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 Hi All, 

There is an equal and opposite reaction : there are many different choices we make to forge our past, present and future. There are many different realities in which history tells a different story....

Timeline : 

66 million years ago- During the Cretaceous period the Sszzorg ,  a species of intelligent space faring Dromaeosauridae are the dominant species on the planet, alongside dinosaurs. They participate in-along with the Martians - the last great multiverse war . As a result their civilisation is destroyed, culminating in an attack on their Capital, which is known to humans as the Yucatan Peninsula , and the remnant are forced into hibernation chambers deep below the Earth : meanwhile most Martians ascend to another dimension, their planet in ruins, leaving behind a small contingent on the Red Planet to guard it against 'tomb raiders'. 

The Sszzorg systems are damaged, so their awakening mechanisms don't work, until world war 3 in 1962 wherein the radiation and energy released is enough to power their systems once more. Thankfully further genocide and mass slaughter is avoided as a result of diplomacy. The efforts of  Earth's First President Alec Douglas Home, Vice President Golda Meir and Secretary of State Richard Nixon, persuade the Sszzorg to join the Earth Union  as equal partners, especially after Lord Home proved humans were indeed a civilised species thanks to the game of Cricket, which is now a firm Sszzorg national sport .  [  the surviving human nation states had  banded  together to create a Constitutional  Parliamentary Democratic  world government, with its Federal  Capital City being Birmingham and the West Midlands region of England, UK].   

In 1965 there was the first successful mission to the moon and a year later to Mars, which led to a disastrous first contact, which resulted in the Earth- Martian war, a bitter conflict which eventually turned in Earth's favour thanks to the tactical and strategic brilliance of the combined Human Sszzorg Defence Forces ;  Generals Moshe Dayan &  Admiral Mo'zzorg  who halted the Martian invasion of the battle of  Woking  and won victory on the Elysium Planes and  Olympus Mons, which led to  the subsequent Hisrel Accords and the start of the Earth-Mars 'special relationship'.

During this time a young Moroccan- French scientist David Elharar had presented and demonstrated his theory of Quantum Entanglement Portals, which he developed at the Sorbonne and refined at Cambridge. There he met Jacob Horowitz , a son of the Managing Partner of the bulge bracket investment bank of the same name, they quickly became best  of friends. The Quantum portals allowed near instantaneous  travel between two points, thus removing the need for motor vehicles and this, combined with the Szssorg's Warp Drive technology, began a period of human exploration of the Galaxy and thanks to the discovery of several wormholes, many other galaxies. It also made Elharar  and Horowitz  the wealthiest  humans to ever have lived.... 

The Earther State had grown to  a population of at least 1 quadrillion, 5,750 member states, and millions of colonies and outposts in the Milky Way and beyond, but  consisting of 5 distinct groups : Humans, Sszzorg, the Trans-humans of Lunar, the Belt and Jupiter, The Gorf and finally many smaller  alien refugees & immigrants  who have fled various authoritarian genocidal regimes. 

The  Earth has come into contact with many hundreds of thousands and species, millions of states, mostly peaceful, others hostile: the largest war to date was the Earth- Minitour war  of 2081-2089, during the Presidency of Antonio Garibaldi in which it was discovered that aliens (who Earthers call Minitours on the basis they look like the bull-human of legend)  had  mass bred and cloned, billions of humans as slaves . Other conflicts include the wars against the Domulans, the Plingons, the Vardassians, Chard, Leopoldie and the Shell conflict. There are several powers of note : the Multiverse super powers of Byzantine, Nachash, Onconvar, Svinge, Koobe & Mars. Regional and great powers consist of Earth, Leopoldie, Vardassia, Minotaur, Chard and Ganoush. 

The year is 2121....