We now know that we are not alone in the universe. With honor, we will entreat with these entities as brothers to humanity... to explore the unknown together.At approximately 1800 UTC-Earth on October 13, 2959, multiple observatories set up across the Solar System reported an anomalous signature travelling towards the sun at extreme range. Further measurements indicated the station was approximately ninety kilometers in radius, made up of complex rotating rings. While this event is considered to be the beginning of the Solar War, for several months after the arrival no action was taken by Earth due to the fractured state of its governance.
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Solar War Timeline
A timeline of the ongoing Solar War, the greatest and deadliest conflict that humanity has ever seen.
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2959 CE
13 /10 18:002960 CE
25 /5 12:00
Arrival of the Neila
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2962 CE
112965 CE
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Plagues of Titan
Plague / EpidemicThey think we are weak. This contagion, even as we mend the weeping wounds of our damaged craft, they insult us! We are a peaceful race, we do not want war, but if they force it on us than we will defend ourselves.
Shortly after the beginning of the terraforming of Titan, the Neila took several waves of plague from human extremophile microbes that had managed to survive deep space on Huygens and other probes on the surface of Titan. The haphazard response of the government of Earth and the greivous toll the plague took on the already-weak colony allowed more extremist elements of the Neila to gain power and plan to take on Earth. -
2966 CE
5 /102967 CE
8 /4
Journey of the Terra Incognita
ExpeditionThe shipyards! They are churning out ships identical to the Earth, Mars, and Luna-patterns, but equipped with powerful weapons and technologies beyond our understanding. Action must be taken with all haste, before it is too late!
Suspicious due to the petering-out of communications from Titan, military organizations on Mars equip the ostensibly civilian frigate Terra Incognita with state-of-the-art sensor suites and send it on a highly classified mission to analyze Neila activities. This event is generally thought of as the first phase of the Solar War, due to the frigate being attacked in pre-assigned neutral space. Even so, the Terra Incognita was able to escape its pursuers and relay important data on enemy militarization to the appropriate authorities. -
2968 CE
1 /12970 CE
17 /2
Loss of the Jupiter Trojans
Military actionMorale has hit new lows since the loss. Everyone doubts each other: we know not if we have been infiltrated.
In a rapid first strike on New Year's Day of 2968, dozens of garrisons were simultaneously infiltrated and destroyed in the "Greek Camp" of the Jupiter Trojans, denying vessels from Earth any access to the outer solar system. A follow-up strike would reach the "Trojan Camp" a few months later. Due to the fear of infiltration, all human soldiers were not authorized into the asteroid belt and no aid was sent to support the embattled stations. All resistance from human forces was stamped out by February, two years later. Through the capture of the Jupiter Trojans, the Neila Confederation gained access to an industrial base as large as the asteroid belt, becoming a powerful threat to humanity. Data on the uncanny shape-shifting ability of the Neila began being analyzed by humans nearly immediately. -
2970 CE
3 /12972 CE
12 /4
Fall of Vesta
Military actionWhile military forces worked on countermeasures to the threats that the Neila, The Neila didn't stop attacking. Two spearheads moved for the asteroid belt, and the bases around the asteroid of Vesta were quickly under siege. However, Vesta came prepared, unlike the bases around Jupiter. What was supposed to be a quick victory for the Neila ended up turning into a two-year stalemate. Although the fortress fell eventually, opening a gateway towards Mars and Earth itself, important new data was gathered on the Neila's methods of infiltration. New identification protocols were formed to attempt to stop infiltrating ships from slipping through while allowing friendly supplies to reach the base. The first generation of RSCs were also piloted to safeguard humanity. -
2974 CE
15 /22974 CE
3 /11
Recapture of 490 Veritas
Military actionWe are here to recover Veritas. We are here to recover the truth.
The battle for 490 Veritas was a (relatively) insignificant event made larger than life through the records of one Lieutenant Kayode, who condensed several interviews with veterans into literary form to introduce human observers to the dangers of the shapeshifting Neila. His work, Veritas, remains one of the premier first-hand accounts for the insidious threat the Neila are. -
2974 CE
4 /5
Deployment of RSCs
Scientific achievementI can only tell you that the lenses identify four in five correctly as Neila. The false negative rate is very low, but there are a significant number of false positives. To mitigate this, have multiple team members in a squad. Innocents will die: this is total war. If we let them live, more will fall.
As the Neila Confederation made more gains during the early phases of the war, human teams on Luna finally developed a technology to properly see through Neila personal cloaking technology. So-called Rehabilitative Service Cyborgs had to be trained for at least one year (more for better detection results). By 2974, teams of RSCs had been deployed across the Mars Trojans and the Hilda Group of asteroids. These groups proved highly effective at mitigating the primary advantage of the Neila, their ability to disguise themselves. This turned the tide of the war, preventing the Neila from taking any of humanity's core planets. -
2976 CE
13 /8
Armistice of Vesta
Diplomatic actionAmbassador Eden says this is peace. I say that is a lie: we have given them twenty years to re-equip and re-arm. If there is one thing this conflict has taught me, it is that the current state of governance is too weak. Still, I cannot replace it until the time is right.
The Armistice of Vesta ended the first phase of the Solar War. The Neila Confederation gained the millions of asteroids in the Jupiter Trojans, while Earth retained the inner Solar System and the asteroid belt. The armistice was highly unpopular with many military leaders on the fringes of the Solar System, who saw it as a slap in the face to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers that had died during the conflict. These hard feelings about the Armistice would lead up to the Martian Coup four years later, causing eight years of a dual military-civilian government of the inner Solar System until the Dominion of Man was founded after the reconquest of Earth. -
2980 CE
17 /2
Martian Revolt
RevolutionWith the utmost respect for the lives of the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the freedom and security of all mankind, the Dominion of Man is hereby established to independently protect and serve the cradle of humanity. The civilian governments of Mars have until midnight UTC-Mars to return power to the military, or it will be taken by force.
Fed up with the ineffectiveness and feebleness of the fractured governments of Earth and Mars, a group of like-minded soldiers orchestrate a coup to bring the Dominion of Man into being, a single force for humanity to counter the threat of the Neila and their Confederation. Not wishing to test their own might against other humans, the governments of Earth decide to recognize a "dual governance" with the Dominion protecting the outskirts of mankind while the citizenry of Earth and (nominally) Luna remain under civilian control. -
2986 CE
19 /92986 CE
2 /10
Recapture of Earth
Military actionHear me, brothers, and rejoice! For the first time in millenia, humanity is free and united and strong! We will push back the threat of invaders as one and usher in a new age of peace and prosperity!
Six years after the establishment of the "dual government" of the inner solar system, General Falkenheim and the commanders of the Martian military rapidly move to reconquer Earth with the aid of fellow co-conspirators on Luna Base. This event (or the Battle for Hektor) is generally thought of as the starting blow of the second phase of the Solar War. -
2998 CE
15 /62999 CE
24 /10
First Invasion of Titan
Disaster / DestructionAn entire army group, encircled and crushed on the cold killing fields of Titan. The days grow ever darker for the Dominion of Man.A grave setback for the Dominion of Man, hundreds of thousands of troops and a few dozen significant warships were lost as the Dominion pushed its luck in the Jupiter Trojans, sending an advance strike force of 200,000 (mainly Rehabilitative Service Cyborgs) to establish a landing zone on the Neila Confederation homeworld of Titan. The mission was not a total failure, however, as the strike force was able to disable some shields and defensive platforms, allowing what remained of the fleet in orbit to orbitally bombard the moon, setting Neila technology back further. This is also where the final excerpt from Journal of the Standard-Bearer was written.
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