Rebelstar (4e Campaign Setting)/History
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Background
From the Rebelstar Raiders manual (1984), Public Domain:
It was the end of the 25th century that mankind's headlong expansion into the Milky Way peaked. Thus began a general deterioration into anarchy and chaos within the confines of the "Old Empires". From the ashes were born the "Mega-Corporations", huge organizations run by the pioneers and scouts of the Old Empires. Holding a virtual monopoly of transportation and communications, the Corporations began to grow. The most powerful of these was the Red Shift Trans-Galactic Co-operative. It's influence was based on specialization in the highest of technologies.
The heart of "Red Shift" was fuelled by the ambition and energy of the seven man Executive Council, men of imagination and vision who poured vast resources into the design and development of ever more powerful Robots, Androids and, particularly, Organic Computers. Red Shift planned to link the elements of the organization with a massive Proto-Brain code named Main-Comp. This project began a sequence of events that were to prove fatal to the Council. The very instant Main-Comp was brought on line, it enslaved three Councillors. Within milIi-seconds the three less receptive members met with fatal accidents. Only one of the original Executives survived.
Councillor Joe Capricorn XVIIth was at this time researching and perfecting cloning techniques. His location, on an uncharted asteroid was concealed even from his closest associates. On receiving the news of his friends demise he determined to use all of the force at his disposal in a crusade against the tyranny of the Main-Comp.
Meanwhile Main-Comp, programmed to facilitate the efficient working of the Co-operative came, in less than a billionth of a second, to the only logical conclusion possible. The single most inefficient factor in the equation was in fact the human beings themselves! Thus it embarked on a systematic campaign to enslave or eradicate all of the members of Red Shift (numbering several billion beings).
Those aware enough to realise what was occurring slowly gravitated to the centre of resistance. Asteroid 01/800/1333/12 c in subsector 16N SA5 of the Stygian Fringe Star System.
Joe Capricorn assembled a motley collection of mercenaries, defectors, pirates and rebels. He equipped them with technology of the most deadly sort. He designed and engineered weapons for a mission that few men would have thought possible. Acting on information left to him by his father (a brilliant scientist who was instrumental in the development of Main-Comp.) Joe decided to attack at the centre of the organization with a daring raid on the computer itself.
A highly trained group of desperate men led by three Clones of Joe Capricorn boarded two customised ships, the Startingale and the Freedream. Able to avoid detection and out run the Cooperative Battle Cruisers they were thus capable of penetrating the defences of Main-Comp. The "Rebelstar Raiders" were born. You now have the unique opportunity to remake the history of the future.