism of Western megacorporate entities, Chinese hegemony and IPDA efforts, and demanded a free liberated Africa. Once again, mutually assured destruction reared it's ugly head as improving technologies in areas such as weak AI, 3D printing and information availability threatened a global crisis as drone warfare exploded in utilisation after US dissident groups published open source designs for printable firearms and combat drones.
The United States' 2032 Classical Calendar election saw dissident sentiment peak after massive scale Democrat and Republican election fraud leading to returning more ballots than there were Americans, with millions taking to the streets in protests; the military stepped in to force a ceasefire, unwilling to either allow civil war or dissolve the government. Revanchist US military elements realised that the only way for the US to regain the upper hand was to utilise the Moon as the platform for American expansion. A massive expansion of NASA was launched, when then led to follow-up missions by the European Union, IPDA and China that saw their own Lunese expansion as essential to contain US expansion.
The War Of Three Billion began in cis-lunar space, 2040 Classical Calendar, so named because of the rough estimate of the minimum casualty count that followed the detonation of US launched fusion-boosted warheads in low Earth orbit above the Indian Ocean causing EMP effects to cripple the Far East, which caused reprisal attacks by Chinese and IPDA forces on Luna and the detonation of their own fusion-boosted warheads above the eastern coast of the USA.
Earth would recover, but was effectively knocked out of the war. The Lunese powers themselves, being now de facto independent, unleashed the powers of genetic engineering to create the Superiors, a super-human master race designed to operate vast exoselves consisting of their factories and their combat drones. Peace settled as the Lunese powers expanded across their now homeworld to fill it within decades, the Earth merely a blue speck in the endless black sky.
It is now After Aldrin 131.
Volume 1: Sol System
It was the first century.
Mankind's Darkest Hour.
In 1918 Classical Calendar, after four years of fighting one of the most horrific wars in Human history, peace was finally declared.
It was not to last.
In 1945 Classical Calendar, following another horrific conflict that saw the deaths of tens of millions of people end with the nuclear devastation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, a frail peace descended on the world.
It was not to last.
The untimely death of President Franklin Roosevelt put into jeopardy the tentative alliance between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, and tensions spiraled into what we now call the First Cold War. Numerous local conflicts were fought as proxy wars between the two global powers, and hundreds of billions of dollars were spent by both sides on their respective campaigns as the fate of the planet rested on the doctrine of mutually assured destruction. Highly notably, in 1969 Classical Calendar, the first moon landing took place.
The world breathed a sigh of relief in 1991 Classical Calendar as the Soviet Union collapsed, and with it, the end of the First Cold War.
It was not to last.
Tensions between East and West never truly ceased. US policy of the expansion of NATO into a defensive alliance, and Russian desire for friendly nations on the western border led to the first true war on European soil of the twenty first century. Outright war on Russia's western border had been delayed by the militarily strong US presidents of Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump, but the Biden administration saw Russia take advantage of the weaker US leadership to begin an offensive war in Ukraine; an act which would have almost certainly seen full scale response from any of his predecessors, Biden instead largely left the US role at pro-western propaganda and trying to take former Russian weapons exports. Russia had been expected to sweep to victory by many people in a matter of days; renewed fears of a Russian invasion of Europe became a topic of worry for many, especially in Eastern Europe. Instead the war ground on to a bloody stalemate as a desperate Ukraine fought on, and Russia was discovered to be a paper tiger dependent on conscripts and badly maintained equipment, mauled even more in the propaganda sphere where they were too left behind. Eventually, backed by Western support both on the record and off, Ukraine begin to push back.
Russia was left with the choice of continuing with failing strategies that were leaving it weaker and weaker while collapsing the value of it's weapons exports, or to use nuclear attack, or ask for Chinese aid.
Unwilling to risk nuclear response, and unwilling to pay the price of Chinese aid, Russia fought on.
Eventually, after a very great deal of US negotiations with anti-Chinese nations like India, China took the opportunity to end the war; in the summer of 2025 Classical Calendar, everything east of the Urals was seized in a matter of days in a show of joining the western world. Putin was deposed, and the world celebrated the new peace.
It was not to last.
The new tensions were marked by increasing US and European decadence as the centre of power and influence shifted to the Far East. The vast resources of Siberia were stripped by the economic might of China to fuel the rise of a new Chinese hegemony that led to the formation of what the West would call the Indo-Pacific Defence Alliance. (IPDA) China in response poured development into Africa, aiming to secure the continent with a network of client states. IPDA then acted to contain the threat, backing dissident forces. Clashes broke out as native groups formed reactionary African independence movements that rejected the neo-colonialism of Western megacorporate entities, Chinese hegemony and IPDA efforts, and demanded a free liberated Africa. Once again, mutually assured destruction reared it's ugly head as improving technologies in areas such as weak AI, 3D printing and information availability threatened a global crisis as drone warfare exploded in utilisation after US dissident groups published open source designs for printable firearms and combat drones.
The United States' 2032 Classical Calendar election saw dissident sentiment peak after massive scale Democrat and Republican election fraud leading to returning more ballots than there were Americans, with millions taking to the streets in protests; the military stepped in to force a ceasefire, unwilling to either allow civil war or dissolve the government. Revanchist US military elements realised that the only way for the US to regain the upper hand was to utilise the Moon as the platform for American expansion. A massive expansion of NASA was launched, when then led to follow-up missions by the European Union, IPDA and China that saw their own Lunese expansion as essential to contain US expansion.
The War Of Three Billion began in cis-lunar space, 2040 Classical Calendar, so named because of the rough estimate of the minimum casualty count that followed the detonation of US launched fusion-boosted warheads in low Earth orbit above the Indian Ocean causing EMP effects to cripple the Far East, which caused reprisal attacks by Chinese and IPDA forces on Luna and the detonation of their own fusion-boosted warheads above the eastern coast of the USA.
Earth would recover, but was effectively knocked out of the war. The Lunese powers themselves, being now de facto independent, unleashed the powers of genetic engineering to create the Superiors, a super-human master race designed to operate vast exoselves consisting of their factories and their combat drones. Peace settled as the Lunese powers expanded across their now homeworld to fill it within decades, the Earth merely a blue speck in the endless black sky.
It is now After Aldrin 131.
The race for Luna is over. Peace has settled as Superiors trade influence, knowledge and resources in a desperate struggle to build their own power while avoiding a devastating war.
It is not to last.
The race for Mars has begun.
It is not to last.
The race for Mars has begun.
About The Historian
I am Gamma One-One-Zero Of Mare Serenitatis. I am a Provolve created by the United Republic of Mare Serenitatis; you would likely understand my shape best if I describe myself as an octopus derivative. I have included a picture:
The United Republic of Mare Serenitatis is one of the oldest Lunese colonies, dating back to the first American colonies on Luna. It was used as a springboard and home base for mining into the volcanic sea and the asteroid impact residue beneath, as well as returning to the site of one of the original landing sites of Pre-Superior mankind.
URMS is one of the few democratic regimes on Luna, maintaining the appearance of equality for Superiors, Baselines, NeoGens and Embodied-AI, although in practice the military dictates everything, as with all things on Luna.
URMS is one of hundreds of competing Lunese states. We have twelve hundred Superiors managing more than a hundred million drones of all types, with around twenty thousand Baselines and five thousand Provolves like myself.
My direct Superior calls herself Idmé Hencaal:
While it is difficult to understand the schemes of Superiors, she is a significant power within URMS, one of the top specialists in provolution - she was the dominant force behind the creation of Gamma Project, my people. And she intends to win.URMS is one of the few democratic regimes on Luna, maintaining the appearance of equality for Superiors, Baselines, NeoGens and Embodied-AI, although in practice the military dictates everything, as with all things on Luna.
URMS is one of hundreds of competing Lunese states. We have twelve hundred Superiors managing more than a hundred million drones of all types, with around twenty thousand Baselines and five thousand Provolves like myself.
My direct Superior calls herself Idmé Hencaal:
After Aldrin 131 – SitRep
In After Aldrin 131 – or 2100 Classical Calendar if you prefer – cis-lunar space is divided.
Earth is now united under the New United Nations of Earth; the old nations have been completely done away with and replaced by a system of districts, and an all new constructed language supercedes all pre-War Of Three Billion languages. It has no known Superiors, but higher than 99.9999% of all Baselines, and is the only planet that is naturally inhabitable at this point in time, which gives it access to vast amounts of genetic data that Luna cannot have by curse of barrenness, and therefore, its Earth's main bargaining asset. It is a blockaded planet, with Lunese dominance over cis-Lunar space being sufficient to effectively cut Earth off from accessing space - an Earth-launched vessel of like-for-like design is simply unable to fight off a vessel launched from Luna because of how much more mass must be fuel to reach space.
Luna however is not united - Superiors juggle for supremacy in shifting webs that act, react and counter-react extremely quickly. The dominant warfare on Luna consists of electronic warfare; outright destructive war has been avoided since the War Of Three Billion. All Lunese Superiors however, are wary of Earth becoming a dominant power, and while competition is fierce, no one takes their eye off the threat of Earth for long.
Our time is therefore that of the Second Cold War.
All sides contemplate Mars. Mars itself is home to a breakaway faction that left Earth before the War Of Three Billion, but were not able to fully establish themselves; it's few pioneers delve into the crust of the red planet to build homes secure from the radiation, harvesting Oxygen and water from the regolith and ice caps.
The Superiors all scheme on expansion to Mars, but without cohesion no one Superior can afford to risk dividing their efforts.
The UNE also schemes plots to take Mars, but there is very little they can do except to leap our technology. But we Provolves, Baselines and Embodied-AIs trust our Superior leadership not to let that happen.
Earth is now united under the New United Nations of Earth; the old nations have been completely done away with and replaced by a system of districts, and an all new constructed language supercedes all pre-War Of Three Billion languages. It has no known Superiors, but higher than 99.9999% of all Baselines, and is the only planet that is naturally inhabitable at this point in time, which gives it access to vast amounts of genetic data that Luna cannot have by curse of barrenness, and therefore, its Earth's main bargaining asset. It is a blockaded planet, with Lunese dominance over cis-Lunar space being sufficient to effectively cut Earth off from accessing space - an Earth-launched vessel of like-for-like design is simply unable to fight off a vessel launched from Luna because of how much more mass must be fuel to reach space.
Luna however is not united - Superiors juggle for supremacy in shifting webs that act, react and counter-react extremely quickly. The dominant warfare on Luna consists of electronic warfare; outright destructive war has been avoided since the War Of Three Billion. All Lunese Superiors however, are wary of Earth becoming a dominant power, and while competition is fierce, no one takes their eye off the threat of Earth for long.
Our time is therefore that of the Second Cold War.
All sides contemplate Mars. Mars itself is home to a breakaway faction that left Earth before the War Of Three Billion, but were not able to fully establish themselves; it's few pioneers delve into the crust of the red planet to build homes secure from the radiation, harvesting Oxygen and water from the regolith and ice caps.
The Superiors all scheme on expansion to Mars, but without cohesion no one Superior can afford to risk dividing their efforts.
The UNE also schemes plots to take Mars, but there is very little they can do except to leap our technology. But we Provolves, Baselines and Embodied-AIs trust our Superior leadership not to let that happen.
Those who've been following my "Life2.0 - A Broken Shackles Narrative" might remember a brief conversation on the merits of the Orion drive, and it was commented that no Stellaris AAR/Narrative had featured them.
Until now.
This Narrative takes the Under One Rule Origin, a few ideas I have had to cut from Life 2.0 because of the decision to compress it's timescale, and a few of my background ideas that have been covered before but will be taken in a different direction. As can be gathered from the post so far, this will be not be a normal one of my narratives. HaMaadimi Imperium fundamentally was a positive outlook on the future of mankind, while the Prikkiki-Ti was a very dark AAR, I did not get to take them in the direction I intended to. (that will be seen in Life2.0 though) The Yabuntu Iriphubliki was another positive outlook in general.
This one is not like those; while it will not be grim-dark where there is no point caring about the characters because the setting itself is screwed, it will be much less positive in outlook, and it will be per aspera ad astra. Characters will not have the general plot armour that my characters are used to having; only the two named characters in this post have plot armour, and the others may well face death as pawns on a board they barely understand, victims of the machinations of those who manipulate minds and men to war and death to grow their own power. Nevertheless, there will also be heroes with blasters and blades who will not go quietly into the night, who shine on as paragons.
It will also be the first AAR/narrative of mine to feature Psionics as a major theme, although that will be limited compared to Stellaris, even into Volume 2 - I just don't like dealing with Shroud Entities.
A last comment is that I am unsure if I am allowed to have two AARs/Narratives running simultaneously, however, this one will be much less frequently posted on, as - unlike any previous AAR or narrative of mine - I will actually be editing and proof-reading these ones. Normally I only ever post the first draft.
And, as a point of tidiness, and because I have noticed that it doesn't work on mobile, the main font used will be Arial, in Bold.
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