It was not meant to be. Lusting money and power, a large faction arose to oppose the United Nations, and in under a hundred years destroyed all that Humanity had fought so hard to create. The UN fought a losing war, countless planets sacked and razed as refugees fled to the only Bastion of defence left: Earth. But even the Capital fortress-world fell, as the Rebels laid siege with their entire military force. They came groundside to finish off their foes, but desperate to survive the UN released a weapon forged in secret, and only used in certain doom.