A Review of Galaxy Milestones

Ancient History

Nobody knows where humans originated from. What is clear is that we became the dominant form of sentient life in the galaxy. We expanded from our birth planet and spread throughout the galaxy. Lifeforms below us were turned into food or fashioned into raw materials for industry. Alien lifeforms hostile to our existence were defeated in what we would call wars and driven to extinction. This happened so long ago that nobody even remembers or knows for sure what strange alien races stood against humanity. All people have are fossils in museums indicating some kind of human-alien war took place, millions upon millions of years ago.

The Era of the Holy Ryuvian Empire

All of humanity's greatest technological accomplishments come from the Holy Ryuvian Empire, which conquered all other human nations a million years ago and became the galactic hegemon. The Church of Ryuvia established the Ryuvian Emperor as the god of humanity. From Ryuvia Prime, the Emperor ruled humanity like a terrible tyrant, using the near magical technology of Ryuvia for himself.

Amongst the Ryuvian technologies was the Ryder. It is a humanoid mecha of formidable combat prowess. The Ryder was used both for ceremonial purpose and as a vehicle of war by Ryuvia.

During Ryuvia's million year rule of humanity, the legend of the Sharr was established. The Sharr was the moral symbol of the Ryuvian Empire. She was submissive to the Emperor, but a powerful warrior; beautiful, but virginal; frail, but invincible; beloved by the people, but detached from the masses. Most importantly, the Sharr was the greatest Ryder pilot of the Ryuvian Empire. She was the embodiment of the warrior ideal, and girls across the galaxy dreamed of becoming the Sharr. To this very day, many ryder pilots are female, due to the Ryuvian Empire's lasting cultural influence.

The Ryuvian Civil War

Throughout the Ryuvian Empire's existence, various power struggles occurred between families for ascendance onto the Imperial throne. One notable civil war was the one participated by Sharr Sola di Ryuvia.

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Sola was baptized as Sola di Ryuvia, and named Sharr, and led Ryuvia's forces against Crow Harbor.

In the final battle between Sola di Ryuvia and Crow Harbor, Sola activated her flagship, the Sharr'Lac's, ultimate power: The Final Tear, which would utterly destroy Crow Harbor's fleet, but at the cost of Sola's own life. Crow Harbor, in desperation, activated a half-finished time machine to dodge the attack. However, the time machine malfunctioned, sending both Crow Harbor and Sola thousands of years into the future.

Both Sola and Crow Harbor presumed to be killed, the civil war ended, and peace returned to Ryuvia. The Holy Ryuvian Empire continued to rule humanity for over 1000 more years.

The Fall of the Holy Ryuvian Empire

As the millennia's went on, the Ryuvian Empire became more corrupt. The royal court became a snake pit, where men and women fought for their own personal interests, rather than the good of the nation. The Empire continued on for centuries, but eventually, even the Ryuvians' power decayed. After a string of weak rulers, the Holy Empire collapsed, starting the modern era.

The Rise of the New Empire

With the collapse of the Holy Empire, humanity descended into a brief, but uncertain dark age. However, order was eventually established by the New Empire, a new nation modelled after the Holy Empire, but this time with its capitol situated in the planet of New Eden, rather than Ryuvia Prime.

The New Empire continued the traditions of the Ryuvian Church, the Emperor, and the Sharr. However, it was consumed by the same vices of the Holy Empire. The royal court was corrupt, and the division of wealth was unequal between the royals and the commoners.

Meanwhile, now free of the tyranny of the Holy Empire, countless independent worlds formed outside of the New Empire's territory. None of them matched the New Empire's power, but each began to develop their own sense of national identity.

The Beginning of PACT

Soon, the commoners of the New Empire formed a rebel group called Compact against the New Empire. Compact was brutally repressed by the New Empire. The leaders of the rebellion were called the Vennisars. Countless Vennisars were murdered by the New Empire. In the early days of the rebellion, Compact was not a serious threat to the New Empire, and mostly constituted of poorly equipped bandits. The New Empire used Compact as a bogeyman to intimidate the people into supporting the royals, and most people viewed Compact as a group of angry young rioters.

The Formation of the Solaris Alliance

As the New Empire grew in power, it formed a great fleet to conquer the rest of the former Ryuvian worlds. However, the now independent worlds grew weary of being ruled by another Emperor. The future hero of the Alliance, Madeline Gray, gathered ships across the independent worlds, and formed a mighty fleet to face the New Empire. As war was declared between the independent worlds and the New Empire, the forces under the command of Madeline Gray formed a grand military and economic alliance, dubbed the Solar Alliance, after the wealthiest of the independent worlds, Solaris. Under this agreement, all the worlds of the Alliance could elect a representative to the Congress of One Hundred, where political issues would be resolved through democracy, rather than tyranny.

The Alliance-Imperial War

War raged between the Solar Alliance of democratic worlds, and the New Empire. Despite an early string of victories, the New Empire gradually began to be pushed out of Alliance space. The New Empire's fate was sealed when the Alliance formed a military alliance with Ryuvia, now reduced to just their capital world. The Alliance promised that various worlds now belonging to the New Empire, would be given to Ryuvia, if Ryuvia was to join forces with the Alliance. Now facing both the Alliance and Ryuvia, the New Empire sued for peace. 

The Treaty of Vespa

The Treaty of Vespa formerly ended the Alliance-Imperial War. The Solar Alliance betrayed the Ryuvians, refusing to return any of Ryuvia's former worlds. With the Solar Alliance now the galaxy's most powerful military and economic force, the Ryuvians had no way to retaliate against the Alliance. Instead, Ryuvia's former worlds, which neither joined the Solar Alliance, nor was a part of the New Empire, were now organized into the Neutral Rim Territories, a buffer zone which would separate the Solar Alliance and the New Empire. The New Empire was forbidden to ever enter the Neutral Rim to challenge the Solar Alliance ever again. The treaty ruled that the New Empire would remain in its territory, and the Solar Alliance would remain in its own, with a wall of neutral worlds, including Ryuvia, separating the two powers.