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==Premise==

Mankind's desire to explore the universe is rooted in our curiosity. But in Shattered Past, that inherent curiosity results in a terrible devastation. As humans attempt to prepare the planet Mars for human habitation after a failed colony on the Moon almost a century earlier, the terraforming process reveals ancient ruins and mysterious machines that lay dormant beneath the Martian sands for thousands of years. Soon after, humanity is attacked and driven back to Earth by a robot race hellbent on claiming the Solar System and the rest of the universe for themselves. Nearly three centuries later, you awaken as the protagonist near the wreckage of your crashed ship to find your memories shattered, and humanity scattered across the western part of the planet while their robotic foes control the eastern lands. Through your journey to unlock the secrets of your past, you will become involved in a battle to retake Earth, and to once more bring life and hope to the desolate lands of humanity's broken home.

*The International Bureau of Aeronautics is established on Earth.

*Colony Pods are designed to transport colonists and supplies to destination worlds as well as acting as temporary surface shelters.

*The first human outpost on the moon is established, but is abandoned shortly after, a result of the satellite's low gravity and lack of atmosphere.

*The Red_Eden Project is initiated, and an exoscience company tasked with solving the challenges of reshaping many of the Solar System's formerly inhospitable worlds into sustainable earthlike environments is subsequently formed.

*Early prototypes of atmospheric processors are developed.

*The International Bureau of Aeronautics begins work on a still theoretical form of Faster-than-Light travel called the Cosmodrive.

*The colony ship RED EDEN is launched.

*During the initial terraformation of Mars, dust storms reveal the presence of ancient Praetorian ruins on the planet. After the reactivation of their dormant units buried within the planet, the Praetorians lay claim to Mars and begin attacking humanity, pushing it back to its homeworld, Earth.

*The Praetorians invade Earth. In Europe, ths results in the creation of the Overmind Hull. It organizes a series of invasions.

*War Drones are created to help combat the Praetorians.

*Due to mounting losses against the Praetorians, Earth's national governments issue a statement in which all organized combat operations in the eastern continent are officially terminated.

*With all of Eurasia being declared off-limits, the Americas become the only safe haven for humanity. A Praetorian Convergent Hull known as the Invasive Conductor, attempts to lead an invasion of the former North American Nation, but is destroyed, and the Praetorians return to Europe.

*As humanity's armies struggle to keep the frontier from Praetorian incursion, it's civilian population becomes engulfed in a bloody civil war over their civilization's ruins before achieving a tenuous peace in which many survivors attempt to form colonies in the wilderness, all the while keeping a watchful eye on the east.

*To manage governance across the scattered human colonies as well as to ensure their security from warlords and other threats, the Protectorate is established, and array stations to maintain communications with these colonies are constructed in a defense program overseen by the Protectorate's higher-ups known as the "Iron Line".  

*The Terraformer is created and tasked with overseeing an experimental project involving the use of nanomachines to convert matter into nano-mechanical surrogates. Allowing the Praetorians the manipulation of matter on extremely small scales.

*The Overmind Hull initiates a series of campaigns against human settlements beyond the Iron Line to claim more ground for the Terraformer's operations. As a result, the Praetorians begin swarming across the wastelands, aggressively seeking out and attacking human occupied territories.

*Having survived a Praetorian incursion, you attempt to escape the onslaught but your ship is shot down and crashes in The Desert. A group of Rangers investigating a distant colony that recently dropped out of contact with the Iron Line, see the downing of your craft, and rescue you from it's burning debris. Remembering little about your past before the crash, and stranded otherwise, you join the Rangers following a brief meeting, and after fending off a Praetorian scouting mission along the way, arrive at the colony only to find the remote settlement destroyed, and under Praetorian occupation.  

*After helping eliminate the Praetorian presence at the colony, and wanting to help, you aid the Rangers in reactivating a series of dormant tracking sensors and learn that a Permutative Hull known as the Terraformer has begun isolating the lands for experimentation in an effort to transform the region in order to make it more suitable for Praetorian operations.

*You are then deployed together with a team of Rangers to disable a set of gun platforms, after the assault convoy assembled by Fenrir is thwarted by the Praetorian defenses. After which, you find transport at a broken hangar nearby, allowing you to make it to the Praetorian stronghold.

*Upon reaching the AI's coordinates, you recover a transmission among the corpses of a dead team from [], emanating from within the base, warning that a Praetorian Hull of impossible capabilities dwells within. You venture into the base and after finding and rescuing [], fight alongside him against the Overmind Hull. Finally defeating the Praetorian command nexus, and dealing a massive blow to the machine hivemind.

==Compendium of the Crux Monith==