Cradle's Big Three

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An Abridged Historical Account, No Redaction

Referencing points in history:

Cradle's Big Three, The Great Blackout, SLT Travel, The Tragedy, and The Colonial Expansion and Independence Movement

Abridged reference, in relation to the Colonial Expansion and Independence Movement:

The Covert and Security Apparatus

Cradle's Big Three

Due to the nature of the Disaster that affected Cradle, all human life had been forced out to the Void. During this extinction level event three groups were able to reconnoiter enough resources to establish and maintain a foothold on a now-unforgiving planet.

The landmass of Greenland was recolonized through an operation spearheaded by what remained of the Scandinavian and various Cyrillic governments to preserve what was left of a once thriving biosphere. Greenland holds the only working Heaven's Lift, an intra-atmospheric magnetic conveyor system, connecting Cradle Station Promethean, or CSP, with Void Station Prometheus, or VSP.

At the top of the Heaven's Lift is Void Station Prometheus, where all void-centric research is coordinated, with specific focus on zero-gravity nanotechnology development. This is also the location of the continually evolving alpha denominated decentralized communications matrix. With each upgrade of the GENCOM decentralized system, VSP continues its role as one of fifty alpha denominated nodes. These nodes contain routing information of additions or subtractions to the vast communication system that makes up the current day GENCOM v10. VSP also provides a ferry system for the ship docking arrays and construction yards that are located exactly midway way between Cradle and Luna.

Cradle Station Promethean is a vast repository of bio-domes designated for agricultural and animal husbandry, storage, packaging, repair and machining to maintain the life support systems on Void Station Prometheus, Cradle Station Promethean and the Vault. This is also the hub matrix of the massive maintenance handling to keep the Heaven's Lift fully operational and the nexus for all security operations relating to the secret locations of all backup data warehouses and seed repositories. This was created, in the event that should the Vault be destroyed, its vast data knowledge and physical heritage could be securely preserved.

The Vault, is the remnant of the human population that did not escape into the Void, which includes governments and corporations of various nationalities and ethnic groups that survived the Disaster. In conjunction with the Icelandic government, were able to shared resources to recolonize the island of Iceland.

Iceland is the center of all cradle-centric preservation and development. This includes the primary alpha denominated DNA repository for fauna and flora that survived the Disaster. A beta denominated DNA matrix of the human genome and data relating to its various unique genetic mutations, the relocation of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, and the second largest research and development laboratory, medical research facility and engineering foundry.

The majority of all research relating to terraforming, mining, construction, transportation, energy production and all levels in-between are done with the cooperation of the CSP and VSP.

The third of Cradle's Big Three, is the independent military junta comprised of what was once the powerful G13 that pushed south and maintain an active presence in the Joinville Island group of Antarctica, as well as the only operational lunar complex in the South Pole: Aitken basin on Luna.

Known commonly as the Junta, there are only a few declassified documents relating to the Joinville Island Medical, Military and Research complex or MEDMIL-ARC, and lunar station Aitken. Of which is their mission statement:

Adaugeo, Superare, Crescere

Still operational as of UC (universum collectivus) 529 or PI (posteaquam incunabulum) 8326, this secretive group still wields incredible authority throughout the Core Galaxies and the Periphery. As stated by Galactic Law, any and all communication or unauthorized entry of military air, sea or void space will be met with lethal action. This historical footnote will be discussed in more detail.

During the cataclysmic events that followed the Disaster, a splinter group of military personnel corresponding to the G13 pooled and executed one of the largest military expeditions of the time. This military junta was able to acquiesce and transport civilian and military personnel, militarized construction and mining equipment, then deploy, construct and initialize one of the largest post-Disaster research facilities on Cradle.

Though unable to rebuild the Antarctic Heaven's Lift, the Junta was able to repurpose the magnetic lift system. Creating a high atmospheric rail launcher allowed the Junta to send rockets into Cradle's upper atmosphere at a lower cost, both in terms of fuel and resources, than having to launch from the surface. This enables the Junta to transport the wealth of mineral and gaseous resources located in the area to their holdings system wide.

Subsequently, this military organization became one of the first to expand into the Void, and the first to conquer the lunar base in the South Pole-Aikten Basin. Due to their successful infiltration of the Lunar Meteor Defense System or LMDS, Luna became a military satellite under the Junta's control, providing a void base of operations.

As of this writing, (UC 529) the Junta has only expanded into orbiting moons and dwarf planets within Cradle's home system. Its absolute control has been established and by use of lethal force demonstrated in the following celestial bodies:

Deimos and Phobos around Mars.

Europa, Io, Mneme and Thebe around Jupiter.

Phoebe, Titan, Prometheus around Saturn.

Miranda, Portia, Titania around Uranus.

Ceres, Pluto, Charon, Haumea, Makemake and Eris.

All of these are actively used by the Junta for their own classified reasons. Though there have been several attempts by various governments and civilian authorities from the Correlated Galactic Entente to declassify related documentation, all attempts have been met with severe and sometimes heavy-handed reprisals. As of this writing, the Correlated Galactic Entente is under a truce with the Junta due to an event that single-handedly showed the whole of colonized Void that the Junta is a force not to be taken lightly.

In UC 15, the largest military expedition of our time, code named Reprisal, representing a full two thirds of the Correlated Galactic Entente, converged to waged war against the Junta. In less than 24 hours, the 100,000-strong fleet, including a vanguard of 20,000 Ogre class military ships, were defeated by being pulled into vortexes of unknown origin or creation.

Within 48 hours, the ships that had been pulled into the unknown vortexes were attacked by a massive assault fleet identifying themselves as Lusus Naturae class military vessels, which by verifiable documented accounts, unleashed a simultaneous bombardment of the capital planets of each government that participated in the assault. This documentation, and further video and still images, proved that the attackers appeared using the same inexplicable vortexes they had used to vanish the Reprisal fleet.

After 72 hours, a full-spectrum broadcast with a origin point of Cradle was sent. The transcription follows:

'We, trade with whom we wish. We, sup with whom we deem friends.

Pay heed, of this generation the count shall be.

Seventy two times ten.

This, will your only warning be.'

To this day, the Correlated Galactic Entente has kept an open line of communication with the Junta, through their diplomatic contacts within the Vault and the VSP/CSP. It is through these contacts that the Junta reveals which governments are currently in good standing with them. As of this writing, only three governments have been acknowledged under a governance trade accord: the Calico Galactic Emporium, the Silver Wing, Blue Tail Tribal State and most recently, an unnamed pirate nation, listed as one of the five SLT Pirate empires.

Also, official recognition of the Old Imperial Republic's loss of its colonial holdings in Disolenum and Passers Cove to the Colonial Federalists government, due to it being the first successful independence movement in the current age.

Because of their advanced technological and military equipment, many have gone out of their way to curry favor with the Junta. Even so far as to establish trading corporations within the notoriously enigmatic Calico Galactic Emporium, in order to slip into one of their lucrative transportation contracts without the use of proxies.

As a final note, there is no historical proof that MEDMIL-ARC contributed to the success of any of the major developments of void-centric technological breakthroughs. There is abundant speculation due to their political relationships, that VSP and MEDMIL-ARC are in fact both deeply vested in void-centric joint projects.

On such observation is when SLT travel had finally been established as a viable method of transportation, the Silver Wing, Blue Tail Tribal State released statistical data describing the composition of a once-unknown vortex that had occurred during the 72 Hour War. Their findings, released to the scientific community, revealed that in fact an SLT postern generated by a Lusus Naturae class military vessel, a full one hundred and twenty years prior to its more well-known discovery. Further analysis confirmed that fragments of that ill-fated military expedition were discovered in the substructure. This finding was later used by the CGE to ratify a treatise into Galactic Law against any and all governments, persons or corporations that broke the truce between itself and the Junta.