Fiction:Skyhor Empire

Centuries ago, the planet Scythius, inhabited by sentient life-forms called the chiropters, was exploring its solar system and started constructing several bases on alien moons. However, the grips of the Global Government tightened and new rules came into place, causing a once-peaceful world to slowly become more controlled, more organized. This created several fanatic splinter groups which were violently suppressed by the Global Government, leading to even greater control and suppression of rights. Several chiropters started on a plan to destroy a large city, thus unleashing global unrest and finally, they hoped, a return of peace to Scythius. The city they selected was Therhon, a bustling industrial center, but just before the nuclear bomb could be detonated, a Global Government Police Force blasted their way through and massacred most of the chiropters. A very old chiropter, Ighir, was accidentally shot during the battle and told the others to disable the bomb, saying: "My legacy will not be a global war". The bomb was disabled, but the Global Government continued its policies of suppression and, forty years later, global war broke out, with everyone shooting each other. Ultimately, the Stellar Union won and set up a very tight but fool-proof system, spreading out to nearby stars and colonizing them. Each colony was given a designation, such as Colony-53, and only the leaders of each colony knew about the outside universe. The ordinary inhabitants of the empire thought that their colony was the only place with life in the universe.