Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-25975584-20151110064445

A treacherous region of space, the fringe stars are seperated from the mainstream galaxy by their sheer distance, and their near constant FTL disturbances that have trapped thousands of would be colonists, travellers, and explorers over the millenia. Home to some of the harshest worlds in the universe, great deserts, icy plains, and hellish volcanic worlds, to name but a few.

In the days when Earth's FTL drives were primitive, and would take generations to arrive, they sent a few ships to the far reaches of the cosmos, and many of these were never found. One of these landed on a world of rocky moors, and bare stone crags, it's people relying on the ships computer, swiftly regained interstellar flight, much better than the manner they were sent in. They began to spread, and soon formed a democratic union, in which massive megacorporations played a big part.

One of the more amoral corporations stumbled upon a race of people like them, but not of them, they proceeded to exterminate them as vermin, and steal their worlds. In their folly, they had not realized, that the race they had decided to exterminate, was capable of fighting back. Berserk, enraged, and armed with weapons, and ships stolen from company depots throughout their small corner of space, they beat them back, taking great casualties in the process. The corporation was swiftly ripped apart by the government, and it's gleeful opponents.

They left these people alone, not bothering them, and thinking them too stupid to reverse engineer their technology. They were wrong, 80 years later, a massive fleet poured out, armed to the teeth with improved weaponry, and manned by ferocious all male super soldiers engineered from the offspring of the people they had formerly sought to destroy. What followed was a bloodbath, the corporations were too busy being divided to unify, and were torn apart. The skeleton government held out in a small subsecotr surrounded by a ring of vast, and slowly decaying fortress worlds, but abandoned everything else. The veangeful, utterly changed race of monsters proceeded to savagely enslave whole planetary populations, and delight in their exploitation*, and torment. (Situation at the start of ROS II)


 * Mostly keeping the pretty young women, and forcing every other piece of "Terranic Scum" to feed their war machine in one manner or another... 