It is year 2723. Humanity has long since conquered the stars around them. The resources and riches from their conquests had brought the human race into an industrial boom of technological advancement. With powerful self sustaining AI's to aid humans and their machines, and cybernetics and biotech have vastly increased life expectancy of the average human. The growth and advancement of humanity has grown exponentially. Starships of massive proportions were built, floating worlds in space were created, massive Utopia cities on lush green planets were erected. Worlds beyond even what humanity thought were possible were discovered, all linked by webways of interstellar faster than light travel. Humanity had reached a veritable Golden Age of expansion, spreading further and further across the galaxy.

By the year 2480, Humanity had overextended itself; the great sprawling empire it had forged had become too large and expansive for it to support itself. The distance and communication between the outer colonies and the core worlds slowed to a crawl as the cracks in the machine finally began to reveal themselves. The empire of man collapsed onto itself. Over the course of 20 years, the mighty empire humanity had established splintered into thousands of factions. The fall of the empire resulted in a massive power vacuum and the Galaxy erupted into grand-scale feudal war. Local powers grew by warring with other factions, only to be taken over by an even larger neighbor; others stayed secluded for as long as they could, eventually lost or forgotten about in their isolation. Many worlds were eventually taken back by the newly reconstituted United Earth Empire, and just as many were lost in deep space. Some of the greatest advancements of humanity were lost to the void, along with their means of production, leaving the remains of those pieces of technology as irreplaceable cornerstones upon which societies were wrought.

Some time around the mid 26th century- 2542, most of the numerous factions had consolidated into a few major powers: The original and newly christened United Earth Empire, retaining much of their old powerbase, was made up of most of the core empire planets; The Coalition, a group of loosely allied separatists strictly opposed to the Earth Empire, spanning across most of the far reaches of colonial space; and the Krellian Diktat, a reclusive, bizarre group focused mainly along the outskirts of known space, and in the most hostile pockets of natural phenomena within the known galaxy. Alongside these three powers, dozens of smaller stellar kingdoms and fiefdoms still cling onto independence, eking out rather meager existences in comparison, remaining ardently independent, even as their fellows are quickly absorbed into the domains of the larger powers. The Earth Empire and the Coalition fought bitterly, the Empire seeking to reclaim their lost territory, and the Coalition fighting for a new order in the galaxy. The rest of the galaxy did their best to avoid being drawn into the conflict themselves, building up their own power bases where possible.

By the turn of the 27th century, the Earth Empire and the Coalition had suffered dreadful casualties on both sides, and just as many worlds lost in the splintering had been razed by both sides. The two superpowers agreed to an uneasy truce, marking the start of an intergalactic cold war, as the two superpowers began a buildup of military strength. Though despite this purported peace, the two powers continued to engage in proxy wars with smaller nations and colonies, and small skirmishes between the two powers were a fairly common occurrence.

As the end of the 27th century drew near, a series of failed operations by the Earth Empire and rumors of a Coalition Superweapon have sparked up and reignited the flames of war. After almost a century of peace, war between the Coalition and the Empire has renewed in earnest. Millions of people from both sides are drafted as fleets of starships and planets are thrown into vicious war. Well coordinated Coalition forces take advantage of the Empire’s overextended lines and sluggish reaction time to take victory after victory by utilizing a new type of fighting machine: Mobile Armor Suits, a humanoid fighting machine much more maneuverable than conventional aerospace craft and more durable than typical ground units, and effective in most environmental situations.

In an attempt to counter the new threat and reorganize their military efforts, the Empire have slowly begun the rollout of their own Mobile Armor Suits, reverse-engineering their own designs from captured and destroyed Coalition suits. The war escalates again as The Empire formally adopts Mobile Armor Suits into their armed forces, both sides rapidly producing newer and more advanced models of mobile armor in order to maintain an edge against the other.

As the years of dogged fighting turn to decades, with no major headway gained by anyone, the UEE and Coalition have fought one another yet again to a stalemate. Lines drawn on starmaps have been forged by the blood of countless millions of lives lost, and still not an end to the bloodshed is even remotely in sight. Every twist and surprise is countered by another, each paid for in blood and steel.

In the middle of all of this, are a small detachment of men and women from the 101st Special Operations Group. Newly reconstituted and bolstered with a new batch of enterprising pilots, the 101st find themselves attached to the United Earth Empire's 5th Expeditionary Fleet. They prepare themselves for what can only be another bloody campaign, as the Fighting Fifths embark to join the front within the Persean Sector. Their first task is a simple one: To break the backs of the Coalition occupation in the Terimon System, and to secure the system's Nanoforge, a powerful piece of technology dating back to the original empire.

Unfortunately for all, nothing is ever quite as simple as it seems. The men and women of the 101st will find themselves yet thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Only time will tell how well they fare.