The Beginning

Oscar was never wanted to be a hero. He had a more realistic outlook on life. What he simply wanted was to finish his training, complete his required four years of service in the military and then open up his own little cafe. The simple life is what he craved.

Getting dressed and heading to his first class, Oscar sees his friend Raylen, another cadet like him who is more of the hero type.

"Hey Oscar how are you doing this morning buddy" With a spring in his step, and a little too much energy, Raylen asks.

Oscar is not a morning person so seeing his friend and being bombarded his high level of energy and excitement made him a little agitated. But he swallowed his agitation and smiled at his friend.

"Today is the day we finally get our test results and see where we can be placed for our first tour of duty!" Raylen remarked.

"Yeah we finally get to leave this godforsaken hell hole and travel."

After four years in the Tiham Military Academy located on his homeworld, he would finally be shipped out of his rural planet that he was born and raised in.

Tiham was an insignificant planet, with no special characteristics. There were no deposits of special or rare materials, or any unique biological life forms.

The only uniqueness of the planet came form the fact that it was warm all year round, which made it a great place to farm. Hence, the planet became an agricultural farm, where 80% of the population were farmers and grew food that would be shipped to other planets in the Federation.

Since the planet was filled with dense forward, amazing mountain ranges and green flatlands, the military found it a great place to build an academy designed for it's future officers.

As a result he found himself in this place. Tiham Miliray Academy, training to be an officer to be sent off somewhere out in the vast expanse of space.

"What are you hoping to do once we graduate?" Raylen asked.

"Anywhere is fine as long as it is not on the frontlines. I dont really feel like risking my life" Oscar responded.

Seven hunred years ago, humanity learned how to fold space, allowing them to travel vast distances. That year became known as year one of the galactic calander. What was once a dream and only possible in science fiction novels and movies. Immediatley humanity sent ships to explore the vast expanse of the stars. In the decades that past, humanity colonized dozens of planets and created mining outposts, all with earth being the centeral government. This was the creation of the United Commonwealth of Stars

About five hundred years ago, the first intergalactic war occured. By this time humanity had colonized over a hundred worlds and as a result, a difference in status started to occure. The colonies at the edge of Human controlled space suffered from piracy, terrible living conditions and no help from the central goverment.

The planets that had long been colonized were much more wealthy. The United Commonwealth of Stars was very currupt, only worried about making money and protection their own interests. This left the outer colonies to fend for themselves. After years of living in harsh conditions, the outer planets united, forming the Democratic Federation of Provinces.

The war was a bloody one, where millions died both on dozens of planets in hundreds of battles. The United Commonwealth being a selfish and currupt goverment could not unite and only cared about protecting its own interests, resulting in them not being able to stand against the conbined forces of the Democratic Federation of Provinces. After ten years of bloodshed, the Federation finally captured Earth, the homeworld of Humanity resulting in the surrender of the Commonwealth.

After the war, the first thing the Federation created was a self-governing defence fleet with the purpose of making sure no planet was left unprotected and to make sure that curruption would not run rampent again.

Humanity did not want another bloody war, and for a few hundred years peace was everywhere. That was until Humanity ran into the Icraill and Icraillian Empire. The Icraill where a huminoid species. The Icraillians looked human except for their greenish grey skin, big silver eyes and non-existing nose.

This was fist contact and humanity was excited to meet another space faring species. However, without warning the Icraillians opened fire and destroyed the human vessels. Thus in the year 687 of the Galactic calander, Humanity was at war again.

This time, humanity was outclassed. The Icaillians had better weapons, and stronger ships and the war quickly turned into a single sided massacre. Millions of human lives were lost, thousands of ships and dozens of planets were destroyed. Humanity was facing extermination.

However humanity was built on war, they learned from war, thrived from war, and advanced through war. What the Icaillians thought would be an easy victory soon turned out to be a long and strenous fight. Humanity build faster, stronger, larger ships, new technological advancements were made, and soon humanity was at a stalemate with the Icaillian Empire.

Now its the year 746 in the Galactic Calander, and Oscar was about to graduate from the academy and join the war effort.