Christopher Pyne MP
Giver of fish herpes.
((So a while ago, and by a while I mean 5 years ago, my siblings and I played superheroes together. basically the premise was superheroes banding together against a character named "Evil Doctor Bullet Tooth Tony", now when I was twelve I decided to try and write a grimdark version of this. This idea went unfulfilled and basically I left the whole thing on ice until last week when i found it, and decided it'd make a good RP, so here it is.))
The galaxy began six billion years ago with the big bang, three billion of which were occupied by the Ancients, a civilisation that pre-dates all others by four hundred and seventy three million years. The forerunners all but disappeared leaving a legacy of vast monuments to their greatness, interplanetary travel and the Germ. The Ancients left massive deposits of Irridium in the core of planets, the Varonians were the first to discover this, and once a source of it has been locked onto, larger cruisers can "jump to another system. The Germ is the most influential of all the legacies provided by the forerunners, providing abnormal abilities to those gifted or cursed with it. The Germ, when looking through the pre histories of many societies can be found and retrospectfully found through the archives of many civilisations. The carriers of the Germ were often deemed God-Kings, and Prophets by the people at the time.
The galaxy evolved over thousands of years, with the Varonians being the first space age power and colonising foreign worlds and spreading their technological prowess to other species they deemed "civilised" enough. After several hundred years there were two dozen space age powers, all forging their own empires and warring with one another. Those with the Germ, now called the Blessed Infected were the champions of these empires and often lead armies in battles. Eight thousand years ago an arms race boomed between the major players at the time, Varonians and Carrors, a synthetic version of the Germ was manufactured in order to get the tactical edge over one another, this however lead to the rise of Gararg the Conqueror, the test patient of the Varonian synthetic Germ. Garag was formerly a commando in their special forces and went insane with the Germ's power, blowing up the facility and infecting hundreds more with the Germ, creating a super powered army over the course of seven years.
The other powers in the galaxy mobilised their Blessed Infected and the two forces combatted one another near the mathematical centre of the galaxy. Once there the battle raged for two weeks straight before moving towards the sun of Silus 8. Once there, and due to the new and mainly untested weapon that they were supplied with, the Blessed Infected destroyed the sun, which in turn caused a massive cosmic event known as the great ending. The ending caused a huge chunk from the center of the galaxy to be destroyed, or the planets lying there to become irradiated wasteland.
In the wake of such destruction, the Guardians were formed. A peace keeping corps, many of whom are Blessed Infected. The Guardians have always tried to use their existence to offset the need for a military arms build-up. For six thousand years the galaxy remained in a relative state of peace, while there were most certainly pirates and crime, none of it fell under the Guardians treaty.
Then, three hundred years ago the Trimite War began. The Trimite Imperium and the United Glorian Republic in the Great Ending received an influx of refugees which provided both factions with a cheap worker base to exploit. For five thousand years the two powers would compete, initially a friendly rivalry, before becoming more and more aggressive and violent with their tactics. By the eve of the wars start, both sides had roughly a third of the galaxy allied with one another, war was glaringly obvious but supreme commander of the Guardians, Rylash Greck, a Glorian ignored the danger that was imminent.
The spark that began the war was what was known as the Charmdern Incident, due to a navigation error by the a Glorian battlecruiser which jumped too close to a Trimite fleet orbiting Charmdern. Needless to say the Glorian cruiser was destroyed, and the Trimites used the incursion as a declaration of war and immediately mobilised its army and its allies.
The Guardians were taken by surprise and weren't able to mobilise their allies and their armies in order to enact the greatest offensive to take place since the Great Ending. For twenty five years the two forces were forced into a stalemate, until the Trimites, using new solar weapon technology, forced a renewed offensive, managing to destroy several Glorian allied fleets and secure the planets they orbited. With the Trimites now seeming to be on the brink of victory the Guardians finally intervened, deciding to asssist the Glorians in fear the Trimites may overrun them.
The Guardians, despite suffering horrendous casualties managed to push the Trimites back, to their stalemate positions. From there, the Glorians and Guardians agreed that once the Trimites had had their military capability diminished, the Glorians would disarm. It soon became apparent, that many of the Trimites military leaders were fanatics and would not accept surrender unless something extreme were to happen. The new Guardian leader, Warris Hearth came up with one such extremity, operation Firestorm. The operations planning was to jump to the Trimite homeworlds after having secure some of their craft, and force a coups upon the their emperor.
Warris wouldn't live long enough to see her operation become reality, and was killed during a Trimite ambush. The operation would not take place for another eighteen years, and when it did it would be one of the wars bloodiest battles due to the fact that Trimite intelligence alerted them at the last minute to the attack. Eighteen billion military personnel would die during the space battle and the attempt to infiltrate the imperial palace, and fifty billion in the desperate carpet bombing that tried to destroy Trimite bunkers and fortifications.
The war was however over when the dust settled, the Trimites surrendered and withdrew all military forces from their positions and began to disarm. One hundred and eighteen trillion sentient beings had been killed, and three planets had been deemed uninhabitable after the incident. Several trillion beings now found themselves without a home.
In the year 2021 humanity entered the fray finally two hundred years after the war. The planet Earth had previously been unexplored and the entire solar system declared to be not deemed of exceptional value. In 2021 however a refugee hoped to colonise Earth, as it had been eighteen thousand years since the last civilised ship had entered its system. The refugees were surprised by the humans varied responses, with some worshipping them as gods while others under the command of US President Donald Trump launched entire nuclear arsenals, which rebounded off the ships hull.
The refugees, contacted the Guardians who deployed a fleet over the earth and began what is known as "The Program". The Programs basic tenants were to as diplomatically as possible give humans technology and knowledge of the stars. The Guardians stayed on the planet two years doing this and left, giving the humans advice on what they should do with their newly found knowledge, which was pursue it for peaceful purposes. Instead what happened was world war 3, and the survivors of it banded together and fled to Mars, establishing the city of New Stockholm and three dozen other smaller colonies.
Since the discovery of humans it has been seventy five years since the third world war and three hundred years since the Trimite Wars bloody conclusion. Humanity know has a new home planet on Mars, and has formed a new age government called the United Nation of Mars, which has a population of roughly three billion people, with plans to colonise the entire solar system in the next fifty years. Across the galaxy, humans are seen in two different lights, some view them as inferior degenerates who deserve to be put in a zoo and have expanded too quickly (There are humans across all parts of the galaxy now), while others admire their adaptability to new situations, often employing them in their factories as engineers. Humans in day to day situations will face "racism" as it were.
The Guardians have waned in power since the war, its ranks of the Blesses Infected reaching slightly less than a billion compared to its one trillion before the Trimite War. While it has been shown the Germ waxes and wanes throughout history, this period has had it at the lowest number of Blessed for three million years. They have taken to recruiting volunteers in order to bolster their ranks.
The Trimites on the whole have still been resentful about the wars conclusion and have been rebuilding their industrial base, as well as their old alliances. Their new king Aurell the XVI has been revitalising nationalism in the remaining Trimite territories as well as former territory they once held. They now ready for war and plan to take back what was once theirs, and what the king believes should be theirs.
Six powers rose from the ruins of the post Trimite war world:
The Helgharths Conmune, a group of influential miners who have holdings along the outer rim of the galaxy. They are formed from a conglomeration from seven major intergalactic mining companies.
There is also the Blaarg Republic, a rich organisation that was during the Trimite war, allied with the Trimites, all their wealth comes from taking apart older weapons and starship designs, and giving them civilian purposes.
The Resolute Infanite, a political movement based upon the teachings of Raul Terjardo, an ancient philosipher, swept up and formed a rough network of governments after Trimite forces pulled out of neutral systems. Their tenants of society are vaguely similar to humanities communism.
The Vergonian Empire, the system of Vergonia was one of the only major industialised governments to remain neutral during the war. However due to its resources and divided population, the Glorians decided to try and institute a Glorian friendly government. This backfired and plunged the kingdom into dissarray, eventually splitting Vergonia into two different, but still major factions. The Empire is Trimite allied and the stronger of the two.
United Democratic Vergonian Systems was Glorian supported, and came off worse during the Trimite war. Since the defeat of the Trimites, they've faced skirmishes with their cousins.
The Syndicate; A series of loosely allied pirates and smugglers managed to become rich off trading information during the Trimite War. Since then they've only become more powerful, basing themselves in the inner ruined core of the galaxy.
Species (I may add some more)
There are innumerable species throughout the galaxy, but here are the most
Trimite: A four legged species with three eyes, and two arms. They come in shades of grey, blue and green. On average they stand at five and a half feet high.
Vestroidians: A large orange species that is covered by scales. They have a long leathery tale and stand at seven foot tall. They have a face that looks like a crocodile.
Carrors: An insectoid species with eight legs and four arms. They have one large compound eye in the centre of their head and stand at five foot at largest.
Varonians: A humanoid species with a thick blue spikes on their back, and light blue skin. They stand on average at five foot seven.
Glorians: A mammal species that appear to have genetics similar to that of Earths cattle. They have grey horns and black skin, and stand at four to six foot tall. They have a muzzle and will occasionally have white or grey spots on them.
Powers the Germ allows:
Telekinesis
The ability to shoot lasers from your hands.
Super strength
Flight
Electrokinesis
Wind manipulation
Manipulation of the earth ((Ala Avatar the last airbender))
The galaxy began six billion years ago with the big bang, three billion of which were occupied by the Ancients, a civilisation that pre-dates all others by four hundred and seventy three million years. The forerunners all but disappeared leaving a legacy of vast monuments to their greatness, interplanetary travel and the Germ. The Ancients left massive deposits of Irridium in the core of planets, the Varonians were the first to discover this, and once a source of it has been locked onto, larger cruisers can "jump to another system. The Germ is the most influential of all the legacies provided by the forerunners, providing abnormal abilities to those gifted or cursed with it. The Germ, when looking through the pre histories of many societies can be found and retrospectfully found through the archives of many civilisations. The carriers of the Germ were often deemed God-Kings, and Prophets by the people at the time.
The galaxy evolved over thousands of years, with the Varonians being the first space age power and colonising foreign worlds and spreading their technological prowess to other species they deemed "civilised" enough. After several hundred years there were two dozen space age powers, all forging their own empires and warring with one another. Those with the Germ, now called the Blessed Infected were the champions of these empires and often lead armies in battles. Eight thousand years ago an arms race boomed between the major players at the time, Varonians and Carrors, a synthetic version of the Germ was manufactured in order to get the tactical edge over one another, this however lead to the rise of Gararg the Conqueror, the test patient of the Varonian synthetic Germ. Garag was formerly a commando in their special forces and went insane with the Germ's power, blowing up the facility and infecting hundreds more with the Germ, creating a super powered army over the course of seven years.
The other powers in the galaxy mobilised their Blessed Infected and the two forces combatted one another near the mathematical centre of the galaxy. Once there the battle raged for two weeks straight before moving towards the sun of Silus 8. Once there, and due to the new and mainly untested weapon that they were supplied with, the Blessed Infected destroyed the sun, which in turn caused a massive cosmic event known as the great ending. The ending caused a huge chunk from the center of the galaxy to be destroyed, or the planets lying there to become irradiated wasteland.
In the wake of such destruction, the Guardians were formed. A peace keeping corps, many of whom are Blessed Infected. The Guardians have always tried to use their existence to offset the need for a military arms build-up. For six thousand years the galaxy remained in a relative state of peace, while there were most certainly pirates and crime, none of it fell under the Guardians treaty.
Then, three hundred years ago the Trimite War began. The Trimite Imperium and the United Glorian Republic in the Great Ending received an influx of refugees which provided both factions with a cheap worker base to exploit. For five thousand years the two powers would compete, initially a friendly rivalry, before becoming more and more aggressive and violent with their tactics. By the eve of the wars start, both sides had roughly a third of the galaxy allied with one another, war was glaringly obvious but supreme commander of the Guardians, Rylash Greck, a Glorian ignored the danger that was imminent.
The spark that began the war was what was known as the Charmdern Incident, due to a navigation error by the a Glorian battlecruiser which jumped too close to a Trimite fleet orbiting Charmdern. Needless to say the Glorian cruiser was destroyed, and the Trimites used the incursion as a declaration of war and immediately mobilised its army and its allies.
The Guardians were taken by surprise and weren't able to mobilise their allies and their armies in order to enact the greatest offensive to take place since the Great Ending. For twenty five years the two forces were forced into a stalemate, until the Trimites, using new solar weapon technology, forced a renewed offensive, managing to destroy several Glorian allied fleets and secure the planets they orbited. With the Trimites now seeming to be on the brink of victory the Guardians finally intervened, deciding to asssist the Glorians in fear the Trimites may overrun them.
The Guardians, despite suffering horrendous casualties managed to push the Trimites back, to their stalemate positions. From there, the Glorians and Guardians agreed that once the Trimites had had their military capability diminished, the Glorians would disarm. It soon became apparent, that many of the Trimites military leaders were fanatics and would not accept surrender unless something extreme were to happen. The new Guardian leader, Warris Hearth came up with one such extremity, operation Firestorm. The operations planning was to jump to the Trimite homeworlds after having secure some of their craft, and force a coups upon the their emperor.
Warris wouldn't live long enough to see her operation become reality, and was killed during a Trimite ambush. The operation would not take place for another eighteen years, and when it did it would be one of the wars bloodiest battles due to the fact that Trimite intelligence alerted them at the last minute to the attack. Eighteen billion military personnel would die during the space battle and the attempt to infiltrate the imperial palace, and fifty billion in the desperate carpet bombing that tried to destroy Trimite bunkers and fortifications.
The war was however over when the dust settled, the Trimites surrendered and withdrew all military forces from their positions and began to disarm. One hundred and eighteen trillion sentient beings had been killed, and three planets had been deemed uninhabitable after the incident. Several trillion beings now found themselves without a home.
In the year 2021 humanity entered the fray finally two hundred years after the war. The planet Earth had previously been unexplored and the entire solar system declared to be not deemed of exceptional value. In 2021 however a refugee hoped to colonise Earth, as it had been eighteen thousand years since the last civilised ship had entered its system. The refugees were surprised by the humans varied responses, with some worshipping them as gods while others under the command of US President Donald Trump launched entire nuclear arsenals, which rebounded off the ships hull.
The refugees, contacted the Guardians who deployed a fleet over the earth and began what is known as "The Program". The Programs basic tenants were to as diplomatically as possible give humans technology and knowledge of the stars. The Guardians stayed on the planet two years doing this and left, giving the humans advice on what they should do with their newly found knowledge, which was pursue it for peaceful purposes. Instead what happened was world war 3, and the survivors of it banded together and fled to Mars, establishing the city of New Stockholm and three dozen other smaller colonies.
Since the discovery of humans it has been seventy five years since the third world war and three hundred years since the Trimite Wars bloody conclusion. Humanity know has a new home planet on Mars, and has formed a new age government called the United Nation of Mars, which has a population of roughly three billion people, with plans to colonise the entire solar system in the next fifty years. Across the galaxy, humans are seen in two different lights, some view them as inferior degenerates who deserve to be put in a zoo and have expanded too quickly (There are humans across all parts of the galaxy now), while others admire their adaptability to new situations, often employing them in their factories as engineers. Humans in day to day situations will face "racism" as it were.
The Guardians have waned in power since the war, its ranks of the Blesses Infected reaching slightly less than a billion compared to its one trillion before the Trimite War. While it has been shown the Germ waxes and wanes throughout history, this period has had it at the lowest number of Blessed for three million years. They have taken to recruiting volunteers in order to bolster their ranks.
The Trimites on the whole have still been resentful about the wars conclusion and have been rebuilding their industrial base, as well as their old alliances. Their new king Aurell the XVI has been revitalising nationalism in the remaining Trimite territories as well as former territory they once held. They now ready for war and plan to take back what was once theirs, and what the king believes should be theirs.
Six powers rose from the ruins of the post Trimite war world:
The Helgharths Conmune, a group of influential miners who have holdings along the outer rim of the galaxy. They are formed from a conglomeration from seven major intergalactic mining companies.
There is also the Blaarg Republic, a rich organisation that was during the Trimite war, allied with the Trimites, all their wealth comes from taking apart older weapons and starship designs, and giving them civilian purposes.
The Resolute Infanite, a political movement based upon the teachings of Raul Terjardo, an ancient philosipher, swept up and formed a rough network of governments after Trimite forces pulled out of neutral systems. Their tenants of society are vaguely similar to humanities communism.
The Vergonian Empire, the system of Vergonia was one of the only major industialised governments to remain neutral during the war. However due to its resources and divided population, the Glorians decided to try and institute a Glorian friendly government. This backfired and plunged the kingdom into dissarray, eventually splitting Vergonia into two different, but still major factions. The Empire is Trimite allied and the stronger of the two.
United Democratic Vergonian Systems was Glorian supported, and came off worse during the Trimite war. Since the defeat of the Trimites, they've faced skirmishes with their cousins.
The Syndicate; A series of loosely allied pirates and smugglers managed to become rich off trading information during the Trimite War. Since then they've only become more powerful, basing themselves in the inner ruined core of the galaxy.
Species (I may add some more)
There are innumerable species throughout the galaxy, but here are the most
Trimite: A four legged species with three eyes, and two arms. They come in shades of grey, blue and green. On average they stand at five and a half feet high.
Vestroidians: A large orange species that is covered by scales. They have a long leathery tale and stand at seven foot tall. They have a face that looks like a crocodile.
Carrors: An insectoid species with eight legs and four arms. They have one large compound eye in the centre of their head and stand at five foot at largest.
Varonians: A humanoid species with a thick blue spikes on their back, and light blue skin. They stand on average at five foot seven.
Glorians: A mammal species that appear to have genetics similar to that of Earths cattle. They have grey horns and black skin, and stand at four to six foot tall. They have a muzzle and will occasionally have white or grey spots on them.
Powers the Germ allows:
Telekinesis
The ability to shoot lasers from your hands.
Super strength
Flight
Electrokinesis
Wind manipulation
Manipulation of the earth ((Ala Avatar the last airbender))
