This is the seventh in a series of articles covering the in-world history of the Astral Web. I originally wrote the history as 15 or so eras of history. Rather than make one long post, each era is getting its own post.
This week’s era covers 130 years, but is super short text-wise.
The Story so Far
The First Step: Mankind had terraformed Mars, and established settlements there.
The Departure: Mankind decided to send a million settlers to establish life around distant suns.
Left at Albuquerque: The fleet leaves Earth and is scattered far and wide by some unknown event.
The Awakening (Years 1 - 167): 20,000 humans settle on the planet Dearborn.
Expansion & Empire (Years 168 - 431): Scientists on Dearborn developed the first working Nexus drive. Dearborn makes contact with the other settlers spread out over 74 other planets. The Empire is formed, the pirates rise, and the Interstellar Sentinels are formed.
The Great Revolution (Years 432-478) The Duke of Schellenberg leads an accidental but successful rebellion against the Dearborn Empire. The Empire is split and the Schellenberg Republic is formed.
The Two Nations (478-608)
This is a historically quiet period of history, where technologies, and cultural identities develop. Although a kind of peace is maintained, The Dearborn Empire and the Schellenberg Republic continue to build their interstellar war fleets. The phantom of all-out war looms overhead, but never materializes.
Retrospective
This is so short that I considered joining it with the next era.
Clearly this is one of the “joining” eras, though it could be playable. Players could be on one side or the other of cold war, undertaking espionage missions and preventing war.
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