PEOPLE OF COMMONWEALTH

THE PEOPLE OF COMMONWEALTH DID NOT FORMALLY EXIST UNTIL THE LATE 2400S, WHERE AN NAUTICON EXPEDITIONARY FORCE SENT TO THE BEYOND REBELLED AGAINST ITS NATION OF ORIGIN. THE GRUELING YEARS-LONG JOURNEY CAUSED TERRIBLE PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS ON THE CREWS OF THE DOOMED CONVOY, UNTIL THEY FINALLY LANDED ONTO THE PLANETARY SURFACE OF PHAETHON, ALPHA CENTAURI. BESET FROM WITHIN AND WITH DESERTERS, AND A CORRUPT LEADERSHIP, THE COLONISTS HAD LOST HOPE. BELIEVING THEY WERE ABANDONED TO THEIR FATE, THESE "COLONISTS" STRIPPED THEIR NATIONALITY OUT OF RAGE AND DESPERATION. RISING UP TO OVERTHROW THE OLD LEADERSHIP AND IMPOSING NEW RULES AND MILITARY GUIDELINES TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE'S INTERESTS LED TO HOW THIS NEW NATION CAME TO BE. THESE ORIGINAL SAILORS AND CREWS FORMED THE COUNCIL OF 480, WHERE THE NUMBER IS DERIVED FROM THE YEAR OF THE REBELLION.

A YEAR OR SO LATER, A NAUTICON SEARCH-AND-RESCUE FLEET WARPED INTO THE CENTAURI SYSTEM, OBLIVIOUS TO WHAT HAD HAPPENED. DESPITE BEING A RESCUE FLEET, THE MERE PRESENCE OF THESE SHIPS AND THE ONBOARD WEAPONS UNNERVED THE COMMONWEALTH CITIZENS. AS A PREEMPTIVE DEFENSIVE STRIKE, THE NAUTICONS WERE ATTACKED FEROCIOUSLY BY FIGHTERS AND WARSHIPS BEARING THE GREEN INSIGNIA OF THE COMMONWEALTH. WITH LITTLE RESISTANCE, THE NAUTICONS WERE SWIFTLY DISPOSED OF BY THE NEWLY FORMED NAVY, WHICH HAD ACHIEVED A VERY STRONG PRESENCE ON 4 OF THE 7 PLANETS OF THE CENTAURI SYSTEM. WAR IS SOON DECLARED BETWEEN THE FEDERATION AND THE COMMONWEALTH, THE CONFLICT OF WHICH CONTINUES TILL THIS DAY.

DESPITE BEING A NEW NATION, THE COMMONWEALTH HAD ESTABLISHED ITS PLACE IN THE CENTAURI SYSTEM AND HINDERED ALL NAUTICON OPERATIONS IN THE AREA. THROUGH THE DETERMINATION OF THE EXPEDITIONARY CREW AND ITS DESCENDANTS, THIS FACTION WILL HOLD FIRM TO ITS PLACE IN THE GALAXY.

THE PEOPLE OF COMMONWEALTH MAINTAINS THE POSITION OF A SUPERPOWER AMONGST THE HUMAN FACTIONS THROUGH THE IRON FIST OF THE RULING COUNCIL, WHICH BROUGHT THE POPULATIONS ACROSS 5 WORLDS UNDER A SINGLE ENTITY.

BECAUSE OF THE COMMONWEALTH'S HARSH AND BRUTAL TREATMENT OF ITS PEOPLE, MANY GROUPS WITHIN ITS WORLDS HAVE ATTEMPTED NUMEROUS SMALL-SCALE REBELLIONS AND REVOLUTIONS AGAINST THE STATE. THIS RESULTED IN THE COMMON OCCURRENCES OF THE MILITARY SUPPRESSING MAJOR POPULATION CENTERS THROUGH "CRUSADES" AND FORCED OCCUPATION, RE-EDUCATING ITS POPULACE. DESPITE THE WEIGHT OF THE COMMONWEALTH FORCES, THE MANY MISTREATED CITIZENS STILL LOOK WITH HOPE TOWARD THE REVOLUTIONS, HOPING THAT ONE DAY THEY WOULD BE FREED FROM THEIR MISERABLE CONDITIONS AND USHER IN A NEW AGE OF PEACE AND DISCOVERY.

THE COMMONWEALTH ARMY FOCUSES GREATLY ON NUMBERS, CONSTANTLY UTILIZING CONSCRIPTION CAMPAIGNS TO REPLACE THE GREAT LOSSES IN THE WARS AGAINST ITS ENEMIES.

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