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FeudscapeŽ
The Eternal Heresy
It has been over eight hundred years since humanity stumbled upon the CotU galaxy by accident. Since then, they have befriended a race of omnipotent beings known as the Commen, the masters of the mysterious energy force known as E'lan. With the other three powers, they formed an alliance known as the Covenant of Allied Powers and have been the governing power of the galaxy ever since.
Recently, a heresy within the church of the Commen has unearthed itself. During the six hundred year era of peace which ensued two hundred years after humanity came to the galaxy, a Hydroan by the name of Huberra Sadow has gathered a group of followers in belief that the Commen's goddess, Nether, has become too weak to hold Ithallius, the dreaded god of power, at bay much longer.
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FeudscapeŽ The Eternal Heresy
Part 1 - Humanity was forever changed
During the late twentieth century on Earth, relations between NATO and the Warsaw Pact were at an all-time high from the Cold War. Ronald Regan's proposed Star Wars plan was put on hold for six or seven years, but when it was discovered that the Warsaw Pact was stockpiling enormous amounts of nuclear weapons in concentrated areas near NATO, NATO reinacted Star Wars and tested it successfully in 1989, terrifying Warsaw.
Instead of falling apart like everyone had thought would happen, Warsaw grew stronger and closer and sent in spies to attempt to steal the technical designs for NATO's new Star Wars system. NATO became suspicious of this and began to attempt to weed out the spies. But by this time, it was already too late. Warsaw had the designs long before NATO had become suspicious and had already begun construction on an incredibly powerful weapons system which dwarfed any other on Earth in terms of firepower and technical superiority. When it was finally discovered that the plans were missing, NATO immediately mobilised agaisnt Warsaw, pushing deep into Russia and eventually reaching the supposed location where the weapons system was being built.
But NATO had been fooled and the real location of the weapons system was left unharmed. In 1994, the SDP-1 was completed and mobilised agaisnt NATO, pushing their forces out of Russia. For ten years afterwards, NATO rushed to try and develop technology which could counter the SDP-1, but in 2004, Warsaw had already constructed four more SDP's and attacked NATO; two in Europe and three in the U.S. When the SDP's came too close to NATO's major capitals, they panicked and launched their nuclear weapons against the SDP's, marking the beginning of what is known as the Terran Holocaust.
Earth's governments were toppled and most life on Eath was annihilated, save for few and small pockets of communities which had been prepared for the Holocaust. When it was over, the surviving humans used the technologies from the SDP's to rebuild humanity and began colonizing other planets. The survivors of the Warsaw Pact created the Red Star Federation, or RSF, and the survivors of NATO created the Autonomy of the Third Union, or ATU. But as time went by, old rleations were resurfaced and war broke out once again in 2056. The war engulfed the entire Milky Way Galaxy, destroying many worlds and killing billions.
During the war, a small team of researchers discovered of a shard of a crystal of unknown origins, but the pwoer contained within it was unlike any ever seen before. Seeing it as an opprotunity to escape the war, the team began construction on a massive ship which could take them away from the galaxy and start anew. Over the next ten years, they worked on the ship, fighting off numerous attempts to steal the plans and ship from both sides. When it was finally completed, they named it the Feudscape. Humans from both sides flocked to the ship to escape the galaxy, but as the ship approached the outer reaches of the galaxy, it was mysteriously teleported across the universe to a galaxy unknown, where the course of history for human kind would be changed forever.
Part 2 - Meeting of the Fates
The human race had absolutely no idea what they had stumbled across when they arrived at their destination. Their first alien encounter was with a race calling themselves the Commen, whom shunned them immediately, not realizing the true nature of this strange race calling themselves humans. Humanity was forced to begin alone in this new galaxy, the RSF and ATU assuming control of two seperate star systems. But, as before, war was inevitable. The RSF attacked the ship, though their true motives remain unclear to this day. After a long and devastating battle, the RSF was driven off. The battle attracted the attention of the Commen and they realized this race was the one they had created. Humans were accepted into the church and began exploring the galaxy, discovering the other major powers of the galaxy; the Powers of Taeironus, Republic of Ouat and the Spectral Eternia. Humanity renamed itself the Commonwealth of Humanity and formed the Covenant of Allied Powers, which was made up of all the major powers of the galaxy.
For two hundred years, the Covenant fought to drive off the Red Star Federation, and finally got their chance when they discovered of the key behind the RSF's operations; the galactic Corporation of TerranCorp. The Covenant ordered the immediate disbanding of the corporation, but they refused. Its satellite complexes, however, thought other wise and a short conflict ensued, ending in the disbanding of TerranCorp and the formation of today's corporations.
Part 3 - The Eternal Heresy
After TerranCorp was disbanded, the galaxy saw an era of peace which lasted nearly six hundred years with no conflict. This caused the Covenant and Commen to grow inexperienced and lazy, which led to the creation of a heresy within the church. A Hydoran by the name of Huberra Sadow discovered of the records of the ancient rebellion which had created a crystal to use to create another universe so that Nether's heir could assume control and destroy Ithallius. Believing their idea that Nether was growing too weak, Huberra gathered a group of followers and began searching the galaxy for a shard of the crystal which they had created. For some time, they searched, but the church began to grow suspicious despite its corruption. The church created a secret police known as the Vindicaria and set out to hunt down the heretics.
Several small engagements were fought, but eventually, they discovered of one of the shards. Huberra and the heretics set out to locate one more shard so that they could complete part of the crystal and soon discovered that the crystal powering the Feudscape was one of the shards. They attacked the Feudscape, easily overwhelming its hapless defenders, followed closely by the Vindicaria. The Vindicaria attempted to try and conceal they were apart of the the Commen due to the fact that the Commen had been secretly spying on the Feudscape to obtain long lost technologies which they had vowed to never take up for fear of their most ancient enemies returning. But the defenders discovered the Vindicaria's roots and hate for the church began growing.
The Heretics succeeded in securing the shard and ventured to the furthest reaches of the galaxy to the planet where the old rebels had created the crystal and created the Sadoverse. Infuriated, the church captured Sadow and killed him immediately, leaving his grandson Vinceion Sadow to lead the Heresy. Believing it was time to finally put an end to the corrupt church, Vinceion led the overthrow of the Commen on their capital planet of Citadael, declaring themselves as the Arcanists and those loyal to Nether the Altruists. Using weapons and technology powered by the energy force the Commen use, E'lan, the Heretics recruited several smaller governments and created the Joesheivan Alliance and conquered the 1-3 quadrant of the galaxy. Realizing that if they did not do something soon, the Arcanists would conquer the entire galaxy, the Altruists released some of their technology to the Covenant, who immediately began implementing E'lan into their weapons.
With the 1-3 quadrant conquered, the Arcanists and Alliance now set their eyes on the 9-12 quadrant, the capital of the Covenant's military production yards. In order to secure a strong foothold on the quadrant, they will need to take Arterus, a planet which borders the 1-3 and 9-12 quadrants and provides several accesses via the Netherverse to the Covenant's main military production facilities. But many believe this is not all they seek there. Rumors have been spreading that something from ancient times when the Commen were still fairly young lies in slumber underneath Arterus' soil, and with the looming threat of a possible threat by a race even more powerful than the Commen, the church has sent several of its members to find its location. It is a race that will decide the fate of the universe.
"I always thought I had known war, until now." ~Nathan Messmier, during the campaign of Arterus
"Why has war come to this? Such brutality, such hatred as seen on a scale never before even imagined..." ~Lieutenant Bursuger during the campaign of Arterus