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Earth An overwhelming majority of fiction is set on or features the Earth. However, authors of speculative fiction novels and writers and directors of science fiction film deal with Earth quite differently than authors of conventional fiction. Unbound from the same ties that bind authors of traditional fiction to the Earth, they can either completely ignore the Earth or use it as but one of many settings in a more complicated universe, exploring a number of common themes through examining outsiders perceptions of and interactions with Earth. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 599 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (3000 × 3002 pixel, file size: 6. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 599 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (3000 × 3002 pixel, file size: 6. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... Speculative fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Contents 1 Common themes 2 Earth as presented in various works 2.1 Battlestar Galactica 2.2 Buck Rogers 2.3 CoDominium 2.4 Dune 2.5 Firefly 2.6 Asimov's Future Histories 2.7 Hitchhiker's Guide 2.8 Stargate 2.9 Star Trek 2.10 'Robotech' 2.11 'Worldwar' 3 See also [edit] Common themes This section does not cite any references or sources. (August 2007) Please improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. When exploring the theme of exopolitics, Earth is often depicted as a member an interstellar community. Earth is often depicted as a major power-broker in the community due to anthropocentrism. Perhaps the most notable example of this is Star Trek (the United Federation of Planets). Earth can also be depicted as the head of an empire as in Poul Anderson's Dominic Flandry series where "The barbarians in the long ships waited at the edge of the Galaxy for the ancient Terran Empire to fall... The brilliant Starship Commander Flandry fought to save the empire even as he scorned it" (from the preface to "The Rebel Worlds"). Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series, too, has a brooding Terran Empire maintaining a colonial enclave on the planet Darkover where the plot takes place, and on countless others. Haegemonia also features an empire controlled from Earth with other major planets, such as Eden IV. Earth can also play host to an alien invasion. While reasons vary, in most stories, it is because extraterrestrials are looking for a new world to colonize or otherwise dominate. The aliens are often used to portray nearly all-powerful beings, placing the strongest forces on earth at the receiving end of attacks that they can barely understand. This theme is one of the earliest in science fiction, demonstrated by H. G. Wells in The War of the Worlds and derivative works, and also such works as Independence Day. In such scenarios, the author often uses deus ex machina to allow the invasion to be repulsed. In others, like Footfall and Worldwar, the author depicts aliens only slightly more advanced than the inhabitants of Earth, and are fought to a stand-still or defeated in battle. The opposite has also been depicted, with Earth becoming a refuge to aliens as seen in the Men in Black series of movies, and Alien Nation series. The memory of Earth and its location may be lost to the sands of time or shrouded in myth. Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire series depict a common theme of a destroyed Earth. In other works, such as Battlestar Galactica, it is largely forgotten except by the religious. In the numerous books of the Dumarest series by E.C. Tubb, the adventurer protagonist was born on a "galactic backwater" Earth and at a young age had stowed away on a rare spaceship touching down on the planet; having seen more than enough of the galaxy he wants to go back, but no one else had ever heard of the planet. The first Terran inhabitants of the Koprulu Sector are Earth-born criminals in sleeper ships in StarCraft. The expansion also mentions about Earth: upon hearing of the United Earth Directorate's forces' arrival, Zeratul remarks "Raynor [a Terran captain] spoke me of the distant Terran homeworld of Earth." This implies that the Terrans still know about Earth but it's location is lost (StarCraft manual mentions that the sleeper ships have became lost in hyperspace when an error erased the intended destination's coordinates, as well as those of Earth's, resulting in the ships going at full speed for several decades until the engines broke down). Also, the Terran Confederacy uses the same flag as the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Earth could have been completely destroyed or rendered uninhabitable, but its location (or at least its former location) is well-known. This last scenario is also popular, and was featured in the movie Titan A.E., as well as in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Some works, such as Star Wars series and many fantasy works, never mention the Earth at all. This allows the author to operate in a realm unfamiliar and otherworldly to the reader or to explore contentious issues and historical themes in an otherwise entirely alien environment, giving the work a radically different perspective. In Homeworld, Earth's existence is unknown, however it is debatable if the Kushans/Hiigarans are humans at all, since none of them ever seen (although the shape of Karan S'jet makes it very likely that she is human. Also, Hiigara closely resembles Earth from space, implying that humans and Kushans/Hiigarans posess similar [if not same] biology). Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... For the song by Muse, see Black Holes and Revelations. ... Anthropocentrism (Greek άνθρωπος, anthropos, human, κέντρον, kentron, center), or the human-centered principle, refers to the idea that humanity must always remain the central concern for humans. ... This article is about the entire Star Trek franchise. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the political and historical term. ... Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926–July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author of the genres Golden Age. ... Dominic Flandry is the central character in the second half of Poul Andersons Technic History science fiction. ... For the Hero Games setting, see Star Hero. ... Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook. ... The above illustration shows Darkover as the planet on the left with its four moons: Liriel, Kyrrdis, Irdriel and Mormallor. ... The alien invasion is a common theme in science fiction stories and film, in which a technologically-superior extraterrestrial society invades Earth with the intent to replace human life, or to enslave it under a colonial system, or in some cases, to use humans as food. ... Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ... The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel (or novella) which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. ... For other uses, see Independence Day (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Deus ex machina (disambiguation). ... Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. ... Worldwar is a series of four alternate history science fiction novels by Harry Turtledove. ... This article is about alleged secretive government departments. ... Alien Nation may refer to: Alien Nation (film), the 1988 motion picture Alien Nation (TV series), the 1989–1990 television series Alien Nation (TV series episode), the 1989 pilot episode of the television series Alien Nation (Comic Books), a 1990s series of comic books based on the Tenctonese. ... Isaac Asimov (January 2?, 1920?[1] – April 6, 1992), pronounced , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов [1], was a Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ... Hari Seldons holographic image, pictured on a paperback edition of Foundation, appears at various times in the First Foundations history, to guide it through the social and economic crises that befall it. ... The Galactic Empire Series contains Isaac Asimovs three earliest novels and one short story: The Stars, Like Dust (1951) The Currents of Space (1952) Pebble in the Sky (1950), his first novel Blind Alley (1945), short story reprinted in The Early Asimov They are only loosely connected. ... This article is about all the media that use the name Battlestar Galactica. ... The Dumarest saga is a series of science fiction stories by E. C. Tubb. ... Edwin Charles Tubb (October 15, 1919 -) is a British author, primarily of science fiction. ... A sleeper ship is a hypothetical type of manned spaceship in which most or all of the crew spends the journey in some form of hibernation or suspended animation. ... “Starcraft” redirects here. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... Titan A.E. is a 2000 animated science fiction adventure film from Fox Animation Studios and Twentieth Century Fox. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... This article is about the series. ... For other uses, see Fantasy (disambiguation). ... This article is about the computer game named Homeworld. ... [edit] Earth as presented in various works In the H. G. Wells story The War of the Worlds, perhaps the first depiction of an alien invasion in fiction, Earth is simply a neighboring planet of the inhabitants of Mars. With their world coming into its end, they target the younger and richer Earth for migration. This plot is repeated with varying degrees of differences in many of its adaptations, but Earth's place largely remains the same. The notable exception is in the War of the Worlds TV series, where the aliens look to Earth for more specific reasons, as it features many of their old world's characteristics (such as both being the third planet in their respective systems, the number 3 playing a large role in their beliefs). In the anime series Cowboy Bebop, Earth has become a backwater wasteland after a horrific accident caused one of the jumpgates that humans used to travel the solar system to explode, destroying part of the Moon and causing the destroyed bits to rain down on the earth. In C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, Earth (known as Thulcandra) is part of the Field of Arbol: and is the subject of an interplanetary blockade - hence it's name, the Silent Planet. In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Earth has been united into a single geopolitical entity, The World State. In David Weber's Honorverse, Earth is the capital planet of the Solarian League, the largest and wealthiest political institution ever created by man. Prior to the League's creation, a large portion of humanity departed for other planets and solar systems in what came to be known as the Diaspora, leaving those who remained to rebuild from the effects of pollution, resource exhaustion, and the cataclysmic Final War. They did so, and Earth once again became the political, economic, and cultural center of humanity. The Earth also plays a major part in the Doctor Who universe. Its where Humans come from and expand out of to create numerous Empires, being invaded by many different aliens through all of its history. Having a weather control station on the moon by 2070, by the year 200,000, the Earth is in the middle of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. By this time, 5,000,000,000 humanity is spread all across the stars and has fully integrated themselves with the rest of the universe. Shortly after the destruction of Earth, Humanity regroups and colonized a new planet, naming it New Earth. Humans go to live on to the end of the Universe. In Warhammer 40,000, Earth, known as Holy Terra, is the Homeworld of Humanity and the central point of the Imperium of Man. It is the site of the Golden Throne, where the God-Emperor resides. However, a long and terrible war known as the Horus Heresy ended with the near-death state of the God-Emperor and Terra itself completely ravaged by the bombings and attacks by the Chaos Space Marines. In the Noon Universe, Earth is a Utopian world of immense power and the initial home planet of all humans scattered over the Universe. In the alternate future universe of The Longest Journey, Earth has been divided into two twin worlds - technology-driven Stark, the world as we know it, and the magic world of Arcadia for over thirteen millennia. In Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World, The Stainless Steel Rat travels to Earth, 1975, and then to Napoleonic France, to stop a madman known as He from destroying the time line. The Rat and his contemporaries in the series show confusion over the name of the world, hedging by calling it either "Earth" or "Dirt". In the animated television series Exosquad, Earth is the center of the Homeworlds, the core of both Human and Neosapien Empires (at different times). In the Alien series of films, Earth is depicted as being the center of an interstellar commercial empire effectively run by a soulless megacorporation referred to as "the Company". Nothing is seen of the planet itself with the exception of several shots of the planet from orbit, which appear to show it in a similar state to the present. In the fourth installment of the series, Alien: Resurrection, Earth is the emergency destination to which Military vessels automatically direct themselves. By the time of Resurrection, Earth is part of an entity known as the "United Systems". One of the film's characters, Jonas (portrayed by Ron Perlman) remarks "Earth... what a shithole," upon learning where the ship is going. The television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda differs from the usual portrayal of Earth as a dominant power in galactic civilization. The series' Systems Commonwealth was founded thousands of years in the past by the Vedran species in the Andromeda Galaxy, with Earth joining in the twenty-second century. Humans go on to become a major player in the Commonwealth, but Earth itself has no special importance (although the final two episodes of the series retcon this). Following the fall of the Commonwealth, Earth becomes one of many Nietzschean slave worlds. In the series Red Dwarf, Earth is seen mainly as the goal of the crew's trip; David Lister is personally obsessed with revisiting it as his home world, especially since he is the only character to be from there. The novel Better than Life, however, mentions Earth being voted out of inhabitability, and via various causes, ejected from the solar system. In the video game universe of Halo, Earth is the center of all human government, military and technology. Earth and its colonies are governed by the UNSC, or the United Nations Space Command. During the Human-Covenant War, the Cole Protocol was implemented, stating that ships must self destruct rather than let the Covenant find the location of Earth. Furthermore, any ship heading to Earth must take several random slipspace jumps rather than head straight for it. In October of 2552, Earth was attacked by the Covenant and successfully defended by the UNSC Military, only to have the Covenant come back a few days later with more firepower. In the StarCraft series, Earth is ruled by a fascistic government called the United Earth Directorate. When the UED becomes aware of the presence of aliens hostile to humanity in the far away Koprulu Sector, it sends a large Expeditionary Force to defeat the aliens, conquer the sector, and reintegrate the banished human colonists who reside there into its political fold. The Directorate's initial progress in the sector was promising, as it managed to invade and conquer the main planets of both the Terran Dominion and the bizarre alien Zerg, in the process kidnapping the Zerg Overmind and using it to control most of the Zerg swarms. The rogue Zerg leader Kerrigan waged a clever and highly successful war to rid the sector of the Earth's control, aided in part by temporary Terran and Protoss allies. The end result for Earth's forces was a crushing defeat which amounted to the loss of all ships and personnel in the Koprulu Sector. It is unclear if the UED is planning to return to the wartorn sector, or indeed if Earth will be featured in the upcoming StarCraft II. In author Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy, Earth is the heart of an economical empire, its biosphere wrecked by global warming to such an extent that any unfortified structure would be torn apart in a matter of days by colossal, supersized versions of modern tropical hurricanes. The entire sprawling human population is forced to live in archologies protected against the so called "Armada Storms". Whilst earth represents a significant political and industrial power base, it is nonetheless an independent sate and interestingly not the head of the series' Confederation. Physically earth is dominated by massive Archologies that cover most of the major urban centres of our time, including; London, New York and Johannesburg. There are also several equatorial Space Elevators that allow for transit into orbit. The Earth itself is surrounded at high orbit by the O’Neil Halo (in homage to Gerard O'Neill), a massive collection of asteroids orbiting the earth providing habitation and raw materials as well as docking and strategic defense units. In the Metroid series, Earth is the (assumed) headquarters of the Galactic Federation, formed in the year 2000 C.C. (Cosmic Calendar) as a pact between many different kinds of races. In the Wing Commander Universe, Earth is the capital of the Terran Confederation, which spends much of the time period covered in the published media (from the middle to the end of the 27th century) locked in an interstellar war with the Kilrathi Empire. The Confederation was founded in the aftermath of the collapse of the World Economic Consortium. In the Perry Rhodan series, Earth is much as in the real world until Rhodan, that Earth's first man on the moon, discovers a wrecked starship from the ancient Arkonide Empire. Using the technology and the help of the surviving Arkonides, Rhodan forces the Earth to unite under his leadership, and begins to explore the galaxy while carefully concealing the location of Earth from enemies such as the Arkonide Empire. Later in the series, Earth under the now-immortal Rhodan becomes a major player in the universe, establishing a benevolent empire. During an invasion of the Milkyway by the Laren, Earth and the Moon with its 20 billion inhabitants are supposed to be teleported to a different system, but accidentally end up in the bridge between two collided galaxies (called Maelstrom of Stars) and moved into orbit about a star. 120 years later the system falls into a giant energy vortex and is again transported to another galaxy, and most of the humans in it become part of the superintelligence IT. Another 5 years later, IT transports Earth and Moon back into the Solar System, and they are repopulated. In the anime and manga series Trigun it is revealed that through constant pollution and humanity living beyond it's means that the Earth had to be evacuated after becoming uninhabitable. The humans fled in cryogenic suspension with only a small skeleton crew operating their fleet called Project Seeds to search for a new homeworld. Upon crashing on the planet Gunsmoke, any advanced technology from the days of Earth is referred to as lost technology. In Phillip Reeves' Hungry City Chronicles, Earth has been ravished by a conflict known as the Sixty Minute War, which was soon followed by earthquakes, volcano eruptions and a brief ice age, leaving Earth forever changed. Europe is known as the "Great Hunting Ground" as where most Traction Cities are found, North America is known as the "Dead Continent" and South America's isthmus has been cut off due to 'Slow Bombs'. In Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos series, Old Earth is believed to have been destroyed by The Big Mistake of '08 (in which a miniature black hole was dropped into it), but later shown to have been spirited away by 'other' beings of godlike abilities and consciousness. In the original Planet of the Apes film, astronauts attempt to leave the solar system for the first time, aiming for Alpha Centauri. However, unexplained phenomena cause their small vessel to change course while the crew is in cryostasis. They wake upon landing on an inhabitable but harsh planet that they later learn is a future Earth, dominated by sentient apes. However, in the original Pierre Boulle novel and the 2001 film, both of the same name, the astronauts find civilizations of apes on another planet, but suffer a rude shock upon returning to Earth, finding it besieged by apes. In the Half-Life series of first-person shooters, a modern day research facility opens a portal storm between Earth and the planet Xen. The portal storm floods the planet with aliens from that world, and is kept open by a creature named Nihilanth. A scientist named Gordon Freeman manages to reach the creature and take it down, unknowingly freeing one of the races that travelled to Earth by the portal storms. The portal storm awakes the Combine Empire, which then manages to conquer Earth in just seven hours, after its military had been crippled by beings from Xen. Two decades after the Black Mesa incident, Gordon Freeman succeeds in cutting Earth off of the Combine Empire and a device that suppressed human reproduction, leading to a renewed fight between the native population and the trapped Combine forces. In the Massively multiplayer online role-playing game Tabula Rasa, Earth is shown in the near future as having been attacked by a force known as the Bane. Hopelessly outmatched, it's revealed that Earth's various governments haven't been caught completely off guard and rather than mount a suicidal defence, have chosen to abandon the planet using wormhole portals built using alien technology to evacuate as many people as they could to other planets so the human race can regroup and launch a counterattack at the Bane. The ultimate fate of Earth, and those that were left behind, is unknown, with some thinking it may well be gone forever. In the video game Xenosaga, the Earth has been abandoned by humanity for at least 4000 years, due to the fact that the Earth has disappeared altogether from physical space. Humans refer to the planet as "Lost Jerusalem". In the video game Freespace Earth serves as the capital of the Galactic Terran Alliance. During the war against the Shivans, a last ditch attack in subspace saves the planet from destruction, but at the cost of collapsing the FTL node that allows access to the system. 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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a genre of online computer role-playing games (CRPGs) in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world. ... Richard Garriotts Tabula Rasa is an MMORPG from NCsoft, designed in part by some of the creators of Ultima Online such as Richard Garriott. ... It has been suggested that List of Xenosaga cast members be merged into this article or section. ... Descent: Freespace Screenshot Freespace 2 Screenshot Descent: FreeSpace is a space simulation computer game series developed by Volition Inc. ... FTL may refer to: Faster-than-light, a speculative concept in physics and science fiction FTL (Battlestar Galactica), faster-than-light travel as used specifically in Battlestar Galactica Flash Translation Layer, a software layer used in computing to support normal file systems with flash memory Full Truckload, a standard logistics... FreeSpace 2 is a 1999 space combat simulation computer game developed by Volition, Inc. ... [edit] Battlestar Galactica A major plot point in all versions - both the remake and original - of Battlestar Galactica is the quest to find Earth, which is long thought to be the location of a 13th colony of Man. Both shows are similar in that initially, Earth's location is completely unknown, but clues to its location are gradually discovered over long years since the destruction of the Twelve Colonies. This article is about all the media that use the name Battlestar Galactica. ... The flag of the Twelve Colonies in the reimagined series The Twelve Colonies of Man or Twelve Colonies of Kobol constitute the main human civilization in the fictional universe of the original 1978 science fiction film and television series Battlestar Galactica, and in the subsequent miniseries (2003) and series reimagining... In both series, the Thirteenth Tribe's colonization Earth was so remotely in the past that most modern Colonists have come to assume that the stories of Earth are legendary. In the original series, several clues indicating that the existence of Earth is real arise. On the prison colony planet of Proteus, Starbuck encounters drawings of star systems on the wall of a cell once occupied by a mysterious prisoner. The star charts turn out to be that of the Earth's Solar System. The planet Terra is discovered inhabited by humans who use Earth units of measure (hours, minutes, etc.) rather than Colonial units of measure, suggesting that it was settled by members of the lost Thirteenth Tribe. Most Colonial historians assume that Kobol is the homeworld of all humanity, and that tribes of humans fled that world to found the Twelve Colonies - with a 13th colony heading for Earth. In the original series Galactica 1980, the fleet did eventually discover Earth; in the newer series earth has not yet been found, however in the Season Three finale 'Starbuck' a character returns claiming to have been to Earth and intending to lead the fleet there. The camera even pans out from the fleet to view the Milky Way galaxy, and then zooms back in to show Earth in the final moments of the third season. Kobol is the name of a planet in the fictional Battlestar Galactica universe. ... This article is about the 1980 television series; for related topics, see the main Battlestar Galactica page or Battlestar Galactica (disambiguation). ... There are several clues in the reimagined series that Earth, not Kobol, is the true homeworld of humanity: for example, in "Home", religious artifacts are found which show that the original flags of the Twelve Colonies of Man were based on constellations as seen from Earth. Also, as the fleet makes its way toward Earth, the artifacts they find become more and more ancient: the ruins on Kobol itself are 2,000 years old; the Lion's Head beacon as seen in "Rapture" is 3,000 years old; and the Temple of Five from "The Eye of Jupiter" is 4,000 years old. Home, Part I and II are episodes of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica televison series. ... Rapture is the twelth episode of the third season from the science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica. ... The re-imagined science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica presents various locations, spaceborne and planetary. ... [edit] Buck Rogers In most variations on the Buck Rogers mythos (comic strip, TV series, feature film), Earth of the 25th century (where the action takes place) is recovering from various atomic wars, usually variations on World War III. In the original comic, Mongols have taken over the Earth; in the TV series, the Draconian Empire fills this role (although the Draconians are obviously based on Mongols). Most of Earth's cities lie in ruins, although rebuilding is in progress (Earth's capital is New Chicago; other cities include New Paris, New London, etc.). The second season of the TV series revealed that much of Earth's population fled the planet in the wake of the atomic war and founded colonies in deep space; the Earth ship Searcher is dispatched to investigate. Buck Rogers is a fictional pulp character who first appeared in 1928 as Anthony Rogers, the hero of two novellas by Philip Francis Nowlan published in the magazine Amazing Stories. ... The 25th century of the anno Domini (common) era will span the years 2401–2500 of the Gregorian calendar. ... A nuclear holocaust is often associated with World War III For other uses, see World War III (disambiguation). ... Honorary guard of Mongolia. ... Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American motion picture produced by Universal Studios and released in 1979, and is also the title of a television series based upon the film that was aired by NBC for two seasons between 1979 and 1981. ... Look up draconian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... [edit] CoDominium In Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium series (now largely alternate history) the Earth comes under the control of the CoDominium, an alliance between the United States and Soviet Union, in the year 1990. The CD imposes its control over all other nations of the Earth, halting scientific development and warfare. The CD is ruled by a Grand Senate located on the Moon, and eventually constructs interstellar colonies for the joint goal of economic gain and a means of exiling troublesome elements of society. Eventually in 2103, the CD dissolves, with the US and USSR engaging in the nuclear "Great Patriotic Wars" which destroy almost all of Earth (it is mentioned that Jamaica and the Tyrolean Alps are untouched). Jerry Eugene Pournelle, Ph. ... The fictional CoDominium universe is a future history (now alternate history) setting for the books in the CoDominium Series by Jerry Pournelle. ... Alternative history or alternate history can be: A History told from an alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view of imperialist, conqueror, or explorer. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Coat of arms of the Counts of Tyrol Austria-Hungary in 1914, showing Tirol–Vorarlberg as the left-most province, coloured cream Capital Meran (Merano), until 1848 Government Principality Historical era Middle Ages  - Created County 1140  - Bequeathed to Habsburgs 1363 or 1369  - Joined Council of Princes 1582  - Trent, Tyrol and... The CD Space Navy escapes to the planet Sparta, which eventually becomes the nucleus of the "Empire of Man." During the Empire's Formation Wars the Earth is once more hit hard, but is eventually incorporated into the Imperium as the "honorary capital." When the Empire dissolves in the Secession Wars in the 27th century, Earth is once more subjected to nuclear attacks, but by the early 31st century has been reclaimed by the Second Empire. By that time, the Earth city of "New Annapolis" is a training center for the Imperial Space Navy. To inhabitants of planets newly contacted, such as Prince Samual's World in "King David's Spaceship", the condition of the still largely desolate Earth is presented as an object lesson for the prohibitive price of war and a justification for Empire's claim to universal rule. The 27th century of the anno Domini (common) era will span the years 2601–2700 of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 31st century of the anno Domini (common) era will span the years 3001–3100 of the Gregorian calendar. ... The fictional CoDominium universe is a future history (now alternate history) setting for the books in the CoDominium Series by Jerry Pournelle. ... King Davids Spaceship is a novel by science fiction author Jerry Pournelle. ... [edit] Dune In Frank Herbert's Dune series of novels, Earth is referred to as Old Earth/Old Terra by the time of the original novel Dune (at least 21,500 years in the future). The Sun is called Al-Lat, and humanity had populated many planets (among them Caladan, Giedi Prime and Salusa Secundus) before the Titans and then thinking machines had taken control of the universe. In the Legends of Dune series, it is revealed that at the beginning of mankind's war with the Machines, called the Butlerian Jihad, Earth had been devastated by humans themselves using atomics in an attack on the Machines. In the time of Paul Atreides, the Earth is an uninhabited and largely forgotten land, shrouded in legend. In Dune Messiah, Paul refers to Hitler and Genghis Khan, in comparing the destructiveness of his Jihad to their wars. It is a wilderness and recovering an ecosystem of its own as humans have abandoned it. The artifacts of Homo sapiens have for the most part crumbled back into the planet, though a more than casual observer can find many traces of the old civilizations. Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. ... The fictional Dune universe, or Duniverse, is the political, scientific, and social setting of author Frank Herberts six-book Dune series of science fantasy novels. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert and published in 1965. ... Sol redirects here. ... Caladan is a fictional planet in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. ... Giedi Prime is the name of a fictional planet set in Frank Herberts Dune universe described in the Dune science fiction novels. ... Salusa Secundus is a fictional planet appearing in Frank Herberts Dune universe. ... The Titans are a group of fictional characters in the Legends of Dune series of novels, written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson and set in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. ... The Thinking Machines are a fictional group from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. ... -1... The Butlerian Jihad is an epic turning point in the back-story of Frank Herberts fictional Dune universe. ... A stone burner detonation, from the Children of Dune miniseries. ... Paul Atreides, as portrayed by Kyle MacLachlan in David Lynchs Dune (1985), wielding the infamous Weirding Module. Paul Orestes Atreides is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. ... Dune Messiah is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the second in a series of six novels. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... This article is about the person. ... For other uses, see Jihad (disambiguation). ... Paul's son, the God Emperor Leto II, refers to the Earth many times in his journals. The God Emperor seemed particularly fond of the ancestors he had from the Western sections of Eurasia. He makes references to Israel, Urartu, (also called Armenia), Edom, Damascus, Media, Babylon, Arpad, Umlias, the plains of Central Asia, and the Greeks; the family name refers to their descent from Atreus. He seems to have had ancestors among the Turks or the Mongols as he says that one of his memories involves a horse plain with felt yurts. Leto also has the memories of a famous politician from the United States whose name was Jacob Broom. Leto Atreides II (10,207-13,725 AG) is a fictional character in the Dune universe, created by Frank Herbert. ... For other uses, see Eurasia (disambiguation). ... Urartu at its greatest extent 743 BC Urartu (Biainili in Urartian) was an ancient kingdom in the mountainous plateau between Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, and Caucasus mountains, later known as the Armenian Highland, and it centered around Lake Van (present-day eastern Turkey). ... Edomite redirects here. ... For other uses, see Damascus (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Babylon (disambiguation). ... Arpad is the name of: Arpad, a city in ancient Syria. ... Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible boundaries for the region Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ... Emblem of House Atreides from Emperor: Battle for Dune For the novel of the same name, see Dune: House Atreides. ... In Greek mythology, King Atreus (Greek: Ατρεύς, Atreús) (fearless) of Mycenae was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. ... For other uses, see Mongols (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ... A Yurt is a portable felt dwelling structure used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. ... This article is about the Delaware politician. ... In Heretics of Dune, it is noted that the Bene Gesserit Mother Superior Taraza has the preserved Vincent van Gogh painting Cottages at Cordeville hanging in her room. In the Prelude to Dune prequel series it is mentioned that certain Monet and Gauguin paintings are owned by House Vernius, and hang in the Grand Palais at Ix. Heretics of Dune is a 1984 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, fifth in a series of six novels. ... The Bene Gesserit (as seen in the prologue of an alternate version of the David Lynch Dune film. ... The following is a comprehensive list of Bene Gesserit sisters (and rare male initiates) from the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. ... van Gogh redirects here. ... Dune: House Atreides Dune: House Harkonnen Dune: House Corrino Prelude to Dune is a prequel trilogy of novels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in Frank Herberts Dune universe. ... A prequel is a work that portrays events which include the structure, conventions, and/or characters of a previously completed narrative, but occur at an earlier time. ... Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926)[1] was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movements philosophy of expressing ones perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein... Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. ... House Vernius is a fictional noble family from Frank Herberts Dune novels. ... Ix is a fictional planet featured in the Dune novels by Frank Herbert. ... [edit] Firefly In the Joss Whedon series Firefly, Earth is long since abandoned. It is referred to with awe as "Earth-That-Was", having been abandoned centuries ago due to overpopulation and depletion of the planet's natural resources. After fleeing the planet, the remnants of humanity traveled in generation ships for decades (many humans lived their entire lives within a spaceship's walls) until finding a new star system. Collection of Earth-That-Was artifacts is a popular hobby, and ancient Earth artifacts are known to be very valuable. Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon[3] on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an Academy Award-nominated American writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. ... Firefly is a science fiction television series that premiered on television in the United States and Canada on September 20, 2002. ... A generation ship is a hypothetical starship that travels across great distances between stars at a speed much slower than that of light (see interstellar travel). ... It is unknown whether Earth has actually been destroyed, or if the planet still physically exists; in the feature film Serenity, ancient starships are shown leaving a sickly brown Earth with grey oceans, but the fate of the planet is never fully revealed. A puppet show in the episode "Heart of Gold" implies that Earth has in fact been obliterated, but this was never actually confirmed on screen. Serenity is a 2005 science fiction space western/epic film written and directed by Joss Whedon. ... Heart of Gold is the thirteenth episode of science-fiction television series Firefly created by Joss Whedon. ... [edit] Asimov's Future Histories In much of Isaac Asimov's fiction, the future Earth is an underprivileged planet — impoverished, overcrowded and disease-ridden — which is regarded with disdain by the arrogant Spacers of the "Outer Planets" (at this stage, there are about fifty of them). Isaac Asimov (January 2?, 1920?[1] – April 6, 1992), pronounced , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов [1], was a Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ... This article is on the history of Earth, as presented in Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series, Robot Series, and Empire Series. ... In Isaac Asimovs Foundation/Empire/Robot series, the Spacers were the first humans to emigrate to space. ... In the Robot Series the inhabitants of these planets are still aware that their ancestors came from Earth, but this does not make them fond of the place. Rather, they develop a racist theory by which "the best strains" had left Earth to colonise the other planets and left "the inferior strains" behind. However, they have no choice but to ask the help of the protagonist, a detective from the despised Earth, to solve murder mysteries which baffle their own police. Afterwards, Earth embarks on a major new campaign of space colonization, with the pious hope that the new colonists will prove more faithful to the Mother Planet than the earlier ones. However in the end of the Robot Series the Earth is doomed to a slow radioactive process that will leave the planet uninhabitable, causing a more rapid expansion of colonization from Earth. Isaac Asimovs Robot Series is a series of books by Isaac Asimov, both collections of short stories and novels. ... Isaac Asimovs Robot Series is a series of books by Isaac Asimov, both collections of short stories and novels. ... In the Galactic Empire series, taking place thousands of years later (originally conceived as completely separate but made by Asimov in his later career into the direct sequel of the Robot Period), Earth and settlements from it are still clearly remembered in The Stars Like Dust. By the time of The Currents of Space, Earth is ruled by Trantor, not yet a Galactic Empire. Its status as the original world is now disputed. The Emblem of the Galactic Empire. ... The Stars Like Dust is a 1951 science fiction book by writer Isaac Asimov. ... The Currents of Space is a 1952 novel by science fiction author Isaac Asimov. ... In Pebble in the Sky, we see Earth in the early days of the Empire of Trantor. Earth has a largely radioactive crust with only patches of habitable land in between, and its people have to undergo compulsory euthanasia at the age of sixty. It is a backwater province , and among inhabitants of other planets there is a prevalent prejudice known as "Anti-Terrestrialism", (obviously modeled on antisemitism), with the main negative stereotype having to do with the radiation-induced diseases prevalent on Earth. Pebble in the Sky - science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, published in 1950. ... Trantor is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimovs Foundation series and Empire series of science fiction novels. ... For mercy killings not performed on humans, see Animal euthanasia. ... Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism, also known as judeophobia) is prejudice and hostility toward Jews as a religious, racial, or ethnic group. ... By this time, Earth people still believe themselves to be the original home of Humanity, but hardly anyone else shares this belief. Fanatical priests, based in a mysterious Temple erected on the ruins of Washington, D.C., cultivate the mystique of Earth's ancient glories and conceive a plot to spread a Terrestrial disease throughout the Galaxy and in this way take over the Empire (and incidentally, act out the stereotype). The plot is foiled by a middle-aged tailor from the Twentieth Century, who possess powerful psychic abilities as a result of experiments performed upon him when he arrived in the future. Schwartz, the tailor, is often described as being Jewish, though his religion is never stated within the novel. ... By the time of the Galactic Empire's decline, Earth is vaguely remembered as 'Sol' in Foundation, and only one candidate for being the Original World. In Foundation and Earth, records of Earth are missing, so two citizens of the mature Foundation go looking for it. This article is on the history of Earth, as presented in Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series, Robot Series, and Empire Series. ... Look up Foundation on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Foundation may refer to: A type of makeup. ... Foundation and Earth Foundation and Earth (1986) is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the Foundation Series and chronologically the last in the series. ... [edit] Hitchhiker's Guide In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, the Earth is destroyed to make room for an interstellar bypass. One of the only two surviving Earthmen, Arthur Dent, is affronted to find that his planet's entry in the Guide is simply "Harmless." The Guide researcher reassures him that the next edition will improve upon this. The new entry will read "Mostly Harmless." Dent also learns of the creation of Earth by inhabitants of the planet Magrathea, as a giant supercomputer built to find the question behind the answer to life, the universe, and everything. The computer was so large that it was often mistaken for a planet, and that it was destroyed five minutes before the program was due to complete (after seven and a half million years of running). It also mentions that humans are descended from a convoy of middlemen (bureaucrats, telephone sanitizers, and the like), tricked into leaving another planet. The Earth was located in sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha. An alternate version of Earth is the planet NowWhat, which is probably located at an improbable location along the probability axis. In the 2005 film adaptation, a new Earth replaces the old one, and everything is restored to the moments leading up to its destruction. The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ... This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything The 42 Puzzle, as it appeared in The Illustrated Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything has a numeric solution in Douglas Adams series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. ... [edit] Stargate This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can (May 2007). In the Stargate television series (Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis), Earth (Stargate Address: ) is described as one of countless inhabited worlds, and is revealed to be the origin of humans. In ancient history many groups of humans were kidnapped and enslaved by powerful malevolent alien races, primarily the Goa'uld. Others remained to form present day Earth societies, which interact covertly with other extraterrestrial races and civilizations, many of them human. It is also described as the homeworld of the ancients, the creators of the stargate which has a very prominent role in the series as the name suggests. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... An activated Stargate, the central object of the fictional Stargate universe, here depicted in the SG-1 television series. ... Stargate SG-1 (often abbreviated as SG-1) is a science fiction television series, part of the Stargate franchise. ... Stargate Atlantis (often abbreviated as SGA) is an American-Canadian science fiction television program, part of the Stargate franchise owned by MGM. Developed by longtime SG-1 producers Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, it is a spin-off from the television series Stargate SG-1. ... A typical depiction of a Milky Way Stargate Stargate is one name for a class of fictional devices which allow instantaneous travel between places. ... Image File history File links StargateGlyph28. ... Image File history File links StargateGlyph26. ... Image File history File links StargateGlyph05. ... Image File history File links StargateGlyph36. ... Image File history File links StargateGlyph11. ... Image File history File links StargateGlyph29. ... The Goauld (pronounced go-ah-OOLD , commonly GOOLD, or go-OOLD) are a fictional parasitic alien race in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 universe. ... Humans who are from Earth are referred to as the Tau'ri by most other life forms in the galaxy, including the Goa'uld. Earth is a relatively important player on account of the radical change it unwittingly brought about when American troops under the command of Col. Jack O'Neill killed Goa'uld Supreme System Lord Ra. However, its importance pales in comparison to the power of the System Lords before their collapse, or that of the Free Jaffa Nation after it. In the science fiction universe Stargate SG-1 the Tauri (Terran in Ancient) (Midgard in Asgard) Homo sapiens sapiens [tɔːɹi] or [taʊːɹi] (sometimes spelled Tauri, and often spoken as People of the Tauri) is a widespread term used to refer to humans of Earth (Milky Way... The Goauld (pronounced go-ah-OOLD , commonly GOOLD, or go-OOLD) are a fictional parasitic alien race in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 universe. ... Jonathan Jack ONeill (born October 20, 1952)[1] is a fictional character in the science fiction feature film Stargate and the subsequent television series Stargate SG-1 played by actors Kurt Russell in the film (name spelled as ONeil) and Richard Dean Anderson in the series. ... Ra is a fictional alien in the Stargate universe, appearing in the science fiction movie Stargate, and subsequently in the television show Stargate SG-1. ... The following article refers to the sci-fi television show, Stargate SG-1. ... In the fictional Stargate universe, the Free Jaffa Nation is the premiere galactic power, given established by the success of the Jaffa Resistance. ... The main interaction between Earth and the rest of the Universe is via three organisations: The International Oversight Advisory (IOA) co-ordinates funds and control between the nations of the Earth Stargate; the Atlantis Expedition was sent to the Pegasus Galaxy under its authority. The key players are the Big Five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: the United Kingdom, the United States, France, the People's Republic of China, and the Russian Federation; also important are Canada, on account of its