3003
Okar -now as advanced technologically as Terra's mid-22nd Century- once again declares war on Terra, and its allies. The Rathgar homeworld is reduced to rubble in the crossfire.
3004
Okarnagan warships descend on Terra itself, managing somehow to slip through its defences. They attack London, destroying the houses of Parliament and its Members. First Star Lord/ Admiral Geletti, commander of all Terran forces, briefly assumes governorship of Terran authorities and territories. He institutes the beginning of a formal re-structuring of the terran government, and system governing.
3009
Geletti himself leads the attack on the world of Okar. He is shot a dozen times in the final assault, yet refuses to die until the leader of the Okarnagan war fleet is killed. His name is revered in many cultures around the nineteen galaxies, even in the 41st Century.
3015
After six years of squabbling among newly elected officials, Geletti's successor, First Star Lady/Admiral Jane "Grizzly" Risley, declares martial law, which precipitates a three-month civil war in the outer colonies between Risley's elite troops, and a fleet under the command of Commodore Grant and General Yu. Both Grant and Yu were Geletti's ost trusted friends, and were utterly loyal to the Terran elected government. The civil war ends at the Battle of Karmana, which also marked the very last of humanity's Interior Wars, uniting the Terran territories like never before. This paved the way for the establishment of the Consortium, which allowed non-humans to become citizens and serve in Terran forces, and positions of power.
3020
The Terran Consortium is created, with the remains of the Rathgar Kingdom represented by no less than three councillors. The Rijek is given five seats on the Terran Cabinet. The Rijek send the Deputy Marshal himself as the first senior Rijiin representative; this becomes a major tradition in the Rijek.
3021
There are now three-thousand aliens serving in the Terran fleet.
The Admiralty is split so that no one person can have ultimate control over all of the military. The position of First Star Lord is complemented by the commanding officers of the different arms of the military: Fleet Command, Intelligence, Army, Starfighter Command, Logistics Corps, Science Operations, and the Medical Corps.
3899
The Fall of Terra. An unknown explosion knocks a large concentration of asteroids away from the Mars-Jupiter asteroid belt, the largest of which crashes into the American continent, sending a shockwave across half the planet, killing three billion humans and aliens in the initial explosion. Smaller asteroids fall on Germany, France, Russia, China, Britain, the Southern Eurpoean states, and the North coast of Africa. In total, 1.34 billion are killed in the smaller incidents. Belatedly, it was discovered some hours later that the larger impact had penetrated the planet's crust, and destablised the planet's structure; the unusual radiation emitting from the asteroid remains began to disrupt the regular flow of the inner and outer cores, causing earthquakes by the hundreds, and volcanoes to blow simultaneously. Yet more thousands were killed in the subsequent super-quakes. The planet tears itself apart, and takes with it 0.5 percent of the Terran military, all stationed at Terra.
The debris from Terra also destroys the planets Mars and Venus, along with Terra's own moon.
First Star Lord Dezhenko is killed, on his flagship HMS Poseidon; the ship is lost with all hands as it tries to escape the brief inversion of Terra's gravity well.
The Terran Consortium reels from the destruction of the homeworld. Once again, the remains of the government argue over what should be done. The military's new leader, First Star Lady Admiral Jessica Scarlett, refuses to use the armed forces to help the Council decide on a new government cabinet.
With Terra gone, the power balance in the nineteen galaxies becomes unstable, with crime on the increase, and many alien soldiers setting themselves up as petty warlords. The Terran military is hard-pressed to keep many of these warlords from becoming too powerful in the following century.
