"One would have thought that Man should have learnt his lesson by now. After all, are we not a intelligent species?

World War III had killed 2 billion people back on Terra when wet navy was the ultimate projection of mobile power. With that out of the way, and the discovery of hyperspace, one would logically expect humans to be more peaceful. Unfotunately, just a mere seven decades after the various eastern countries formed the Pact of Asia Defense Cordon, we have the African civil war in the continent which should not have being able to support war. Only after a 'short' twenty-four years in which poor countries made themselves poorer did the Western Confederation intervene, which was too late for another 1200 million souls.

Ah yes, and who could forget the peaceful days after that! Those years managed to last for another four hundred and sixty-four years! However, The Chaos unmade everything that was made. For nearly a millenium the colonised systems fought themselves, each other, and pratically anyone they could fight. Need a reminder of the planets that had their populations wiped out? Port Arthur, Arcadia were just some of the few; and who could forget Mars, of which a WHOLE 5 percent survived the biological agent. 90 percent of its cities still laid ruin now, even though nearly twenty-five centuries have passed. In approximately one millenium 100 billion humans died.

Finally we are getting closer to our time, no? The Great War, as it is now known, wiped out at least 50 percent of all the star nations' navies, not to count millions of soldiers that were just doing their duty.

Did we learn anything? Perhaps we did.

Is it enough? That remains to be seen."

-Excerpt from the Introduction of Peace: A Facade? by Anthony Newman, New Avalon Publishing. Published in November, 3058AE