Earth



Earth. The birthplace of humanity. The place that most of our history has taken place. The planet that is considered the premiere human planet.

History
Sometime prior to 2404 Earth experienced extreme runaway global warming which flooded most coastal cities and many low lying under several feet or more of ocean water. Areas include Miami, (ironically) Lower Manhattan, Washington DC, Costal Virginia, New Jersey, Orlando, Pensacola, (assumed) The Netherlands, London, most Islands in the Caribbean and Pacific.

Also prior to 2404 what amounts to World War III (against radical nuclear armed Islamic terrorists) and possibly World War IV (between America, Europe, & NATO and China occurred) which culminated with the Wormwood Asteroid strike in the Southern Atlantic that killed over 500 million people and helped in the flooding of the costal cities.

As well as an apparent disease known as the Blood Death that killed around a billion people and resulted in the advancement of Nano Tech in the human body.

Regardless of all the wars and disease, Earth is still home to many billions of humans both on the ground and in orbital stations orbiting Earth based around three space elevators.

Sometime in the twenty second century the Alcubierre drive came to fruition.

Government
After the strain of the Islamic war with nuclear weapons and the Wormwood asteroid strike most of the world governments collapsed and were reorganized. Most of North America was united into the United States of North America with the capital located in Columbus DC, Ohio. And the what appears to be the Pan-European. The Earth Confederation (Terran Confederation, etc.) was formed to be a replacement United Nations but was able to field military forces from member nations, with its capital in Geneva, Switzerland. Of course China, as well as the Islamic nations were not allowed entry into the confederation. In 2424 The Confederation splintered as a sort of Civil War began between USNA (minus Mexico because Mexico seceded from USNA) and Europe (minus Russia and possibly UK which still had good relations with former US now USNA).