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Here's what I've worked on independently. It remains the same for the most part until LC 50, where I continue until LC 91 and add more battles. I also tweaked things so that Line Ark was the first livable environment created outside Earth's atmosphere, and therefor renaming the era to "Lunar Century". Newtypes are born with the change in era. It's pretty much edits, expansions, and a few added events.
Whatcha think?
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3098 AD: The nations of Earth band together under the seven noble houses of Valentine, Weinberg, Salvador, Madison, Wayne, Arisawa, & Vlassinovich. Each family controls a different sect of Earth's new unified government, answering to one another in a seemingly flawless leadership role. Together, they create a massive lunar colony capable of supporting life in space. Though no name is officially given at first, the ring-like colony becomes known as Line Ark.
December 31, 3099 AD: The world becomes shocked as the House of Madison revealed that in exactly 24 hours the world would forever change as mankind took it's next great step in human evolution. These people would go on to be referred to as "Newtypes", with higher capabilities than Natural-born humans and an incredible sense of spacial awareness. In addition, the House of Valentine announced that in celebration of Line Ark's success and the coming of the Newtype "species" they would rename the calendar to fit the number appropriately. The world waited, patiently counting down the evolution of mankind and the start of a new and prosperous era.
January 1, Lunar Century 01: As anticipated, a newborn child was born, but to whom it was unknown. The child displayed incredible neurological potential, as well as increased awareness as the House od Madison had stated. It was a remarkable event for the world to witness together, and it almost seemed as if the world could only improve from there. People all around began talking about the possibility of having Newtypes as their next leaders, thus beginning their slow decline in support from the House of Valentine. It was Lunar Century 01.
Lunar Century 16: Line Ark is officially completed and citizens move to experience life in an all new environment.
Lunar Century 24: Newtypes, now reaching adulthood, begin having children of their own, naturally resulting in more Newtypes. The gap in the ratio of Newtypes to Naturals is slowly beginning to dwindle. The House of Valentine and Madison band together to establish colonies around Earth to prevent overpopulation. It is appropriately named the Space Colony World Expansion Program.
Lunar Century 29: Mass Drivers in Canada, Brazil, and Australia are complete and the space colony project begins. The world grows in anticipation for the completion of the colonies. The House of Valentine uses a special means of propaganda to secretly target Newtypes, making sub-consciously making them want to move to the colonies.
March 2nd, Lunar Century 35: The world finally finishes work on four of the eight colonies being constructed in space. Earth's population, as determined, has exceeded over seven point two billion people, and they must hurry to finish the rest before it exceeds their numbers any further. As each colony finishes construction, each colony takes as many citizens as their capacity levels will allow. The Earth's population is relieved a little bit, but construction on the final four colonies is still taking time. No one is more pressing on the completion of the colonies as the House of Valentine, who claim the world economy will crash if the population is not dispersed.
May 2nd, Lunar Century 36: The world sees its first space colony disaster. During a misfire of Colony 2As thrusters, the colony itself is sent careening towards Earth. As the large object approaches Earth, it's military forces attempt to put a stop to the problem. In an act of heroism, several platoons of soldiers quickly evacuate as many civilians as they can, though they are unfortunately unable to rescue 40. Missile barrages are fired at the colony in an attempt to stop it from moving, but as they quickly realize it’s too late, the colony falls to the surface annihilating of both Spain in the process. After the drop, it is realized there were colony-based casualties. A funeral service is held for those killed in the incident.
Lunar Century 38: The world is still shaken by the tragedy 2 years earlier. The House of Valentine sees this as an opportunity to take power and soon make their move. The Valentines begin showing up to meetings around the world, their representatives trying to persuade the other countries that it was in their best interest to form an alliance. Most of the countries were in a tough position and soon signed a treaty, officially marking the alliance as a whole with the Valentines in the seat of power. The Valentine's first act as world leaders - mass deportation of Newtypes from all non-neutral locations on Earth.
Lunar Celestial 39: Line Ark grows in size and population in response to fleeing Newtypes. Now completely circling the moon, they dub themselves a super-neutral nation, stating that any military force to enter their borders will be fired upon.
Lunar Celestial 40: The House of Valentine establishes the Alliance of Arms, and has been sending relief for the past two years. Using this to gain trust in the people, the House of Valentine soon saw this as an opportunity to try and get the colonies under their control. However, news comes in that colony leaders have discussed declaring independence, becoming their own nation out of Earth's grasp. The Head of the House of Valentine, Vic Van Valentine, opposed the idea and soon after called a meeting with the colony leaders.
February 3rd, Lunar Century 40: A meeting takes place as the House of Valentine debates as why the colonies decided to become their own nation. The Colony representatives answered, stating that it was "in the best interest for the colonies and to avoid another tragedy like the one they had just seen five years before." The Valentines were relieved, that is, until the colonies declined an invitation to the Alliance. The Valentine's saw this as a problem, their goal to own the world over the rest of the Families was being blocked by the colonies and the House of Valentine would not stand for it. It was now that the House decided to continue their anti-Newtype campaign.
New Years Day, Lunar Century 41: As the world Celebrates another year gone, the House of Valentine puts their plan into motion and announces that the Colonies have revolted against Earth, and plan to destroy them. The world falls for the lie, and the Valentine's begin carrying out covert operations against the Colony Nation. While the revolt accusation is broadcast and anti-Newtype feelings escalate around the world, the colonies finish moving into their new positions at L4, announcing they have become the Independent Space Nation of Solaria (ISNS), or Solaria for short.
February 2nd, Lunar Century 41: The Alliance of Arms finishes work on their first mobile suit, the Talon. Many units are rolled off the assembly line and put into action.
February 15th, Lunar Century 41: The Alliance of Arms launches a space force comprised of refitted ships for warfare. Solaria is surprised, and thus cannot prepare, but manage to survive the attack. Managing to capture a mobile suit during the battle, Solaria attempts to start building their own, and soon produce a mobile suit, though it's not combat worthy. Using the new mobile suits to train their soldiers, Solaria soon designs their own battle-ready machine in order to counter the Alliance of Arms.
March 11th, Lunar Century 41The House of Valentine announces the decision to abolish the Alliance of Arms and established the Earth Defense Union in it's place with one purpose - to protect the interests and safety of those on Earth. The House of Weinberg soon catches onto the real reason for the Union, and decides to speak out. Weinberg goes on to plan a press campaign to release the information on Valentine's actions, but is soon threatened. Fearing for their lives, the Weinberg House soon flees to neutral space territories, and then shares their findings with Solaria - Valentine's plans to deport all Newtypes to Solaria and then destroying the colonies.
June 10th, Lunar Century 42: Solaria establishes two bases around the Earth, the asteroid bases Solomon and Delfimi. The EDU catches on to these bases and launches a full scale attack on Solomon. The end result was a nuclear strike that decimated the base, the soldiers in it, and any mobile suit and ship that were caught in the blast, both enemy and friendly alike. The nuclear strike scares a few of the nations of Earth, forcing the nations of Australia and Taiwan islands to leave the Union and become neutral states. With the resignation of Australia and Taiwan, the Unions military power weakened giving Solaria hope in defeating them.
September 4th, Lunar Century 42: The EDU finishes construction on their new battleships, and the EDUs 3rd fleet launches an attack on Delfimi, leaving the base almost completely destroyed. With reinforcements from their main fleet, Solaria manages to drive away the Unions 3rd fleet and begin the reconstruction of Delfimi.
August 25th, Lunar Century 43: The Union’s attacks in space suspiciously stop, and the world sees a small window of opportunity for peace. That is, until the Union reveal a large battle ship with a secret weapon, able to cripple a colony with a single shot and render the space colony useless and unable to support life.
August 28th, Lunar Century 43: Solaria mounts an attack on the space station Valentine 2, a space station and base named after the Valentine family itself. The attack almost succeeds, but the fleet is blown to bits with the stragglers retreating.
November 8th, Lunar Century 43Solaria completes its own ship designs and amasses a fleet, which would rival that of the Unions 3rd Fleet. Both fleets soon meet and both come back scarce and in need of repairs.
May 22nd, Lunar Century 44Solaria secretly steps foot on Earth, orbital dropping a base into the South Pacific Ocean. The Union never finds the base, allowing Solaria a window of opportunity. The base is soon completed and functional, and Solaria begins to carry out reconnaissance missions to get a better feel for their enemy.
October 3rd, Lunar Century 44: The Solarian South Pacific Ocean base is soon discovered and the attacked by a Union naval fleet. The operations to destroy the base are met with strong resistance and fail, and the Union forces begin to encounter many unexpected skirmishes planet side.
April 10th, Lunar Century 45: The House of Weinberg declares its allegiance to Solaria and that they will not stop until the Union remove the Valentine members from their thrones. The Solarian forces begin to attack Union bases, using each operation as an attempt to scare the Valentines into making a fatal move. The effort of the operations succeeds and the Valentines send their trump card to destroy the Solarian home land. The ship arrives at the colonies to destroy them, but cannon overloads, forcing the ship and its 3rd fleet to retreat. With the cannon deemed unusable, the Union technicians begin work to repair it, but soon begin to redesign it. After this and many of the past events, both the Earth Defense Union and Solaria declare war on one another.
July 4th, Lunar Century 47: The war sees its first major battle in the Second Battle of Delfimi. Both sides see many casualties, but as before, Solaria achieves victory after destroying the EDU flagship Vestige, crippling enemy morale. This is a turning point in a war that has already seen two years of bloodshed.
April 10th, Lunar Century 48: Three years after the declaration of war, the House of Valentine announces they have prepared a plan that will end the world once and for all. Publicly dubbing the plan "Project Archetype", Valentine goes on to say the plan will cease all Earth-Solarian hostilities and bring peace to the world once and for all. However, only the Valentine's know of the projects true intention. They then go on to launch a full-scale assault on the Solarian base of Laguash. Attacking by air and sea, first glances at the battle showed an EDU victory, however Solarian forces push back their adversaries as always, winning the battle.
December 22nd, Lunar Century 54: The EDU and Solarian forces meet in another violent clash at the infamous Battle of Overwatch, where a full Solarian fleet attacked the EDU space headquarters. The battle itself was almost as big as the numbers in battle. Both sides suffer heavy casualties, but the EDU ultimately claims victory after reducing the Solarian fleet to dust. After this battle, the two opposing forces go to work on new mobile suits to roll out in the battle. Due to pouring their resources into production and not the battle, the war sees a stalemate that will last thirty years, and tensions begin to drop.
August 19th, Lunar Century 85: Tensions return as the war escalates, the total death toll exceeding 8.2 million, making it one of the bloodiest wars the world has ever seen. As a service to those who have fallen, both sides declare a two month ceasefire for proper funeral services.
December 1st, Lunar Century 87: A small shuttle carrying Newtypes to Line Ark mysteriously vanishes, only to be found weeks later with no passengers. No one knows who is responsible, but many political figures come to blame the Valentine's, stating "In one way or another, you are responsible."
Lunar Century 91: Battle after battle ensues, and more and more people are taken by the cold claws of death as the war rages on. A shocking death toll of 10.7 million is broadcast live, with an even more disturbing 3.2 million being civilians, most of which being women and children. Anti-war displays are seen throughout the Earth and the colonies, but are met with riot control teams. It becomes clear then that the war will not end until one side is completely erased from existence. Who it will be, only time will tell.
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