"Space.
It all seemed like a dream, a future, a mystery.
Little did we know what was truly to come...
In the autumn of 2012, the United States military, in combination with NASA and several European space agencies, perfected the wormhole technology; a system of transporting vast amounts of goods, across vast distances, almost instantaneously.
Originally thought to be a possible respite from the terrorism and problems which plagued our homeworld, the USA kept this discovery secret from the other partner countries, hoping to find a new dawn, a new hope.
Using a series of natural phenomena, the USA began sending out probes, opening new portals, masked by periods of solar activity or other stellar occurences. However the results were not what the US government and scientists were expecting. Regardless of the calculations involved, the changes that should have made a difference, unexplainedly the final results were always the same
Every single probe returned results of the same body, the lost planet that would come to be known as X32.
Eventually, as the scientists became more and more aware of what lay behind the wormhole, a manned space mission was planned.
This was launched in 2031, dubbed Operation Archimaedes. As far as the US military and government were concerned, it was a great success, humanity had made it's first true steps into the stars; and by 2045 a space station lay in orbit of X32, the US Amura, with the mandate to explore and understand the nature of the planet before them.
From this planet, the technologies and histories of an ancient race, known by scientists only as race alpha, began to be exhumed. These led to miraculous developments in both technology and also understanding, but for the notion of public order these advances and discoveries were kept purely behind closed doors, leaked slowly to the rest of humanity, much like microwave and computer technology had, only a century previously.
Despite the best intentions, and the most covert research however, the USA was not the only country in development of it's own wormhole technology; European countries involved in the original research, yet not privy to the results, began to experiment with thier own data; whilst the Asian superpowers used technology, both stolen and internally developed for the same purposes.
War was inevitable.
World War III finally erupted in the year 2067, sparked off by the unprovoked destruction of the Amura station, and culminating in the creation of the United Earth Alliance in 2071, a cross continental coalition of like-minded countries, born from the remnants of the now-dead European Union, along with the remaining American states; and the destruction of the west coast of America by a cross continental barrage of missile technologies derived from both technology the Asian powers had stolen and created from thier own missions to X32.
Presented with the very real possibility of human extinction, the UEA council, led by Chancellor Garius Broadhall, forged the Atlantic-Asian Peace Concord; a treaty designed to prevent further hostilities, and intended to open the doors to a new era of peace and understanding.
*dramatic pause*
If only it had worked that way...
My name is David Greenhall, a son of the UEA. My family were originally descended from English and Germanic blood, but none of that matters anymore. For the last 20 years, hostilities and tensions have slowly risen between the UEA and the remaining Asian and African powers, caused by needless bickering between member states and old racial hatreds, combined with the usual bureautcratic inadequacies, and inflamed by the constant raids sponsored by these states on our territories on X32.
The time has come to claim X32 once and for all; to end the cycle that has plagued humanity since it began, to evolve.
May god commit this day forever to history, for it is the day that humanity will begin anew...
*Computer Voice*
The last recorded vox-log of David Greenhall, United Earth Alliance Naval Corps, dated 31st December 2144.
*Static*"