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At first, I want to say that I'm no native english speaker. I just tried to create an AAR because I liked others on this website and because I wanted to practise my english skills. So, if you find grammar mistakes, just say it to me (I think there will be quite a lot), I'll edit it
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Prelude:
Earth – 2033:
The worldwide market for oil crashed because there is just no oil left. To produce sufficient energy, the amount of nuclear plants worldwide has been multiplied by 20.
Earth – 2080:
The Greenhouse effect resulted in a terrible climate change which makes living on the surface unbearable. The population dropped from 12 billion in 2033 to 5 billion due to famines and constant warfare for water. There are only two reasons that no full nuclear war broke out:
-No uranium is left, so 70% of the nuclear warheads are used to fuel the growing amount of nuclear plants
-There aren't enough techs left to keep the whole rest of the nuclear arsenal operational
Nevertheless, some nuclear warheads have been launched and killed millions.
Earth – 2087:
A small researcher outpost in Antarctica managed to developed an easy way to create energy using cold fusion. It also managed to create new forms of yeast-based food which can even grow in the wastelands, except those created by nuclear contamination. In a selfless act, this technologys are granted to everyone in the world. After decades of decreasing, population grows for the first time.
Earth – 2165
Humanity has recovered completely. Parts of the surface are taken back, the population grows and grows and has already topped the 21st century by 12 billion people.
Earth - 2200:
The population reaches a critical level with 35 billion people. Birth controls seem to fail, but thanks to new technologies, there are still enough resources to supply all humans. However, the remains of the old nuclear plants become a risk. They cover a high percentage of the surface. Nobody took care of them for over 100 years. They will still be radioactive for a few million years. And they now endanger the yeast as they are beginning to lack. At least there are only very, very few nuclear weapons left.
Earth – 2215:
They lacked. A catastrophe which is going to be even more devastating than the climate change in the 21st century is about to happen. Suddenly, some very strange things happen. Huge storms are going over Earth. Rumors are that some scientists failed in trying to create portals that could be used to travel wast distances. However, people who are incidentally caught up in this portal storms find themselves on a new world ...
Earth – 2218
The effects of the portal storms are under control now. Scientists can switch them on and off as they like, at least for most times. The world government in Antarctica decides that 8 billion people will be relocated on the new planet, which is now officially called "Gaia". It is strictly prohibited to relocate more people than the new planet can feed.
Earth – 2220
Scientists discover that Gaia isn't just a planet in a remote area of the space, but in another dimension. In this dimension the laws of physic seem not to work like here. The most surprising difference is that in this galaxy speed is not limited by light speed. Moreover, the Gaia universe seems to be even smaller than our own galaxy! A few weeks later, the Gaia universe is called "pseudo-galaxy" all over the world. The world government decides to start building colony ships and a survey ship to discover and settle the whole pseudo-galaxy. What surprises are waiting for the new founded "Portal Union"?
Gaia – 2225-February
Our new colony ships, called "Expander MKI", are exploring space. We already discovered some promising star systems. Suddenly, an unknown signature is detected on the sensors! A few minutes later we receive an audio signal. Fortunately, our best computer linguists developed a terrific new tool, the "Universal Translator" which can translate them in english. It actually makes sense!. We detected intelligent life! Jack Ryan, our recently appointed leader, coming from the Populist Party, is shocked.
---Message from Jack Ryan to Antarctica---
"Maybe we can't colonize more planets. Yesterday we made contact with another Civilization, the Drath Legion. Our diplomats were sent to them, but since the Drath seem to be capable of Interstellar Travel, they may have colonized all planets already."
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Gaia 2225-March
---PUN---
"Last month, we made contact with the Drath. We thought they were the natives of the pseudo-galaxy. This proved to be wrong. Portal storms hit their home world in 2215, too. Moreover, we recently made contact with another Civilization, the Thalan. Like the Drath, this insectoid species seems to be new here. Because the Portal Union thought it was unchallenged here, our colony ships are now spread in remote star systems, were they found planets which are even more attractive than Gaia. Alpha was hits 10 points, and Beta 11 points on a scale were Gaia is got 10 points.
Unfortunately, the other races seem to be eager to colonize planets for themselves. A Thalan colony was founded last week in our very own star system."
---Intelligence Report---
"On Beta we met yet another Civilization. They are not as advanced as we are, they are like the people of Europe in the early 19th century. Portal storms seem to have happened on their planet as well, but they can't control it. When we asked them what their home planet was like, they said that it was a beautiful world before their star "began to grow" 10 years ago and they fled into the portal storms. We think they talk about a supernova, this planet seems to be their last refugee. We relocated them so we could build our citys, but there aren't as many of them, so it won't be a problem. We began educating them, they seem to be rather intelligent. We discovered signs of alien civilizations on other worlds as well, also this were only some artefacts. They seem to be quite evil, and we do better in not using it. Surprisingly, on this worlds, there was no sign of intelligent life. Furthermore, the life on all discovered worlds seem not to be as adapted to their environment as they should be. Our scientists think that they were brought to this worlds by random portal storms as well."
---PUN Breaking news---
"This week, we made contact with two new major Civilizations, the Altarians and the Yor. While the Altarians look actually like humans, the Yor are robots! The Yor aren't too friendly, either. We located Yor colony ships heading for Alpha. A planet in this system is still habitable, but we don't have the capacity to get the planet before them. While writing this, our brave colonists settled on two Planets in the Thindor system. The system was renamed to Gamma System and the planets where called Gamma and Gamma Minor, Gamma is a class 12 planet while Gamma Minor got 11 points on the scale. There is still another planet in this System which ranks 9, but we don't know if we can get it before the Thalans.
In other news, explorers detected a cluster of an unknown substance. Scientists think that this material could be very valuable, and some constructors will leave next week to claim this "galactic resource".