"the great war"
In the Twenty fourth century the Earth Alliance, celebrating it's one hundred and ninth anniversary had been on the eve of political destruction for several years. Many planets wanted independence from forced allegiance to a government that had slowly but surly turned from the ideals to which it was founded on. To make things even worse jobs for citizens where few and far between with the development of a Genetically engineered race of humans eighty years prior. What was once common place for the average man and women to do now was done by genetically engineered human slaves; Everything from hard labor, construction even a class of solders. With political tensions ever rising and the use of the slave race Homo Sapian Sup-Sorga, what happened next was inevitable.
Hundreds of worlds broke away from the Earth Alliance declaring independence, with Earth Alliance taking military action in response. Humanities first bloody war in space had started, fighting was fierce and conditions for many harsh. In the first year of the civil war many planets had banded together for mutual defense but it was a grouping of planets near the local systems that had declared a legal government. The Neoterran Empire was founded and many systems near by joined them after it was formed. With the civil war raging on and now two governments fighting for control over hundreds of systems each claiming an independence from the other, the war reached a boiling point.
Homo Sapian Sup-Sorga had been turned in to a force of canon fodder for all sides, sending them in to fight bloody campaign after campaign. Half way in to the Second year all sides caught between the Alliance and the Neoterrans had been ravaged and both Governments had almost crippled each other. It was not until the Neoterran Empire made a major push and took control for Sol Sector that the Earth Alliance began to crumble and new elements broke away from the alliance. By the year 2346, eight years of war the Alliance was shattered beyond repair having splintered and divided all over the known galaxies.
In the aftermath of the civil war it became known as the first galactic war or "Great War." Those planets that had not joined ether side had declared neutrality and established armistices. But some still fought with each other and among them selves. During this time of darkness for humanity the NeoTerran Empire tightened its hold on the captured systems and began to expand in to uncharted space. The NeoTerran Empire began a program to enhance the human made slave race even more trying to creat more effective slaves. What remained of the Alliance was now scattered and drifting from place to place fighting for everything they could get and to keep. Attempting to bring stability the NeoTerran Empire began a skirmish campaign forcing many systems to enter their empire. The Galaxies had been forever changed by these events and the age of innocents in space for humanity was short lived, trial by fire and violence was now forever in the history books. In the end five trillion people had lost their lives!