Xessmithia
02-05-2005, 09:56
Name:
- Official, The Confederacy of Xessmithia
- Common use, Xessmithia
National Anthem:
- Brothers In Arms, taken from the soundtrack of the ancient video game “Halo: Combat Evolved”
History:
After Landing (AL) is the reference for years in the Xessmithian calendar. Zero AL is the year of landing which is the same as 2798 AD.
Before Landing (BL) is the reference for years before 0 AL in the Xessmithian calendar. Zero BL is the same as 2798 AD.
798 BL – The United States of America elects George W. Bush as President. He will become known as the worst and stupidest president of all time.
710 BL - Construction begins on the SS Adventurer a relativistic STL sleeper colony ship. Colonists begin to be recruited; the 90% of which are drawn from the country of Canada.
703 BL – The fuel tanks of the SS Adventurer are completed, they consist of dozens of hollowed out asteroids. The process of filling the tanks with hydrogen drawn from Jupiter’s atmosphere begins. They will not be full until a few days before the Adventurer launches.
696 BL – The SS Adventurer launches on schedule from Galileo Fuel Refinery in orbit of Jupiter bound for New Caledonia 30 light years away.
696 BL – The SS Adventurer passes the heliopause entering interstellar space after 17 days of acceleration at 1 gee. The crew joins the colonists in cryo leaving ship navigation and maintenance to the computer and robotic repair systems. The Adventurer drops its acceleration to .1 gee.
688 BL – The SS Adventurer reaches its cruising velocity of .9c 3189 days after entering interstellar space and shuts off its fusion engines.
687 BL – The SS Adventurer is struck by a gamma-ray burst. It’s radiation shielding protects the crew and colonists from serious harm but its computer’s navigational processor is heavily damaged. The Adventurer no longer has the ability to retro-thrust to slow from relativistic velocity.
658 BL – The SS Adventurer passes through New Caledonia without slowing due to the damaged computer.
2 BL – Now 590 light years from Earth the Adventurer is in poor condition having suffered through over 600 years of abuse. In an extremely unlikely event the Adventurer collides with a microscopic wormhole. Taking the Adventurer’s kinetic energy the wormhole expands to engulf the ship depositing it in orbit of the fourth planet of a system halfway between the galactic core and the spiral arms. The barely functioning computer senses this and assumes the ship has arrived at its destination and awakens the crew.
Waking to find themselves on the other side of the galaxy in a ship that’s barely space worthy the crew quickly wakes the colonists and work on repairing the ship.
0 AL – Two years of fighting a losing battle to keep the ship operational the crew and colonists have no choice but to land on the planet they are orbiting. The modular components of the Adventurer are disassembled and re-assembled into a settlement near the equator. This settlement is named Planetfall.
5 AL – Planetfall is now firmly established. A general election is held to name the colonists’ new home planet, the candidate names “New Canada”, “New New Caledonia”, “Xess” and “Ariel”. The winner is “Xess” with 64% of the votes.
23 AL – The University of Xess is founded in Planetfall.
70 AL – Planetfall becomes a major urban center serving as capital to the numerous other settlements that have been founded.
145 AL – The City of Oriel is founded on the continent of New Africa.
187 AL – Physicist Chrys Kirkland formulates her theory of Translight Mechanics working at the prestigious Hawking Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Xess.
206 AL – Oriel becomes the capital of New Africa.
213 AL –Mayor of Oriel, Harper Young, declares New Africa an independent country, “The Republic of New Africa”.
214 AL – Harper Young is elected Supreme Chancellor of the RoNA.
216 AL – Chancellor Young begins a massive military build up “to protect the African way of life.” What the Republic plans to do is begin a wave of imperialistic military takeovers.
218 AL – The RoNA begins a massive assault on neighboring states. It meets little resistance from the disorganized resistance.
218 AL – In response to the Republic’s assault the threatened states band together forming the Confederacy of Xessmithia. The Confederacy begins a crash military build up of it’s own.
219 AL – On February 3rd 219 AL the Eighth Army of the Republic attacks the city of Raven. The Confederacy deploys its First Army to repel the attackers. The battle lasts for six hours and ends with the defeat of the Confederate forces, it marks the beginning of the Xess Civil War.
221 AL – Having been fighting a losing war for nearly two years the Confederacy is desperate. General Dillan Armishaw is in command of the demoralized Third Army. When the Republic attacks his fortified position he is nearly overrun but refuses to give ground. The battle lasts for days but ends with the Confederacy defeating the Republic. This is the first major victory for the Confederacy and marks the turning point of the war.
224 AL – The Republic is near defeat and in a desperate move launches a nuclear missile at Planetfall. The city is destroyed resulting in six million casualties. Enraged by this attack the Confederacy launches a major assault on the last holdouts of the Republic. Oriel falls in a day and the Confederacy accepts the unconditional surrender of the Republic.
225 AL – Ground is broken on the site of New Planetfall. The remains of the original Planetfall are left as a memorial to the lives lost in the Xess Civil War.
- Official, The Confederacy of Xessmithia
- Common use, Xessmithia
National Anthem:
- Brothers In Arms, taken from the soundtrack of the ancient video game “Halo: Combat Evolved”
History:
After Landing (AL) is the reference for years in the Xessmithian calendar. Zero AL is the year of landing which is the same as 2798 AD.
Before Landing (BL) is the reference for years before 0 AL in the Xessmithian calendar. Zero BL is the same as 2798 AD.
798 BL – The United States of America elects George W. Bush as President. He will become known as the worst and stupidest president of all time.
710 BL - Construction begins on the SS Adventurer a relativistic STL sleeper colony ship. Colonists begin to be recruited; the 90% of which are drawn from the country of Canada.
703 BL – The fuel tanks of the SS Adventurer are completed, they consist of dozens of hollowed out asteroids. The process of filling the tanks with hydrogen drawn from Jupiter’s atmosphere begins. They will not be full until a few days before the Adventurer launches.
696 BL – The SS Adventurer launches on schedule from Galileo Fuel Refinery in orbit of Jupiter bound for New Caledonia 30 light years away.
696 BL – The SS Adventurer passes the heliopause entering interstellar space after 17 days of acceleration at 1 gee. The crew joins the colonists in cryo leaving ship navigation and maintenance to the computer and robotic repair systems. The Adventurer drops its acceleration to .1 gee.
688 BL – The SS Adventurer reaches its cruising velocity of .9c 3189 days after entering interstellar space and shuts off its fusion engines.
687 BL – The SS Adventurer is struck by a gamma-ray burst. It’s radiation shielding protects the crew and colonists from serious harm but its computer’s navigational processor is heavily damaged. The Adventurer no longer has the ability to retro-thrust to slow from relativistic velocity.
658 BL – The SS Adventurer passes through New Caledonia without slowing due to the damaged computer.
2 BL – Now 590 light years from Earth the Adventurer is in poor condition having suffered through over 600 years of abuse. In an extremely unlikely event the Adventurer collides with a microscopic wormhole. Taking the Adventurer’s kinetic energy the wormhole expands to engulf the ship depositing it in orbit of the fourth planet of a system halfway between the galactic core and the spiral arms. The barely functioning computer senses this and assumes the ship has arrived at its destination and awakens the crew.
Waking to find themselves on the other side of the galaxy in a ship that’s barely space worthy the crew quickly wakes the colonists and work on repairing the ship.
0 AL – Two years of fighting a losing battle to keep the ship operational the crew and colonists have no choice but to land on the planet they are orbiting. The modular components of the Adventurer are disassembled and re-assembled into a settlement near the equator. This settlement is named Planetfall.
5 AL – Planetfall is now firmly established. A general election is held to name the colonists’ new home planet, the candidate names “New Canada”, “New New Caledonia”, “Xess” and “Ariel”. The winner is “Xess” with 64% of the votes.
23 AL – The University of Xess is founded in Planetfall.
70 AL – Planetfall becomes a major urban center serving as capital to the numerous other settlements that have been founded.
145 AL – The City of Oriel is founded on the continent of New Africa.
187 AL – Physicist Chrys Kirkland formulates her theory of Translight Mechanics working at the prestigious Hawking Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Xess.
206 AL – Oriel becomes the capital of New Africa.
213 AL –Mayor of Oriel, Harper Young, declares New Africa an independent country, “The Republic of New Africa”.
214 AL – Harper Young is elected Supreme Chancellor of the RoNA.
216 AL – Chancellor Young begins a massive military build up “to protect the African way of life.” What the Republic plans to do is begin a wave of imperialistic military takeovers.
218 AL – The RoNA begins a massive assault on neighboring states. It meets little resistance from the disorganized resistance.
218 AL – In response to the Republic’s assault the threatened states band together forming the Confederacy of Xessmithia. The Confederacy begins a crash military build up of it’s own.
219 AL – On February 3rd 219 AL the Eighth Army of the Republic attacks the city of Raven. The Confederacy deploys its First Army to repel the attackers. The battle lasts for six hours and ends with the defeat of the Confederate forces, it marks the beginning of the Xess Civil War.
221 AL – Having been fighting a losing war for nearly two years the Confederacy is desperate. General Dillan Armishaw is in command of the demoralized Third Army. When the Republic attacks his fortified position he is nearly overrun but refuses to give ground. The battle lasts for days but ends with the Confederacy defeating the Republic. This is the first major victory for the Confederacy and marks the turning point of the war.
224 AL – The Republic is near defeat and in a desperate move launches a nuclear missile at Planetfall. The city is destroyed resulting in six million casualties. Enraged by this attack the Confederacy launches a major assault on the last holdouts of the Republic. Oriel falls in a day and the Confederacy accepts the unconditional surrender of the Republic.
225 AL – Ground is broken on the site of New Planetfall. The remains of the original Planetfall are left as a memorial to the lives lost in the Xess Civil War.