PLOT & TIMELINE

1969: Apollo 11 mission successfully landed men on the moon for the first time in human history.

1972: Apollo 17 mission discovers the remains of an ancient Mars civilization on the moon’s surface. Within it, a teleportation device based on previously unknown science principles. This provided mankind with a mean to instantaneously travel between Earth orbit and Mars. The device is later named a “Hypergate”.

1975: Backed by international co-operations, detailed plans for Mars colonization were created, and the Mars Treaty was put into place. The treaty prohibits the use of military forces on Mars, which was ratified by all of the U.N member nations. Soon after, the Cold War was all but resolved. Of the same year, the first Mars expedition group was formed and deployed, supervised by the accompanying Professor Rayregalia.

Note: This timeline was written according to the standardized official history advocated by the UEF, which was taught in all UEF affiliated education institutions across the globe. While it is in the habit of UEF to bury any unfavorable information, this entry does contain the truth, perhaps due to foolish carelessness. I advise the readers that, instead of focus on what is written, you should pay more attention to what is left out.

1980: Mars Immigration Program officially starts. With 340,000 prospected colonists relocated to Mars in phase 1 of the plan.

1982: Rayregalia began inciting anti-Earth sentiments among the colonists, calling for violent armed insurrections. While the UN immediately attempted to suppress the uprising, the situation quickly escalated none the less.

Note: Mars, being a planet with few readily usable resources and livable environments, was extremely difficult to develop. This was well understood by the Mars Immigration Program. However, they never instructed or informed the prospected colonists on how exactly and by what means, were the colonists supposed to overcome these difficulties. The colonists, who were at first idealistic about settling on the new world for humanity, had to endure and overcome extreme hazardous and inhospitable conditions which they were never prepared for nor could even imagined. Professor Rayregalia repeatedly and desperately informed the Mars Immigration Program about the dire situations of the settlers, in hope of receiving more assistance from the home planet, all to no avail. This was a major factor that eventually led to the popular armed uprising.

1983: Rayregalia was arrested with the charge of disturbing public orders. However, the rioting colonist mob quickly overran the detention center and frees Rayregalia. The Martian separatist movement became increasingly violent afterwards.

1985: Rayegalia declares independence from Earth and the formation of the Vers Empire, crowning himself as Emperor Rayregalia Vers Rayvers. This being a one sided declaration without consent from Earth, Mars had basically closed all her ties with Earth.

Note: In actuality, the Vers Empire did not choose to sever all ties with Earth. Rather, as Earth did not recognize Mars’s claim of independence, any negotiation with the Vers administration were prohibited. This was the reason that caused the seemingly abrupt end of all relations between the two planets. Earth eventually does recognize this problem. Perhaps creating a proper means of dialogues with the Vers Empire was part of the reasons for the Earth governments to form the United Earth?

1986: Wary of the newly formed Vers Empire. The governments of Earth, under the framework of UN, formed United Earth. The two planets then entered a period not unlike the cold war.

1991: A massive scandal broke out in which it was discovered that entities within the United Forces of Earth took bribes from arms manufacturers in exchange for defense contracts expanding the UEF’s military capability against the Martians. The then popular rumor of the imminent UEF invasion of Mars was disproved in the aftermath.

1996: Simultaneous terrorist attacks occurred in Atlanta, São Paulo and Mumbai, resulting in 3267 deaths total. A pro-Martian organization claimed responsibilities in the attacks. The anti-Mars sentiment escalated to the all-time high on Earth.

1997: Rayregalia resigns his position as emperor due to illness. Rayregalia’s son, Gilzeria took the throne.

1999: Gilzeria declares all-out war with the United Earth. For the first time ever, the Martians deployed military robots called “Kataphrakts”, in their assault on the UEF lunar base. However, during the battle between the UEF garrison and Vers forces, a catastrophic malfunction occurred with the hypergate. Resulting the destruction of the moon, and subsequently a planetary scale disaster on Earth, this will later be remembered as “Heaven’s Fall”. The debris from the destroyed moon also formed a ring surrounding Earth, known as the “Satellite Belt”. Gilzeria who was directing the Vers forces on the moon at the time was also killed in the incident. Amidst the chaos of the aftermath, the two forces decided to work toward a cease fire.

Note: During the war there were opportunities for the Vers Empire to land her knights onto Earth itself. However, no records of engagements between UEF forces and Martian Knights that took place on Earth’s surface were found upon investigation.

1999: After the death of Gilzeria, Rayregalia was reinstated as the emperor. Gilzeria’s only child, princess Asseylum Vers Allusia was born.

2000: United Earth and Vers Empire have reached a cease fire agreement. Under the cease fire condition, both forces are required to retreat from one another, with a de-militarized zone forms in between.

2002: Vers Empire successfully developed long distance space ships, and established a conventional space fare route between Mars and the moon orbit. It is now possible for the once stranded Vers forces to return home. However, a number of the Martian Knights declined the retreat order and remained in orbit, compromising the cease fire agreement.

Note: The development of long distance space ships by Vers was designed for the purpose of transportation alone, and had no military capability. This was born out of necessity as the regular scheduled supplies from Earth for the stranded Vers forces, in according to parts of the cease fire agreement, proved to be unreliable.

2003: Earth suffered wide scale political instability after the “Heaven’s Fall” incident. Massive riots broke out around the world. The Earth Kataphrakts, which were developed after the war, were first utilized in urban pacification operations to quell these riots.

2007: Earth has finally concluded the postwar clean-up efforts. The situations stabilized rapidly soon after.

2010: One decade after the war. Across the globe, various memorial ceremonies and high level meetings took place. As both side began slowly moving toward peace.

2014: Finally feeling at peace with the Martians, populations on Earth began to take more interests about the Vers Empire and are placing high hopes for the ongoing peace negotiation.

July 5, 2014: During her peace mission to the Earth, Princess Asseylum Vers Allusia of the Empire is assassinated in a violent act of terrorism. Following this, Rayregalia Vers Rayvers re-declares war against the Earth, and the Orbital Knights descend from the skies in their Landing Castles, intent on eradicating the Terrans.

This translation is credited to anonymous Tumblr users, but shared by Fabelyn here.