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Orion Nero Initiative is a futuristic short story, set in the year 2061, revolving around an interplanetary conflict between two factions within the Otani System; The Alvitr Central Security (ACS) and the Orion Nero Initiative (ONI). In 2061, a military alliance between the Alvitr Kingdom and the Central Security broke the peace of the Otani System by invading its neighbouring provinces and planets due to desire for territorial expansion. In response to the invasion, a joint alliance between the planets Orion and Nero were formed, resulting in the ONI, whose main purpose was to defeat the ACS aggression within the system.

Orion Nero Initiative

Setting
The year is 2061, and technology has advanced to the extent of space travel, and the harvesting of a new energy that is found in Alkania Crystals, although much of the modern era still remains. The Otani System is where the story takes place, which is home to several planets, three of which are inhabitable, and therefore able to sustain life: Ansaris; Nero; and Orion. From the sun that marks the centre of the system, Orion is the closest, followed by Nero and Ansaris. However, despite the differences in distance between the planets and the sun, they all share similar characteristics such as sunlight, oxygen level, biomes, etc. Other astronomical bodies in the system include a tiny red planet, Pandoro, which functions like a second moon, revolving around the planet Nero that can be seen from inside the planet. Pandoro and Ansaris are always seen together when viewed from Nero, where the tiny red planet is in front of its gigantic counterpart. Bodies of water cover less than 40% of each planet's landform and so watercraft is uncommon in the Otani System, with the exception of luxury cruisers, yachts and other watercraft for recreational activities.

Each planet is divided into four provinces, each individually controlled by their own government. However, their power is limited and restricted by the Otani Federation, also known as the Federation. The Federation is a military power that resides in the Otani Space Station that sits above Nero, and acts as a peace keeper of the system, providing the provincial governments with a police force known as the Central Security. The main role of the Central Security is to maintain social cohesion in the respective provinces of each planet and ensure the peace and harmony is enforced at all times. Because the Federation is primarily a military power, no provincial governments have their own military force and instead, the president of each provincial government is automatically a member of the Federation's highest echelon, the Central Security High Command. With four provinces in each planet, the number of members on the Central Command totals to 24, with one member being elected as the director of the Federation, becoming the 25th member of the High Command and the person in charge of the Otani System for 4 years. However, the role of director can be retracted at any time if the High Command calls for a summit and a majority vote for the removal of the current director is obtained.

The overall aim of the High Command is to ensure all provinces pass laws that cooperate with other provincial laws, adhering to the unity that is maintained. Laws that a province wishes to pass but conflicts with another provincial law or disrupts the utopia of the Otani System is rejected by the High Command. Each province in each planet is connected via a Interplanetary Transportation Platform (ITP), which allows instantaneous transportation of any object, living organisms and inanimate objects from one ITP to another. Even though space travel is a way of travel, it is off limits for civilians, and the only aerospace craft available are used by the Federation. Space travel is also not an ideal method of travel due to the travel distance between the planets is equivalent to two months. The creation of the ITP is to connect each province of each planet directly so that trade and commerce becomes more efficient. However, due to high maintenance cost of the ITP, travelling via an ITP is extremely expensive, especially the movement of people and so other than the teleportation of goods, the only people who are able to afford the expensive travel costs are representatives from trading companies, members of provincial governments or government agencies, military personnel or families of wealth. Because of the expensive costs of travelling, more than 90% of a planet's population never travels interplanetary, however movement from one province to another within the same planet via land travel is extremely frequent as a result of the connected inter-province highways.

Plot
The events of Orion Nero Initiative begin in the year 2054 when an unknown terrorist organisation attack the Gilstein Palace in the Alvitr Province (Ansaris). It is later found out that the son of the royal family, Armin Alvitr was the one who initiated the attack, to take over Alvitr from his parents. However, a failed attempt to do so resulted in Armin and his terrorist organisation to go into hiding for the next 7 years where the main story of the Orion Nero Initiative begins. It is later found out that Armin's terrorist organisation featured in the 2054 incident was the earliest version of what would become the Alvitr Central Security.

In the year 2061, several teams of Central Security police officers infiltrate an apartment complex in downtown Enderossi, Katona. After securing the building and commencing a Sensitive Site Exploitation of the building do the officers find out about an incident that occurred seven years ago. While it seemed that the Otani Federation was able to quell the terrorist attack from the past, seven years later, the new director of the Central Security High Command, Eric Saunders pulled many strings in order to rebel against the Otani Federation to form an alliance with Armin Alvitr, creating the Alvitr Central Security that stemmed from the alliance built between the Alvitr Province, and the Central Security. One goal was in mind. To destroy both Orion and Nero in order t harvest the planet's cores in order to resurrect the long lost planet of Headon Prime.

With Saunders being in complete control over the entire Federation, his influence over all officers of the Central Security allowed him to create the perfect army that could create the ultimate fighting force for the newly created ACS. Saunders' rebellion against the Otani Federation saw the destruction of the military organisation which resulted in chaos upon all three planets of the Otani System with Central Security loyal to Saunders killing those whom were not. Ansaris suffered the most from the rebellion, and members of the Federation who were against Saunders' plan helped evacuate as many people from Ansaris as possible so that they could seek asylum in the neighbouring planets, Orion and Nero which weren't as chaotic as Ansaris.

With the destruction of the previous military superpower, a new organisation, founded by William P. Cullen was established to fight against the alliance between Armin Alvitr and Eric Saunders, which became known as the Alvitr Central Security (ACS). The newly established organisation, Orion Nero Initiative (ONI) which was established one year before the fall of the Federation and was a joint force between the planets Orion and Nero. Members of the Central Security who were against Saunders' rebellion joined the ONI and along with the recruitment of people who wanted to fight the ACS, the ONI became both a military and political organisation that would provide economic and political aid to the provinces of both Orion and Nero, as well as creating a military force to defend against ACS aggression, as well as removing the ACS occupation from the Otani System entirely.

With members of the ACS scattered all across Orion and Nero because of their previous role as Central Security Officers, the ONI needed to rid the two planets of ACS presence before they could re-enter Ansaris and fight back against the ACS aggression. However, along the way, multiple supernatural phenomena's occur that are unexplainable, but towards the end of the story, the unexplainable explains itself and reveals the true intentions of the ACS aggression.

Orion

 * Azure Province
 * Caldor Province
 * Gellar Province
 * Solis Province

Nero

 * Aleena Province
 * Chawla Province
 * Kayla Province
 * Koven Province

Ansaris

 * Alvitr Province
 * Elphix Province
 * Katona Province
 * Nava Province

Off-World

 * Headon Prime
 * Luna Gateway
 * Pandoro
 * Otani Space Station
 * Interplanetary Transportation Platform

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