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I've decided the first content to the site will be the history of M3k. No one is gonna have much of an interest if there isn't any background material.

Time Periods
by Eric Edwards (aka Hostile)

A-1. Time Periods
1. The beginning of recorded intelligent life in the galaxy until the present is broken down into five (5) distinct time periods. These periods are not of equal length and are chronologically detailed under Appendix A-2 Timelines.
2. The Primazoic Era starts at the earliest recorded history and includes the Time of the Ancients, the absolute earliest recorded intelligent life in the galaxy.
3. If any intelligent life existed before the Primazoic Era it is not known of and is not mentioned in any historical text. It is mentioned in the ancient texts of the Followers of the Light that there was no intelligent life before this time and there is no evidence to disprove this claim.
4. The five distinct time periods are listed as the Primazoic, the Binazoic, the Tertiazoic, the Quadrazoic, and the Pentazoic:

A-1-4a Primazoic Period
The Primazoic period starts approximately 1.2 million years ago and it is believed at this point intelligent life in the galaxy began. The Ancients are believed to be the first race to leave their mark upon the galaxy. The Followers of the Light believe that they were the first race to ever exist, but this is unconfirmed. What is known is that they evolved, survived and thrived for 200,000 years as the only intelligent sentient race in the galaxy.
There is no record of what they looked like or how their social structured worked but they were not a warlike people. They sought art, beauty, and morality. They were close with the Maker and this pleased Him. They flourished and had advanced until their physical technology peaked and reached a level unknown to any race or civilization throughout history. They had become one step from evolving into multidimensional beings. This final step into pseudo-divinity caused a gap between those who Crossed Over and those who were left behind. They were no longer a single race. This separation lead to animosity which in time lead to civil unrest. Those who had Crossed Over began, in pride, to restrict the passage of those who have not yet Crossed over.
A power struggle insued and after many thousands of years the interdimensional war began to take its toll on the fabric of reality. Weapons of this age included time disruption fields, matter to matter annihilation bombs, and hyper-metatonic phase exciters. Weapons which left no victor and nothing left to control. When time distortions became common place and subatomic instabilities ripped through planets, they realized there was no hope and that they destroyed all chance of a normal existence, and they knew they were done as a race. Knowing that conditions in the fabric of reality would in time correct themselves like ripples in a pond slowly dissipating, they began to make preparations for the survival of something of their civilization. The time necessary to correct these ripples would far exceed the existence of the race that created them but they sent survivors that would outlive the Ancients themselves.
They created what is known as the Survivors of the Ancients. This is considered a race entirely of its own and is believed to be nothing more than a few select members of the Ancients who were transported into the future ahead of the destructive consequences of the time ripples. The Survivors of the Ancients traveled 175,000 years into the future to a place very different from when they left. They found a home and began history once again.

A-1-4b Binazoic Period
The Survivors of the Ancients had genetically manipulated and cloned themselves on a mass scale. This practice was previously outlawed as dictated by the Maker himself. Followers of the Light believe that this practice is what caused the downfall of their civilization. Eventually the survivors of the Ancients had created what was known as the Titan Races. These fledgling races evolved into great empires. The greatest was known as the Quentasons. This was a race gone a fowl. They had so much technology at their disposal that they defied the teachings of the Survivors of the Ancients and had
declared war on all the other Titan races, including the Survivors of the Ancients themselves. It is not even known who the other Titan races were or what they looked like but we do know that they had allied together to withstand the aggressive nature of the Quentasons. This lead to a do or die war that left the Quentasons gaining enormous amounts of territory and executing the current inhabitants of the new territories. When the Quentasons began to use flesh-eating microbes that could even survive in a vacuum, there was no stopping the constant bombing of the other Titan races. The microbes then mutated and began to reproduce, something they were not designed to do, and the Quentasons could not control their own creation. This plague would be carried to every corner of inhabited space, willingly and unwillingly. At this point the war was futile and the very existence of life itself began to come into question. Those not yet infected on both sides began to suspend themselves in hiberniculums, far below the surface of many planets. Many chose not to hide but continued to search for a way to stop the plague.
The Quentasons came up with their own solution to preserving their race and accumulation of knowledge. Those not suspended began to do away with their physical bodies entirely. They would have their brains removed from their body and placed within a mentally controlled robotic drone. These hermetically sealed drones protected the flesh from the microbes but began to decay the sanity of the brain itself. It was not long before the robotic Neo-Quentasons began to destroy one another and all the organic members of their species suspended below the surface.
The plague never stopped until all flesh in the galaxy was devoured. The only survivors were the remnants of the Titan races who suspended themselves and isolated pockets of cybernetic Quentasons. Without flesh the microbes eventually perished but left serious ecological damage on once lush planets. It is not known whether any of the Survivors of the Ancients chose to be suspended or not, but it is doubtful any survived as they were, by this time, a decadent race with low reproductive capabilities.
The survivors numbered approximately 10 to 20 billion. They were suspended for 225,000 years in order to give time for the microbes to deplete themselves. Once they awoke, they were guided by The Light to replenish the galaxy with the millions of suspended genetic samples brought with them from the past. They were scattered and diversified and did not have contact with one another. The Titan races were changed by The Light into the Greater races and this event, 100,000 years in the making, marks the end of the Binazoic period.
During the closing of the Binazoic period, the Quentasons began polluting these new worlds with genetics of their own creation. This caused many offshoot races of less than benign nature that directly competed with the Greater races. It is also believed that this was the introduction of the Scavenger races. The Scavenger races will forever ride the coat tails of existing populations and have been successful in outliving the Greater races themselves. They flourish in the cracks of other empires and thrive where life should not thrive. Humans are, by many races, sometimes considered a Scavenger race but this is not true. Humans
developed long after the Scavenger races and have an established domain. They do possess many of the best qualities of the Scavenger races, such as their ability to flourish in harsh and hostile environments.

A-1-4c Tertiazoic Period
The Tertiazoic period begins as a new rebirth for the galaxy. It is a period of extreme exploration and understanding in the natural cycles of the galaxy. All of what we know about time prior to this period is due to reference materials excavated from this period. It is the Age of Orion. This mighty and honorable race stood at the pinnacle of power throughout this period. Their domain encompassed only a fraction of the galaxy but was considered the capital empire and loosely controlled over half of the galaxy through agreements and treaties. Other members of the Greater races included the Clikk, the Moshod, the Koldar, the Istrions, and the Lison. Many other subordinate races existed and had domains of their own and usually warred with other subordinate races or as mercenary nations on the side of a Greater race pitched against another Greater race.
Another race that did come to power were the Antareans. They were spawned by the genetic tampering of one of the infant Greater races by the Quentasons. Quentasons altered a few of the Greater races and these new races were referred to as the Lesser races. The subordinate races that were altered became the Scavenger races. The Lesser races were capable and actually competed heavily with the Greater races. They rallied many of the subordinate and Scavenger races to their cause. The Antareans proposed a plan that would cause the downfall of the Orion empire and divide the space among all. This was a plan of deception. With the aid of the Quentasons, the Antareans orchestrated a conflict between the allied Greater Races and caused them to take a neutral stance with each other. Unknown to any race, even their allies, they began using Scavenger insurgents to start a war with the other lesser races, the subordinate races, and the Scavenger races against the Orions.
The Orions had no choice but to unleash devastating weapons of war in order to defend their isolated empire. In the aftermath, the Antarean plan was revealed to the Orions and open warfare with the Antareans began in earnest. The Orions proved they could be just as blood thirsty as the Antareans, when cornered, and dealt huge blows to the Antarean empire. In return, Antareans boldly began penetrating into Orion areas of space. A showdown occurred at a fringe planet in the Orion empire called Aquise. This fleet engagement was of immense proportions and it is considered the largest fleet battle ever recorded. The outcome went in favor of the Antareans. This was crucial in proving that a Lesser race was not inferior to a Greater race. Orion morale plummeted and worse still was the fact that they were totally defenseless against the still capable fleet of the Antareans. With the expectation of systematic destruction of their worlds by the Antareans, they used all their remaining resources to build a doomsday device, ironically, called the Guardian.
The Guardian was about the size of a small moon and besides having a huge array of the most advanced and powerful weapons available to the Orions, it also contained a huge stasis field that could place an entire planet in a permanent àdimensional stasis. They constructed and launched the Guardian towards the Antarean worlds. The Antarean fleet divided with one half sent to defend against the Guardian and the other half sent to destroy the Orion worlds. The Guardian was unstoppable and went from planet to planet destroying Antarean ships and placing each planet in stasis. But the Antarean fleet was just as successful. When the last Antarean planet was in stasis, the Guardian returned to the Orion system as programmed only to find there were no more Orions. The Guardian sits to this day in the Orion system destroying any ship venturing too close. The Antarean fleet on the other hand had no home to return to and to this day their ancestors roam the galaxy in their ancient ships wreaking havoc and exploiting locals wherever the go. The Antarean Third Fleet, their proper designation, occasionally will lease their services out to the Quentasons and other malevolent domains. All races from this point on will despise the Antareans for causing the collapse of the greatest chance yet of regaining the knowledge of Crossing Over, as the Ancients had once done.

A-1-4d Quadrazoic Period
The Quadrazoic Period begins about 400,000 years ago immediately following the collapse of the Orion and Antarean Empires. Over time, the remaining domains disintegrated into decay and civil war. This begins a very dark age in the history of the galaxy. Many populated planets began to revert back to low technology levels and countless billions of every race perished in this great purging of the masses. It is noted that many races in existence prior to this time went extinct during this period and massive amounts of technology were lost when the whole social system broke down. Tyrants reigned using old technology uncovered from the previous period. Many populations destroyed themselves by using technology they no longer understood. The Followers of the Light were persecuted and blamed for all the calamities occurring during this period and this only added to the ongoing slaughter.
There is no significant domain that stands out during this period and very little communication was even present between domains. It seems that not much of anything was accomplished and space flight was even sparse. The fact amazes historians to this day that a period of stagnation could last 300,000 years.
The Followers of the Light believe that the Hand of Mercy purposely limited the advancement of civilizations in order to protect the galaxy during this turbulent period. It was also during this period that many amazing celestial races began springing up. It is not known where these races came from but single individuals began carving out small areas of space for themselves. It is believed that these celestial races began Crossing Over from higher and lower dimensions to our own. These individuals included exiles, criminals, and dissidents. They came and found no established empires and were able to take residency here. Some are still present to this day and cause problems for domains that border their space. Most by now have been destroyed or died of natural causes. One of the two only significant moments of this period in the Alpha Quadrant is the rising of the Bulrathi, Klackon, and Alkari domains. They arose within 25,000 years of the end of this dismal period. After some initial tensions, the races finally formed a codependency and relations stabilized. They immediately became military allies when threatened by the only other significant event during this period, the arrival of the Human race. This second event also marks the end of the Quadrazoic period some 100,000 years ago.

A-1-4e Pentazoic Period
The Pentazoic period begins with the development of the Human race. The Humans were foretold by The Followers of the Light in their ancient texts. It says that Humans are the only race, besides the Ancients themselves, that evolved into sentient intelligent life without the aid of manipulation from another race. All other races can be traced genetically back through the ages descending from one old race or another. At this point science has not been able to disprove this claim and that stands as the most likely theory. Most scientists in the galaxy realize that not one race in existence is native to any one world. The populations of the galaxy are nothing more than genetic refugees from eons past. The exception to this rule is the Human race. Though the original homeworld of the Humans, Minerva, was long destroyed, it was proven that the Humans actually evolved on their own with genes tainted by no other race. This extraordinary fact separates Humans from all other races that ever existed in this galaxy besides the Ancients themselves.

Below are the various ages of Human history in chronological order:

A-1-4e(1) First Dawn-
Though Humans developed thousands of years before the end of the Quadrazoic period, they did not develop space travel until 100,000 years ago. This marks the beginning of the Pentazoic period and opens up the Cluster for exploration and colonization. Their home world was Minerva, a planet that was originally where the asteroid field is, between Mars and Jupiter. They first colonized Mars, which at this time was a lush but primitive planet. Minervans then began to move onto Earth, which was a frozen ice world, and then onto the stars. Their cities were surprisingly subterranean for the most part. Minervans spared their environment with this underground city idea, but more importantly they were very inclined to be underground. Amazingly they were able to withstand earthquakes using clever engineering designs and special materials. Social, economic, and government ideologies went through major upheavals and advanced civil management programs went into effect. The Minervans began to establish a domain.

A-1-4e(2) The Minervan Age-
At this time, the Minervans began to spread upon the cluster. This was their age. Their range of exploration and understanding was unmatched. This immediately drew the attention of the neighboring domains and created a sphere of fear among the observers. Almost according to a greater plan, the Human race expanded to the farthest reaches of The Cluster. Dangerously close to the neighboring domains. This raised great concerns among the Bulrathi, the Klackon, and others among the oligarchy of domains. When Minervan explorers began to cross the North Corridor and the EastGate, the existing populations of Bulrathi, Klackon, and occasional Alkari began a paranoid propaganda campaign about the rising Minervan expansionist efforts. The Minervans had no race to contend with for territory or deal with any border disputes until now and had no real understanding of the balance of power among the established domains. The Minervans totally dismissed any military buildup of the newly formed Alliance. The breakdown of negotiations meant nothing to the Minervans who didn’t see the negative opinion forming against them. When small skirmishes turned into open warfare between the Minervans and the Alliance, a full fleet engagement was set in motion. At a remote and long lost, fringe planet, a battle ensued between the brunt of the Alliance fleet and the entire Minervan fleet. This battle fended disastrous for the Minervans and only at this point did the large scope of things become clear. Genocide was in effect. Anti-Alliance protests and mobilizations were done to stop the onslaught of this growing trade market of Human expansion but nothing could stop the Alliance bombing of Minervan colonies and installations abroad. Only in the last breathes of the war did the Alliance begin to discover the ever increasing cases of what would be known as the Minervan Plague. Though no physical evidence is present, it is believed that the Minervan plague was created by the last ditch efforts of the Minervans to cause some kind of social and military breakdown. The Humans were very good at creating biological weapons and exploited it whenever possible. When the Minervans were destroyed and all the Human subordinate races were free, then the impact of the Minervan Plague began in

When the Minervans were destroyed and all the Human subordinate races were free, then the impact of the Minervan Plague began in earnest. The plague wiped out ninety percent of the Klackon race and sixty five percent of the Bulrathi race before exhausting itself. It was surmised that in the end it was mutual assured destruction as both sides had the capability of doing either scenario upon the enemy. It would take another 40,000 years before these races would meet again. Tensions run high among historians these days trying to figure out the details of a war 50,000 years ago. Post war Bulrathi civilization consisted of isolated planets that, without the support the capital planets, eventually declined back into primitive cultures.
The Minervan tragedy left the entire population consisting of only the a few thousand true blood Minervan Humans that survived orbital bombardment by Alliance forces. Two individual populations, one under the surface of Mars, and the other under the surface of Ancient Earth. These two surviving factions stayed in contact for hundreds of years before the technology that kept them in touch finally gave way to decay. The Alliance did not see the subordinate races created by the Minervans as Humans and therefore did not pursue to destroy them. This was their mistake. The subordinate races did not have the intellectual capabilities of the Minervan Humans but they had the genetics to survive very harsh conditions.
Unknown to the Alliance, many subordinate races were able to interbreed with the Minervans, the Cro-Magnon especially. This lead to a specialized breeding program set up by the Minervans on Earth to continue the Minervan race. They altered the Cro-Magnon genetically in order to bring about an elite race that included the endurance of the Cro-Magnon and the intellect of the Minervans. Though many subordinate races still existed on Earth and continued to thrive until the 22nd century AD, it was only a matter of time until the Cro-Magnon subrace would totally drive all others out of existence.
The Minervans on Earth finally went extinct themselves. They left great underground cities that were not discovered until the 21st century and this fact almost destroyed the Terran Human civilization. The truth tore down the very foundation of whom the Terran Humans thought they even were. The Marn aided the Humans in finally coping with their origins under deceptive means. Once the Minervans on Earth went extinct, the subordinate races began to regress back to barbarism. The entire reign of the Minervans on Earth only lasted about 1200 years after the destruction of Minerva but the impact saved the Human race.
The Cro-Magnon that contained the Minervan genes began to control and dominate the existing populations. These Humans are still easily identifiable by a lack of hair on the head of adult males. Many Minervans were actually left hand dominate and created the subordinate races right hand dominate in order to restrict abstract creativity. This meant restricting the growth of the right side of the brain.
The Minervans on Mars were able to survive. The surface of Mars, once lush, was transformed into a barely habitable desert. Most of the water on the planets surface was atomized leaving only the underground reservoirs. Somehow, beyond the belief of modern scientists, the Martians were the only Minervans to survive and thrive. This was probably due to the vast genetic manipulation that grew common among the Martians.

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Here is a more detailed history of modern times.

Minerva: Dawn of the Human Race

The planet Minerva was located at the fourth position from the sun in the Sol system. Its grave now marked by the presence of the asteroid belt. This is the true home world of the human race and it is from this planet that the modern human race has evolved. The humans of Minerva were not unlike the Terran humans of modern times, but there were significant genetics traits and differences.
The Minervan was approximately 4.5 to 5.5 feet tall, with a very pronounced forehead, nose, and chin. Males would lose all of the hair on their heads once entering puberty. Females were smaller with very petite frames in comparison with their male counterparts. Minerva was a planet larger, more dense, and higher gravity than Terra. This is reflected in the short, squat appearance of the Minervan in comparison to the Terran human. Minervans flourished and peaked about 50,000 years ago, creating a civilization spanning the length of The Cluster.
Minervans also practiced the fine art of genetic manipulation. They created subordinate races that were more hardy but not as intelligent as themselves. These subordinate races were developed to be very impressionable and were subject to vigorous programming and polishing techniques. They were the backbone to Minervan industry and were used extensively through The Cluster. No where were they used more than ancient Earth.
Subs were manipulated to best fit the environment they inhabited and very rarely did they ever leave the planet they were sold to. When the Minervans attempted a flirtatious expansionistic policy they soon attracted the attention of another young and expansive race, the Bulrathi. The Bulrathi existed on the far end of the Northern Corridor and had formed an uneasy alliance with the Klackon Empire. Hostilities erupted almost immediately.
The Alliance took the Minervans a lot more seriously than the Minervans did. They initiated a war machine in full force while the Minervans researched, explored and exploited The Cluster. When a major strategic fleet engagement proved to be fatal for the Minervans, there was no stopping the Alliance. They began a series of genocidal bombing runs on every Minervan Installation and colony. This technique was unheard of since the times of the Ancients and was a sheer massacre of unparalleled proportions. The Minervans never realized the hatred of the Alliance and could not stop the onslaught after it started. When the realization came that the end was near, most Minervans fled to the relative safety of their home world. When the Alliance fleet hit the Sol system there was no longer a Minerva.
The entire surface of Mars was devastated, turning it from a temperate planet to a scarred graveyard of a once great civilization. But deep within the surface of Mars, the survivors had established contact with the Minervans on Earth but could not build ships to reach them. Eventually when the technology to make the repair parts for the interplanetary radios became lost, all contact was broken off between the two worlds. The Minervan survivors on Mars would eventually flourish and evolve into the Martian human some 40,000 years later. The ice world of Earth was not a primary target but was still given the clean sweep, leaving a select few Minervans who crept deep into the earth and waited out the attack. The other survivors were the refugee nomad tribes of subordinate races lucky enough to survive the attack.
Early Second Renaissance historians had mistaken the Minervan remains on Earth as another subordinate race and referred to them as the Neanderthal. But later evidence proved that the Minervan survivors had quite an extensive network of cities and transportation systems underground and rarely ever used the planets surface. Minervan texts excavated from deep in the Earth describe a Morlock like existence, feeding on the flesh of the surface, and interbreeding with the subordinate races still existing on the surface. Eventually, the remaining Minervans became extinct, leaving only cities in ruins deep within the ground. To date, there is not a true blood Minervan left in the universe though it is rumored that there may still be hidden Minervan colonies somewhere in The Cluster. The bloodline of Minervan genes that did survive and is traceable in the modern Terran human is the crossbreed of the Minervan and Cro-Magnon sub race. They would over time become the most dominate race on Earth.
Meanwhile, The Minervan Plague struck the Alliance. It is rumored that it was created by Minervan scientists in a last ditch effort to survive. But the disease did so much devastation that the entire infrastructure of the civilizations collapsed leaving each world isolated and left to fend for them selves. Entire populations died as the result of famines produced on barren worlds waiting for transports that would never show and if they did they would only bring the Minervan Plague. The Alliance was no more and natural selection had removed the weak, but in time each race would recover and grow only to meet once again 40,000 years later.


Mars: Second Dawn of the Human Race

40,000 years later and 10,000 years from the present, the surviving Minervans beneath the surface of Mars had developed into what was known as the Martian human. Martian humans had used genetic manipulation extensively and it became a trendy facet of their life. They manipulated themselves into many obscure forms with many mishaps along the way. They held no sanctity for their young and should they be displeased with them they would simply destroy them and start over.
They were despised by most other beings of their time and were inclined to exploit the weaker races whenever possible. Though internally they were a fair and just people, they did not hold much respect for the lesser developed cultures and felt no remorse in enslaving them.
When the Martians encountered the ancient Earth they immediately began taking control of the subordinate races by appearing as gods performing so called miracles. They provided a key to the inhabitants then shrouded history and made up stories of their origins.
The Martians told the subordinate races that they were gods sent down from the heavens to rule them and that they should obey their every word for fear of eternal damnation. They established two primary capitols, one in the east and one in the west. Their western and absolute capitol city was Atlantis. This city contained the only spaceport on the planet and was the military base of operations on ancient Earth. The second capitol city was in the east and was called Mu. This was the financial center for the planet and governed over the entire eastern hemisphere.
Martians eventually explored and colonized most of The Cluster. They began to travel the vast expanse of The North and South Corridors and came into contact with the newly formed Bulrathi Coalition. This collection of lost Bulrathi survivors of the Minervan Plague spanned many planets and grew very quickly once contact was established among the lost colonies. They studied the Minervan humans in ancient Bulrathi text and held the human race as the cause of the ancient Minervan Plague. The Bulrathi attacked immediately and performed the repeated act of genocidal bombing runs as written in their original text.
The Martians were unprepared and totally taken by surprise by the sudden offensive strike. The Bulrathi destroyed everything Martian and eradicated Mars of all life. Bulrathi insurgents set tectonic disruption bombs beneath the continents of Atlantis and Mu, causing both to fall into the sea. Ground troops then massacred any Martians found on the surface of the Earth. They freed the subordinate races and declared their emancipation in mockery. This mistake would eventually lead to the rise of the Terran human. Descendants of the Subs, the Martians, and the original Minervan humans would eventually mesh into the most genetically perfect human created, the Terran human.
When the Martians were all destroyed and the war was won, the Bulrathi began to fight openly among them selves. The Coalition would eventually break down and war would ensue until the eventual decimation of the infrastructure of the Bulrathi planets. This started a dramatic dark age in Bulrathi history when great tyranny ruled and social decay was inevitable. Once again the Bulrathi had lost the secrets of numerous technology as their social structure wasted away.
When the Bulrathi swept through The Cluster they missed one known planet at the far Eastern edge. Draconis or Draconia, as it is sometimes called; it is a large harsh world with a low oxygen count. The Martians engineered themselves suitable for the planet giving the colonists a blue hue to their skin. When the transports stopped arriving and contact was broken between the colony and Mars, they realized they were on their own. After 10,000 years they eventually colonized another planet called Iscandar.
This was a rather lush planet and soon flourished with the large influx of colonists. Over time Iscandar formed its own power base and openly fought for independence. Draconis, unable to accept this change in the balance of power, waged war with the rebels. With no regard for the new found paradise, they dropped powerful chemical and biological weapons including high yield gamma bombs over the entire surface leaving Iscandar as barely habitable as Draconis. This formed two separate races in the 2,500 years since the war. The Elerians are living on Draconis, and the Gamalons are living on Iscandar. Relying on each other only in times of crisis or security needs.
The Terran human is not truly a race unto itself but more a mongrel species of Minervan, Martian, and the sub-ordinate races created by the Minervans. After the fall of the Martian domination, small pockets of tyranny survived under Martian leadership. Many of the most eccentric of the Subs formed alliances with the Martians to provide protection and leadership against the most dominate Cro-Magnon sub race. Over time the Martians and almost all the Subs besides Cro-Magnon went extinct.
Historians believe the legends of half human and animal hybrids, along with goblins, fairies, and other such lore stemmed from these ancient rivalries and appears often throughout early history.

Earth: Third Dawn of the Human Race
Exit Second Renaissance; Enter The Second Dark Ages:

Laid out here is the complete historical recollection beginning at the end of the Second Renaissance up to and including the beginning of The Age of Scholars. This is the most accurate historic account but history is written by the victor.
In the early 21st century the global derivatives market collapses. This single and sole event marks the corner stone of the collapse of the entire global financial system. From this point on political unrest and instability remains constant. Each nation, seeking sovereignty unto itself, begins a military buildup that leads to inevitable climax of war. Powerful regional alliances form in each hemisphere and continent. The most organized and exploitive of these power bases is the United European Nations (UEN), pronounced the (ù-EN’).
Through extreme one-sided and double standard diplomacy the financial aristocracy of Europe and a sector of Anglophile Americans form a financial empire that designates entire continents to such categories as raw material suppliers and industrial bases. Africa, South America, and Southeast Asian countries become economically slaved governments of the UEN. Russia and China form an uneasy reliance upon each other to project the needed power to resist Europe. Countries of the Middle East begin to take action against the puppet government of Israel and all Europeans throughout in the region. With a CBR attack against Israel immanent, Israel begins its no-holds barred policy and launches a preemptive strike against Arab countries using nuclear and neutron bombs. This escalates until finally all the nations of the world have exhausted most their arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.

Exit Second Renaissance; Enter Second Dark Ages


The Age of Tyrants

The first period of the Second Dark Ages is known as the Age of Tyrants. The remnants of power left begin a huge ground war of unparalleled proportions even by today's standards. Technology reached new heights with help from the Marn race and mankind was introduced to the union of machines and the metatonic particle. With the rising of the Nameless One, a tyranny reigned that enslaved an entire planet.
Not much is known about him except that he was of Spanish decent. He rose quickly among the European aristocracy until achieving a position of absolute ruler. He reined an empire of internal spies, torture, and a mockery of what was democracy. He worked closely with the Marn race and developed the BEAST. With this device He performs miracles and demands praise as the new Ishtar, demanding the destruction of Christ, Muhammad, Judaism, and even Buddha. He runs a mockery of ceremonies to sacrifice people in his own name. China, in a last ditch effort to destroy the Nameless One, creates Drones.
These huge armies of human machines massacre all in their path. They begin the march to Jerusalem to destroy the temple of the Nameless One. With worldwide ecological damage and earthquakes, and famine caused by out of control pestilence this battle was mankind's last stand against himself. No one knows what happened that day but there was a great silence in the skies.
Down came the Merciful Hand, guided by the Light that first planted the life seed in this universe, and spared mankind and laid him down to sleep. When he awoke, the Earth, now renamed Terra, was beginning its rebirth. Gone were the wars, and the famine, and the aristocracy. Gone were the fears that separated us all, and gone was the pride that plagued our very existence. The Followers of the Light guided the people back from destruction and paved the path for man’s third and final chance at redemption.
By the mid 22nd century life on Terra had become utopia for the most part. This begins The Age of Scholars. Mankind developed the ability to capture and harness the Zeta Field, allowing travel between the stars. New technology was created everyday to keep up with the pace of star travel. New industries and sciences were generated by the mass transit of people to new worlds. New races were discovered, and man was no longer a melting pot of cultures but also the collective body known as the Human race.
Exposure to these outside races taught man that he was quite naive about his own history. He learned that Terra was not his true home world and that he may not even be truly human by other races standards. He is held by discontent from many races and is even seen as undying cockroaches that infest the universe. Whatever the picture may be, Humans are respected for their keen wit and ability to adapt to extreme measures. He is feared the most by minor races as money hungry and exploitive, even to his own kind.

The Great Terran War

By the year 2900 mankind had explored the vast expanse. Jumping from planet to planet they spread their seed among the stars until reaching the bounds of their technology. Within the limits of their isolated star cluster, eleven capitol planets and scores of subordinate planets have formed a tight cooperation of stability and interdependence.
Ruling over these worlds were two bodies of government, the Legislative and Executive. The Legislative body was made up of members of the Interplanetary Congress, 100 representatives from each capitol planet that would pass laws on majority rule. They also were in charge of keeping a watchful eye on the Executive Minister, a position of authority that had in these recent times become a questionable job. Terra, the Legislative capitol and home world of the Human race, redefined the bounds of human imagination with its megalopolis provincial cities.
With industrial pollution under control, this planet had regained its status as “The Gaia”, “Mother Earth”, and the “Garden of Eden” of old. It was by far the richest planet this star cluster had to offer. The variation of flora and fauna was almost unnatural and the history was as long and rich as the planet. When Ahlissa was named the Executive capitol, the Interplanetary Congress was free to run the planet with little or no trouble from the Executive aire of influence. When word began to spread about the ruthless police actions by Executive forces, the Congress authorized the buildup of its own police force to ensure the check and balance system of the forefathers. That was step two in the downfall of this great social system.
Ahlissa was a rich planet at the far end of the cluster, and free from the eyes of the Congress. This was implemented to evenly govern the cluster but it would also lead to its demise. It provided the second nucleus for the division of government and laid the groundwork for the series of events that eventually resulted in a civil war. Ahlissa houses both the Executive capitol and the headquarters for the military, and had always enjoyed freedom from Legislative dictations.
Citizens of Ahlissa see the planet as the “Oasis in the Desert” though citizens of the other planets have quite a different view. Internal security is high and enemies of the state are ruthlessly hunted down, regardless of the severity of the crime. The populous of Ahlissa does sit comfortably knowing the superiority of their military and frequently dismisses the stories of atrocity that surface about Executive actions regarding lesser developed planets.
Executive allegiance by its satellite planets rests solely on its superior forces, and many of the planets that do so tend to fall into isolationism and rebellion. With the corrupted election of Grand Admiral Serpentine, the stage was set for a cataclysmic war that would bring us up to the point we are at today. The third and final step of the Great Fall was the Conflict at Lamasu.
When the cultural differences between the planet Casmire and the planet Lamasu erupted into armed conflict, Executive forces moved into place to neutralize the militia fleet of Lamasu, allowing the Casmirian governor, Nureb Khan, to land his ground troops. Executive forces were unprepared and overrun by the Congressional fleet that lay waiting for them. With the Executive forces routed, the Casmirian militia fleet defended a strategic withdrawal for its dropships, resulting in an unprepared and humiliating retreat.
When Grand Admiral Serpentine received word of the intervention of the Congressional fleet, he vowed revenge and total destruction of the “Congressional Hold” that was choking the cluster. He declared a state of war between the two bodies. What happened next is for historians to ponder but what resulted was a bitter war against time. The population of Terra was by no means demoralized by the war. They had made preparations and believed they were untouchable with their newly constructed Defense Command Center, which did make Terra virtually impervious to ground assault. They also knew Ahlissa could not economically win on its own.
Executive forces had the job of trying to keep military superiority against a far more economically productive body. When victory was waning for Executive Minister Serpentine, he performed a crime unmatched by any tyrant before him or since. In a bold maneuver, he orders a full surprise offensive towards Terra itself. Unprepared, Congressional forces cannot hold off the Executive fleet from securing Terran orbit.. Serpentine laid siege and after several disastrous attempts at ground conquest, he orders the mass orbital bombardment of the planets surface with “dirty nukes” rendering Mother Earth to ashes.
With its industry laid to waste and its population decimated, the Congressional pillar of power crumbled, leaving a fleet that retreated to the frontiers of known space. Life still exists on Terra though, a twisted assortment cannibals, mutants, and underground bunkers filled with the remnants of Congressional power. While on the verge of financial collapse, Executive forces had withdrawn to Ahlissa to regroup. They remain there to this day. patrolling the satellite systems sparingly.

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Ok the history is done for now. I've broken up the history into easy to read PDF files. So if people are interested they can now view the complete history of the project in context.