Was sick today, so I wrote up a little "History" kind of thing I though might interest some people with my spare time.
I am in no way done with this (Prologue? Intro?) thing, but I am thinking of a mini campaign that explains this, and then a main campaign.
As I said I want to really get deep into possible events that would follow the Capellan crisis as I think it would add some gravity to the campaign.
ALSO: if you see a mistake please tell me I want this to follow cannon as accuratly as possible
Rebellion In Regulus
After the Capella crisis in 2367... the GTVA experienced its darkets hour. The Shivan assault had been repelled, but massive challanges remained for the great democracy. Tensions rose as all GTVA systems came under hard social and economic times and began to blame the GTVA and it's representatives. The GTVA was blamed for numerous reasons, differing on each world but most were about the economical fallout and social tensions regarding the Vasudan's and the aristocracy. Regulus was the first world to crack. On October 6th, 2369 the municipal governer Terrance Blaine of Regulus declared a sovergn state and drew up a law code which was signed by various GTVA representative governors who defected to the new state. He claimed the GTVA turned away from his brothers and sisters when the called for economic help (of course the GTVA had nothing to offer) and that Regulus would be better off free from GTVA influence (The GTVA still taxed its systems to pay for reconstruction and maintain order). On January 11th, 2370 Blaine was able to persuade parts of the 8th fleet to rebel. On January 28th his forces attacked Olympus station in orbit over Regulus III and claimed the station. Blaine's forces subdued remaining GTVA forces only 8 days after the attack. The rest of the GTVA 8th fleet defected or was destroyed. News of the success spread to Sirius, the neighboring system which had also been swatted away by the GTVA beauracrats in Beta Aquilae when they called for aid. The municipal governer there began his own push for soverignty and in Mid 2370 drew up his own law code. He asked for Blaine's military, which now had quite a presence due to several assets from the 9th fleet in Sirius defecting to Regulus, to help him gain his soverignty. Blaine agreed and formed an alliance and non agression pact with the new Sirius state. The GTVA anticipated Blaine's departure for Sirius and attempted a defense at the Sirius - Regulus node. Blaine steamrolled through the pathetic defense and declared Sirius a soveirgn state. The rest of the 9th fleet now either defected or was destroyed at the battle for Lacey stationd and the battle for the GTD Heisen Glory, which was captured by Sirian rebels. Blaine's fleet now consisted of three destroyers, seven corvettes, and thirteen cruisers along with hundreds of support craft and the Sirian fleet under Michael A. Thorogh now consisted of one destroyer, two corvettes, and twelve cruisers. Along with the Regulus revolution, the mining colonies of Ikeya declared independence from the GTVA in response to GTVA corruption in the system in 2372. There was little military action from either side as Ikeya had an extremely small fleet (Only a couple of cruisers) and the GTVA was spread too thin to even consider sending a fleet to Ikeya. For four years a stalemate would drag on. Blaine was now in a good position. So long as he kept Sirius alive, Regulus was safe and independence would remain. The GTVA, still bleeding from Capella, and the loss of two more high population systems, could do nothing, and had a leader that would do nothing anyway. Finally, president Robert Demoy, the leader of the GTVA during the Capella crisis resigned after his 10 year reign expired. The new president and his nephew Jamison Demoy was elected in 2374 and swore to reunite Regulus and Sirius into the GTVA. Four years of rebuilding had improved the GTVA fighting force and he gathered the fleets of Beta Aquilae, Vega, Antares, and Ribos to the Vasudan system of Deneb to begin a counter offensive. But Blaine had had time to build up his forces and reorganize his new country. Blaine was ready for the GTVA and formed up defensive lines. War was inevitable.
The Vasudans and the Rebellions
One must not overlook the Vasudans. The Vasudans reconstruction was far easier on the Vasudan government than it was with the Terran reconstruction. The Vasudans remained unified and had not experienced the same bloody rebellions that the Terrans had. They began to look upon the Terran component of the GTVA as a weak and incompitent rulership. They much preferred their own style of governance, where their overall authority only went as far as protecting each system from foreign attack, and allowing Vasudan systems make their own choices with little to no centralized shoves. A Vasudan philosopher stated that a society is more unified when it knows it is trusted to make its own decisions than when it expects decisions to be made for it. When the rebellions of Regulus and Sirius succeeded with such ease, the Vasudans saw the weakness of the GTVA and lost respect for their ally. The only thing keeping the Vasudans in an alliance such as the GTVA was the threat of the Shivans. But as the years dragged on slowly to almost a decade after the Capella crisis, the Vasudans began to think about a world without a Shivan threat, and a universe where they would have to deal with the Terrans. Huge outcries against the Terrans began when their fleet rallied in Deneb, a Vasudan system, to assault Sirius. The Vasudan government begged for its systems to wait it out and let the Terrans settle their differences as a spectator, but the resentment continued. As the war dragged on what would the Vasudans do?
