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Reylas: A earth-like planet currently in shambles. Also the human colonial hub in the system. Many bands of people are buying spaceships and flying off to other planets to start new empires...

Godspeed: A gas giant that isn't currently inhabited... Or thought to be habitable.

Kai: A planet that is only inhabited by tribes of a strange bipedal tribal race. Habitable, but mostly jungles.

Genji: Dark on one side, but always day on the other. The planet does not spin due to Godspeed's extremely powerful magnetic field. Completely uninhabited.

Earth: In shambles also, people are still colonizing and leaving.

Mars: the "ideal" colonization planet... Or so people thought, until they realized what nature can do.

Venus: Very, VERY dangerous to inhabit. Humans have tried before, only resulting in complete destruction of their civilization.

Mercury: Far too close to the Sun to inhabit.

Jupiter: A well-known Critorian colony. They currently inhabit cities only slightly anchored to the solid core.

Saturn: A now dead human colony. But still inhabitable, if you have the right stuff.

Neptune: Like other gas giants, totally habitable, but difficult to inhabit.

Uranus: Same as with any other gas giant...

Humans: Extremely advanced. Have developed extremely fast antimatter powered space travel, however still relying on typical projectile weapons.

Xandarians: Reptilian race. Modern-day grade technology, though rapidly advancing due to human contact. They can travel through space, but only at the rate of the Space Shuttle (VERY slow). They usually buy spacecraft from humans.

Critorians: A race of extremely sophisticated bipedal tiger-people. They are very hardy and generally live in the colder regions of Reylas. They are equally, if not more advanced than humans, but refuse to share their technologies with other races. Known to be racial supremacists.

Arsorians: Anarchist tribal people. They are known to look just like Xandarians except with striped patterns and darker skin. They steal technologies of other races, and are well known to be excellent battle strategists.

Arctis and Rynn: A hypothetical race supposedly spotted by dozens of supply ships. Rumored to be so ridiculously advanced in technology, that they can split a massive planet cracking vessel in half with a single missile. Most scientists consider their existence as rubbish. Since they are technically non-existent, you cannot play as them.

There are five city states of The Commonwealth, a mostly human nation. Each is roughly the size of Connecticut. They are Pax, the capitol, along with New India, Sirona, Melbourne, and Eden. What makes The Commonwealth unique is the fact that all five city states are under the ocean. The people of The Commonwealth live under huge underwater sea domes, thick enough to survive a nuclear blast and advanced enough to filter oxygen from the water. Each city state is about 50 miles apart from each other. To travel across city states, citizens take submarines that are as common as cars and just travel.

The current Commonwealth produces very efficient technology. In New India, the city state is mostly dominated by large factories where citizens and engineers work. Barely anyone lives in New India, instead coming and going from Sirona, a middle class state where almost everyone has a job in New India. Melbourne is a different story. It has several large aerospace factories and research institutes where scientists and engineers make aircrafts, and space exploration devices. It is higher class than Sirona. Eden is very divided by wealth. On one side, it has some of the best universities in the universe, in fact, humans and aliens alike come from all around to learn at Calixto’s Institution of Learning, or the cheaper yet still quality State Eden College. On the other side of Eden, farmers and hunters live, exploring the ocean and hunting sea animals for food for The Commonwealth. Pax, the capitol, is dominated by the huge castle of Umbra. Besides the castle, the state is made up of large mansions and artificial parks.


The Commonwealth’s story begins a few hundreds of years ago with President Geoffrey Umbra. He was a fairly demanding conservative man who ruled The Commonwealth with an iron fist. President Geoffrey was only the third President of The Commonwealth, so there wasn’t much of a precedent for terms; therefore Umbra threw out the 4 year term limit. At the time, he was successful and strong, and almost nobody argued.

But it seemed that the more Umbra ruled the more paranoid he grew. He started inflicting punishments upon the people of The Commonwealth who disagreed with him. It started with prison, then exile, then death. Twice, he was the target of assassinations, both inside his own cabinet. Umbra announced he was going to do what no man had ever done before: achieve immortality so he could rule without fear and forever.

Umbra was announced as insane as he withdrew into the palace in Pax with a team of 50 scientists and researchers and engineers. Couriers were sent in and out thousands of times, but other than that no activity was reported from Umbra.

This continued for six months as The Commonwealth was ruled by Umbra’s only son. He was considered President by most, but then… it happened. President Geoffrey Umbra emerged from the castle. He announced that he had achieved immortality, and he was destined to be The Commonwealth’s eternal Emperor.

There was immediate dissent among the people, including Umbra’s son. The Son gathered forces quickly and within a day of the announcement attempted to run a coup against Umbra. The rebellion was crushed harshly and Umbra’s son put to death.

Rebellions continued to appear all over The Commonwealth over the apparent Emperor’s insanity, but they were systematically crushed by the military. The Rebellions continued nonstop for 70 years. Over 700,000 rebels died during what was called the Infidel Rebellions. The Commonwealth was seen little more as a failed state in a constant civil war. After 70 years passed, reason finally took over the people of The Commonwealth. Umbra was as young as ever, and he was as powerful as ever. He was still ruling from his palace in Pax, still making public appearances. The citizens of the Commonwealth realized that he truly was immortal, what he had been saying 70 years ago was the truth. Almost all rebellions stopped. To show what a kind ruler he could be, Umbra put all resources to rebuild the damaged empire. Eventually, his goal was realized. The Commonwealth regained its old glory and a grand parade was held in Pax. Over one million people attended the formal recognition that Emperor Umbra was not merely immortal… he was a god.

Emperor Umbra has had little problems since the Declaration of Divinity. Foreign experts have many theories on how the Emperor has achieved the feat of immortality, but to this day it is only known by a select few. The day he became immortal, Emperor Umbra had all of the couriers, scientists, engineers, and everyone else he had hired to help make him immortal executed silently.

To this day, Emperor Umbra has not taken a wife or given another child to the world. Emperor Umbra is surprisingly liberal for an Emperor, he does not limit the knowledge his citizens have access to, nor does he discourage opposing political parties… although he knows out of fear/respect for him, the population will never turn against him. He is seen by the majority of the people as an actual god. Ever since the end of the Infidel Rebellions, he has done nothing but good for the Commonwealth.