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Third Empire
The Third Empire, officially the Greater Galactic Empire and also known as the Third Order, is an unrecognised proto-state operating in the Human Sphere and beyond, including some minor holdings in the Outer Rim Confederacy. Claiming to be the true successor to the Greater Galactic Empire and the rightful government of Imperial Space, the Third Empire claims to be in a constant state of war with the Empire of Unified Nations and Galactic Imperial Remnant, and is classified as a dangerous militarised non-state group in the EUN. From defector and prisoner interviews, the Third Empire's capital is a man-made, constantly-mobile space station. They do not control any planets or planetoids, but are known to operate minor asteroid stations and resource-gathering operations.

Originating from the aftermath of the Third EUN-GGE War and the total defeat of the GGE, the Third Empire was formed from deserting Galactic Imperial Navy forces led by Grand Admiral Kenichi Yasuda. Fleeing to international space and the ORC, the Third Empire was founded and began rebuilding and rearming through clandestine and illegal means for an eventual total war with the EUN, centred around the uninhabitable planet Hitori-3-3, which came to be heavily developed as Hitori Base. In 0330, the Rax Offensive was carried out by the Third Empire against the EUN, though they suffered an immense defeat and retreating back to international space, losing Hitori Base in the process.

The current Supreme Leader of the Third Empire is Shinya Mishima.

Origins
The aftermath of the Third EUN-GGE War and the surrender of the GGE saw the GGE become reduced to a member state in the EUN, forced to abide by the UN Charter. Grand Admiral Kenichi Yasuda, who was one of the few in the GGE higher command to be aware of secret plans to restore the GGE in the event of a total defeat, saw this surrender as a betrayal by the GGE government and deserted with a large following. Moving towards international space and the ORC, Yasuda possessed a list of hidden facilities that the GGE had planted through shell companies and other means outside of the EUN, with some facilities even dating to before the First Imperial Civil War. These facilities included storehouses, automated mines, factories and even entire shipyards, left derelict for decades or even centuries.

Meanwhile, the fractured remnants of the GGE military that did not immediately surrender to the EUN dispersed into Imperial Space and beyond, becoming minor holdouts, petty warlords over uninhabitable systems, or even pirates. These pockets of forces occasionally clashed with each other, the EUN military, and the GGE's new Imperial Self-Defence Forces. In 0282, Yasuda recalled all GGE forces with a secret emergency military code, directing the remnants to rendezvous at the Hitori-3 system. At the subsequent Hitori Conference, Yasuda convinced numerous splinters to join his cause to rebuild the GGE, though was forced to kill some of the attendants as a show of force due to their lack of cooperation. At the close of the meeting, Hitori-3-3 was designated the new headquarters of the GGE until they could reclaim Miyako, and Hitori Base was founded alongside the Third Empire itself.

Using a vast array of shell companies and private firms to mask their activities, some of which had already been formed by the GGE as part of this contingency plan, the Third Empire began rebuilding in international space, purchasing military-grade weapons and hardware and building a moon-sized space station not dissimilar to standard Imperial orbital colonies, the Saizen no Tsuki. The Third Empire also bolstered these activities with raids on commerce routes and frontier colonies in the entire region, ranging from the ORC to the Hierarchy and the EUN itself.

The death of Yasuda in 0301 caused a minor succession crisis, which threatened to tear the Third Empire apart. Shinya Mishima, formerly the captain of Yasuda's flagship, the supercarrier Nisshoku, assumed leadership after a brief period of infighting amongst the High Command Council. Mishima accelerated the rebuilding efforts, creating a huge surface and space army that was mostly automated. Clashes with the EUN became more routine as the Third Empire Navy began probing the border and sending terrorist cells to sow confusion inside of the EUN.

By 0330, the Third Empire had almost 50 years of development and believed that they were prepared to attack the EUN, with the singular goal of seizing Miyako directly and capturing the Empress in order to restore her to the throne of Galactic Empress, who would then legitimise their rule and restore the GGE. Bypassing hyperlane routes entirely and entering the EUN via the Rax Cloud, the Third Empire forced struck at Miyako directly in the Rax Offensive. However, the Third Empire severely overestimated their chances, and were rapidly repelled within mere days of fighting. The Imperial Navy pursued the Third Empire's forces out of the EUN and back to Hitori Base, which was razed entirely and the planet devastated by severe orbital bombardment to weed out underground facilities.

The remnants of the Third Empire retreated into international space once again, returning to raiding border and independent colonies of the nearby states, and constantly moving their remaining forces around the still-unknown GGE depots in the area.

First Contact War
The First Contact War, also known as the Empire-Chorus War, or the Bug War, is an ongoing interstellar conflict between the Greater Galactic Empire and the Undying Chorus. Fighting is primarily centred on the border between Imperial and Iqtori space, with major ground fighting taking place on the former Imperial planets Shukaku and Todoku. Having lasted some 38 years, the First Contact War has largely reached a stalemate with Imperial space superiority and Iqtori ground superiority, though the Empire has gained some ground by reclaiming two planets formerly seized by the Iqtori in an earlier stage of the war.

Sequence of Events
38 - 5027th Imperial Forward Scout Division discovered Iqtori on Elysium IIIV. Iqtori ships approach Imperial ships and are wiped out. Empire establishes colony on Elysium IIIV (Naratori). Colony gets under attack by Iqtori. Empire does not notice the correlation. Continually, Iqtori Ship incidents occur and the Empire sends out probes to search the surrounding systems.

37 - Iqtori ships appear in orbit of Shukaku and subsequently land, unleashing hordes of Iqtori including breeder strains. The First Contact War officially begins as Shukaku is ravaged. Within the same year, Iqtori arrive at Mizuho. The Empire declares a state of invasion and declares a Kamikaze against the Iqtori.

35 - 84% of Shukaku is in enemy claws. Imperial scientists predict the Iqtori homeworld to be Elysium IIIV as the probes have yet to discover anything else in nearby systems. Desperate, the Imperial Navy bombard Elysium IIIV, destroying one of Izanagi's Gifts (planet) by invoking Izanami's Promise (to protect all her Children). This is truly a desperate time. The battle for Mizuho continues.

34 - Iqtori arrive on Todoku. Taking over 90% casualties in their landing, they nonetheless manage to bring a breeder to the surface. From there the horde begins to spread out over the frontier world.

33 - Shukaku Falls. The Imperial Government and military demand that Mizuho and Todoku be the line in the sand. The situation on Mizuho, however, is going quite badly. A refugee crisis ensues as people flee inwards. Everything on Shukaku is pulled back to support the continued repulsion on Mizuho and Todoku.

30 - After five years of fighting, Mizuho falls. Imperial probes discover another Iqtori world, proving that Elysium IIIV was not their homeworld. The Imperial Navy demands to lead a counterattack, but is denied on the grounds that this may be an enemy of a thousand worlds. Victory may not even be possible.

28 - Iqtori show up near Moritsuki, and are wiped out in space before they have a chance to land on the planet. A policy of containment ensues, with the occupied planets blockaded by Imperial Navy forces and any vessels seen destroyed on sight.

25 - Iqtori invade Nemuro. By now the situation on Todoku - raging for almost nine years - is nearly impossible to sustain, and the planet is abandoned later in the year to bring more ground assets to bear on Nemuro. The jungle planet is a harsh battleground, but is designated as the new line in the sand. This will be the last Imperial planet to fall to the bugs.

23 - The Seventh Empire-Ikajin War begins, forcing the Empire to divert resources on two fronts.

20 - A breakthrough occurs after an Imperial soldier is captured by the bugs and subjected to some form of aural torture before being rescued. It is determined that the Iqtori utilise aural 'songs' for various functions, and that this may be able to disrupt their mental state. Various battlefield experiments occur and prove this point. The first Imperial "Death Song" is crafted and deployed on Nemuro, cutting off hundreds of Iqtori in the Nhiet Tinh Valley from their hive mind and removing their vision, enabling them to be mowed down with impunity. The Empire is ready to strike back at last.

18 - Nemuro is liberated after seven years with liberal usage of Death Songs and fuel-air bombs. The Imperial military moves north with the aim to liberate Todoku.

17 - The First Invasion of Todoku ends in a disaster as the Iqtori have already evolved themselves to not recognise the Death Songs already in use. New methods to conduct the war have to be found. Meanwhile they are gearing up for a more conventional invasion of Mizuho. Various covert operations groups are deployed to Mizuho to set the stage for the invasion, and to test new types of anti-Iqtori weaponry that the Army's Division 966 come up with.

14 - The three-year break from fighting the Iqtori was extremely helpful for the Empire, as this year they launch the Invasion of Mizuho to massive success. Conventional and anti-Iqtori arms (consisting of coloured smoke, coloured flags and paint schemes, aural recordings and a new type of musical instrument) are used in conjunction to secure landing areas all across the planet. The Empire is fighting entirely on the offensive, deploying everything they have in their arsenal.

12 - After just two years, Mizuho is liberated from the Iqtori. The last breeder is defeated by an O-Yoroi powered armour unit in hand-to-hand combat. Resettlement begins. The Empire prepares to continue to offensive to reclaim Shukaku and Todoku. The Imperial Navy plans to enter Iqtori space and blockade their planets.

11 - The Second Invasion of Todoku enables the Empire to gain a major foothold. However, the Iqtori are evolving faster than ever before seen, and every battle is a major challenge.

10 - The Invasion of Shukaku is also a major success, though once on the ground the Imperials find themselves unable to advance rapidly with continents of Iqtori ahead of them. Fighting on both planets soon devolve into a stalemate.

7 - The Empire attempts to invade an Iqtori planet in Operation Tsubaki, which is also an attempt to gather more data on the Iqtori. However, they are severely outnumbered and outmatched, and pull back their forces within months, leaving only Imperial Navy blockade ships to shoot down any new spacecraft.

Present - After 10 years of fighting, the situation on Shukaku and Todoku has stabilised into a stalemate war, with both sides holding on fiercely to separate continents on the planet. The Empire has space and naval superiority, but the Iqtori do not require space travel to achieve more reinforcements.

United Nations
The United Nations of the Southern Sphere is an intergovernmental alliance between a majority of the nations of the southern Human Sphere. It is often referred to as the United Nations (UN). Initially formed along the lines of anti-colonialism and mutual protection, the UN has evolved into a platform for wide economic, cultural exchange and development, in addition to its ongoing military and peacekeeping role. With their economies and military forces combined, the UN is the dominant power within the Human Sphere and the galactic inner regions, though the New Ordic Commonwealth is still the largest individual nation in the Human Sphere.

Formed at the conclusion of the Four Powers War, the UN's founding members were

Background
The southern Human Sphere was the first to rebel against colonial rule by the nations of Ordis, with the devastating First Extrasolar War and Second Extrasolar War resulting in the secession of the southern states. Initially, the newly-independent nations were allied through an expanded Alliance of Free Southern Colonies, the same alliance that had carried the rebel groups through the wars of secession. The Second Extrasolar War was suddenly interrupted partway through with the sudden discovery of the Aggressor Race, which tore through Ordic and Alliance territories alike before eventually being pushed out of human space by the Alliance following the ceasefire with the Ordic League.

Soon, the Alliance began to fall apart as the rebel groups and their newly-formed states began coalescing into a variety of international coalitions. The first to leave the Alliance was the Interstellar Socialist Bloc, which violently left the Alliance after grave disagreements with Al-Falah due to the ISB's refusal to return the planet Bourak to the Muslim nation. The next to leave the Alliance was the Human Reform Union, which fell out with the rest of the Alliance due to its desire to seek and destroy the Aggressor Race entirely, as well as its hardline stance against cyborgs and transhumanism. Though cyberisation was not as widespread in the southern colonies as compared to Ordis and the Cradle Worlds, the latter policy of the HRU marginalised a substantial portion of the population, with a particular trouble group being former soldiers that had helped to fight for independence and were now being discriminated against.

While the HRU went on to attack and destroy the Aggressor Race entirely, carrying out mass genocide and almost completely wiping out the Aggressors, the Alliance eventually reformed into the Federation of Southern Colonies. The political situation in the Human Sphere became increasingly complex with all four major states essentially opposed to each others' existence, with the Northern Sphere having become unified under the New Ordic Commonwealth. A brief and inconclusive war was fought between the HRU and the Federation following the Federation's colonisation of Cheongsu. As the three younger nations in the south began growing at a phenomenal pace, the NOC began preparing to subdue them. The discovery of the Hierarchy also resulted in a brief war between them and the HRU. The flash point occurred when the HRU's tyranny finally fell apart with the HRU Civil War, in which the Neo Yashiman Empire emerged with Federation aid, and largely took over the central regions of the HRU.

Formation and the Four Powers War
With the conclusion of the HRU Civil War, the Empire and Federation formed the United Nations with the Treaty of Rassvet. The ISB and the NOC were both undergoing increasing military buildups, and the newly-formed UN had no choice but to respond in kind. Even with UN aid, the Empire struggled to rebuild itself even as the two remnant HRU states, the Western HRU and Eastern HRU, remained a credible threat.

Four years after the Empire was formed, the ISB launched an attack on the Empire, the opening of the Four Powers War. Observing the destabilising situation in the Southern Sphere, the NOC launched an attack on the Federation to seize Mir's volginium mines. The Empire carried out a preemptive attack on the NOC, attacking the southern border planets, though were quickly pushed back. The NOC shortly invaded the planet Mizuho, which the Empire could not defend due to a concurrent ISB attack on Takamagahara.

As the war between the NOC and Federation devolved into a quagmire on Mir's icy plains, the NOC and ISB separately carried out large thrusts into the Empire's territories. It was only after the major Battle of New Yashima turn in the Empire's favour was it able to go on the offensive, with a surprise intervention by the Yterbi Au'Gashim against the ISB from the planet Au'Mah (Shiroyama/Nanning), earning the tiny state's entry into the United Nations. After winter season began on Mir and the NOC lost Mizuho.

Neo Yashiman Empire
The Neo Yashiman Empire is the largest and most economically powerful member of the UN, and is widely viewed as a close second to the NOC in the Human Sphere. Officially formed just prior to the dissolution of the Human Reform Union and a major player in the HRU Civil War, the Empire was founded by the descendants of colonists from the Yashiman Empire of the late 21st century. The Empress Mayu, claiming descent from the Empresses of Yashima on Ordis, formed and

Federation

Yterbi Au'Gashim
The Yterbi Au'Gashim, meaning the New Great Tribe, is the nation of the Yterbi Race, which had been decimated through a genocide carried out by the Human Reform Union prior to its dissolution. Driven from their homeworlds and largely wiped out, the remnant Yterbi eventually established their own national territory on the planet Shiroyama with the aid of the Empire. However, the Empire still refuses to relinquish control of the original Yterbi homeworlds to them. The Yterbi nation on Shiroyama has become a part of the conflict between the Empire and the ISB over Shiroyama, causing many Yterbi to emigrate to the Empire that surrounds them.

Al-Falah
Al-Falah is space arabs who have a monopoly over health products and as such are really important. They are also largely nomadic, and except for a few stereotypical deserts in the Federation they mostly live on circuitous spaceships, similar to the Nomads.

Asturias
Kalatungan is a single island nation on Kanagawa. The only reason it has not yet been absorbed into another nation is its mines of Jollibium, which apparently only occur in massive quantities on the Kalatungan continent. It is through this that this tiny ass state manages to hold clout with star-spanning empires. However, massive income inequality manages to occur, largely due to the APEX and UN-backed dictatorship which is in place to ensure a continued smooth flow of Jollibium out of Kalatungan. UN troops also patrol the island's major cities, protecting the Jollibium extraction sites. Local rebel groups vehemently oppose this.

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Military
The UN maintains three branches of armed forces, which comprise of regular volunteers from the member states as well as units from local militaries temporarily placed under UN command. The UN Security Guards is an elite standing military force that is loyal only to the UN Council, and is used to guard the borders of the UN and intervene in local conflict if the local forces prove unable to handle a situation, or are not able to interfere for whatever reason. The UN Security Force are a UN-commanded force of both UN regulars and local troops relinquished to UN command to maintain peace in an area, or to rapidly respond to whatever situation requires a joint chain of command beyond the local command can provide. Finally, the UN Peacekeepers are troops deployed to trouble areas to maintain law and order in the absence of local authorities, while the respective governments work to get a proper chain of command into the regions. These forces are almost entirely local military forces under the UN chain of command.

UN-affiliated forces use the colour blue to distinguish themselves. Ground troops are usually distinguished through blue helmets, body armour, or armbands, and vehicles are either painted white or in standard camouflage schemes with some form of identifying symbols, all dependent on the level of danger present to UN forces in the area of operations. UN spacecraft are often painted entirely shades of blue or merely with blue stripes.

HRU Remnant
The Human Reform Union, often referred to as the Human Reform Union Remnant in modern contexts, is a small nation enclaved within the Neo Yashiman Empire, controlling a single inhabitable star system and some 1,430 star systems. The capital of the HRU is New Intaisei on the planet Daitetsu.

The modern HRU is the last remnant state of the original HRU, which had been fractured in the HRU Civil War. Divided into east and west remnants by the newly-seceded Neo Yashiman Empire, the HRU found itself unable to coordinate properly, resulting in both remnants eventually becoming autonomous from each other. The eastern HRU eventually merged with the Empire peacefully, leaving the western HRU in a precarious situation due to its lack of foreign allies. Later, the Empire-HRU War eventually sealed the fate of the HRU. In a bid to free the Yterbi race, which the HRU was in the process of exterminating, the Empire and its United Nations allies attacked the HRU, defeating it and routing the HRU forces. Upon the war's conclusion, the Hidaka Concordance allowed the remnants of the HRU to maintain its government within stipulated boundaries, analogous to the modern borders of the HRU Remnant.

Officially hostile to almost all other nations in the galaxy, the HRU Remnant also does not recognise the existence of any non-human states, or even the sentience of non-humans.

Foundation and superpower era
The roots of the HRU lie in the Purity Faith, a religious movement that emerged in Escar on Ordis. Initially a political movement decrying the development of transhumanism and artificial intelligence, the movement eventually evolved into a religion centred around pan-humanism and the purity of the human form. The religion grew widely on the frontier worlds of the southern edge, in the face of heavy persecution and difficulty in finding a foothold on Ordis and the cradle worlds. Large amounts of colonists brought the religion southwards, as the untouched wilderness and agrarian lifestyle of early colonisation efforts were compatible with the religion's teachings of communal reliance and the purity of nature. The Purity Temple, a Purity Faith organisation led by the Prophet Guangyao, became one of the largest religious organisations in the colonies by the time of the interbellum period.

In the year 14, one year before the start of the Second Extrasolar War, the Purity Temple came under scrutiny by the colonial governments for allegedly harbouring and backing rebels and terror groups, particularly the Yashiman government-in-exile on Yukimura. Crackdowns against the Purity Temple and general Purity Faith activities ensued, which drove protests against the colonial powers and was one of the many factors that led to the Second Extrasolar War beginning. Under Prophet Guangyao's instruction, the Temple joined the revolution when it began in 15, forming and funding a large group of guerillas led by Pak Ji-Ae as the Purity Guard.

Military


The HRU's military forces are considered to be some of the most backward and underdeveloped in the human sphere. Various embargoes and restrictions are in place to prevent the HRU Remnant from re-militarising to a dangerous extent again, and some of their modern equipment dates back to prior to the Empire-HRU War. The armed forces of the HRU are known as the United Forces, comprising the Ground Force, Space Force and State Guard.

Some restrictions on the United Forces include not allowing the force to operate warships larger than 1000 metres in length. Cloning, which the original HRU had relied on to create vast clone armies, has also been banned. In recent years, the United Forces has recently been suspected of using loopholes to circumvent restrictions to develop and purchase new weapons and technologies. Notably, several arms manufacturers normally banned from selling certain products to the HRU have created proxy companies through which they sell products to the HRU.

Due to the HRU's lack of resources and manpower, and cultural aversion to robotic forces, HRU ground troops tend to be extremely well trained and equipped with high-tech full-body armour to act as their own force multipliers.

New FT Concept
The Southern Human Sphere is a markedly more dangerous place than the North, and is fragmented into feuding nations locked in a cold war. Of these, the most powerful is by far the Empire, followed by the Federation in a close second, and then the Interstellar Socialist Bloc.

United Nations - Overarching alliance between the Empire, Federation and Yterbi Au'Gashim to oppose the ISB.
 * Empire of the Radiant Sun: Named after a former poetic name for Yamatai, the Empire of the Radiant Sun is one of the four human superpowers and the one currently occupying the top spot, just ahead of the NOC. The vast majority of the UN's peacekeeping forces come from the Empire, which also maintains a healthy majority vote in the UN due to its huge population size and proportion of representatives. It has to deal with a legacy of being descended from the Humanity Reform League. In the Empire, the Western Dominion region is formed from a remnant of the HRL that eventually joined the Empire.
 * Federation of Southern Colonies: The Federation was once the main opposition to the NOC, before it fractured into three parts, the Federation, ISB and HRL. Presently, the Federation is a capitalist democracy ruled by the Federation Council and influenced heavily by lobbies. There is currently a large rivalry between the APEX Corporation and the Cultus Jupiter.
 * Yterbi Au'Gashim: The 'New Great Tribe' of the Yterbi race, the Yterbi Au'Gashim is the home state of the Yterbi race. They control only part of the planet Shiroyama, and are in extremely small numbers due to the historical attacks on them by the HRL. Controversy has ignited time and again as the Empire has enabled the Yterbi to resettle into their original homeworlds, but has not stopped human development of the worlds and refuses to relinquish control of the planets to the Yterbi. Recently, the ISB has had designs on the Yterbi homelands on Shiroyama again.
 * Asturias Islands: A tiny, conflict-ridden island chain on Kanagawa, the Asturias Islands were once a Federation exclave but are now an independent state under a dictator.
 * Al-Falah: The home state of Haqqislam, they have settled their 'promised land' inside of Federation space, and are extremely rich.

Interstellar Socialist Bloc
 * The ISB, the least powerful superpower in the Human Sphere but still a superpower in its own right, is a reclusive socialist state with a command economy assisted by impartial AI computing. Once the HRL's main competitor in the First Cold War, it backs up its waning power with a disproportionately massive military force, though its conventional forces are often viewed as outdated. Its true military strength lies in its substantial arsenal of N2 Weapons, and a vast spy network.

Humanity Reform League
 * A sizeable remnant of the HRL remains on the planet Daitetsu, and is unaffiliated with any other faction. Originally known as the Eastern HRL prior to the brokerage of peace between the Western HRL and the Empire, the nation remains in a form of culture lock and isolationism, with apparent designs on reforming the HRL to its former glory, however impossible that goal is.

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Part 1: The Colonial Crisis
The colonial powers, now focusing on the Galactic North, begin withdrawing mass amounts of resources from the Colonies with little regard to development in the region. The Second Varunan War further taxes the colonies as various colonial powers begin withdrawing resources to fight their wars. Yamatai loses the war and retreats to its colonies, re-establishing a government and beginning the First Extrasolar War, which further wrecks the colonies.

Part 4: The Collapse of the Colonial Defence Pact
Differences as to whether they should pursue the Aggressor Race to their homeworlds divides the CDP.

Part 9: The Second Cold War
With the foundation of the United Nations, the Second Cold War began between the UN, NOC and ISB. Meanwhile, tensions continued to build up within the United Nations as the traditionalist Empire came to blows with the progressive Federation, culminating in a bizarre shadow conflict that resulted in the scaling back of UN powers and abilities. As AI technology raced forward, the Imperial government-assisting AI, MONIKA, was developed, solving the problem of self-awareness by having three sub-core personalities. However, this would lead to more trouble than it was worth eventually...


 * 0178
 * Crown Princess Yotsuha was born.


 * 0203
 * Empress Yotsuha was coronated after the death of Empress Mitsuha to Advanced Cancer caused by Shirogane Particles.


 * 0205:
 * 50th Anniversary of the Empire.
 * 0210
 * Crown Princess Itsuha was born.


 * 0224
 * Fumizuki
 * On 6 Fumizuki, an Imperial Navy Cartographer Section encountered the Alvish race for the first time. A minor skirmish was fought between the Cartographer Section and the Alvish scouts, which resulted in almost total annihilation for both sides before communications were established and a truce was called between both surviving field commanders utilising sign language and diagrams.
 * By 25 Fumizuki, representatives from both governments met and began negotiations for formal relations.


 * 0228
 * The First Transnational Trade Circuit was established between Alvia and the Empire, terminating at Aokessho.


 * 0252
 * The Type-58 walker was introduced into the Imperial Army.
 * 0254
 * Toshiki Niitsu, the current Prime Minister of the EUN, was born in Itomori City, Shinkai Province, Southern Edge Alliance, on Horaisan.
 * 0255
 * Ashihara

Part 10: The Premier Human Superpower
Overcoming the problems that plagued it in the previous decades, and surpassing its friendly rival the Federation, the newly empowered Empire leads humanity ahead.


 * 0255: The Empire of the Unified Nations celebrated its 100th year since liberation, ushering a new golden age of peace, prosperity and stability.
 * 0256:
 * In the Federation, the APEX Corporation is founded by Jeong Tae-Se.
 * 0259:
 * Princess Mutsuha was born.
 * 0260:
 * The Third Alvia-Empire Trade Circuit was established between the Alvish planet __ and the Empire, terminating at Aokessho. Cutting travel times by 20%, the Third Circuit would become one of the more popular trade routes between the Empire and Alvia.
 * 0262:
 * The first Fugakusan-class battleship was laid down, first of a new class of well-armed battleships.
 * 0264:
 * The first Fugakusan-class battleship, Fugakusan, was commissioned.
 * 0266:
 * Empress Itsuha was coronated after the death of her mother.
 * 0267:
 * A new class of "ultra warship", a "super dreadnought" type warship, was conceived by the Imperial Navy Strategic Development Division. It was to be as large as a Shokaku-class Supercarrier but with the firepower of ten Fugakusan-class (used to be Senmetsu) battleships.
 * 0270:
 * An Imperial Navy Cartographer Section Detachment discovered a massive, blue crystalline octahedron, codenamed Ramieru, during its exploration of the Eastern Frontier. While initially inert, when a landing party made contact with it the anomaly displayed bizarre, physics-defying shapeshifting capabilities, invulnerability to conventional weapons, and immense energy beams that destroyed the entire Detachment. The recordings of the incident were recovered but kept strictly classified, and no sign of the Ramieru has been detected since.
 * 0272:
 * The city of Itomori on Horaisan was hit by a freak impact event when a piece of the comet Tiamato breaks off and struck the planet. Orbital defences did not register the comet as a threat. Toshiki Niitsu's entire family was lost in the disaster as he was studying in nearby Omoikane, and he chose to work to improve the orbital defences that failed to save his family.
 * 0275:
 * Toshiki Niitsu graduated from Taneshima State University with a degree in political science and began working for an orbital engineering company.
 * 0280:
 * Future ace pilot Tomoko Anabuki was born in Noshiroko, Noshiro Province, Greater Galactic Empire, on Niigata.
 * 0282:
 * The super dreadnought Imperial Destiny is laid down after fifteen years of design work.
 * Toshiki Niitsu left his mid-level corporate position and joined politics, running for mayor of Omoikane. In his five year term, Omoikane's emergency response systems would be improved greatly.
 * 0286:
 * 0286: The first Yashima-class battleship is laid down in the Niigata Shipyards.
 * Current Crown Princess Nanatsuha was born.
 * 0287:
 * Toshiki Niitsu began working as the executive assistant to the Taneshima State Minister of the Economy.
 * Tomoko Anabuki started education at Chihatan Primary School, Noshiroko.
 * Jeong Tae-il takes over the APEX Corporation after his father's untimely death to advanced cancer.
 * 0288:
 * Princess Shizuna was born.
 * 0289:
 * Handpicked for success, Toshiki Niitsu began working as the private secretary of the Southern Edge Alliance Minister of Defence.
 * Yashima (戦艦-8011), the first Yashima-class battleship, is commissioned. She is joined by Yamatai (戦艦-8012) and Shirakawa (戦艦-8013) weeks later.
 * 0293:
 * Toshiki Niitsu ran for and was elected the Minister of Defence of the Southern Edge Alliance.
 * Tomoko Anabuki continued education at Chihatan High School, Noshiroko.
 * 0294:
 * Empress Itsuha abdicated, giving the throne to her daughter, Crown Princess Mutsuha.
 * The Type-0 Hayabusa aerospace fighter was first introduced into the Imperial Navy. It was officially unveiled during Empress __tsuha's coronation.
 * 0295:
 * Kasahara (Currently Suwa), a new inhabitable planet, was discovered in the Eastern Frontier. Exploration and scientific teams descended onto its surface and began the first scientific stations and colonies on the planet's surface.
 * The Yashima-class battleships Empire of Unified Nations (戦艦-8014), Uchinaa (戦艦-8015) and Hinomoto (戦艦-8016) are commissioned.
 * 0298:
 * Toshiki Niitsu was elected the Secretary of Defence of the EUN.
 * Tomoko Anabuki graduated from Chihatan High School and enlisted in the Imperial Navy as a fighter pilot, operating the new Type-0 "Zero" Hayabusa fighter in the 514th Carrier Fighter Division.
 * 0299:
 * The Kaiba Incident occurred. Imperial Customs Authority and Horaisan Security Forces patrols in the region were investigating a series of disappearances when they discovered an illegal space station just outside of Imperial Space in the 37-Kaiba system. The patrol ships were fired upon when they approached, prompting an armed response by the Imperial Navy. The 213th Kabekage Division of the 2nd Border Defence Fleet reacted, and marines entering the station discovered that the station was populated by Alvish, performing horrific experiments on humans, such as sacs with human brains and nervous systems that were found to be still alive. The Navy immediately attacked and destroyed the station utterly. One day later, the Imperial Navy Cartographer Division 3922 encountered an Alvish combat patrol in open space and was fired upon. These incidents combined prompted the Imperial Council to declare a state of emergency in the Outer Core and approve an Imperial Navy response. As part of the largest combined fleet movement in over 50 years, the entire 3rd Mobile Fleet was mobilised and set off towards Alvia immediately, with the 4th Mobile Fleet in reserve. After two days of patrols, scouts spotted massed Alvish space forces in the 95-Kaiba system, and the 3rd Mobile Fleet moved to meet the enemy.
 * The 7th Strike Group's あ Element decelerated in 95-Kaiba to meet the enemy.
 * Tomoko Anabuki achieved over 17 kills as a fighter pilot, achieving ace status thrice and then some. She became a war hero and celebrity over night.
 * With the destruction of both sides' main strike forces and reinforcements pouring into the region, the Alvish field commander contacted Admiral Shinichi Ichise and demanded a ceasefire lest the war "continue to a point both of us do not want to see". Ichise accepted, and negotiations began.
 * In the aftermath of the Kaiba Incident, the Gozich Treaty was signed. After weeks of difficult negotiations, a boundary line in the Neutral Zone between the Alvish Imperium and the Empire of Unified Nations was established that military vessels without express authorisation the respective government are not allowed to cross. The existing trade lanes were declared demilitarised zones, and no military vessels without express authorisation from both governments are allowed to follow the three main trade lanes.
 * 0300:
 * Extremely heightened security was installed during the 300th Colonial Independence Day celebrations, which included a huge parade on Miyako, as well as a fleet review in orbit where the Imperial Destiny was commissioned. In the Imperial Dominion and the New Empire, the 300th Imperial Founding Day was celebrated as well.
 * In the middle of the year, the Kasahara Civilian Colonisation Project began, with the first few civilian settlements and colonists moving in to the new world. The first city on Kasahara, Sanzukawa (三途川), was founded. Tentatively, the entire planet is still under three UN Mandate Regions, one for each continent.
 * In the Federation, Jeong Tae-Il was elected the President of the Free Colonial Federation.
 * 0304:
 * On Shiroyama, talks between Shiroyama State and the Hongxing Collective about bringing down the walls on Shiroyama and enabling more open borders, and potentially creating some kind of new, open community, began. Open trade had already been ongoing for some time.
 * 0305:
 * Talks on Shiroyama broke down after a bizarre situation occurred, caused by ISB hardliners in Hongxing. Infiltrators crossed the border and stole an Imperial Army missile artillery vehicle, which they then used to attack the location of the talks. After the Hongxing Chairman was brought to Shiroyama for medical treatment, more infiltrators crossed the border and attempted to assassinate him three times, succeeding on the third and rallying support for Hongxing to attack Shiroyama.
 * Running on a platform based on showing the ISB and the Alvish a hard line, Toshiki Niitsu was elected General Secretary of the EUN.
 * 0306:
 * The war film Flash of the Kaiba Sector, a semi-fictionalised account of the Kaiba Incident focusing on Tomoko Anabuki, was released. Recruitment rates into the Imperial Navy noticeably increased during the film's run.
 * 0307:
 * The Modern Day
 * The Modern Day

History of the Southern Human Sphere
Take note that this History is based on a new map that has yet to be shared with the community.

Currently in the WIP Third Edition, alongside the Third Edition of the FT Space Japan; the Empire of the Radiant Sun.

The Secession Wars
The hardworking colonists that would become our forefathers attain independence from the colonialist powers. As more and more fertile planets became colonised towards the Galactic North in relation to Ordis and the Cradle Worlds, the earlier-established Southern Frontier became neglected and faced an economic crisis. Governmental oversight was replaced by corporation control in many cases, and corporations generally had less scruples than governments.


 * BE 0045: The Greater Empire of Yamatai, an Ordisian colonial power, was defeated in the Second Varunan War and conquered by another major power. In preparation for this, major Yamataian corporations had already begun moving offworld to Yamatai's colonial holdings in the Southern Colonies. After the rapid defeat of the Yashiman Archipelago within two months, the government surrendered. Surviving members of the military and former government of Yamatai fled to the former Yamataian colonial holdings on the planets Mizuho (瑞穂), Takamagahara (高天原) and the continent of Shin Arashiyama (新嵐山) on the shared frontier planet New Eden. These formed New Yamatai, aiming to create a new Yamataian state in the colonies, beginning the First Extrasolar War between New Yamatai and the Ordic League.
 * The planets in the Southern Colonies are generally understood to be those located south of the Cradle, the stronghold of Ordic power with Ordis itself at the centre. These were, at their peak, Mizuho, Takamagahara, Mugunghwa, Iskandar, New Eden, Bourak, Nanguang and Paraiso. Bourak was the last of these to be colonised.
 * BE 0038: The First Extrasolar War ended with the Yamatai Secessionist Army destroyed, and the former Yamataian colonies occupied. The surrender took place in Shinkyo on Mizuho, while many surviving elements fled underground and formed a loose Yamatai Liberation Front that would endure for decades to come and would become the basis of many rebel activities in the Southern Frontier and beyond. The formerly Yamataian megacorporations such as Mitsuhishi, Onda, Fugaku, Kawazaki, etc. continued to secretly fund and support the Yamatai Liberation Front in a bid to attain market dominance in the Southern Frontier.
 * BE 0031: Bourak was discovered and colonised by the Antaric superpower on Ordis, bringing their culture, traditions, and religion with them.
 * BE 0020: The discovery of many habitable planets towards the galactic north resulted in the Northern Surge, with the Ordic colonial powers refocusing their attention towards the north while withdrawing vast amounts of resources from the Southern Colonies to support development. Much of the Southern Frontier remained undeveloped and backward, and rule over the South from most of the colonial nations became increasingly dictatorial. Corporations gained immense power in the region as the demands of Ordis increased, and abuse of Southern colonists was widespread in the drive to secure more and more resources.
 * BE 0018: On the planet Iskandar, the Khan Rebellion began in the Tesseum mines of Iskandar. The Ordic megacorporation Donaumetall Iskandar maintained control over Iskandar with an iron grip, keeping the employees in poor conditions. After several mine collapses caused by poor safety measures and planning, riots began in the work complexes. The populist leader Harris Khan emerged, who as a mine team leader had survived a major explosion cost him his left arm. With Donaumetall Iskandar's crimes broadcast across the Internet, riots and civil disturbances began spreading across the Southern Frontier, galvanising support for anti-Ordis rebellions across the region. The Khan Rebellion gained major traction after military-grade arms were surreptitiously delivered to the rebels by the YLF, who also arrived to aid the rebellion. The Iskandar Central Spaceport was seized, along with the space station that controlled the orbital weapons. After eight months of fighting, Khan declared the independence of the Free Republic of Iskandar on the 31st of December.
 * BE 0017:
 * The Ordic League declared a state of emergency and sent forces to put down the Free Republic. Unprepared and complacent, they were surprisingly defeated in a day-long battle with the Iskandarun orbital defences, which had been seized by the rebels. The Ordic League unexpectedly withdrew due to the sudden situation that arose on Bourak. In the absence of resistance, Iskandar quickly embarked on a crash military expansion plan to defend itself, in conjunction with revolutionaries already on the planet.
 * Meanwhile, on the very edge of human space on Bourak, alien forces suddenly attacked the planet. Humanity's first encounter with an alien race went poorly when the ambassador that greeted them was speared by a three-pronged weapon. These forces, classified as the Aggressor Race, were far more advanced than humanity but used antiquated tactics such as an emphasis on melee weapons and low-fire-rate energy weapons, which enabled the Ordic League to fight them to a standstill on Bourak. The existence of the Aggressor Race was to be kept a firmly-guarded secret, with Bourak effectively cut off from the rest of the galaxy. In order to fight the Aggressor Race and the mounting rebellions, some of the colonial powers began forcefully conscripting colonists due to an unwillingness to conscript people from the Cradle.
 * Unknown to anyone, Bourak was a sacred Edge Temple World of the Maar, at the very edge of their static civilisation.
 * On Nanguang, Chen Liang, a former librarian, formed the Worker's Party of Yi'an in the spaceport city of Yi'an. Fighting for the rights of workers, the organisation took a socialist slant and quietly prepared for a general armed uprising, as had been done elsewhere.
 * Due to the dual crises occurring, the Ordic nations began taking more drastic measures against rebellions, such as mass chemical weapon use against resistant cities. Hundreds of thousands of people across the planets became displaced by the ongoing conflicts, while thousands still started joining and forming underground resistance groups and cells.
 * On Mugunghwa (무궁화), nuclear power plants across the planet were simultaneously destroyed by terrorist attacks. The Atlas Corporation, a major Ordic megacorporation, stepped in and began dispensing aid and building quarantine zones. Atlas began efforts to withdraw resources from Mugunghwa, ostensibly for reconstruction of the planet, though little progress was seen.
 * BE 0016:
 * Taking note of the sudden lock down of Bourak, the Ordic League's ongoing inability to solve the Iskandar crisis, and the Mugunghwa Crisis, the Yamatai Liberation Front chose this time to strike. Reforming into the Yamatai Secessionist Army after the Saeki Maru Conference, the reborn YSA had a proper unified command structure, government, plans, and also the last known pure descendant of the Empress of Yamatai, Mayu. The first uprising of the reborn Yamatai Secessionist Army was in Eizan on Shin Arashiyama on New Eden. Seizing this major spaceport and industrial centre from the colonial powers, the Yamatai Secessionist Army finally declared the independence of New Yamatai. Fighting across Shin Arashiyama was intense and violent, involving the first use of industrial exoskeletons as combat walkers.
 * The colonial powers again launched an invasion of Iskandar, beginning the One Year War around the same time that New Yamatai was proclaimed. Fierce resistance from the Iskandarun forces kept the colonials stalled.
 * With the war on Bourak going well thanks to new materiel sent from Ordis itself, the Aggressor Race was almost driven off the planet. However, they suddenly launched a surprise attack on New Eden, proving that they an interstellar race. In February the alien invasion of New Eden, a developed colony, was impossible to hide from the public, and a mass panic occurred across the Human Sphere. Connecting the dots, the invasion of Bourak the year before was also revealed, enraging many and worsening the situation. Fearing of being sent to fight aliens, thousands refused to be conscripted. In Shinkyo on Mizuho, an anti-conscription riot became a well-publicised massacre when reporter Midori Nagumo witnessed first hand gunships firing on the crowds of unarmed young men.
 * The alien invasion of New Eden further confused the fighting between the YSA and the colonial powers, and the three-way war proceeded to destroy much of the planet's pristine countryside, with the YSA making steady progress to securing Shin Arashiyama.
 * In August on Nanguang, Chen Liang's Workers Army of Nanguang launched a global uprising.
 * On Mugunghwa, it was revealed that the Atlas Corporation was not actually rebuilding the planet, and had developed dangerous DNA-targetting bio and chemical weapons, such as DNA-targetting neurotoxins and Nova 6. Inhumane experiments with generating an artificial intelligence from human test subjects were also uncovered, and it was found that the entire terrorist disaster and subsequent quarantine measures were actually a plan to pacify Mugunghwa and prevent it from revolution, as the planet was a necessary Cheongeum source for Ordis. The Ordic nations backing Atlas attempted to cover up these revelations to protect Atlas, but mass riots against Atlas and the colonial powers also began across Mugunghwa. Underground resistance groups began to emerge.
 * BE 0015:
 * The close of the One Year War was also the opening of the proper Second Extrasolar War, a wild three-way battle between the Ordic colonials, the independent colonies, and the Aggressor Race. Facing no other course of action and viewing Iskandar as a low-priority planet, the Ordic colonials and Donaumetall Iskandar did the unthinkable, deploying Donaumetall Iskandar's nuclear asteroid mining charges across the planet and also carpet-bombing the arid planet with nuclear weapons to wipe out the Iskandarun forces while leaving the planet's resources recoverable by Donaumetall Iskandar, also killing thousands of their own troops still on the planet (which were mostly colonial conscripts). While the Iskandarun forces evacuated as many civilians as they could, only 30,000 colonists and 5,000 Iskandarun troops managed to escape the planet, fleeing to Yamataian New Eden. Enraged by this reckless act of destruction, Leader Khan declared that the Children of Iskandar would now invade a target that Ordis could not irreparably destroy; the crown jewel of the South, Paraiso. Iskandar's invasion of Paraiso began on February 17th. Sympathisers in the colonial military deactivated the orbital defences, and the Iskandarun forces made landfall across the planet. Once again, mass uprisings preceded the Iskandarun advance as rebel groups and colonial independence activists made themselves apparent, led by the global Paraiso Liberation Army movement.
 * Prior to the attack, Leader Khan famously proclaimed in tears that for their crimes against the Iskandarun people, the Free Republic would lead the charge against Ordis itself, one planet at a time, until they destroyed the corrupt corporate nations that carried this transgression out.
 * On New Eden, the Yamatai Secessionist Army successfully secured New Arashiyama from the Aggressor Race, and even managed to stage an amphibious assault against the other continent on New Eden, Novyy Grozny. The colonial forces, the bulk of which were local conscripts, were losing against the Aggressor Race on Novyy Grozny when the YSA made landfall, and many local units deserted to join the YSA when given the chance.
 * On Bourak, the Aggressor Race was finally driven off the planet. They left behind shattered cities and a population under martial law that had been in a state of total war for two years. In this context, the religious group Al-Falah began organising peaceful protests and sit-ins. More martial segments of Al-Falah began staging riots and illicitly buying weapons.
 * On Nanguang, the Workers' Army of Nanguang was making use of the planet's beautiful jade forests and mountainous terrain to fight a brutal guerilla war against rear-line police forces left behind after the colonial powers shifted their focus to Bourak, seizing control of a cluster of cities in the Dragon Valley region, which would become the first Socialist State of Longgu (龙谷). Colonial forces were increasingly stretched thin despite their advanced technology and supply, compounded by Ordis's continued hesitance to deploy more forces in an attempt to fortify the Cradle from the Aggressor Race.
 * On Paraiso, the Iskandarun forces, along with the Paraiso Liberation Army, made numerous advances. Using guerilla warfare, the massive Muro Fortaleza hydroelectric dam was destroyed, and a major surface-to-space weapons installation was also secured. By the end of the year, the continent of Solis had been secured, and was declared as the new home of New Iskandar.
 * On Mugunghwa, open rebellion spread to the moon, Cheollima, where helium-3 miners had been pushed to the breaking point, and had access to industrial-grade tools that could be repurposed as weapons. This starved Atlas of its resources and it began to rethink its strategies. Under the diverse umbrella of Hwamin, the people of Mugunghwa fought for their independence too.
 * On Takamagahara, cells of the Yamatai Secession Army also appeared and began to fight the colonial powers, ranging from peaceful actions to open warfare. The colonial powers, attempting to build some kind of defensive line against the Aggressor Race, had already declared martial law and retaliated by destroying various settlements entirely, in the so-called Burning.
 * On Mizuho, the YSA started its attack in the city of Shinkyo, a symbolic city that was the first Yamataian colony established. Within a matter of months, the city had been secured and cells across the planet began to link up.
 * As the year came to a close, the various rebel groups met in Eizan in December to discuss a formal alliance between all the groups, particularly to present a united front against both the colonial powers and also the Aggressor Race. For the first time, the largest rebel groups met as one; the Yamatai Secessionist Army, New Iskandar, the Hwamin, Al-Falah, the Paraiso Liberation Army, and the United Socialist States, as well as other smaller groups. It was decided that they would form the Alliance of Free Southern Colonies, an intergovernmental and military alliance to help each other resist the colonials and defend against the aliens. The formation of this alliance was detected by the Ordic League, which declared a state of emergency again and finally sent reinforcements into the region in an attempt to regain control.
 * BE 0014:
 * Through peaceful process and infiltration of the system, Al-Falah took control of Bourak's substantial shipyards, including several warships on repair or under construction, giving a much needed boost to the Alliance's space warfare capabilities, and enabling them to bring the fight to their enemies far more effectively. Of the warships at the shipyard, five were given to Al-Falah, four to the YSA, two each to the United Socialist States and Children of Iskandar, and technical data and equipment to the Hwamin and Paraiso Liberation Army.
 * February: At the Shinkyo Conference, the Yamatai Secessionist Army, under Empress Mayu and Prime Minister Genjosai Tamase, declared the reformation of the New Empire of Yamatai, including the planets New Eden, Mizuho, and Takamagahara. New Eden was renamed New Yashima, and would be the new capital of the Empire once the war concluded. The Secessionist Army was officially reinstated as the Yamatai Imperial Army and Yamatai Imperial Navy.
 * On Nanguang, another five Socialist States were formed across the planet, as the colonial powers started to retreat off the planet.
 * As the colonial powers withdrew from Bourak to deal with the other rebel threats across the region, a massive Aggressor Race force arrived and invaded again. Al-Falah's militant bodies provided a spirited resistance, but quickly lost ground to the aliens.
 * On New Yashima, the fighting with both the Race and the colonials became far more intense as the Imperial Army arrived at the final colonial strongholds. Meanwhile, the Race began fighting the Imperial Army instead of the colonial forces.
 * July: The colonials began to withdraw from the region, with the aim to fortify the Cradle and leave the rebelling colonies as a buffer to buy time to build up defences against the Race. In late July, the Ordic League finally issued an offer of ceasefire to the Alliance, finally recognising the organisation. Fighting finally stopped across the entire region.
 * August: The Alliance of Free Southern Colonies sent a delegation led by Leader Harris Khan to the Ordic League on Ordis itself to negotiate the terms of the ceasefire. He arrived in September, and wrote a poem about the beauty of the planet Ordis itself during autumn. Massive crowds arrived to both cheer and jeer the colonial rebels. Following an impassioned speech to the assembled Ordic League and also to the people of Ordis regarding the plight of the colonists and their reasons for rebelling, Khan stated that he wished there could eventually be peace between all mankind. The September Treaty of Járnfjördur established that combat would cease between the Alliance and the Ordic league, in addition to the full withdrawal of troops from the Southern Colonies. A notable loophole was that while the Treaty of Jarnfjordur accepted the existence of the Alliance of Free Southern Colonies, the member states and the planets of the Southern Colonies did not actually attain an official independence from their colonial powers, though in practice there was little difference. However, after the treaty was signed, an unknown assailant assassinated Leader Khan in his hotel room. Heidi von Hoftstadter, one of Khan's inner circle, took over leadership of New Iskandar. New Yamataian Prime Minister Genjosai Tamase rushed to Ordis to conclude the negotiations.

The War for Survival
The Aggressor Race invades the Colonial Alliance, forcing a handful of weakened worlds to enter a total war effort to hold the line against the enemy.


 * BE 0013:
 * November: Ordic forces began pulling out of the Southern Colonies. Some of these forces included colonial conscripts, who were unwilling to leave and deserted to join up with the new local governments. At the third Colonial Alliance Summit, called under emergency circumstances in Shinkyo, New Yamataian Prime Minister Genjosai Tamase declared that the nations of the Alliance have attained a hard-fought independence. However, everyone could plainly see what Ordis was trying to do; they would abandon the rebelling colonies to the Aggressor Race and build up their defences in the Cradle. The leaders of the Alliance re-affirmed their desire for total independence, and declared that they would defeat the Aggressor Race and prove to the Ordic powers that they were capable of forging their own destiny. After this, the Summit negotiated and reaffirmed the national boundaries on each planet. A suggestion by General Masatada Takamura of New Yamatai to form a singular united front to defend against the Race was considered, and a platform for closer coordination - but not integration - was planned to be created.
 * December: By December, the last holdouts on Bourak were being overrun by the Aggressor Race. Another wave of reinforcements from New Yamatai were devastated in orbit, and the Imperial Cosmo Navy began withdrawing its forces.
 * BE 0012:
 * January: The new combined command platform did not appear due to grave differences between military command structures, doctrines, and general competitiveness and mistrust. Even the largest military force in the region, the Imperial Cosmo Navy, was being stretched thin fighting on Paradiso, New Yashima and Bourak. In the end of January, Bourak officially fell to the Aggressor Race. The remnants of the Al-Falah military made a hasty retreat to New Yashima.
 * February: The Aggressor Race attacked Takamagahara, landing their forces across the continent Akiyama. In the latter part of the month, the Race also attacked Nanguang. Splinter fleets of the Race were engaged as far as Mugunghwa.
 * May: The Race invaded Mugunghwa. On New Yashima, the Race had already captured half the planet.
 * July: Losing on many fronts, and with most of the Alliance engaged with the aliens, another Colonial Alliance Summit was called. New Yamataian Prime Minister Genjosai Tamase said that there was no other way to fight the Aggressors if the nations of the Alliance did not work closer together.
 * October:

-Some time later, the Alliance becomes the Federation. Heidi is the first President. They fight the aliens and begin winning slightly.

Formation of the Humanity Reform League
Severe disagreements with everyone in the Federation caused the Commies to leave the Federation, abandoning a major offensive to retake Bourak entirely. Al-Falah is outraged, especially since they had helped the commies to defend Nanguang. Al-Falah demands that they attack the Commies, and then proceeds to do so anyway. The Federation is hard-pressed to do anything and it soon transpires that Heidi has some conflict of interest as the Federation military for some reason never deploys the New Iskandaruns. A plot by Heidi to kill the ISB Chairman also appears after it fails. Meanwhile the front is collapsing as only the Yamataians and Hwamin are doing anything. With millions dying, in September Heidi was impeached and Hwamin Ri Tae-han stepped in to head an emergency government.

In this context, the Humanity Reform League was formed.

Which proves to be true when the Empress Mayu takes over the New Yamataian government with Prime Minister Genjosai Tamase's support, claiming that in the interest of security and stability, an autocratic Greater Galactic Empire would be founded, with herself as the Galactic Empress. The Greater Galactic Empire promptly secedes from the Federation. Helpless without the Imperial support on Paradiso, New Iskandar voluntarily joins the Greater Galactic Empire. The various military forces and disparate resistance groups are grouped together as the new Imperial Army and Imperial Navy, and sent forth to assault Bourak.

The Battle of Bourak is the largest of the war and lasts a year, wiping the Aggressors off of Bourak completely. Upon victory, Bourak is renamed Niigata and incorporated as part of the Empire, not returned to Al-Falah. Al-Falah is outraged, but is betrayed and has to go underground or flee to the north after reprisals by the Empire. They mostly flee to the Federation.

The Federation, now consisting of only Mugunghwa and minor pockets on Paraiso, submits a non-aggression pact. Mayu doesn't go after them. Mugunghwa takes its time to rebuild.

Paraiso is officially renamed Kanagawa upon liberation. After what happened to Al-Falah, the locals know better than to speak up. Yashiman is declared the national language of the Empire, prompting mass discontent across non-Yamataian regions and colonies. The Empire is not a generous parent, and beats down these riots with forces fresh off victory.

New Yashima is the last to be liberated, but the Empire is not done. The pursuit leads the Empire to the first of the Race's worlds, now named Horaisan, but the Empire gets defeated. The Empress orders them to pull back and rebuild the forces and society.

Rebuilding a shattered society in a new image is easy. The new Empire was in shambles by decades of warfare, and it was simple enough to win hearts and minds through rebuilding the broken cities and communities, setting up a strict structure, and influencing local culture through mass migrations, free education, and wide propaganda. For the poor farmer who had lost everything and had been forced to fight aliens off his land, thanking the Empress for all the good fortune that the new government showered upon him soon became second nature. Cursing the non-human soon followed.

The Virtuous Mission
After four years of mass rebuilding according to a strict plan set about by the brightest minds in the Empire, the Empress declares the Virtuous Mission, to spread out and conquer these abominations who dared face up to Humanity. The new Imperial Navy, armed with cutting-edge technology that outclass even those across the northern border, surges southwards. For the first time, the Empire is on the offensive. Smashing into Horaisan, the Empire finds a people devastated by years of warfare caused by irresponsible leaders, too shortsighted in their fanatic racism to notice the grave problems at home. An irony, perhaps, given what is to come a century later. The Empire has no mercy. The Race hurt us, and now We shall hurt Them. Horaisan was the Race homeworld, and they were conquered and wiped out. Systematic extermination methods that would later be used again for the next species the Empire would encounter were perfected in this first instance.

Tracking down more Race forces and their poor counterattacks led the Empire to Aokessho, the final Race colony. New Race leaders pleaded for mercy. The Empire's national language was Yashiman, they refused to understand. And the new leaders burned like the rest.

The Calm Before the Storm
With the Race defeated, the Empire began to rebuild. Using well-planned Four Year Plans and control over the economy via the Big Eight and the close ties between the government and the Kuge aristocracy, the Empire recovered quickly and rebuilt its economy, society, and forces. The first generation of true Imperial citizens, raised on Imperial ideals, was born. Vast leaps in technology were made by studying captured Race technology and making use of captured engineers and scientists, who were killed off quickly after they were no longer of use. Studying the Race's Great Intelligence, a large amount of progress is made. The first Artificial Intelligence was created in secret and put to work balancing the economy. INARI, the virtual reality interface for the exonet, was released. The secrets of the GN Particle were unravelled, and the Wave Motion Engine was created, improving the Empire's energy possibilities tenfold. Enhanced Intelligences opened the way for vastly superior drone technology. And of course, the Wave Motion Gun and Wave Force Cannons were developed, providing the Empire's starships with massive offensive capabilities.

An entirely new field of physics, surrounding the discoveries made in the research into GN Particles, Watanabe Physics, was created.

And in addition to the two planets they had captured from the Race, the Empire also discovered Mishima, a new inhabitable planet.

In comparison with their poorer neighbours, and their former masters, the Greater Galactic Empire looked ready to lead humanity forward.

The Dark Reign of the Greater Galactic Empire
The Empire noticed that the Federation had recently colonised Cheongsu, and that the United Socialist States was also expanding, having colonised Hanshan. After a Haqqislamic group, the Ghulam, carried out a terror attack in Shinkyo, the Empire declared that the Ghulam were linked to Al-Falah and blamed the Federation for not doing enough to curb them. Tensions rose, and war soon broke out between the Empire and Federation after the Ghulam did another terrorist attack, this time on New Yashima. And so began the Empire-Federation War. Though the Empire had the edge in numbers, weapons, and technology, the Federation had a few tricks up its sleeve as well, using advanced tactics and drawing battles into the confines of asteroid fields and the like. The land invasion of the Paraiso Colonies on Kanagawa goes well and they quickly fell to the Empire, except for the Asturias Islands. The war in space lasted several months, but after the Battle of the Rainbow Nebula where the Empire lost several carriers, and the decisive Battle of the Dragon's Nest where the Empire lost three battleships, the Empire claimed that they had achieved their objectives and decided to withdraw.

At the same time, a cold war between the Empire and the USS began to emerge, as the USS started a mass military buildup to counter the Empire.

Teshio was discovered and colonisation began into what would be called the Southern Reach. However, the landing on Teshio had massive repercussions as wildlife began dying off to the common cold and ant infestations disrupted the planet's ecosystems. In response, the Imperial Government began its first terraforming project, and aimed to replace any ecological niches that had been disrupted with alternatives from other planets already colonised, or Ordic species. The ethics of such a project were widely discussed, but as the invasive species began going out of control, the new planets began to resemble each other more and more over the next centuries.

As warships became more advanced, they began adopting more aesthetic appearances as well, starting to look like the Space Battleship Yamato ships with the launching of the Space Battleship Shinkyo.

The Federation colonised Mir (Current Rokuhama Position), an icy world to the Galactic North-West.

Imperial Scientists developed Watanabe Physics

The national religion of the Empire is declared to be the Purity Shrine, all other religions are promptly banned, and crackdowns ensue.

Shirogane Elements, supercritical elements, were discovered in the Empire along with the expansion to Hidaka. The first N2 Bomb was developed from efforts to use Shirogane Elements as a power source in a Watanabe Fusion Reactor, which resulted in mild waves of Shirogane Particles (Minovsky Particles). The jungles of Hidaka held massive, abandoned structures that appeared to once house an unknown race of hive-minded creatures. All that were left was Shirogane Elements. These hives were the only sources of Shirogane Elements at the time. Testing of the ridiculously powerful N2 weapons revealed that they not only caused Electromagnetic Pulses but also released massive waves of Shirogane Particles.

The USS colonised Ganshan.

As the source of Shirogane Elements was clearly finite, the Empire set to work attempting to create synthetic Shirogane Elements. An experiment in Showashi on New Yashima resulted in a sudden attack on the city by a deep-sea megafauna creature, the Gojira. This was the first time a Gojira had attacked humans, and it was believed to be linked to the Shirogane Particles. Bizarrely, more hives were found on neighbouring moons and other planets in the Hidaka System, but no signs of life were found.

The Empire came under attack by strange starships in the south-west, especially preying on trade between Mishima and Aokessho, but their source was not easily pinpointed and they were low in number every time.

The USS renamed itself the Interstellar Socialist Bloc, and was increasingly catching up to the Empire despite the disparity in population and resources. Unbeknownst to anyone in the Human Sphere, the Bloc's spies had successfully stolen information that enabled the Bloc to generate Shirgane Elements as well. The first N2 Bomb test went stunningly well in the deserts of Ganshan.

The Empire landed on Nemuro, a jungle planet.

A few years after the colonisation of Nemuro, unknown starships appeared and landed on Nemuro as well, they received a warm welcome in the form of commando teams capturing them. Interrogated for information, they unwittingly led the Empire back to their homeworlds, the Yterbi Gashim; Kurokawa, Yomotsu and Daitetsu. Their homeworld was Yomotsu. They worshipped Mikaboshi's Vortex as a god. A 37 year long war of extermination began between the Empire and the Yterbi. A suppression field sterilised Yterbi in the cities, while many of the long-lived species were used as slave labour once captured.

It All Comes Tumbling Down

 * 0121:
 * The controversial movie The Four Armed Boy was released. Telling the story of an innocent, nine-year-old son of a Tokkō officer who befriended a Yterbi slave child from the work camp his father was overseeing, the movie ignited a wave of controversy and resulted in the director and most of the production staff arrested for subversion, with some fleeing to the Federation or the NOC. The movie's release was the first major sign of a new counterculture that had emerged in recent years, an anti-establishment movement amongst the upper and middle class youth that had its roots in anti-war activists. Some had started to question the Purity Shrine's teachings of human supremacy, and some even started to question if it is possible to befriend the aliens instead of dominating and killing them.

The First Empire-Bloc War began when the Bloc dropped a massive N2 bomb on Eizan, New Yashima, capital of the Empire. Half the city is destroyed immediately, and Shirogane Particles cause massive disruption to the surrounding areas. Troops hidden in shipping containers and cargo vessels emerge and start an attack. Though these are quickly repulsed, the Bloc reveals that they have developed their own powerful new weapons like the F-Spar Cannon, on par with the Wave Motion Gun as an offensive weapon. The Bloc defeats the Imperial Northern Defence Fleet and drives into the Empire, invading Takamagahara. A pitched space campaign ensues, with the Empire...

The Empire fucks up something in Takamagahara, making people there pissed off. In order to fix stuff, the provinces there decide to form the Takamagahara Economic Pact. The central government flips out and decides to replace all of the governors, and dismantle the pact. There is then rioting in the streets as the locals see this transparently for what it is, and the Empire then guns down all these rioters. It becomes clear to everyone that this is probably not how society is supposed to function. Resistance cells start to appear on Takamagahara, coordinating with other cells across the Empire.


 * 0142:
 * Virtuous Mission III was declared against the Hierarchy, immediately after first contact occurred during a routine patrol in the South-West.


 * 0144:
 * After discovering the Hierarchy planet of Kosol, the Empire launched a massive invasion of the planet. The First Battle of Kosol was a massive disaster. Even with the Hierarchy taken completely by surprise, the Imperial Army's landing ships still fell prey to surface-to-space fire. Thousands of clone troops and hundreds of regular troops were killed in the first hour of fighting as the Empire encountered an enemy extremely prepared for them. By the first week, only scattered FOBs had been secured on the surface of Kosol, and Hierarchy warships had arrived in the system and began engaging the Imperial Navy.

At some point, Admiral Okita is captured by the Hierarchy and comes to live amongst them for a few years before they release him. Returning to the Empire, he forms the Shinsengumi, a group of officers who wish to end the endless wars the Empire keeps fighting.

The Federation declares war on the Empire, hoping the NOC and ISB will follow suit, but they are all alone. Second Empire-Federation War - the Empire uses zombies to hit Busan on Mugunghwa, amongst other things.

The Federation is defeated, forcing them to sign the Treaty of Keijo which makes them an autonomous part of the Empire and conscripts a large part of the local forces into the Hwamin Sectorial Army. Hwamin forces are sent both towards the Hierarchy and ISB.

It is revealed by independent researchers that the GGE's technological advancements especially during the 20-year rebuilding before Virtuous Mission I were based on Aggressor Force technology, and the GGE continues to use said technology. Most damning is the revelation that the advisor AI that guides the national economy, is also partly based on or is literally a Aggressor AI, prompting fear and terror that aliens have been secretly controlling the nation. The researchers disappear shortly after, as fear grips the Empire.

The HRL Civil War
In New Yamatai, Col. Naoya Sagiri spearheads the ground forces with the 1st Capital Defence Division, 1st Tactical Armour Regiment, Fuji Tactical Training Group, and 671st Logistics Squadron on his side as he takes over the capital with the goal of restoring the Empress to power. Major fighting between the Yamataian revolutionaries and the HRL response forces broke out.
 * 0153

Okita and the Shinsengumi suddenly launched their coup of the HRL.

Okita and the Shinsengumi suddenly launch their coup, throwing the Empire into chaos. The Empire split into two, while some local governors split away completely with their own petty military forces. Sending negotiators to deal with the Hierarchy and the burgeoning rebel cells, Okita's Greater Galactic Empire also enjoys the legitimacy of having the current reigning Galactic Empress, while the Remnant faction follows the First Imperial Consort and Imperial Speaker in opposition to Okita's action. Uprisings break out and the Empire splits into several nations, including the Yasuda Co-Prosperity and Strategic Defence Coalition, Southern Edge Alliance, Teshio Eastern Hemisphere Pact, Takamagahara Economic Organisation, Consolidation of Ishikari Nations (Kanagawa continent), the Federation Remnants, the Hwamin, Al-Falah, etc. A Yterbi resistance group shows up on a new inhabitable planet on the edge of ISB space, named Shiroyama, currently under attack by the ISB. The Hierarchy also sends support for some of these groups.

As the war pushes the Remnant forces to the West and East, Okita calls a major meeting of all leaders in the region, inviting the Yterbi and the Federation to join as well. A new government is proposed, one where all nations can be free to chart their own path, especially in the face of the ISB, NOC and the Hierarchy looming over them. The Empress relinquishes her divine status, a sign that the Remnant takes to mean their cause is even more legitimised, as that means the Empress is truly illegitimate. Fighting continues through this time.

The new supranational organisation, the Unified Nations, is formed. A coup attempt to place the Empress in the leadership role of the UN is attempted but fails; the Empress is still culturally crucial to the Imperial people (similar to the pope). In a public address, she retains her office as Galactic Empress to lead all Humanity forward, yet has no political role at all, unlike her GGE predecessors. Take note she is like 6 when she gives this speech. The UN is renamed the Empire of Unified Nations as a symbolic gesture. The Federation and Al-Falah, who did not agree with this, leave the EUN as partners.

Fighting against the GGE Remnants continues across Imperial Space. The EUN lands on Shiroyama to help the Yterbi and win back their trust; this angers the ISB which refuses to leave the planet.

The EUN helps the Federation regain most of its planets but the GGE hold on to Aconticimento, or Mishima today.

Finally, after two years of fighting, the GGE Remnants sign a ceasefire following a final battle over a big desert.


 * 0155

The Shattered Empire

 * 0155:
 * The Post War Crisis continued as the new EUN struggled to establish itself amongst the population. At the same time, the remaining factions of the Greater Galactic Empire not inside of the EUN continued to exist, holding on to the planets Mishima and Rokuhama in the West, and Daitetsu and part of Yomotsu in the East. Vast rebuilding efforts presented an impossible feat for the new nations to carry out quickly, and inflation skyrocketed. Fortunately, for the first time trade with the Hierarchy was beginning, though it was very controlled and slow at the start. The new governments took steps to reverse the xenophobic mentality of the GGE, a vastly difficult task.
 * Near the end of the year, the GGE Remnants began fighting amongst themselves. The Western Faction wanted to.


 * 0159:
 * Mutsuki (Jan): The ISB captured an EUN Code Repository on Shiroyama. Days after, the EUN launched a special operations mission to recover the Code Repository. Unbeknownst to them, the ISB had already stolen the information on it and were able to reverse-engineer their own Code Repository, ensuring they could crack the Imperial codes even after they were inevitably changed. In late January, tragedy struck when Yterbi terrorists attacked the Ma Shen Interstellar Space Centre on Nanguang. As the Yterbi were now members of the EUN, the ISB began demanding an explanation. The entire terror attack is widely suspected to be a false-flag operation of some sort to this day.
 * Kisaragi (Feb): The Four Powers War began.
 * Beginning with what was considered an escalation of the First Shiroyama Crisis, the ISB opened with a major cyber attack on the Imperial markets and then enacted a blockade of Shiroyama and launched a full-scale invasion to seize the entire planet. The ISB forces were able to easily bypass the infamously strong Imperial border defences due to the Code Repository.
 * On Shiroyama, the ISB land forces opened the invasion by attacking Forward Operating Base Yukari in the Himash Region of the Yterbi Au'Gashim. This was followed up by a naval invasion of Nantoujima island, aimed at disabling the aerospace base and surface-to-space missile battery there. ISB special forces attacked and destroyed the UN Regional Command facility in the city of Toyosaka, and spaceborne forces entered the Kusanagi UN Mandate Area soon after. An effort to kill the UN Regional Director was made, but was repelled by local forces. In orbit, the ISB staged an assault on the Kyojin Platform, infiltrating the civilian sectors with special forces and then landing proper ground troops. During the battle in Kusanagi UNMA, the ISB overall commander General Wang Zhao was shot down by Imperial special forces teams and killed. An attempt by the Imperial Army to attack the ISB command facility on Zhongdao island failed. In space, the ISB also attacked one of the Imperial geostationary orbital defence platforms, disabling it.
 * On Takamagahara, the unique arcology city of Kyuryu was particularly targetted for attack. By the end of Kisaragi, the ISB began landing ground forces on Takamagahara. ISB special forces teams were inserted into Kyuryu to take down its aerospace defence systems but were defeated by the local police, militia and gangs. Initially, Imperial Army units were scattered across Takamagahara, while the Navy was engaged across the system., and were unable to put up a solid defence. The ISB soon invaded Akasaka, headquarters of the Takamagahara Economic Organisation, but severe resistance from the local militia units and Imperial Army forces kept them from outright securing the city. Some ISB troops targetted civilians, in retaliation for the Space Centre massacre.
 * At the same time, the ISB launched an attack on Niigata, attacking the Imperial Shipyards and destroying several warships under repair. Troops also landed on Niigata, but they were repelled quickly. In orbit, an Imperial special forces team daringly boarded the ISB command cruiser and carried out a surprise attack, but were killed when the ship was destroyed.
 * The defence of Akasaka continued in earnest, as the 1st Ranger Division fought for weeks with little resupply to allow civilians to escape. Desperate to end the battle, the ISB dropped an N2 bomb on the city, causing an EMP and the Shirogane Particles devastating long-range communications. Though the city was heavily damaged, the Imperial troops were able to recapture the TEO Congress Building, which had been turned into a field command by the invaders, saving it from being destroyed by a friendly orbital strike at the last moment.
 * Yayoi (Mar):
 * The New Ordic Commonwealth unexpectedly launched an invasion of the Federation, attacking Mir, possibly for its Svyatogorium. Honouring their alliance, the EUN also declared war on the NOC in retaliation, sending forces to help to fight off the NOC and to attack NOC supply lines. The opening land battles of Mir were a strangely nostalgic scene, pitting NOC aerospacecraft against Federation and Imperial combat walkers, as the NOC landed in the northern ice fields. Three NOC battalions entered Kozlovgrad, a key Federation command centre in the northern hemisphere and the largest spaceport of the planet. The Federation's 2nd Armoured Division held the line for over a week until the NOC broke through the southern flank, forcing them to withdraw. The NOC was quick to move on from this victory, pushing across the Belohnungfeld Plains to Zvezdagrad, the heart of Svyatogorium mining. Massive ice walls blocking their retreat, the Federation forces staged a tenacious resistance to the NOC advance. However, after one week of fighting NOC reinforcements invaded the eastern flank and forced a surrender. The road to Khrabrost, the capital of Mir, was open.
 * Attacking the NOC, the Imperial Navy and Imperial Special Naval Landing Force launched a raid against a NOC command centre at _NOC border planet_. SNLF special forces made off with an intelligence gold mine against all odds. In a battle off _planet in NOC border planet's system_, the Imperial Navy suffered a major defeat, losing one battleship, four cruisers and around eight destroyers before withdrawing. The Imperial Navy would not attempt to invade the NOC again.
 * On Takamagahara, the ISB successfully killed an important Imperial commanding officer in the Shiranai Desert. Some other stuff occured.


 * The NOC launched a full-scale invasion of Mizuho. Special forces infiltrated major cities and detonated MANTICORE bioweapons, killing millions. Only on Aoshima did local militia and police forces manage to detect and defeat the NOC special forces team bringing the bioweapon into the Province. Shortly after, NOC troops stormed the planet, securing major cities including Shinkyo, the largest city on the planet. In the central command city of Matsusaka, Owada, brutal urban combat dragged out over several days. Marshal-General Masaki, the overall commander of theatre-wide operations, was also trapped in the city. A desperate counterattack was mounted by the Imperial 4th Fleet, with the SNLF spearheading an invasion into Matsusaka and rescuing Marshal Masaki. Imperial forces rallied and pushed the enemy out of Aira, though at heavy cost, including the destruction of the historically significant Aira Signals Tower. Following this strategic victory, the Imperial forces moved to liberate Shinkyo.
 * The ISB launched another raid on Niigata, with a small force of ships causing even more damage to the shipyards before being driven off. It quickly transpired that this was a distraction attack, as a massive ISB force soon reinforced the battle over Shiroyama.
 * On Shiroyama, the ISB forces were getting bogged down as they pushed into the Lhalmud Plains region in the Yterbi Au'Gashim. They carried out a major aerospaceborne attack on the capital city, Shelo'mah, capturing the leader of the Yterbi; Mora Y Gathuum. The battles in Kusanagi UNMA turned into huge armoured duels as the ISB was unable to advance. Attempts were made by the ISB to move through the Tani-O valley in order to flank the bulk of Imperial forces, but the valley was heavily fortified. ISB reinforcements
 * Uzuki (Apr):
 * On Mir, early in the month, additional NOC forces broke through the Miryang Eoreumgol valley, flanking Khrabrost, the capital of Mir. On Uzuki 10, NOC aerospace forces attained aerospace superiority over the Khrabrost Plateau, and entire regiments of NOC troops were dropped behind the Imperial defence lines. Surrounded, the Imperial Expeditionary Force quickly capitulated. The path to Khrabrost was cleared, and on the 15th the NOC launched an all-out offensive into the city.


 * On Takamagahara, the ISB managed to hold the line well against the Imperial counterattacks. It quickly began to transpire that the entire Takamagahara campaign was a feint for the ISB to secure Shiroyama, but it had gone out of control.


 * Satsuki (May):
 * On Mir, Khabrost finally fell on the 7th of Satsuki. Meanwhile, on the 4th the NOC troops had also invaded the city of Potosi, another major Svyatogorium mine. Despite being significantly outnumbered, the Federation forces at Potosi were able to severely delay the invading NOC divisions. However, after eight days Potosi also fell to the NOC. The final Federation stronghold on the planet was Hochburg, an aerospaceport at which the Federation was evacuating as much materiel and civilians as possible. NOC special forces infiltrated the city and sabotaged the harbour defences, allowing the NOC forces to land undetected on the 23rd. There they faced the elite Federation "Bloody" 9th Infantry Division alongside a mixture of ad hoc units and surviving troops retreating to the city. The battle would go on for a month before Hochburg inevitably fell. The loss of an entire planet to the NOC was unacceptable, and Federation forces rallied to defend Mugunghwa.

The Battle of Shinkyo began, the largest urban land battle in centuries. Imperial armoured forces assaulted from the southern plains, while Federation forces dropped from space even as NOC forces also inserted from space.

June -Federation aids Empire.

July
 * On Mir, the Federation launched its counterattack, with some Imperial support. Attrition warfare had ground the NOC forces down, though they were heavily entrenched across the ice planet. The first Federation forces landed near the equatorial Oredezh River, which had become an important line of defence. On the 7th, the 9th Armoured Division crossed attacked and seized Volosovsky for its bridge, connecting the landing sites nearby with the continental highway system. Experimental Armata-6 "Ratnik" TAGs were deployed to the battle for the first time. Imperial combat walkers provided heavy fire support. Surface-to-Space missiles launched from Volosovsky brought down a small number of NOC ships, and the NOC forces in the region were pushed back. Simultaneously, the Imperial Army launched an attack on Port Istochnik, the spaceport that the NOC was using to ferry as much refined Svyatogorium as they could off-world. After securing their initial objectives, the allied forces moved eastwards to reclaim Zvezdagrad, facing severe resistance from NOC forces along the "Highway Zvezda". The battle for Zvezdagrad would go on for the rest of the month. On the 26th, the Imperial SNLF contributed another two divisions, orbital diving outside of Hochburg with the goal of capturing the aerospaceport to facilitate better troops landings.

(Liberation of Europe in 2142 + Winter maps of BF4)

August
 * Victory on Mir.

Slowly winning the stalemated icy trench war on Mir after they captured the Miryang Eoreumgol valley and broke through the Federation lines, the NOC launched a proper invasion of Mizuho.


 * Satsuki (May): The Battle of Shinkyo began, the largest urban land battle in centuries. Imperial armoured forces assaulted from the southern plains, while Federation forces dropped from space even as NOC forces also inserted from space.
 * On Mir, the cold season was beginning in the southern hemisphere, devastating supply lines and frontline troops alike.

Shinkyo

Battle of Shin Yashima.

Take note: Iwakurite, a highly radioactive and unstable element, is only found with great abundance on Daitetsu and its rings. This means the Eastern GGE and later the New Empire holds a monopoly over the substance, which they use to make powerful weapons.


 * 0178
 * Crown Princess Yotsuha was born.


 * 0203
 * Empress Yotsuha was coronated after the death of Empress Mitsuha to Advanced Cancer caused by Shirogane Particles.

The First Steps of a New Empire

 * 0205:
 * 50th Anniversary of the Empire.
 * 0210
 * Crown Princess Itsuha was born.


 * 0224
 * Encountered the Alvish, fought a little battle (incident), then relations were okay after that.


 * 0228
 * The First Transnational Trade Circuit was established between Alvia and the Empire, terminating at Aokessho.


 * 0254
 * Toshiki Niitsu, the current Prime Minister of the EUN, was born in Itomori City, Shinkai Province, Southern Edge Alliance, on Horaisan.
 * 0255
 * Ashihara

The Premier Human Superpower

 * 0255: The Empire of the Unified Nations celebrated its 100th year since liberation, ushering a new golden age of peace, prosperity and stability.
 * 0256:
 * In the Federation, the APEX Corporation is founded by Jeong Tae-Se.
 * 0259:
 * Princess Mutsuha was born.
 * 0260:
 * The Third Alvia-Empire Trade Circuit was established between the Alvish planet __ and the Empire, terminating at Aokessho. Cutting travel times by 20%, the Third Circuit would become one of the more popular trade routes between the Empire and Alvia.
 * 0262:
 * The first Fugakusan-class battleship was laid down, first of a new class of well-armed battleships.
 * 0264:
 * The first Fugakusan-class battleship, Fugakusan, was commissioned.
 * 0266:
 * Empress Itsuha was coronated after the death of her mother.
 * 0267:
 * A new class of "ultra warship", a "super dreadnought" type warship, was conceived by the Imperial Navy Strategic Development Division. It was to be as large as a Shokaku-class Supercarrier but with the firepower of ten Fugakusan-class (used to be Senmetsu) battleships.
 * 0270:
 * An Imperial Navy Cartographer Section Detachment discovered a massive, blue crystalline octahedron, codenamed Ramieru, during its exploration of the Eastern Frontier. While initially inert, when a landing party made contact with it the anomaly displayed bizarre, physics-defying shapeshifting capabilities, invulnerability to conventional weapons, and immense energy beams that destroyed the entire Detachment. The recordings of the incident were recovered but kept strictly classified, and no sign of the Ramieru has been detected since.
 * 0272:
 * The city of Itomori on Horaisan was hit by a freak impact event when a piece of the comet Tiamato breaks off and struck the planet. Orbital defences did not register the comet as a threat. Toshiki Niitsu's entire family was lost in the disaster as he was studying in nearby Omoikane, and he chose to work to improve the orbital defences that failed to save his family.
 * 0275:
 * Toshiki Niitsu graduated from Taneshima State University with a degree in political science and began working for an orbital engineering company.
 * 0280:
 * Future ace pilot Tomoko Anabuki was born in Noshiroko, Noshiro Province, Greater Galactic Empire, on Niigata.
 * 0282:
 * The super dreadnought Imperial Destiny is laid down after fifteen years of design work.
 * Toshiki Niitsu left his mid-level corporate position and joined politics, running for mayor of Omoikane. In his five year term, Omoikane's emergency response systems would be improved greatly.
 * 0286:
 * 0286: The first Yashima-class battleship is laid down in the Niigata Shipyards.
 * Current Crown Princess Nanatsuha was born.
 * 0287:
 * Toshiki Niitsu began working as the executive assistant to the Taneshima State Minister of the Economy.
 * Tomoko Anabuki started education at Chihatan Primary School, Noshiroko.
 * Jeong Tae-il takes over the APEX Corporation after his father's untimely death to advanced cancer.
 * 0288:
 * Princess Shizuna was born.
 * 0289:
 * Handpicked for success, Toshiki Niitsu began working as the private secretary of the Southern Edge Alliance Minister of Defence.
 * Yashima (戦艦-8011), the first Yashima-class battleship, is commissioned. She is joined by Yamatai (戦艦-8012) and Shirakawa (戦艦-8013) weeks later.
 * 0293:
 * Toshiki Niitsu ran for and was elected the Minister of Defence of the Southern Edge Alliance.
 * Tomoko Anabuki continued education at Chihatan High School, Noshiroko.
 * 0294:
 * Empress Itsuha abdicated, giving the throne to her daughter, Crown Princess Mutsuha.
 * The Type-0 Hayabusa aerospace fighter was first introduced into the Imperial Navy. It was officially unveiled during Empress __tsuha's coronation.
 * 0295:
 * Kasahara (Currently Suwa), a new inhabitable planet, was discovered in the Eastern Frontier. Exploration and scientific teams descended onto its surface and began the first scientific stations and colonies on the planet's surface.
 * The Yashima-class battleships Empire of Unified Nations (戦艦-8014), Uchinaa (戦艦-8015) and Hinomoto (戦艦-8016) are commissioned.
 * 0298:
 * Toshiki Niitsu was elected the Secretary of Defence of the EUN.
 * Tomoko Anabuki graduated from Chihatan High School and enlisted in the Imperial Navy as a fighter pilot, operating the new Type-0 "Zero" Hayabusa fighter in the 514th Carrier Fighter Division.
 * 0299:
 * The Kaiba Incident occurred. Imperial Customs Authority and Horaisan Security Forces patrols in the region were investigating a series of disappearances when they discovered an illegal space station just outside of Imperial Space in the 37-Kaiba system. The patrol ships were fired upon when they approached, prompting an armed response by the Imperial Navy. The 213th Kabekage Division of the 2nd Border Defence Fleet reacted, and marines entering the station discovered that the station was populated by Alvish, performing horrific experiments on humans, such as sacs with human brains and nervous systems that were found to be still alive. The Navy immediately attacked and destroyed the station utterly. One day later, the Imperial Navy Cartographer Division 3922 encountered an Alvish combat patrol in open space and was fired upon. These incidents combined prompted the Imperial Council to declare a state of emergency in the Outer Core and approve an Imperial Navy response. As part of the largest combined fleet movement in over 50 years, the entire 3rd Mobile Fleet was mobilised and set off towards Alvia immediately, with the 4th Mobile Fleet in reserve. After two days of patrols, scouts spotted massed Alvish space forces in the 95-Kaiba system, and the 3rd Mobile Fleet moved to meet the enemy.
 * The 7th Strike Group's あ Element decelerated in 95-Kaiba to meet the enemy.
 * Tomoko Anabuki achieved over 17 kills as a fighter pilot, achieving ace status thrice and then some. She became a war hero and celebrity over night.
 * With the destruction of both sides' main strike forces and reinforcements pouring into the region, the Alvish field commander contacted Admiral Shinichi Ichise and demanded a ceasefire lest the war "continue to a point both of us do not want to see". Ichise accepted, and negotiations began.
 * In the aftermath of the Kaiba Incident, the Gozich Treaty was signed. After weeks of difficult negotiations, a boundary line in the Neutral Zone between the Alvish Imperium and the Empire of Unified Nations was established that military vessels without express authorisation the respective government are not allowed to cross. The existing trade lanes were declared demilitarised zones, and no military vessels without express authorisation from both governments are allowed to follow the three main trade lanes.
 * 0300:
 * Extremely heightened security was installed during the 300th Colonial Independence Day celebrations, which included a huge parade on Miyako, as well as a fleet review in orbit where the Imperial Destiny was commissioned. In the Imperial Dominion and the New Empire, the 300th Imperial Founding Day was celebrated as well.
 * In the middle of the year, the Kasahara Civilian Colonisation Project began, with the first few civilian settlements and colonists moving in to the new world. The first city on Kasahara, Sanzukawa (三途川), was founded. Tentatively, the entire planet is still under three UN Mandate Regions, one for each continent.
 * In the Federation, Jeong Tae-Il was elected the President of the Free Colonial Federation.
 * 0304:
 * On Shiroyama, talks between Shiroyama State and the Hongxing Collective about bringing down the walls on Shiroyama and enabling more open borders, and potentially creating some kind of new, open community, began. Open trade had already been ongoing for some time.
 * 0305:
 * Talks on Shiroyama broke down after a bizarre situation occurred, caused by ISB hardliners in Hongxing. Infiltrators crossed the border and stole an Imperial Army missile artillery vehicle, which they then used to attack the location of the talks. After the Hongxing Chairman was brought to Shiroyama for medical treatment, more infiltrators crossed the border and attempted to assassinate him three times, succeeding on the third and rallying support for Hongxing to attack Shiroyama.
 * Running on a platform based on showing the ISB and the Alvish a hard line, Toshiki Niitsu was elected General Secretary of the EUN.
 * 0306:
 * The war film Flash of the Kaiba Sector, a semi-fictionalised account of the Kaiba Incident focusing on Tomoko Anabuki, was released. Recruitment rates into the Imperial Navy noticeably increased during the film's run.
 * 0307: The modern day
 * 0307: The modern day

The Foundation of the Empire and the Virtuous Mission
The Greater Galactic Empire is founded to repulse enemies both within and without, and drive the enemy back to the holes where they came from.


 * 0001: In February, under executive order from President McDiarmid, a secret attempt to assassinate the UISB Chairman Siew was launched, but failed. This threatened to plunge the UHG into a war with the Socialist Bloc. Alongside this, President McDiarmid was also hit with a major scandal regarding his financial relation with the Resource Development Corporation, which itself was being implicated in a scandal involving redevelopment of former warzones at high prices and forcing refugees into debt. The combination of the war against the Race, the communist standoff, mass civil unrest and huge corruption scandals began to shake the United Human Government, and the threat of secession became very real for some member states as everything was jammed by corruption and inefficient democracy. In September, President McDiarmid suddenly died in his sleep and General Secretary Mayu Hitachi declared that in the interest of security and stability, the Greater Galactic Empire would be founded, with herself as the first Empress. Several states, including Jeobseon, immediately seceded in response to this. In the first year of the GGE, the military underwent severe reforms while it attained victory in Dawn, which was renamed Kanagawa in a dramatic ceremony. All of the national military forces, which still retained some level of independence, were organised into the new Imperial Army and Imperial Navy. While the bulk of the military went to bolster defences against Race counterattacks, and determine the location of the Race, smaller pockets began to demonstrate the brutal efficiency of a new authoritarian regime - minor seceded states were forced to rejoin the GGE with threat of military force or outright conquest. From Showakyo on Miyako, Empress Mayu oversaw the dawn of the newest superpower in the Human Sphere. It was time to bring the nascent nation on their first Virtuous Mission.
 * 0002: Jeobseoni forces defeated the GGE within a battle in the Dragon's Nest asteroid field, preventing the GGE from re-absorbing Jeobseon at this time. However, Mayu was less interested in securing Jeobseon as she was in eventually assaulting and destroying the Aggressor Race completely. In the interest of easing processes at all levels of Imperial society, Yashiman was declared the lingua franca and official language of the Empire. Al-Falah, rooted heavily in their traditional culture, severely disagreed with this, and retreated into interstellar space when Bourak was forcefully nationalised and renamed Niigata. Most major corporations were nationalised, and grand rebuilding efforts were undertaken throughout the Empire. A massive militarisation and armament project was undertaken, with the development of a vast array of new weapons, ships and vehicles, some specialised in combating the Race. The Empire's borders became some of the most heavily guarded in the Human Sphere, as the Empire retreated into its shell to lick its wounds and sharpen its spears for the next war. For the first time in decades, the Empire did have a general peace, though this was increasingly enforced by Imperial Army troops marching down streets in line formation. Increasingly, the Empire adopted a heavily xenophobic culture, placing the human form atop the highest pedestal possible as the next generation was trained to complete the Empress's Virtuous Mission.
 * 0006: The first Four Year Plan was completed. With mass propaganda, militarism, and demonisation of the Race, and an effort impossible under a democratic system, the Empire hit its first rebuilding milestone, surging past estimates and quotas to build up a massive surplus. The space warships of the Empire were developed to a new direction, even more resembling aquatic warships in a nostalgic propaganda effort. (Transitioning from the Tubes-with-Rockets used in the secession wars to turreted designs - pick the appropriate ones from Dystopian Wars Blazing Sun ships)
 * 0010: Eight years of rebuilding later, the occasional Race attacks enabled the Empire's scientists to pinpoint the exact location the Race fleets originated from. The largest single war fleet in the history of mankind was put together, with over a thousand vessels, and sent towards that location with newly-developed FTL drives. After months, the Imperial Navy finally arrived at the Race planet, christened Ashihara. The subsequent space battle was extremely massive as the humans wrecked the Race forces, before launching a full-scale planetary invasion.
 * 0012: The second Four Year Plan was completed, and there were no signs of the Empire slowing down or stopping. After over a year of hard fighting, Ashihara was captured from the Race, which was completely exterminated, including all civilians. Large caches of Race technology were captured for study. By tracking the retreating Race forces, the Imperial Navy found what appeared to be the Race homeworld, though would later be discovered to actually be a colony - Ashihara was their homeworld. Massing another massive war fleet, the Imperial Navy moved against the remaining Race on Aomori with genocidal intent.
 * 0015: The Imperial forces hunted down every last Race in revenge for their attack on their worlds over a decade ago. Remnant Race beings either fled to deep space or were rounded up and exterminated - the Empire had no sympathy. In response to calls to step down and disband the Empire since the war was over, Empress Mayu issued a warning that there would be more enemies out there, and thus the Empire was still very necessary. The colonisations of Ashihara and Aomori began in earnest, with retiring soldiers granted plots of land and pensions to develop the new planets. Meanwhile, heavy research began on the Race technology, and communication with the Enhanced Intelligence became possible after the combined efforts of scientists from all corners of the Empire. In total secret, the Empire used Race technology and the EI to develop new technologies, including actual and controllable Artificial Intelligences.
 * 0016: A surprise attack was suddenly launched by the UISB on the war-weary Empire over Niigata. Proving Empress Mayu's warning, the Empire once again went to war, fighting the UISB off within months. With peace finally attained in the region, the Empire could at last begin to rebuild and recover. Seemingly as though her purpose had been fulfilled, Empress Mayu died peacefully in November. Her niece, Empress Yui, was quickly elected to the position.

The Dark Reign of the Empire
The brutal age of the Greater Galactic Empire, the so-called most powerful human state in all history.


 * 0026: After the disastrous result of the fifth Four Year Plan, the Imperial government began to look into developing artificial intelligence advisors to help direct the government in the correct courses of action. Small-scale experiments on planned cities produced resounding successes, and by Empress Yui's order work on the first prototype of the government-advising AI began.
 * 0030: The unveiling of HIMIKO, an AI module intended to advise the government, led to a schism in Imperial society as people resisted the idea of an artificial intelligence ruling over them. As riots began occurring, the Empire cracked down in their usual manner, and also distracted the public with the release of the mass virtual-reality-supported network, TAKAMAGAHARA, that made the Exonet far more interactive than ever before and revolutionised entertainment and communication forever. At the urging of so-called social revolutionary Sojiro Izumi, some of the more fringe groups began leaving on large bulk freighters and disappearing into interstellar space in their own communities.
 * 0032: Exploring into the Western Expansion, the Empire discovered the inhabitable planet Shimane. Colonisation efforts began almost immediately, and exploration efforts picked up speed due to the excitement generated by the incident. Unfortunately, news also spread fast, and UISB and NOC infiltrators were continuously weeded out by an increasingly totalitarian government. The new enemy for the Imperial citizens to hate were basically everyone not in the Empire.
 * 0037: Development of weapons systems and warship technology led to bigger and more well-armed warships, which started to resemble the Space Battleship Yamato warships with the launching of the Space Battleship Showakyo.
 * 0045: Mizuho was discovered and colonisation began. However, the landing on Mizuho had massive repercussions as wildlife began dying off to the common cold and ant infestations disrupted the planet's ecosystems. In response, the Imperial Government began its first terraforming project, and aimed to replace any ecological niches that had been disrupted with alternatives from other planets already colonised. The ethics of such a project were widely discussed.
 * 0051: Ageing Empress Yui abdicated and her daughter Hitoha was elected Empress.
 * 0059: The Cold War turned hot when the Empire set up a listening post within what was claimed to be Bloc Space, which was discovered by a routine patrol. The resulting incident kicked off the Second Empire-Bloc War, which began with an invasion of Niigata. ISB Special Forces infiltrated and captured key military installations, disabled anti-orbital missile systems, assassinated key local government leaders, and paved the way for a full-scale invasion. The Empire sent forces to stop this invasion, but soon found that the attack on Niigata was just a feint as a massive space fleet showed up over Miyako. The Battle of Miyako, primarily a space battle with some ground landings, devastated many major cities on the planet as the ISB attempted to kill the Empress. After a weeks-long campaign, the Empire finally managed to push the Bloc forces off of Miyako, but fighting would continue on Niigata in a stalemate that would last the next two years.
 * 0060: With neither side able to attain full orbital superiority, fighting continued heavily over and on Niigata. Despite a cross-continent aerospaceborne offensive by the Imperial Army, which landed on the continent of Toijima and attacked major cities, the Bloc began deploying nuclear weapons (blunted by radiation-scrubbing nanomachines) and electromagnetic pulse weapons to maintain their foothold. Though some regions devolved into static defensive lines despite the vast technological advancement both sides had, fighting over Toijima reached its peak when the Empire deployed chemical attacks against major enemy bases via infiltrators and aerospace weaponry. Utilising the confusion to retake an entire region of the continent, the Imperial Army soon faced another setback as the Bloc forces invaded the Nanyoushima continent and opened another front.
 * 0061: Space battles intensified as the Empire flanked the Bloc forces and attempted to attack Tianshan. Pulling their forces back to Tianshan, the Empire was able to secure superiority over Niigata and fighting on land soon devolved into guerilla actions and patrolling before the Bloc forces on land surrendered. Fighting in space still continued as the nations began to probe each others' defences.
 * 0062: A meeting between Chairman Cheng and Empress Hitoha resulted in a peace treaty being signed between both nations. Yet the state of Cold War remained.
 * 0070: The discovery of the near-inhabitable planet Aokessho was hailed as a major discovery, and the largest terraforming project ever to be undertaken began, aiming to cool the planet down enough for humans to comfortably live on it. It is because of this that the planet is covered with such vast seas today. Aokessho was also found to be rich in Kazuhiraium, an anti-magnetic material.


 * 0086: By chance, a Yterbi exploration ship also exploring the region arrived on Horaisan. Humanity was the first alien race the Yterbi had encountered, and the first contact was hoped to be peaceful. Humanity taught them otherwise, and security forces killed the Yterbi explorers and seized the ship for study. The Empire had found its latest enemy.


 * 0100: On the 100th anniversary of the Greater Galactic Empire, a massive parade and festivities were held throughout the Empire.

-Conquest of Jeobseon

-The Third Virtuous Mission (Hierarchy)

-Colonisation of Fourth Expansion (Mikaboshi Project)

-Colonisation of Mishima


 * 0153: After 153 years of Empire, the GGE finally began to come apart.

The Imperial Civil War
The Greater Galactic Empire's brutal authoritarian reign gives way at last as an unexpected scandal rocks the nation.


 * 0153:
 * Crown Princess Mitsuha born.

Operation Red Veil

The GGE is subsequently confined


 * Battle of Anegawa on 30 Fumizuki to capture the city of Odani.
 * Battle of Hanamura


 * 0158:
 * Kisaragi (Feb): The rebel forces attack Mizuho
 * Minazuki (Jun): The coup occurs, the war ends.

The first steps of the New Empire
Though the tyranny of the Greater Galactic Empire had been ended, and the Empire of the Unified Nations was formed, a bastion of human decency, the shadows of the Old Empire still existed. The new nation faced many daunting tasks, left behind by their predecessors and prepared by their looming neighbours.


 * 0158: With the end of the war at last with the signing of the ceasefire, the new Unified Nations sought to rebuild itself, starting with the shattered economy. Dismantling the vast GGE institutions proved to be a daunting task, and while their control over Empress __tsuha ensured that they were able to gain the support of the local-level populace, many politicians and mid-level governmental agencies resented the change. The Greater Galactic Empire Remnants, the Western Empire occupying Mishima, Shimane, Rokuhama, Mizuho and Moritsuki, and the Eastern Empire occupying Daitetsu and Yomotsu, remained potent forces. The "Post War Crisis" occured, which is widely believed to have begun with a controversial open order over the Exonet along old Imperial Emergency Frequencies that was issued by what was suspected to be the Imperial Military High Command, instructing "All Loyal Sons and Daughters to Return Home". A large amount of ex-GGE officers and government officials complied, bringing their warships and troops with them to the West or East. Some of these military forces deserted the new Imperial Unified Nations Navy. Some ex-GGE officers also broke away completely and became pirates or petty warlords with military-grade equipment, and working to weed these out would take the EUN a long time. At the same time, the ISB began agitating over the border regions, increasing infiltration efforts on the new nations; skirmishes between the EUN and ISB or GGE and ISB occurred over and over.
 * 0160: In the ISB, the Chang Coup occurred, which was actually a wide-ranging conspiracy that reached back to the GGE itself, known as Operation Cinder. Admiral Chang's main political rival Minister Jin Jie was assassinated alongside the incumbent Chairman by an elaborate false-flag that implicated the EUN. Simultaneously, ISB military and political leaders were killed by an ultranationalist faction led by General Wang, who was then killed by Admiral Chang, who then took over and staffed the cabinet under the pretext of restoring order to the nation. Subsequently, "EUN-trained terrorists" attacked a major spaceport, massacring over 150 civilians and leaving the ISB ready for a war with the EUN. This was all, in fact, orchestrated by the W-GGE, which hoped to pit both enemies against each other to regain some of its lost power. To this end, the W-GGE also leaked to the ISB access codes to the Kabekage Web along the EUN-ISB border. However, the W-GGE did not count on Chang's government also blasting the GGE, viewing them all as the same entity. As a contingency plan, the W-GGE reached out to the NOC for help to fight the ISB. This did not sit well with the E-GGE, which did not align with the NOC.
 * 0161: The Four Powers War occurred suddenly when the ISB suddenly launched a massive, simultaneous attack across the huge border, striking the W-GGE at Moritsuki, the EUN at Miyako, Niigata and Nemuro, and the E-GGE at Daitetsu. EUN forces were unprepared for the silent breakthrough of the Kabekage Web, and faced setbacks along every front. Meanwhile, the W-GGE and E-GGE were able to hold the line. Due to NOC support for the W-GGE in the early war, the ISB also began engaging the NOC, but did not actively attack them. As the EUN stood on the brink, the W-GGE then attacked the EUN as well, attacking Kanagawa and Miyako, which by this time had devolved into a three-sided battle. Opposed to this, as the NOC had pledged to aid the W-GGE in defending against the ISB only, the NOC then broke the alliance and attacked the W-GGE, also hoping to reclaim the lost southern colonies. After the NOC had captured Mizuho and refused to return it to either the GGE or EUN, their stance was clear and viewing this as neo-colonialism, the EUN and E-GGE also declared war on the NOC. From the Mizuho staging area, the NOC forces struck at Miyako, which now became a four-way battle, the largest single campaign to date in human history. At the very brink of defeat, the E-GGE forces suddenly arrived, outflanking the NOC forces and driving them off before helping to drive off the NOC attack. Notably, E-GGE and W-GGE forces did not acknowledge each other, and did not aid nor fire upon each other.
 * 0162: With Miyako secured and the ISB overextended, the EUN was able to defeat the NOC and then overwhelm the much-weakened W-GGE defenders on Moritsuki, claiming ownership of the planet, which had been cut off from the W-GGE. While the NOC and W-GGE battled over Mizuho, shortly thereafter the EUN reclaimed Kanagawa and pushed the W-GGE back to Mishima. The NOC faced a major defeat at Tianshan against the ISB, but then managed to flank the W-GGE at Rokuhama. As the W-GGE began to lose grip on Mizuho, the EUN stepped in and fought off the NOC and W-GGE from Mizuho, but was stopped from liberating Rokuhama.
 * 0163: Subsequently, the EUN held firm to Mizuho and Moritsuki and fought off one last NOC assault before the NOC disengaged, signing a peace treaty with the EUN, the ISB, and the W-GGE. As fighting stalled on the western front, the EUN and W-GGE also signed a ceasefire. The ISB also grudgingly signed a ceasefire two months after the other combatants ceased, having made almost no gains. The new, Four-Way Second Cold War began, and the Human Sphere had never been as hostile, with almost all trade activity ceased.
 * 0200: On the 200th birthday of the Greater Galactic Empire, the Western Empire launched a major attack on the rest of the EUN, beginning the Second Imperial Civil War. Armed with legions of robotic Ashigaru troops and Petrusite superweapons, the Western Empire invaded Kanagawa and Mizuho.
 * 0206: The end of the Second Imperial Civil War was a great relief to the people of the EUN. The former W-GGE was occupied and the region was reformed into the Western Dominion, ruled nominally by the new Greater Galactic Empire, which was essentially a puppet state of the EUN. Still lots of resistance was faced. As a supplier and support of the W-GGE during the war, the EUN began to pressure the E-GGE in dismantling its cloning and slavery. Jinteki Corporation, with a major grip on E-GGE politics, did not permit this and the hermit nation continued. A coup then replaced the mellowing E-GGE government with a hardliner one that promoted isolationism and rebuilding for yet another final war against the EUN. Rokuhama, to become the largest and busiest port this side of the Human Sphere, was seized as a UN Mandate Area.
 * 0225: A ship carrying Petrusite Weapons was discovered at Rokuhama heading to the ORC, with the origin determined to have been the E-GGE. The E-GGE denied any involvement, but mass sanctions were levelled against the already poor nation that primarily relied on illicit weapons trade with the ORC states. A blockade was enforced over the E-GGE, with demands to stop production of Petrusite weaponry and to stop human cloning and Yterbi slavery. The E-GGE responded with a massive planetwide massacre of Yterbi on Yomotsu, matching the ferocity and barbarity of the early GGE in fighting the Aggressor Race and leaving almost no survivors. Holding the remaining Yterbi race as hostages, the E-GGE demanded that the EUN backed down. Talks stalled.
 * 0226: The detonation of a Sakuradite bomb on Cheongsu was blamed on pro-GGE terrorists, but an eco-terrorist group took responsibility instead. Later in the year, another act of terrorism hit the capital of the Dominion on Mishima, killing several Governor-Generals who were having a meeting. This was tied to pro-GGE terrorists linked to the E-GGE.
 * 0227: The Jinteki Corporation was heavily investigated due to its close relationship with the E-GGE, facing massive stock losses in all areas that outran its losses when human cloning was banned. Suddenly, the Jinteki Enforcement Systems and Solutions (JESS) PMC launched a massive attack on the young colony at Suita, occupying the largest spaceport and capturing the local governor. The E-GGE denied any affiliation to the attack, as Jinteki is a private company. Meanwhile, former and pro-GGE politicians worked hard in the General Assembly to slow down any deliberations. It is only through a hard political fight that a Peacekeeper Force is directed to liberate Suita from JESS.
 * 0228: The EUN Ministry of Justice determines that the E-GGE is responsible for supporting Jinteki in its actions, and in fact ordered it. An invasion of the E-GGE is approved due to the E-GGE's possession of superweapons.
 * 0229: The war lasts about a year, with the final capitulation of the E-GGE taking place on Daitetsu. The Yterbi were, thankfully, not exterminated, and were finally free. An Eastern Dominion was proposed, but vetoed by all members of the Security Council, and the leaders of the E-GGE were executed for their war crimes and crimes against decency. Many though managed to escape out of the Empire, joining up with the Imperial Remnants and eventually forming the Third Empire outside of the EUN.


 * 0253: The ISB Civil War begins, the EUN-supported war resulting in the Crimson Empire seceding from the ISB with only Yudi, the other planet will be colonised later.

The Premier Human Superpower
The Empire of the Unified Nations stands at the forefront of humanity.


 * 0258: The Empire of the Unified Nations celebrated its 100th year since liberation, ushering a new golden age of peace, prosperity and stability.
 * 0286: The first Yashima-class battleship is laid down in the Niigata Shipyards.
 * 0289: Yashima (戦艦-8011), the first Yashima-class battleship, is commissioned. She is joined by Yamatai (戦艦-8012) and Shirakawa(戦艦-8013).
 * 0295: Empire of Unified Nations (戦艦-8014), Uchinaa (戦艦-8015) and Hinomoto (戦艦-8016) are commissioned.
 * 0299:
 * The Kaiba Incident occurred. Imperial Customs Authority and Horaisan Security Forces patrols in the region were investigating a series of disappearances when they discovered an illegal space station just outside of Imperial Space in the 37-Kaiba system. The patrol ships were fired upon when they approached, prompting an armed response by the Imperial Navy. The 213th Kabekage Division of the 2nd Border Defence Fleet reacted, and marines entering the station discovered that the station was populated by Alvish, performing horrific experiments on humans, such as sacs with human brains and nervous systems that were found to be still alive. The Navy immediately attacked and destroyed the station utterly. One day later, the Imperial Navy Cartographer Division 3922 encountered an Alvish combat patrol in open space and was fired upon. These incidents combined prompted the Imperial Council to declare a state of emergency in the Outer Core and approve an Imperial Navy response. As part of the largest combined fleet movement in over 50 years, the entire 3rd Mobile Fleet was mobilised and set off towards Alvia immediately, with the 4th Mobile Fleet in reserve. After two days of patrols, scouts spotted massed Alvish space forces in the 95-Kaiba system, and the 3rd Mobile Fleet moved to meet the enemy.
 * The 7th Strike Group's あ Element decelerated in 95-Kaiba to meet the enemy.
 * In the aftermath of the Kaiba Incident, the Gozich Treaty was signed. After weeks of difficult negotiations, a boundary line in the Neutral Zone between the Alvish Imperium and the Empire of Unified Nations was established that military vessels without express authorisation the respective government are not allowed to cross. The existing trade lanes were declared demilitarised zones, and no military vessels without express authorisation from both governments are allowed to follow the three main trade lanes.
 * 0300:
 * 0303: Empress Shizuna took over and began surreptitiously taking more power with aid from the Purist Faction.
 * 0305: Talks between the Republic of Shiroyama and the Hongxing Collective, the ISB side of Shiroyama, break down. The talks were initially about bringing down the huge walls that divide the planet's largest city and the capital of both sides, _CITY_. Military forces are raised, and both sides quickly engage in open warfare while their parent nations cautiously join in the fight. Talk about the (Second) Cold War going Hot.
 * 0306: The modern day.