The Terran Expanse Saga

Inspired by authors like Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, I wrote many short stories in my college years all focused around something called the Terran Expanse (TE). The TE is a loosely connected conglomerate of Terran (Earth) colonies and their allies in a futuristic setting. It is losely ruled by the Terran Expanse Authority or the Terran Empire (depending on the story you read).

I modelled it after Niven "Known Space", and have even integrated it into the history of my Advanced Star Frontiers 4th Edition. Several of my stories still reference the TE in some way or another.

Since I seem to be slowly developing an entity into itself, I decided to try and put together a site dedicated to something I can call my own - the Terran Expanse. In time, I hope to post a timeline, races, and technology. All this will be literary in nature and not driven by any particular RPG I happen to run.

This is just a place to share my ideas...

A Portion of the Timeline

2105 AD - 2210 AD

First Terran Expansion: During these years, Terra colonizes its solar system, establishes numerous space stations, and discovers FTL flight. Near by Star Systems are then colonized.

2210 AD - 2230 AD

High Colonies War: After a bitter three way war, the UNF, under the control of the mega-corporations, as well as the Asian Alliance and the High Colony Alliance (alliance of space stations in the Sol system) establish the Olympus Mons Agreement, which forms the Terran Imperial Expanse Authority.

1300-1200 pf

Start of the First Era of Terran Imperialism. The Terran Expanse, with no regard to what societies or cultures they disrupted, aggressively colonize nearby worlds. Terran force many "undesirables" to relocate to remote worlds.

2230 AD - 2241 AD

First Contact between the Terrans and the Karian Orb, leads into the Terran-Karian War. A species of extremely aggressive simian creatures, steal technology from the Terran humans and start a long and brutal war on their homeworld, and spreads to other Terran Colonies. It ends with Terrans pulling out of the system, and declaring it off-limits to colonization.

2241 AD - 2246 AD

Terran-Glemmie Wars.

A seemingly unintelligent species of gigantic lizards known as the Glemlidarians are enslaved and the Terran Imperial force them into genetic and cybernetic modifications. They are used Heavy Weapons units. They suddenly start showing intelligence, and rebel against their masters. The war ends with what is assumed as the last unit of "Glemmies" destroying itself on a Terran remote colony. Many of the units were assumed lost or self-destructed. No sign of the Glemmies were seen again.