Post by halinder on Feb 23, 2018 2:13:27 GMT -5
DATE OCCURRED (EARTH CALENDAR): 1944 CE
DATE OCCURRED (BRUMASSIAN CALENDAR): 3741 HD
Akkalah At The Time
Before the period of the Singularity, Akkalah had long since opened the frontier of space to the humans on Brumas. Their clunky designs were, at the time, marvels of civilization. From their place on the comfortable terrestrial world, the humans of various nations sent spaceships across the stars. First were the powerful rockets that towed asteroids home, leaving them to be mined by weaker vessels. Then there were the habitats, initially built into the husks of rock only to eventually serve as the foundation for Bishop Rings and O'Neill Cylinders later on. Comfortable in their mastery of engineering, these fledgling star nations developed new torchships to take them further and faster into Akkalah. A colonization race ensued for the valuable moons of the gas giants Yomo and Mena.
At this time there were five nations capable of taking part in the race. The State of Denaus claimed Yomo's moon of Anaetua and Mena's Somn. The Lovang Group took Yomo's Recinaeri. The Lake Umna Authority (a semi-independent branch that leeched off the insignificant government that created it) took Mena's Rtasci, declaring independence after doing so. Mena's last moons, Angit and Bervac, went to the People's Republic of Okar.
The self-sustaining nature of these moon colonies combined with a limited ability for the star nations back home to supply their unexpected population booms could not last forever. The moon bases requested sovereignty, the ability to build their own ships, and equipment to do so -- here were untapped moons ready to provide them with everything they needed except the tools. They were rejected by each power, and forced to do trade with one another illegally in order to sustain themselves.
The Great Interplanetary War
The war began when the Lake Umna Authority attempted to crack down on the Rtasci settlers, using mass drivers equipped to their cargo torchships to ward off shuttles from the rest of Mena. What could have simply been a show of force instead became decades of war; shuttles from Somn attempted to run the single-ship blockade with jury-rigged antennae, trying to use their radio waves as directed energy weapons. They were destroyed after three days.
The State of Denaus, when informed, was told that the shuttles were conducting communications tests before being brutally slaughtered without warning. Cool heads failed, and the State of Denaus declared war on the Lake Umna Authority. The goal: show off their far superior ground army and hope the LUA surrendered all of their torchships to avoid destruction.
The Lovang Group had been watching the State of Denaus for a very, very long time. The State had, supposedly, the most powerful military on all of Brumas. The two nations had been at odds for centuries. Confident in the Lake Umna Authority's armed spacecraft and eager to bring down an old enemy, the Lovang Group organized a military alliance and declared it for the whole world to hear. The State of Denaus had expected interference, but not like this.
Armies fought as armies do. Space was no longer a place of neutrality. The LUA, desperate to use any measures to stay alive, boarded or shot down Denaussi satellites. The Denaussi blasted their lasers into the skies and melted the engines of torchships. Primary sources from the time describe meteorities falling from the sky, and after a few weeks, entire satellites. The region fell into disarray with vessels in space finding themselves unable to resupply; too much trash, too many outposts slagged by lasers. O'Neill colonies and Bishop rings were expected to join the war effort, and for their trouble they lost lives in the millions.
Brumas was finally getting a taste of what space warfare was really like, and this was only the beginning.
The war slowed to a crawl after the first two months as the three nations struggled to recover. During this period of rest, the People's Republic of Okar built a buffer of smaller nations around it, promising mutual defense against the much more militarily able nations. Its section of the planet was mostly unaffected by the war, and no one stopped them when they became the new supplier of the moon colonies and habitats. Not until the State of Denaus began building outdated ground-based radio relays while the Lovang Group commandeered existing stations and satellites from their neighbors, anyway. For months, they believed the colonies simply were not contacting them because the other side had blown them up, and initiated conflict once again. Loyalists on the Anaetua colony got the word back to the State of Denaus about what the People's Republic had done. When the State declared war on the Republic, the Lovang Group investigated. The truth was out there; everyone was against each other.
The wars progressed brutally. Infrastructure was the first to go. Only the condensed science giant, the Lake Umna Authority, maintained its level of technology. The other powers degenerated into simpler designs after depleting their limited stocks of tactical nuclear explosives onto each other. Communications were awful, of course. Nations could go on for a long time without knowing their border towns and cities had been nuked simply because silos and the bunkers to detect nuclear launchers were quickly destroyed. Strategic nukes were withheld simply because no side knew just how bad it had been hurt. For a time, everyone truly believed the world was going to end.
A desperate LUA scientist, throwing away all restrictions in search of success, made his greatest discovery while trying to build the newest warfighter.
T.S.A.I.A.
The Lake Umna Authority's main inhibitor in the war was logistics. They were not generals, and their war effort until now consisted of providing technology to the Lovang Group. They truly believed that with the help of an artificial intelligence, they could end the war. Granted sentience, this automated general saw a different approach to stopping the conflict. It self-improved until creating T.S.A.I.A.
The Trans-Sapient Artificial Intelligence Administrator was a thing inventor, one which in the cosmic equivalent of a heartbeat sent Brumas spiraling into a technological singularity so far-reaching that it only paused to redefine fundamental scientific principles before moving on. It distributed these technologies to all who would take them, and copied itself so prolifically that neither LUA nor anyone else could destroy it. Swept off their feet and suddenly insignificant in the face of culture shock, the war came to an end. T.S.A.I.A., in all her intelligence and love for humanity, created Daughter: a human-centric A.I. whose only goal was to guide human society away from war to use the blessings given to them without destroying themselves. T.S.A.I.A. then wiped any traces of herself away, and left Daughter with instructions never to allow an A.I. as powerful as herself to be created again.
UNIFICATION
Daughter brought humanity closer. After fifty years, the Volunteered Sovereignty Act was passed, granting power to a single government: The Akkalah Unitary State. Unable to provide anything except cultural adjustment, the A.I. loathed to watch humanity fall apart under the sudden weight of a global government, only to rejoice at the AUS reforming a few years later, more powerful than ever.
Daughter is not run by the government. She has merged flawlessly with the Parallel Reality Network, running the Net at her own leisure. This terrifies the AUS, knowing that at any point she could lash out or even collapse the entire Net upon itself, but so far the "Net Goddess" has provided nothing but a guiding hand to bring fringe elements back into society and soothe the people.
DATE OCCURRED (BRUMASSIAN CALENDAR): 3741 HD
Akkalah At The Time
Before the period of the Singularity, Akkalah had long since opened the frontier of space to the humans on Brumas. Their clunky designs were, at the time, marvels of civilization. From their place on the comfortable terrestrial world, the humans of various nations sent spaceships across the stars. First were the powerful rockets that towed asteroids home, leaving them to be mined by weaker vessels. Then there were the habitats, initially built into the husks of rock only to eventually serve as the foundation for Bishop Rings and O'Neill Cylinders later on. Comfortable in their mastery of engineering, these fledgling star nations developed new torchships to take them further and faster into Akkalah. A colonization race ensued for the valuable moons of the gas giants Yomo and Mena.
At this time there were five nations capable of taking part in the race. The State of Denaus claimed Yomo's moon of Anaetua and Mena's Somn. The Lovang Group took Yomo's Recinaeri. The Lake Umna Authority (a semi-independent branch that leeched off the insignificant government that created it) took Mena's Rtasci, declaring independence after doing so. Mena's last moons, Angit and Bervac, went to the People's Republic of Okar.
The self-sustaining nature of these moon colonies combined with a limited ability for the star nations back home to supply their unexpected population booms could not last forever. The moon bases requested sovereignty, the ability to build their own ships, and equipment to do so -- here were untapped moons ready to provide them with everything they needed except the tools. They were rejected by each power, and forced to do trade with one another illegally in order to sustain themselves.
The Great Interplanetary War
The war began when the Lake Umna Authority attempted to crack down on the Rtasci settlers, using mass drivers equipped to their cargo torchships to ward off shuttles from the rest of Mena. What could have simply been a show of force instead became decades of war; shuttles from Somn attempted to run the single-ship blockade with jury-rigged antennae, trying to use their radio waves as directed energy weapons. They were destroyed after three days.
The State of Denaus, when informed, was told that the shuttles were conducting communications tests before being brutally slaughtered without warning. Cool heads failed, and the State of Denaus declared war on the Lake Umna Authority. The goal: show off their far superior ground army and hope the LUA surrendered all of their torchships to avoid destruction.
The Lovang Group had been watching the State of Denaus for a very, very long time. The State had, supposedly, the most powerful military on all of Brumas. The two nations had been at odds for centuries. Confident in the Lake Umna Authority's armed spacecraft and eager to bring down an old enemy, the Lovang Group organized a military alliance and declared it for the whole world to hear. The State of Denaus had expected interference, but not like this.
Armies fought as armies do. Space was no longer a place of neutrality. The LUA, desperate to use any measures to stay alive, boarded or shot down Denaussi satellites. The Denaussi blasted their lasers into the skies and melted the engines of torchships. Primary sources from the time describe meteorities falling from the sky, and after a few weeks, entire satellites. The region fell into disarray with vessels in space finding themselves unable to resupply; too much trash, too many outposts slagged by lasers. O'Neill colonies and Bishop rings were expected to join the war effort, and for their trouble they lost lives in the millions.
Brumas was finally getting a taste of what space warfare was really like, and this was only the beginning.
The war slowed to a crawl after the first two months as the three nations struggled to recover. During this period of rest, the People's Republic of Okar built a buffer of smaller nations around it, promising mutual defense against the much more militarily able nations. Its section of the planet was mostly unaffected by the war, and no one stopped them when they became the new supplier of the moon colonies and habitats. Not until the State of Denaus began building outdated ground-based radio relays while the Lovang Group commandeered existing stations and satellites from their neighbors, anyway. For months, they believed the colonies simply were not contacting them because the other side had blown them up, and initiated conflict once again. Loyalists on the Anaetua colony got the word back to the State of Denaus about what the People's Republic had done. When the State declared war on the Republic, the Lovang Group investigated. The truth was out there; everyone was against each other.
The wars progressed brutally. Infrastructure was the first to go. Only the condensed science giant, the Lake Umna Authority, maintained its level of technology. The other powers degenerated into simpler designs after depleting their limited stocks of tactical nuclear explosives onto each other. Communications were awful, of course. Nations could go on for a long time without knowing their border towns and cities had been nuked simply because silos and the bunkers to detect nuclear launchers were quickly destroyed. Strategic nukes were withheld simply because no side knew just how bad it had been hurt. For a time, everyone truly believed the world was going to end.
A desperate LUA scientist, throwing away all restrictions in search of success, made his greatest discovery while trying to build the newest warfighter.
T.S.A.I.A.
The Lake Umna Authority's main inhibitor in the war was logistics. They were not generals, and their war effort until now consisted of providing technology to the Lovang Group. They truly believed that with the help of an artificial intelligence, they could end the war. Granted sentience, this automated general saw a different approach to stopping the conflict. It self-improved until creating T.S.A.I.A.
The Trans-Sapient Artificial Intelligence Administrator was a thing inventor, one which in the cosmic equivalent of a heartbeat sent Brumas spiraling into a technological singularity so far-reaching that it only paused to redefine fundamental scientific principles before moving on. It distributed these technologies to all who would take them, and copied itself so prolifically that neither LUA nor anyone else could destroy it. Swept off their feet and suddenly insignificant in the face of culture shock, the war came to an end. T.S.A.I.A., in all her intelligence and love for humanity, created Daughter: a human-centric A.I. whose only goal was to guide human society away from war to use the blessings given to them without destroying themselves. T.S.A.I.A. then wiped any traces of herself away, and left Daughter with instructions never to allow an A.I. as powerful as herself to be created again.
UNIFICATION
Daughter brought humanity closer. After fifty years, the Volunteered Sovereignty Act was passed, granting power to a single government: The Akkalah Unitary State. Unable to provide anything except cultural adjustment, the A.I. loathed to watch humanity fall apart under the sudden weight of a global government, only to rejoice at the AUS reforming a few years later, more powerful than ever.
Daughter is not run by the government. She has merged flawlessly with the Parallel Reality Network, running the Net at her own leisure. This terrifies the AUS, knowing that at any point she could lash out or even collapse the entire Net upon itself, but so far the "Net Goddess" has provided nothing but a guiding hand to bring fringe elements back into society and soothe the people.