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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 unknown terrorists attack the Gilstein Palace in Alvitr Province (Ansaris), with both the King and Queen murdered. It is later found out that the son of the royal family, Armin Alvitr was the one who initiated the attack, killing off both his parents so that he could begin the territorial expansion of Alvitr by invading the neighbouring provinces. Armin, as the new head of the Alvitr Kingdom signs an alliance with Director Eric Saunders of the Special Air Recon Command who would assist Armin in taking over the other provinces of Ansaris.

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. Seven years ago, the Kingdom of Alvitr was attacked by foreign invaders and the King and Queen of Alvitr were killed. It was later learned that the son of the King and Queen, Armin Alvitr was the one who orchestrated the attack against his own province and kingdom to hide his true intent of attacking the other provinces of Ansaris for territorial expansion. The threat was believed to have been stopped when the Special Air Recon Command placed a shield around the entire province of Alvitr, preventing anyone from the province to leave and potentially threaten the rest of Ansaris. However, during the seven years in which Alvitr was imprisoned, Armin secretly formed an alliance with the SARCOM director, Eric Saunders who was also a citizen of Alvitr and also wished to see the expansion of his home province.

With Saunders being in complete control over the entire SARCOM force, his influence over all officers of the Central Security allowed him to create the perfect army that could assist in the expansion of Alvitr without fear of any other military intervention since the SARCOM that he controlled was the biggest and only military power in the entire Otani System. While Saunders had originally planned for a rebellion against the SARCOM after he persuaded enough members of the Central Security High Command, the recent findings of the Central Security team in Enderossi forced Saunders to begin his rebellion ahead of time.

Saunders' rebellion against the SARCOM saw the destruction of the military organisation which resulted in chaos upon all three planets of the Otani System with Central Security officers fighting each other. Ansaris suffered the most from the outbreak and members of the SARCOM 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 SARCOM and was a joint force between the planets Orion and Nero. Members of the SARCOM 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 with the mindset of pushing them back into Alvitr.

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

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