For those I left behind - the memoirs of Colonel Jason Myers

[Jansen]

However the Crayterians would never receive single information about the war destroying their old home, any possible means of communication with Sol had been lost on the way to Crayter. All the Cryterians knew, was that they were alone out there.


Soon after their arrival a government was formed, a government as simple as effective. A Quorum of 12 elected people had been chosen to lead the new nation to bloom. The people started to build a new home, soon large cities grew from the 2 planets the humans had chosen for their landing. Due to the high motivation and generally good morale within the colonies and the incredibly amount of natural resources found on the surface of the planets, the further evolution of infrastructure on the planets proceeded even faster than the most optimistic plans had predicted. Corporations started to grow out of small businesses, the first ships were built to explore the space around their new planets, life continued to go on, and for most citizens it was an even better life then the one they could have expected in the Sol sector. The ships that brought them to their new home, the giant Orion and Gemini had been grounded, turned into museums to remind the Crayterians of their past.


After the first 100 years the Crayterians had explored most of the sector and started to inhabitate the 12 planets that supported human life, wealth was a common sight and nobody had to fear that this could change in the future. Life in the Crayterian colonies was a life in a small paradise.


However, every paradise has its snakes aiming to destroy it, in this paradise humanity itself was the snake. Greed started to spread through the Colonies, crime became a common sight due to the lack of police or military, things that had not been necessary until now. The government soon formed a paramilitary group to strike hard against these pirates, murders and thieves. But it was too late, the paradise was lost. Even though the newly formed law enforcement was able to fight the organized crime it took them many years to get the situation under control. It could have happened faster, but the law enforcement had to use the old and mostly malfunctioning technology humanity had brought with them hundreds of years ago.


The government soon decided that new technology had to be used in order to fight back threats like this in a more effective way, remnants of this technology can still be seen in the current Colonial fleet, the Eros Fighter and the Thanatos Cruiser, both concepts date back to this time and have survived the centuries with nearly no changes. Over time the Military gained more and more might within the Colonials society, so that the government decided to involve it into political decisions to prevent the military from overthrowing it, the Republic became a military nation.

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