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'''Humans''' are a sapient [[species]] of bipedal mammals, native to planet [[Earth]] in the [[Sol]] system. Since the discovery of faster-than-light [[hyperspace]] travel, humans have rapidly expanded beyond Sol. They primarily populate a region of the [[galaxy]] known as the [[Core Systems]], where they have colonized thousands of worlds and constructed tens of thousands of orbital [[station]]s, and in the 34th century, the advent of the [[Frame Shift Drive]] has enabled colonization efforts in several remote clusters across the galaxy. While a plurality of modern humans belong to a vast array of [[independent]] factions that constantly jockey for influence and power, the majority belong to one of the three superpowers: the [[Federation]], the [[Empire]], and the [[Alliance]].

By the 2030s, major resource problems forced humanity to look to the stars for a way to relieve population pressures on [[Earth]]. Commercial organisations planned missions to build the first colonies on the [[Moon]] and [[Mars]], as well as explore the rest of [[Sol]] for possible safe havens as political tensions on Earth rose to a boil.<ref name="EE" /> The outbreak of World War III from 2044 to 2055 ground these efforts to an immediate halt. The conflict saw multiple nuclear exchanges occur between various countries. The United States of America was able to avoid suffering any nuclear detonations on its soil thanks to its defensive laser grid, which combined ground turrets with armed satellites to disable inbound enemy missiles before they reached their targets.<ref name="UNMD">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/5b504aeaf04e9240913b9164 GalNet: Unexploded Nuclear Missile Discovered]</ref> When the war finally ended, over one billion people and many countries had perished, and the United States was the only major country left mostly unscathed.<ref name="EE">''[[Elite Encounters RPG]]''</ref> It quickly expanded into the [[United States of the Americas]], a multi-continental hyperpower that dominated Earth, and eventually, as the last countries joined it, changed its name to "the Federation".<ref>Tourist Spot 0165, "Ancient History"</ref>

Humans primarily reside in a region known as the [[Core Systems]] in the [[Inner Orion Spur]], which contains about 19,000 [[Star Systems|star systems]] in an approximately spherical zone centered on [[Sol]]. Since the beginning of the 34th century, humans have also colonized several remote clusters of systems, including the [[Pleiades Nebula]], the [[California Nebula]], the [[Colonia Region]], and the [[Witch Head Nebula]].

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