I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

Chapter 175 Dark Universe Human Difficulties

In the vast and boundless universe, the Milky Way is just a tiny, inconspicuous light in the vast sea of ​​stars.

Just within the range of human observation, there are trillions of galaxies like the Milky Way in the universe.

As we zoom out and focus on the Milky Way itself, we marvel at its brilliance and beauty.

This is a magnificent celestial body. The shining spiral disk we see in the picture is actually composed of more than 300 billion stars, as well as countless planets, asteroids and nebula matter.

These stars appear close together in the sky, but their actual distances are beyond human imagination and comprehension.

The closest distance between them is more than several light years, which means that the light they emit takes several years to reach each other, while most creatures living on the planet do not even reach a light second in their entire lives.

The universe is vast and deep, space is cold and silent, and a spacecraft sailing in it feels more lost than a diatom floating in the ocean.

But in this seemingly cold and empty universe, many lives with different forms and thoughts are born.

In a relatively marginal corner of the Milky Way, a star called the Sun gave birth to an intelligent race called Humankind on its third planet. In a short period of time relative to the Milky Way, this great and tenacious race completed the leap from the Stone Age to the Interstellar Age, and opened up a vast territory in the Milky Way with a fearless spirit.

After unifying the Earth, they named their sacred planet Terra and re-established the historical era.

In the first millennium (M1), humans began to build colonial cities on Mars and the satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune, moving beyond the planets and entering the era of space colonization.

In the fifteenth millennium (M15), as technology continued to develop, humans began to use sub-light-speed spacecraft to colonize other star systems near the solar system. Later, because the distance between each new colony and the earth was too far, it would take ten generations of people to travel, and the new colonies had to survive in the form of independent countries.

In the eighteenth millennium (M18), humans invented the subspace engine, and faster-than-light interstellar travel became possible. The efficiency of galactic colonization was greatly improved, and many human alliances and empires were established during this period.

It was also during this period that humans first came into contact with an intelligent alien race, which humans would later refer to as "Aliens". A war broke out between humans and the aliens. During this period, individuals with supernatural powers called "Psychics" began to emerge among humans, and more and more of them appeared in the human world.

In the 22nd millennium (M), through the study of psionics and psionics, a special type of psionics called "Navigators" appeared among humans. Navigators can guide spacecraft during warp voyages, allowing humans to make warp jumps faster and reach farther places. The footprints of human civilization activities also quickly spread throughout the galaxy during this period.

It is said that humans have established more than one million planetary worlds in the Milky Way (some say they have colonized more than one million star systems). Human science and technology have advanced by leaps and bounds, and relying on a technology called Standard Template Construction (STC), humans have established a strong economic and military force and signed non-aggression treaties with dozens of alien races.

This period of enlightenment, prosperity, abundant material life, highly developed culture and art, and highly advanced science and technology was later called the "Golden Age" by humans.

However, the good times did not last long. The rising human civilization soon came into contact with the truest, darkest and bloodiest side of the universe, and deeply felt the inherent [malice] of the universe.

In the 25th millennium (M), terrible storms began to appear in the previously peaceful subspace for unknown reasons, interfering with interstellar travel. At first, the subspace storms were sporadic, but later they became more frequent and intense. The raging subspace storms caused human civilization to suddenly lose the ability to communicate and travel at superluminal speeds.

The vast Galactic Federation was suddenly divided into countless isolated islands in the deep sea, falling into the raging subspace storm, isolated and helpless.

Misfortunes never come singly. Under the influence of the abnormally active subspace energy, the probability of human genetic mutations has increased dramatically, and psychics and various subhumans have begun to appear on a large scale. Subspace creatures called "Demons" have come to the material world through psychics, bringing chaos and destruction to humans. Many alien races have taken the opportunity to attack planets occupied by humans.

The world that relied on external supplies fell into a long period of turmoil and war, and the level of science and technology continued to regress, and some even regressed to the feudal society. Humans wandering in the Milky Way fell into a nightmare of chaos, darkness and despair.

Humankind entered a long five thousand years known as the Dark Ages. During the long period from the 25th to the 30th millennium, the human world in the Milky Way was torn apart by civil war, rebellion, alien predation, and demon invasion. Technology and civilization continued to regress, trillions of humans died tragically in the chaos, and humanity was on the brink of destruction.

Even humanity's great and sacred home planet, Terra, has regressed to a semi-feudal society. Numerous technological warlords have been fighting on Terra for thousands of years. The planet's ecosystem has been destroyed, almost all plants and animals have become extinct, and the ocean has almost dried up and turned into a desolate desert.

Seen from space, the once beautiful blue planet turned into an ugly yellow-brown color, with no grass growing and everything desolate. Dust filled with nuclear radiation was floating in the sky, making it gray.

The home planet of mankind has been severely damaged and is on the verge of death.

If there were no miracle, human civilization might have rapidly declined in such division and chaos, regressing to the primitive age, or even completely ended, and human beings might have become food for demons or slaves of alien races.

But there is an old saying among mankind: "Heroes emerge in troubled times."

In those dark and turbulent times, there are always some noble individuals among human beings who will stand up without hesitation, face the pain and despair, shoulder the awareness of saving the world, and resolutely give everything for it.

In the 28th millennium (M), a powerful psyker appeared on the human home planet Terra, leading a group of powerful genetically modified warriors. With absolute military force and superb diplomatic skills, they swept away the technological warlords on Terra like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, and completed the reunification of the home planet.

This powerful psychic is also considered the greatest leader in human history, an existence that was later called the "Emperor" by all mankind. No one knows the Emperor's name or origins, only that he suddenly rose up in the darkest time of mankind and took on the difficult mission of saving human civilization from the brink of destruction.

In the 30th millennium of the Terra Era, as the Warp storm weakened, the navigation device called the "Torch" was completed, and the human empire on Terra regained the ability to navigate the Warp. The Emperor led the twenty powerful "Space Marine" legions he created and launched a grand war called the "Great Crusade" to liberate the human world.

The vast fleet that obscured the stars and the powerful legions that swept away all the monsters and demons. Under the leadership of the Emperor, a powerful psychic whose power was comparable to that of a god, they wiped out all the monsters and demons in the galaxy with great force. It took only two hundred years for the Emperor to unify the broken human world again.

A unified regime was established, namely the Human Empire. All human worlds were once again unified under the imperial regime led by the mother planet Terra, and the Emperor became the supreme ruler of the human world.

But in this cursed universe, powerful dark forces have been watching and coveting this beautiful race of humans long before the birth of human civilization, wanting to turn this special race into their toy.

The human empire created by the Emperor was destined to return to strife and chaos.