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6571CE-present
The two centuries marking the rise of the Ertan Directorate to prominence in
the Coreward Region also marked the begins of a transition to Early Microjump
Era technology in civilized Human Space. While the Coreward Region
experienced considerable turmoil during the struggle for dominance between Erta,
Antares and the Merchant Guild, the other regions of old Imperial Space
experienced relative peace and both technological and economic growth during an
era marked by a general increase in tolerance and hope for a more prosperous and
peaceful future.
The growth of Erta, from a newly interstellar-capable planetary republic to an
interstellar power encompassing over four hundred settled worlds in the course
of two centuries and two major wars, dominated Coreward Region developments and
permanently changed the dynamics of politics even beyond the borders of the
coreward sectors. At first, Erta tried to emulate the Federation of Orion,
styling its Senate after the FOO Assembly and building its own Vanguard Service
to aid its expansion. The nascent twelve system Ertan Republic even
petitioned to join the Federation of Orion in 6607CE, but the request was reject
out of hand for logistically reasons. The Ertan Republic started to become
a major state after its confrontation with and victory over Garissa in the
Ertan-Garissan War of 6635-6639CE, which gave the Republic dominance over nearly
all of Sector 339 and considerable influence with the Merchant Guild. The
Guild continued to promote the Ertan Republic as a counter to the Realm of
Antares, a rivalry that ultimately cumulated in the Antaran War of 6691-6699CE.
This conflict ended in a complete Ertan victory and in the creation of the
dictatorial Ertan Directorate under Jorj Habash. After the war, the
Directorate became a dominant interstellar state ruling over four hundred
systems ranging from the Theran League to the borders of the Grand Federation of
Races. Much of the turbulent coreward history in the 68th century, from
the Nachen Revolt to the conflicts with the Zhantlas Union and B'dr'rak
freeholders, was associated with the continued consolidation of the young Ertan
Directorate.
Elsewhere in the Coreward Region, earlier conflicts between the
Kith'turi-Salvaatiki Union of Worlds and the Realm of Antares had led to the
Dark River War of 6659-6661CE and, in reaction, a rekindling of close ties
between the Kith'turi and Salvaatiki and the Grand Federation of Races.
The KSUW, while not becoming as closely aligned with the Grand Federation as the
Zhantlas Union, benefited both technologically and diplomatically from its
closer relationship with the Grand Federation. Concurrently, Kith'turi
traders began to expanding their presence through the Coreward Region, ending
millennia of relative isolation. At the periphery of recivilized coreward
space, continued B'dr'rak freeholder expansion caused conflict both with the
expanding Ertan state and with the Phalanx Protectorate, founded on Carson by
former Star Kingdom naval officers and mercenaries to protect Human worlds.
The Central Region, split between the two largest interstellar state, the Terran
Khalifate and the Bengali Dominions, remained peaceful and prosperous during the
era. Both states continued their slow expansion in oppose directions and
chose to avoid confrontations over territory or philosophy, with the Terran
Khalifate especially moderating under the influence of Grandmaster Ali Ramez,
appointed by Mohammed V in 6718CE and remaining as effective prime minister of
the Khalifate into the reign of Mohammed VI, who became Khalif upon the death of
his father in 6742CE. In the Dominions, the Regency passed first to Aaron
and then to Malcolm Domikal, both capable and even-minded administrators who
allowed the continuing secularization of the Dominions to continue with minimal
disruptions.
The Rimward Region inner sectors remained dominated by Bengali Dominions
expansion and the outer sectors were influenced by the cultural and economic
might of the Federation of Orion. Except in the northernmost sectors of
the region, much of the rim experienced at least intermittent interstellar
contact, with the Vanguard of the Federation of Orion continuing recontact
expeditions and merchants from the FOO, Bengali Dominions, Swarm Republic and
League of Independent Races providing economic and development assistance where
it was profitable.
In the Spinward Region, the Dragons remained a threat. Despite avoiding
major wars with the Mendam Codominium, Dragon aggression in the form of border
and commerce raiding continued to be a problem along the frontier sectors.
In defense, the independent New Defenders formed into military legions of
warships and troop carriers determined to protect and liberate Human worlds.
In 6575CE the commander of the First Defender Legion, General Shurlmash
Ushlamura, formed the Defender Republic at Annei, and the state grew to include
nearly thirty worlds and five full legions, liberating half a dozen Dragon
occupied worlds in the course of two centuries. The Defender War of
6742-6745CE marked the heaviest fighting between the Legions and the Dragon
Prides and Nations of the region, demonstrating that the Defenders were as
determined as the Codominium to push back the Dragon occupation.
Elsewhere, the New Defenders helped establish the Lucan Protectorate in Sector
169 as a bulkward against Khalifate expansion. In the far Spin-Rim region,
the New Autarchy and the Divinity of Aurgeus continued their stand-off, twice
clashing over honor and influence, but restrained from all-out war by the
diplomacy of the Codominium, Dominions and the Swarm Republic.
The Star Kingdoms Confederation remained the dominant influence on the Trailing
Region, consolidating their hold on the surrounding sectors by establishing them
as Principalities, encompassing over six hundred worlds in addition to the
hundred and sixty-three systems of the core Kingdoms. Conflicts with the
B'dr'rak and Rootjalik affected the frontiers of Principalities of Irmingham and
Tannberg to some degree, but the bulk of the eight hundred systems under Star
King dominance remained peaceful and prosperous members of interstellar society,
benefiting from the technological innovations of the age. Further rimward
in the Trailing Region, the Goblin Kingdom of Largu Ban Sharr expanded from
Rotshak to encompass the seven Goblin colonized worlds in Sectors 776 and 380,
eventually clashing with the Velan Presidium in the ultimately indecisive Goblin
War during the 6680s.
The Northern Region, long the most neglected and backward region of Human Space,
began to receive more attention during the period, first from Khalifate
expansion and patrols in the wake of the War on Biologicals and, later in the
period, from the Merchant Guild's Great Northern Expedition in search of new
markets. Beyond the expanding Khalifate frontier and the small states that
oppose Ibrahimite expansion, the Northern Region remained only intermittently
visited, occasionally plundered by Quadrons raiders. The Quadrons had
expanded from their three Imperial Era northern colony worlds of Taltgitarin,
Tabritourin and Kistiboo to occupy at least a dozen systems, including the
Chaagra homeworld. In the furthest northern sectors, the elusive Hurushin
race retained or regained a macrojump interstellar culture, patrolling over a
hundred light years from their homeworld and colonizing an unknown number of
systems.
Much of the Southern Region benefited from increased contact with the Bengali
Dominions and continued expansion of Merchant Guild and independent trade.
While no interstellar states emerged on the southern frontiers, communications
and commerce continued to spread further south bringing increased technology to
many systems. The Bengali Dominions absorbed many nearer southern systems,
but the furthest southern systems remained unvisited.
The League of Independent Races expanded to included twenty-three races,
encompassing over two hundred billion sentients on more than two hundred worlds
across all regions of the old Empire. The League also recontacted and
protected the Latra, Vuldur, Ugati and Adornan, former Minor Races that had
fallen into technological collapse. The League remained a loose
confederation, focused on trade and a common foreign policy, devoted to
strengthening the influence of its members on events within nominally Human
Space. With the departure of the Cargomen from the League, Khzraut and
Turgil dominance drove many policy decisions, but all Races strove to reach
consensus on important matters.
By the middle of the seventh millennium, the former regions of the Empire of
Humanity had recovered enough for single events to occasionally encompass all
the recontacted regions. The best example of this growing integration was
the response during the War on Biologicals. The war began in 6582CE with the
discovery of Core, the secret homeworld of the renegade Awoken machine culture
and with the subsequent attacks on biological beings by of Ferus Soul, leader of
the Awoken. The conflict engulfed the Bengali Dominions, Star Kingdoms,
and eventually the Khalifate, Federation of Orion and League of Independent
Races and continued into the next century as hunters from many nations continued
to track down and destroy renegade seed ships, long after the bloody battles
that had destroyed Core and the bulk of the Awoken race. Ironically, this
war against an uncontrolled Machine Race ultimately strengthened the rights of
the Risen machine intelligences in the Star Kingdoms and Bengali Dominions and
helped to build better understanding between biological and machine
intelligences.
A century later, in 6678CE, a group of Risen and Heretics on Amada proclaimed
themselves Memes, passing their consciousness exponentially and initiating the
Meme War, a series of Meme outbreaks over dozens of Coreward location over the
next three years. With help from conventional Machine races and with a
modified Zhretran Plague, authorities put down the Meme insurrections,
destroying or exiling the Memes.
The volume and density of recontacted Human Space continued to grow during the
period. By 6750CE, census projections indicated that the total Human
population within old Imperial Space exceeded twenty trillion individuals, with
over six trillion of these living at Interstellar Age technological levels,
mostly within the large interstellar states. Over two trillion non-Human
interstellar-capable sentients occupied the same space, interacting mostly in
peace with the Human majority.
The rise of Erta into interstellar prominence was just one major event that
marked the period. Another other was the emergence of Early Microjump Era
technologies in the Federation of Orion and the Star Kingdom Confederation.
But just as importantly, the era also marked increased cooperation between the
major states and Races of former Imperial Space and the emergence of at least a
minimal set of common norms and understandings.
Erta began as a planetary republic assembled from a reluctant coalition of
formerly warring states. Through a period of warfare encompassing most of
the Industrial and Fusion Ages, the Ertan Republic emerged as a surprisingly
tolerant society, trying to emulate the Federation of Orion in its policies and
outlook. Soon after taking to the stars in 6571CE, the Ertan Republic
established itself as a democratic and economically progressive alternative to
the local Garissan military dominance and to the continued attempts at
monopolism by the Merchant Guild. Though denied in its quixotic attempt to
join the distant Federation of Orion, the Republic, ironically with assistance
from the Guild, defeated the Garissan military government and then continued to
peacefully expand, incorporating over a hundred willing worlds by the end of the
67th century. Ironically, as it grew the Ertan Republic became less
democratic, with the military controlling much of its foreign policy and the
Senate coming under the dominance of powerful old feudal and commercial
families.
Many worlds in the coreward sectors still preferred the vitality and openness of
the Ertan Republic to the arrogant and increasingly authoritarian nature of the
Realm of Antares, especially as exemplified by the growing influence and
eventual ascension of Turin Major, the Realm's third and last Lord President.
Hoping to create a more pliant power the Merchant Guild aided the Ertan republic
in its struggle for dominance with the Realm of Antares. The resulting
Antaran War lasted eight years, transforming the Ertan Republic into the Ertan
Directorate, a military dictatorship run by its first Director, Admiral Jorj
Habash and his son and future Director, Marshall Seov Habash. Victory over
the Realm of Antares gave Habash and his Senatorial backers the power to
confront the Merchant Guild, and in a self-serving move that nonetheless won
Erta the admiration of many downtrodden worlds, it broke the power of the Guild
over the central coreward sectors, relegating it to an economic force only on
the periphery of the Region. The Ertan Directorate spent the next half
century integrating its gains. In the span of a quarter century, the
Directorship passed from Jorj to Seov to Seov's daughter, Sianta, wife of
powerful Senator Torn Bellevordi, and then to their young son Cleon Bellevordi.
It fell on Cleon to consolidate the Directorate's holdings, secure its border
regions and establish a constitutional governance structure. But even
Cleon died young in 6752CE, leaving the still immature Directorate to his young
son Seov Bellevordi, who like his father came to rule an interstellar state at
twenty-four years of age. Director Seov Bellevordi proved a stabilizing
influence, forgoing his father's flamboyance in favor of increased integration,
but his own death by assassination in 6776CE and the following regency and
defacto rule by Alton Rubitar may yet cause instability within the state's still
immature institutions.
The emergence of Early Microjump Era technology in the 68th century, especially
among the high technology worlds of the Federation of Orion and the Star
Kingdoms Confederation also provided an opportunity for dramatic changes with
and between interstellar states. Within the Federation of Orion, the
advent of fast replication provided the long-awaited seed for the Egalitarian
Party's goal of a post-material transformation of society. This goal
proved uneven, more easily achievable on the most well-integrated and successful
economies, but within the Federation political and economic circles, even the
Progressive Party soon came to realize the benefits of developing a
post-materialist society. Within fifty years of the first demonstration of
the Leshra Industries Omnivator, over thirty member worlds, encompassing one
tenth of the Federation's systems and one quarter of the Federation's
population, had statistically achieved post-materialism.
In the Star Kingdoms Confederation, effectively at technological parity with the
Federation of Orion and clearly more advanced in microjump starship and biogenic
technologies, no world reached post-materialism by 6777CE, a fact that
contributed to "New Republican" sentiments on a number of Star Kingdom worlds.
The concentration of wealth in old families and corporations within the Star
Kingdoms matched more closely the economic patterns of the Empire of Humanity, a
fact that delayed the onset of post-materialism until the economic penetration
of technology could reach a greater depth. Most theoreticians estimated
that the more wealthy Star Kingdom worlds would achieve post-materialism by the
end of the 68th century or in the early years of the 69th.
Another political trend evident in both the Terran Khalifate and the Bengali
Dominions during the era was one of increased tolerance and understanding.
Within the Khalifate, hardliners had continued to lose influence throughout the
reign of Mohammed V and his son Mohammed VI. The de facto rule of moderate
Grandmasters of the Order of Ibrahim, notably Adnan Gertz and Ali Ramez, and the
reforms of the Order of Enlightenment under Abdul Rehman Khari made possible the
Civil Service reforms introduced by Ali Ramez and approved by Khalif Mohammed V
in 6720CE. As a result of Ramez's reforms, the Terran Khalifate remained
an Ibrahimite state, but its bureaucracy and laws became civil and neutral,
allowing a more tolerant attitude toward religious and racial minorities within
the expanding Khalifate. The reforms reduced tensions with neighbors and
lowered resistance against Ibrahimite missionaries, though the Mechanist
Crusaders did not moderate their disdain for the faith of Ibrahim.
In the Bengali Dominions, a similar recognition of the lessening influence of
Nobilis rule and Altaran caste social structure allowed the Regents, first Aaron
and then Malcolm Domikal, to further secularize society in a gradual process
that eventually removed all quotas from government and private hiring and
service offerings. The reduced racial separation and antagonism among
Bengali citizens allowed Emperor Talon to grant Risen citizenship rights in
6594CE with only a few unfortunate incidents.
During the period, the Orion Expositions, long held every six years on a major
Orion world, regularly included diplomatic conferences, where different states
and races could discuss common problems and work toward consensus in both formal
and informal settings.
The combination of biological and cybernetic technologies, especially among
innovative firms and institutions in the Star Kingdoms Confederation and the
Federation of Orion, produced not only innovated blended technological products,
but also paved the way for Human Space to finally begin redeveloping Early
Microjump Era technology, bypassing the limitations on superconducting
materials, computing cores and materials sciences imposed by the continuing
omnipresent Mech Plague. Though a slow leak of technology from the Grand
Federation of Races through Zhantlian and Kith'turi proxies undoubtedly aided in
the technological breakthroughs of the 68th century, the particular innovations
and products that emerged, paving the way for the first post-material economic
transformation, were uniquely indigenously produced.
In the 67th century the Zhantlian firm Hurtan Ventures developed Trannig
Seedhomes and Spaceseeds, fully biological structures capable of growing into
outposts and habitats. These purely biological products, followed by a
number of innovations by other Zhantlian firms, including everything from
biovehicles to organic laser blisters, changed the nature and look of the
technological landscape on many worlds, especially in the coreward, trailing and
rimward sectors. However, it was the combination of these biological-base
technologies within inorganic artifacts - producing blended devices - that
finally overcame the limitations imposed by the Mech Plague.
Blended cybernetic implants, pioneered by the Technologist followers of Gideon
Lazaru eventually led to techniques to produce living metal (a misleading
misnomer here, since the end product was not in any way biological, just fully
malleable at the nano and macro level) and to the development of hybridized
mechnobiotechnology construction techniques, instrumental in producing both the
Leshra Industries Omnivator and the Severn Starship Systems microjump drive.
The development of hyper-quantum computing devices by Favori Labs completed the
full set of enabling technologies to move the forefront of Human technology back
into the Early Microjump Era and to pave the way for post-material
transformations.
The cultural aftermath of the Age of Flamboyance was more subdued and
business-like, with social trends focusing on more important developments,
whether Risen, Android or minority rights or post-materialist economic theory.
While outrageous entertainment and frivolous cyborgization and transformations
continued, they became an undercurrent to the culture of the day, not the
overture.
The challenge of Risen rights was forced upon interstellar society in the
aftermath of the War on Biologicals. The Awoken were defeated by a
Zhretran-developed plague entrusted to the Risen for dissemination. This
deliberate ploy by the Zhretra focused attention on the differences between
"good" machine intelligences and "bad" ones, overcoming the initial anti-Risen
backlash caused by Awoken aggression. The end result was a granting of
Risen citizenship status in the Star Kingdoms Confederation and in the Bengali
Dominions. Even the Merchant Guild reluctantly accepted Risen crewmembers
and starships into their organization. Among major states, only the Mendam
Codominium and the Terran Khalifate continued to reject rights for machines,
limiting their function to highly intelligent tools, bereft of true sentience.
Soon after the granting of Risen rights, activists in the Federation of Orion,
Star Kingdoms and Bengali Dominions began to agitate for the perceived next
step: the granting of full rights to Androids. For most citizens, this
proved a step too far, and the Android rights movements failed to achieve more
than a limiting of abuses within the current laws. Unsatisfied radicals
formed terrorist cells dedicated to Android freedom, but after failing to garner
public support, most of these organizations vanished by the 6620s, felled by
imprisonments and flagging support.
Greater tolerance, or at least the acceptance of the existence of other beliefs
and practices, spread across the formerly closed Ibrahimite community during
this period. At one extreme, the Hammedian philosopher Abdel Rhuzi
preached the tolerant beliefs espoused in his Coexistent Principles for a few
decades until his mysterious murder by immolation on Othello in 6687CE.
His death gave birth to the Rhuzi sect of Hammedian Ibrahimism, commonly known
as the Order of the Flame. Even among more conventional Ishmahili
Ibrahimites, acceptance based on separation showed a start of tolerance; closed
enclaves and ghettos of "infidels and aliens" represented an improvement on the
treatment of religious and racial minorities, compared to earlier policies of
extermination or deportation.
In the Federation of Orion, the potential to finally reach a post-material
society became the overreaching cultural and economic phenomenon of the 68th
century. Eventually, politicians off all stripes, even the leaders of the
vast Fastung commercial empire, saw the benefits of moving society toward
post-materialism and "breaking the bonds of fear and currency". Within the
Federation, this transformation proceeded remarkably orderly, with ordinary
citizens becoming experts at statistical analysis, predicting when they
themselves and their homeworld would reach effective post-material status.
Of course, the wealthy had been effectively post-material for centuries, but for
the vast majority of Federation citizens, the freedom from the restrictions of
scarcity was a transformational experience that affected their outlook on life
and society.
At this writing (at the close of 6777CE) society across old Imperial Space is
continuing to undergo a transformation. While the post-material
transformation underway in the Federation of Orion is most obvious change, the
governmental upheavals in the Ertan Directorate may also transform the Codeward
Region and, elsewhere, post-material changes in the Star Kingdoms Confederation
and even the Bengali Dominions are just beginning to manifest themselves.
With the advent of Mode II microjump drives, interstellar travel is likely to
become cheaper, safer and faster. This trend will increase integration
between systems and states and perhaps finally achieve a recontact with the old
Empire's most distant settlements in the long neglected far Northern and
Southern regions.
| 6571 | The Orion Exposition at Cosgrave is noted for a more business-like style and becomes noted as the confirmation of the passing of the Age of Flamboyance; Cosgrave also hosts the first major diplomatic gathering attended by Aaron Domikal as Regent of the Bengal Dominions. The starship Exeter, the first natively produced Ertan macrojump vessel, completes its trials, traveling to Garrisa with the aging Karl Larkeen at its helm. |
| 6572 | New Defenders on Hastan form the First Defender Legion, a combined force commanded by General Shurlmash Ushlamura, dedicated to both defense of Human worlds and reclamation of Dragon occupied worlds. |
| 6573 | The First Defender Legion attacks the Dragon occupied world of Gammata in Sector 773, defeating the local Uzhukharz Pride and forcing surviving Dragons to flee the world after they lose a protracted guerilla struggle. |
| 6574 | Vice President Gannan Lastur Nammen wins the Federation of Orion presidential election, continuing Progressive Party dominance over the government. The Ertan Republic begins its interstellar expansion, absorbing the neighboring Mid Fusion Era world of Soren and establishing the Ertan Vanguard Service for exploration and contact. |
| 6575 | General Shurlmash Ushlamura declares the Defender Republic at Annei, incorporating Nabeth, Hastan and Gammata. The Bengali scout vessel Bevan Oslik becomes the first of several starships to disappear in Sector 328. |
| 6576 | Bengali Regent Aaron Domikal authorizes the creation of Orders of Knighthood for each recognized Variant and Race within the Dominions, placing equal emphasis on military, scientific and civic accomplishments. |
| 6577 | With the First Defender Legion still burdened with Gammatan reconstruction, General Ushlamura authorizes Jorhan Galvik to form the Second Defender Legion to secure the Defender Republic's systems against persistent Dragon raids. |
| 6578 | Bengali Emperor Talon authorizes the creation of the position of Sector Viceroy, open to all Bengali Variants and Races, and responsible for civil budgets for each recognized Bengali Sector. |
| 6579 | The Second Defender Legion defeats the Fzhraha Pride and seizes control of Turcana Lun in Sector 737. Ustral joins the Defender Republic. |
| 6580 | Gannan Lastur Nammen wins reelection to the presidency of the Federation of Orion despite the conviction of his Vice President, Urla Vremme, on corruption charges. |
| 6581 | The Second Technologist Renaissance begins with the founding of the Technologist Institute for Blended Beings by Gideon Lazaru on Delgado in the Star Kingdom of Tannberg. Elson joins the Ertan Republic and with Elson's entry, the Ertan Senate amends the Declaration of Sentient Rights to include Risen citizens. |
| 6582 | The Turgil survey vessel Sithka 6 limps to Lashmeer after discovering the Awoken homeworld of Core in Sector 328. Ferus Soul, leader of the rapidly reproducing Awoken machine race of fugitive Risen declares his War on Biologicals and attacks Lashmeer and Swarm 96 in a futile attempt to protect the secret location of Core. Awoken seed ships depart trailing, north and rimward from Core to preserve the race in case of defeat in the war. |
| 6583 | The Bengali Dominions launches attacks against Core and three newly discovered Awoken enclaves in Sector 328, retreating after the bloody First Battle of Core. The Star King Confederation sends a combined fleet to Sector 328 to fight the Awoken. The League of Independent Races and the Federation of Orion debate the Awoken issue without reaching resolution. Bengali rioters attack a group of Risen at the Orion Exposition on Kumar. |
| 6584 | Gannan Lastur Nammen resigns as president of the Federation of Orion to avoid prosecution in a corruption probe, allowing his Vice President Kladia Ratuul to serve out his term. The Terran Khalifate's Order of Valor sends two full fleets to aid the Bengali Dominions against the Awoken. Awoken attacks spread through the trailing sectors, sterilizing the Sector 326 worlds of Tobias and Barnard, killing nearly a billion Humans. |
| 6585 | The Federation of Orion and the League of Independent Races send fleets to fight the Awoken. The Second Battle of Core ends with an allied retreat and severe damage to Core, but Awoken attacks continue, reaching deeper into civilized space. A cadre of former Irmingham navy officers gains control of the Sector 165 world of Carson, making the high population world a base for their Order of the Phalanx, an organization based on New Defender principles and dedicated to protecting worlds against B'dr'rak and Rootjalik expansion. |
| 6586 | Egalitarian Party candidate Laskal Banjamol wins the election to the Presidency of the Federation of Orion after defeating a corruption-weakened Progressive party platform. The Zhretra develop a plague to destroy the Awoken, entrusting it to the Risen for distribution. |
| 6587 | The Zhretran Plague devastates the Awoken, allowing the allied forces to destroy their homeworld at Third Battle of Core and cripple the remaining Awoken raiders. Bengali and Turgil scouts scour unexplored space, destroying four Awoken seed colonies. |
| 6588 | The Star Kingdom of Lanander legalizes Risen citizen status in recognition of their loyalty in the War on Biologicals; other Star Kingdoms follow suit in the course of the next few years. A Bengali task force destroys a backup of Ferus Soul after a battle in Sector 1308 annihilates an Awoken seed ship convoy. |
| 6589 | The Orion Exposition on Yend features many pro-Risen pavilions trying to highlight the contributions of the Risen to Orion society. |
| 6590 | A covert Awoken operation results in the destruction of three cities on Kane, killing over twelve million Bengali citizens. |
| 6591 | A New Defender patrol intercepts and destroys an Awoken seed ship traveling through Sector 323, eradicating surviving escape pods. |
| 6592 | Kaeli Fastung-Braito, daughter of Axel Fastung, wins election to the Presidency of the Federation of Orion on the Progressive Party ticket, promising reform and modernization of the military services. The Galactic Festival returns to Bengal as part of the yearlong celebration of the fifteen hundredth jubilee of Emperor Talon. |
| 6593 | The Khalifate Order of Valor Demon Hunter Fleet sweeps uncontacted northern sectors for Awoken, encountering Quadron raiders and a Hurushin patrol, retreating after a punitive strike on the Quadron Sector 244 world of Taltgitarin. |
| 6594 | Despite popular mistrust, the Bengali Dominions legalizes Risen citizen status, subject to strident reproductive rules. |
| 6595 | The Orion Exposition on Merian features the last performance of the Seasonals before the retirement of Princess Zephyr. |
| 6596 | The Android Rights Movement begins within the Federation of Orion, with a published petition calling for the ban on short-span Androids and modifications to the Sentience Tests. |
| 6597 | Malena Hu-Ve'eri-Stark, wife of Prince Landru of Mare and grandmother of the Regent, dies on Mare at age 1,310; Torn Domikal receives her title, becoming Baron of Ostrum on Tyr. |
| 6598 | Kaeli Fastung-Braito wins reelection to the Presidency of the Federation of Orion. After the Bengali Dominions discontinues its search for Awoken seed ships, King Arkin of Caldera forms the Order of the Deep Hunt (ODH), often called the Knights of the Deep, to continue to search after the three or more unaccounted for seed ships. |
| 6599 | Ishkane Fever, a rapidly fatal blood illness, begins spreading though the Terran Khalifate after originating on Iskur; eventually forcing a quarantine on eight Central Region Khalifate systems. |
| 6600 | Scattered Android Rights organizations appear in the Star Kingdoms Confederation, holding an Android Freedom Movement rally on Tannberg; though they never gain the influence or infamy of FOO organizations, they cause disruptions of Android production and distribution for years. The Planetary University of Morris at Alerton publishes the first PUMA Encyclopedia, an annually updated reference work that becomes a standard text for general research throughout the Coreward Region, eventually competing with Singh Historical Foundation publications across Recontacted Space. |
| 6601 | The Order of Enlightenment develops an effective vaccine for Ishkane Fever, stopping the spread of the infection that had killed over ninety million people. Android Rights demonstrators disrupt the Orion Exposition on Sutherland, but fail to garner significant popular support. |
| 6602 | The Fundin and the Schingtahar join the League of Independent Races in ceremonies at Schalmar Durgha. |
| 6603 | A ruling by the Mendam High Court confirms longstanding laws preventing citizenship and Sentient rights for all mechanical intelligences, including Risen, Awoken, Androids and Heretics. |
| 6604 | Vice President Kai Fastung, nephew of Kaeli Fastung-Braito, wins election to the Presidency of the Federation of Orion, despite a growing anti-nepotism movement and a sporadic boycott of Fastung corporate products. Android Rights protestors attempt to shut down Android Games events at the Galactic Festival on Caldera; the resulting violence causes the Regent to ban the Android Rights Movement throughout the Bengali Dominions. |
| 6605 | A League of Independent Races expedition surveys Vuldura, homeworld of the Vuldur, finding a balkanized Pre-industrial Age civilization with only legends of star travel; the League places the system in a protected quarantine. |
| 6606 | The Octopod Civility overruns Dragon defenders on the Sector 695 world of Tongbondar, freeing the Human inhabitants. |
| 6607 | The twelve world Ertan Republic sends a delegation led by Senator Davro Larkeen to the Orion Exposition at the Great Nebular City, establishing full diplomatic relations and petitioning unsuccessfully for incorporation in the Federation of Orion. |
| 6608 | ODH Commander Lasuru Kaldane's expedition destroys an Awoken seed ship in a heavy metal system deep into Sector -08, -04, +03. Android Rights activists destroy a Fastung Group-owned Android factory on Hegel, destroying thousands of Android vats and killing four workers. |
| 6609 | A Turgil expedition visits the Ugati homeworld of Mandaga, discovering a small Industrial Age civilization still struggling in the ruins of Mech Plague-devastated cities; the Ugati politely but firmly ask the Turgil to depart, prompting the League to establish a protected quarantine of the system. |
| 6610 | Teslan Star King Rodrick dies on Tesla of a cerebral hemorrhage; his son wins an unopposed election to become Star King Rodrick II of Tesla. Kai Fastung wins reelection to the Presidency of the Federation of Orion after changing his vice presidential running mate to a non-family member, Kaldron Lassmanig. |
| 6611 | After a string of sabotage incidents, the Federation of Orion arrest the leadership of the Android Rights Movement on conspiracy, racketeering and murder charges. Kayla Obritein forms the extremist Android Defense Legion (ADL) on Nisan. |
| 6612 | Star King Arligan of Tannberg dies; his grandson Narthan succeeds him after a contested election involving five of Arligan's grandchildren. |
| 6613 | Hegel hosts the Orion Exposition under heavy security, with local forces battling and killing an ADL team bent on bombing Android-affiliated pavilions. |
| 6614 | Star King Narthan of Tannberg imposes a new constitution on his realm, proclaiming the seven Tannberg external sectors as Principalities and assigning his favorite siblings and cousins as princes and princesses; Narthan reforms his kingdom's electorate process to give equal weight to the Principalities and the other seven Star Kings. |
| 6615 | Star Queen Yarla of Markham adopts the Tannberg Principality model for her external sectors, triggering a crisis among the Star Kingdom Confederation as the four inward Kingdoms of Tesla, Timbuktu, Irmingham and Orpheus protest the changes and their dilution of influence. |
| 6616 | The Egalitarian Party candidate Jlana Kemmer wins election to the presidency of the Federation of Orion, defeating Vice President Kaldron Lassmanig. At the Conference of Lanander, the Star Kings agree to accept the Principality Model for external sectors as a choice of each Kingdom, though rumors imply heavy bribery of Alexander III of Orpheus was required to reach consensus. |
| 6617 | Local authorities on Kumar kill ADL leader Kayla Obritein and four associates; surviving ADL cells form more extreme splinter groups. Federation of Orion President Jlana Kemmer signs legislation reforming the Sentient Tests and clarifying regulations on Android production, placating the most moderate supporters of Android Rights while firmly establishing the legality of short-span Android production and ownership. |
| 6618 | The Khald'aron Republic bans internal transit though its systems, requiring all commerce and the few permitted passengers to travel only from designated Federation of Orion worlds and only aboard Khald'aron vessels. |
| 6619 | The Orion Exposition on Norris occurs without violence or stringent security restrictions despite a failed attempt by the New ADL to assassinate Gordas Fastung. |
| 6620 | The Phalanx of Carson defeats a B'dr'rak force at the Battle of Driscoll, freeing the world from B'dr'rak dominion and and subsequently establishing the Phalanx Protectorate, encompassing several Sector 165 worlds; the Phalanx begins patrols to maintain peace between Humans and B'dr'rak freeholders. |
| 6621 | The Zhantlian firm of Hurtan Ventures develops the Trannig Seedhome, a biological outpost able to sustain life on inhospitable worlds and planetoids, grown from a large seedpod and nourished by local energy and materials. |
| 6622 | Former Vice President Kaldron Lassmanig defeats incumbent Jlana Kemmer to reclaim the presidency of the Federation of Orion for the Progressive Party. |
| 6623 | The Order of Valor launches Operation Northern Sweep, a multi-pronged raid against Quadron outposts in the Northern Region; fleets destroy Quadron military facilities at Taltgitarin, Tabritourin and Kistiboo. |
| 6624 | The core of the last splinter ADL group dies in a bloody raid on their safe house on Thangorodrim. Jorj Habash, future first Director of Erta, is born on Erta, the only child of mid-level bureaucrats. |
| 6625 | General Alec Reymar's Second Defender Legion defeats the Hrushmaz Pride at the Battle of Two Dark Suns in Sector 737, a bloody pitched clash retold in epic manner by its survivors. The Orion Exposition on Sitka features of slew of new Zhantlian biological products, including the Trannig Seedhome. |
| 6626 | The Khalifate Order of Truth establishes missions on dozens of worlds visited by Operation Northern Sweep, establishing the Terran Khalifate as a the protector of Human worlds from Alien savagery and beginning negotiations to establish protective military outposts in dozens of newly recontacted systems. |
| 6627 | In the Battle of Strem's Revenge, the main battle fleet of the New Autarcy ambushes and kills the Divine Emissary Khaldis and her fleet at Kayan Station; a follow-on raid on Nixia itself kills three of Khaldis' Avatars and hundred of thousands of soldiers and civilians; intercession by Mendam and Bengali diplomats prevent a continuing conflict between the Divinity and the New Autarchy after Strem VII agrees to pay reparations. |
| 6628 | Former President Jlana Kemmer reclaims her office by defeating Kaldron Lassmanig in the Federation of Orion presidential election. |
| 6629 | Hurtan Ventures begins marketing the Trannig Spaceseed, an organism that can transform small planetoids and comet cores into living habitats. |
| 6630 | A surviving Avatar of Khaldis gathers her war fleet and with the support of Dragon mercenaries strikes Atea, killing over a million inhabitants but failing to assassinate Strem VII; aided by Mendam and New Defender volunteers, Strem defeats the Avatar's forces at the Battle of Ushumi Station. The Bengali diplomat, Baron Jose Cardenas, negotiates a permanent peace between the New Autarchy and the Divinity. |
| 6631 | The Orion Exposition on Navarre features a conference of ministers who welcome groups of Khald'aron immigrants wishing to settle in Orion and Bengali space. The economy of the Federation of Orion begins to slide into recession. |
| 6632 | On Hastan, Jon Gades abandons his failing nearly six hundred year old body and begins his seventh Incarnation, resuming his affiliation with the cash-strapped Recontact Service. |
| 6633 | A joint Alimeen-League contact expedition visits the Adornan home system in Sector 481, finding evidence of a long-abandoned Dragon occupation and only scattered, primitive tribes of surviving Adornans; the League establishes a protective quarantine including a large military planetoid base to counter possible Dragon raids. |
| 6634 | Kaldron Lassmanig regains the Presidency of the Federation of Orion, promising to reverse the three year-old economic recession. |
| 6635 | The Ertan Vanguard escorts Heronz and Ninami intercept a Garrisan tribute fleet at Alster, destroying the frigate Umbata and forcing its escorts to retreat; the Garissan Star Navy retaliates by bombing the Ertan Republic world of Dessaro, starting the Ertan-Garissan War. |
| 6636 | The Ertan Republican Navy defeats a task force of Garissan starships commanded by Admiral Alzo Requari at the Battle of Alster; Alster joins the Ertan Republic. |
| 6637 | After a five month lull in combat, the Garrisan Star Navy attacks and bombards Napoli and Hieratta and destroys Keldrik Station in the the outer Ertan system. Ertan forces, aided by aging frigates loaned from the Merchant Guild, sweep Garissan attackers from Republic systems and raid Garissa, destroying two orbital defense stations and the Devato High Port. The Antaran Order of Scorpio sends a squadron of frigates and lancers to aid the Garissan Star Navy against Erta. |
| 6638 | Ertan Admiral Kanto Rubitar defeats the Garissan Attack Fleet at the Battle of Nokara, saving the Ertan system from bombardment and uncovering Antaran support for the Garissans. |
| 6639 | Kanto Rubitar leads the Ertan Combined Fleet in the Invasion of Garissa, cumulating in the surrender of the government after the destruction of the Garissan Star Navy and its defensive squadrons, ending the Ertan-Garrisan War. The Ertan Republic Marine Force occupies Garissan cities and begins Guild-supported reconstruction efforts. |
| 6640 | Shelto Bashar Neemin becomes President of the Federation of Orion at the head of a strong Egalitarian ticket, touting specific plans to improve the stagnant FOO economy. The Ertan Republic Vanguard begins its Grand Coreward Survey, stretching across nearly three dozen sectors, establishing diplomatic and trading relationships and vetting candidates for incorporation in the growing Ertan Republic. |
| 6641 | The Recontact Service ends operations out of Hastan, their remaining ships and facilities sold to the Defender Republic; Jon Gades and his retinue immigrate to the Zhantlas Union, eventually settling on Talendir's Fadran Island. |
| 6642 | Bengali Regent Aaron Domikal dies on Paradise of CID-related illnesses; Emperor Talon names Aaron's son Malcolm Domikal as Regent and King of Paradise, triggering a cascade of title and office inheritances across the royal Domikal family. Garissan citizens overwhelmingly vote to join the Ertan Republic after their first free election. |
| 6643 | The Orion Exposition at Bornholm includes a multi-state conference on standardization of Android and Construct fabrication, immigration and transit status; the Bornholm Accords are signed by the Federation of Orion, Bengali Dominions, Star Kingdoms Confederation, Merchant Guild, Realm of Antares and the Ertan Republic. |
| 6644 | A Turgil trading expedition to Hortense finds a recovering, but xenophobic Hortense Union, locked in low-level warfare with Hruli worlds further trailing. |
| 6645 | After an episode of insanity, the children of Markham's Star Queen Yarla have thier mother declared unfit, appointing her son Kalvin as Regent of Markham. |
| 6646 | Shelto Bashar Neemin, enjoying the fruits of an economic recovery, wins easy reelection to the presidency of the Federation of Orion. |
| 6647 | The Gulkan pirate known as Arktukan attacks a Grand Federation depot in the outer Amada system, making off with a large cache of supplies and equipment and becoming the target of a Grand Federation sweep through the border region. |
| 6648 | In the Regency Coup, Prince Aldan deposes his brother Prince Kalvin as Regent of the Star Kingdom of Markham and has himself declared Star King of Markham after a disputed election. |
| 6649 | The Orion Exposition on Kanpur features popular Blended Being exhibits and products promoted by Technologist followers of Gideon Lazaru. |
| 6650 | In the Countercoup, Prince Kalvin of Markham deposes and imprisons his brother Star King Aldan and has himself declared Star King. |
| 6651 | A Turgil expedition visits the Falzi home system, encountering a hostile balkanized multi-world Fusion Age civilization and retreating after coming under attack. Future Ertan Director Seov Habash is born on Erta, son of Republic Navy Lieutenant Jorj Habash and his wife Selya, who soon abandons her impoverished husband and their son. |
| 6652 | Lav Devori, a member of the anti-Fastung branch of the Progressive Party, wins election to the presidency of the Federation of Orion. |
| 6653 | A Kith'turi patrol discovers Arktukan's hidden base in the Dark River Nebula; the Gulkan pirate leader perishes in the subsequent clash with Kith'turi and Grand Federation warships. |
| 6654 | Mechanist Crusaders attack and destroy an Order of Truth Mission on the Sector 124 world of Ephesus, beginning a period of strife between coreward expanding Ibrahimite missionaries and the Crusader branch of Mechanism. |
| 6655 | A macrojump drive malfunction kills Gordas Fastung and his entourage en route to the Orion Exposition on Kasa, starting a scramble among Fastung's many descendants for control over his vast corporate holdings. |
| 6656 | Axel Fastung emerges as the new leader of the Fastung corporate empire after selling off several firms to rival relatives. Orin Larkeen, the future Viceroy of Nachen, the sole offspring of Senator Tagrin Larkeen and only great-grandchild of Karl Larkeen, is born on Erta. |
| 6657 | The Kith'turi-Salvaatiki Union of Worlds establishes military outposts in the Dark River Nebula to guard against resurgent piracy. |
| 6658 | Silias Fastung wins endorsement of the Progressive Party for election to the FOO presidency, forcing incumbent president Lav Devori to run as an independent for his own job; Egalitarian Party candidate Illio Gutarez becomes President of the Federation of Orion by a plurality and later legislative endorsement. |
| 6659 | After failed talks, the Realm of Antares declares the KSUW Dark River Nebula outposts to be in violation of border agreements and demands their removal; after the ultimatum goes unheeded, Antaran warships attack the outposts, starting the Dark River War. |
| 6660 | After an Antaran victory at the Battle of Biztur Station in the Rho, the KSUW seeks assistance from the Grand Federation of Races, cumulating in the Friendship Treaty of 6660, which provides advanced technical and material assistance from the Grand Federation to the KSUW. |
| 6661 | The KSUW, aided by Grand Federation microjump frigates, wins the Battle of Teal, forcing the Treaty of Nachen settlement in which the Realm of Antares acknowledges joint Antaran-KSUW rights to the Dark River Nebula and enhanced Grand Federation patrol rights. Unaware of the peace treaty, the organizers of the Betelgeuse Antares Rally announce the cancellation of the race at the Orion Exposition on Hardin. |
| 6662 | On the Timbuktu world of Varda, Abdel Rhuzi publishes Coexistent Principles, marking the reinvigoration of Hammedian Ibrahimism as a counter to Khalifate missionary activity. |
| 6663 | The Sector 169 world of Lucan expels Ibrahimite missionaries and, with the aid of the First Defender Legion, it establishes the Lucan Protectorate over the neighboring worlds of Nkore and Vikna. |
| 6664 | Illio Gutarez easily retains the presidency of the Federation of Orion in an election victory over a fractious Progressive Party. |
| 6665 | After an Ibrahimite revolution on neutral Shachar in Sector 34, the ruling council begins a program of genocide against the large Goblin minority and deports Variants to reservations on the system's hostile outer world of Finginan. |
| 6666 | The Bengali Dominions dispatches a fleet to protect minorities on Shachar, occupying Finginan and blockading Shachar; an Order of Valor fleet confronts the Bengali force, leading to a standoff and negotiations that end in an Order of Purity occupation of Shachar, prosecution of the ruling council for genocide and a Dominions-sponsored emigration program for all minorities. |
| 6667 | Denali hosts an Orion Exposition noted for a successful conference on religious tolerance hosted by President Gutarez and attended by both Ibrahimites and Mechanists. |
| 6668 | The Bengali Dominions launches the Southern Survey, a large-scale mapping and recontact expedition aimed at the far southern sectors. |
| 6669 | Abdul Rehman Khari, Khalifate Grandmaster of the Order of Enlightenment, institutes what becomes known as the Martian Syllabus, a science-friendly Ibrahimite instruction curriculum mandated to schools and educators throughout the Khalifate. |
| 6670 | Silias Fastung, at the head of a reunited Progressive Party, wins election to the Presidency of the Federation of Orion. |
| 6671 | The Bengali Southern Expedition recontacts the Latra race, regressed to an early industrial existence on their two worlds. |
| 6672 | Largu Ban Sharr becomes Goblin King of Rotshak after murdering his uncle and begins the construction of his Royal Armada. |
| 6673 | The Orion Exposition at Kumar serves as the groundbreaking for pylons supporting the construction of an orbital ring around the world. |
| 6674 | Through bribery threats and warfare, the Goblin King of Rotshak begins his consolidation of Goblin colony worlds, starting with the annexation of nearby Grendel. |
| 6675 | The Vhaki Plague, a lethal blood disorder, sweeps across the Sector 764 world of Khanlavar, killing millions and spreads offworld on Guild and ITA vessels, leading to a growing quarantine that soon encompasses thirty systems. |
| 6676 | Silias Fastung narrowly wins reelection to the presidency of the Federation of Orion. The Vhaki Plague spreads into Principalities of the Star Kingdom of Irmingham, creating a panic that nearly shuts down interstellar traffic within the Star Kingdom Confederation. |
| 6677 | Timbuktu biologists develop a vaccine against the Vhaki Plague, but a cure remains elusive, leading to a restricted quarantine of five heavily infected worlds, where in total over a hundred million have died. |
| 6678 | The Risen Morrie Automan transforms himself into an exponentially reproducing Meme at Amada, beginning the Meme War. Dozens of Risen and Heretics created their own Memes, compromising Amada systems. The Amada authorities, aided by loyal Risen, Heretics and Zhretra, defeat the Meme uprising, though at a loss of two million biological and half a million core machine personalities. Scattered Meme outbreaks strike across a half dozen Coreward worlds and nearly thirty starships and outposts. The Khald'aron Republic refuses to renew the seven hundred year old lease of the Vanguard base at Rigel, giving the five hundred residents three years to evacuate the facility. Future Ertan Director Siantia Habash is born to an unknown mother, fathered by Seov Habash, who claims the child to gain junior officer family quarters at his Ertan Marines posting on Nokara. |
| 6679 | Meme outbreaks strike on Faztulu Drift and Resnik, killing nearly a million beings before Zhretran Plagues overcome the Memes. The Fastung-owned Bionic Corporation introduces the Metamorph Variant, able to adapt to multiple environments, at the Orion Exposition on Luminous. |
| 6680 | The Meme War ends with the surrender of the last Replica of Morrie. After a Royal Armada blockade and a coup, the populous Goblin world of Lamonde joins the Goblin Kingdom, completing Largu Ban Sharr's consolidation of the seven trailing Goblin settlements. |
| 6681 | Surviving Memes take refugee at Dhjarlapanor. Zhantlian geneticist develop a cure for the Vhaki Plague, distributing it to relief starships that reach the infected worlds; in all the Vhaki Plague has killed over three hundred million, including eighty percent of the population of Khanlavar. |
| 6682 | Egalitarian economist Turigar Laverno wins election to the presidency of the Federation of Orion, defeating Progressive Vice President Laksmi Gatos-Burel. The Goblin War begins after a skirmish between Velan Presidium defense ships and a Goblin Kingdom cruiser at Harper. |
| 6683 | Despite a Velan pledge to eradicate the Goblin Kingdom and bring Largu Ban Sharr back in chains, the Goblin Royal Armada soundly defeats the Velan First Battle Group at the Battle of Karelia and bombards the Velan world before withdrawing. |
| 6684 | A League of Independent Races expedition to the Xam home system in Sector 1270 vanishes after leaving Swarm 106. An ailing Karl Larkeen departs Erta in a singleship, dividing his estates between his two surviving children. General Horis Babkin assassinates Velan President Karna Rebatti and assumes command of the Presidium, rallying the Velan worlds against Goblin raiding forces. |
| 6685 | After the indecisive Battle of Riese's Eye, the Velan Presidium and the Goblin Kingdom agree to a permanent armistice and establish diplomatic relations, cumulating in the signing of a peace treaty witnessed by major government leaders at the conclusion of the Orion Exposition on Tudor. |
| 6686 | The Betelgeuse Antares Rally resumes for the first time since the Dark River War, featuring an exciting race won by the Casap Captain Rurgar Urbza aboard the Red Fang in just under 228 days, a new record time. |
| 6687 | Unknown assassins immolate and kill Abdel Rhuzi on Othello; marking the beginning of the spread of the Rhuzi sect of Hammedian Ibrahimism; a local investigation clears local Mechanists of the crime but arrest no other suspects. |
| 6688 | Turigar Laverno wins reelection to the presidency of the Federation of Orion. Antaran Lord President Kolin Major dies during a regeneration; his son Turin Major secures the Lord Presidency after considerable maneuvering and after gaining the reluctant support of his older sister, Layda Major. The Realm of Antares increases tariffs on Merchant Guild imports. |
| 6689 | Increased piracy, often from systems near the Antaran periphery, plagues both Guild and independent traders; calls for greater Antaran piracy suppression go unheeded. After rumors of an Awoken threat and increased Quadron pirate activity, the Khalifate Order of Valor launches a new Demon Hunter Fleet into the Northern Region, finding no Awoken, but destroying a few Quadron pirate outposts and briefly engaging a Hurushin defense force. |
| 6690 | The Merchant Guild channels aid and encouragement to the Ertan Republic, supporting anti-piracy patrols and raids. Ertan naval officer Jorj Habash receives promotion to Rear Admiral after his cruiser squadron defeats Kandik Hulmo-Vassik's pirate operation in Sector 726. |
| 6691 | The Ertan Republic Senate authorizes attacks against raiders operating out of space claimed by the Realm of Antares. Antaran Lord President Turin Major authorizes a full mobilization of his navy and instructs the Order of Scorpio to 'interdict' Ertan and Merchant Guild traffic. The Antaran War begins when defense lancer squadrons at Bastian fire on the visiting Ertan frigate Rainbow. A Cubic survey ship finds the remnants of the League Xam Expedition in Sector 715, trapped in a sub-giant system after a series of accidents, and assists with repairs and evacuations of the survivors to Swarm 183. |
| 6692 | The Order of Scorpio raids the Ertan system, destroying the Ottara Naval station and killing most of the Ertan High Command including its Chairman, Kanto Rubitar; the Ertan Senate names Jorj Habash as Grand Admiral of the Ertan Navy and Chairman of the High Command. The Merchant Guild offers subsidized loans to the Ertan Republic to support the war effort. Layda Major is assassinated by order of her brother Turin during her four hundredth birthday celebration. The Betelgeuse Antares Rally ends in a tense and heavily guarded Antares system, with four vessels damaged by jittery Antaran patrols. |
| 6693 | Namerin secedes from the Realm of Antares, its defense forces ambushing the Antaran Second Fleet at the Battle of Namerin; the surviving Antaran warships destroy the Namerin High Port before an Ertan fleet secures the system. Admiral Habash destroys an Antaran convoy at the Battle of Basra. |
| 6694 | Laksmi Gatos-Burel regains the presidency of the Federation of Orion for the Progressive Party. The pitched Battle of Farris ends in a stalemate, with both Ertan Admiral Jorj Habash and Antaran Lord President Turin Major withdrawing their battered forces from the system. Continued commerce raiding from the Order of Scorpio and a horde of Antaran privateers convinces the Ertan Senate to declare a Republic-wide martial law under Admiral Habash's rule. |
| 6695 | Ertan Admiral Jorj Habash leads a daring raid on Nachen itself, destroying its defense fleet and damaging the orbital ring defenses before retreating. Ertan Senator Davro Karkeen dies in a pirate attack on his convoy as he travels to peace conference on Khandor; the Anataran Lord President's grandson Vanik Major also dies after an attack en route to Khandor. Anti-war sentient grows within the Ertan Republic after Admiral Habash refuses to send another peace delegation to Khandor. In response to Order of Scorpio attacks on its shipping, the Theran League declares war on the Realm of Antares. Ertan Senators Tarn Bellevordi, Tagrin Larkeen and Basro Rubitar form the Steel Fist coalition, vowing to destroy the Realm of Antares. |
| 6696 | Ertan Admiral Jorj Habash names his son Seov to the post of Marshall of the Ertan Marines and sends a fleet to aid the Theran League in its fight against the Antarans. |
| 6697 | Ertan Admiral Jorj Habash gives his granddaughter Siantia in marriage to Senator Tarn Bellevordi, cementing his alliance with the Steel Fist pro-war senatorial faction. The Great Nebular City host an Orion Exposition dominated by a new generation blended products and enhancements from dozens of major vendors; organizers cancel the Betelgeuse Antares Rally in light of the continuing war. |
| 6698 | Ertan Admiral Jorj Habash defeats the Antaran First Fleet at the Battle of Bannik, killing Admiral Harvin Major and destroying over eighty starships; Harvin II Major is cloned to infanthood on Nachen after word of his father's death. A bomb destroys the Ertan Senate chambers, killing sixty of the two hundred members; Admiral Habash fills the vacancies with Steel Fist supporters, pending new elections. |
| 6699 | At the Battle of Nachen, Admiral Jorj Habash leads his Combined Ertan Fleet to a decisive victory; Turin Major dies in the destruction of his flagship Blood Scorpion, and his son Alexander Major refuses to assume the Lord Presidency, surrendering to Habash aboard the Gargantuan. Ertan forces occupy Antaran worlds and enforce martial law. The Theran League joins the Ertan Republic. Cleon Bellevordi, son of Tarn Bellevordi and Sianta Habash, is born on Erta. |
| 6700 | Egalitarian Party candidate Lessa Farovi defeats incumbent President Laksmi Gatos-Burel to become President of an economically stagnant Federation of Orion. After post-war elections, the Ertan Senate narrowly refuses to renew the dictatorial powers granted Admiral Jorj Habash; Habash compels the Ertan courts to nullify the election and convinces the rump Senate to declare him Director of Erta, effectively establishing the Ertan Directorate. The Ertan Marines, under Seov Habash's command, stifle dissent, arresting fifty-seven former Ertan senators, a third of whom are eventually executed for treason. The Ertan military consolidates its control of Antaran worlds, ending mort pirate activity. |
| 6701 | Ertan Director Jorj Habash repudiates Erta's war debt to the Merchant Guild, citing the overwhelming burden of war reconstruction. Jorj Habash names his son Seov as Chairman of the High Command and Deputy Director. A Merchant Guild assassination plot against Jorj Habash fails, and after a public disclosure and threats of attack on Guild installations, the Merchant Guild apologies, forgives Erta's debt and signs a friendship treaty with the Directorate. |
| 6702 | Researchers on the the Albian world of Coron develop techniques that allow for the commercial production of living metal alloys. |
| 6703 | Tarn Bellevordi and Siantia Habash travel to the Orion Exposition at Arundel as official representatives of the Ertan Directorate. |
| 6704 | The Betelgeuse Antares Rally resumes under Ertan sponsorship, the finish line a newly constructed military facility on Itzarka, a planetoid orbiting Teal. |
| 6705 | The Orphean firm Devroe Geneering develops and patents Metallic Organisms, using a technique to combine Coronian living metals and bioengineered components into a variety of industrial, construction and vehicular products. |
| 6706 | Lessa Farovi easily wins reelection to the presidency of the Federation of Orion after a strong first term economic performance. |
| 6707 | The collapsed core of Jupiter cools unexpectedly, starting a process that dims the artificial sun's output by over twenty percent, dramatically affecting the weather on its four terraformed moons. |
| 6708 | The Ring of Kumar reaches functional completion with the opening of triple orbital spaceports and industrial complexes at primary pylon intersections along the orbital ring structure. |
| 6709 | The economy of the Federation of Orion enters a deep downturn. Marina Bellevordi, daughter of Siantia Habash and Tarn Bellevordi and future wife of Orin Larkeen, is born on Erta. |
| 6710 | Technologists on Delgado develop cybernetic accessories derived from Metallic Organism components, allowing natural-like High and Low Cyborg enhancements. |
| 6711 | Ertan Director Jorj Habash dies after a sudden aneurysm; his son Seov Habash succeeds him as Director, maintaining his Chairmanship of the High Command. Seov Habash officially dissolves the Ertan Senate, appointing loyal Senators as Viceroys or Consuls of Ertan worlds and banishing or arresting his opponents. |
| 6712 | Agan Fastung, son of Silias Fastung, becomes President of the Federation of Orion, soundly defeating the Egalitarian Party candidate Ollius Rotgan, who commits suicide soon after viewing final election results. |
| 6713 | The equatorial ocean of Callisto begins to freeze, despite local efforts to reverse an ice age initiated by the dimming of Jupiter; the Khalif authorizes construction of space-borne mirrors to focus light onto the world to lessen the cooling. |
| 6714 | Rootjalik military forces hunting Human and B'dr'rak raiders strike multiple targets in Sector 274, eventually confronting and skirmishing with Tannberg patrol vessels. |
| 6715 | The Ertan Directorate and the Terran Khalifate sign the Dragonfly Accord, establishing border and customs agreements and allowing limited Order of Truth missionary activity within the Directorate. The Star Kingdom of Tannberg and the Second Rootjalik Empire reach an agreement on patrol zones to avoid further conflict along their border. |
| 6716 | The Fak join the League of Independent Races after thirty years of negotiations led by the Turgil diplomat Sheliman Chuosho. |
| 6717 | The Grand Federation of Races and the Terran Khalifate sign the Amada Accord, establishing a neutral zone along their respective borders and allowing the Merchant Guild exclusive access to systems within that zone. |
| 6718 | Agan Fastung easily wins reelection to the presidency of the Federation of Orion. Khalif Mohammed V appoints the reformer Ali Ramez as Grandmaster of the Order of Ibrahim. |
| 6719 | Grandmaster Ali Ramez unveils his Civil Service plan, outlining a secular bureaucracy and Provincial (Sector) and System Governors appointed directly by the Khalif, subject to review by local Order of Ibrahim councils. |
| 6720 | Sparlavap Fever, a virulent brain virus, begins to spread through the Morris system and to neighboring systems, prompting a quarantine of the Morris system and a monitoring of all Sector 314 starship traffic; the outbreak kills over two million people and strands the senior Ertan leadership who where conducting a conference with Morris system leaders. After some controversy and debate, Khalif Mohammed V approves Grandmaster Ramez's Civil Service overhaul initiatives and replaces two protesting Grandmasters. |
| 6721 | Ertan Director Seov Habash dies of Sparlavap Fever on Morris; Tarn Bellevordi forces through the ascension of his wife, Seov's daughter Siantia Habash, as Director of Erta. Kallin Baldrik, Viceroy of Nachen, instigates the Nachen Revolt, an uprising that soon gains the support of many former worlds of the Realm of Antares and of the Ertan Third Fleet. Director Siantia Habash names her young son Cleon Bellevordi as Chairman of the High Command, ordering him to crush the rebellion; Cleon appoints Admiral Orin Larkeen as Grand Admiral of the Ertan Navy. Both Alexander Major and Harvin II Major denounce Baldrik's revolt and begin working toward a peaceful settlement. |
| 6722 | The Merchant Guild backs Baldrik's Nachen Revolt and supports his assumption of the title of Lord President of the New Antaran Realm. Ertan Chairman Cleon Bellevordi orders raids against Merchant Guild facilities and concentrates his fleets, retaking the high population systems of Farris and Morris, destroying the Osirian exile ship River of Stars at Morris. |
| 6723 | Tarn Bellevordi and Alexander Major die in a assassination bombing on Erta while trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement of the Nachen Revolt. Baldrik's revolt collapses after his defeat and death at the hands of Admiral Orin Larkeen at the Battle of Outer Cirilia. Orin Larkeen resigns his military commission to become Viceroy of Nachen. Harvin II Major, the surviving scion of the Major family, accepts a commission as a Lieutenant in the Ertan Directorate Navy and is stationed on the Khalifate border. |
| 6724 | Remarko Debevell wins election to the presidency of the Federation of Orion on the Egalitarian Party ticket. Siantia Habash resigns as Director of Erta in favor of her son Cleon Bellevordi, who retains his control of the High Command. Orphean researchers develop a vaccine and cure for Sparlavap Fever, distributing it to the Morris system. Pirates operating under the Order of Scorpio banner begin operating out of bases in Sectors 654 and 655. The Zhantlas Union allows registered and restricted Memes to be licensed for travel and residency within the Union. |
| 6725 | The Ertan Directorate Navy launches anti-piracy operations against the Order of Scorpio, ultimately committing four fleets to patrol and eradication efforts. Alton Rubitar, future Regent and Chairman of the Ertan High Command, resigns his commission as a lieutenant in the Ertan Navy under clouded circumstances after an obscure Fourth Fleet anti-piracy operation. |
| 6726 | Grandmaster Ali Ramez hosts the Council of Oberon, bringing together non-Sapien and Alien Khalifate internal exiles and Bengali representatives to discuss the rights and privileges of non-human residents in Khalifate space; the resulting documents provide a legal framework for secular life within the expanding Khalifate. |
| 6727 | Leshra Industries demonstrates its Omnivator fast replicator at the Orion Exposition on Zirconia, paving the way for the beginnings of a post-materialist transformation of the economy of the Federation of Orion. FOO President Remarko Debevell announces programs for economic transformations, starting at the Great Nebular City, Kumar and Luminous. |
| 6728 | Ertan Director Cleon Bellevordi marries Helena Talmud, daughter of the Consul of Soren; their son Seov, is born later in the year. With permission from Viceroy Orin Larkeen, Harvin II Major resigns his naval commission, returns to Nachen and marries Seri Faryakian-Ballan of House Ballan on Nachen, uniting the old Presidential Houses of Nachen. |
| 6729 | Leshra Industries begins widespread distribution of Omnivator units outside the Federation of Orion, earning fantastic profits as demand far outstrips its supply and distribution capabilities. |
| 6730 | Remarko Debevell wins reelection as president of the Federation of Orion. Ertan Director Cleon Bellevordi leads an expeditionary force against B'dr'rak raiders in the Freeholder regions along the south-trailing Ertan border, destroying five bases and two freeholds. |
| 6731 | The Sector 369 world of Bismark, ruled by a oligarchic military junta, achieves independent interstellar capability and begins military scouting expeditions to neighboring systems. |
| 6732 | Tensions between the Zhantlas Union and the Ertan Directorate over aggressive Ertan patrols against pirates and smugglers in Sector 366 leads to minor skirmishes and a break of diplomatic relations between the two states. Ertan Director Cleon Bellevordi forms an expeditionary fleet and begins attacks on 'pirate outposts', sacking Harbin and destroying a Zhantlian military outpost at Oshomog. |
| 6733 | Ertan and Zhantlian squadrons engage in intensifying skirmishes and commerce raids, avoiding direct battle and outright war, the numerically superior Ertans stymied by Zhantlian technological supremacy. Replicator-themed products, including entertainment integration, dominate the Orion Exposition on Casimir. |
| 6734 | Mechanist Primal Uvon Yektiban resigns after three hundred years of service, clearing the way for the ascension of his protégé, the moderate and well-liked Vars Rushonov, head of the Mechanist diplomatic corps. His retreat cut off by fast Zhantlian frigates at the Siege of Rutlastek, Cleon Bellevordi signs a truce with the Zhantlas High Council; a formal peace and border treaty follows in ceremonies at Warren Lun. Cleon's sister Marina Bellevordi marries Viceroy Orin Larkeen in ceremonies on Nachen. The Federation of Orion adopts protocols to clarify distinctions between Avatars and Memes. |
| 6735 | Heirate Zekeal Zalmas seizes effective control of the thirteen world northern Libran Concorde in a hard-line coup that leads to the expulsion of Khalifate diplomats, merchants and missionaries. |
| 6736 | Vice President Jemerna Brevari wins the Federation of Orion presidential election, continuing Egalitarian Party rule and aggressive pro-post-materialist policies. |
| 6737 | The Great Nebular City demonstrates itself to have achieved a full post-material economic transition, just ten years after the introduction of the Leshra Omnivator. Pavl Larkeen, son of Marina Bellevordi and Orin Larkeen, is born on Erta. The twins, Jena and Norin Major are born on Nachen to Seri Faryakian-Ballan and Harvin II Major. |
| 6738 | The Sector 341 world of Kadesh declares itself an open port, expelling the Merchant Guild to the Osirian Eagle's Aerie as punishment for its involvement in a failed anti-government coup. |
| 6739 | The Orion Exposition on Karnak hosts an economic conference dedicated to reviving the theories and practices of post-material governance and fiscal policies. |
| 6740 | Significant flaring from Antares forces the diversion of the finish of the Betelgeuse Antares Rally to New Sicily and prompts the Ertan Directorate to harden Kishtoron Station, the single remaining monitoring outpost in Antares orbit. |
| 6741 | Mohammed VI becomes Khalif of the Terran Khalifate after his father, Khalif Mohammed V, dies of natural causes at age 451; the new Khalif reappoints Ali Ramez as Grandmaster of the Order of Ibrahim, signaling continued moderate rule and gradual reform of governing institutions. |
| 6742 | Jemerna Brevari easily wins reelection to the presidency of the Federation of Orion. Dragon raiders attack New Defender outposts in the Gammata system, bombarding the world before withdrawing; the First Defender Legion attacks a Jzhrak'tu Pride base in Sector 1385, setting off the Defender War against a coalition of Dragon Prides and Nations. |
| 6743 | Dragon raiders besiege Gammata and Nabeth and destroy New Defender outposts and shipping in three sectors; a major engagement at the Battle of Zhruka's Companion leaves the Second Defender Legion in tatters. |
| 6744 | General Astok Hammon takes command of the remnants of the Second Defender Legion and wins renown by breaking the Dragon siege at the Battle of Nabeth and then defeating the fleet of the Jzhrak'tu Pride at the Battle of Isak's Rings. |
| 6745 | After the Third Defender Legion liberates the Sector 773 worlds of Kargidill and Urshan, the Dragon coalition collapses, leading to a general armistice signed at Nabeth. The young Seov Bellevordi leads the Ertan Directorate's delegation to the Orion Exposition on Cumbria and arranges for the BAR to again run to New Sicily, promising a completion of hardened facilities at Teal in time for the next running of the Rally. The Merchant Guild allows registered Memes access to shipping and facilities. |
| 6746 | A planned conference at White Wind Drift between Khalifate diplomats and ambassadors from the Mechanist Primal are cancelled after Mechanist Crusaders threaten to destroy the Drift. |
| 6747 | The Martian writer Alexander Revark publishes Toward a Civil Society, a treatise on developing secular institutions within the Khalifate; the document is initially banned by the Order of Purity which subsequently arrests Revark for subversion and blasphemy. |
| 6748 | Egalitarian economist Iniki Hurgo Labondo wins the Federation of Orion presidential election, solidifying Egalitarian Party control of the government. |
| 6749 | Ertan Director Cleon Bellevordi approves a new constitution, enshrining the Directorate bureaucracy and the roles of Viceroys and Consuls in local government affairs; critics denounce the constitution as "imperial" and "autocratic", lacking even the pretense of legislative or judicial oversight. The Federation of Orion recognizes the citizenship rights of Restricted Memes. |
| 6750 | Severn Starship Systems (S3) of Irmingham successful tests a prototype microjump engine based on hybridized mechnobiotechnology subsystems. Census calculations demonstrate that Kumar and Luminous, as well as eight Habitat and Drift Federation of Orion members, have achieved post-material economies. |
| 6751 | Khalifate Grandmaster Ali Ramez travels to the Orion Exposition at Pluviose, signing trade and diplomatic agreements designed to improve access to Early Microjump Era technology within the Terran Khalifate. |
| 6752 | Ertan Director Cleon Bellevordi drowns while sailing in the northern Ofal Ocean on Erta, Cleon's widow Helena arranges for the ascension of their son Seov Bellevordi as Director of Erta and Chairman of the High Command. Ertan Director Seov tours Nachen to fortify his rule, then travels to Antares to oversee the finish of the Betelgeuse Antares Rally at the newly commissioned Cleon Bellevordi Station in orbit around Teal. |
| 6753 | In Sector 369, the Bismark Wehrmacht occupies Gwendolyn, conquering the Industrial Age world with an orbital bombardment and a military occupation of key cities. Seov Bellevordi marries Tille Haombori, daughter of the Consul of Majel, in private ceremonies on Erta. Seov's grandmother, former Director Siantia Habash, commits suicide on Erta. |
| 6754 | Iniki Hurgo Labondo narrowly wins reelection to the Presidency of the Federation of Orion as Fastung corporate interests gain significant influence over the ongoing post-materialist economic transformation. Severn Starship Systems begins selling production Mode I microjump systems both within and outside the Star Kingdom Confederation; though Star King Martin IV declares the microjump manufacturing process to be a state secret, he grants licenses for microjump starship fabrication and export to three closely held Irmingham manufacturers. Harul Bellevordi, son of Seov and Tille, is born on Erta and become Director heir-apparent. |
| 6755 | Khalif Mohammed VI pardons Alexander Revark and rules his writings to be suitable for publication and discourse with the Khalifate. |
| 6756 | Bengali Prime Minister Alman Domikal inaugurates the Imperial Institute for the Advancement of Society, a multi-disciplinary research and educational center on Glorious, dedicated to pushing the Bengali Dominions into the Early Microjump Era. |
| 6757 | The Orion Exposition on Tanverdi features a display of microjump starships; the Exposition is disrupted by the attempted assassination of Bengali Regent Malcolm Domikal by Maximus extremists. Pavl Larkeen marries Jena Major on Nachen, cementing ties between the old Presidential Houses of Nachen and the dominant Ertan Houses. |
| 6758 | Unknown assailants murder and incinerate Alexander Revark in his home on Mars. Sabra Bellevordi, daughter of Seov and Tille, is born on Erta. Jarik Larkeen is born to Jena Major and Pavl Larkeen on Nachen. |
| 6759 | The Divinity of Aurgeus and the New Autarchy clash above the Sector 411 world of Duarte, with both governments supporting competing faction in the Early Fusion Era world's civil war; a skirmish won by the Divinity threatens war between the two interstellar states. |
| 6760 | Danal Fastung, a son of Silias Fastung and former Chairman of Agharta Arms, wins the Federation of Orion presidential election. Negotiations mediated by the Swarm Republic and the Bengali Dominions ends the Duarte Crisis between the Divinity of Aurgeus and the New Autarchy and Duarte becomes a neutral world under the protection of Swarm patrols. Gion Larkeen is born to Jena Major and Pavl Larkeen during a visit to Erta. |
| 6761 | The Spacetime Investigative Project, a joint Bengali-Swarm technology project, begins operation around the isolated Khasandi back hole in Sector 180. |
| 6762 | The Free Sapiens Movement, an anti-Variant, pro-democracy group, has its founding meeting on Paradise, calling for the conversion of the Bengali Dominions into an Orion-style Federation. |
| 6763 | Favori Labs of Lanander demonstrates their HMBT-based hyper-quantum computing prototype at the Orion Exposition on Kumar. After clashes with security forces on Paradise and Aeneas, the Bengali Dominions bans the Free Sapiens Movement, which becomes an underground, mostly non-violent, dissident organization spreading to dozens of high population Dominions worlds. |
| 6764 | Ertan Director Seov Bellevordi's wife Tille dies of a stroke while visiting her parents on Majel, the Director declares a year of mourning and builds her an elaborate tomb on the upper Brandywine in Exeter on Erta. The Zhantlas Union recognizes the citizenship rights of Restricted Memes. |
| 6765 | On Orpheus, security forces uncover and suppress a plot by egalitarian "New Republicans" to overthrow Star King Alexander III and secede from the Confederation. |
| 6766 | After co-opting much of the Egalitarian Party platform, Danal Fastung wins reelection to the presidency of the Federation of Orion. |
| 6767 | The Merchant Guild begins its Great Northern Expedition, a sweep of a score of northern sectors in search of new markets. |
| 6768 | Merchant Guild scouts encounter Quadron corsairs, forcing the reinforcement of their expeditionary fleets. Viceroy Orin Larkeen and his wife Marina die in a skimmer accident on Nachen; Director Seov Bellevordi confirms Orin's son Pavl Larkeen as the Viceroy of Nachen. |
| 6769 | The Khald'aron Republic completely closes its borders to foreign traffic, enforcing its isolation with polite but firm military patrols. Khald'aron emigrants petition for increased settlement rights, disrupting the Orion Exposition on Leyte. |
| 6770 | Severn Starship Systems develops a prototype Mode II microjump engine suitable for vehicles under 30 meters diameter and begins a limited production run. The first running of a class of Mode I microjump vessels for the Betelgeuse Antares Rally attracts seven participants, with the winner requiring 284 days to complete the course, finishing 54 days behind the macrojump winner. |
| 6771 | The Merchant Guild's Great Northern Expedition ends, having established over two dozens outposts and trading enclaves among northern worlds and tentative contact with the Hurushin. |
| 6772 | Egalitarian candidate Egmarin Dessik narrowly wins the Federation of Orion presidential election, defeating the uncharismatic Vice President Urlon Harshev. The Galactic Festival on Glorious features prototypes of many Bengali-produced Early Microjump Era products, though the much vaunted indigenously produced microjump drive vessel Emperor Talon manages only a brief trouble-prone jaunt back and forth to Alcyone. |
| 6773 | The Direct Action Group (DAG), a virulently anti-Futaris offshoot of the Free Sapiens Movement begins a campaign of assassinations, killing seven prominent Bengali Futaris including Altaran High Priestess Shandra Ortig of Enki. |
| 6774 | Quadron raiders attack the Merchant Guild base on Mysore, triggering a punitive expedition against Taltgitarin and an increase in Guild patrols searching for new Quadron settlements and bases in the northern region. |
| 6775 | The Star Kingdom of Irmingham authorizes widespread export of Mode II microjump vehicles of up to 30 meters diameter, demonstrating four commercial models at the Orion Exposition on Aquinas. |
| 6776 | An unknown assailant assassinates Ertan Director Seov Bellevordi, his son Harul and several members of their entourage; Alton Rubitar, Protector of Arorar supports Sabra Bellevordi's ascension to the Directorate, naming himself Regent for the four weeks prior to her eighteenth's birthday and appointing himself Chairman of the Ertan High Command. |
| 6777 | Ertan Director Sabra Bellevordi marries Chairman Alton Rubitar in ceremonies on Erta and adopts his two children from a previous marriage, Jadik and Elisha Rubitar. |
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