A Thousand Years Of History

"Flight to Forever."

In the first two centuries of the third millennium, Mars was colonized and Earth came to be governed by the Terrestrial Directorate.

In the twenty third century, the time of troubles began as the Martians revolted against the Directorate which had become corrupt and tyrannical.

In the twenty fourth century, the Armageddonists, later called the Fanatics, emerged from the chaos of famine, pestilence and civil war on Earth and there were massacres on Luna. In the Time War, a defeated Directorate army invaded from the twenty third century but was defeated and the Fanatics forbade time travel.

Fifty years later, there was military dictatorship on Earth.

The Armageddonists nominally ruled for nearly three hundred years although vast areas remained in permanent revolt while extraplanetary colonists kept the Fanatics out of space.

In the late twenty seventh century, the Planetary League and the African Dissenters overthrew the Fanatics.

There were two hundred years of peace and progress.

However, internal decay and attacks by barbarians from the outer planets split the Solar System into small states and independent cities employing mercenaries like Belgotai who are being made redundant by the organized levies of emerging nations.

In AD 3000, the Atlantic Masters besiege the city-state of Liung-Wei, founded three centuries previously by Sinese invaders and currently ruled by the dictator Krausmann.