Novel I am working on

[FarseerGalthenian]

Timeline
2012 Mining of Moon’s resources begins.
2015 Settlement founded on the Moon by the International Community.
2019 First man on Mars.
2023 Fusion power becomes viable.
2037 First asteroid settlement founded.
2042 Research base established on Mars.
2043 National armies on Earth consolidated into peacekeeping forces.
2046 Wormhole technology equipped to probes. Probes sent to explore all star systems within 10 light years of Earth.
2051 Base established on Europa.
2053 First colonists arrive on Mars.
2057 Mission to Proxima Centauri.
2059 Earth’s governments consolidate into IG (InterGov).
2060 First antimatter powered ship is produced.
2061 Terracompatible planet discovered at Ross 154, planet named New Earth.
2065 First international colonists arrive on first ship ever equipped with wormhole generating nodes.
2066 irus kills 5,000 colonists, inoculation program introduced.
2067-2081 Over 100 terracompatible planets discovered, enforced shipment of Earth’s population. Ethnic streaming introduced on planets to reduce cultural friction.
2090 Lunar Republic declares independence from Earth.
2100 Imperia star system discovered.
2120 ITC (Imperial Trading Company) transfers from solar system to Imperia star system, North European ethnic colony established by Antonine Octavius, descendant of company founder.
2130 Antonine Octavius founds Unified Imperial Christian Church with all denominations allowed free worship.
2190 Antonine Octavius claims independence of IG and the Solar System. Crowned Emperor Antonine I, start of Octavian dynasty and foundation of Imperium.
2230 Imperial scoutships discover Alexandria, Alexandria colonised, construction begun on the Alexandrian gate.
2245 Ocean planet Atlantis discovered and claimed by Imperium.
2285 to 2350 Imperium expanded to include a total ten star systems.
2290 Wars between colony worlds, antimatter used as a weapon, over 90,000,000 killed.
2295 Anti-matter summit held on Sutton, antimatter banned throughout inhabited space. Ban is ignored by Imperium.
2300 Commonwealth formed with representatives from all Human worlds, except the Imperium.
2301 Commonwealth capital built on Sutton.
2305 Commonwealth Navy formed with rights to patrol all star systems.
2312 Imperium refuses to allow Commonwealth Navy to enter the Imperium, Imperial Navy formed to enforce the Imperium’s boundaries.
2312 Imperial representative expelled from Commonwealth.
2213 100 year embargo placed by Commonwealth on all planets of the Imperium
2327 Crone World system discovered by Imperial scout ship, ruins of alien civilisation discovered on planet.
2358 Crone World claimed as protectorate by the Imperium.
2359 A regiment of commonwealth marines attempt to remove Imperial research station from the Crone World star system. First recorded incidence of Imperial Army being used. Marines wiped out.
2360 Commonwealth ambassadors recalled from the Imperium.
2360 Imperial ambassadors recalled.
2364 First Interstellar War declared between the Imperium and the Commonwealth.
2365 Imperial shipyard attacked. Retaliatory strike by Imperial Navy, Commonwealth Navy headquarters badly damaged, estimated cost one trillion E-Dollars.
2367 Emperor Antonine VI negotiates peace treaty between Commonwealth and the Imperium.
2415 Embargo is lifted from the Imperium
2416 ITC branches reopened in Commonwealth.
2450 Council of Telepaths founded in secret.
2512 Salandovich star system bombed with anti-matter bombs by Alegria. Over twenty-six million perish. Commonwealth Navy and Imperial Navy evacuate the survivors.
2512 Salandovich refugees offered home by the Imperium. Alegria forced to pay Salandovich survivors five trillion E-Dollars in compensation.
2608 Imperium invited to join the Commonwealth.
2609 Imperium enters alliance and trading agreement with the Commonwealth.

[FarseerGalthenian]

Chapter 1

Captain Joshua sat up with a start. With a swift thought he shut down his Neural Interface (NI) with the ship’s library and opened a link to the ships main computer. Images flooded into his mind, of nearby stars, of the positions of the rest of the convoy, of the ship’s communication network, the ship’s course to New Washington and of the ship’s cargo bay carrying 2000 tonnes of military grade synthesized diamond. Everything was normal so why was he so uneasy? He was about to reconnect with the artificial beach memory in the ship’s library when the proximity alarm sounded.
‘What the hell is going on?’ he shouted but it wasn’t a question, the ships sensors were sending information straight into his brain. Wormholes were opening all around them, he gasped as more and more appeared it could mean only one thing, pirates! ‘Bring the CombatDrones on line!’ he yelled, meanwhile his NI was reaching into its memory banks to pull up combat programs. He ordered the Holoscreen to display the combat programs. He fired three CombatDrones at each wormhole terminus. But even as he spoke his NI informed him of more wormhole terminuses’ opening, more than he could ever defend himself against. As his crew reached the bridge he saw the first enemy ship appear, lasers firing upon the frigate accompanying the convoy as it emerged.
The next second the screen exploded in static as the frigate exploded. Realising that there was no hope Captain Joshua activated the ships self-destruct mechanism, igniting all of the Heз onboard the ship. In the few nanoseconds before the ship exploded Captain Joshua’s last thought was that at least he would take some of the unknown attackers with him.

***

Five hundred light-years away an emigration official stamped out a VISA.
‘Now this allows you to leave Earth and book a passage on a starship. Now this,’ he said stamping an official looking document ‘allows you to cross the borders of the Imperium.’ He said this with an expression his face that said that he thought that the Imperium was a place where nobody from Earth should be going. The sixteen year old girl facing him clutched the documents tightly. She had been expecting cards instead of paper but then again the Imperium was fussy about the kind of documents it used. She hurried of to exchange her currency for Imperial Pounds before finding a berth.
One hour later clutching her belongings she got on a flight to the asteroid settlements. As soon as she walked through the airlock onto the spaceplane she began to feel excitement rising in her, at last she was finally taking her future into her own hands, nobody could tell her what to do anymore and… Her train of thoughts were interrupted when the loud speaker blared a warning to sit down in their seats. After a brief battle with her seat straps (which was ended when a bemused steward came and helped her) she was ready for take-off.
The g-force built suddenly as they took off. Then as suddenly as it had started the g-force reduced to a standard 1 g. The last of Earth’s atmosphere faded away and she gasped at the sight of the asteroids and the spaceports.
The asteroids had first been brought into Earth’s orbit in 2032 when early fusion power was able to propel objects at 10% of light speed enabling asteroid mining, until someone had the idea to move the asteroids into Earth’s orbit. This would make the whole process cheaper and more cost effective as well as providing housing for the miners who would begin to start micro-gee manufacturing once the minerals had been mined. Soon Earth was surrounded by a chain of inhabited asteroids, space stations and spacedocks making Earth the greatest economic power in the solar system. Since spaceships were being manufactured by the asteroids it was only a matter of time before they became spaceports for the increasing number of commercial spaceflights.
Now, after centuries of industry, the asteroids were covered with spaceports, zero-gee factories and planetary defence platforms. As the spaceplane approached a docking bay she could see huge spaceships moving into the docks, giant tankers leaving for exotic planets like New Washington and New Spain, colony ships carrying their living cargoes to the furthest reaches of the explored galaxy, small three man scout ships, the deadly cruisers of the Commonwealth Navy and… her heart skipped a beat. There sitting proudly in the dock was the most famous passenger liner ever built, the Voidsoarer.

***

The Voidsoarer was the first of the great passenger liners built by ITC. Only ten were ever built and now only three remained, only one ever left the Imperium, one was used as an exclusive transport for foreign governmental representatives; the third was kept in the Imperial Spacefaring Museum with other relics of human space flight.
Out of all the Ten Imperial Liners (as they had been affectionately named by their builders) the Voidsoarer was the greatest. Even in this day and age she was a testament to human space technology. She had been modelled on a hotel-come-leisure centre from the twentieth century. She had the greatest shock exorbers ever built to ensure maximum comfort for the passengers and a total of one hundred ion-beam thrusters to propel it through space at such a speed as to create artificial gravity for passengers while they were travelling through star systems. The cost to run a ship such as this was tremendous over long distances and as a result it only made tri-annual voyages to the solar system and even these rarely returned full with passengers since, despite the ending of the war several centuries ago, there were still widespread anti-imperial feelings present amongst the people of Earth. However the Imperium ensured that the Voidsoarer continued flying to Earth as a token gesture of political stability. To keep the flights viable however, they were also used for the clandestine, unofficial transportation of Imperial agents to the solar system … and occasionally people even more important.
***
At that moment the Emperor of the Imperium awoke onboard the Voidsoarer. He tried to remember the dream he had just had. No, it hadn’t been a dream, he could tell by the feeling that it was an old memory that kept on repeating; he had just had another vision. There had been a girl aged about sixteen with dark brown, shoulder-length hair, a natural beauty and clearly destined to break a few hearts. She had been on a spaceplane and… it was no good he just couldn’t remember. He would have to have a check run through the asteroids security system, she would be important, he could feel that, so what did that mean?
‘Oh well.’ he sighed and, making a note in his NI, he got up. He commed the ship’s captain checking if the refuelling was on schedule. Once he learned that all was well he decided to skip breakfast and go straight to the virtual conference with the leaders of IG.
‘About time you showed up’ snapped a voice.
‘Please, please some of us have to sleep you know.’ replied the Emperor ‘We aren’t all inhuman robots.’
‘That’s the trouble with the youngsters these days, no respect.’ said another voice. Smiles flickered on all around the conference table
‘You are in danger of being clichéd.’ snapped the Emperor. The owner of the second voice chortled at being able to nettle the Emperor so easily.
‘Old phrases are still relevant today.’ interjected a third voice.
‘And don’t I know it.’ muttered the Emperor. ‘Well to business, I assume you have all had time to consider my proposals yesterday. So I will begin by saying that I am glad that you were so willing to listen and that no one seems to have anything to add I think that we should go straight to the vote.’
A fourth voice angrily replied
‘Hold on, I still don’t understand why you need to build a station in the Oort cloud. I mean you know we aren’t going to attack you,’
‘No you’ve never attacked us before have you,’ snapped the Emperor ‘it was just a regiment of commonwealth troops drawn from Earth who attacked us.’
‘Calm down both of you.’ said the third voice sharply.
‘Yes Miss’ replied the Emperor meekly. Everyone laughed, and this time there was a tinge of relief in the laughter, the moment of danger had passed. The owner of the fourth voice tried to start again
‘I’m still waiting to hear Antonine’s reply’ he said, firmly using the Emperor’s first name to convey the depth of his feelings.
‘Ok,’ sighed the Emperor ‘I want to build this station so that I can collect more data for the ISA.’ A look of comprehension dawned on the faces of the conference. The ISA (Imperial Star Almanac) was known for its phenomenal accuracy and was used by almost all human worlds, with the notable exception of Mars and Europa where the planetary governments preferred to use their own. The Emperor smiled inwardly, that little white lie should do it, he hated having to deceive them but if he told them the real reason they probably wouldn’t believe him.
‘Well since the station is just for astronomical purposes then I don’t see any reason why we should veto it, do you?’ said a fifth voice, its owner looking at each member of the conference in turn receiving nods of agreement from each member.
‘Right it’s settled then and since that’s about all I really must dash.’ The Emperor said and then, with a formal bow, his image disappeared from the conference.

[FarseerGalthenian]

Disambiguation: Emperor and imperium referred to by me are not in any way related to 40K

[Inquisitor Rosenadel]

I don't quite have time to read it all at this point, especially not the timeline, but keep going! This sounds good, and it looks like you've really worked on it!