Cyber Harvest Timeline
2630 - 3012
Truppen Era
2630
Northern Alliance Movement Established
Disaffected elements of the Terran Republic, with covert assistance of the Distan Colonies and the Rettian government form a new political movement that encompasses a majority of the old nation states in the northern hemisphere of Earth and starsystems throughout Terran territory.
2648
First Consular War Begins
After years of preparation, the Northern Alliance secedes from the Terran Republic. The Terran government declares the move to be open rebellion and mobilizes. The war continues until 2661. A formal armistice is signed in 2662. Northern Alliance introduces Truppen cybernetic soldiers.
2661
End of First Consular War
The war ends with both sides in essentially the same position they were at the start of the war.
2662
Armistice between Terran Allies and Northern Alliance
The warring parties sign an armistice at the site of negotiations, the Stellar Observation Station at the Iossa Moon in the Despra starsystem.
2665
Second Consular War
Believing that the Terrans have violated the terms of the Armistice, the Northern Alliance again declares war. However, this time, the Reittians intervene on the side of the Terrans. Fearing the new Terran-Rettian alliance, the Distan Colonies withdraw from its alliance with the Northern powers, depriving them of needed bases and financial support.
2673
Second Consular War Ends
Second Consular War ends with Northern Alliance defeat and destruction of last Truppen force at Baedecker.
2678
The Emperors’ War
The war against the Terrans began in 2678 with the destruction of the Terran worlds in the near-side region of the spiral arm beginning with the Baedeker star system.
Naplian Flying Column attacks the Terran Baedecker starsystem in the Baedecker Constellation. This is the Terran's first contact with Naplians. The last surviving Northern Alliance Consul, Elden Selva, and a brigade of Truppen in stasis aboard a hidden transport starship NAS Hessian, and a derelict cruiser, the NAS Brooklyn were instrumental in rescuing the populace of Baedecker 4.
Briddarri forces intervened but were not strong enough to prevent the Naplian investment of the constellation. The Briddarri were able to evacuate some Terran forces. In the process, Briddarri Admiral Ergen discovered the existence of Truppen cybernetics.
2681
Briddarri Cybernetic Research
Briddarri begin cybernetic experimentation of several worlds within the Great Desert Rift.
2682
Truppen Operations
Truppen Admiral Graspen's squadron of twelve cruisers crosses the frontier into the Great desert Rift.
2687
Truppen Refugees
Captain Kellan Kline and his motley crew aboard the Klevessan Starship Sundowner, including sisters Bendine and Myrta Selva, and a squad of Mark 2 Truppen thwart a conspiracy to assassinate the influential Terran Admiral Demeter. [Aphelion, by AR DeClerck.]
2708
Reittian Naval Action
Naval action off the Aatander Rim. Truppen cruiser "Solburg" destroyed by Reittian squadron.
2736
Naplians discover presence of high Terran government official in the Prussian Cluster. A colonial garrison battles to prevent official’s capture. The official considers suicide to keep from falling into enemy hands but does not follow through. Terran intelligence services get a tip from historian Timothy Marken, to seek out the Parian Brotherhood for assistance in saving the official. The Parian Priesthood guards the secret of a cave which holds the Truppen transport NAS Freiheit, with several brigades aboard. Truppen Hans Rudmann is the Truppen Commander. Transports like this were hidden on a number of worlds during the 2nd Consular war.
Rudmann and his Truppen brigades are reactivated and after difficult negotiations and the intervention of Elden Selva, the truppen of the NAS Freiheit rescue the Terran official.
Briddarri Section 12
2686
Caeda Experiments
In response to attacks by clandestine Terran agents, the Briddarri Kingdom establishes a secret department designated “Section 12” to oversee cybernetic research. To avoid Terran interference, Section 12 moves all research to Caeda, a Briddarri Commonwealth empire.
2687
Section 12 takes control of the Caeda Colony at Dematara 3.
2688
Section 12 begins limited harvest experiments using "disappeared" colonists of the Caeda Colony at Dematara 3.
2690
Dematara 3
Section 12 accelerates and expands harvest experiments at Dematara 3.
2695
Cybernetic Success
Briddarri construct first viable cyborg soldier comparable to a Truppen Mark 3.
2697
First Cyber Harvest
Section 12 begins full scale harvest of colonists of the Caeda Colony at Dematara 3. All colonists are harvested in a period of 14 months.
2698
Dematara 3 Harvest Completed
All civilian communications from Caeda Colony at Dematara 3 cease. 2.6 million souls were harvested. 74,392 “Series 1” cyborgs were successfully created, resulting in a 2.86 percent success rate.
2700
Series 1 Operational Testing 2700-2702
Series 1 cybers underwent training and testing at the Rouvet 4 Test Facility in Caeda. Unit losses through resilience testing and range accidents, averaged 14 percent. The remaining 59,658 Series 1 Cybers were divided into twelve brigades of 869 Briddarri Human officers and NCOs, plus 4,971 cyborg troopers. The brigades were organized into the Twelfth Legion.
2706
Series 1 b
An improved Series 1 cyborg was produced on Felin 4. Although the success rate remained low at 2.57 percent, 38, 941 models were produced before the colony world was shut down in 2712. The Series 1 b were organized into six brigades, plus three support battalions, and folded into the Twelfth Legion.
2717
Series 1 e
Further improvement in the Series 1 cyborg led to the Grella 3 Harvest. The success rate improved to 4.18 percent, with 82,961 models produced over. Resulting in 71,022 after testing, adding 14 brigades to the twelfth Legion.
2720
Twelfth Legion Headquarters
Gillsvale Starsystem, Briddarri Kingdom becomes the main base of the Twelfth Legion, consisting of thirty-two active brigades and three support battalions. The Legion sees limited service over the next thirty years, mainly in the commonwealth empires and along the Svenisch Frontier.
2751
Briddarri Series 2 Cybernetic Program begins. This version is totally electromechanical, with the exception of a biological brain in a canopic pod.
Multiple worlds were harvested in Commonwealth empires, for a total of 40 brigades and 5 support battalions established.
2785
Briddarri Series 3 Cybernetic Program Starts
At the direction of Briddarri Armaments Ministry a Series 3 development program was authorized. Research facilities, assembly plants, and rendering plants were built in the Reven, and Sosivar starsystems. Populations in both systems were put to forced labor or harvested. Five additional starsystems were chosen for harvest.
Production variants were of four main types reconnaissance chassis, maintenance chassis, combat chassis, and combat support chassis. heavy assault chassis, and light infantry chassis and orbital jump chassis were produced in smaller numbers.
Two hundred twenty-six combat brigades, and twenty-seven support battalions were brought on line. On paper, each brigade had 5,840 chassis. In practice, brigades averaged 5,000 chassis. There were no Briddarri Human or other biological officers assigned to these elements. All personnel were cybernetic.
Periodic discrete harvest operations were necessary to maintain force levels.
2852
Forced Harvesting Ends
Appalled by the barbarism of forced harvesting, the new monarch of the Briddarri Kingdom, Queen Ivanora, Prohibits forced harvest. To maintain the Twelfth Legion, she institutes a cybernetic recruitment branch and voluntary harvest practices.
2893
Secret Conspiracy
A Briddarri military faction begins unauthorized secret negotiations with the Reittian government to share cyber technology.
2894
Secret Pact
Briddarri military officials sign secret pact with Reittians to share cybernetic technology and for harvest of Reittian and other non-Briddarri races. No other Grand Alliance power is aware of the agreement, not even the Briddarri queen.
Cyber Harvest
The Bridarri were the first to propose the use of cybernetic forces to augment existing armies and fleets. Fully functional artificial intelligence units were built but their reliability and in some cases their loyalty was questionable. Cybernetic entities had the benefit of "human" independent thought and action.
The horrific downside of the proposal would be the wholesale "harvesting" of populations for the construction of cybernetics. By the end of the Vella Conference in 2895 many of the allied worlds had embraced the Briddarri plan as the only realistic option for stemming the tide of alien aggression. Other worlds resisted on moral and practical grounds. Certain empires, the Kvizier in particular, prophesied that the creation of cybernetic units would ultimately lead to the destruction of human kind as the cybernetics could only increase and advance their own interests by harvesting "biologicals."
The Briddarri plan was adopted in 2907, as Naplian forces overran the majority of the Rift systems and pressed in against the fortified line of worlds at the edge of the Inner Rim. It was also discovered that the Reittian humans had a secret cyborg development program that had been operating with limited success for twelve years. They were using political prisoners, criminals, and pogrom victims for their program.
From 2908 through 3012 Huge corporations throughout the galaxy bent all their energies toward the development of cybernetic units. In some cases, cloning of humans with cybernetic augmentation was initiated, resulting in models such as the Vorare Carnis Clones. In most instances, simple harvesting of humans was the preferred course since it took far less time to harvest than to clone. Models such as the the G Series; Geddan, Gedi, Gorkhan and Gorshan, were common. Whole populations of men, women and children were moved into collection stations and harvested, emerging as fully functional cybernetic warriors. The cost in lives and indeed whole cultures, was immense. The cybernetic question created tremendous dissension in the Terran systems and resulted in the secession of the Outland Colonies in 2944.
2895
Vella Conference
At the Vella Conference, most Grand Alliance worlds are in favor of Briddarri plan for cybernetic production.
Pursuant to their secret pact with rogue elements of the Briddarri military, Reittians secretly begin to build cybernetics on the Briddarri model. They use harvested Reittian volunteers.
2896
Otramma Proclamation
At the governance symposium at the Otramma resort world, the Kvizier Government Operations Agency issues a manifesto in opposition to cybernetic research. It is called the "Otramma Proclamation."
2907
Reittians Exposed
Grand Alliance learns about the Reittian cybernetic program. The Briddarri monarch is furious and takes action against the conspirators.
The Briddarri government defends their use of cybernetics and urges the other members of the Grand Alliance to jointly build a cybernetic army to resist the ever growing Naplian threat.
Adoption of Briddarri cybernetic plan is approved by the Grand Alliance. They formally contract with Stelltron, the largest member of the Great Trade Houses, to organize harvest and production of a cybernetic army.
2908
Corporations of the Grand Alliance, in conjunction with and under the direction of Stelltron and other great trade houses, begin to produce cybernetics.
2909
Ronnel Empire, with the encouragement of the Mega Corporation, contracts with Repur Cybernetics and establishes the "Repur Cybernetic Reserve" a harvest region covering all of the southern quarter of the Ronnel Empire.
2913
Taking advantage of the growing need for cybernetic production reserves and not willing to sacrifice their own citizens, Laterad agents stage a coup in the neighboring Raegar Kingdom and the new puppet government begins to secretly and systematically harvest all Raegar worlds within the Kingdom. Laterad corporations and political organizations are given the best of the depopulated worlds. The remainder are used as internment camps for those awaiting compulsory harvest.
2914
Geddan Corporation contractors enter Raegar territory and begin to construct factories, shipyards, and all of the facilities that the vast Geddan Cyborg force will need to manufacture the weapons and starships they will need to join the fight against the Naplians.
2928
Harvesting of all Raegar worlds is completed. The entire region is now the Geddan Corporation Cybernetic Reserve. Geddan Cyborg forces are ready to join the war.
2944
Outland Colonies leave the Grand Alliance and the Terran political sphere in protest of the allied cybernetic harvest and build programs.
2945
The cybernetic phase of the war began in earnest in 2945 when the first Cybernetic fleet engaged Naplian forces in the Attwa Starsystem.
Although the Naplians were victorious in the engagement, the new cybernetic fleets had the advantage of superior combat strength and the ability to replenish and increase their numbers through the harvesting of indigenous populations as they ground across the regions occupied by Naplia and its allies. Combat losses in troops and ships meant little to cyborg forces. Downed cyber troopers could be rebuilt if the headpiece could be recovered after an assault. The Naplians were relentlessly pursued across the spiral arm and into their own territories. The war became a campaign of annihilation with human and allied forces arriving to mop up and rebuild worlds after cybernetic attack and "processing" of the planet.
3012
Grand Alliance Cybernetic Harvest Ends, Emperors’ War: End of cybernetic harvest and construction programs in the inner rim and coreward regions.
Mark 5 Truppen
