Human Imperial Alliance

The largest faction during the Second Era, the Human Imperial Alliance was the most powerful empire mankind would form. Its vast armies fought to protect humanity from all types of ravenous enemies, and it's agents charted the stars and expanded mankind's influence across the Galactic Mass. With the Emperor ruling from mankind's homeworld of Earth, the Human Imperial Alliance was once thought of as indestructible. However, all that would change in the year 23,197, when the failed Archeon Experiment would tear open the boundary between real-space and the Horizon Plane, releasing the descendants of the Ancient Sentient Imperium into the modern galaxy, and sever the Human Imperial Alliance in two. New forces would rise up against the Human Imperial Alliance, the strongest being the Dynasty of Man, beginning the Wars of Man. The Alliance would fight hard against it's foes, but an Age of Stagnation would give way to an Age of Collapse, as the once mighty Human Imperial Alliance fell, all but dooming mankind to the enemies it fought to protect humanity from.

Karvan the Uniter 3,110-4,233
The first Emperor of the Human Imperial Alliance, Agrica Karvan the Uniter was a tactical genious. Desiring to rebuild the fractured human state devastated by the First Lauresh War, The Uniter would raise an army on his homeplanet of Criteon-6, and would swiftly take control of the Criteon Sub-Sector, as the split forces of the former Human Federation either crumbled beneath him or joined his cause. He would march on the Terra System, conquering it in a months long siege, before beginning the restructuring of humanity, creating the Human Imperial Alliance in the year 3,110. He would defeat the Lauresh Imperium in the Second Lauresh War, unite mankind, and forge an empire that would last for tens of thousands of years. When he died in the year 4,233, his funeral would become a statewide holiday, and many memorials would be built in his honor, including the Pyre of the Uniter, a massive battleship assigned to the Terra Sub-Sector, which would participate in many battles through the expanse of the Human Imperial Alliance.

Malech the Conqueror 4,233-5,021

The Expansion Age 8,128-11,852
Harigott the Reformist 8,128-8,945

The Golden Age 11,852-23,197
Coratha the Explorer 11,852-14,672

Reverous the Great 19,847-23,197

The Turmoiled Age 23,197-36,603
Reverous the Great 23,197-24,236

Age of Stagnation 36,603-51,294
Erithan the Protector 36,603-40,124

Primathes the Ludicrous 44,956-47,923

Age of Collapse 51,294-59,553
Calverous the Weak 51,294-51,387

Lorthan the Final 57,944-59,553

Early Human Exploration (Update Required)
By 2180, human colonies had been established on Mars, and a dispute between the two planet's people resulted in the collapse of the country format that had ran the world for so long. In its place rose a newly reformed Human Federation, with the peoples of Mars, Earth, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt, and Venus sending representatives to a large space station in orbit of Earth. This system was quite functional as Humanity expanded, yet by the year 2963, a large, alien, uninhabited space station was found to be on a collision course with Earth. This shattered science at the time, as the technology found on the space station was far more advanced than anything that they had ever created. The large satellite was dubbed a Gateway Station after its true purpose was discovered. Inside held technology that would help make faster than light travel exist- this piece of technology was named the Prihom Field Generator. The Prihom Generator would allow a ship to use the Gateway Stations and engage faster than light travel through the Horizon Plane. This allowed humanity to expand and make contact with many alien species by 3,050. After the many years of exploration, the governing federation would be proven an ineffective governing body during the First Lauresh War, as delegates halted any military action by the Federation Navy due to the supposed injustices that caused the Lauresh to attack human colonies. The resulting surrender by the Human Federation resulted in a military coup that would leave General Agrica Karvan the leader of the Federation.

Humanities First Emperor (Update Required)
Agrica Karvan would announce himself to be humanity's leader, and would use his army to march on Earth and capture the planet from the decimated military forces that remained after the First Lauresh War. Karvan would waste no time in rearranging the government of humanity. His task was simple yet challenging- creating a strong central government with enough power to protect any human colony from attack, and having absolute political power, while ensuring that each colony and world could hold the line against threats when the central military could not spare any resources for a defense. The result of his pondering was a new system of government- there would be a strong central leader, an emperor, who would run the military, regulate humanities laws, and be the judge of the highest court in the new human society. Each planet would have a leader that could do as they wished to their planet, as long as they paid their taxes in money, resources, and men. These men could be selected in any way (conscription or volunteer), but most were volunteers, lured by the prospect of adventure and glory. If these soldiers survived and returned home, they would be hailed as heroes, and would often be rewarded by the Human Imperial Alliance with a lifetime pension. With these measures in place, planets would be placed into a system of classification, called the Planetary Designation System. Planets would also be placed into a new system of mapping and local and regional governing. First was the local level, planetary governments. Next came a System, often led by its most populous planet. Then came the Sub-Sector, an organization of 15 Systems that bordered each other. Sub-Sectors would then be combined into a Sector, which would be under much scrutiny by the central leadership, and would have a designated fleet that would assist any planets in the Sector, or could be sent off into one of the many active battlefronts the Human Imperial Alliance had. Finally, above Sectors came the High Sectors, which answered directly to the emperor. Each planet would have its own self funded and maintained Planetary Defense Force, protecting the planet. Sectors would have a roaming fleet and army, sending them to whatever planet is needed in the sector. Sectors and High Sectors would also have their own roaming fleet and army, and would be able to donate forces to other areas or battlefronts. Instating his new governmental system, he would begin his war to unify humanity under his leadership. With the High Imperial Army and Navy leading the way, many planets were welcomed into the new Human Imperial Alliance. They were granted protection and trade rights from the High Administration in exchange for taxes in the form of conscripts for the military, material resources, and money. Planets that were resistant to Karvan's new regime were persuaded with a light military presence. If planets revolted, these colonies would be assaulted with the full force of the High Military. These Human Far Colonies would unite to form small alliances, yet they could only pray to keep out of sight of the Human Imperial Alliance.

Karvan would realize 25 years into his rule that the Human Imperial Alliance was far too big to change leaders even if one would rule for a century. An extended lifespan would be required for higher-ups in the government, specifically the Lord General, Lord Admiral, Grand Logistics Officer, and Chief Protector. Karvan would undergo massive cybernetics and bio-augmentation to extend his lifespan to over 1,100 years. These procedures were also made mandatory for the leaders of each section of the military, as well as a select few, who would handle bureaucracy at the highest level.

The Second Lauresh War
In 3,566, Karvan had fully united the Sub-Sector around the industrialized Terra System and began rebuilding the Human Imperial Alliance's Planetary Defense Forces, fortifying the barrier worlds that bordered the Lauresh Imperium. Seeing the inevitable, the Lauresh began fortifying and expanding their military forces to counteract Karvan's actions. He would secretly create Savatus Corp, a top secret highly trained and armed force that was used to launch an early strike against the Lauresh planet Ullyte-2. Holding orbital facilities with long range Horizon Plane weapons, Ullyte-2 directly threatened the Shipyards of Mars and Venus. In 3,572, Savatus Corp would strike, beginning the Second Lauresh War. The Lauresh military, losing its main counter to mankind's shipyards,retaliated with its far superior technology humanity could not reverse engineer, as an advanced Lauratan scutttling system prevented capture of their technology. The generals and admirals of the High Imperial Army and Navy, unevenly matched up with the Lauresh in terms of ships and firepower, had but two advantages that the Lauresh did not- a larger and more interconnected set of Gateway Stations for transportation and logistics, and faster ships, due to superior engine technology. The Lauresh's territory had a very limited number of Gateway Stations, resulting in many of their armies making months long journeys to areas of conflict, which the High Imperial Navy exploited to great effect, attacking Lauresh fortress worlds cut off from Gateway Stations. By isolating individual fleets, Lauresh naval superiority was negated, and the High Imperial Navy could strike where it desired.

Ground combat, however, was a completely different story. Lacking the individual shielding that protected Lauresh armored vehicles, the High Imperial Army suffered massive casualties as entire armored columns were destroyed by the much more advanced weaponry of the Lauresh armored forces. Defeat was common, and early battles were often massacres, in which Lauresh ground forces caused millions of human soldiers to meet their ends. Battles such as          L-21-22, the Defense of Hurricut, and L-11-93 showed that humanity lacked the technological level to compete in a full scale war on the ground.

This all changed in year 3,576 during the Siege of Castillus-5, in which the High Imperial Army was fighting a losing battle to hold the planet and the Gateway Station in orbit. However, during a battle over one of the planet's many mountain ranges, a Lauresh reconnaissance craft would be shot down and crash-land behind human lines. Surprisingly, the usually robust scuttling system had been disabled on impact, leaving a damaged craft with its weapons and shielding systems still intact. Savatus Corp would be called in to protect the crashed spacecraft, and Karvan would order the wreck transported back to Venus, where it would be disassembled and analyzed, before being implemented into mankind's war materials.

The Lauresh technology on the ship, being implemented on as many human vehicles as possible, flipped the tides of the war in humanities favor. Now donning density projectors, better power generation, improved weapons and stealth tech, humanities advantages in speed and logistics compounded exponentially. Four years later, Karvan himself would step onto Laurata, and would decree that the remaining Lauresh on the planet be eliminated or forced off-world, and that Laurata would become a new colony of the Human Imperial Alliance.

The Turmoiled Age (In Desperate Need of an Update/Rework)
As the Human Imperial Alliance slowly continued to increase in its territory, countless battles supported by its massive war machine produced many results, ranging from amazing victories to horrific defeats. As Reverous continued the final stages of the Cleansing Wars, in the attempt to destroy the entrenched raiding fleets of the Red Legion and the Macastar, leading Calculis Vadien to subdue Sub-Sector Farhal, when Reverous was forced away due to a massive assault by Kratien Empire. This put a strain on resources, pulling them away from Sub-Sector Farhal, most importantly stripping the defenses of a Gateway World, resulting in Vadien's fleet being unsupported and cut off from the rest of the Human Imperial Alliance. He made contact with Reverous, who, despite receiving Vadien's message, felt as if the Kratien were more of a threat at the moment, and denied him his reinforcements. Vadien, now outnumbered and trapped, watched in horror as the Red Legion struck out against his fleet, destroying it in one fell swoop. Though the Admiral escaped the battle with his life, he had lost his entire force, and the Farhal Sub-Sector was now unprotected. On the planet Vadien had crash landed on, he witnessed the horrors the Red Legion and its AI leader would do, the horrific mutation as the Red Legion attempted to restructure the human DNA into whatever long lost species the AI was based on. On this planet he would also witness something even more terrifying than those dark creatures- the complete harvesting of a world by an AI controlled Forge Engine, a massive ship from long ago.

As Vadien witnessed the horrors the Farhal Sub-Sector experienced during his three year tenure there, it changed him. No longer would he believe the Human Imperial Alliance as the counter to these horrors, no, he had seen it fail before his eyes. Not militarized enough to supply everyone. Not strong enough to defend itself forever. Currently split in two. Its leader was a cruel, ruthless man, lacking empathy for his underlings. And being rotted from the inside, as the Red Legion and those like it spread, all but ensuring the downfall of humanity. All this had to change. He would be unable to change the Human Imperial Alliance from the inside, the endless bureaucracy would defeat him and his goals, no, he would have to change it from the outside. He would require an army, one strong enough to conquer Earth, Venus, and Mars. He himself would not be able to raise such a fighting force, and he would need fleets to accomplish the restructuring of the failing system. He could not fight this war in his current shape. Vadien desired more personal strength, so that he should lead his forces by example. Would could supply him an army, have reason to destroy the AI and their minions, and could supply him the strength to lead? The Sentients.

After three years stranded on the unnamed planet, Vadien would be located and picked up by an Exploratory Force scout ship, and from there he would make his way to make his way to the Archeon border. Upon arrival, he stole a small freighter, and would set his course to the quarantined planet 1135-D3, where he would make contact with the Sentient Circle of Lords. All that is known about his meeting with them is that they agreed to back Vadien in his quest to destroy and rebuild the Human Imperial Alliance, however their scheming nature led some of his allies to believe the Circle of Lords was simply using him as a tool to destroy the Human Imperial Alliance, and they believed that his plans would never work out. In all likelihood, Vadien suspected this, and believed that once he had claimed control of the Human Imperial Alliance, he would destroy his former allies quickly and without mercy.

Vadien would be equipped with a new suit of armor, the Stromwalker II Warsuit as well as biological upgrades to stamina, the immune system, and vital organs. Vadien would craft himself new weapons, his favorite being an upgraded Heavy Striker Rifle modified for plasma ammunition, and a war banner mixed with a battle ax for melee combat. His Warsuit would be built with an integrated supercomputer to maximize tactical decision making by the wearer, advanced armor plating with integrated battleship grade shielding, and a gravitational field manipulator as the ultimate weapon. The Circle of Lords would gift him a massive fleet for his task, built up of Sentient and captured human vessels. With this mighty war fleet assembled, Vadien would begin preparing for his rampage throughout the galaxy through his new force, the Dynasty of Man.

He knew that even with the superior technology that he had access to thanks to the Circle of Lords, Vadien's fleet would be unable to fight off the many human fleets on their way to the Terra System. Thus, he sent out several of his human agents, and made contact with many more already inside the Human Imperial Alliance, and began pulling on strings. He convinced entire fleets and their ground forces to his cause, swaying admirals with promises of power, wealth, and eternal glory when they would defeat the Alliance. When these fleets would join his forces, Vadien would force the High Imperial Navy to slowly break formation over the 4 year period, drawing forces away from the carefully mapped route to far away battlefronts, where it would take months for those fleets to reinforce Earth. After amassing the largest single battlefleet in history, Vadien, leading the Dynasty of Man, would begin his attack at the planet Ollitanus.

Strike at Ollitanus
Vadien's forces would begin their attack at the border world of Ollitanus, a lightly guarded planet neighboring Sentient territory. It was a lonely rock, with all its minerals stripped long ago, and serving very little strategic purpose to both the Sentients and the Human Imperial Alliance. Yet still, it was the first world that Vadien would strike at, as he began the First War of Man. Ollitanus' small outpost held only hundreds, and they were poorly equipped to deal with any attack, as the base was mainly a listening post, keeping its eye on Sentient fleet movements as they faded in and out of the Horizon Plane. Even then, the listening post still had little value, as the equipment was so old it never saw Vadien coming. His forces struck fast and hard, launching dropships from orbit to get to the ground as quickly as possible. Once landed, the Dynasty of Man's forces swiftly overran the defenders, preventing a distress signal from being sent out.

Age of Collapse
= Military Organization = The military of the Human Imperial Alliance was some of the most advanced in the Galactic Mass, with its technology being an excellent mix of power, reliability, and low manufacturing cost. This resulted in an incredibly effective military industrial complex that could build effective factories on any planet that had the resources to sustain it. There were six branches of the military: the High Imperial Army, the High Imperial Navy, the Planetary Defense Force, the High Imperial Logistics Corp, the Exploratory Force, and the High Protectors.

The High Imperial Army
The official army of the Human Imperial Alliance, the High Imperial Army is an offensive and defensive weapon that travels the Galactic Mass under the command of the Lord General, the highest ranking a soldier can achieve, who answers directly to the emperor. The High Imperial Army is not tied to any planets exactly, and instead are sent to reinforce local Planetary Defense Forces who are often easily overwhelmed due to the lack of men and heavy vehicles in most planet's local defense forces. The High Imperial Army has control of its own fleets, which include transports, escorts, and oftentimes battleships. However, they still must work closely to their naval and logistical counterparts to ensure that an enemy fleet or broken supply line does not cripple the war effort. Sometimes, though, entire armies and their fleets go missing, often in strange conditions.

The High Imperial Navy
The official Navy of the Human Imperial Alliance, the High Imperial Navy is the main naval power of the Galactic Mass, using its massive warships to invade alien and AI planets, enforce blockades, defend shipping and logistics lanes, transport high value individuals, and, most importantly, protect the many Gateway stations that provide the Human Imperial Alliance's Military and Economy with the transportation required to run them. The High Imperial Navy is under the command of the Lord Admiral, the highest ranking a naval officer can achieve, who answers directly to the emperor. The High Imperial Navy is not connected to planets or systems, rather, it is organized into Sector, Regional, and High Sector fleets, who operate in their designated area. These fleets would also often send away a portion of their forces to assist on active battlefronts, or to help resupply heavily damaged or completely wiped out fleets of important sectors. However, whole fleets often must travel through less secured areas of the Human Imperial Alliance's territory, and many times they have disappeared without a trace.

Planetary Defense Force
The Planetary Defense Force is a planets first line of defense against raiders, local threats such as revolutions, and alien or AI assaults against a planet. A Planetary Defense Force's assets are greatly varied due to the wide variety in resources and infrastructure that a planet has. More important systems will have large fleets with excellently equipped ground forces that rivals the High Imperial Army, while others have only a few thousand troops armed with the most basic of weapons. If a Planetary Defense Force is unable to defend itself from the enemy (Planetary Defense Forces are rarely able to defeat an extraterrestrial threat), the planetary ruler will call for the High Imperial Army and Navy to assist in defending their planet. If there are any forces available to send, they will be sent to assist the Planetary Defense Force. Many times though, a Planetary Defense Force will have been wiped out before their reinforcements can arive.

High Imperial Logistics Corp
The High Imperial Logistics Corp is the backbone of the armies and navies of the Human Imperial Alliance. The High Imperial Logistics Corp manages several key parts of human society, such as setting up supply routes for battlefronts, organizing interplanetary trade, creating new routes through the Horizon Plane, and managing Gateway stations. The High Imperial Logistics Corp is headed by Grand Logistics Officer, who answers directly to the emperor. The High Imperial Logistics Corp manages a small navy and armed forces, used to protect and operate Gateway stations, as well as defend planets important to logistical operations from pirates and other threats.

Exploratory Force
The Exploratory Force is the arm of the Human Imperial Alliance's military that operates as the recon, search and rescue, mapping, classifying, and exploration unit for human civilization. They are always operating on the edges of civilization, whether that be the edges of Human Imperial Alliance territory, or in the middle of an unpopulated sector. The Exploratory Force is often the first to discover a new planetary system, and then proceed to map its features, such as how many planets there are, the planetary atmospheres and what they are comprised of, moons, and mineral deposits, as well as if there are any signs of alien or AI existence in the newly discovered system. These are then submitted to the files of the Human Imperial Alliance's official map, in which the planet is given a name or number, and its coordinates are marked. If the system is found to be appealing, then a colony will be started by taking volunteers or conscripts from any given world. The Exploratory Force will also give planets that are found to be breathable a Planetary Designation. The Exploratory Force is equipped with smaller fleets meant to fight off pirates, yet many disappear without a single clue as to what happened.

High Protectors
The High Protectors are the personal bodyguards of the most important people in the Human Imperial Alliance. It has access to all the latest technology, and is equipped to handle anything short of a full scale invasion. The High Protectors consist of the High Protectors themselves acting as bodyguards, purely defensive fleets designed to keep their very important people onboard alive and well, and the defensive components of the Imperial Fortress on Earth. They are led by the Chief Protector, who answers directly to the emperor, and accompany the emperor at all times. They also serve as a secret police force, used by the emperors to eliminate their enemies, whether that be human or other species. The High Protectors themselves were heavily augmented with parts to increase lifespan, strength, durability, and intelligence. A single High Protector cost many millions to produce, and such they where sparingly used on the battlefield, yet when they did join the High Imperial Army, the enemies of the Human Imperial Alliance shook in fear.