THE SPACEWARS UNIVERSE
Five peoples, one contested border.
In a region of the Milky Way between the Orion Spur and the Perseus Arm, five spacefaring races have come to dominate the area, with their borders under conflict. Sol Imperial Worlds (the Humans), Genari United Empire (Sanethi), Ma’alaketh Confederation (Ma’Ali), ‘The Hive’ (organic spacefaring creatures), and the Pirates of the Free Peoples.
Pick a faction below to read its history and light up its territory on both maps.
For fifty years since the discovery of the Dark Matter Drive (which helped accelerate space travel exponentially), the Human race has been controlled by military dictatorship, with civilian governments administrating individual planets.
After their first encounter with an alien spacefaring race in 2145, the Sonna, conflict ensued. Four years later, the Sonna were all but eliminated. It has been speculated that the Sonna, a peaceful race, did not want war. The Fleet Admiral at the time pursued war to achieve his objective: To create a powerful Navy with the support of several large military corporations.
Expansion continued until the Imperium had first contact with the Genari Star Empire. The Genari, like-minded in terms of expansionistic goals, fought back fiercely against the Imperium. For over 30 years now, the long and bloody war seems to have no end in sight, with both sides escalating in their development of bigger, more powerful warships.
The Humans have a technological advantage, however. Their plasma weapon technology is more accurate and has longer range, and their ion drive technology surpasses the power output of the more dated, fusion drives of the Genari.
Sol ships tend to be utilitarian and functional in design, with a focus on longer ranged weaponry and force fields. Usually traveling in groups of three ships or more, they concentrate on disabling enemy ships from a distance and minimize casualties, and destroying Genari marine pods before they attach.
REGION MAP
Between the Orion Spur and the Perseus Arm.
GALACTIC WAR