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So, this is a little project I've been working on for a while and figured I'd post in increments here. It's really just my ramblings about a cohesive backstory for the human race and the Galactic Federation as a whole, and I use it in most of my Metroid fics, so here it is, if Metroid happens to be your cup of tea.
Index
Foreword
Section 1 - The Human Race
Section 2 - The Galactic Federation and the Qarr-tokk
Section 3 - The Space Pirates
Section 4 - Ridley
Section 5 - Bounty Hunters
Section 6 - Black Projects
Section 7 - The Command Council
Section 8 - The Supreme Commander
Section 9 - The Galactic Military
Section 10 - The Galactic Coordinate System
A Brief History of the Galactic Federation and its Influence on the Cosmos
Callum Rhodes
Retired Galactic Federation Marine
Chief Historian of the Trondis School for Intergalactic Education
The Galactic Federation is a household name throughout the galaxy in this day and age regardless of species, and for good reason, too. There is no doubt that any credit for the current standard of living that so many species across this galaxy of ours share belongs to the organization known as the Galactic Federation. While we are by no means in an era of peace, we most certainly are prosperous as not only individual species, but as a galaxy as a whole. We’ve progressed further than we have in many, many years in terms of technology, culture, and education. Of course, there are bits and pieces of history that the Galactic Federation would very much like to sweep under the rug. To be perfectly honest, I am completely okay with that as long as there is someone who still does remember them, just in case anybody asks. That’s why I am writing this.
As I said previously that there are certain events that the Federation wishes to be forgotten, and they have no doubt paid many bribes throughout the galaxy to ensure that these facts stay buried. In fact, even at this esteemed college at which I am employed keeps select information under lock and key at the request of the Galactic Federation. However, I’ve been granted permission to write this history of mine, and they have offered me several million galactic credits to make sure it is never published outside of my place of work. Of course, I accepted.
The Human Race
If you ask any professor of history, outside of a select few, they would probably tell you that the human race originated on a small planet near the center of the galaxy, and that it fell out of orbit as they abandoned it and collided with another planet, destroying them both. This, of course, is false. In my studies I’ve come to discover that the human race’s home planet is a lonely little rock in a secluded corner of the galaxy. It was called “Earth”. Of course if you were to travel to the planet today you would no doubt find a bubbling, radioactive cess pool with no more than the most basic forms of life.
From what I can find, Earth wasn’t always like this. Earth had once been a fantastically beautiful planet. Gorgeous oceans, massive forests, vast plains; everything that we would consider rare and natural beauty in this era. Of course, being the greedy humans we are, we tore down the forests, razed the plains, and polluted the oceans not long before we abandoned the planet. We wanted more room to build our cities and factories, and thought nothing of taking it without any regard for the planet that housed us.
Some time in the late 1800s, (I’m not exactly sure when, as most of the documents tend to lack an exact date in any form that we use today) the human race had its first encounter with a species that hadn’t originated on their home planet. It is unclear what race this was, as no definitive description of them was ever listed in any of the documents I have access to.
The race in question didn’t appear to be hostile as the humans are the ones who struck first, seemingly out of fear. Using various atomic and thermonuclear weapons, they decimated the poor race and almost completely destroyed their entire fleet what appear to be colonist transports, going by the given description. Of course, it was inevitable that as soon as this starborne “threat” was defeated, the humans went back to what they did best at the time, fighting each other.
However, there was a radicalist group that had managed to repair one of the crashed colonist transports and load it with various thermonuclear bombs. They launched into space and threatened to destroy the whole of humanity unless their demands were met.
In the end, the sheer stubbornness the humans possessed paid off. In the year 1939, (This is one of the few dates that is legibly recorded) the radicalist group carried out their threats and unleashed a wave of death upon humanity. It was an extinction level event. The majority of the planet was scorched with a radioactive flame, and it is difficult to fathom how many billions of lives were snuffed out during the event. What these terrorists did not know, however, is that there had been another colonist transport, repaired and maintained by a confederation of nations known as the United Nations, or U.N. This colonist ship attempted to escape the planet with its cargo of 40,000+ human beings, but it was spotted by the terrorists. They attempted to fire on the ship with a thermonuclear missile, however there was a misfire and the missile detonated onboard, sending the remains of the ship and its remaining cargo of weaponry crashing down to the planet’s surface, decimating it further.
The colonist transport traveled for several years before coming across a seemingly uninhabited planet in the closest solar system. Of course, with their somewhat primitive technology, they should have died long before they even managed to escape their own solar system, but they managed to repair the FTL travel drive, (Faster Than Light travel drives are more commonly known as starwarp drives.) and subsequently made their way into the era of space exploration. The planet they settled on is still around, although most humans moved on to settle other planets once they discovered an underground city inhabited by a completely unknown (To them) species several years after settling there. The subterranean species was a peaceful society, but most humans did not wish to share a planet at the time. They departed aboard the same ship on which they had arrived.
They traveled the cosmos for several years more, meeting several other species and even establishing colonies on several planets. One could call it an era of exploration and enlightenment, but I think it was more about self-discovery. Humans learned more about themselves during this time than they did any of the planets they visited.
It wasn’t a peaceful adventure, though. Many humans, both those born on Earth and those born in the stars, perished at the hands of a hostile race known as the Qarr-tokk. The Qarr-tokk were infamously vicious, and were rather cliché in their goal of conquering the galaxy in its entirety.
In the end, humanity grew tired of constantly defending their ships (Which at this point they had reverse engineered from the original colonist transport some years prior) from the Qarr-tokk attackers for years on end, and decided to form an alliance with some of the other species they had encountered, most of whom were also under constant attack from the Qarr-tokk. Together, the humans and two other races, the Tetralytes and the Caborynes, formed a military organization. It was the year 2003, and the Galactic Federation was born. Each race adopted their own colors for official dress and combat equipment. Humans chose a deep navy blue, Tetralytes took to a dull yellow, and Caborynes selected an earthen brown.
Index
Foreword
Section 1 - The Human Race
Section 2 - The Galactic Federation and the Qarr-tokk
Section 3 - The Space Pirates
Section 4 - Ridley
Section 5 - Bounty Hunters
Section 6 - Black Projects
Section 7 - The Command Council
Section 8 - The Supreme Commander
Section 9 - The Galactic Military
Section 10 - The Galactic Coordinate System
A Brief History of the Galactic Federation and its Influence on the Cosmos
Callum Rhodes
Retired Galactic Federation Marine
Chief Historian of the Trondis School for Intergalactic Education
The Galactic Federation is a household name throughout the galaxy in this day and age regardless of species, and for good reason, too. There is no doubt that any credit for the current standard of living that so many species across this galaxy of ours share belongs to the organization known as the Galactic Federation. While we are by no means in an era of peace, we most certainly are prosperous as not only individual species, but as a galaxy as a whole. We’ve progressed further than we have in many, many years in terms of technology, culture, and education. Of course, there are bits and pieces of history that the Galactic Federation would very much like to sweep under the rug. To be perfectly honest, I am completely okay with that as long as there is someone who still does remember them, just in case anybody asks. That’s why I am writing this.
As I said previously that there are certain events that the Federation wishes to be forgotten, and they have no doubt paid many bribes throughout the galaxy to ensure that these facts stay buried. In fact, even at this esteemed college at which I am employed keeps select information under lock and key at the request of the Galactic Federation. However, I’ve been granted permission to write this history of mine, and they have offered me several million galactic credits to make sure it is never published outside of my place of work. Of course, I accepted.
The Human Race
If you ask any professor of history, outside of a select few, they would probably tell you that the human race originated on a small planet near the center of the galaxy, and that it fell out of orbit as they abandoned it and collided with another planet, destroying them both. This, of course, is false. In my studies I’ve come to discover that the human race’s home planet is a lonely little rock in a secluded corner of the galaxy. It was called “Earth”. Of course if you were to travel to the planet today you would no doubt find a bubbling, radioactive cess pool with no more than the most basic forms of life.
From what I can find, Earth wasn’t always like this. Earth had once been a fantastically beautiful planet. Gorgeous oceans, massive forests, vast plains; everything that we would consider rare and natural beauty in this era. Of course, being the greedy humans we are, we tore down the forests, razed the plains, and polluted the oceans not long before we abandoned the planet. We wanted more room to build our cities and factories, and thought nothing of taking it without any regard for the planet that housed us.
Some time in the late 1800s, (I’m not exactly sure when, as most of the documents tend to lack an exact date in any form that we use today) the human race had its first encounter with a species that hadn’t originated on their home planet. It is unclear what race this was, as no definitive description of them was ever listed in any of the documents I have access to.
The race in question didn’t appear to be hostile as the humans are the ones who struck first, seemingly out of fear. Using various atomic and thermonuclear weapons, they decimated the poor race and almost completely destroyed their entire fleet what appear to be colonist transports, going by the given description. Of course, it was inevitable that as soon as this starborne “threat” was defeated, the humans went back to what they did best at the time, fighting each other.
However, there was a radicalist group that had managed to repair one of the crashed colonist transports and load it with various thermonuclear bombs. They launched into space and threatened to destroy the whole of humanity unless their demands were met.
In the end, the sheer stubbornness the humans possessed paid off. In the year 1939, (This is one of the few dates that is legibly recorded) the radicalist group carried out their threats and unleashed a wave of death upon humanity. It was an extinction level event. The majority of the planet was scorched with a radioactive flame, and it is difficult to fathom how many billions of lives were snuffed out during the event. What these terrorists did not know, however, is that there had been another colonist transport, repaired and maintained by a confederation of nations known as the United Nations, or U.N. This colonist ship attempted to escape the planet with its cargo of 40,000+ human beings, but it was spotted by the terrorists. They attempted to fire on the ship with a thermonuclear missile, however there was a misfire and the missile detonated onboard, sending the remains of the ship and its remaining cargo of weaponry crashing down to the planet’s surface, decimating it further.
The colonist transport traveled for several years before coming across a seemingly uninhabited planet in the closest solar system. Of course, with their somewhat primitive technology, they should have died long before they even managed to escape their own solar system, but they managed to repair the FTL travel drive, (Faster Than Light travel drives are more commonly known as starwarp drives.) and subsequently made their way into the era of space exploration. The planet they settled on is still around, although most humans moved on to settle other planets once they discovered an underground city inhabited by a completely unknown (To them) species several years after settling there. The subterranean species was a peaceful society, but most humans did not wish to share a planet at the time. They departed aboard the same ship on which they had arrived.
They traveled the cosmos for several years more, meeting several other species and even establishing colonies on several planets. One could call it an era of exploration and enlightenment, but I think it was more about self-discovery. Humans learned more about themselves during this time than they did any of the planets they visited.
It wasn’t a peaceful adventure, though. Many humans, both those born on Earth and those born in the stars, perished at the hands of a hostile race known as the Qarr-tokk. The Qarr-tokk were infamously vicious, and were rather cliché in their goal of conquering the galaxy in its entirety.
In the end, humanity grew tired of constantly defending their ships (Which at this point they had reverse engineered from the original colonist transport some years prior) from the Qarr-tokk attackers for years on end, and decided to form an alliance with some of the other species they had encountered, most of whom were also under constant attack from the Qarr-tokk. Together, the humans and two other races, the Tetralytes and the Caborynes, formed a military organization. It was the year 2003, and the Galactic Federation was born. Each race adopted their own colors for official dress and combat equipment. Humans chose a deep navy blue, Tetralytes took to a dull yellow, and Caborynes selected an earthen brown.
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