Planet:Iophia

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Iophia is a temperate planet which was home to the human race until the Grabalkian War of 2095. It was destroyed by the Necrosphere on 22 March, 2095. The following is an exerpt from Vogel Galactic News:

TIME: 01 MAR 2104

AREA: Onboard the OSCC Vogel

SUBJECT: Detleif "Soldat" Heinrich

Interview 01: The Pure Soldier

"Fighting has always been in my blood. For generations, my family has been in the military. Even my mother served for three years. But The War changed everything. It... made me feel things I'd never felt before. I'd always been regarded as a true soldier--a pure soldier. But when we had to abandon everything we knew... everything I knew... everything changed. It all did, in the blink of an eye."

Almost ten years ago, a war engulfed the world. The three world superpowers - Ourea, Apresia, and Grabalka - had begun to ally. A collaborative project between them, their territories, and other countries began to construct a "sky city", a gigantic spaceship codenamed "Vogel". Little did anyone know that the human race would eventually depend on it.

In 2037, the Ourean Air and Space Administrations' SETI program turned up something incredible. First Contact was made between humans and an alien race. This alien race - the Asphians - would lend a hand to the Vogel, and all the Space program with it. A new technology was found - black energy, which had more energy in a single teaspoon than three times its weight in antimatter. It was used as the core engines for all spaceships in Ourea, Apresia, and Grabalka. Earth had subterranean resources which would hold for production of Black Energy as well. But, in 2055, a war broke out. This wouldn't be the only one, either. A strip of incredibly over-valuable resources was found in the centre of the continent, and the government of Grabalka wanted to distribute it throughout the world. The more militaristic Vice president and his allies in the Grabalkian government had different plans. A coup d'tat was formed, and the President of Grabalka assassinated. The government went through a severe change, and the former Democracy was now an extremist right-wing principality. The Principality of the Greater Grabalka was formed, and the resources were used towards weapons manufacturing and technologies. The people, though, rebelled. They raided army bases, got ahold of weapons, and marched to the capital. A civil war of sorts formed, and the government was being overpowered. After almost a month of intense fighting, the rest of the world got hold of the news, and began to help. Of course, the citizens were who most countries were aiming to help. After a year, the government had had enough. They decided that if they couldn't have the resources, nobody could. They detonated a string of ten advanced thermonuclear explosions along the narrow strip of resources, and then seperated the two - the Principality of Werdgrabalka was born. Grabalka, the western half of the Grabalkian continent now, remained. Both countries were battle scarred, but the Werdgrabalkian government had other plans.

An island was discovered to have even more valuable resources than the narrow strip, and the world, again, got ahold of this news. This was in 2095. Apresia, the largest country, taking up a continent, and which was normally peaceful, sent troops to the front lines for the first time, in an effort to get rid of Werdgrabalkian terror. Ourea and Apresia made a joint effort to get ahold of the resources, and tried to aid the citizens of the democratic Grabalka. But, in the time that the former Democratic Republic of Grabalka had ahold of its own resources, it built, in secrecy, a gigantic orbital space weapon. Codenamed "Necrosphere", it was a laser cannon in space. It used experimental Black Energy capacitors to shoot a black laser, which would be more powerful than anyone could anticipate. After intense fighting for the second time, the Necrosphere was aimed at the Ourean capital city of Ofnir. But, an error in the targeting sequence caused the Necrosphere to fire in the Mercury Sea, between south Ourea and northern Apresia. The resulting damage was great. A hole more than a mile deep was shot into the planet, and the resulting surge of ocean water quickly eroded coastlines of all continents, especially the ones nearby. A hle was ripped in the atmosphere, and the breatheable air was seeping out of it like a popped balloon. Out of the 7.8 billion people living on Earth, only 2.1 million would make it up to the Vogel in the end. More than 7 billion people died. Now, the entire human race is planetless, living aboard the floating city called Vogel.