Talk:Vers Empire/@comment-25450485-20140923205311

I think the situation went like this (politically):

1972: Discovery of the Hypergate on the moon during Apollo 17. This is followed by a research effort led on Mars and the discovery of Aldnoah by Rayregalia on mars.

In the following years Rayregalia formed the Vers Empire around the extremely advanced Aldnoah technology and appointed a number of knights to rule and defend each of their respective territories. Mars was named after Rayregalia Vers Rayvers and the colonists started calling it Vers. The landing castles of each orbital knight were named after said knight and their kataphracts were built specifically to be suited for the terrain of the territory they were assigned to and were named after.

Initially the relationship with earth was fairly stable, although a bit strained.

1997: Rayregalia's health got worse and he decided to leave political matters to his son Gilzeria. The inexperienced Gilzeria found himself unable to solve the problems brought by the lack of resources such as air and water on mars and also with the pressure from the general public (turning a blind eye on it only made matters worse) so he decided to direct all the frustration of the people on Vers against their old homeworld, Earth. Their superiority belief most likely originated from the time when Gilzeria was emperor. Sure, it was present before, but Gilzeria pushed it to the extreme. The people had such a firm belief that even Saazbaum, who resented the Vers Royal family for sending them into that retarded frenzy couldn't shake off these feelings that got ingrained into him by Gilzeria's propaganda.

1999: Then, finally the people of Vers were ready to go at war with earth and he sent his orbital knights against earth to claim it for Vers and take its plentiful resources and culture for themselves. Saazbaum and his fiancee Orlane were sent as advance unit to Tanegashima where they easily decimated the terran troops. However, due to circumstances yet to be explained, the Hypergate on the moon overloaded, tearing the moon itself apart (emperor Gilzeria most likely got caught up in that and died). Many fragments of the moon fell on earth and this event was called "heaven's fall" afterwards. The moon itself appears to have lost about one third of its mass, the remaining parts of it either crashed on earth or created the satellite belt.

After Gilzeria's death Rayregalia had to take over again and sort out that huge mess his son ended up creating. He couldn't hand the throne to Asseylum yet since she was too young and inexperienced at the time and would have to deal with an immensly difficult task right away. So he tried to improve relationships with earth using the fact that the one who started the war wasn't Rayregalia himself but his hotheaded son who died in Heaven's fall. Asseylum supported that idea and this is where her idea about permanent friendship between earth and Vers came from and Slaine teaching her about earth further strenghened her belief.

2014 the political relationship has improved a lot, but the political situation was still quite similar to the relationship between N/S Korea right now. And then Asseylum got assassinated by "terrans" they had every excuse they would ever need to finish what they started 15 years earlier. Their belief in "Vers superiority", their jealousy towards earth and their belief that terrans were inferior were what let to them completely disregarding any formalities such as declaring war first and breaking the armstice just like that.

When Rayregalia found out about the actions of the Orbital Knights he immediately issued an order to stop hostilities immediately and investigate the circumstances of Asseylum's assassination in detail. But then Slaine Troyard, in his naive attempt to stop the war informed Rayregalia of princess Asseylum's well-being. But unfortunately, Saazbaum contacted Rayregalia first and managed to manipulate him into believing that Slaine, the boy he even entrusted his granddaughter's education with, betrayed him.

To Rayregalia, that was the worst betrayal imaginable since he trusted Slaine and also held Slaine's father in rather high regard. And then suddenly Slaine rushed into his bedroom and ripped open his mental wound by claiming that the princess were alive after all without presenting any proof whatsoever (not even a photo) except him witnessing her.

That was a big personal hit on him and since that was obviously a conspiracy from the terrans. I mean he has seen quite clearly that "Asseylum" stepped out of the car and got blown up moments later. That is quite convincing proof that she is no longer alive. So the only possible conclusions on his end would be either that Slaine was a terran spy all along or that the terrans actually dared to present a body double of Asseylum in order to have him stop the war.

With that in mind he cast aside his beliefs in peaceful coexistance of terrans and people from Vers and fully supported the war.

Sorry for the long post, feel free to add some feedback ;)