The 2400s were all about: the 1st Dropship-like Spacecraft-carriers of BattleMech/Space/Tech getting built and tested, and the 34 Tauri system (among many others) now being heavily terraformed and colonized. In other words, humans now had walking tanks, and had moved the bulk of their species into a new solar system. These were interesting times.
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From the Timeline Sub-webpages:
2439: BM: The BattleMech, conceived of hundreds of years prior, is finally invented.
2439-3139: BM: BattleMech, BattleSpace, BattleTech, and MechWarrior time-lines.
2449: BM: BattleMechs first deployed by cargo carrier.
2453: BM: BattleMechs first deployed by combat-drop.
2459: BM: BattleMechs first used in combat.
2475: BM: The first full-scale BattleMechs vs Battlemechs battle occurs.
2478: The Sol Protection Administration (SPA) is established.
2488: HA: Harvest, aptly named, is the most crop-productive planet in human-colonized space.
2490: HA: Over 1,000 worlds, throughout Orion’s Arm, terraformed and colonized by the humans.
2491: HA: The Orion Project leads to the Spartan-II Project.
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Heart of the Core:
I’m talking about the innermost Space-region of the solar system called 34 Tauri. “The Core” (or “Core worlds”) are those which orbit 34 Tauri’s central star. Even more central to this system of theirs… are those best-colonized planets in the core of the core; they are the heart of what this system has become. Some have theorized that this system was shaped by the person who made it famous, and further by the fans, with its final shaping being done by those who projected their will upon it via terraforming drones and other approaches.
From what I’ve seen, it is the heart of 34 Tauri’s core in multiple senses of the term. It is also the most stable, as the most people settled here, most of them sharing a singular vision for it; a place for all of them to coexist under one rule/r, all of them daily working to complete the terraforming of its best worlds so that they would be the most enjoyable to live on. I didn’t say the most “Earth-like”, though, as people out here in the post-modern (near-future) time/era don’t always believe that Earth even existed, let alone exactly what it was like, or whether newly-settled worlds should be like it.
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White Sun, Qin Shi Huang, and Lux:
My own Star Fleet had helped me get glimpses of this system before any of its terraforming was complete. I felt it looked familiar; its central star was golden, bright, and of a size in the skies here similar to how the Sun appears on Earth. There are so many names for this region of Space now, and I prefer the simpler ones; White Sun, Lux, etc.
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Red Sun, Himinbjörg, and Heinlein:
One of the two solar systems orbiting the White Sun of 34 Tauri, this one is predominantly under the newcomer-humans’ control for now; there is something called The Unification War coming, which will be waged across this multi-system (all of 34 Tauri), but I suspect there will be little to stand in the main power’s way. A handful of worlds here will continue to have rebel communities holding out, at least in spirit, but everything will be a lot safer, calmer, and tamer than during these years leading up to the attempted cessation. I like this subtle-tensions dynamic, and of course the fact that all my Voyages of Acquisition out here result in both sides (the Union of Allied Planets, and the lingering rebels called Browncoats) blaming the other for the missing girls.
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Georgia and Murphy:
Never liked the names of these two sub-systems; Georgia was a really lame state back on Earth, in my opinion, as well as a country that was barely holding onto life after generations of invasions leaving it as religion-crippled as the Middle East. And ‘Murphy’? What the fuck kind of name for a solar-system is that?
I’m starting to run Voyages out through the orbits of these two stars’ colonized planets and moons just because I hate their stars’ names so much. It’s the first time I’ve ever done human trafficking for that reason. You know, …I kind of like it.
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Kalidasa and Penglai:
This semi-binary sub-system is still full of post-war rebel sentiment; these people just want to be free and left alone. I pick on them a little less because of it. Their living-conditions also suck; with far fewer dropped off out here during the terraforming days, there just weren’t enough of the education-weakened human-minds to finish shaping this world for the better, so I sympathize.
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Blue Sun and Burnham:
Farthest from the heart of 34 Tauri is this pair of all-but-forgotten stars. At least one major population-wide experiment was done out here, and the powers-that-be in this multi-system succeeded in covering it up for a long time. Who knows what else goes on throughout this fringe of where humanity was forced to relocate?
The grizzly aftermath still staining the worlds and orbits out here makes no difference to me, as it was just more human BS turning on itself, and since I and my Inisfreeans can’t be harmed by any of it. I’ll keep coming out here from time to time to see what’s worth observing, salvaging, and dicking with (pun not intended). I may even take my new ship (TNH) out here for a spin.
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Drifters:
There are still millions, if not billions, of people sort of existing/working/commuting between Earth and all the way-points along the generations-long route most took to reach 34 Tauri. Some call them Drifters. There are literal drifters, though; many didn’t make it all the way, their ships failing or being shut down for a number of reasons.
I love picking up Drifters, strange as that may sound; some are desperate, thus willing to consider exchanging their salvation for a lot more, and some remind me of myself during my own homeless and semi-hopeless times. I honestly like helping these people, so long as they aren’t complete cunts about it. The ones that offer me their attractive girls? I give them the best help, of course, free of charge. (And when those same girls are eager for me, I even treat their ships/groups/families to luxuries.)
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SPA: 2478
The acronym is sure funny, but the Sol Protection Administration (SPA) was no joke when it came to getting a handle on interplanetary travel, trade, and military operations across the system. There were others out there, all descendants and variations of the SSPs, but SPA was one of the most active and dominant ones in this era centuries after the SSPs and The Shift. SPA was destined to rival them all.
My Inisfreeans, in partnership with the returned race (species) of dragons, had successfully liberated Earth from the humans who everyone now knew had invaded from Hell; the Abyss… otherwise known as The Black; Space. We hadn’t, however, stomped them out of existence, deleting their very souls, like we had back in the first few days of 2013. So many of them were still out there –right beyond Earth’s orbit, their troublesome beliefs manifesting untold horrors like war upon the inner and outer worlds.
SPA was one of the answers to this; it had a corporation and fleet of its own, and was able to operate like any of the Private Military Companies (PMCs), mopping up messes outside the jurisdiction and capabilities of the mainstream/regular Space Navies. Its people were largely from those other worlds, so it was second-nature for them to keep fighting for better lives and states out there. Even when SPA had scandals of its own, most of its many operatives and other members kept performing their world-stabilizing/regulating duties well.
Alexis was one of those exemplary agents. You know me; I only mention, focus on, and continue manifesting the hottest. I still don’t like her name, though, but this is the time of transitioning and perfecting, so I’ll go with it.
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Return to Argus: 2490s
Argus is the name of a planet you probably haven’t heard of –unless you play the certain computer game it was first featured in. It’s where an attractive race now found worthy of introduction to Inisfree had a major presence. More on this later, …as I return here with my Star Fleet to further mingle and explore.
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