Fiction:Human History Post 21st Century/TM

This is my editing of Jovar1's article.

Humanity was known by all sapient life to be the most powerful species that ever lived in the galaxy. But after they left the galaxy, their history was lost forever. Only their technology remained from those days, and it has since spread to all life in the Galaxy. But for 3 billion years, what caused them to leave the galaxy remained a mystery. That is, until the Jovar Empire discovered an ancient manuscript, torn and faded, but still legible. Because of this manuscript, the galaxy now knows what led to their rise, and their ultimate demise. This is their story. ..

22nd Century
Earth. Ninety-three million miles away from its Home star, Sol. And Home planet of humanity. But even in the 22nd Century, humanity had yet to travel to another star. Humanity is now more peaceful than ever, having never had a major war in a hundred and fifty years for a small dot in space. The hero of Humanity is a man named Jim Smith. A politician in the United States. And he was determined to unify the world. Once and for all.

Through years of campaigning, he rose to power as America's newest president. With his powerful speech ability, he was able to persuade countries to ally and work with America closely, even countries like China and Russia. And in about 10 years, the Earth was now tightly spun together. He as well as the others countries' leaders, then called the world's best scientists to create an engine that would allow humans to travel beyond Earth. By the end of the century, Humanity had gone to their first target stars, Sirius, Toliman, and Betelguese.

23rd-25th Century
Humanity continued to explore the stars. They colonized hundreds of star systems in a matter of decades, but were yet to discover another species besides themselves.

Finally, in the year 2489 another species was discovered. Nicknamed the Lopic, they were quite friendly to the humans and eager to form an alliance. An alliance was forged, as hoped, and soon other species were discovered.

Of course, as all stories go, there would eventually be a war with another species. The Yoris, a hostile species, declared war on Humanity in 2497, when an attack on the colony Endeavor in the Mu Arae system occurred. The attack was an utter failure, but it would spark a war that would devastate both Humanity and Yoris.

26th Century
Two things in this century altered humanity forever: The supernova of Betelgeuse and first contact with the Grox.

The Yoris-Human war was brought to an end in around a decade, with a Human victory at the Yoris home planet. With the home planet devastated, the Yoris surrendered, and peace was finally achieved, with a cost. Nearly 10 billion lives were lost on both sides, and much of the Human empire was devastated. But reconstruction began quickly. Within a few years after the war, Humanity had spread its empire from under one hundred planets to thousands of planets all over the Orion Spur, and a few others in other parts.

But in 2559, Betelgeuse went supernova. Its orbital axis had changed position at the last second, and one of their most important colonies, Sirius, was devastated by the gamma ray burst it created. Although a few lifeforms survived, the ozone was destroyed, and by 2561, the Sirius system was a lifeless rock in space. Humans attempted to re-terraform it, and it luckily worked, however the planets could only be re-terraformed to T1. Another important system lost was the Betelgeuse system itself.

Rigel, another large colony, was then suddenly attacked in 2583 by an unknown enemy, but they called themselves "The Grox"

The Human Empire had stood up well to the Grox. By 2590 the death toll of the Grox-Human War was about to pass that of the Yoris-Human War. The Grox had now lost 400 of their 4800 systems, and the humans had lost 300 of their 4600 systems. It seemed the humans should win by 2595. .