Alliance of Independent Systems

The Alliance of independent systems, also known as the AoIS or simply the Alliance, is a medium sized human nation located in the southeastern part of the Mid Galactic rim. It is the largest of the Human nations as well as the most powerful in both Economy as well as military matters. Despite being fairly new as a spacefaring nation, the Alliance has quickly risen to be one of the most influencial and powerful nations among the Galaxy.

Early Foundation
""Terra was a hellish place back then you know, spend a day on Eden's equatorial desert and you'll experience half the pain those people went through""

- -Supreme Commander Cornelio Fivios to Nigel Khornewal

The beginnings of the Alliance can be dated back to the late 21st century. Around the year of 2078 the resources on Terra, back then still referred to as Earth, were draining fast. Climate Change had ravaged the population, unbearable heatwaves rendered large regions uninhabitable and major flooding and super storms caused majority of the coastal population to relocate, causing even further economic strain on the inland regions.

Due to all of the crises, the United Nations decided to pass a new law unifying the Earth's nations in order to lessen the steain on any one nation as well as to allow nations to share research and projects that could help humanity in its dire situation. The majority of the UN countries signed the document and agreed on the creation of a singular Earth government. The nations that did not sign or weren't part of the UN were quickly taken over with military force.

Two years later in 2080 the creation of the Union of Earth was officialized and the first Grand Executive of Earth was elected as the Head of State

Early Colonization Era
""After they sorted out the promblems on Terra, they looked up to the stars and decided that they'd never have those problems again""

- -Supreme Commander Cornelio Fivios to Nigel Khornewal

In 2095 the majority of the crises on Earth had been alleviated with new technology and policies. But things such as the lack of resources as well as the looming threat of climate change was still a problem. Thus the United Earth government passed the Extra terrestrial expansion act of 2095, which gave large research and development funding to any orginization willing to take on the burden of Colonizing other planets within the solar system.

In 2097 the first colonists already arrived on Mars and began colonization efforts, transforming the planet in just 3 short years into an inhabited colony world under Earth. The moon soon followed, transforming the Union of Earth into an early stellar civilization.

The first interstellar expedition
""We weren't happy with just Sol back then, we wanted to go further. So we looked towards Proxima Centauri.""

- -Supreme Commander Cornelio Fivios to Nigel Khornewal

In the Early 22nd century humanity had advanced their technology far enough to consider interstellar travel. With the invention of the Ramiard drive by Gyan Ramiard in 2102 humanity gained the capability of FTL travel. By modern Alliance standard the Ramiard drvie was extremely slow and inefficient but back then it was the pinnacle of human innovation.

The first expedition team was sent to proxima centauri in the year 2105, consisting of around 30 members with a variety of expertise including Biology, geology, chemistry and atmospheric physics. Among the crew were also two news reporters representing who had been allowed to tag along to report on any findings with as neutral of a perspective as possible.

The expedition team made the trip safely in around a year and seven months. To their excitement they found that as theorized by researchers in the past, Proxima centauri b was indeed habitable. The research team, as per their orders, flew their ship to the planet's orbit and detached a smaller shuttle with a crew of 10 to investigate further. It was found that Proxima b had a breathable athmosphere, a continental makeup similiar to Earth with 9 major continents instead of Earth's 7. It was also tidally locked, meaning that one side of the planet was constantly facing the sun while the other always faced away. Despite this, strong wind and oceans made it possible to inhabit larger parts of the planet. Proxima b was also found to have flora as well as fauna, making it the first discovery of extraterrestrial life.

After staying to do research for a little over a year and doing a probe sweep of both Proxima centauri itself as well as the ice giant Proxima c, the expedition team returned to Earth in 2110, being welcomed with a grand ceremony. The crew was surprised as to how much Earth had changed in just 4 short years, as the Colonies on the moon as well as Mars had grown quite a lot, and the foundation of the Colonial Council, which would give the people of those colonies their own representatives in national matters, had been announced. Humanity had alos begun to colonize Saturn's moon Titan for its resources and upgraded their FTL capabilities, shortening the trip from Sol to Proxima centauri to around 10 months from the previous 19.

Not alone
""Humanity was happy and peaceful, until they found out that they weren't alone.""

- -Supreme Commander Cornelio Fivios to Nigel Khornewal

Skipping a few years to 2121, humanity had colonized Proxima b, now known as Centaurus, and explored the main star system of Alpha centauri AB. The Union of Earth had become quite the powerhouse, with a fleet of starships numbering in the thousands and FTL drives capable of making the trip from Centaurus to Earth in just 5 months. Humanity was quite content with its existance and the populace lived in peace.

That was until in the June of 2121, a monitor station orbiting Proxima Centauri, picked up the an unidentified FTL signature entering the system near Proxima c. A small taskforce of patrol craft were immediately dispatched to investigate. What they discovered was a ship of unknown design, it appeared to be unarmed. A message from one of the patrol craft was broadcasted to the ship. The message said: "Unidentified vessel, you have entered Union space without identification, please identify and state your intention." This message, recorded by captain Ulaf Sigginheim, became the first proper message sent to and recieved by a member of an alien spacefaring civilization.

A message was soon sent back from the unidentified vessel, it was in a language no one could understand. This sparked the interest of nearby researchers who primed a research ship from the starport on Centaurus and headed to the scene. What followed after they arrived was a 6 month long exchange between the two ships who staid in orbit of Proxima c. Both sides sent communications to eachother the other couldn't understand in an attempt to give linguists the neccesary materials to decode the other's language. In six months this was seemingly achieved by the alien vessel's crew as in December of 2121, they sent the first comprehensible communication recieved from an alien civilization. The message was spoken in Engri, a language evolved from English, german and french over the period of a century which had become one of the three main languages spoken in the Union. The message said: "Thank you for your constant communication, with the amount of information at our disposal we have been able to understand your tongue and now can converse with you."

It seemed to be an innocent message, and it was. But after the alien vessel sent an invitation for the crew of the human vessel to board and meet eachother in person, excitement quickly turned into existential terror on both sized as a terrifying and reality shattering realization was made. The aliens weren't aliens at all, but humans.

DNA tests proved that although these newcomers did have genetic differences, both races most certainly shared a common ancestor. The other humans, also knwon as Tiberians, were members of a nation known as the Stratocracy of Tiberia, haling from the planet of Tiberia in the Caucas system. Their race had achieved space faring capabilities around the same time humanity did, and now they had sent an expedition team to Proxima centauri as they had detected some strange signals originating from it. Those signals turned out to be communications between Union ships.

Soon relations between the Stratocracy and the Union were set up on friendly terms, envoys of both sides visited the other nation and trade routes were established. But not everything was sunshine and rainbows in the Union. The revelation that other humans existed made many citizens wish for unity between our race once more, the happiness of the idea that Earth and all humans had unified under a single flag had dissapeared after the discovery of the Stratocracy. While the discovery of other spacefaring nations made others wish for a stronger military presence, especially considering that the Stratocracy's military and navy especially was far larger that the Union's.

The birth of the Alliance
In 2123 a movement within the Union's military began to take form. Known as the Strongarm Alliance movement. This movement strove for a stronger military presence and for the military to control the nation's affairs. It was supported by the Tiberians as it would essentially turn the Union into a stratocracy. The movement was opposed by the Union government at first but after a short skirmish in the capital on Earth between military staff and goverment officials the Union goverment was forcefully disbanded and the new military goverment was established.

The new goverment placed the supreme commander as the head of state as well as the head of the military. Dasque Tammil became the first ruler of the new order and the nation was branded to become the Alliance of Independent Systems. Its capital, Earth, was also renamed to Terra and the its moon to Luna.

Soon after the birth of the Alliance, negotiations took place between Terrans and Tiberians on future matters where it was revealed that Tiberia had made contact with two other human civilizations, those being the ones on Gypro and Yakdva, both civilizations were rather primitive but they were undoubtedly human. The two nations also discussed the possibility of other foreign powers and how they could be less friendly than Terra and Tiberia had been to eachother at the start. Thus in 2124, it was decided that the Alliance would annex the nation of Tiberia into itself and allow them to remain a self governing sector within the nation.

The Elven contact
Skipping ahead once more. The Alliance eventually made contact with another nation in 2158. The nation had expanded quite a lot and had incorporated many planets into itself, including the previously mentioned Gypro and Yakdva which had accepted the transition with no resistance due to all of the parties involved being human. But eventually on one of the Alliance controlled systems, a fleet of ships was detected exiting an artificial wormhole.

It was revealed that these ships belonged to the High Kingdome of Elvengard, an Elven nation which resided within the north of the Alliance but had travelled down with an artificial wormhole in search of new worlds to conquer. Communications between the two nations were establlished quickly thanks to the Elves' advanced tranlation magic, an ability which wasn't revealed to the humans until later.

After first contact, the two nations began a steady exchange of information. The Human side of the exchange didn't have much to give to the much older and wiser Elven nation, but the Elves were still happy to educate the Alliance on what was basically common knowledge to them. The Elves gave information on other nations and species, the current state of the Galaxy as well as the existance of magic. The latter being a massive revelation to human society.

The introduction of Magic
Thanks to the Elves, a massive reform of society and other matters took place in the Alliance. Immediately researcher began looking for ways to incorporate magic into the human way of life. And by 2160 this was succesful. It was discovered that humans actually had quite a strong affinity for magic, it is believed that most stories of magic and the like from olden times were actually true, and humanity had simply forgotten how to use it as technology progressed.

The Alliance soon became one of the leading nations in magical development, as it was not afraid to experiment with previously taboo ways of using magic and ways which diverted from more traditional ways held in other nations. For example, unlike nations such as the Elves and the Flügel, which were at the time the most prominent users of magic and used a traditional way of incantation magic, humanity instead looked for ways to fuse the use of both magic and technology. This resulted in many devices such as the Magical Ray Accumulators or MRAs briefly seen in Epsiode 1, which serve as a planetary shield generator.

Tiberia, which was the main source of military personnel for the Alliance, found use for magic as well. They heavily weaponized magic and also studied it to create counter measures. such results were the Piercer and Lancer Anti-Magic rifles as well as the legendary Tiberian Battle Mages who wielded said rifles.

Recognition
In 2163, after five years of back and forth, the Alliance was granted the recognition of statehood by Elvengard. In the Galaxy, a nation needed to be recognized by one of the major powers in order to participate in the Gallactic council. Soon after the Alliance recieved the recognition, they were also made into the leader of the Human race group, effectively making them a major power and giving them the right to grant recognition to other nations.

War of Prafad
Humanity's advances in magical science wasn't taken too well by some races. As mentioned previously, the Elves and Flügel were especially against the idea of untraditional use of magic. While among them some of the more liberal nation such as the Republic of Igna Gracia or the Sovereignty of Frea Angelica were happy to indulge these new human ideas. But a few other nations weren't too pleased. Mainly the Holy Elven Hagemony of Lucox as well as the Winged order. While the Hagemony was very vocal about it's objection towards humanity's use of magic, they never did anything. But the Flügel nation of the Winged order however, took their objections to another level.