Morpheus1975
Mongoose
Whatever Mongoose makes the story should either be based on a pre-existing series OR a totally new universe with a good storyline. One that has room to expand and grow.
Here is an idea from the game I try to continue designing whenever I get a few minutes.
Stellar Empires
Terran Union Timeline>
> 2042 Lunar Base established by NASA and NAXA
> 2065 Martian Base established by NASA and ESA
> 2087 Luna Colony Formed – Primarily Latin Americans, Europeans, and
Americans
> 2095 Neptune Interstellar Gate Found by NASA explorer mission PIKE II
After examination of the Gate, and dispatch of robotic probes, NASA
announces that the Gate opens to hyperspace and allows one to travel very
long distances in relatively short periods of time from one gate to another. Beacons of unknown manufacture marked exits of other gates from within hyperspace network. NASA, ESA & NAXA scientists theorize Gate network established by another, highly advanced race over 200,000 years ago.
> 2096-2101 NASA, NAXA and ESA manned explorer missions and robotic probes
explore and survey 6 different planetary systems, opening several for human settlement in 2101
> 2101 Era of Stellar Colonization. First Colonization missions embark in 2101.
> 2108 First evidence of ancient civilizations found in Sirius system. Extensive ruins are found on mainworld, in orbit and on several minor asteroids and planetoids. Intensive study of recovered tech begins.
> 2140 Earth Civil War begins. War starts with clash between India and China and spreads, taking the form of India, USA, Japan, EU vs Russia, China and allies. Central and South America, except Mexico and Venezuela, remain neutral. US and Japanese forces crush Venezuela. Mexico joins US and allied forces due to pressure from US born Mexicans. Russian forces invade Eastern Europe, stalemate ensues. China, aided by Pakistan, invades Northern India, pushing into the Ganges River valley.
> 2143 Nuclear weapons exchange initiated between Pakistan and India, soon including the rest of the major combatants. Tokyo is hit by nuclear strikes from United Korean Nation.
> 2145 Professor Joachim Reissen announces that Earth is at tech level 2 of 12 on the Reissen-Kawabushi spacegoing technology scale.
> 2145-2152 While war rages refugees flee Earth and form new colonies, many of which are privately or corporately funded.
> 2152 After 12 years the Earth war ends as economic exhaustion settles in.
> 2153 Coalition Government called the Confederation of Terran States is formed, with a senior council composed of China, India, the European Union, Russia and the USA. This new government looks out at colonies and taxation to help to rebuild Earth.
> 2153-2155 CTS forces contact, and gain control of, human colony worlds.
> 2155 Tensions rise as border worlds protest high tax rates to pay for rebuilding of Earth.
> 2158 Small skirmishes with CTS Naval vessels and Marius System ships.
> 2160 Earth/Border War begins at the battle of Xi Bootes A system. Border Worlds Confederation formed by several border worlds with the capitol on Marius III.
> 2164 CTS forces win the Battle of Paraiso, allowing Earth to end the Earth/Border war
> CTS wins war and forces a peace settlement on the exhausted BWC. Earth puts laws into place limiting the size of the defensive fleets of the Border Worlds as part of the Treaty of Struve.
> 2169 BWC merchant picks up battle between unknown forces and closes to investigate. BWC merchant vessel observes, and records telemetry from, a battle between two races later identified as the Bnarls and the Kthorgs. After the battle concludes BWC vessel closes with a disabled vessel and offers assistance to the surviving crew, thus making first contact with the Bnarl. Through this meeting Humanity learns of the Kthorg and of the war between the Bnarl and the Kthorg. Humanity also learns that the Bnarl are currently losing the war.
> 2170 BWC and Bnarl exchange embassies, followed by the CTS and the Bnarl.
> 2171 BWC defies Earth, repudiates the restriction on Space Navy construction and starts fleet buildup.
> 2172 CTS demands BWC ceases naval buildup, which the BWC ignores. Earth
and BWC tensions rise.
> 2173 The Kthorg learn of Humanity through captured astrogation data from Bnarl Vessels. The Kthorg launch a preemptive strike, seizing several CTS colony worlds.
> 2174 Kthorg attack CTS forces in Nuevo Vista. During the battle a BWC fleet arrives and renders assistance to CTS forces. BWC and CTS forces successfully
defeat Kthorg at Nuevo Vista. Human forces push Kthorg out of the Hiatis
system, however Kthorg forces capture the Syriasus, Galdolphin and Frangee systems.
> 2175 BWC forces defeated and forced out of the Cielito Lindo system, which is a key world for the Border World Confederation's economy.
> 2176 CTS R&D develops Interceptor technology for defense of space vessels. CTS Senior Council declares Interceptor tech restricted and refuses to allow BWC access to this technology. CTS commissions’ construction of the New Hope, a battleship larger than any previous human space warship to date.
> 2178 CTS government, in response to pressures of the war, changes into a new form, calling itself the Terran Union. The new Terran Union provides more direct access, and greater political power, to the larger colony worlds.
> 2180 New Hope BB launched and begins shakedown cruise. Human-Kthorg War still going badly for Humanity as the Kthorg continue to capture systems from Human forces.
> 2182 While on patrol between Wayhaven and Xi Bootes system, the BB New Hope is declared missing. Search of patrol path for the New Hope yield no solid
leads as to the New Hope's whereabouts.
> 2183 BWC discovers the existence of interceptor technology, through espionage and telemetry from combat engagements that show interceptor tech in action.
> BWC informs the TU that it will assist in defense of mutually important systems but that blanket cooperation with TU forces will be suspended until access to interceptor technology is granted to the BWC.
> 2185 Continued setbacks in the Human-Kthorg War cause the Terran Union to
reconsider the tech restrictions in regards to the Border Worlds. Access to
Interceptor tech is given to the BWC. In response the BWC deploys more
forces to TU territory to assist in the effort against the Kthorg.
> 2186 Human-Kthorg War reaches a stalemate. Joint BWC-TU forces, Kthorg struggle against both Human and Bnarl forces, and heavily defended chokepoint systems cause this stalemate.
> 2187 Terran Union Explorer ship Jim Bowie discovers Serenidad. Surveys reveal that Serenidad is a huge and fertile planet very much like Earth. Colonization efforts are sideline by the demands of the war effort against
the Kthorg.
> 2189 Asteroid hits New Valencia, a major TU Production Center. This loss of Industrial capacity causes the balance in the Human-Kthorg War to shift in favor of the Kthorgs.
> 2190 Diplomatic initiatives (stretching over a 4 year period) yield a treaty of
Co-Belligerence against the Kthorg. Parties to this treaty are the Bnarl, the Border Worlds Confederation and the Terran Union.
> 2192 The Battleship New Hope is found derelict by BWC in X14172, a newly
discovered system. Investigation of the hulk reveals that the crew was
killed under mysterious circumstances and many electrical and mechanical
components were removed from the vessel. The New Hope is transported to
Marketa (BWC Capital) and refitted for combat.
> 2193 During an engagement against Kthorg forces in the Renatus system Human forces observe unknown vessels attacking the Kthorg. These vessels are discovered to belong to the Cinturons. Negotiations lead to the additon of the
Cinturons to the treaty of Co-Belligerence against the Kthorg.
> 2194 Sightings of "ghost ships" and unexplainable sensor targets are reported with disturbing frequency.
> Task Force New Hope, centered on the Battleship New Hope, leads a counteroffensive against the Kthorg. Kthorg forces are pushed back and
numerous systems are reclaimed by Human forces.
> 2197 Kthorg forces are pushed out of pre war Human Space, and the first
Kthorg systems fall to Human forces.
> 2198 An armistice is requested by the Kthorg. Hositlities cease while treaty
negotiations take place. The Kthorgs end the war signing a treaty with TU and BWC as well as Cinturons and Bnarls. An uneasy peace ensues.
> 2201 The Machines make first contact with Humanity. A Machine probing
force attacks New Avalon but is repulsed. Evidence of TU technology is recovered
from derelict Machine vessels. The Machine connection to the disappearance
of the New Hope is discovered. The Machine War Begins with attacks on
several human worlds.
> 2202 Information that the Kthorgs are aware of the machine war increases worries that the Kthorgs might try again.
Here is an idea from the game I try to continue designing whenever I get a few minutes.
Stellar Empires
Terran Union Timeline>
> 2042 Lunar Base established by NASA and NAXA
> 2065 Martian Base established by NASA and ESA
> 2087 Luna Colony Formed – Primarily Latin Americans, Europeans, and
Americans
> 2095 Neptune Interstellar Gate Found by NASA explorer mission PIKE II
After examination of the Gate, and dispatch of robotic probes, NASA
announces that the Gate opens to hyperspace and allows one to travel very
long distances in relatively short periods of time from one gate to another. Beacons of unknown manufacture marked exits of other gates from within hyperspace network. NASA, ESA & NAXA scientists theorize Gate network established by another, highly advanced race over 200,000 years ago.
> 2096-2101 NASA, NAXA and ESA manned explorer missions and robotic probes
explore and survey 6 different planetary systems, opening several for human settlement in 2101
> 2101 Era of Stellar Colonization. First Colonization missions embark in 2101.
> 2108 First evidence of ancient civilizations found in Sirius system. Extensive ruins are found on mainworld, in orbit and on several minor asteroids and planetoids. Intensive study of recovered tech begins.
> 2140 Earth Civil War begins. War starts with clash between India and China and spreads, taking the form of India, USA, Japan, EU vs Russia, China and allies. Central and South America, except Mexico and Venezuela, remain neutral. US and Japanese forces crush Venezuela. Mexico joins US and allied forces due to pressure from US born Mexicans. Russian forces invade Eastern Europe, stalemate ensues. China, aided by Pakistan, invades Northern India, pushing into the Ganges River valley.
> 2143 Nuclear weapons exchange initiated between Pakistan and India, soon including the rest of the major combatants. Tokyo is hit by nuclear strikes from United Korean Nation.
> 2145 Professor Joachim Reissen announces that Earth is at tech level 2 of 12 on the Reissen-Kawabushi spacegoing technology scale.
> 2145-2152 While war rages refugees flee Earth and form new colonies, many of which are privately or corporately funded.
> 2152 After 12 years the Earth war ends as economic exhaustion settles in.
> 2153 Coalition Government called the Confederation of Terran States is formed, with a senior council composed of China, India, the European Union, Russia and the USA. This new government looks out at colonies and taxation to help to rebuild Earth.
> 2153-2155 CTS forces contact, and gain control of, human colony worlds.
> 2155 Tensions rise as border worlds protest high tax rates to pay for rebuilding of Earth.
> 2158 Small skirmishes with CTS Naval vessels and Marius System ships.
> 2160 Earth/Border War begins at the battle of Xi Bootes A system. Border Worlds Confederation formed by several border worlds with the capitol on Marius III.
> 2164 CTS forces win the Battle of Paraiso, allowing Earth to end the Earth/Border war
> CTS wins war and forces a peace settlement on the exhausted BWC. Earth puts laws into place limiting the size of the defensive fleets of the Border Worlds as part of the Treaty of Struve.
> 2169 BWC merchant picks up battle between unknown forces and closes to investigate. BWC merchant vessel observes, and records telemetry from, a battle between two races later identified as the Bnarls and the Kthorgs. After the battle concludes BWC vessel closes with a disabled vessel and offers assistance to the surviving crew, thus making first contact with the Bnarl. Through this meeting Humanity learns of the Kthorg and of the war between the Bnarl and the Kthorg. Humanity also learns that the Bnarl are currently losing the war.
> 2170 BWC and Bnarl exchange embassies, followed by the CTS and the Bnarl.
> 2171 BWC defies Earth, repudiates the restriction on Space Navy construction and starts fleet buildup.
> 2172 CTS demands BWC ceases naval buildup, which the BWC ignores. Earth
and BWC tensions rise.
> 2173 The Kthorg learn of Humanity through captured astrogation data from Bnarl Vessels. The Kthorg launch a preemptive strike, seizing several CTS colony worlds.
> 2174 Kthorg attack CTS forces in Nuevo Vista. During the battle a BWC fleet arrives and renders assistance to CTS forces. BWC and CTS forces successfully
defeat Kthorg at Nuevo Vista. Human forces push Kthorg out of the Hiatis
system, however Kthorg forces capture the Syriasus, Galdolphin and Frangee systems.
> 2175 BWC forces defeated and forced out of the Cielito Lindo system, which is a key world for the Border World Confederation's economy.
> 2176 CTS R&D develops Interceptor technology for defense of space vessels. CTS Senior Council declares Interceptor tech restricted and refuses to allow BWC access to this technology. CTS commissions’ construction of the New Hope, a battleship larger than any previous human space warship to date.
> 2178 CTS government, in response to pressures of the war, changes into a new form, calling itself the Terran Union. The new Terran Union provides more direct access, and greater political power, to the larger colony worlds.
> 2180 New Hope BB launched and begins shakedown cruise. Human-Kthorg War still going badly for Humanity as the Kthorg continue to capture systems from Human forces.
> 2182 While on patrol between Wayhaven and Xi Bootes system, the BB New Hope is declared missing. Search of patrol path for the New Hope yield no solid
leads as to the New Hope's whereabouts.
> 2183 BWC discovers the existence of interceptor technology, through espionage and telemetry from combat engagements that show interceptor tech in action.
> BWC informs the TU that it will assist in defense of mutually important systems but that blanket cooperation with TU forces will be suspended until access to interceptor technology is granted to the BWC.
> 2185 Continued setbacks in the Human-Kthorg War cause the Terran Union to
reconsider the tech restrictions in regards to the Border Worlds. Access to
Interceptor tech is given to the BWC. In response the BWC deploys more
forces to TU territory to assist in the effort against the Kthorg.
> 2186 Human-Kthorg War reaches a stalemate. Joint BWC-TU forces, Kthorg struggle against both Human and Bnarl forces, and heavily defended chokepoint systems cause this stalemate.
> 2187 Terran Union Explorer ship Jim Bowie discovers Serenidad. Surveys reveal that Serenidad is a huge and fertile planet very much like Earth. Colonization efforts are sideline by the demands of the war effort against
the Kthorg.
> 2189 Asteroid hits New Valencia, a major TU Production Center. This loss of Industrial capacity causes the balance in the Human-Kthorg War to shift in favor of the Kthorgs.
> 2190 Diplomatic initiatives (stretching over a 4 year period) yield a treaty of
Co-Belligerence against the Kthorg. Parties to this treaty are the Bnarl, the Border Worlds Confederation and the Terran Union.
> 2192 The Battleship New Hope is found derelict by BWC in X14172, a newly
discovered system. Investigation of the hulk reveals that the crew was
killed under mysterious circumstances and many electrical and mechanical
components were removed from the vessel. The New Hope is transported to
Marketa (BWC Capital) and refitted for combat.
> 2193 During an engagement against Kthorg forces in the Renatus system Human forces observe unknown vessels attacking the Kthorg. These vessels are discovered to belong to the Cinturons. Negotiations lead to the additon of the
Cinturons to the treaty of Co-Belligerence against the Kthorg.
> 2194 Sightings of "ghost ships" and unexplainable sensor targets are reported with disturbing frequency.
> Task Force New Hope, centered on the Battleship New Hope, leads a counteroffensive against the Kthorg. Kthorg forces are pushed back and
numerous systems are reclaimed by Human forces.
> 2197 Kthorg forces are pushed out of pre war Human Space, and the first
Kthorg systems fall to Human forces.
> 2198 An armistice is requested by the Kthorg. Hositlities cease while treaty
negotiations take place. The Kthorgs end the war signing a treaty with TU and BWC as well as Cinturons and Bnarls. An uneasy peace ensues.
> 2201 The Machines make first contact with Humanity. A Machine probing
force attacks New Avalon but is repulsed. Evidence of TU technology is recovered
from derelict Machine vessels. The Machine connection to the disappearance
of the New Hope is discovered. The Machine War Begins with attacks on
several human worlds.
> 2202 Information that the Kthorgs are aware of the machine war increases worries that the Kthorgs might try again.
