Futuristic Encyclopedia Novata

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Overview
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In the year 2476, the political climate is hot. Mankind,

under the rule of The Terran Federation, has spent the last four centuries colonizing The Sol System; from the dry sands of Mercury to the ice sheets of Pluto. But, the Terrans couldn't have done it without the help of a very special scientist: Rüdiger Von Strauss. In the year 2050, the man invented the Light Drive, which made travelling from Earth to Pluto as fast as a plane flight from London to Tokyo. This advanced humanities knowledge by centuries all at once and deepened its thirst for expansion beyond the Moon. And, now, the colonized worlds' unrest is beginning. Rebel groups started popping up recently and, without warning, destroying satellites and Federal Outposts, killing innocent civilians in the process. One such attack, orchestrated by the Jovian Union of National Extremists (JUNE), was the tipping point for all out civil war.


On August 1st, 2476, an organized

assault was launched by JUNE on Europa station, orbiting the planet Jupiter. The Federation had no choice but to declare Martial Law among its colonies, which couldn't have resulted worse. Piece by piece, sections of the Sol System started to break off into their own governments. The Jovian Alliance was formed, consisting of Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus, along with their moons. The Kuiper Belt Union, consisting of Pluto and it's many neighbors in the Kuiper Belt, was the second group to be formed. Following them, the Colonized Asteroid Belt broke off and formed a ring of pirate fleets that travel the System. Without the order and the peace that once was, how was the human race going to make any progress? It couldn't.

The worlds of The Sol System are now in a deadlock, where no further progress is possible and the interlocutors feel less sure of their beliefs than they had at the start.

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