What you will see now is our home as we know it. This beautiful, enormous blue, green and white planet filled with life we call our home. Terra Nova. It is a home of Terrans, or humans as we used to call ourselves, back on Terra Prime; back then when we called it planet Earth. It was a beautiful place to live. Lots of greenery, it was full of life - and death. Our ancestors ruined the planets atmosphere, which we did managed to fix for some time. But it kept getting worse. So we all started looking for other, inhabitable planets, similar to our own one. Most suitable planet we found was, so called 'K-452b', otherwise known as planet Kepler. It was similar with Terra Prime in many ways: it had oceans filled with fresh water, green land and ice-covered poles. Well, Terra Prime at the year of 11 BBT. (20989 by Holocene calendar; 10989 by Gregorian calendar) didn't really had any ice. We covered the planet in many layers of metal, and created something like a space station. As we were making our old planet look more and more as nothing what a planet looks like, we found many new ways to gather energy and other scientific stuff. And then, it began - The Great Terran War.
First it started as small attacks made by some hooligans on different parts of our old planet. But then, those attacks started to become more synchronised, damaging, or completely destroying it's targets. They named themselves 'The Vaccine', for they're purpose was to restore the planets old nature, to free it of illnesses created by us, Terrans. The war has officially started on December 12th, 10 BBT., 'The Vaccine's' special forces have entered the main military base, Chicago. They killed all of the personnel in there, and also every civilian in a radius of 20.6 km (12.14 miles). That attack meant the begging of the War. The Terrans have faced many casualties, and so was our planet. Scientific researches have discovered that the tectonic plates have been moving again, and they caused the whole outer surface to crack. 'The Vaccine's' forces have captured second most largest atomic powerplant on June 5th, 9 BBT., and have made their first mistake. Since the 'Momento powerplant' was only secondary based powerplant, it was able to be shut down. And they needed that powerplant because they needed power for 'Chicago' base they have previously captured. The Grand Army of Terra has then started their first mission; 'Operation Grand Gösser'. The plan was to extract the powerplants atomic reactors, and then bomb the whole place. But, there were some spies among them. Those spies have bombed the whole place, with all those men inside, killing tens of thousands of military personnel of both GAT, and 'Vaccine'. But, since all that atomic content was inside, it's toxic gases have been released in the atmosphere, causing the whole region of 200 km radius (124 miles) to slowly die in agonising death. After that, next 7 years have mosly passed in small battles, taking over smaller cities. But then, on January 3rd, 2 BBT.,'the Vaccine' has taken over Torus, the main city of the whole planet.
The next year and half, 'GAT' has been hiding in the underground, and the 'Vaccine' was trying to fix the geological and atmospheric problems they have created during the war. After many unsuccessful tries, they also tried to find a new home for Terrans. But, they found another planet, one much bigger and much closer then 'K-452b'. After the finding of the new planet, 'the Vaccine' has created a dozen of class B spaceships, named 'Veronica'. Their one and only purpose was to transfer all the living Terrans, and other low life form creatures to theat new planet, they named Eden. Terrans have almost lost the War, if there was no for the general Arwin Richardson-Saxe, who had the most highest intellect in almost everything, especially strategy and chemistry. With his help, the War was almost over. And then, in June was pulled off first out of 2 operations, which guaranteed the victory of Terra over 'the Vaccine'. On June 6th of 20999 'operation Barbarossa' has started. That day, in just 4 hours, with 12 520 people and only 5 tanks, Chicago military base was freed. That marked the beginning of the end of the Great Terran War. 2 months later, on August 7th same year, the Grand Army of Terra has invaded Torus in 'operation Genesis'. With all 10 080 of it's left troops and 11 tanks, they have started their march at Torus. The Great battle of Torus is where the War finally ended. After the last man of 'the Vaccine' was dead, the Grand Army of Terra has entered the city. Unfortunately, they had to leave immediately, because 'Vaccine's' men have put thermonuclear bombs on cracks of tectonic plates, more precisely on the deep wound in the planets crust at the place where 'Momento' powerplant stood. It was detonated 30 minutes after the 'GAT' has entered Torus. In next hour, all of the Terrans have been watching their home planet exploding. Half of Terra Prime was all over the place, releasing hot magma core out in the cold, empty space. Cold corpses of their fallen friends and enemies flying around, some still together, some destroyed in pieces, but all covered in tin ice now. It was the end of the Great War of Terra, but also the end of Terra itself.
The transporting spaceships were heading to a newly discovered planet, transporting now homeless civilisation. After 25 years of travelling throught empty void of their universe, their spaceships finally arrived to the planets solar system. They named it 'Legacy', for it was where they would continue legacy of their culture; and the planet was named Terra Nova. The planet was relatively new, filled with all new life of free nature. It's land covered in all kinds of trees and other plants, seas and oceans filled with all kinds of animals. It was indeed like new Eden. Over the past 3 millennia, our ancestors have evolved again, and created a whole new utopia on our big and prosperous planet. We have achieved the greatest achievements in our history as a species so far. We are completely free from the fossil fuels, we are able to create all known diseases, old and new. We have even joined the Rebublic of Mandromeda, which controls this whole part of our galaxy, Mandromeda. We found about the Republic when we sent some of our troops on planet 'K-452b', now known as Kepler. It's civilisation is evolved just as ours, in technological and cultural way speaking.
Today, Terra Nova stands still, proud of it's technological and democratical achievements. It has a long history of wars, in which it took victory many times. Not many wars in which Terra Nova has participated are extremely connected to it, expect one. Mandromeda wars. And battle of Ish was the reason for it to interfere, because nobody likes when someone else's war is happening on your ground.
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