From OtherSpace: Encyclopedia Galactica
In the year 3001, after the collapse of the xenophobic Solar Consortium and the plasma bombing of Earth, archaeologist and entrepreneur Bartholomew Ritter established New Paris, a colony on the planet La Terre, and founded the new Allied Consortium. The dream died within six months, along with Ritter and the denizens of La Terre, when he initialized a suicide bombing of his planet when the Lem'ing fleet threatened.