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Chapter 1: Rise of the Crystal Systems Alliance

2986 BCE:

"The gem war has ended." spoke a being that had lived through billions of years and watched an endless cycle of death and destruction pass.

"Told you the war would end you old squid faced geezer." spoke another being far older and far more powerful.

"The spirit of chaos and darkness has escaped and plans to join the betrayers, this WAS not part of our deal Cipher!" the elder Leviathan angrily boomed.

The other being appeared through the elders mindscape revealing himself to be an odd yellow triangle with a top hat. " Haha this is just a bit of fun just in case this so called Zodiac Prophecy is able to defeat me." laughed the strange triangle.

"And was this so called Corruption a part of your plan, this new weapon damages and corrupts everything, those immune or protected will be terrorized for centuries by what is left behind!" the enraged leviathan exploded.

"Isn't it great squidface so much chaos, I even impress myself!" Bill Cipher gleefully boasted. "With the knowledge you gave on these gems I managed to break that oversized edgy kite free from the Avatar's trap and with Pinky's indisposed set in motion the events needed for my little plan. The psychotic triangle cackled at his ingenious plan.

"Well I'll be seeing you, oh and one more thing." Bill spoke.

"Yes." the leviathan wearily answered.

"Remember Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, BYE! The one eyed demon excitedly spoke before leaving.

"Is he gone? The weary light spirit spoke for the first time.

"Yes the cipher has left and returned to his realm." the elder spoke

"The cipher must not succeed in his foolish plan, it will lead to the end of all worlds including his own if he survives, with the cycle broken I will find a human to pass down and accumulate my power until I can be reunited with Zhong's soul." Raava urged.

"The cycle must end, I will not allow it to continue, even as my free will is slowly eroded away because of the betrayers, my final act will be to give the natives of this galaxy the means to end the Cycle, the humans will not be alone as they rise to the stars." the Leviathan declared before growing silent.

"I truly hope you know what you are doing old friend." the light spirit murmured.

In 2012 the whole world watched with bated breath as they watched the arrival of the great comet. Translations of old elemental nations text dating back over 300,000 years called it Sozin's Comet. The comet would mark the beginning of a new age, the comet as it scraped the earth's atmosphere caused the population of the once rare elemental benders to skyrocket going from 1 in 5000 to 1 in a 100. This era of change marked the beginning of the Bending Renaissance.

Benders were a rare phenomenon were humans and other living beings had the ability to manipulate one of four classical elements, such as air,water,earth, and fire. They were believed to have been much more common during the reign of the first human nations over 300,000 years ago. Many ancient techniques of these ancient nations were lost to time, and with the Renaissance were rediscovered. New techniques were also developed, unlike any previously seen in recent times.

Many earthbenders figured out how to bend sand and to superheat into into glass.

Water benders learned to hyper compress water and turn themselves into water cannons capable of punching through multiple feet of steel. Firebenders learned to sense heat as a sixth sense, allowing them to find hidden targets, or to create hot air blast. Airbenders learned to superheat air to near plasma temperatures, and surround themselves in a deadly spin dash. In many ways the great comet brought a revolution unlike any seen in thousands of years.

However not all was peaceful in this new era, the changes that began with the comet would sow the seeds for future conflict and war. Many factions began to develop after bending fully returned to the world. There were many groups who considered benders to be unnatural freaks who shouldn't exist. Others believed benders were the next step in human evolution and should rise up against their inferior brethren. Other groups were anti non-human and considered the other sapient species that inhabited the earth alongside humanity vermin to be exterminated or exploited.

One of the species that butted heads with this last faction, were the Chicxulub Republic. They were a civilization of recreated dinosaurs, with many scientist in agreement that they were created using ancient gem technology. They inhabited most of the ancient island chain homeland of the first firebenders in middle of the Atlantic ocean. The Chicx Republic were ultimately the most mundane of the species that inhabited the earth alongside humanity. These almost mythical beings inhabited all corner of the world yet untouched by humans. There were the many subspecies of Lamias that lived throughout the world. The proud and chivalrous centaurs, the great and terrible dragons, and many peoples and beast of legend.

These beings that lived alongside humanity for countless millennia. In this century it would all soon come to a head.

But before this first would come the technology that would pave the path for all life on Earth. In the early 21st century multiple corporations and nations began working on reusable spacecraft. While humans developed most of the technology they had on their own, due to the near 95% death rate of gem ruin expeditions. Humanity the most advanced of the earth's inhabitants, now had the technology to safely venture into these ruins. Human technology advanced rapidly as while the technology could not yet be replicated. The few insights into their technology advanced humans by decades. One of the most useful was the files on an ancient human zoo, that inspired humans and Saurians on how to maintain themselves long term in space. The leaders of this new space industry would be companies such as SpaceX founded by Elon Musk, and Blue Origins founded by Jeff Bezos, as well as the Chinese and Bhāratan space program. A new space race had begun fueled by the new advances made in this century of change.

The winner of this race would be the American SpaceX with their methane fueled reusable spacecraft. They would land two cargo ships in the year 2022 at least four years ahead of any other companies. SpaceX stock value would rise massively with their revenue from their high speed satellite network known as Starlink, along with the success of his other companies, Elon Musk would become one of the richest men of the 21st century. As the 2030s loomed the future looked bright as many nations reached for space. Thousands of people had left to set up a new civilization on mars. Mars's main export would be various forms of reality television, as well as new research that could not be done on earth. Mars would eventually serve as a gateway to the asteroid belt.

But this new peace would not last, as humanities mistakes finally caught up wit them. Human generated greenhouse gases had finally pushed the world to the edge. In 2038 a research into the arctic, concluded that the area had officially become ice free, with less than a million km square of sea ice. The change in albedo and the massive methane leak from the permafrost as well as deep sea ice, created a massive runaway greenhouse effect. Temperatures in vulnerable nations soared, with many equatorial areas becoming unfit for human habitation. Wealthier nations such as several Middle eastern great powers and the Bhāratan Empire were able to compact their populations into massive climate controlled mega cities. Changing climate would spark 5 new worlds wars all in differing locations.

The 3rd world war would be fought in the practically boiling Middle East. Iran a fairly belligerent but rational power had grown increasingly unstable as many of its weaker surrounding nations, the nation fell into an economic slump, a new leader would rise up and take power, and with their neighboring nations weakened by civil war and harsh climates, Iran began its conquest by invading Iraq in 2042. Turkey went through a similar transformation and invaded Syria, and Greece. The Middle East quickly collapsed into complete chaos as the remaining natives fought for land and resources. Millions died as new advanced weapons were tested during the war, from advanced laser,plasma and railgun weapons, to advanced propulsion and shielding technology.

The war would drag on for two years, though Turkey's foolish invasion of Greece would bring upon the ire of a new united European Union. In the end the Middle East would be left nearly completely desolate, with the pieces left taken by the European Union, the United States, the Bhāratan Empire, and the Russian Federation. Only 50 million or so people would be left alive in the Middle East.

The 21st century would be plagued by many new horrific wars and conflicts killing more and more people with each war. The 4th Great War would be between the European Union and the Russia. In 2050 the Russian federation would become the Russian Empire, as it had discovered an ancient gem weapon, capable of creating an infinite army of light. The Russians, with their new army would process to invade Poland, sparking the first european war in decades. New and terrible weapons were developed, including one that would force the United States to enter into the war, the aptly named warp bomb. This weapon would tear two holes in reality, two cities would be destroyed as the cities were forcefully pulled together. The weapons first target would be Paris and New York City. Tens of millions would die as the two cities were torn to pieces and debris impacted across their nations. The United States quickly joined in the campaign against the empire. The war would end with a massive Russian military complex based in an ancient ruin being nuked by two 25 megaton warheads. The light weapon would end up being lost in the explosion and it is yet unknown as to its location. New York City would later be renamed Empire City, and Paris would be renamed New Paris.

The fifth Great War would be between the growing human supremacist groups, who would later become known as Enkidu and Cerberus and the Chicxulub Republic. The two terrorist groups began their reign of terror in 2060. These two terrorist groups and criminals would be responsible for one of the greatest atrocities of this century. Enkidu would target various mythological sapient species and enslave them, they would orchestrate one the largest slaving rings the world had ever seen. Millions of non-humans fell to their horrible cruelty and bigotry, Cerberus would aim more for alien beings using the earth as refuge. They used the new uninhabited areas of the earth and forced the other races to live in essentially reserves until they starved to death or died from the heat. These two organizations numbered in the millions and attempted to invade the Chicxulub Republic as it remained the last refuge for non-humans. The superpowers of the world immediately allied with the Chicx Republic and after six years of fighting the two groups were eradicated in their entirety.

The two final great wars were ultimately the smallest of the wars though their combined death toll was still far greater. World war six began with the rise of the first modern mythical beast civilization in almost a hundred years. In 2072 a powerful Lamia would rise to power, and began her conquest of all african territory outside the Bhāratan Empire's provinces. She began to subjugate numerous nations and absorb them. Most would flee across the southern border to the empires vast mega cities. Lamias being reptiles were better able to adapt to the climate. Eventually they entered into a brief but bloody conflict with the Bhāratan empire. The war marked the first use of early forms of orbital bombardment and gem based weaponry. Various powers armors were developed to allow humans to fight with the physically superior Lamias. The war would last two years and killed around 70 million people, though due to famine was closer to 300 million. The 7th Great War would be known as the Jungle wars, as civil wars began to wrack all of South America, due to the temperatures rising to reach over 130 degrees Fahrenheit.l, for month at a time. This war began in 2082 and dragged on for 12 long years. Many nations in south america began to invade one another for increasingly scarce resources, with Brazil absorbing the largest amount of territory. Brazil would with help from the the newly formed United North American States or the UNAS, become the effective ruler of South America. However civil wars spread across the nation, killing many tens of millions not including the vast famines, as massive wildfires and over exploitation had destroyed the Amazon, causing massive damage to the ecosystem. This Great War despite uniting the southern continent would leave over 300 million dead and another 200 million dead from famine.

In 2096 after the end of the last world war, hundreds of billions would be put into further colonization of space, as well as terraforming technology based on further gem ruin findings. Millions would leave the dying earth, it's ocean green with death and decay, vast deserts covering most of the planet, and the only signs of green left being in cities spanning hundreds of miles. The vast wastelands would be dominated by the non human civilizations who would build upon the ruins of former human nations. These kingdoms would remain on earth, welcoming those who immigrate to their vast underground cities. The earth would take centuries to recover from the sixth mass extinction.

As the 22nd century began a new era dominated by space nations would begin. Most of the earth's human population would ultimately flee the Mars, and the asteroid belt. New technologies were developed capable of of terraforming based on the abilities of certain types of gems. Unfortunately most of this technology was unable to be used on earth because any small mistake could destroy all life on the planet. One of the best examples of the use of terraforming technology would the planet Venus a deadly greenhouse planet. Using a mix of massive scale aerokinesis

and hydrokinesis, the deadly planet would within 50 years become a perfect garden word, with a thin ocean covering 80% of the planet's surface, a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere 3 times thicker than earth's and near global coral reefs. The two new garden worlds would serve as havens for mankind as well as the Chicx Republic who would later call themselves the Saurians.

As Venus and Mars grew they became increasingly independent of the already weakened Earth. In 2160 Mars would become the the Martian Empire, and Venus would become the Cytherean Federation. Earth did not have the population to stop the two colonies, with only 500 million humans left on earth. Mars already had a population of 1 billion and Venus a population of two billion, as both had gone through a massive population boom in the last fifty years.

Venus and Mars would become the first humans to succeed in reverse engineering warp pad technology allowing for near instant transportation once a warp pad network is set up. However getting to a distant star Systems would still take decades of time just to arrive, so while a vast improvement it was still not enough to maintain a continuous empire. The republic and the Empire however mantaineenvarious asteroids as massive mining colonies. Mars would have the greatest number however, being the nearest to the "Belt" colonies. Soon however an incident would put into motion the first interplanetary war.

In 2214 a terrorist attack on one of Mars moon, would cause Deimos to crash onto a major Martian City, while most of the asteroid was diverted a large piece was still able to destroy the Martian city of New Rome. Millions died to the horrible attack that was later traced back the the Federation. This would be the final straw as for decades the two powers competed for resources, and a massive wave of nationalism had begun to surge throughout the colonies. The Martian empire and its colonies would unilaterally declare war on the Cytherean Federation and its colonies, beginning the first Intersolar War.

The two nations would enter into a wartime economy and would for the first time build the first space warships. Dozens of ships were built on both sides with the largest ships approaching 470 meters in length. The war would send millions of soldiers to the each other's planets. Orbital bombardment would wipe out entire cities off the map as the war only escalated. Millions upon millions would fall prey to the maelstrom of death and destruction that had begun. Eventually a space battle over earth orbit would give the human homeworld the incentive to send their own attack. Earth during the war had succeeded in reverse engineering gem light cannon weaponry. The war would end in 2218 when the United earth captured and forced the two nations government before they destroyed each other with weapons of mass destruction. However a mistake would be made when numerous members of the two former governments fled into the newly colonized Jovian planets. Due to the great distance between the inner and outer worlds, the United Inner Systems was unable to find them, and a horrible discovery would bring upon one final war before the natives of earth would leave the solar system.

The former war criminals would take control of the Jovian colonies and form the new Jovian League, a vast empire made of of billions of loosely connected people. The Jovian League would create vast armies of machines and clones to subjugate the population using technology from an ancient black ship. The Jovian League remained neutral with the UIS, as it consolidated its power, the UIS unable to invade it as they spent decades rebuilding after the first war.

In 2238 the Jovian League would make their move invading the colony of Ceres and and enslaving most of its people. Millions would be implanted with heavy cybernetics and used as living weapons against the rest of the UIS. The Jovian League was ruled by four grand matriarch who believed that the current generation of humans needed to be replaced by humans created for their goals and no one else's. Hundreds of millions perished with their use of neutrium based technology. Fortunately the war took a turn when one of their own weaponized artificial intelligences turned against them and killed the youngest of the four tyrants. Numerous leaks began to weaken the League's campaign and faster than light technology was developed by the UIS, bending reality to break the light speed barrier. Little is officially known as to how the remaining 3 leaders were killed, all that is known is that two massive pink and white lights engulfed the last stronghold before it was completely annihilated.

With the end of the Jovian League, the human race and the Saurians who had allied with them were united throughout the Solar system. Within three years a new discovery would be made around Arcturus. Multiple massive giant tuning fork object orbited a small planet in the system. They were discovered to be part of a massive galactic FTL network, capable of sending ships across the galaxy in an instant. Thousand of ships were quickly seen through once a year long survey had been conducted to check if the other side was safe for Terrankind. With the discovery of the Mass Relays, the government decided to form the Crystal Systems Alliance as protection against potential alien threats. The mundane species of earth joined the Alliance while the others formed their own alliance. Both despite their differences remained close allies throughout the centuries after.

However not all remained peaceful, when a wolfpack of frigates discovered a Yahg Cruiser and it's contingent of frigates. War quickly started when the 5 of The is frigates were destroyed. It was discovered that an interstellar civil war had started between two factions within the Yahg empire. The war was short and bloody with millions dead, the Alliance backed the faction that was more amiable to other species. The war ended with the more violent empire subdued by the new Yahg empire and surrendered. The war was fortunately brief, but the Yahg would not be the only race discovered. A hive mind intelligence of insect like aliens known as the Rachni made first contact with the Alliance and the Yahg in 2267. They were in fact strangely enthusiastic to meet humanity in particular, considering them friends of the earth hive. The first contact war, over the relations between the Rachni would become closer and closer until the Alliance offered them and the Yahg membership in their multi species government. The Rachni accepted while the Yahg declined the offer preferring greater independence than that given by the Alliance. The Alliance quickly began to spread and technology continued to advance with their FTl engines making it possible.

A millennium of relative peace began as the Alliance only grew in power. While there were many deadly wars they never approached true interstellar warfare.

A large military was maintained to defend from pirates and insurrectionist.

But in 3641 that peace is shattered when a prothean map is discovered that leads to a relay in a huge opaque nebulae. It's coordinates were used in a Yahg experiment to create their own relay that would connect to it. however it goes horribly wrong as an Alliance colony ship and its frigate and cruiser escorts are dragged in. The newly discovered relay loses its connection with its original partner relay. The small colonization fleet is caught in a war between two newly discovered species, the organic Quarians and the synthetic Geth, that when the alliance joined would become known as the 2nd Extrasolar War.

The Geth initially developed as servants that developed self awareness and sapience, the civilian populations supported the geth, but the government and military did not leading to a bloody civil war. Billions die as the military makes use of weapons of mass destruction to subjugate the population. Alliance civilian are caught in the crossfire killing tens of thousand of people. The Alliance quickly began to sends its meager fleet to stop the war, its warship production is expanded massively. Alliance AI who call themselves Synths help in preventing the death of both organics and synthetics. After the quarian military is defeated, the leaders complacent in war crimes are sentenced to death. After the war the approximately 90 million quarians as well as the Geth join the alliance as a member species. Much of their culture and history is lost due to the war though there are whispers that the Quarians were associate members of a wider alliance.

Over a 100 years pass before the discovery of a new spacefaring species, known as the Raloi, a small avian like species. The Raloi after a decade of negotiations decided to become a new member species, however many raloi disliked being a part of the Alliance and revolted. This civil war would quickly spread across most of known space, becoming the 3rd Extrasolar War. Raloi separatist warships would attack and raid colonies killing thousands. The war intensified when a strain of earth bird flu mutates and spreads to raloi proving deadly and highly virulent. The separatist would kill billions through use of orbital bombardment and raloi bird flu as a biological weapon. Fortunately the alliance would quickly create a vaccine and a cure to the disease before it caused more damage. The war would end with the trial of the separatist and their execution for crimes against sophont life.

Peace would return to known space and the Alliance kept their fleet relatively small with only about 95,000 warships between its member species. FTL speeds had improved massively allowing for speeds of over 50,000 light years per day.

The Crystal Systems Alliance numbered in the trillions across thousands of worlds. Ships grew larger allowing for warships up to 4 kilometers in length. Alliance technology was comparable to or even exceeded the the Citadel races,though the

few still alive to know of the other races were afraid a war could break out. Many unknown missions were sent into Citadel space but few knew what was ultimately done or why.

Then came contact with the System Alliance's and eventually the entire galaxy's greatest enemy.