This blog will show the timeline between the Sazzarran Empire and Earth in the Sol system, and how they eventually meet. So sit back, have some popcorn, some home brew, or whatever suits your palate, as I entertain you with the future history of Earth and its first interstellar war with a reptilian species called the Sazzarran Empire.
During Earth year 2063, Sarriss Azzarro was born on Sazzarr to military parents. At the same time on Earth, humanity was near the brink of a third world war. Oil was getting sparce in some countries, and others were loathe to export it fairly. The food industry also had to change as the only good place to plant and grow any crops were in Canada, Northern United States, and North Eastern Europe. The poorer nations were forced to use reconstituted food products, while the wealthier nations tried to provide as much support to the poor nations as possible, while still maintaining their own hierarchy of self importance.
Like most children born to military families, Sarriss had a rough life. It would toughen him up for when he started actual military training at the age of 13 (about 16 in human years).
During Earth year 2074, some nations had started sending spacehips to Mars in an effort to colonize and terraform it. During Earth year 2080, Sarriss Azzarro was already an eager young officer in the Sazzarran Army. It was also the year World War III began.
During 2083, Sarriss was the equivalent of a company commander, leading 100+ Drathkoni soldiers against a revolt on a colony world. In fact, it was one of the colony worlds the Sazzarran had occupied and defended against from the Djoreli and their allies almost 200 years earlier. Sarriss' company was able to stabilize the revolt (eliminate their leaders), and bring status quo back to the colony. He was praised by his superiors and soon promoted to second in command of battalion of several hundred troops.
At the same time on Earth, the poor nations were suffering badly from the the war. The more affluent nations were still functioning, but the utilization of tactical nukes in some regions had severely limited their manufacturing facilities. Mars had a small colony setup with about 30 personnel, and was beginning another colony to investigate the possibility of mining any resources.
During 2087, the Third World War ended hostilities. The nations were at the breaking point. Their resources limited due to the destruction of key cities, and various production facilities. Countries like Canada, and Northern Russia, as well as parts of China, and the US state of Alaska were the only places that could still harvest food naturally. The nations of Earth knew human life was going to die if they did not do something soon to bring it back from the brink of extinction.
The first thing they had to do was reconcile differences between each other. They needed to share the wealth, so to speak. The United Nations was re-created with a new forum to protect the Earth and its environs at all costs, whether domestic, internationally and even from beyond Earth. There had to be life out there in the universe, and eventually Earth would be found. So they had to prepare for the worst.
While Earth regained its footing, the Sazzarran Empire was ever expanding. By 2095, Battlelord Azzarro was becoming popular in military society and sometimes the center of attention in the political parties. He started hearing reports from the scout ships of worlds with massive creatures, some of them semi-intelligent. In the last 1,000 years, they had only encountered a dozen worlds containing massive land and sea creatures. There was even a spacefarer's story of giant flying space lizards that fed on solar radiation and gases from gas giants.
Battlelord Azzaro would use this data to influence some of the politicians, and his military superiors, to begin research on capturing some of these massive creatures to use as weapons of war. Frontline assault beasts. It took him months to get all the data he needed before introducing it to the right people. Eventually, it paid off and within a year he was given a substantial amount of funding to find these creatures, investigate and research their potential.
By 2096, Battlelord Azzarro had his own special fleet assigned, and designed, to capture any massive creature that was worth researching. By 2100, Azzarro's fleet had captured three creatures, a giant four armed simian, a massive lizard on a volcanic world that spewed gases, and a near intelligent and aggressive four legged centaur-like species. This last specimen was not massive, but there were experiments being conducted to expand the cells of living organisms that would increase their size significantly. These centaur species would be the first test subjects.
By 2105, Earth was healing. New science was developed to grow better and more abundant crops that could help feed all nations for a long time. The Earth's oceans were cleaned of as much garbage as could be found, and sent by rockets into space towards the sun. The fish population was starting to expand again. But this time there were more restrictions on what was allowed to be caught and how much.
The United Nations created a new military organization called the UERF, United Earth Reaction Force. This organization would have its own army, air force, navy, and marine contingents. People from all nations could join and did, eventually forming an military organization bigger than any individual nation on Earth. With the new military came new equipment such as powered suits and 5 metre tall bipedal walkers called BAV's (Bipedal Assault Vehicle). The Navy started working on a hover jet system for some of their ships. In particular, the carriers. The idea was to allow them to circumvent stormy weather and gain better speed and distance across the oceans.
By 2108 there were three colonies on Mars, each with a population of 50 to 100 people. One of the colonies was a mining facility where they could process what little ores Mars interior possessed. During this time, Battlelord Azzarro had captured seven species of creature, varying in size from 30 metres to 600 metres. The largest being a sea dwelling creature with the head of a dragon, multiple tentacles, and the ability to create ballast bubbles all over its body. The creatures were called stinzoa (roughly translated as giants) The Sazzarran scientists were ecstatic about these stinzoa. They practically worked night and day to provide positive results that would enable Azzarro to use the massive beasts in a combat situation.
By 2110, Azzarro had his scout ships searching for likely inhabited worlds to use his war beasts. Some small populated worlds were found. Some of the stinzoa were used, such as the centaurs that were now 40 metres tall, wielding a vicious double-bladed vibro axe and had several long whip tails with barbed points. The centaur stinzo proved themselves quite well in combat. They also had an appetite for eating their enemy. Azzarro would watch out for that. It gave him the idea to have some kind of control measure on these stinzoa. So he had his scientists implant cybernetic eyes, and sensors into the beasts. He would also have personnel trained to "control" the stinzoa in combat. They would be the eyes and ears.
By 2112, one of Battlelord Azzarro's scout ships happened upon a research world occupied by the Wadoran. The Wadoran were an inquisitive species who loved to experiment. It seemed this time they were experimenting with matter transmission. Azzarro sent his fleet to the world. It was easy taking out the small squadron of ships assigned to protect the world. It was easier capturing the Wadoran scientists and their matter transmitter equipment and taking it back with them to Azzarro's own research world. The capture of this equipment and Azzarro's research into the stinzoa received a lot of attention back on Sazzarr. So much that they invited him back there to promote him to Warlord status.
By 2114, the Sazzarran scout ships found a perfect system for Warlord Azzarro to use all his stinzoa. It was considered a "protected" world by the Wadoran. It had already developed intra-system space travel between two worlds. One of those worlds was slowly being terraformed and had a few hundred people on it. The other world, their homeworld, was temperate with land masses and plenty of ocean. It also had several billion people. That world was simply called "Earth" by its inhabitants.
During 2114, Warlord Azzarro had a massive fleet of several thousand combat and troop transport ships at his disposal. He also had a few massive matter transmitter arrays developed by his loyal scientists that could send large bodies of personnel, or even stinzoa, short line of sight distances between two worlds within a star system.
Earth would become his testing ground for the matter transmitter, his stinzoa, and his invasion force. It would take him two years to plan the imvasion with a few weeks of travel to the Sol system. It was well outside the Sazzarran border, but he did not care. His superiors wanted results, and he would deliver.
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