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✧ WELCOME TO THE ARM OF ORION ✧
--Where the stars are ripe for the taking--



150 years have passed since the end of the age of Sol when mankind was confined to only a single star, and humanity has only continued to grow. It is divided but also united in a common goal of spreading itself across the cosmos. A dozen new nations reach out into the galaxy, struggling for power and influence, and it seems humanity will never leave its roots of war and violence. However, it looks like the human race will not have to struggle alone, as new alien faces reveal themselves to Earth's children. The Arm of Orion is ripe with life, and The Stars Are Ours to Conquer

Current RP year: 2257

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The Arm of Orion contains 7 nations, the 3,090th most in the world.

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The Most Stationary in The Arm of Orion

Long-term World Census surveillance revealed which nations have been resident in their current region for the longest time.

As a region, The Arm of Orion is ranked 9,890th in the world for Most Stationary.

NationWA CategoryMotto
1.The Empire of ZhenshiwaInoffensive Centrist Democracy“In The Face of Fate, The Empire Endures...”
2.The Community of SelinsInoffensive Centrist Democracy“Purity on the Horizon”
3.The Techno-Union of Soviet Socialist RepublicFather Knows Best State“Per Virtutem Pax”
4.The United Oligarchy of OnorusFather Knows Best State“Vivite Liberi Aut Morimini!”
5.The Queendom of UsnarovIron Fist Consumerists“Dum Spiro Spero”
6.The Commonwealth of United Frontier WorldsInoffensive Centrist Democracy“Iter faciebat per aeternitatem mundi”
7.The Cult of UchubInoffensive Centrist Democracy“EYE MIND AND HAND”

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      TRANSMISSION

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      OPERATION GLAO EIGYR
      SROICHEADH AN TUAISCIRT FACILITY,
      78 KILOMETERS FROM CORCAIGH

      OPERATION "EIGYR'S CALL" | 21 MARCH, 2255 A.D.

    PROJECT DREIMIRE NEAMH — In the remoteness of the "Northern Reach" region of Tus, a vast icy plateau that borders the Northern Woodlands, lied the Sroicheadh an Tuaiscirt facility. While a majority of the facility was hidden within the ice of the plateau, a massive 760 meter diameter hole lead to the largest and most powerful transmitter ever built in Eanic history. It was built years in advance for this singular moment, in which the facility would have a direct line of sight for a system that has been identified as the origin of several radio call outs picked up by the Clans of Tus.

    Master Mórríghan Étaín-Fearghail stood along with a few other scientists in a semi-dark room, only lit by the computer screens of the workers' stations. Behind them, on an elevated part of the room, stood two of the highest military officials of Clan Sadhbh. One of the Generals spoke down to the scientists, "You have the green light." Mórríghan looked to the senior scientist on the project, who simply nodded in agreement and began issuing orders.

    "Begin the start up. We need to get this communication fired off on time." Everyone began getting to work quickly. As the massive transmitter was started up, a loud hum began reverberating throughout the entire facility.

    "Capacitors are charging, transmitter is aligned," stated one of the workers, "We'll be go to start in 5 minutes."

    Mórríghan brought her right hand up to her snout, pacing a bit out of nervousness and worry. The main screen lit up, showing a birds-eye diagram of the transmitter in the center, surrounded by the transmission stations, which each began lighting up green.

    "Station 1, online. Station 2, online..." The workers began counting the stations as they went online, in no particular order. The other screen, to the right of the main one, showed a radar read out, which was completely clear with no signs of trouble. As the transmitter began powering up, Mórríghan whispered a prayer to herself.

    "Station 88, online. Station 91, online. Station 89 and 90, online..." The hum had become much louder, overbearing even as the last stations came online. "All stations are online, ready for transmission."

    Mórríghan and another scientist walked forward to the central console, where two key holes were waiting for them. Mórríghan took off a necklace with the key and her lanyard on it, and put the key into the hole, as did the other scientist. They then turned the keys in sync and a 20 second timer started.

    As the time counted down to where the station would be at it's most optimal to fire, the transmitter began to let out a whine that increased in pitch. The moment the timer hit 0, the transmitter fired off, sending a bright blue-white beam out into the sky and straight for Sol.

    A worker relayed the progress, "It's transmitting. 56%...78%......89%......98%.....100%! Transmission ending!" A loud thud was created by the transmitter, which abruptly stopped transmitting the message once it was complete. The workers and some of the scientists did a little bit of a celebration at was years of hard work.

    "What's the result?" One of the Generals looked down at the scientist. "Did they receive it?"

    Mórríghan turned, "We...We won't know until some months from now."

    The General, who seemed rather dissatisfied, turned and walked out with her colleague. Mórríghan let out a sigh as her colleague came over. "Mórríghan. Don't worry about it. That's just how those military types are."

    Mórríghan looked over, "I wish they'd understand. It's not easy to deal with them."

    "Well, maybe we can go get a drink when we wrap up here."

    Mórríghan shook her head, "I have things I need to do here, it'll be too late when I'm done."

    The other scientist just nodded and walked to the door as Mórríghan sat down at one of the computer stations. She began running her diagnostics on the transmitter, not knowing for sure if the transmission will reach Sol or if it'll completely miss...

      4 MONTHS LATER...
      SOL, 13 LIGHT YEARS FROM TUS

      OPERATION "EIGYR'S CALL" | 6 JULY, 2255 A.D.

    THE TRANSMISSION — It was early in July when the blast of signals hit Sol. Despite the distance, the radio message was clear as day and rather over powering. Unfortunately, due to the angle that the signal came in as well as the position the planets were in, not every planet in Sol got the message. Of the planets in Sol, only 4 received the transmission, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Neptune.

    The transmission was in two distinct parts;

      The first part seemed to be an introduction to the Eans, complete with DNA sequences, anatomical sketches and autopsies, different pictures, drawings, videos of various points in Eanic history, a massive sampling of Eanic Gael, a layout of the Eanic home system of Eigyr with both a labeled and unlabeled variant, and what looked to be a diagram of various objects in orbit of the second planet in the system which were all labeled.

      The second part was a lot more worrying. It was a simple message with attached imagery of the Sajjuk invasion of the Eigyr system.

      Teastaíonn cúnamh uainn. Tá ár mbaile dúchais faoi ionsaí. Seol cabhair le do thoil.

      1. We need help. Our hometown is under attack. Please send help.
      2. Require Help. Our home is under attack. Please send help.
      3. We need help. Our homeworld is under attack. Please send help.

    Regardless of any translation work that would be needed, it was quite obvious that the Eans were fighting the same enemy as Humanity, and likely needed help.

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Eschaton Falls!

After a week of battle and a hasty evacuation, Helian forces have completely retreated from the world of Eschaton, having no choice but to abandon the moon to alien control. The Sajjuk have meanwhile begun to fortify their position and appear to be massing for a secondary attack on the inner moon of Ilus.

Helian Praym Chandran has called on allies across Sol for aid, most notably Jovia and Pluto. He request entails the provision of military forces to stop the Sajjuk invasion force and remove them from the system. The leaders of both nations have yet to respond, but are obligated by the SWORDS treaty to lend help.

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It had only been a few week's since Vonvak had been appointed chancellor by the senate and he was about to have his first personal meeting with the sovereign; he was so worried that he couldn't even concentrate during his meditation period. Whilst he meet the king when he bestowed him the right to rule during the appointment ceremony, he had not talked to him privately as that would be improper at that time. The main reason he was nervous was not just because of the kings power to send him to eternal damnation but because Vonvak was considered to be a secular industrialist, it was for this reason why he was such a controversial figure in the senate especially in the religious estate, but he reassured him self that if the sovereign had a problem with him he wouldn't have allowed him to be ascend to his position.

He looked outside his apartment looking out at the grandeur of the imperial city, never before had there existed a city of such majesty, he then began reminiscing about his childhood growing up on his mothers estate: the time he spent running around in the red grass of the garden, the times he spent hiding in every hole in the mansion and all the time he spent with his brother. As he continued to stare outside, his wife came into the room with her white vile covering her hair and gown reaching down to her Knee and gave him a hot drink of bogi.

After finishing the drink he would make his way to the hyper rail and go meet the grand sovereign .

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July 12th, 2255 CE, Gliese 667 system, Bridge of the survey ship HANS Ochi de Stea

The Ochi hung like a knife in the inky blackness over Gliese 667-C. For the last 3 days it had stared down at the planet's red oceans and orange surface, lit by the light of the planet's dual suns. Director David Orwin sat on the bridge with a cup of re-caff sitting next to him, a touchpad in his hand with data streaming over its surface. As he looked down at the pad, the reflected light of Gliese 667-C filled the room with a light orange glow, shining in through the command deck's large windows. David, reminded of his days in the navy, had first been afraid or walking onto a ship bridge with so many windows, as a single piece of debris or a bullet would be all it took to depressurize the whole thing. But the Ochi was a nimble vessel and by no means a warship, destined to never see a minute of battle, hopefully.

This was a research corvette, made to survey planets and report home in case they were deemed acceptable for colonization. It was a peaceful job, David enjoyed it, especially with all the new things to learn such a job offered. He was currently sipping his re-caff as he looked over the data from the scanners, showing him that the world's oceans were filled with iron-rich minerals, most likely left over from a mass oxygenating event. To him, it was riveting information.

Orwin hoped it would end no time soon.

Just an hour later, however, the Ochi would pick up a FTL signal from the far end of the system, resonating from an unknown ship. Not two hours after that, the research vessel would send a final uncoded quantum message back to Helios, and thus the rest of human space:

"This is the recon ship HANS Ochi de Stea! We need immediate aid! An unknown ------- has beg ---- --- ---- ag---- attempting to reach zero W--l mark, but something is hol- ---- ------ we can- ---- ------end hel---- ------- oh g-d ------eyr trying to board-- ------- ------ send ai----"

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Kosmostia

Securing the Stars

In a move that breaks several inter-stellar precedents and treaties, the 4th Fleet of the Helios Assembly has been spotted assembling what appears to be a new shipyard on the edge of the Proxima Star System. Helian crafts have been imaged transporting cargo hauls of building materials and construction craft to and from a nearby FTL point, where the Helians appear to also be building a large mining station on a nearby asteroid.

Despite continued questioning from reporters, Helian Military Command has refused to comment on the discovery and appears to have suspended military press briefings indefinitely. What is the purpose of this base and the nearby mining operations could be, is unknown.

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Securing the Stars

In a move that breaks several inter-stellar precedents and treaties, the 4th Fleet of the Helios Assembly has been spotted assembling what appears to be a new shipyard on the edge of the Proxima Star System. Helian crafts have been images transporting cargo hauls of building materials and construction craft to and from a nearby FTL point, where the Helians appear to also be building a large mining station on a nearby asteroid.

Despite continued questioning from reporters, Helian Military Command has refused to comment on the discovery and appears to have suspended military press briefings indefinitely. What is the purpose of this base and the nearby mining operations could be, is unknown.

Lines in the Cosmos
You would've had to be blind to miss the telltale trails of large masses of spacecraft. From hours after receiving detections of a spike in radio noise and light plumes in an otherwise uninteresting part of the Proxima star system's outer edges, an emergency meeting of the Centaurian Navy's top brass has agreed to send out preliminary scouting parties before continuing with a response.

Two frigates, the Anadyr and the Latakia, make a pass within one light minute of the uninvited fleet, taking count of their numbers, approximate sizes, and a guess as to what they are doing here. Frequent in-and-out jumps from a nearby FTL point and the lack of armament on many of the vessels present suggests they're building something, and it didn't take long to figure out that these visitors are from the nearby UHA, not even a light year away in neighboring Alpha Centauri. Having had the occasional communique with them in the past, the CEN didn't hesitate to send a message.

"To the United Helios Assembly and its Armed Forces
We, representing the UCSR and the sole inhabitants of Proxima Centauri, demand to know the meaning of this sudden buildup. Failure to respond will result in an unfortunate confrontation."

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Kosmostia wrote:Lines in the Cosmos
You would've had to be blind to miss the telltale trails of large masses of spacecraft. From hours after receiving detections of a spike in radio noise and light plumes in an otherwise uninteresting part of the Proxima star system's outer edges, an emergency meeting of the Centaurian Navy's top brass has agreed to send out preliminary scouting parties before continuing with a response.

Two frigates, the Anadyr and the Latakia, make a pass within one light minute of the uninvited fleet, taking count of their numbers, approximate sizes, and a guess as to what they are doing here. Frequent in-and-out jumps from a nearby FTL point and the lack of armament on many of the vessels present suggests they're building something, and it didn't take long to figure out that these visitors are from the nearby UHA, not even a light year away in neighboring Alpha Centauri. Having had the occasional communique with them in the past, the CEN didn't hesitate to send a message.

"To the United Helios Assembly and its Armed Forces
We, representing the UCSR and the sole inhabitants of Proxima Centauri, demand to know the meaning of this sudden buildup. Failure to respond will result in an unfortunate confrontation."

The message, while received, seemed to fall on deaf ears. For several days the tense situation would remain as Helian ships continued to transport construction supplies to the shipyard. About a week after the message was sent, finally a response came, but not in the form of another message back. Suddenly and without warning, Helian crafts boarded several Centurian mining stations on the outskirts of the system, taking full control of both their mining operations and ore production.

It was at this point the Assembly would issue an official statement, but it only seemed to inflame the confrontation. The official spokesperson for the Assembly Navy would take a stand in front of dozens of reporters and state in a sure voice that the asteroids at the edge of the Proxima system were not and could not be claimed to be in the influence of the star. By this logic, they could thus could not be claimed by the Centurians as their territory.

The logic was flimsy at best, being based on the claim that "because the asteroids have been known to 'change hands' when the stars pass close in their orbit, they technically belong to the Assembly"

How the Cenurians will respond to this provocation, will determine the future of the uneasy peace between the nations of humanity.

An Abbreviated History of the Solar Unity League Pt. 1

The 21st century was an era of progress to the stars and beyond for the young human race. As technology improved at an exponential rate and nations staked their claim in the heavens, the Sol system became the main battleground of geopolitics and international affairs. The United States of America was the first to build a permanent settlement on Luna and Mars while the People's Republic of China took aim at the asteroid belt, seeking to consolidate its near-monopoly on rare earth minerals. Other states quickly followed, with British and Japanese colonies established soon after and even a number of Arab states combined resources to establish extraterrestrial resource extraction programs to help diversify their economies. However, these early colonies were small, relatively undefended, and wholly reliant on the beneficence of their mother countries.

However, while nations began to spread themselves out among the stars above, tensions began to rise to a boiling point below. As the effects of climate change began taking its iron grip on countries across the globe, two races began side-by-side: a race for solutions, and a race for resources to replenish the depleted mines, fields, and refineries of Earth. While the first was sure to bring nations together, the second was sure to drive them apart. Many politicians and political theorists began to champion the idea of "Terran Utopianism," an idea of a united humanity dedicated to creating a near-perfect society for all humans. While a popular idea, it never gained enough traction among the general public, and so states began taking positions instead around sectarian boundaries, ideological alliances, and old relationships.

The first casualty of this arms race was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). While originally solely focused on the Atlantic Ocean, the growing belligerence of other, more hostile powers caused a rush for membership from nonaligned states, resulting in a ballooning number of nations aligning themselves with the West. By unanimous vote, NATO was reorganized into the Democratic Union of Nations Association (DUNA). In response, the People's Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the flagging Russian Federation (what remained of it after its embarrassing military performance in several preceding conflicts) chose to form the Eurasian CoDependency Organization (ECDO). Just like that, a new cold war had started.

Later branded the Second Cold War, the numerous conflicts between DUNA and the ECDO both hot and cold soon engulfed the whole world. With the increasing global polarization and exponentially growing magnitude of the war, it became almost impossible to stay neutral. Major power plays were made for Africa, India, Anatolia, Central Europe, and more, with the world split roughly equally between the two supranational organizations. After running out of room on Earth, each side turned to the stars, placing colonies directly under the control of their respective organizations, streamlining production and resource extraction, and sending missions far out to the Kuiper Belt to learn more about the planets beyond the asteroid belt. As colonization reached a fevered pitch, DUNA ships landed on the surface of Pluto in 2074, and the arms race came to an end. However, tensions remained high, and it would only take a small push to shove both states into a full-blown intersystem war.

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The united helios assembly wrote:The message, while received, seemed to fall on deaf ears. For several days the tense situation would remain as Helian ships continued to transport construction supplies to the shipyard. About a week after the message was sent, finally a response came, but not in the form of another message back. Suddenly and without warning, Helian crafts boarded several Centurian mining stations on the outskirts of the system, taking full control of both their mining operations and ore production.

It was at this point the Assembly would issue an official statement, but it only seemed to inflame the confrontation. The official spokesperson for the Assembly Navy would take a stand in front of dozens of reporters and state in a sure voice that the asteroids at the edge of the Proxima system were not and could not be claimed to be in the influence of the star. By this logic, they could thus could not be claimed by the Centurians as their territory.

The logic was flimsy at best, being based on the claim that "because the asteroids have been known to 'change hands' when the stars pass close in their orbit, they technically belong to the Assembly"

How the Cenurians will respond to this provocation, will determine the future of the uneasy peace between the nations of humanity.

The UHA statement was replayed in the halls of government and military of Pacifica, to much amusement. "Do they not know what 'changing hands' mean?". The diplomatic response was formatted to be less informal, but critique the fallacy nonetheless: "If the asteroids alter between orbiting Proxima and Alpha Centauri, then they can be considered to not be under the control of either governments, or they fall under jurisdiction of whichever star system they happen to be in at a given moment.

The Helian justification is entirely unsubstantiated and only brings further provocation.

In addition, the seizure of UCSR mining stations and their personnel is a brazen attack on Centaurian territory and will be answered in kind.

However, in a final gesture to preserve peace, we will not respond with force if the UHA returns the captured property and evacuate entirely from Proxima Centauri, including the asteroids that they claim to be theirs."

While the diplomats and spokespeople are hard at work finding avenues to prevent war, the generals and admirals are already busy drawing up plans. The Centaurian Navy is heavily defense-oriented, the largest overseas deployment in the past few decades had been the coalition victory at Pluto in the Solar system. In addition, the objective of this war is strictly to forcibly evict the Helians out of Proxima, and maybe construct a presence in the asteroids to solidify our claim. In the meantime, the Navy enters its highest alarm rating, with crewmen on home leave recalled back to postings and the start of "showcase patrols", units of cruisers and frigates in shifts, making passes and loitering near the Helian buildup to shore up the words with visible force.

Their captains cannot fire on the Helians without tangible evidence of first strike or direct orders from Navy headquarters, but they keep their weapons loaded and stations manned regardless.

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An Abbreviated History of the Solar Unity League, Pt. 2

With the DUNA touchdown on Pluto, the end of the Solar Race was finally in sight, though with no clear winner. Across DUNA member nations, celebrations were held to mark a DUNA victory in the conquest of the Sol system. Meanwhile, the ECDO sat smugly in their half of Earth, telling its citizens that the only thing DUNA had won was a bit of rock and ice too far away to be of use to anyone on Earth. The victory, if it is right to call it such was indeed largely symbolic: Pluto was a relatively worthless planet as far as resources went, and the only colonists who would settle it were those that were forced to, either as penal workers or corporate miners. Both factions had secured large swathes of new land in the scramble, and even after years of innovation, colonization, and subterfuge, both factions once again stood on roughly equal footing - a major frustration to leaders of both. Content to reap the benefits of their new colonies, preparations were made for new, extrasolar adventures, potentially using a new form of near-light speed travel that would allow colony ships to speed cryogenically frozen humans to new destinations.

However, the settlers of these new celestial bodies were not content to wait on the actions of their Terran overlords. Unrest was growing as generations went by and the descendants of the original colonists began associating themselves more with their planet of origin than with a common faction or the planet of their forefathers. For the first time in history, humans began defining themselves by macro-demonyms other than "Terran." First were the Martians, followed quickly after by the Jovians and Saturnians. The Mercurians and Cythereans (a cleaner demonym for a resident of Venus) soon came after, and sooner or later every major astronomical body in the Sol system had its own people that called it home before any other.

This sectionalism, however, proved disastrous for the tenuously-united Solar System. A major economic recession, string of terror attacks, and uptick in piracy fomented more discontent that many on Earth feared would boil over into outright rebellion. As each faction began to deal with unrest on their own colonies, a gradual normalization of relations followed, and a policy of détente would guide the leaders of the DUNA and the ECDO all the way up until 2091.

2091 was the year when Earth's hold over its interplanetary colonies would finally shatter. Sol, formerly the collective guiding light of humanity, began to enter an era of extreme activity. This massive increase in solar activity led to all interplanetary travel between Earth and its colonies to cease, cutting off Earth from all other planets in the Solar system. Almost immediately, citizens of the Outer Colonies gathered in colonial assemblies and, one after another, declared independence from the decadent ECDO and DUNA,. The era of Terran domination was finally at its end, or so it seemed. However, despite the difficulty of traveling due to the Great Storm, the Terran old guard refused to let the pre-Storm status quo perish, and, as the Great Storm began to recede slowly over the next several years, began a lengthy campaign to reunite the system. For the first time, the ECDO and DUNA chose to combine their armed forces in the United Forces of Earth - a coalition designed to bring the Colonies to heel once more and reestablish the hegemony Earth held over its sister planets.

The fighting soon went from a quick, intense affair between skirmishing fleets to a grinding slog across battlefields all across the Solar System. The UFE threw millons of men and thousands of tons of war materiel into a war that gradually began to be seen as unwinnable. From the ashes of the old system of alliances, the Outer Colonies united into an ad hoc organization called the Confederation of Independent Planets that mounted the desperate defense of the Colonies. The UFE, which had previously launched a daring advance to Saturn to hold the strategic port and refueling station of Titan, was slowly pushed back to Jupiter, and from there flung back across the Asteroid Belt to Mars. While the CIP's goals turned from defending their newfound independence to liberating the Inner Colonies, the war of attrition in the Belt soon became too much to bear for many of the constituent polities, and a treaty was signed: the Treaty of Luna.

By the time the Treaty of Luna was signed, 223 million humans were killed in the fighting, the UFE was totally exhausted of all resources, and many nations in the CIP saw their industries ruined and their finances on the verge of bankruptcy. The treaty stipulated that the Inner Colonies remained the domain of the newly-founded Solar Unity League (founded in the latter half of the war as a means to fully centralize the wartime bureaucracies of the ECDO and DUNA), while the Outer Colonies were left to their own devices. The Asteroid Belt, the collection of rocks that separated the bipolar world of the Solar System, was divided roughly equally between the SUL and the Jovian Commonwealth - the closest nationstate to the SUL.

Almost half a century has passed since the Treaty of Luna was first signed, and in the interim, new states have reconnected with Sol, founded by those colonists and refugees that fled the system during the Great Solar War, new technologies such as the jump-engine and FTL have become commonplace, and the system once again teeters on the brink of instability. The Solar Unity League, once the peak and pride of human progress, has degenerated, held back by its aging bureaucracy, outdated military, and slow-paced economy. Only time will tell whether or not the SUL will manage to return triumphant, or if the light of Earth will be snuffed out forever.

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