The Earth we are heading towards,
However, today...
the Earth will be buried in history
and becomes an insignificant planet in a forgotten boundary.
Why has it become like that?
Besides what I've learnt in the school history textbook,
I know nothing.
Thus, I hope that through this tour,
I am able to revise it carefully.
In the past, human only lives in a planet named Earth.
2039 AD
The two opposing power on the Earth
the United States of Euro-Africa and the Northern Consortium
is having a full-scale attack.
This is due to use of nuclear weapon in the 13 Day War,
Most of the cities in the world are destroyed.
In the later 90 years it was an era of war and chaos,
The population of human has decreased to 10 billion.
The last surviving people longs for a United Government.
They do not only hope for good social order
but also prevailing peace.
it can be said that...
they give up their previous idea on the authoritarian country.
2129 AD
based on the above philosophy,
The Earth Unity Government established,
with its capital at Brisbane, Australia.
which, faces the Pacific Ocean.
This involves the reconstruction of the world,
people devoted themselves into numerous projects.
rebuilding the cities, reviving deserted lands
and they are reaching out to the universe.
2166 AD Construction started
on one of Jupiter's moons, lo, for a research station.
The most dynamic department in the Earth Unity Government
should be the province of universe.
This gigantic organization is set on the surface of moon.
In middle of 2200,
the population surpassed that of the capital in Brisbane.
There is such saying going on that...
while Brisbane is the capital of Earth,
the moon is the capital of Universe.
In the latter period,
human's actual surviving region is restricted to the solar system.
2253 AD
An experimental ship leaves for Alpha Centauri,
but never returns to Earth after 20 years.
This greatly disappoints the people.
The population then is only about 40 billion.
Although it's only within the solar system,
there is more than sufficient living space.
2360 AD
The Space Ministry's engineering staff, headed by Dr. Antonel
Yanosh, accomplishes Faster Than Light travel.
However, due to negative side effects to the female body
especially to the reproductive system,
the implementation is abandoned.
2391AD, they finally perfected Super-light drive.
2402 AD
A habitable world suitable for living, Canopus is discovered.
This marks the beginning of living in stars.
But,
this is also the first step of breaking up the United system.
2404 AD
When the first group of migrants set out,
the leaders of United Government gathered at Brisbane,
They have a long discussion on the issue of assigning...
autonomy to the colonial planets.
Please come in.
What are you doing?
A pornographic film? No!
I am just learning something related to the Earth.
You are really abnormal.
Do you want to watch together with me?
Alright I've nothing to do anyway.
Any sexy scene?
No.
it began as a small organization,
then slowly developed into a unit,
known as Space Security. t organized
I control units that is led personally by the Vice Governor.
In 2428 AD,
they finally formed the Space Navy.
Before the United Government is formed,
this unit always bullying the weaker countries
The United States of Euro Africa's Space Navy has a very different
nature. To ensure the safety of civilian routes...
prevent crimes and accidents,
and to protect human rights and economy organization,
a security structure is set up.
From the point of history,
all troops sing of defence on one hand,
and invaded into other planets on the other.
people from this generation...
may have forgotten may have forgotten this fact.
the Army is the strongest organization in the country.
to people who understand history,
moreover in countries that is united as one,
there is no external enemy,
so just the minimal military strength should be enough.
But even so,
the Space Navy continues to expand unlimitedly...
within its organization the dispirited phenomena persist.
Unification Congress
The high ranked soldiers are just another name for the nobles.
For example,
Let's take a look,
at the luxury life of Captain Arnold
from the Surveillance Unit...
Commander of a flagship.
His room has an office, living room bedroom and washroom.
The total surface area is 240 square meter.
but the lower level of his room is the room for his soldiers.
with the same surface area but packed with 90 soldiers.
In terms of status,
it's reasonable to have assistants for a captain.
But to have a secretary, 6 service soldiers, 2 cooks...
and a nurse to serve him is too much.
of course his salary is taken from the tax.
The saddest truth is,
a patient who needs the attention of a personal nurse
controls an aircraft carrier.
What inhumanity.
Don't be sarcastic.
That's the truth! What are you saying!
This report will become the a target,
because the majority of the media,
are the defenders for military...
At this point of time,
Super Light Travel has reached a limit...
in terms of techniques and distance.
Man's circle in the year of 2480 With the Earth as centre,
it enlarged to a 60 light years diameter circle.
year 2530, diameter of 84 light years.
year 2580, diameter of 91 light years.
year 2630, diameter of 94 light years.
the retention is obvious.
But even in this retention,
the army is the only one expanding.
The unfairness in economy is surfacing at the same time.
The Earth is exhausted of resources.
It gave up the assets of manufacturing,
It used capital and financial controlled the colonial planets,
and absorbed their benefits and resources.
Politically,
although they recognise that each colonial planet has autonomy,
it's just formality.
Those rights belong to a part of Earth.
They are not equal to Earth.
they set up Humanity Congress at which...
70% of the members are from Earth.
It takes 70% to pass the vote,
thus all suggestions from other planets,
are not approved.
Because of the pressure from Earth,
our planet are forced to plant a particular crop.
However it doesn't sell,
thus, some of the planets are facing hunger,
Hence the policy must change.
Right, it should be this way Right, let's do it.
The people of colonial planets are poor,
because they are incapable.
Blaming their misery on the Earth's people,
is a sign of lacking independence and no strive towards advancement.
At that time, what Earth lacked is resources,
what the Earth's people lack is imagination.
Because the lack of imagination,
they implemented the theory of powerhouse.
The powerful remains the powerful,
as he has military strength and wealth.
under the name of capitalism,
Earth extorts the colonial's wealth,
and strengthen the army with this wealth.
That is, the colonial planets are
feeding a group of soldiers that spy on them and suppress them.
The colonial planets have reached their limits,
2682 AD
The space colonies unite and requested to...
reduce arms shipments to Earth.
Secondly, the number of Humanity Congress members...
should be distributed according to population.
Thirdly, Earth should stop interfering
the internal affairs of colonial planets.
Hence, the Earth's response was...
to stop paying the Humanity Congress fees
as a warning.
Earth had to come out with a solution to subdue the complaints.
During that time,
the anti-Earth encampments is on Sirius.
Thus Earth makes use of a reverse operation,
started to spread some weird information.
The contents of it is that...
Sirius keeps on accusing Earth
not because of the unfairness,
but to replace Earth as the ruler.
Sirius thus, is the common enemy of Earth and all colonial planets,
It threatened the existence of man.
Sirius is building its resources
strengthening its armament,
and has established the network.
Beware of Sirius
This is what the proverb said.
Initially, the Earth is harboring the evil joy,
waiting to see the disillusion of Sirius expanding.
but when the Earth exaggerated the threat from Sirius,
it leads to an unexpected result.
Sirius came to believe that...
they have the ability and determination to rule Earth.
They were blinded by the rumours,
and took it seriously.
Sirius Committee Meeting
The Earth's strategy of making Sirius the common enemy...
resulted in an expected way.
A few colonial planets were extremely sick of the Earth,
and began to turn to Sirius.
Depending on Sirius is the only way to resist the Earth
the one who led the colonial planets to this notion is none
other than Earth. To get rid of anti-Earth encampments,
the Earth decided to punish them with military forces,
and at the same time wipe out the anti-Earth troops.
2689 AD
because Sirius gathered the military police from various
planets to train together,
with the promise of providing them with weapons,
Earth used this as an excuse to start a battle.
The Earth Government Space Army
suppresses an uprising on Sirius-6.
Sirius-6, known as Rondolina to its inhabitants,
is taken by the Earth forces.
Although the Earth had won the battle,
the discipline of the troops fell.
The commander at the frontline worked with unrealistic figures.
They reported lesser number of confiscated goods,
The difference which,
went to the high ranked officers.
On the other hand,
the number of enemy's casualties was exaggerated.
the actual number is about 60 millions,
but reported as 150 millions.
To make the figure convincing,
they killed many civilians.
Not only that, they cut the bodies into pieces,
so looked like bodies of several people. They did all these without
any hesitation. Also,
they minimized the number of their own casualties.
the salary sent to the dead soldiers,
was pocketed by the officers.
The one who reported this,
was a reporter who risked his life and entered the frontline.
The conference that took charge of this,
only accounted the words of the Earth's army.
they felt that the reporter was trying...
to gain something out of the report,
and charged him for slandering.
After this incident, the Earth's army became worse.
They turned the army into a bandit organization,
and started looking for another battlefield.
They eyed...
the economy center of Sirius-6,
Laglane City.
Some of the escaped soldiers
hid inside Laglane with their weapons.
This is a fact.
What the Earth was interested in...
Were their rich natural resources
and it being the trading center.
of Laglane City.
Earth sent out 15 units,
4 air fleets,
and 6 land troops trained in city warfare...
surrounded the entire Laglane City,
and got ready for the attack.
Then, the governor of Laglane City
tried to stop the attack in spite of his illness.
With the help of the Second-in-Command of the Earth Troops,
and his people with conscience,
the attack was delayed twice.
But inside the surrounded Laglane City,
some planned to hand the escaped soldiers over to the Earth.
to escape the ravages of war. They formed self-defence
troop and started to look for escaped soldiers.
Gun plays were everywhere.
Earth took this opportunity and started to attack.
The command given to the soldiers
were extreme.
To kill all who had weapons and try to resist.
All suspected to have weapons,
Iooked like they would resist,
and who might be the escaped soldiers,
were to be killed.
This command goaded the inhuman massacre.
The Earth's army who entered the city,
were allowed to kill and rob.
The violence,
was the beginning of The Bloody Night.
All the paintings and jewellery were taken away,
Priceless books,
as the soldiers were not aware of their values, were burnt.
Northern district of the city,
was the central district of the stones,
and gold.
The Air Fleets...
and land soldiers,
to fight over the jewellery,
and started to kill each other.
There is a total 1500 casualties from both sides.
many bodies were cut at the stomach,
it could be for the jewellery they had swallowed.
The civilians suffered the worst fates 100 times over.
Soldiers cut the jaws of old men for their gold teeth,
They cut the ears and fingers of the
Iadies for their ear rings and rings.
In the 10 hours of The Bloody Night,
more than 90 millions were killed.
The destruction cost
150 billions.
But, Earth denied this fact.
The rumours of the massacre and robbing in Laglane City...
were not true.
The fugitives made this up,
to slander the Earth.
After 3 days the army changed their words.
the massacre and robbing did happen.
but it's very small scale with only 2 millions casualties.
And the one who did it were not the Earth army,
but the anti-Earth traitors hiding in the city.
And which they blamed it on the Earth thereafter,
They were trying to instigate an anti-Earth campaign.
Ultimately, there were still guerrilla forces in the city.
Within 3 days,
the Earth changed their speech completely,
but mentioned nothing about the reason.
Earth wanted to complete the mission,
set out again to wipe out the defeated army.
There were another 35 millions casualties.
But from this action,
hope for the colonial planets arrived.
The 25 yrs old TV reporter Carl Palmgren
refused to let the soldiers checked his belongings,
during the spot check,
was beaten severely.
Among the bodies to be burnt,
Palmgren regained his conscious,
and escaped.
A 23 years old secretarial accountant,
of the accounts department of Gold plated mountain,
Winslow Kenneth Townsend...
was looking down at the soldiers from his house.
A drunken soldier shot him blindly,
and his mother who was at his side died.
His charge was ignored,
and was accused of murdering his mother instead.
He escaped into the mountain.
The branch of Medical University,
the 20 yrs old medical student Julio Fancoul
killed the soldier who raped his girlfriend,
and had to become a fugitive.
After he escaped,
his girlfriend had committed suicide.
With no interest in politics and revolution,
a 19 yrs old musical school students Chao Yuilan
was present at the massacre of the Earth's army,
His brother and sister-in-law were killed.
He escaped with his 3 yrs old nephew.
These 4 man first got together on
2691 AD, February,
In the neutral zone on Proxima-5
the central district of Proserpina.
The four of them are...
a good example of maximizing the talent.
Palmgren used hi belief and speech
became the symbol of anti-Earth party.
Townsend with his administrative ability
established the economy foundation.
The Black Fleet Force is also activated,
commanded by Jolio Francoul.
They transformed the revolution party...
into a strong army troop.
Chao in charge of the information and planning.
To control the anti-Earth party, the four of them
began to overthrow the existing leaders.
They beat the 3 main commanders of Earth Army...
with very vicious methods.
2703 AD The weakened Earth's army,
was destroyed by the Black Fleet Force led by Fancoul.
During the second Vega Battle,
the 2 million Earth's army,
was destroyed by the 6000 Black Fleet Force.
2704 AD
Earth nearly lost the solar system too.
The little planet between the Mars and Jupiter was the last
defence, Earth continued to resist.
the anti-Earth party cut off their replenishment for two months,
and launched a full-scale attack when they were about to die
from hunger. The tragedy of Laglane City,
is replayed on a much larger scale.
but the victims had became the executers this time.
Their roles had switched.
That attack,
affected the landscape of Earth too.
The population has dropped drastically to 10 billions.
You know so much.
I just heard from Konev.
Because he often transport the followers of Earth sect,
so he has been to Earth for a few times.
but the Sirius that was just set up,
Iasted only for a short period of time.
two years after the battle of Sirius that is AC 2706
Carl Palgrem that is the symbol of revolution and freedom,
died at the age of 42.
If I die now,
the new body will lose the pillar,
5 years will do...
if only the deity of death can wait...
after Palmgren died...
not more than 3 months,
the thing he worried about surfaced.
It began with whether to let the old financial system..
be included into the new economy system.
The difference in opinion,
resulted in the opposing feeling.
In the end it deteriorated beyond reconciliation.
Fancoul planned to seize power.
But this was found out.
The plan failed at the very last stage.
Chao Yuilan
returned to Laglane City and set up a musical school.
although he had lost interest in the fighting of power,
but his intelligence in the strategy
worry Townsend.
To pluck this dangerous sprout Townsend,
murdered Chao.
So Townsend fulfilled his ambition of
dictatorship power.
But during the second year 2707,
his car was shot and exploded,
and he was overthrown from the throne.
The new system was supported by Townsend alone.
After his death...
The Black Fleet Force was divided into several groups and continued
fighting, moving into a new century of chaos.
The system that were destroyed,
will take another century...
to be established again.
2801 AD
The United Space Government is founded.
In this messy human society,
the Earth is forgotten by all.
The thing is,
even though all the others have forgotten,
those living on Earth,
cannot forget their past glamour.
Like the nobles of the Old Empire State,
they will take back at all cost,
the privileges that they used to have.
To them, it's their right.
After 800 over years,
hatred can be a scary thing.
Don't scare me, will you?
Alright, it's time for food.
Let's go and have a meal.
Alright.
We can pass it with joke now,
but when you take a actual look at Earth,
you'll know this is truth.
This makes us very miserable.
Earthbound
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