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Orion Nero Initiative is futuristic short story set in the year 2061, revolving around the interplanetary conflict between two factions in the Otani System, the Alvitr Central Security and the Orion Nero Initiative. In 2054, the Kingdom of Alvitr invades neighbouring provinces and planets with the assistance of the Central Security due to the desire for territorial expansion. In response to the invasion, a joint alliance between Orion and Nero was formed, resulting in the Orion Nero Initiative, whose main purpose was to defeat the Alvitr Central Security.

Orion Nero Initiative

Setting
The year is 2061, and technology has somewhat advanced with much of the modern era retaining. The story takes placed in the Otani System, a system with a total of seven planets and only three that are able to sustain life: Ansaris; Nero; and Orion. All three planets are linked together via an Interlinked Teleportation Platform (ITP) which allows instantaneous transportation of any object, living organisms and inanimate objects of the like. Each planet has four provinces that are individually governed. Each province has one ITP located in the capital city, but is usually only used by trading companies, members of provincial governments, families of wealth or military personnel due to extremely expensive teleportation fees. More than 90% of a planet's population never travel inter-planetary since aerospace travel is restricted only to the Special Air Recon Command.

Even though the provincial governments do hold all of the political power, they are kept in check by the Special Air Recon Command (SARCOM). SARCOM is the most powerful military force in the system which provides a police brigade, called the Central Security which maintains law and order in each province. The Central Security are essentially the police force that enforce the law on behalf of the individual governments. However, members of the highest echelon, the Central Security High Command, must give consent to all laws passed and laws that may disrupt the euphoria and Utopian culture of the planets and the people will be rejected since the main aim for SARCOM is to maintain stability and peace in the system.

The planets are arranged in a somewhat straight line with Orion being the closest, and Ansaris being the furthest from the sun. Although the planets are arranged in a line, distance between each planet is relatively equal, and share many similar characteristics, such as oxygen level, sunlight, etc.

Other than the three planets, there are also other astronomical bodies in the system such as the moon, referred to as 'The Moon of Orion', 'The Moon of Nero', 'The Moon of Ansaris'. Other astronomical bodies includes the red fiery, inhabitant planet, Pandoro, orbiting the sun in between Nero and Ansaris. Pandoro and Ansaris can always be seen together from Nero, but the red planet is ten times smaller than Nero and therefore miniature compared to Ansaris.

Water covers less than forty percent of all three planets combined meaning that the use of watercraft are almost nil, with the exception of some luxury cruisers, yachts and other watercraft used for recreational activities or for the fishing industry or personal leisure. Aerospace travel has been implemented with the SARCOM based on a fleet of warships in space. However, apart from satellite probes being sent out into the distant space, no one from the Otani System has ventured further than the planets and no extra-terrestrial life has visited either.

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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