United Nations of Earth

Earth's first world government, which played an important part in history.

The United Nations of Earth
In the beginning, Earth was divided between many competing nation states. In their blindness, they nearly destroyed each other, and left much of their home scarred and ravaged. Only 700 million survived, but got to work on repopulating and rebuilding. Over the next century and a half, Earth's remaining nations became closer, and by 2188, the Tachyon Bubble Drive had been completed and successful tested.

Over the next forty years, everything seemed well in the universe. A ship vanished in 2237 after a strange reading, but it was assumed to be the work of pirates from the new colonies, Earth's only enemy. However, these so-called pirates revealed themselves in 2239, far more organized than anyone anticipated. In a diplomatic incident to end all diplomatic incidents, the "pirate" crew of the ship were killed by Earth marines. More strange ships began to appear, and with them, aliens. It was the Othaen Federation, a vassal state of the Coalition of Planets.

What happened is told elsewhere, but Earth lost the war after centuries of resistance, finally surrendering unconditionally in 2471. The younger race of man was broken and dispirited after the grinding decades of war, and the breaking of their nation. In the uncertain months that followed the surrender, before the occupation really set in, millions fled beyond Earth space, settling new worlds or finding alien ones to take refuge on. Emperor Jiraiôs XLI arrived himself to tour the new realm, and it is said he forged a new crown by his own hands, using metals from all the great planets of the former UNE. It was a Tarsin tradition for what he envisioned to be a new Tarsin kingdom: the Kingdom of Earth. Tarsins quickly found the English word "Earth" to be displeasing to their ears, so they had every document rewritten to refer to them as the Kingdom of Sôl by 2500.

Today, both the United Nations of Earth and the Kingdom of Sôl are nothing but history. However, this was how it all began, for better or for worse.