Their attack was successful, and they later reverse-engineered the technology.Īlmost a year later, the Kleekoonanonis paid a visit to Earth itself. Some of the planet's natives learned of this colony, and attacked it. Nevertheless, they decided to place a colony. The planet was discovered to have civilized sentient life. In 2011, the humans were able to survey a planet they had designated Kepler 22-b several decades earlier. A few years later, the Sirian species (who had been covertly observed by the UNE) developed spaceflight and were invited into the Earth Republic they swiftly accepted the proposal. In 2069, the UNE and the Centauri governments diplomatically merged to become the Earth Republic. In just a few decades, they became a major interstellar power, with an empire spanning hundreds of light-years.
This allowed them to colonize and terraform several planets in the Sol system and nearby systems, such as Tau Ceti. They gave the humans new technology to help them advance. Soon after, the Centauri decided to help humanity become an empire. When it got there six months later, the native Centauri race decided to initiate first contact. Its goal was to reach the Alpha Centauri system, the nearest to Sol, and conduct surveys to determine its habitability. In 2046, the UNE launched its first interstellar probe. This would set the stage for global unification in the year 2040, with every nation joining the United Nations of Earth (UNE). Fortunately, a special UN summit convinced the world to use the newfound technologies for peace as well as cooperate in research. Both superpowers siezed the technology within them, and threatened to use the reverse-engineered technology to destroy each other. Two of the most powerful countries, the United States and Russia, were especially hostile at this time and threatened the use of nuclear weapons.Īround this time, several old spaceships were discovered buried beneath Earth's surface, beginning with one discovered under a French farm. These encounters would live on in Terran mythology.īy the year 2030 (SY 1954), the world's nation-states were locked in international conflict over the planet's diminishing resources.
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