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| - As the first of the great colony ships departed for the Lapsarian sector a group of nearly a million colonists headed for the system of Sorral. The colonists were native Italians, all wanting to reestablish the roman way of life in a modern time. They landed on two separate planets, the first was to be a commercial and industrial capital, it was properly named Nueva Roma or ‘New Rome’. The second planet in the system that sustained life they landed on was converted into massive farmlands and as such was also properly named, Agrimundus, meaning farm world in latin. Most people settled on the capital of New Rome while others wishing a more peaceful life moved to the larger Agrimundus and began life as farmers. After generations of construction and expansion the population on New Rome skyrocketed, there was worry that the food shipments from Agrimundus would no longer be sufficient and that if any more pollution was introduced into New Rome’s atmosphere it would doom the populace. The next hundred years saw the people of New Rome expand to the uninhabitable planets in their solar system and create large and small outposts on them. There were three uninhabitable planets in the system. A gas giant with nearly two dozen moons called Tallus, a large space station was placed in orbit around the gas giant and several mining colonies were established on moons that held valuable minerals. The space station was later added on to become a shipyard during the First Alien War and produced warships to send to the frontlines in the name of the Federation. Ignismundus is the closest world to Sorra, the system’s orange star. The surface temperature often reaches far above the ability for the most technologically advanced dome to withstand. In order to counter this construction crews came and burrowed under the surface of the planet while it was not facing Sorra. It took several years but eventually an elaborate subterranean city was built complete with several massive hangers built inside nearby mountains. They used Titanocarbon blast doors covered in a specially designed heat reflectant paint to seal the entrances and hangars. Using oxygen scrubbers and an elaborate air conditioning system made possible by years of research the city could hold nearly five million inhabitants. Most of whom would be family of the miners who would work in the mines surrounding the city or industrial workers who worked in the massive factory at the heart of the city. They had several special farm areas where they grew food and refined water but some supplies still had to be brought in from outside sources. Following the success on Ignismundus the people of the Sorral system turned their attention to the farthest planet from Sorra, Gelumundus. It was the exact opposite of Ignismundus, the ‘fire’ world. This was the ‘Ice’ world, most if not all of the surface was permafrost. It took the construction of a space station to colonize the world. Using several reflective and enhancing mirrors it focused the available heat from Sorra into a beam of heat almost 20 by 15 kilometers in area. The station, using adjustment thrusters and one of the most complex computers ever built, kept the beam from moving from its target. After several years of a ‘heat down’ period construction crews came in and built on the now soft soil of the selected area. Eventually a dome was built to sustain the mining complexes and laboratories as well as the residential area for its workers. Using several fusion generators powerful enough to power starships they produced enough heat to allow a ‘safe’ zone inside the dome, giving inhabitants the freedom to walk around without a heated suit on the surface. This process was repeated twice more by changing the position of the space station and building more domes over mineral rich areas. Mid way through the Alien War a scout ship sent by the New Roman navy on orders from the federation to scout for Qutan strongholds, came across a neighboring system inhabited by an alien race soon to be called the Umbranatio or simply labeled as the Umbra which loosely translates as Shadow people or people of the shadow. They were named this because of their dark grey skin and bright green eyes. The Umbra had already expanded into the uninhabited planets of their system with technology almost four hundred years behind the federation. The Federation couldn’t risk another alien force attacking it, no matter how technologically inferior. It couldn’t however, send a battle fleet to assault the system because every ship available was needed to fight the Qutan. Instead the federation funded the construction of a small battle fleet at the new shipyards over Tallus to use as a bargaining chip to get the Umbra to surrender or at least join the federation. The battle fleet was completed a year later and jumped into the system achieving complete strategic surprise. Not a single shot was fired, not a single life lost, a delegation was sent to the Umbra homeworld, Kara, and a treaty was signed. Now called Karans the people of Kara agreed to a treaty where they were tied to the people of New Rome and the federation. Karans and humans traveled between the worlds and it wasn’t long before a completely new species was born. Xenofobic human groups lashed out at the alien and cross-breed populace through terrorist acts. Near the end of the alien war martial law had to be declared on both Kara and New Rome to quell the fast spreading violence. The two people flourished together after the war, the populations of both Kara and New Rome exploded and New Rome became a city world devoid of any natural formations, covered in one massive city. Under the sky lanes and roads hoisted high above the ground was the undercity where crime flourished and slums became common sight. It grew to the point where the upper and middle city blocked most entrances to the undercity with security systems and police forces to prevent any spread of crime or disease. There were several attempts to recover the undercity but all failed despite funding from both the Karan and the Roman governments. Eventually it was more or less forgotten from society on both Kara and New Rome. Twenty years before the splintering of the federation and loss of Cypra Mundi the people of Agrimundus went into a revolt. Claiming they were being shafted on foodstuff prices from the government. The lack of food placed the people of New Rome into a massive depression, killing millions by starvation despite foodstuffs coming in from Kara, Ignismundus, and several of the agriculture moons of Tallus. The New Roman government sent proposal after proposal to increase prices on the foodstuffs if the Agrimundui would resume the shipments of foodstuffs. The ‘independent’ government of Agrimundus refused each seeing that they could become extremely wealthy by using it as a bargaining chip. After over a decade of patience and starvation without any help from the federation the government of New Rome built a small strike force of warships and troop transports. The war lasted just over two weeks. The well trained Roman soldiers had better training, better weapons, better armor, air support, and overwhelming numbers. The planetary militia took minimal losses before surrendering en masse. After the controversial ‘War of Bread’ the federation fell apart and New Rome declared independence from the Terran Empire. Kara followed suit and signed the treaty of Sorral which unified them under the Sorran Commonwealth. The capital being New Rome, the government was established as a representative democracy. New Rome and Kara each got Twenty Five Senators, Agrimundus got Twenty, all other colonies in Karan and Roman space received Ten Each Except for the planet of Ignismundus which received an additional five because of its larger population and important factory. The Newfound Sorran Commonwealth established a navy, army, Marine Corps, security corps, and special services corps to protect its borders and ensure security for its citizens. Unlike most other nations of human populace the Humans of New Rome are not Xenophobic. Although there are exceptions the general consensus is acceptance of aliens, this is mostly in part because of their interaction with the Karans over the years. Humans are the majority in population with Karans next and the Karan-Human cross breed third. This makes the Sorran Commonwealth a safe haven for alien species fleeing xenophobic human nations.
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