Jedi Sentinel
Truth Seeker
It is the year 0171 of the New Solar Era, nearly two centuries have passed since mankind's first steps into the frontiers beyond the sky.
80 years ago a series of cataclysmic disasters, both natural and man made, rendered portions of the earths surface all but unihabitable. In response to this, the weakened and desperate nations of the world reformed the United Nations into a more unified system under the banner of the United Earth League.
Under the UEL the world began to slowly recover from the Disaster, but at what some perceive to be at the cost of many personal liberties. In response to this many of the earth's elite chose to emigrate to the then new frontier colonies, greatly increasing the standard of living as they brought in many of the luxuries that had once been exclusive to earth. Seeing this, many people on earth began to aspire to move to the colonies as well in search of better living and freedom. Within 50 years, nearly a 3rd of the earth's 11 billion citizens had made their lives in space.
For a time the world was at peace, those who lived in the colonies lived one way and those on Earth lived theirs'. However this began to change when 10 years ago a major development project that was attempting to construct a colony near the asteroid belt exploded, killing thousands and costing numerous major colonial corporations trillions and sending the entire economy into a major rescission. While the cause for the "Belt incident" was never official discovered, a small but vocal faction began to form around the rhetoric that the League had somehow been involved and had planned the whole thing in order to make the colonists more dependent on earth. This faction was largely ignored until a few years later when a lone bomber with loose connections to the group managed to destroy a League transport at dock and kill roughly a hundred servicemen and women while injuring many more. In response to this the league formed a task force known as JOTUN with the mission statement of hunting down any potential terrorists before they could do any damage. With fairly limited oversight, it wasn't long until JOTUN began abusing it's power, mass abductions, assassinations, the works. Predictably this lead to more sedition as numerous loose anti-JOTUN factions began to form and resist.
This rebellion came to it's head one year ago, when the scattered factions came together under the banner of the Free Colonial Forces and revealed their trump card to the world at large, a decommissioned space colony long forgotten had been repurposed into the single largest bomb ever created. In a stand-off with the UEL forces the FCF made their demands, including the total dissolution of JOTUN and full autonomy for the colonies. Neither side was willing to back down and the UEL made a desperate attempt to destroy the colony bomb before it could be used. They failed and the bomb landed near Berlin killing roughly 30 million in the blink of an eye.
The conflict has claimed more than a billion lives on both sides and people are horrified by the atrocities committed both by those who desire control and those who would break free. Exactly 1 year has passed since the rebellion began, They are at a stalemate.
80 years ago a series of cataclysmic disasters, both natural and man made, rendered portions of the earths surface all but unihabitable. In response to this, the weakened and desperate nations of the world reformed the United Nations into a more unified system under the banner of the United Earth League.
Under the UEL the world began to slowly recover from the Disaster, but at what some perceive to be at the cost of many personal liberties. In response to this many of the earth's elite chose to emigrate to the then new frontier colonies, greatly increasing the standard of living as they brought in many of the luxuries that had once been exclusive to earth. Seeing this, many people on earth began to aspire to move to the colonies as well in search of better living and freedom. Within 50 years, nearly a 3rd of the earth's 11 billion citizens had made their lives in space.
For a time the world was at peace, those who lived in the colonies lived one way and those on Earth lived theirs'. However this began to change when 10 years ago a major development project that was attempting to construct a colony near the asteroid belt exploded, killing thousands and costing numerous major colonial corporations trillions and sending the entire economy into a major rescission. While the cause for the "Belt incident" was never official discovered, a small but vocal faction began to form around the rhetoric that the League had somehow been involved and had planned the whole thing in order to make the colonists more dependent on earth. This faction was largely ignored until a few years later when a lone bomber with loose connections to the group managed to destroy a League transport at dock and kill roughly a hundred servicemen and women while injuring many more. In response to this the league formed a task force known as JOTUN with the mission statement of hunting down any potential terrorists before they could do any damage. With fairly limited oversight, it wasn't long until JOTUN began abusing it's power, mass abductions, assassinations, the works. Predictably this lead to more sedition as numerous loose anti-JOTUN factions began to form and resist.
This rebellion came to it's head one year ago, when the scattered factions came together under the banner of the Free Colonial Forces and revealed their trump card to the world at large, a decommissioned space colony long forgotten had been repurposed into the single largest bomb ever created. In a stand-off with the UEL forces the FCF made their demands, including the total dissolution of JOTUN and full autonomy for the colonies. Neither side was willing to back down and the UEL made a desperate attempt to destroy the colony bomb before it could be used. They failed and the bomb landed near Berlin killing roughly 30 million in the blink of an eye.
The conflict has claimed more than a billion lives on both sides and people are horrified by the atrocities committed both by those who desire control and those who would break free. Exactly 1 year has passed since the rebellion began, They are at a stalemate.
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