Prelude (A) Of Worlds and Wars

It was the year 2238 AD by Earth's reckoning that we first made contact with other life. Contrary to many ideas, the meeting was very pleasant and peaceful, beneficial for all involved. Earth's people began to spread and to colonize, new technology and new friends propelling the Earth into the space age. With the new understanding of space jumps, it seemed that there was nothing left to hold the Earth and mankind back.
They made many friends, and few enemies, the economy and technical level growing beyond previous thought. Many more species were discovered many more friends were made. The Galaxy as we knew it was a very large place, and there were many races to befriend.
The Galaxy enjoyed a peace that lasted nearly a hundred years before it happened.
Oddly, it was the smallest of things that began the war that would end so many worlds. Two very minor planets, lacking both economic power or military might declared war on one another over a woman. The princess of Erath had eloped with a politician from Granz, the public outcry sending them to war.
Allies were called in, other motivations were created. Before even a year had passed, there was hardly a race or world that wasn't fully invested in the most devastating full scale war in the history of Earth or any world's being.
Both sides of the war were powerful and resourceful, the war was long, and bitter.
60 years passed and the war still raged, so long that nobody even knew what they were fighting for anymore, just that they had to fight, fight or die. The War grew more and more desperate, changing from a war over money and land and love to a war for survival.
It was the 61st year of the war when Earth's allies, an enlightened race, invented the jump-reaction (J-A) torpedo, the first weapon capable of producing destruction on a planetary scale. It was only a few months later when the Swarm joined the war, an insectoid race that until this point had not been involved in the war. They also held the ability to destroy a world, however destroy in an odd sense. When a Larva-Queen of the Swarm would land on a planet, she would infect it, subverting the very rock of the planet and making it entirely unsuitable to support any life but their own. With both of these weapons now brought into play, the war worsened dramatically, entire races and worlds being violently wiped off the map.
Only a year later, The only worlds and races left alive were Humans and the Swarm, every other world and race having been destroyed, each of the colonies having been obliterated.
In a full out assault, and using the last produced J-A Torpedo, Earth's armada succeeded in destroying the Swarm's homeworld. Considering the war to be over, they turned and plotted a return course to Earth. However, despite the destruction of the Swarm's last homeworld, There was yet another Larva-Queen alive, with a sizable force. The Swarm ambushed the exhausted earth forces from behind and destroyed the fleet, continuing their attack until they attacked Earth and successfully landed their queen on it. Within only hours, the Earth was entirely infested.
Despite rescues, the casualty rate was significant. The majority of the human race was slaughtered that day.
Those who escaped went to star ships, and large cities built onto ships and asteroids that were called "Star Cities". These rag-tag refugees fled to avoid being killed by the now rapidly reproducing Swarm.
For several years, the swarm tried to destroy the remaining humans, the humans always only barely escaping annihilation thanks to the wiles of one particular commander. This man was considered to be a hero, a cunning tactician and trainer by the name of Teancum. He designed and produced a line of high-performance star-fighters, and trained each one of the pilots he hand picked to fly them. They became known as Defenders. This elite fighting force and the wiles of its commander made the difference between life and death against overwhelming odds time and time again.
It was Teancum who devised the plan to put a stop to the swarm and made the first offensive against the swarm since before the loss of Earth. Commendering a very large star colony, and protected by his defenders, Teancum used the reactor engine of the enormous asteroid colony to push the moon out of orbit, making it fall into the earth. With the earth's surface being compromised by the infestation, the moon fall broke the planet apart, effectively destroying the last known world capable of supporting life, effectively stopping the swarm from reproducing.
The defender's were devesated by this loss, but many survived and returned to the fleet.
Inversely, before the destruction of the earth, the Swarm had successfully produced a fleet as well as a new Larva-Queen. However, before she could reproduce she needed to land on a world that could support life. Humans too, could not last without finding a planet to support them. However, with the destruction of the Earth, there were no planets known on any map that could support life.
With no other choice, both species set off into the cosmos and off the map, searching for a world to support them, all the way attempting to annihilate the other and never succeeding.
After eleven years of wandering through the cosmos, The Earth's fleet came out of a jump in an unexplored system where they detected a planet very similar to Earth, and apparently capable of supporting life. Eagerly, they launched probes to test and photograph the new world. To their surprise, they found that this new world already had human life inhabiting it, although it appeared to be not overly advanced. After so many years of having no home and no hope, this news was beyond wonderful.
However, very shortly after their discovery of this world, the Swarm also appeared in the sector, finding the world very quickly and sending their entire force to attempt to land on it, the Swarm being as desperate as the humans. The remainder of Earth's forces rushed to protect the new world and the most fierce battle either species had ever known commenced, raging on and on, the survival of either race being held in the balance.
After the smoke had cleared, days after the battle began, the swarm was exterminated. The last queen was dead, the few remaining drones mindless and floating without direction. Of all Earth's forces, only one cruiser and one star-city remained. With both the cruiser and the Star-city heavily damaged, the Cruiser docked with the city. The final Star City, named Finelle, had lost its life support systems, and was forced to enter the atmosphere of this new world.

It was a beautiful day, the clouds white and thin when the enormous city floating in the sky appeared.