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Space frontier, rise of earth plays about 3000 years from now, humanity moved to space in the year 2200, the first FTL hyperdrives where built and tested, between the year 2250 and 3000 humanity was prosperring, colonies had arrizen hundreds of lightyears from earth, but in the year 3001, the first year of the third millenium, disaster struck, an unknown alien race was encountered, just outside of a colonised system, 2 frigate class vessels where dispatched to investigate the vessel, they where never heard of again, 2 days after the colony stopped sending communications a small inspection fleet arrived, 5 frigates and 2 destroyers, only 2 frigates managed to get away from the enemy armada that had assembled around the planet.

They brought the news of a vicious alien race with ships the size of small moons and weapons capable of ripping a destroyer apart with a single shot, earth rushed to develop a new weapon to stop this alien menace as it spread across the star charts and they approached earth, the losses now at 1 full colony a day.

then a new type of dreadnought was built, there wasn't time to test it tough, because with the speed they aliens where moving they would arrive at earth within days, the full remaining fleet was assembled around earth and waited, hoping that whatever the new weapon the scientists where building on the moon would be enough to stop the aliens.

3 days they waited before the aliens entered the Sol system and ravaged the pluto colony, the fleet did nothing to stop them.

another day went by before the aliens moved towards mars, the earth fleet moved too, they moved to intercept, because the scientists said they needed just a few more hours to finish their device, the fleet fought bravely but by a battlegroup of 5 enemy battleships they where getting ripped to shreds.

Just as all hope of victory had been lost the Luna defense project payed off, the weapon worked and across the vast distance seperating earth from mars it struck, gutting an enemy battleship with a single hit, aliens immediatly made a run towards earth, but before they could arrive the weapon fired again and again a battleship was destroyed, cut ribbons as if made out of paper.

then the earth defense fleet realised they had not yet lost the fight and they fought brilliantly, with more bravery and strength then anybody could have ever tought possible, and they succeeded because they destroyed an entire battleship with their attacks and slowed the alien fleet down enough for the Luna project to fire once more, the last remaining alien vessel ran and another age of properity began, an age that ended brutally 10 years ago when the aliens reappeared, but this time humanity was prepared for them, this time they knew what was coming, for 10 years the war raged on, untill a human battleship loaded with anti-matter warheads got within firing range of the enemy homeworld.

now humanity faces death again, but this time from within, the outer colonies have built fleets and are ready to defend themselves, the earth defense fleet has been battered and damaged by the alien war and a civil war is about to break out.

the colonies have split into 4 factions:

the miner confederation:
the miner confederation fight for freedom, they wish to seperate themselves from earth and come under their own rule, they are however quite friendly towards earth and full scale war is not likely to erupt between the miners and earth, however they are already at war with the other 3 groups, they live of trade, trading minerals for food with earth

the confederation of free planets:
they are trying to conquer all others, they are at war with all other factions and deem that they are the best group, they are constantly attacking others and trying to take over planets with force, they have the biggest fleet, but poor tactics keep them from achieving their goals

the freethinkers society:
a mysterious group with only a few colonies and ships, this group is rumoured to have contact with the remaining aliens and possibly even harboring these aliens, tough they have the smallest fleet they never seem to lose a fight, they however fight only in defense and barely ever attack others, except if it is to reclaim what they say is theirs.

the Nixon corperation:
a corperation grown huge, they had a monopoly in the science and mineral industries untill they lost a large part of their colonies to the miner confederation, the Nixon corperation is well armed and trained and will stop at nothing to gain profit

and of course, the old earth republic:
the republic refuses to aknowledge the other colony's freedom, tough they are currently in trade with both the nixon corp and the miners they are on the other side constantly attacking the confederation of free planets, the freethinkers society is to them a much smaller and unimportant problem because the freethinkers are not aggresive and only a small group of colonies