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Gundam: Halo In The Stars

"It’s been 19,200 years since humanity left the cradle of Sol, riding the cosmic filaments of Stringspace, and since then, it has expanded across the breadth of the Orion, Sagittarius And Perseus Arms of the Milky Way Galaxy, yet it is still a mere island in a titanic ocean, one that itself still has unexplored jungles. 

Trillions have diversified into interstellar empires, interplanetary and planetary polities, corporate colonies, and a variety of independent populations, all overseen by the Solar Lancers, a neutral paramilitary/government hybrid organization created in the aftermath of the Calamity Events, one of three different dark ages that set back human exploration and progress in the past sixteen millennium.

Holding the tens of thousands of colonies together are the mapped out Stringspace Faster-Than-Light Transit Corridors, where thousands of human ships flow through every day. And the Eidonet, a dataspace system built upon a network of high-bandwidth superluminal data transfer/unlink arrays that allow real-time communication and trade across the entire expanse of human colonized space, backed up by secondary luminal networks.

Yet order is not truly established, with wars, corpo corruption, unrest, inequality, space piracy, and tyrannic militarism popping everywhere from the Frontier Periphery to Core Sphere, and the Solar Lancers, as much it strives to help humanity, is nowhere perfect and itself has played a hand in many of these issues. 

Uncanny cosmic horrors of human and unknown origin lurk in all this chaos, with humanity delving deeper and deeper into the mystifying yet also horrifying depths of reality contradicting or outright breaking potential of ever advancing Thaulogical technology. 

Amongst the countless battlefields and conflicts popping up, mercenaries from any manner of background thrive, especially the pilots of the towering Mobile Suit mechs, commonly referred to as Apollyons, and their Handlers. Particularly freedom seeking individuals are overseen and managed by the independent private military contractor support organization Qixx, where freedom to do any contract or job is, no matter who is the contractor or how horrific the mission is, allowed, leading to many Qixx Apolloyons making a name for themselves as either great heroes who toppled corrupt regimes, exposed the horrific crimes of corporations, and ended bloody wars, or villainous monsters who destroyed colony habitats holding millions, sabotaged agriculture and industrial centers that lead to entire interplanetary states starving, and perpetrated endless cycles of destruction across conflict zones to line their own pockets.

Transhumanism is rampant across every part of the Human Sphere, as the need for either adaptation to the harsh environment of space and exoplanets or more ways to express one’s true self grows, though this philosophy and way of life is exploited by corrupted actors for their own self-serving needs as well.

At the core of the Human Sphere the star system of Sol remains, yet it is no bustling capital of a grand interstellar polity (at least only after two human dark ages), but merely the most largest and well-developed industrial center in human hands, where many of its people live and die without ever stepping outside the system, their homes and lives exploited and used as a resource to fuel the opulent Core Sphere and the ever expanding Outer Periphery. Their government, the Sol Administration Cadre, is merely a puppet state with no real power. Because of this, factions of revolutionists, terrorists, freedom fighters, and more who want some form of Sol Independence have formed over the millennia, uniting into the Solian Unchained, but is only recently that any of them begin making moves, ones that may have effects beyond breaking the cycle of exploitation plaguing the birthplace of humankind.

But in the middle of all this, centuries of secret planning and cascading buildup that will change the course of humanity forever breaks through the surface."

This is my little Gundam story. I've recently gotten into the mecha genre, mainly through Gundam, Lancer rpg and Armored Core, and I've found myself wanting to create a original mecha story, which now has evolved into a Gundam story, though not based in any of the canon timelines.

This is the Halo Dominus Timeline.

Its has elements inspired by stuff like Lancer, Armored Core, Gundam canon as well as original sci-fi stuff. I don't think I will ever be able to write any sorta of comprehensible story in the setting, but I just wanna to share it here.

In the setting, the Human Sphere political and social landscape is overseen by the centralized neutral entity, the Solar Lancers, regulating FTL travel and technology in order to prevent another Calamity Event, as well as curbing piracy, corruption, and human rights violation.

In theory.

In reality, the Solar Lancers are heavily decentralized and de-unified, split into many factions with differing views. Many commit or support said piracy, corruption and violation. Many exploit the organizations unbalanced control over FTL drive and technologic production and distribution to manipulate underdeveloped polities into agreements that only favor them. Many violate the sovereignty of independent worlds. And many do strive to accomplishing the original goals of the organization, yet even these groups differ in how to morally and ethically go about doing it.

Gundam's in the setting are like HORUS mech's, weird eldritch Mobile Suit's built out of technologic miracles, strange mechanical components that shouldn't be able to work but do, and Thaulogical Cores inhabited by sapient AI's, or, as they are referred as in the setting, Ontological Data Entities. Gundam's pilots become so through being chosen by these machines, forming a physical parasitic symbiote like bond that allows the pilots to 'understand' these ODE's while also ensuring that no other pilot can possibly fly the machines.

They appear out of nowhere, and none have found the source of the machines, only finding exabit data packets filled with nonsense, and manufacturing facilities that always seemed to have recently printed something.

Technology in the setting is based around gravity manipulation, AI's/ODE's, exotic metamaterials, and Anat Manipulation. The latter makes use of Anat exotic matter/particles, a particularly important handwavium material in the setting that is used as a hyper-powerful and efficient power source, a data conductor and the main fuel source of FTL drives.

More than that, it is also the main component of the practically magical Thaulogical technology, as things tend to get weird when high density Anat is manipulated in a certain way. Coral Release levels of weird.

Transhumanism is common in the setting, and plays a big part into some of the characters as well as the themes. One particularly theme is 'physical flesh, no matter how changed, does not define what is human, or more accurately, a person'

The main story within the setting as well as the characters are still really abstract, but it primarily involves Solar Lancer 344th Liberation Echelon and its employed private military contractor group Orphios getting caught in the middle of a Solar Lancer Civil War and a shdaow conflict between the remnants of incomprehensible entities pulling the strings that threatens to unravel the Human Sphere.

The main character is Sierra Kimura (She/Her), Orphios pilot of the Gundam Astraeus. (Sol-Dragon, Silver-Eyes Burning Bright, Winter Scales Coiled Around The Stars)