![]() ![]() įollowing the Hammer of Dawn strikes, the Locust launched a major assault against the Jacinto Plateau, thrusting the Coalition into a defensive war over the following fourteen years. This desperate attack scorched the surface of the planet and destroyed the remnants of human civilization, but ultimately failed to defeat the Locust Horde. Targeting every major population center located outside of the Jacinto Plateau, these devastating orbital strikes massacred over ninety percent of the population in an attempt to save humanity from near-certain extinction. These actions foreshadowed the Hammer of Dawn strikes that Chairman Prescott ordered three days later. Among his first actions in office, the new Chairman recalled the military to the safety of the province of Ephyra and solidified his control over the civilian population through the Fortification Act. As humanity approached annihilation, Tomas Dalyell died of a heart attack, elevating his deputy- Richard Prescott-to the office of Chairman. ![]() The Locust continued their assault over the following year-destroying entire nations, capturing major industrial centers, and severing the global communications network. ![]() Six weeks after the conclusion of the Pendulum Wars, the Locust emerged from their underground strongholds, attacking the surface and massacring nearly a quarter of the human population on Emergence Day. The victorious Coalition emerged from this conflict as the dominant superpower on Sera. Although some small holdouts refused to accept the armistice, the Pendulum Wars ended and the majority of the planet experienced peace for the first time in nearly a century. With assistance from the physicist Adam Fenix, the Coalition successfully weaponized the technology, deploying the Hammer of Dawn against the UIR in the Battle of Bonbourg and convincing its leadership to surrender. The two sides fought one another to a stalemate before the Coalition captured the schematics for an orbital superweapon-the Hammer of Dawn-in the Battle of Aspho Fields. Following the collapse of the global economy, the Union of Independent Republics (UIR)-a military alliance of Imulsion-poor nations-attempted to seize control of the global Imulsion supply from the Coalition, launching a seventy-nine year conflict known as the Pendulum Wars. Several decades after the discovery of Imulsion, the Coalition experienced the first major threat to its existence. Headquartered in the Tyran capital of Ephyra, the Coalition originally permitted its members representation in the deliberative body known as the Council of Sovereigns however, the pressure of nearly omnipresent warfare resulted in its eventual dissolution, solidifying power in the hands of its executive-the Chairman-and military leadership. The guiding principles of this new alliance were outlined in the Octus Canon, which resulted in a political doctrine that championed collectivism, militarism, and natalism. Following the discovery of the fuel source known as Imulsion, the visionary statesmen of eight sovereign nations-collectively referred to as the Allfathers-united their homelands into the Coalition in order to protect their Imulsion reserves from competing powers. The Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG), colloquially shortened into the Coalition, was a supranational and intergovernmental military collective originating on the planet Sera during the Age of Silence. I shall be loyal to them, and humble, because we are elements of a greater whole, and without them I am nothing, I have responsibilities to our society I shall understand and respect my place in it, defend it, and work to make it prosperous, so that I may receive society's protection, and that we may hand on safety and prosperity to future generations." -The Octus Canon, founding principles of the Coalition, as handed down by the Allfathers, and recited by every citizen I have responsibilities to my fellow citizens. " I am responsible for myself and my actions I shall conduct myself honorably, and live a clean and frugal life. ![]()
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