> 30,000 years ago
Antiquity
The Age of the Great Empires of Antiquity
About 30,000 years ago, two Great Empires of Antiquity arose. Both were human, and developed in parallel for a long time. This era is considered the galaxy's golden age, though views of it are mixed: the Empires were harsh, authoritarian states. Even so, their level of development is now thought to have surpassed today's.
~ 15,000 years ago
Antiquity
The First Invasion of the Ancients
In the time of the Great Empires, about 15,000 years ago, an invasion of the Ancients took place. It was repelled — moreover, the Ancients themselves were almost completely destroyed at the time.
~ 10,000 years ago · year zero
The Fall
The Fall of the Great Empires. The Hundred Years' War and the Virus Pandora
Year zero — the last year of the Great Empires' existence — is taken as the starting point of modern civilization. It was then that the first major clash between the two empires took place, escalating into a full-scale war.
This war is called the Hundred Years' War: it lasted nearly a hundred years and ended with the massed use of the Virus Pandora by one side. The virus was an adaptive weapon aimed at humans and species closely related to them — and it soon turned against its own creators.
By the hundredth year, about 80% of the human population had died; survival was only possible through flight or isolation. The virus barely touched non-humanoids directly, but because of their subordinate position under the Empires, the catastrophe still collapsed the level of knowledge and technology across the whole galaxy. Thus began the Age of Oblivion.
0 – 8,000
The Age of Oblivion
The Age of Oblivion
The Age of Oblivion lasted around eight thousand years. The first two thousand years saw extremely slow recovery of technology, the revival of human states, and numerous attempts at unification.
The period is poorly studied, but it was then that the Surditar Dynasty, the Povody, and the Furdan Dynasty rose to power. According to the legends of these races, their roots reach back even before the Great Empires — as if they were in the galaxy before humans — but there is no reliable confirmation: the data is buried under millennia of wars and catastrophes.
It was then that these dynasties built major states in the south of the galaxy and spread their influence into neighboring sectors. In a certain sense, they still exist to this day.
8,000
End of the Age of Oblivion
The Founding of the Horde and the Empire of the Golden Suns
The year 8,000 is often taken as the end of the Age of Oblivion — the date the Horde, the largest human state of the northern galaxy, was founded. Around the same time the Empire of the Golden Suns arose, taking a dominant position in the south. For the next two thousand years, both states would define the life of the galaxy's north and south.
9,002
Revival
The Founding of the Infinite Alliance
About a thousand years ago, in the year 9002, the Infinite Alliance was founded — a progressivist human state markedly different from both the Horde and the Empire of the Golden Suns.
9,000 – 10,000
Expansion
The Arrival of the Star Wanderers
In this span the Star Wanderers arrived in the galaxy and began a slow, creeping expansion.
The 9,900s
Wars for Dominance
Horde Expansion. The Great Campaigns
Over two thousand years, the Horde gradually advanced southward. The 9900s saw the start of an age of wars for dominance — meant to decide who would rule the galaxy. The culmination of Horde expansion came with the Great Campaigns: the last major expansion of the Horde, directed against the Star Wanderers and triggering a serious crisis within their society. The free states of the south ultimately repelled the onslaught — not only through resistance, but thanks to another cataclysm as well.
~ the 9,900s
Cataclysm
The Wanderer Civil War
The war between the simbionty and the tehnokraty split Wanderer society and raged not only in our galaxy but in dozens of others. For their civilization it turned into a catastrophe: in their home galaxy, M-14, the Wanderers were effectively destroyed by the Ancients — their longstanding enemies. Having outmatched the Horde and every other galactic power for many years, the Wanderers were defeated and withdrew into a long recovery, leaving a vacuum in intergalactic politics.
~ 10,010
The Wars of the Southern League
The Return of the Ancients. The Wars of the Southern League
After the fall of the Wanderers, the Ancients invaded the galaxy around the year 10,010; the Wars of the Southern League began at that same time. The Ancients formed alliances with a number of southern states and dynasties, creating the Southern League to stand against the Empire of the Golden Suns and seize the south. There were four Wars of the Southern League in total, and the League expanded noticeably to the north.
But the old southern dynasties — the Surditar Dynasty, the Povody, and the Furdan Dynasty — refused to serve as the Ancients' puppets and struck a separate peace with the Golden Suns. In the end the Ancients and several of their armadas were destroyed, granting the galaxy a brief respite.
Recent times
Threat
The New Return of the Ancients. The Seventh Armada
In recent times the Ancients have returned once again — this time with a super-armada, the Seventh Armada. Its target is once again an attack on the Empire of the Golden Suns.
The present moment
Now
The Great War of the Golden Suns
Here the chronology reaches the current timeline: right now, the Great War of the Golden Suns is under way.
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