Human

Humans (singular human) are a sapient race native to the planet Earth, in the Sol system, although their current home planet is Rally. They are known as Broken by the Compact.

Description
Let's be honest, here. You don't need me to tell you what humans look like.

Compared to most other sapient races in the galaxy, humans are about average on all metrics, albeit with a higher receptiveness to regenerative therapy than most. This means humans are physically weaker, have a smaller range of hearing and are less able to take damage than other major species, such as Tribunes. However, it was noted by the Compact during the Compact-Confederacy war that humans had a tendency to "take what any civilized being called insanity and made it work."

History
Before the Red Death, humanity's presence outside of Earth itself was limited to a few scientific research colonies within the Sol system (presumably surface colonies on Luna and/or Mars, along with space stations). These were not self-sufficient installations, nor were they designed for populations of any real size, and most were working under different Earth governments or space agencies (NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, JAXA, etc).

The Red Death
Occuring in the early 2200s, the Red Death was the name given to a plague that infected approximately a third of Earth's population, and killed a half of those it infected. The plague itself burned out fairly quickly, but repeated, localised outbreaks cropped up all around the globe for years to come.

What killed more than the plague was the famines, civil unrest, ethnic cleansings and wars that followed it. Many smaller nations believed it was a plot against them by certain ethnic groups, religious groups, or their neighbours, and took the opportunity afforded by most of the world being thrown into chaos to make those beliefs known through the use of military force.

The virus also eventually went lysogenic- this meant that the people who had previously been infected were now liable to become infectious again under certain conditions. More progressive and richer nations set up mass quarantine camps and cities, whereas other nations/mobs decided bullets and fire were cheaper. By the time the plague and the aftershocks of it were over, more than half of Earth's population had died in some way or another.

The First Diaspora
Following the Red Death, in around 2250 CE, Earths's surviving governments wanted to make sure that no single event could severely cripple humanity again or (in a worse scenario) wipe them out. Humanity came together like never before, in an attempt to pickup the pieces and rebuild. The Diaspora was one of these ventures; going to the stars the "slow, uneconomical" way in huge sub-lightspeed ships and fleets. This gave humanity access to many of the resources within Sol, and also started off the colonisation of nearby systems. Of note were a habitable planet in Alpha Centauri and a habitable moon in Lalande 21185. In other systems there were massive terraforming efforts, or the seed fleets built spaceborne colonies orbiting an astronomical body or within asteroids. Each of these colonies had hundreds of thousands to millions of people, as Earth would take more time to be restored to its former glory than most people could expect to live, so there was no shortage of volunteers.

The United Earth Confederacy
Main article: United Earth Confederacy

Once the shift drive was invented in the 2400s and faster-than-light travel was possible, communication and transportation between the independent colonies was now something that could be done without taking years at the very least. Earth brought the colonies together (some more willingly than others; the UECN was created to bring several in line) to form the United Earth Confederacy.

The Siegland Expedition and Triquetran League
Main article: Triquetran League

Bitter over their annexation by Earth, the political figure Henrik Siegland along with tens of thousands of volunteers organised a fleet of fourteen colony ships to go out and find themselves a new planet, far out of reach of Earth's influence. They would eventually form the Triquetran League, a small nation with the watchwords "stay silent- stay safe." Unwilling to draw the future ire of the UEC, they initially remained as quiet as possible in order to prevent notice from human eyes, but this worked just as well to hide them from the more sinister gaze of the Compact of Species.

The Second Diaspora
After the unification, humanity expanded out into the stars. The resulting abundance of space and resources resulted in a golden age of prosperity and peace. Hundreds of systems were colonised, with many growing so rapidly that they would eventually grow to be more populous than even Sol itself.

The Compact-Confederate War
Main article: The Compact-Confederacy War

The Compact-Confederate war was a result of humanity's refusal to join the Compact of Species. The Compact's treatment of what they deemed to be "lesser species" who made up its client races was horrifying to people of the society founded on equal freedoms and prosperity to all that was the Confederacy, and they refused to be inducted as one of the "more evolved". Without a strong navy or extended combat experience, the early parts of the war did not go well for the Confederacy. The United Earth Confederacy Navy was rapidly expanded, and succeeded in slowing down the Compact advance, but before the new generation of vessels that was supposed to turn the tide of the war could be built beyond a single ship, the war was over. Earth was wiped clean of life, Luna blasted apart, and every other station, colony and ship was hunted down. Only UECNS Nemesis survived, after her task force and crew were all killed, along with any exodus fleets that went exceptionally far from known human-inhabited space and escaped their Compact hunters.

Post-War
The convoy that went on to form Rally was chased down, much like all the others, by a Compact extermination flotilla, but escaped due to the intervention of Red One. Five years after the end of the war, the vast majority of the crew went into cryosleep for 150 years before reaching the designated rally point and settling down on the planet. Many of the ships were heavily damaged, and so were used as the basis for the colony. Barely a hundred years later, a civilian Compact explorer fleet found the colony struggling after an asteroid impact, and the population were forcibly integrated into the Compact.

"Broken"
The Compact named the now-client race humanity as Broken, indicating the damage taken by the loss of their homeworld and misfortune of the colony. Over the next 1500 years, the inhabitants of Rally would be indoctrinated into the Compact's way of thought, and knowledge of humanity's past achievements (which would have put them on par with the Compact's ruling species, along with giving an altogether more different story of the end of Earth than the official one) was all but destroyed. Though many Tribunes and especially the Triarchs hate humanity for their past deeds (the creation of AI is seen as heresy to the Compact), with some in favour of destroying them all over again, the survivors on Rally are kept essentially as hostages to limit the scope of Red One's raids.

Yasmine Sudoki
Earth-born human. The first and only captain of UECNS Nemesis. She heavily influenced the growth and development of Red One. Killed in action during the battle between Task Force 97 and Expansion Fleet Bankala.

Grace Proctor
Rally-born human. Defected from the Compact Space Force aboard CSFWV Bequeathed to Nemesis. Allyria te Neu's girlfriend. Fought as the leader of a Red Hand corvette during several raids and the Battle of Galhemna.

Adrianna Leblanc
Rally-born human. An avid history student and archeologist in her youth, she uncovered the truth of humanity's arrival on Rally in the remains of one of the colony's original starships and bombed the limousine of a particularly oppressive governor. Wanted dead by Compact, she would become the leader of the Red Hand and work with Red One in her insurgent efforts.

Lydia Jameson
Rally-born human. Defected from the Compact Space Force aboard CSFWV Bequeathed to Nemesis. Fought as part of the Red Hand's Bloodsworn in the Battle of 1893-Yiren. Escaped the damaged Red Hand battlecruiser Hala with Andrew Jackson aboard Try Again, but recieved severe radiation poisoning. Rescued from Try Again by Vegvisir.

Andrew Jackson
Rally-born human. Crusade Commander of the Red Hand and very personally acquainted with Adrianna Leblanc.

Marcus de Vries
Rally-born human. Defected from the Compact Space Force aboard CSFWV Bequeathed to Nemesis. Fought as part of the Red Hand's Bloodsworn in the Battle of 1893-Yiren. Killed in action after Hala was boarded by Janissaries.

Alan Turmetsky
Rally-born human. Defected from the Compact Space Force aboard CSFWV Bequeathed to Nemesis. Worked to restore internal sensors and other systems aboard Nemesis before and during the Seventh Battle of Sol. Killed in action after Nemesis was boarded by Janissaries.

Robert Kilgrave
Rally-born human. Assigned to Vara for "peacekeeping" duties. Reassigned to CSFWV Bequeathed after reprisals from the local Verrish for calling in an airstrike on a school. Executed by firing squad persuant to the United Earth Confederacy Code of Military Law for participating in war crimes that occured during his posting on Vara.

Obed Keating
Captain of cruiser Vegvisir, Triquetran League Navy (Exploration Fleet), sent to the Procreant Nebula (the Black Veil). He is lean, dark-skinned and with very close-cut hair.

Oksana Fantome
Commander, Vegivisir’s XO, very slender, fair-skinned and wore her hair long – though while on duty, she kept it up and out of the way in a neat, coiled bun. She was part of the same generation as Obed, and only a few years Keating’s junior. She was in line for a ship of her own, but with Exploration Fleet currently more akin to a squadron, she’d been assigned to Vegvisir until a slot opened up.

Liam ‘Lucky’ Redfeather
Member of Proliferate Claws unboun clan and survivor of encounter with Ghost of Semtillian.

Clark DuPont
Agent of Compact Intelligence Services, investigated Vilga Orbital owned by ‘Mên-an-Tol Biochemical Fabrications’, who was doing genetic research for Red Hand. Killed by Adrianna Leblanc.

Harper Catros
Human woman and Special Agent of Compact Intelligence Service, who hunted and captured Adrianna Leblanc on planet Baheila Osz.

 