The Milky Way galaxy in which we live is in a spiral shape, with several large and small spiraling arms sticking out of its center. These spiral arms are filled with various celestial bodies and interstellar dust.

If you can fly out of the Earth and the solar system and even the Milky Way, and look down at the entire galaxy as the Creator did, you can see that the solar system is far from the center of the Milky Way, on the edge of a small spiral arm between two large spiral arms. This small spiral arm is called the Orion Arm, while the larger spiral arm next to it, near the center of the Milky Way, is called the Sagittarius Arm, and the other large spiral arm, which is farther away from the center of the Milky Way, is called the Perseus Arm.

By establishing a galactic system coordinate centered on the solar system, the position of each galaxy in the Milky Way relative to the solar star system can be clearly marked. Since the observation point is on Earth and spreads out in the way of looking up at the sky, this coordinate system is also different from the ordinary coordinate system - it has zero degrees at 12 o'clock, 90 degrees at 9 o'clock, 180 degrees at 6 o'clock, and 270 degrees at 3 o'clock.

In this coordinate system, the region between 90 and 180 degrees is the second quadrant. And the Perseus spiral arm in this quadrant is the main direction of human exploration. Because this spiral arm is more than 6,500 light-years away from the solar system, the interstellar distance is relatively short, and the region has many stable star systems, and some of the planets are suitable for human habitation.

At the end of the 25th century, mankind successfully established the first colony base "Pangea" on the fourth planet "Andromeda" in a star system similar to the solar system in the Perseus spiral arm. In the 26th century, a large number of faster-than-light spaceships loaded with humans eager for a new world left the Earth and the solar system and flew to the second quadrant of Perseus Spiral Arms.

However, the advent of the era of interstellar colonization did not take place in the exploration of outer space in a friendly atmosphere of solidarity and cooperation among all mankind, as predicted by futurists and science fiction writers of the past. On the contrary, as more and more people arrive at Perseus Spiral and more planets are developed, the contradictions and conflicts between the interstellar colonies are quietly generated and spread like a plague. In the end, it even triggered a series of StarCraft wars.

This unprecedented scale of melee is like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in ancient China - big countries compete for hegemony, small countries try to survive, vertical and horizontal, tradition collapses, and heroes emerge one after another. People even forget their birthplace, the cultural center, the anthropological center of the universe, the Earth and the solar system, and go on a crusade for practical gains.

During the war, the Perseus Interstellar Federation, led by the planet "Andromeda", gradually grew. With the slogan of "humanity, freedom, democracy, and peace" and the founding principles of the country, the federal government, with the support of strong economic strength and abundant resources, has rapidly grown and expanded by using the method of "sticks and carrots", and has annexed many neighboring colonial stars. This then developed into a vast interstellar federation.

The federal government has a clear separation of powers, with the Senate and the House of Representatives as the legislative and supervisory organs of the government, the executive power concentrated in the hands of the President of the Federal Government and the Federal Council under his leadership, which is equivalent to the State Council, and the Federal Constitutional Arbitration Commission and the Federal Court of Justice constitute the judiciary.

Members of the Senate and House of Deputies, the President, members of the Constitutional Arbitrator Council and the Supreme Justice are elected by direct vote of the people, both for five-year terms and 10 years for the latter, and must be non-partisan. Members of the Federal Government Commission are considered cabinet members of the President, nominated by the President and appointed by the Senate and the House of Representatives. However, in accordance with the Federal Constitution and the Administrative Organization Act, more than one third of the members of the Government Council must be members of opposition parties and persons without party affiliation.

The three major organs of power stand side by side and check each other, and every major national policy decision can only be implemented with the consent of the above major power organs. The major organs of power are basically bicameral, and they also play a complementary and balanced role.

For example, when a president decides to wage war abroad, he must first reach a consensus with a federal government committee and then pass a vote in the Senate and House of Representatives. If a sufficient number of members of Congress or public ** persons present a lawsuit against the President's war policy before the Justice of the Federal Court, the Supreme Court may file a case for adjudication in the Federal Court. Regardless of the outcome of the ruling, opponents and advocates may appeal to the Federal Constitutional Arbitration Commission.

In order to prevent policies from turning into endless legal proceedings due to partisan and factional struggles, the founding fathers of the Federation created a system of deliberations. The Constitution of the Perseus Interstellar Federation and the Administrative Arbitration Act provide for a series of principles for immunity from constitutional arbitration committees and court decisions, as well as the granting of executive privileges to the President and federal government commissions in some emergency situations. In special circumstances, such as the occurrence of a large-scale foreign invasion, a large-scale natural disaster, or the fusion of a planetary environment, the President and the Federal Council may directly take administrative measures according to their own will, and afterwards the National Assembly, the courts, and the Constitutional Arbitration Committee shall jointly deliberate on the President and the Federal Government Commission.

The Federation also has a final and fundamental political system - a referendum, when a major policy is blocked between the three major power agencies and it is difficult to introduce it, the president only needs to sign 30% of the citizens to hold a referendum to finally decide whether the policy is passed or not.

Because of this, the Perseus Commonwealth also boasts of being the most democratic and liberal country since mankind. The high degree of democracy and freedom has strongly propelled the Federation to become the most powerful nation in the Perseus Spiral Arm Galaxy.

Rising at about the same time as the Perseus Commonwealth was another powerful interstellar colony centered around the planet "New Byzantium". Through the continuous annexation of other weak colonies by force and economic means, and with the help of strong and effective centralized rule, the "New Roman Empire" was finally formed to compete with the British Commonwealth.

New Rome claimed to be an empire, but it was not imperial. Its true name is "Senate and the Roman People", and "the Senate and the Roman People" consider themselves to be the most orthodox successor and leader of the ancient Roman Republic and empire and the human world. The so-called New Roman Empire is the common name of the people, because the earliest founders of New Rome came from the European continent of the earth, and marked their new colony "Neu Römisches Reich" in German, and later the two major lingua franca of the human world in the Immortal Spiral Arm Galaxy, namely English and Chinese, inherited its words, and were called "New RomanorumReich" and "New Roman Empire" respectively. Officially, the official spoken and written terms referred to as "Senatus Populusque Romanus" and "Senate and the Roman People".

The early New Roman Empire was founded on the planet "Neo-Byzantium" by a group of European colonists who admired the ancient Roman Empire of Earth, but in StarCraft, the slowly growing New Rome also gradually metamorphosed, and finally formed a large centralized government.

On the face of it, this centralization also appeared to have three parallel bodies: the executive Imperial Consuls and the Imperial Privy Council, the legislative Imperial National Assembly and the Political Coordination Council, and the judicial Imperial Court and the Arbitration Council.

But the body that actually holds the political power of the country is the "Imperial Senate", which is usually composed of nine people, as the highest authority of the empire, which formulates laws, formulates policies, organizes the government, and even intervenes in the judiciary. The "Imperial Senate" is the center of all the power of the Empire. These three institutions are but the formal expression of the ruling will of the Senate.

The Senate formulates policies and then promulgates and implements them by the consuls and the Privy Council, and the Senate formulates laws and then discusses and adopts them by the National Assembly and the Political Coordination Committee. Not only that, but the Imperial Consuls, the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Chairman of the Political Coordination Committee, the Chief Justice of the Imperial Court, and even the Supreme Prosecutor of the Imperial Court were usually held by members of the Senate.

Not only does there be no separation of powers in traditional democracies, but even the electoral system is quite special. The Senate held elections every 10 years, and each election elected three senators and the corresponding thirty alternate senators, but the candidates were all nominated by the Senate itself. Although the Imperial Constitution allowed the Civil and National Assembly to nominate candidates for the Senate, there was no precedent for the founding of the state. Secondly, such elections are indirect, with the deputies to the National Assembly elected by national vote by secret ballot.

Even the deputies to the National Assembly are not directly elected. The only thing that the people can decide is who to choose as their community council representatives, and these most basic council representatives elect the district council representatives and regional government leaders, and the district council representatives elect the representatives of the imperial council and the planetary local government to represent their planet.

Moreover, in accordance with the Constitution and the New Roman Planetary Local Elections Law, the higher council has the power to annul the results of the election of the lower council and to appoint or designate commissioners to serve as representatives of the lower councils and government officials. Although this provision is conditional on the fact that the results of the election have been reported fraudulently by one-third of the voters or elected representatives and confirmed to be true after investigation, it still means that the Reich National Assembly, which is controlled by the Senate, also has full control over the electoral power of parliaments and governments at all levels throughout the Reich.

As for the Political Coordination Committee, which brings together elites from all walks of life, it is nominally equivalent to the Senate of bicameral countries such as the Commonwealth of Immortals, but in practice it serves only as a high-level advisory body.

All these political buildings are built on a strange basis - there are no political parties! The constitution of the empire stipulated that no political group was allowed to exist in the territory. The political demands of the people can only be realized spontaneously in the name of individuals. Citizens who are dissatisfied with the government can march in the streets, protest in front of the Privy Council building, give speeches to the National Assembly, and even go to the arbitration committee to sue the government, but all these actions can only be done by themselves, and cannot be initiated and joined by other citizens.

With the exception of the ability to co-sign reports of election fraud, citizens almost no longer have the power to co-sign and collude politically, and all legitimate political struggles are strictly limited to the individual level, and can only be "fought by one person".

As a result, in the eyes of many in the Commonwealth, the New Roman Empire was a totalitarian state full of autocracy and dictatorship. Even some radical democrats in the empire denounced the imperial system as a "countercurrent of human history", while the federal democracy, in contrast, became "the current of human history".

However, it was this continuous growth and development of the tide that finally led to the end of the StarCraft War, which lasted for two centuries and lasted tens of thousands of light years. The second quadrant of the Milky Way, the second quadrant of the Milky Way, is now united into two interstellar nations - the New Roman Empire and the Perseus Interstellar Federation.

The planets under the centralized system of the New Roman Empire were mainly located in the inner part of the Perseus Spiral Arm near the center of the Milky Way, while the planets under the Commonwealth of Immortals under the separation of powers system were distributed in the outer part of the Spiral Arm.

The two sides are bounded by the 135th parallel of the heliocentric silver coordinate system. Because in the coordinates of the galactic system, there is almost an absolute vacuum in the space of about 4,000 light-years wide and about 1,000 light-years deep on this line. There are no stars or planets here, and even interstellar dust is pitiful. At depths of more than 1,000 light-years, it is impossible for any human spacecraft to fly faster than light at one time, and they always have to change to faster than light speed for machine maintenance and safety checks. Therefore, it has become an important border space for both sides to guard against each other's invasion.

This line is called the 135th line, and the interstellar space where it is located is nearly 1,000 light-years wide and full of dangers, which has become the chasm of the Yingxian spiral arm interstellar human world, just like the ancient Chu River Han Boundary and the 38th Parallel.

Although the Empire and the Confederation are of the same species, they are incompatible because of their political systems and ideologies. The citizens and governments of both sides believe that they are the orthodox inheritors of the earth's civilization, and both believe that the other should be subservient to them. As a result, no one was able to convince anyone, so they had to resort to force.

The original chaotic war for hegemony gradually evolved into a confrontation between two interstellar powers.

Even though the two countries are separated by a wide, desolate, and dangerous interstellar border, the expansion of ambition has not been stopped.

When both the Empire and the Confederation had cleared their respective borders of dissident forces, on Christian Christmas Day 2889 AD, the border patrol fleets of both sides engaged in an armed clash with the "Zheng He" star system in the empire near the 135th parallel. This large-scale fleet conflict eventually turned into a full-scale war.

After the conflict in the "Zheng He" star field, President Rong Guanghui, who was in charge of the Federation at the time, and his cabinet firmly believed that the powerful strength of the Federation was enough to swallow the empire's 5,000 light years in one fell swoop. In January 2890, the Confederation sent the main fleet of the Bundeswehr under the five-star Admiral Oskar Royenthal to fly over the 135th parallel in an attempt to surprise the Empire's capital planet "New Byzantium" with a pincer offensive.

In the face of the menacing Federation Army's 20,000 starships, the disadvantaged Imperial Army could only hold on to clearing the field and luring the enemy deeper. It was not until near the planet "New Byzantium" that the Imperial Fleet under the command of Marshal Du Yimin used the flare generated by the "Himalayas" star as cover to launch the "Himalayas" Star Field Battle and destroy the Federation fleets individually. The five-star general of Royentar, known as a generation of famous generals, died honorably.

At this point, the balance of war tipped in favor of the Empire. However, the elders of the empire were also carried away by the victory at this time, and were eager to destroy the Federation and unify the Immortal Spiral Arm Stars. Under the supervision of the Senate, Marshal Du Yimin personally led 10,000 warships to counterattack into the territory of the Federation.

Su Yu, the commander of the Federation's genius, stands out and leads the Federation fleet, which has returned from defeat within the Empire, to constantly harass the invading Imperial fleet.

Because the most critical stage of the war was fought between two commanders with pure Chinese blood, it was called "the duel of Chinese generals" by later historians.

The duel ended with a complete victory for the remnants of the army led by the young General Su Yu. The Imperial Central Fleet was divided and surrounded in the final Battle of Machu Picchu and almost completely annihilated, and Marshal Du Yimin was forced to order surrender and then commit suicide.

After these two battles, the national strength of both sides was greatly damaged, and the military strength was weak, and neither side was able to launch a large-scale attack on the other side. The two sides can only temporarily deploy their troops and sign a "Temporary Ceasefire Treaty" on the planet "Taiji," agreeing not to take the initiative to attack each other until a more perfect peace settlement is negotiated, so that the situation between the two countries is generally in a state of peace.

In reality, however, the contracting parties continue to launch infiltration and counter-infiltration, raids and counter-attacks on each other's borders with small fleets. This has continued until now, and there has been a slight easing.

It is believed that a new all-out war is inevitable. However, at present, the national strength and military strength of the two sides are still in a delicate balance, so the leaders and generals of both sides do not have enough confidence to take the initiative to provoke a full-scale war. Once this balance is out of balance, the horn of the god of war will surely blow all the human planets on the Immortal Spiral Arm Stars.

Peace in the balance of power is fragile because each side is trying to upset the strategic balance.

There is a rumor in the interstellar circle of Perseus Spiral that both the federal and imperial governments have been looking for something called "Antnest" since the beginning of the country. Because this kind of thing has infinite energy, it can not only greatly enhance the power of the starship, but also achieve faster-than-light communication, so that the interstellar battle is no longer as inefficient as the ancient sailing ship naval battle, so that the other side can be easily defeated and won in the war.

In fact, as early as the 26th century, in the era of interstellar migration, among the crews of faster-than-light spaceships who traveled back and forth between Earth and the Perseus Spiral Arm, there was the so-called "Antnest" legend. Of course, many people just take this rumor as an after-dinner conversation.

The federal government of the Commonwealth of Immortals has never said a word about the so-called "Antnest", neither explicitly denying the veracity of the rumors nor publicly acknowledging the search operation. However, the Federal Security Council, which is responsible for intelligence gathering and national security under the federal government, often rumors have been circulating that "Antnest" has been searching.

Shortly after the conflict between Zheng He, Bertrell Kotlin, a former senior official of the Federal Security Council who became notorious for defecting and fleeing to the New Roman Empire, submitted a semi-public report to the Senate and Imperial Consuls of the New Roman Empire.

This aroused great interest within the empire at the time, and heated discussions and speculations soon filled the front pages of major print media and the homepages of mainstream websites.

Shortly thereafter, however, the New Roman Empire forbade the domestic press to discuss any topic of "Antneste". On the Internet on all planets within the territory, the keyword "Antnest" in all languages is blocked by the Imperial Security Service.

This has led to even greater suspicion. There are many people within the Federation and the Empire who believe that the Imperial Intelligence Service, the Central Fleet, and the Frontier Fleet, under the authority of the Imperial Senate and the Archons, have been secretly searching for "Antnest".

The actions of both governments have strengthened the conviction of some of the existence of "Antnest".

Some ambitious intergalactic adventurers have therefore gone into action. Like the early human interstellar pioneers, regardless of nationality and ethnicity, regardless of origin and status, they formed a team, piloted a small faster-than-light spaceship, bravely crossed the 135th parallel, and even flew out of the Immortal Spiral Arm to launch a search, trying to find the so-called "Antnest".

The civil search seemed to have borne fruit in the early twentieth century, but rumors spread again that an explorer led his spacecraft Iason and his team to find Antnest, but he and his team mysteriously disappeared on the way back.

Although there are many versions of the rumors, they all have three things in common: the "Antnest" was found, the explorer's name is unknown, and their small spaceship is called the "Iason".

In other words, the only definite detail in all the rumors is that the expedition ship is called "Iason". However, whether in the empire or the federation, the total number of spacecraft registered with the official and private starship societies of both sides is no less than 1,000, not including the warships of the army and the official research ships of the two countries. Most of the spacecraft used by the people to find "Antnest" were forged in order to avoid inspections by the authorities of the two countries. So this only sure detail doesn't necessarily correspond to the truth.

However, as soon as the rumor spread, a new one emerged: the two governments turned to search for the explorer and his "Iazon". Because finding that explorer can find "Antnest", it is far easier than searching for "Antnest" directly.

As soon as this new rumor was concocted, it quickly spread to all corners of the two countries. After the ship landed, the crew chatted with the rest of the crew about the rumor; The people drinking afternoon tea at home couldn't help but talk about it; Even the nobility of the empire and the elite of the Commonwealth were privately interested in this rumor; Even the most apolitically uninterested young people in both countries did not forget to talk about this rumor when they went shopping - "searching for the explorer" became a fashionable topic in both societies.

But Knot searched for "Antnest", and no one found "the explorer". As a result, the rumors slowly dissipated among the general public who forgot about the key.

The confrontation between the two countries has continued, and the two sides have not only deployed huge fleets near the 135th parallel to guard against a surprise attack that the other side may launch at any time, but have also vigorously developed new weapons and engaged in an arms race in an attempt to overwhelm the other side in a future war.