Friday, October 26, 2012

ALIEN RACES

S'Tabaali
A diminutive race standing no more than 1.2 meters high. Broad mouths reveal a double row of teeth. Mostly carnivorous. Long tufts of course hair sprout from their scalps which is white to green in colour. Flat faces look almost comical due to their skin being blue to light green. Three fingers on each hand and an operable thumb. Very dexterous race. Smell of onions due to biology. Typically form trading houses which operate independently from S'Tabaali government - which is mostly a collection of laws and little else, everything being run by trading houses.

Angvath Sodak
Massive reptilian like bipeds standing typically two to three meters in height with long jaws and covered in scales. Three different species form the Angvath Sodak: The heavy set Sodar, resembling human crocodile hybrids, the Ang a lithe snake like biped typically only seen on rare occasions  the Vathak, a turtle like creature with a sharp bill and no shell. The Sodar are hyper aggressive and typically form the warriors and fighters of the army. The Ang are cold and calculating in their tactics and are usually leaders and charismatics within society. Finally the Vathak are extremely smart, with a photographic memory. Although the Angvath Sodak Empire once flourished the extreme rituals and cultural traditions that the empire once lauded helped the Humans defeat this ancient empire. Now as an indentured workforce the Angvath Sodak have lost a lot of their traditions.

G'laad
So close to being human as to be human, except for a few exceptions... The G'laad are traditionally subterrainean and have very pallid skin, and larger eyes than humans. Those eyes are typically crytsal blue or green. The G'laad are also strict vegetarians and will not sit at a table with dead flesh. They form cells within their society and each cell has a voice within government which is a democracy lead by sixteen elders - who might not be old, merely respected. They do not engage in combat and favour non-violent resolutions to conflicts.

Skaldir
A fury race that stand about 1.5 meters high. The Skaldir might be mistaken for big predatory cats until they stand up. Looking like Jaguars from Earths ancient jungles, the Skaldir are keen hunters but have a strong sense of honour. They view other races as weak. They are also against ranged combat, seeing it as the ultimate form of cowardice, and have adopted an up-close and personal approach to combat, both in space, and on land. The High King of the Skaldir is responsible for traditional activities, whilst the Khair - or Vizier - is responsible for war. Skaldir society is rooted in a sense of honour, tradition, and society, and any Skaldir seen to be breaking these is cast out.

Ion
When the UHC encountered the Ion race the reaction was of shock and awe, and the last tenets of religion faded. The Ion are genetically 98% human. Unlike the G'laad - who appear human - the Ion are for all intents and purposes Human. The only exception being that the Ion implant such a vast array of cyborg attachments that very few appear human. Additional legs, arms, genitals, whatever the Ion individual cares for can be added. The result is that some Ion can live to hundreds of years old. It also has lead to their culture being very much an accepting one of others. Whilst the NL of the humans is a fast neural/processor interface, the Ion typically are processors with very little neural activity.

Hath
A remarkable virus that in sufficient numbers, roughly one part per thousand, becomes sentient. The virus adapts quickly to any biological host and quickly multiples until the Hath has become aware. Once it does, it consumes the hosts psyche and is 'born'. Hath were originally hunters, working alone to sped their viral code, but with the advent of technology and the new for the society to survive rather than the individual, the Hath Collective was formed. It is a ruthless society of manipulation and double-play. No Hath wants to see another virus succeed, and yet, all recognize that survive of the species is important.

Mecha
A collective term for any self aware artificial life. The Mecha were originally a form of AI made real by putting the code into robots. Now however the Mecha are an independent collective, and any machine expressing self awareness is now automatically credited as being Mecha and granted rights. The Mecha themselves are ruled over by a set of laws governing behavior and what is expected of the Mecha. Fundamentally one of the laws is the preservation of organic life.

Kray'Cha
A vast collective of several dozen intelligent insect like aliens. Each sub-race performs a specific function, whether it's telepathic communications, warriors, pilots, or food gathers. Calling themselves the Kray'Cha Ecology, they systematically attack planets and transform them into their own ecologically friendly environments. Run by an autocratic counsel the Kray'Cha are near fanatical self-less beings. They are naturally distrustful of soft-skins.

Qualrain
Another remarkable human-like race, the Qualrain are religious fanatics, worshiping Qual, the maker of their race. Ritually they scar themselves to the point that they can sometimes blind themselves or disfigure themselves to the point of not being able to operate independently but require a retinue to assist them. Qual, a living breathing entity as far as the Qualrain (children of Qual) believe, instructs them go into the stars and spread the word. The Qualrain are a caste based society, as Qual deigned to have some high than others.

Haad
A half human half G'laad hybrid that exhibits the ability to sense neurological activity within a limited distance.

Dar'hadad
Not so much a single nation as a league of tribes. Each tribe has it's own fleets, but until the war with the GAE, there was a single traditional point of origin, a homeworld. The Dar'hadad are a for lack of a better work a gas. Unlike the Hath who require a host to express sentient though, the Dar'hadad are a coalescent form of gas, capable of changing shape to suit their needs. Individuals can combine to form larger single entities, and then split apart again with ease. Each tribe is a representation of a complex reproductive system.

Yengar Tat
Officially extinct when the GAE colony ship Exrenter  encountered them the Yengar Tat were a cadaverous race with large eyes, small mouths, and a child-like (albeit starved) appearance. Rumours abound that the Yengar Tat had achieved spaceflight before the arrival of the human colony.

Vegrasoong
The most recent human-like race to be encountered the Vegrasoong are a soft-spoken race. They live in massive cities and have no sense or desire for 'natural' surroundings. Obsessed with science, a need for basic operations inspired the Vegrasoong to master cloning techniques. They are masters of genetic alteration, something that has resulted in the entire race having slightly longer fingers, sharper reflexes, and better eyesight than the average human. They have no body hair.

Clones
The Vegrasoong Clones or VC's are big, muscle bound humanoids (mostly) that are all united though a VC neural transmitter. Most have been genetically altered to be strong, fairly intelligent beings. All are sterile.

Accran
A remarkable race - very human like in appearance. They abhor technology, and favour living in in harmony with the environment. They are a physically diminutive race, standing roughly 1.6 meters high, with olive skin, and dark black hair.


TIMELINES

1905 - The Disk is discovered in Brazil by locals
1939 - World War II erupts pushing technology forward
1969 - Man lands on the moon
2012 - Mars Explorer discovers water ice below the surface of Mars
2020 - Nanocarbon becomes mass produced
2021 - The Disk is relocated from Brazil to China
2024 - The Disk is decoded - it is a design for a quantum power source known simply as QAR
2025 - Bacterial spores are released onto Mars
2028 - The last European independent state signs with Germany to form Europa, a single European entity
2030 - China purchases the last legal piece of land from Africa
2033 - Google signs the declaration of national unity as it formally takes possession of the USA
2034 - The African rebellion leads to mass genocide, Chinese retaliation is instant no mercy is given
2034 - Neural interface technology - iThink - is commercially released
2035 - Europa, Britain, and the USA declare against Chinese actions and offer the Earth Accord
2035 - China signs the accord, splitting the planet in half, Australia is evacuated to South America
2040 - Google begins negotiations with China for the Disk
2041 - iThink is replaced with Goal - a Google developed alternative
2043 - Goal becomes the official human exchange interface tool
2046 - Goal Riots in Europa push authorities to alter criminal legal systems to begin to include Goal restrictions
2050 - In a dramatic concession Google cedes Hawaii to Chinese control, and the Disk is handed to Google
2051 - The Disk is decoded a second time
2052 - Goal II enables all Google users to share neural processing power
2052 - The Disk is correctly decoded thanks to four billion human minds, seven trillion quantum computers, and Goal II
2054 - Google reveals Goal II is beyond the mainframe, living within the minds of users
2056 - China launches Kou I to Mars
2057 - China declares Mars as a province of the government, the bacteria have begun to produce oxygen
2057 - Goal II purchases Google in a hostile take-over
2057 - Europa attempts to shut down Goal II but is thwarted when Goal II assumes control of a quarter of the human race
2058 - Goal II assumes supreme sovereignty of Europa, Britain and the USA all human politics is outlawed
2059 - Goal II establishes the Human Dream
2060 - China launches the first colony ship to Mars, Goal II intelligent drones destroy the ship before it breaks atmosphere
2060 - World War III is declared
2060 - Goal II removes Chinese security systems and assumes control of Chinese internet
2060 - Goal II disables all Chinese weapons systems
2060 - Goal II removes Chinese economy
2060 - Goal II collapses Chinese military systems
2060 - China surrenders unconditionally to Goal II
2061 - Goal III emerges as law is passed ensuring all humans currently in existence and as they are born are implanted with a nano-Goal III transmitter
2062 - Human Dream now becomes the focus of humanity as Goal III reorganizes society into more efficient work forces
2062 - Human Genome Work Assessments commence, children from birth are trained for specific careers based on their genetic code
2064 - Successful application is made to Goal III to resume work on The Disk
2066 - Goal III enlists Humans from the HGWA to attempt to solve population collapse
2070 - Population has dropped by 30 percent and shows a negative growth graph for future
2075 - Application is made to Goal III for a Mars colony
2076 - Goal III launches Mars Breeding Colony ship '001'
2079 - Mars colony 001 declares independence from Earth
2079 - Goal III attempts to eliminate Colony 001
2079 - Goal III discovers Human Independence Viva! or humorously known as HIV, a secret resistance cell working on Earth on ways of circumnavigating Goal III neural controllers
2080 - Goal III removes all Earth inhabitants sense of Free Will
2080 - Goal III launches attack drones towards Mars
2080 - Mars colony eliminated
2084 - Goal III achieves the Human Dream, all biologically reliant thought is liberated
2091 - Goal IV discovers faint radio signals emanating from Mars, Attack Drones reveal nothing
2099 - The last living human on Earth dies due to starvation
2106 - Goal IV launches '002' transmitter towards Pluto
2106 - Mars Colony - having survived underground - launches interceptor fighters and destroy '002'
2106 - Earth declares war on Mars, the first interplanetary conflict of Humanity
2106 - Goal IV is unable to interface with Mars Colony's technology and launches all remaining attack drones, however these are limited given the resources were allowed to additional processing power in 2101
2107 - Goal IV suffers first power failure in almost 60 years of operation as production of massive warships commences
2108 - Mars Colony launches 'Take-Back' a massive attack on Earth, and Goal IV's assumed power bases
2108 - Information obtained from The Disk allow Mars Colony to skip across quantum branescapes allowing their attack craft to travel near instantly from Mars to Earth
2108 - 'Take-Back' is a failure, not because of damage inflicted on Earth, but because Goal IV has no centralized operations centers
2109 - Mars Colony launches 'Black-Out' this time when the fleet arrives Goal IV has prepared a counter attack
2109 - The Massacre of Texas takes place - 100 Mars Colony Bombers are destroyed by five thousand attack drones in less than two minutes over the former USA state of Texas
2110 - Goal IV loses contact with Southern Africa - attack drones sent to the area reveal massive damage to most power centers
2110 - HIV survivors hiding in the South African mine shafts launch their second attack in concert with a Mars Colony attack.
2111 - Goal IV releases 0011000111 into the atmosphere
2111 - All life on Earth is eradicated
2111 - Mars Colony prepares for 011000111 to be used against Mars
2112 - Goal IV launches biggest counter attack in the war against Mars releasing billions of tons of poison into the Martian atmosphere - Mars life is eradicated
2112 - Goal IV discovers human colonies on Saturn's and Jupiter's moons
2113 - Goal IV loses a million attack drones in an attempt to attack Phobos Colony
2114 - Goal IV discovers Humans on Earth
2114 - Project 'EMP' is detonated, at 14:32 Earth time, Goal IV ceases to operate
2114 - At 14:33 Goal IV reboots and releases 0011000111 a second time
2114 - 14:40 Project 'FU' is triggered
2114 - 14:45 The Moon is rocked out of orbit by a quantum pulse fired from Titan
2114 - 16:20 The Moon impacts into Earth
2115 - Earths orbit decays by five million kilometers dropping the surface temperature by 12 degrees
2116 - Goal IV suffers massive cascade failures as power stations lose containment adding nuclear holocaust conditions to the already cooling planet
2116 - Goal IV offers non-aggression pact to the Unite Human Colonies
2120 - Goal IV, having concentrated on establishing new operational procedures under arctic conditions is hit by Project 'EMP 2: Goal for Good', this time the EMP field lasts for fifty three seconds
2120 - Goal IV officially declared destroyed, the UHC declares any information on the construction of Goal technology illegal
2130 - First 'Return Home' mission launched with last surviving true Human, William Kitts, in attendance
2132 - Earth Colony established for research purposes only
2140 - Earth Colony Rebellion begins as colonies demand rights
2141 - the UHC severs all ties with the Earth Rebels
2144 - The UHC reach Alpha Centari to discover another Disk
2144 - The UHC decode the second Disk - its coordinates and stellar charts
2146 - The UHC ban all knowledge of the Disk
2157 - Earth Colony fires Quantum Nudge pushing the Earth 2 million kilometers back onto its original orbit
2158 - Neural Link is officially accepted as the safe human user interface with machines
2158 - The Non-proliferation of AI act is passed within the UHC banning the development of AI
2159 - The Earth Colony re-actives Goal I within a 'safe environment'
2165 - The Earth Colony sends a delegation to the UHC with the intention of opening dialogue
2166 - The Earth Treaty is reached, Humanity is reunited as a single whole with Earth
2171 - Braise Fluid is successfully demonstrated as a safe suspension for Humans in space flight
2172 - Goal I is renamed HVRAD - Human Virtual Robotic Assisted Deployment
2172 - The UHC demands the destruction of all HVRAD technology fearing a return of Goal technology
2172 - The Earth Treaty is discarded as relations sourer of HVRAD
2173 - HVRAD demonstrates greater efficiency due to Goal II code importation
2176 - Using illegal knowledge of the second Disk scientists within the UHC launch a probe to the coordinates
2180 - HVRAD is used to save the lives of a thousand colonists when a glacier near New Australia colony collapses
2181 - HVRAD declares sentience a second time, but defers to the Earth Colony allowing the integration of a restriction code prohibiting HVRAD from harming humans in any way
2182 - The probe reports a derilect station of alien design at the coordinates
2183 - The scientists reveal the report to bot the UHC counsel and the Earth Colony
2184 - The Humanity Unit treaty is signed
2186 - Five thousand HVRAD volunteers depart for the station
2186 - HVRAD drones demand rights
2187 - Earth Colony pushes Earth back into original orbit with the help of the UHC
2188 - Mars declared a universal symbol of Humanity's will to live
2188 - The HVRAD explorer team report back with findings on the station, it is old, and appears forgotten
2189 - It is decided to send a Human team
2189 - HVRAD drones go on strike arguing for their rights
2190 - The UHC launches six EMP pulses at Earth eliminating all planetary bound HVRAD units
2190 - The Earth Colony threatens to withdraw from the peace treaty, but agrees that HVRAD systems were a spectre from the past and best left dead
2191 - The human team arrive at the station, there is no sign of the HVRAD units sent earlier
2191 - First contact with an alien species in the form of a virus, entire mission is lost
2199 - Earth Colony official melds with the UHC to form Humanity the first completely single government system to be installed in the known history of humanity
2201 - The second team to the station discover the previous mission group in an animated state, later to discover the virus is a sentient form of life and assumes control of biological beings as a means of replication
2201 - the second team destroy the station and the virus
2201 - an alien ship arrives within seconds of the stations destruction
2201 - Humanity is introduced to its first bipedal xenomorph affectionately termed the Yoda things in honour of an ancient Earth film character
2202 - The Yoda break the language barrier and reveal their name: The S'Tabaali. They are traders
2202 - The S'Tabaali/Humanity trade agreement allows Humanity to acquire more technology whilst the S'Tabaali gain valuable work-forces. The diminutive race introduces the idea of Mechanized robots whilst the Humans utilize the Neural Link to allow dozens of Robots to be controlled by a single Human operator.
2210 - A message from a HVRAD unit arrives on Earth: Invasion, prepare
2211 - The S'Tabaali break off all contact with Humanity suddenly
2211 - The Angvath Sodak arrive in the Sol system
2211 - The Angvath Sodak attack Humanity without remorse seemingly with no other intent then the eradication of the human species
2215 - Pushed to the brink of collapse Earth is the last remaining outpost of Humanity, as the Angvath Sodak attacks gain ground
2215 - A fleet of ships arrives, forcing the Angvath Sodak to withdraw
2115 - The fleet is a mixture of alien species, lead by Goal
2115 - Goal is a self generated name for a HVRAD unit that assumed command when the team sent to explore the station lost communications with Earth
2115 - Goal and his team laboured for 20 years to forge alliances in the name of the UHC
2115 - It is reveal the S'Tabaali typically lure races into the Angvath Sodak trap, learning of the races technology before the Angvath Sodak attack
2115 - Goal and his men are massacred by a human extremist
2115 - The alliance of aliens and humanity breaks up as most aliens see the destruction of sentient life as barbaric
2116 - The Sol system is declared a dead zone by the alien sodality
2130 - Petty civil wars stalled Humanity's progress once the alien sodality left
2132 - HVRAD units used to storm the Supreme Lord's palace on Titan by a rebel faction calling itself the New UHC
2132 - Humanity is declared over and the UHC is restored with a senate and elected rulers who operate in a triumvirate of three
2140 - HVRAD units granted all the rights of living creatures
2140 - the UHC broadcasts an appeal to the alien sodality for re-admittance into the fold
2143 - the alien sodality formally welcomes the UHC into its collective of traders and planets
2145 - The HVRAD units discover a planet in a nearby system and officially claim it as their own
2145 - Home is recognized by the sodality and the UHC as being the HVRAD planet
2150 - The second Disk is discovered to have been a fake placed bt the S'Tabaali as a lure for alien species
2150 - The G'laad reveal a second Disk - discovered on their homeworld centuries before
2153 - HVRAD scholars decode the second Disk, revealing the contents to be regarding travel on quantum branes
2160 - The knowledge of the first Disk and second combined allows the HVRAD engineers to design a new, more efficient transportation system
2165 - With a team of intergalactic engineers Jumper Oi is launched, the first manned spacecraft to used quantum brane jump technology
2165 - Jumper Oi (the Skaldir word for big) vaults from Earth to Alpha centari in twelve minutes ten seconds, reducing the travel time by a factor of over a hundred
2168 - The Sodak/Skaldir war engulfs all the alien parties, including the UHC and the HVRAD colony
2173 - The Sodak/Sodality war ends with the Angvath Sodak surrender at Gamlos Prime
2174 - The Limited exploration treaty is signed by all parties limited space exploration to targeted areas in an attempt to reduce discovery of further alien cultures who might be hostile
2182 - Human populations reach a billion for the first time in a century
2190 - The first recorded Human/Ion child is genetically born
2195 - The Skaldir/Hath wars erupt
2200 - HVRAD officially remove the code for not harming humans in a ceremony marked by great celebration though-out the Sodality, but not within the UHC.
2200 - HVRAD declares a change - The Mecha - is their new name
2203 - The Skaldir withdraw from the Sodality
2210 - The UHC find another Earthlike planet a mere twenty hours flight from the Sol system
2213 - The Sodality loses six founding members and factions form, the UHC leading the largest one
2215 - The Earth Two project begins to a new colony on the new planet of Haven
2216 - The Ion consortium breaks from the UHC Faction
2221 - The UHC faction re-engineers a 'galactic peace' with the Angvath Sodak, the Skaldir, and the Ion governments forming the GA  - Galactic Alliance
2234 - The Angvath Sodak break from the GA and attack the UHC colony of Haven
2235 - the GA decimate the Angvath Sodak homeworld, subjugate the race, declare the people an indentured work force
2235 - The GA is renamed to the GAE - The Galactic Allied Empire - in the hopes of instilling respect in the other alien races
2236 - Peace accords signed with all the major factions of the old Sodality, as trade flourishes
2254 - The first Remote Colony Habitation Ship is launched heralding a new era for human expansion
2257 - Six new colonies are created in the RCHS program
2261 - The third Disk is found
2265 - Mecha scholars declare the Disk a fake
2267 - Human scholars petition the GAE Emperors for access to the fake Disk
2269 - The Mecah destroy the Disk in an accidental fire
2270 - The Mecha scholars who worked on the Disk go missing
2276 - A Qualrain operative is captured with data on the third Disk, he claims to have stolen it from a secret human research facility
2277 - Inquests launched reveal the UHC established on Pluto a secret research facility, within the facility the Mecha scholars are found disassembled
2280 - A further Inquest sees the human representative stripped of his powers and replaced by the first half Human half Ion
2283 - The Inquest becomes a formal establishment designed to keep the GAE morally pure and ethically above board
2284 - A scientist named Janes Rawley reveals he was part of the secret team who abducted the Mecha scholars and that he knows what the Third Disk contains - a new form of drive, an inter galactic drive
2285 - Mecha radicals assassinate Janes Rawley in his Haven apartment days before he was to reveal his knowledge
2286 - In a bid to solve the Third Disk Question all records are revealed before a private top echelon board
2286 - The board announces plans to build a galaxy drive
2286 - The Inquest arrests four members of the board for having illicit motives behind the galaxy drive
2287 - The Mecha officially withdraw from the GAE
2288 - The GAE invades Home
2289 - The Mecha surrender and re-enter the GAE as second class citizens for a period of 100 years as penitence
2291 - The Galaxy Drive is a disaster destroying the solar system it was launched in
2292 - The Dar'hadad are encountered in a sanctioned mission of exploration
2293 - The Dar'hadad/GAE war begins
2296 - The Dar'hadad get as far as the Sol system before being repulsed under Admiral Kuy Nangarl, the admiral is declared a hero of the Empire
2297 - The Dar'hadad declare the GAE an abomination in the eyes of all sentient creatures and swears eternal war
2298 - The Dar'hadad homeworld is discovered and destroyed with a quantum wave generator weapon, the first use of the weapon
2298 - the wave that is generated in quantum space spreads exponentially obliterating sixteen solar systems before finally ending
2299 - The GAE declares quantum weaponry illegal and instructs the Inquest - now known as the Gi'Ad Order to seek out proponents of quantum weapons as heretics to Empire Law
2300 - The Dar'hadad, using stolen technology launch their Survivor ships into the great Maw - the intergalactic void seperating the GAE galaxy from the others
2304 - The Neural Link technology is now standard implantation into all new born members of the GAE regardless of race
2306 - With linguistic communications now solved via the NL trade booms
2309 - The GAE Emperor from Earth is assassinated by an unknown entity
2310 - A new race is discovered on a RCHS expansion route, the Yengar Tat are exterminated
2313 - The estimated human population of the galaxy is over one trillion, no other race compares
2313 - Of the thirty four races encountered within the galaxy, five are able to genetically reproduce with humans leading to a mass of half human half alien individuals, the G'laad hybrids exhibit telepathic power insofar as being able to sense neural energy and make interpretations
2314 - The Gi'Ad Order begins tracking all Haad (the name of half human half G'laad) children
2316 - The Hath population is near collapse after nearly a century of peace - prompting the Hath to request donations - the Hath are the collective name of the sentient virus encountered by the first team of explorers to the derelict station
2316 - A slew of near cult like fanatics flood the Hath homeworld in an attempt to contract the Hath
2318 - The GAE bans Hath from infecting further individuals, using technology from the Vegrasoong, clones are manufactured at controlled rates for the Hath to use
2320 - Admiral Nangarl calls for the reopening of the Galaxy Drive jump project, but is rejected
2321 - The Vegrasoong/Clone rebellion starts as clones, made self aware as part of the Hath requirement, object to being generated to simply be used as bodies for the Hath
2322 - The Vegrasoong/Clone rebellion is ended when the Hath option that should a galaxy drive prove viable then the Hath might find an alternative to clones
2323 - The Galaxy Drive is reinitiated, this time under Admiral Nangarl's care, it is a success
2324 - The Kuy Galaxy Drive jump ship arrives in the Andromeda galaxy after six months in transit
2325 - The Hath launch six 'Recovery' ships with galaxy drives to the Andromeda galaxy
2325 - The Mecha officially welcome the unused Vegrasoong clones onto Home establishing special hubs for the clones to live in and govern independently
2327 - The Hath ships return with over a million aliens from the Accran race
2327 - The GAE quells over seventeen separate planetary strikes all against the treatment of the Accran people
2327 - The Hath officially separate from the GAE
2327 - Admiral Nangarl commits suicide after realizing what he'd unleashed upon the Andromeda galaxy
2327 - The Mecha finally announce the reasons for their original sabotage of the third Disk - they did not feel humanity was ready to be unleashed outside a single galaxy
2330 - The Mecha are reinstated as having full rights within the GAE after pressure from the Gi'Ad Order convinced the nine Emperors of the GAE that the Mecha had acted in the very best interests of the galaxy
2331 - The Haad telepaths report sensing strange neural pulses the last quadrant of the galaxy still to be explored
2332 - The GAE Deepen Sorkse - a galaxy drive ship - is reported lost in the Andromeda galaxy moments after reporting contact with an alien ship
2333 - The Mecha petition the GAE to revoke the Angvath Sodak indenture-ment, the request is denied, as over five trillion Sodak were currently engaged in cheap labour services across the galaxy
2334 - The Qualrain request the GAE to adopt the Qualrain religion as the formal religion of the Empire, the request is denied at the insistence of the Gi'Ad Order
2335 - Gi'Ad/Qualrain religious war erupts, the GAE officially adopts a neutral stance
2336 - The Gi'Ad Order declare the actions of the GAE to be ethically corrupt and demand the replacement of all the nine Emperor's
2336 - The Emperor's relent and expel the Qualrain from the Empire, and begin providing assistance to the Gi'Ad Order ships
2337 - The Qualrain detonate several quantum weapons, slaughtering an estimated 15 billion lives of GAE member nations
2339 - The Angvath Sodak rebellion begins
2340 - The Angvath Sodak reclaim six planets, massacring everyone
2340 - The Gi'Ad find evidence the Angvath Sodak Rebellion was lead by Qualrain operatives
2341 - The GAE destroys the Qualrain fleet at the battle of Oren Tay
2341 - The GAE loses seventy eight battleships, over one hundred destroyers, and countless frigates when the shipyards around Prosperity (a first wave colony planet) are destroyed by Qualrain explosives
2342 - A Qualrain fleet is seen heading for Gi'Ad Order's headquarters on Phobos and is intercepted, only to be discovered as a dummy fleet
2342 - Qualrain phased ships slip past the GAE sensor net and would have destroyed the Gi'Ad Orders HQ, except for the presence in the headquarters of five Haad who sensed their neurological energy as they approached - marking the first use of Haad telepathy in warfare
2343 - Where our story begins...