• In 2265 Earth faced a crisis; the planet was becoming overpopulated, and dwindling resources sparked wars that made the surface of earth all but uninhabitable, many humans were put into massive ‘orbital cities’ over the planet, but they could only hold so many people, many humans were forced to stand the harsh climates and pollution on the surface. But than...
    In 2272 humanity discovered the Cold Fusion reactor, creating infinite amounts of energy. Two years later the Dimensional Tunneling Drive, known as the Jump Drive, was invented. This launched mankind into a new frontier.
    Space.
    The governments of the world quickly formed a coalition known as the UNCSE, or the United Nations Coalition for Space Exploration; hundreds of ships were launched to find new planets for people to colonize and live on, but...
    Most of these worlds that were discovered could not be habited, they were dead worlds, but many held valuable resources that the governments needed to be sustained. New corporations were formed to harvest these resources, and many were very successful.
    But the nations of earth would not give up,
    2282-Countless worlds were terraformed to support the growing human populations, but these terraforming plants cost a lot of money and resources to build and maintain, this spending caused the nations and the UNCSE to run out of money.
    Desperate, they turned to these new megacorporations for money, with near infinite capital, they agreed to loan money to the UNCSE, who, in their state of debt, virtually ran out of power. Meanwhile, these megacorporations grew to be as powerful as the very governments they once belonged to, complete with militias, they colonized countless more worlds, becoming nations in all but name...
    2300- The UNCSE Exploration ship Autumn Dawn discovers a sector teeming with habitable planets, with their native populations, the most powerful being the Nightmarens, existing loving peace and compassion; this sector was quickly named New Eden.
    The powerless UN took all their available ships and colonized several worlds in New Eden, forming a close and friendly relationship, the populations in New Eden formed a nation known as the URNE, or the United Republic of New Eden.
    2307- with the power of the former UNCSE restored, the power of the megacorporations was threatened, led by the reclusive Revelation Systems, they formed the UCCPE, or the United Coalition of Corporations supporting a Pax Economica; with their combined might, they maintained a nation’s level of power.
    2313- Revelation Systems attacks and occupies the Nightmaren home world of Nightopia, knowing the power of these Nightmarens, Revelation Systems captured many of the Nightmarens and forced them to serve in their Military. Revelation also replicated Nightmaren powers and abilities in a kind of robotic assassin known to everyone as ‘ShadowMarens’
    With all the things the URNE stands for being threatened, they reband and call themselves the Refuge.
    2314- After a year of skirmishes the UCCPE declares that the Refuge is a heretical terrorist group and declares war on them.
    Two months later a small band of renegade nightmarens seize the Star Technology Group carrier Babylon and rename it the Ni Mother Base in remembrance of their home.
    War is coming to New Eden and known space, whose side are you on?