Second Interplanetary Imperium of Mankind

Terran Imperium: Species: Terran.

Government: Hereditary dictatorship.  Capital: Eridu.  Status: Active.

Seated on the grand ancestral homeworld of terrankind, the Imperium has a long history, it's foundations date back to before Terrans had invented hyperdrive or settled other worlds.  Long ago, centuries past. 2126 AD, the king of Eridu, Tarquin Ouranos, looked at the nearby planet of Arya and decided he would extend his rule to the uncolonized world.  He built a fleet of ships and had his greatest and smartest engineers and psychics make special hyperlight-speed engines.  So began the First Interplanetary Imperium of Mankind, or the First Terran Imperium.  Tarquin and his descendants governed over a rapidly increasing nation.  Arya, Ceres, and Lagash were quickly colonized in the first few decades, Londor, Ultara, New Londinium, and New Tarsus followed soon after.  After 100 years of growth and intrigue came the Ultara Crisis; the Ultarans, tired of high work demands and oppressive military presence, went on strike.  The exarch, Flavius Naymen, sent some marines to get the workers back to the factories and shipyards.  The protestors battered back the soldiers, then stormed Flavius's manor.  Flavius fled to Eridu and told the situation to the aged emperor Dirod the Wise.  Dirod sent a legion to Ultara and had many of the mob killed, the rest were given a huge fine and sent back to work.  Flavius resumed his role as exarch of Ultara.  The protestors regrouped and sacked Flavius's manor again.  This time, the exarch's body hung in the place of the Imperium flag.  This marked the end of Ultara as a bustling city world.  Varis III the Cruel, recently crowned king after his father's untimely death, had the Imperial navy bomb the main city and marines killed anyone in the streets that had avoided the bombing.  The survivors were deported to other worlds and heavily reeducated, some of the ring leaders had survived and were sent off to newly discovered Follon.  There were 344 years of relative peace, until the Arsinon Dominion declared war on the Imperium.  The first of the Three Dominion Wars followed.  Fierce naval and land fighting took place, and through a series of victories, the Dominion claimed Follon and Nado.  A peace treaty at Princess Thee was signed and ended the first war.  The Second Dominion War began when Imperium spies found out about the Macedonian Project.  Under the pretext of freeing POWs and stopping Arsinian terrorism, the Imperium declared war on the Dominion.  Follon was reclaimed by Eridu, who then launched a ferocious assault into central Dominion territory.  Arsinon unveiled the result of the Macedonian Project: psychoborgs.  These powerful psionic cyborgs infiltrated many of the Imperium frigates and cut off communication with Eridu.  The invading fleet was destroyed long before Eridu realized what was happening.  Emperor Rynus the Mad, an increasingly unstable ruler, drafted many of the men form the worlds of the Imperium and sent them to the Dominion.  Even all the draftees and veterans weren't enough, so Rynus opened all the prisons and sent the prisoners to the battlefront.  Finally, the Imperium, economy shattered and most of the young men dead, won and took half of the Dominion worlds.  The Third Dominion War was the shortest of three, but had the biggest aftereffects.  Arsinon used their psychoborgs to sabotage the Imperial government and economy on the occupied Dominion planets.  Marcus Python, a high ranking Arsinian general, launched an assault on Ganga.  The Third Dominion War had begun.  In the midst of the fighting, Rynus' son, Augustus, had discovered an ancient alien machine, the Star Bomb.  He set off the Star Bomb on Nyrador III, wiping out the armies of both sides.  But the Dominion won a rough, costly, bloody victory.  The Imperium was greatly weakened and no longer the dominant Terran power.  Arsinon's power had expanded to a vast sweep of the Dagen Region, though most was still empty and unexplored.  But there was something; an alien species inhabiting that unexplored space.  The Notross.  A brutal war, the Xeno War, began between the ancient Notross and the unstable Arsinon Dominion.  In the midst of the war, one of the emperor of the Imperium, Regulus Marsk Vallerun began to rebuild the lost Imperium.  After three years of covert battles, Vallerun began to win over the Dominion.  So began the Second Interplanetary Imperium of Mankind, with Regulus at it's head.  A general in the Imperium army, William Roberts, negotiated a peace with the Notross, with the help of the Prothen, who just came back out of their homeworld, Arung Uni.  Shortly after the Xeno War, the Alsara system declared independence from the Imperium, the bloody Alsaran Wars of Freedom followed, ended by an unexpected Alsaran victory.  There were five years of peace, Octavian Regulus Flavius Vallerun, son of Regulus, rules the Terran Imperium with as the Swarm is returning to the Dagen Region after a thousand years.