Timeline for the ArcBuilder Universe

  • Pre-Angelic Epoch (13.75 to 6.82 billion years ago)
    • 13.72 billion years ago:  The origin of the Universe occurs with the Big Bang.  In a near instant, the Universe expands from an infinitely dense point of energy to a region of hot plasma in seconds.  The young Universe will continue to expand and cool.
    • 13.6 billion years ago:  The earliest formation of the Milky Way Galaxy.  At this stage, the Galaxy is little more than a giant collection of hydrogen and helium gases, slowly contracting under its own mass.
    • 13.32 billion years ago:  The first stars, known as Population III stars, form.  These are stars which are very massive and contain almost no heavy metals, save that which was formed during the Big Bang, such as lithium-7, and then it exists only in their cores.  These stars were so massive that their effective life spans were less than a million years old.
    • 13.2 billion years ago:  The very earliest galaxies form.  While rare at this stage of the Universe's life, galaxy formation will steadily increase, and will become common by about 12 billion years ago.
    • 10.0 billion years ago:  The formation of the Galaxy's thin disk begins.  It is at this point that the Milky Way begins to become defined as a spiral galaxy.
  • Angelic Epoch (6.82 to 4.52 billion years ago)
    • 6.82 billion years ago:  The Angelics first begin to establish themselves on a Galactic scale.  By utilizing advanced interstellar propulsion methods, they spread throughout their immediate region of space, and eventually dominated all systems within hundreds of light years of their homeworld.  Over an undetermined amount of time, however, they began to utilize a system of portals, presumably very similar to the modern world's ArcWays.  The portals were established on all Angelic worlds, and then began to be expanded via automated von Neumann-like machines throughout the Galaxy, and beyond.
    • 5.11 billion years ago:  A schism begins to develop within the remarkably homogenous Angelic species.  One faction, referred to simply as "The Others", discovers a way to inhabit the Planck-space which exists between the portals, literally an infinite point between the walls of this universe.  It is unclear as to what sort of conditions exist in this between-space, but The Others have to adapt themselves both mentally and physically in order to exist there.
    • 4.86 billion years ago:  The Others begin to display adversarial traits, possibly as a result of their continuing adaptation to the between-space.  Angelics who pass through the portals begins to show psychological traits of The Others, and it is eventually determined that their original mentalities have been entirely replaced by copies of Other individuals.  Displaying greater and greater tendencies towards uncontrollable and violent psychosis, the Angelics attempt to fight back.  Consistent with the long and unhurried physiological traits of the Angelic species, this war rages on for hundreds of millions of years.  It finally comes to an end when the Angelics cause the portals to self-destruct.  The Others are trapped within the between-space, and those individuals trapped in the real universe are easily identified and dealt with.
    • 4.60 billion years ago:  Within a massive emission nebula, various stars have been forming and dying.  Some of these stars, very massive in their own right, die in supernova explosions after only a few million years.  The shockwaves from these explosions cause further stellar formation to occur.  In one region of the nebula, a cloud of dust and gas begins to contract and to form the Sun after one such nearby explosion.
    • 4.59 billion years ago:  The Angelics, having ended their war with The Others, find themselves trapped on millions of worlds, with only comparatively primitive and slow means of interstellar travel.  Most of these worlds allow themselves to become in-system bound, and over time eventually degrade as a culture.  In time, one by one, the many different Angelic societies fade away into extinction.  Unable or unwilling to adapt to this existence, the total senescence of their species is allowed.
    • 4.56 billion years ago:  The Earth begins to form from the circum-Solar disk of dust and gas.
    • 4.533 billion years ago:  A proto-planetary body dubbed Theia, forming at one of Earth's LaGrangian points, collides with the Earth.  The end result is the formation of the Moon.
    • 4.52 billion years ago:  The last of the Angelic interstellar influences dies.  While the species likely survives on many different worlds, their time as an interstellar power is over.  Indeed, eventually the entire species will fall into extinction.
  • Post Angelic Epoch (4.52 to 1.35 billion years ago)
    • 4.20 billion years:  As the Earth cools from its formation, clouds of water begin to form and precipitate.  This is the earliest formation of the Earth's oceans.
    • 4.10 billion years ago:  The Late Heavy Bombardment period in the Inner Solar System begins.  Fueled by disrupted asteroids from the Belt, caused by the inner migration of the forming gas giants, the impacts on Earth  would create major geological and climatological disruptions every one hundred years or so.
    • 3.80 billion years:  The Late Heavy Bombardment comes to a slow stop as the Belt and the Jovian worlds, now settled in their orbits, reach gravitational equilibrium.
    • 3.50 billion years ago:  The earliest forms of life directly related to modern cellular life on Earth appear.  Because these forms are relatively evolved compared to known primitive RNA forms, it is believed life on Earth must have began at a much earlier date.
    • 2.6 billion years ago:  Prokaryotes begin to colonize terrestrial regions on Earth.  While microscopic and out of sight, these are still the first forms of life on live on land.
    • 2.5 billion years ago:  The Earth's so-called "oxygen revolution", a period when microbial life, having been using photosynthesis for nearly 300 million years, have pumped enough oxygen into the atmosphere to drastically change its composition.  While needed by modern life forms, oxygen was toxic to the biodiversity of the time, and its sudden rapid increase caused a major ecological crisis.
    • 2.3 billion years ago:  Earth enters into a "snowball" phase, with temperatures falling to such a degree that year-around ice is present even at equatorial regions, and the higher latitudes are covered by kilometers-thick ice sheets.
    • 2.0 billion years ago:  The Eukarya begin to evolve on Earth.  They will give rise to most of the Earth's modern forms of life.
    • 1.7 billion years ago:  The earliest known examples of clearly multicellular life evolve on Earth.  These first forms, however, have cells which are quite similar.  Forms with diversified cells will eventually evolve from these forms.
    • 1.5 billion years ago:  The earliest known examples of algae live on the Earth.
    • 1.43 billion years ago:  The earliest forms of fungi evolve on Earth.
  • Imperial Galactic Epoch (1.35 billion years ago to 390 million years ago)
    • 1.35 billion years ago:  The Dunwalli first evolve on a world orbiting a red dwarf star.  This world had previously been terraformed by the Angelics, and had developed  a metastable environment and a flourishing biosphere.  The Dunwalli, eventually developing into a technologically proficient species, will discover certain ancient elements of the Angelics, which aid them in developing an interstellar culture.
    • 1.34 billion years ago:  The first Dunwalli ringworlds are constructed.  These megastructures will become the signature constructions of the species, who will slowly spread throughout the Galaxy, building them and establishing colonies upon them.
    • 1.0 billion years ago:  A rapid diversification of eukaryotes on Earth, which begins to lead towards most modern form of life.
    • 650 million years ago:  The Dunwalli have spread throughout the mid and outer regions of the Milky Way.  Their ringworlds number in the millions, and have a wide range of sizes and complexities.  However, limited by standard methods of interstellar travel , these colonies will develop very disparate cultures and societies, and in many cases even distinct Dunwalli clades will  evolve.
    • 580 million years ago:  The earliest known animals appear on Earth.  These are the cnidarians, a group which also give rise to jellyfish, sea anemones, and hydras.
    • 560 million years ago:  The T'zeche species first begin to evolve on a metastable Dunwalli ringworld, long since abandoned by its creators.  Because of limited resources, their biological and social evolution is slow, and for millions of years they will exist as primitive hunter-gatherers.
    • 540 million years ago:  The T'zeche begin to develop an interplanetary, and then interstellar culture.  Driven to explore off-world for resources to feed their technological society, which exists at the mercy of too few non-renewable resources on their ringworld, they quickly become adept at exploiting what the other worlds in their system have to offer.  Interstellar exploration, fueled by the same need, is an easy next step for them to eventually take.
    • 520 million years ago:  The Dunwalli have begun to expand their ringworlds into globular clusters.  At the same time, some elements begin to travel away from the Milky Way, intent on colonizing other galaxies.  Their eventual fate, however, is unknown.
    • 515 million years ago:  The T'zeche have come to encompass the entirety of the outer regions of the Galaxy.  They coexist easily with the specialized Dunwalli, as they themselves specialize in the terraforming of all manner of worlds.  Millions of planets have been transformed by them, the activity becoming almost a driving force of their culture.  Less than a tenth of the worlds that they terraform will ever be colonized by them.
    • 500 million years ago:  Recognizing a danger to their over all culture by observing the dispersal and slow degradation of the Dunwalli, the T'zeche begin to purposefully develop new sub-cultures, each one concentrated in a specific region of their Galactic holdings.  This cultural compartmentalization aids in the continuance of the species and their over all greater civilization, when confronted by the challenges of remaining cohesive over Galactic distances.
    • 495 million years ago:  The Dunwalli continue to expand.  However, behind their expansion front, older ringworld colonies are going extinct.  Cut off from any kind of interstellar support, these ancient colonies slowly fall into senescence and disrepair.  The entirety of Dunwalli civilization is like an expanding fire, burning brightly at the forward edges, but reduced to embers and ashes closer to the point of origin.
    • 480 million years ago:  The Dunwalli have vanished from the interstellar milieu.  While many scattered colonies remain, they do not possess interstellar capabilities, and will themselves eventually succumb to extinction.
    • 476 million years ago:  The earliest forms of land plants evolve on Earth.  These are similar to the modern liverworts, living along wet shorelines.
    • 463 million years ago:  Many T'zeche civilizations begin to move beyond the Galaxy, their sights set on other galaxies, and new challenges.  Very slowly, the Milky Way is being emptied of interstellar intelligence.
    • 445 million years ago:  Some of the earliest true terrestrial animal forms evolve on Earth.  These are early arthropods, which live in the sheltered places provided by the growing terrestrial plant biomes.
    • 421 million years ago:  A T'zeche faction provolves a pre-sapient form of life that has been discovered on a Jovian world with a rich biosphere.  This species, called the Tsubar'ey, will eventually become highly successful interstellar partners to this T'zeche faction, and indeed will eventually begin to explore interstellar space beyond their stellar holdings, following both curiosity and their own instinctual need to migrate.  However, they live at a very slow pace, and take tens of thousands of years to fully develop a newly claimed star system.  Existing with the technological aid of the T'zeche, however, they do not advance scientific ideas of their own, and instead slowly spread throughout their local Galactic arm by utilizing technology that is, in essence, not their own.
    • 410 million years ago
      • A final faction of the T'zeche remain in the Milky Way.  Confined to a cluster of stars, this faction rarely travels beyond their holdings, and in fact over time slowly loses the ability to travel between their own stars.
      • The Tsubar'ey discover the Earth.  Observing life in the oceans, they detect possibilities with the sea scorpions, and future intelligence evolution.  Deciding to experiment, they transplant a large amount of bio-matter to a separate star system.  Terraforming a planet there, they establish this Terran biosphere in an experiment  to see if intelligence will arise.  A Tsubar'ey colony will establish itself here, to ward over the experiment.  This type of experiment will be repeated several times throughout the Tsubar'ey holdings .
    • 398 million years ago:  With the T'zeche becoming less and less prevalent, including the dispersal of their own progenitors, the Tsubar'ey slowly take over their former holdings.  Where the T'zeche once reigned, the Tsubar'ey now slowly and ponderously move, pedantically going about their own business.
    • 390 million years ago:  Isolated on their planet, the final civilization of T'zeche falls extinct, having long since lost all but the most essential of technologies.  Surrounding this world are the Tsubar'ey, patiently watching over the final remnants of those who brought them into existence.  As if providing a bedside vigil for a dying parent, the Tsubar'ey keep these non-technical T'zeche safe from natural disasters, allowing them to exist on their world in peace until natural cultural and biological senescence finally sees them to their end.
  • Tsubar'ey First Galactic Civilization (390 to 363 million years ago)
    • 390 million years ago:  With the extinction of the final T'zeche population center in the Milky Way, the Tsubar'ey consolidate themselves and found what will be known as the First Galactic Civilization.  However, they are still highly dependent on the now ancient T'zeche technology, which they can replicate, but which they have never been able to improve upon.
    • 375 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey come to encompass nearly a full quarter of the Milky Way.  While separated by each other via vast distances, they maintain contact through light speed communications and a sense of patience bolstered by a lifespan of thousands of years.
    • 370 million years ago:  Some of the earliest ancestors of land vertebrates evolve on Earth.  While still wholly aquatic, these early tetrapods had developed the limbs needed for future, terrestrial forms.
    • 364 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey begin to lose control of their borrowed technology.  Without new innovations, their progress is slowly outstripping what the technology is capable of.  As a result, they begin gathering in their home system, abandoning their Galactic holdings.
    • 363 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey, confronted by failing technology and an apparent inability to correct it, have reached a cultural consensus and decided to migrate.  In their distant past, when they were confined to their own world, the response to environmental pressures had always been to mass migrate.  Such journeys would be a culling of sorts for the species, and force adaptation for survival.  They have decided to take this approach now, and so depart the Galaxy en masse.  Their goal is the Andromeda Galaxy, and along the way they hope to force within themselves the ability to create and innovate, to break the last barriers between their static past, and the provolution that the ancient T'zeche had hoped they would achieve.  With their departure from the Galaxy, the interstellar spaces are barren of intelligence.
  • Archaic Galactic Epoch (363 to 160 million years ago)
    • 330 million years ago:  Amniotes, whose eggs can survive in dry environments, evolve on Earth during this period.  While forests have slowly been colonizing the terrestrial landscape, this evolutionary innovation allows animal life to finally follow those forests well away from sources of water.
    • 251.4 million years ago:  The Permian-Triassic extinction event occurs on Earth.  This has been the most severe mass extinction in Earth's history, with 96% of all marine and 70% of all terrestrial species dying out.
    • 230 million years ago:  Dinosaurs evolve on Earth, separating from their archosaur ancestors.  They will remain relatively rare until the Late Triassic, when environmental changes and other pressures will allow them to greatly diversify, taking over ecological niches from others forms of life which had fallen to extinction.
    • 167 million years ago:  The earliest mammals evolve on Earth.
  • Tsubar'ey Second Galactic Civilization (160 to 53 million years ago)
    • 160 million years ago:  After a long absence, a large population of Tsubar'ey arrive back in the Milky Way, having just returned from the Andromeda Galaxy, where they had established a new civilization millions of years earlier.  They arrive and establish a home system near the Galactic Core, thus establishing the earliest beginning s of what will be known as the Second Tsubar'ey Galactic Civilization.  They return with new technologies and new vitality, a species and a culture whose maturity has finally caught up with their longevity.  In short order they will come to control the Core and Galactic arm regions, and will utilize the Central Black Hole as an energy source.
    • 150 million years ago:  The earliest birds evolve on Earth.
    • 144 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey begin to factionalize as many different groups begin to follow many different courses of research and exploration.  Some groups become fairly insular, concentrating on psychological studies.  Others spread across the Galaxy, seeking life, or establishing it in formerly lifeless systems.  But always, all factions retain contact with one another, adding their separately gained knowledge into a single, cumulative pool.  A very few factions would not be able to withstand the pressures of isolation, however, eventually becoming atrophied, even extinct.
    • 123 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey begin to develop a system of portals, very similar to those utilized by the ancient Angelics.  The network will slowly grow to encompass the Milky Way, its globular clusters, and the attending satellite galaxies.  Once finalized, this network will bring a new unification to the Tsubar'ey, and will renew their attempts to gather knowledge about the universe.
    • 85 million years ago:  The earliest primates evolve in North America, on Earth.  While still small and very shrew-like in appearance, these humble creatures would eventually give rise to Humans.
    • 67.5 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey have been revisiting the worlds that they had once studied during their First Civilization.  Arriving at Earth, they discover that life has blossomed, and that entirely new forms have evolved, far from predicted lines.  One such form is the sapient Quenosi.  However, it is recognized that the species is reclusive and insular, and will unlikely survive the rigors of evolution.  It is decided to transport a population of these creatures, along with a large sample of their native biosphere, to a terraformed world, where they might be guided into a more successful path.
    • 53.2 million years ago:  A new type of portal network is opened b y the Tsubar'ey.  Meant to parallel the existing one, this system links many points over much shorter distances.  It is designed to delve into a different layer of Planck-space, making the shorter journeys much more energy efficient.  Unwittingly, the Tsubar'ey have developed a system which accesses those "between" regions that the Angelics had once inhabited, and where the Others still dwell in their exile, long since driven into a timeless rage of psychosis.  It will not take long for the Others to begin to make their presence felt as they attempt to escape their prison by assimilating the minds of those who travel the portals.
    • 53 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey release a technological plague on the Galaxy, designed to eliminate those individuals in real space who have become assimilated by the Others, as well as to completely destroy the portal system that allows the Others to access regular space.  The Tsubar'ey themselves, falling back into long dormant instinct, fall together and begin a new migration out of the Milky Way.  Their Plague will take millions of years to spread throughout the Galaxy, and in the meantime, in order to preserve themselves, they will head to the Triangulum Galaxy, to establish a new civilization, and to bide their time until they deem it safe to return.
  • Galactic Plague (53 to 13 million years ago)
    • 53 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey Plague is released.  These are semi-sapient, self-replicating bio-machines which are programmed to search out life forms assimilated by the Others, as well as to completely deconstruct - down the the molecular level - the secondary system of portals.  Not wishing to infest the Planck-space crossed by their primary portal network, the Tsubar'ey shut them down completely.  While they can be reactivated, it would take a very concerted effort to do so.
    • 32 million years ago:  The Plague has completed its task.  After a certain period of no contact with any Other individuals, a Plague element will go inactive.  By this point, all the Plague elements have indeed gone inactive, and a signal is sent to the Tsubar'ey, announcing that the Milky Way is once again fit for them to inhabit.
    • 24 million years ago:  The oldest known catarrhine (a group encompassing Old World primates, monkeys, great apes, and Humans) lives on Earth.  The species, Kamoyapithecus, lives in the northern Kenyan rift valley, a rich tropical paradise at the time.
  • Tsubar'ey Third Galactic Civilization (13 million years ago to the Present Year)
    • The Consolidation Age (13 to 8 million years ago)
      • 13 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey return to the Milky Way, having come from the Triangulum Galaxy after receiving an "all clear" message from the last elements of the Plague, no long since inert.  They establish themselves on the Galactic far side, and will eventually expand (at their usual slow and steady rate) to encompass half of the Milky Way.  They no longer utilize any form of portal, and will not even attempt to resurrect their ancient and intact system which had been placed in lockdown.  Thus is founded the Third Galactic Civilization.
      • 10 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey begin to expand outward from their territories, exploring the rest of the Galaxy.  Their goal is reconnaissance, with future expansion to follow.
      • 9 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey have once again been revisiting worlds which they had taken special interests in in the past.  One of these is the Earth, which they again rediscover, and again are surprised to see how life has evolved and changed.  Once more they decide to take a sample of the biosphere for experimentation on a terraformed world, and they transplant a section of the Mediterranean ecology.  Among the animals moved are representatives of the species Oreopithecus.  In time, this species will give rise to the sapient Khai.
    • The Establishment Age (8 to 3.64 million years ago)
      • 8 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey begin to establish themselves throughout the remainder of the Galaxy.  Worlds are colonized, which then serve as capitals, after a sense, of large regions of space.  in this manner, the Tsubar'ey will come to completely dominate the Galaxy, the first species to have done so since the Angelics.
      • 7 million years ago:  On Earth, the species Sahelanthropus evolves, the earliest known Hominine.
      • 4.01 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey settle on a Brammian world in what will come to be known as the AX Microscopii system.  From here they will oversee the Orion Spur; this local political arrangement will come to be known as the Orion Corpus.
      • 3.64 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey Third Galactic Civilization and all of its widespread subsidiaries establish regular lines of communication, effectively consolidating all their holdings into a single polity.  While two-way communication may reach to 80,000 years, this is of little importance to the Tsubar'ey, who are infinitely patient, and who have life spans stretching towards 10,000 years.
    • The Galactic Communion Age (3.64 million years ago to the Present Year)
      • The Intermediate Period (3.64 to 1.33 million years ago)
        • 2.4 million years ago:  On Earth, the first species of the genus Homo evolves.  Called Homo habilis, this is the earliest direct ancestor of modern Humans.
        • 2.0 million years ago:  The Tsubar'ey discover a methanogenic world with a rich biosphere.  Among the fauna there, they discover a form which shows strong tendencies towards pre-sapience.  The Tsubar'ey begin work on provolving this species, which will become known as the Aagüla.
      • The ArcBuilder Period (1.33 million to 122,450 years ago)
        • 1.33 million years ago:  A sapient species originating on 37 Geminorum, known now only as the ArcBuilders, begins their first steps into interstellar space.  This is the first interstellar species to arise in this region during the Galactic Communion Age, and the Tsubar'ey are content to allow them exploration at their own pace.  There will eventually be contact between the two species, but the hive-minded ArcBuilders will find the immense Jovian creatures incomprehensible, and the Tsubar'ey will find the ArcBuilders and their motivations rather enigmatic.
        • 1.01 million years ago:  The ArcBuilders discover an amazingly intact Angelic colonial world in orbit of a red dwarf star.  Included here is a database of knowledge, largely intact, preserved by the metastable conditions on the planet and in the system.  From this database they will discover the means of constructing their ArcWays.  These ArcWays will differ slightly from those of the Angelics, however, but it will be enough to keep the Others from escaping.  However, the database was compiled before the advent of the Others, and so the ArcBuilders remain ignorant of the danger inherent in their system.
        • 780,000 years ago:  The ArcBuilders have largely colonized the Orion Spur via their ArcWays.  The Tsubar'ey have removed themselves from the path of the ArcBuilders, wanting nothing to do with the ArcWays or their dangers.
        • 500,000 years ago:  Archaic Homo sapiens evolve on Earth.  While they are represented by a variety of closely related instances of Homo, there is no single species present and may have been the result of evolutionary adaptations, which finally resulted in modern Humans.
        • 200,000 years ago:  The earliest members of Homo sapiens sapiens, modern Humans, evolve.
        • 130,000 years ago:  The beginning of the Eemian, an interglacial period on Earth.  This period is marked by large temperature variations between different latitudes, but the over all global temperature is quite warm, with subtropical temperatures as far north as the British Isles.
        • 125,000 years ago
          • The Eemian period on Earth reaches its warmest peak.
          • The ArcBuilders establish a colony on Earth.  While the climate is enjoyable to them, they have by now become spread quite thin.  Indeed, Earth is one of their last colonies, and is itself sparsely populated.
        • 123,000 years ago:  The Others have found a way to expand into the Planck-space utilized by the ArcWay network.  As such, they have slowly begun to assimilate ArcBuilder individuals.  Due to the hive-minded nature of the species, this is accomplished quickly and easily.
        • 122,450 years ago:  The Tsubar'ey, seeing that the entire ArcBuilder species is about to be assimilated, move in to stop the spread of the Others.  They shutdown the ArcWays, and within a year they manage to completely eradicate the ArcBuilder civilization.  Those few which remain are too few in number to maintain their communal population, and they quickly fall extinct.  The shutting down of the ArcWays involves an energy restriction for each Node, which is located within the outer layers of each parent star.  This in turn causes a decrease in solar output.  While self correcting on the scale of a few tens of thousands of years, these fluctuations can cause major climatic trouble.  On Earth, it causes global cooling, which will eventually lead into the expansion of the last Ice Age.
      • The Local Senescence (122,450 years ago to 18,400 BCE)
        • 114,000 BCE:  Earth's Eemian period comes to an end, and the previous Ice Age begins.
        • 20,000 BCE:  The Ice Age reaches its maximum extent.
      • The Sivata Unification Period (18,400 BCE to 14,912 BCE)
        • 18,400 BCE:  The sapient species called the Sivata discover an ArcWay on their world, set in the middle of an intact ArcBuilder colony.  They quickly learn how to utilize the ArcWay, and though they have only begun to develop interplanetary travel, they are now an interstellar species.
        • 15,800 BCE:  The Sivata have colonized nearly 25% of the ArcWay network, though they have explored a far greater portion.
        • 15,500 BCE:   The Sivata colonize the Earth via the ArcWay.  Have developed interplanetary travel by this point, the Sivata arrive on both the Earth and via the GateWay, setting up an terrestrial colony and off-world outposts.
        • 15,300 BCE:  The Sivata begin to interact with a population of Humans, local to the ArcWay location.  Before long, these Humans will learn technological capabilities, and will work with the Sivata, even moving through the Solar System with them.  In short order, future generations of these Humans will begin to travel through the ArcWay, colonizing various worlds.  It is the beginning of a new Human culture, one fostered by the Sivata, but also allowed to develop independent of Sivata morals and ideals.  In time it will be known as the Lost Civilization.
        • 15,075 VCE:  Members of the Lost Civilization begin travel through the ArcWays.  Already fully integrated into the technological savvy of the Sivata, these people move through the ArcWays to explore, and to establish colonies.
        • 15,160 BCE:  The Others begin to reach out from Planck-space once again, slowly and carefully putting their grip on the Sivata, and even some Humans.  Mindful this time of the Tsubar'ey and their ability to respond swiftly and terribly to their presence, this time their movements are carefully planned, though no less malicious.
        • 14,912 BCE:  The Tsubar'ey, having become aware of the Others, move in to shutdown the ArcWays once more.  Those Sivata who are unaffected begin to hunt down their assimilated fellows.  by the time this action is completed, many worlds are in ruins from fighting, and have been isolated from one another by the once more inactive network.  The Tsubar'ey attempt to aid the Sivata survivors, but are shocked to see them commit a mass suicide.  In response, the Tsubar'ey withdraw, vowing to never again interfere with the ArcWay or those who might choose to utilize it.  Left behind by this decision are the many Human worlds, isolated and suffering from the loss of support from their technological benefactors.
      • The Local Classical Period (14,912 BCE to 6600 BCE)
        • 12,500 BCE:  After a long, slow, and relatively steady decline of technology and the ability to repair it, the Lost Civilization becomes confined to the Earth as the last of the functional Sivata spacecraft fall into permanent disrepair.  With the unreliability of even atmospheric craft becoming a major problem, the  Lost Civilization confines itself to a single region, where they begin to adopt a careful existence.  Routine helps maintain fragile educational systems, and trade is initiated with surrounding  peoples to aid in food gathering.
        • 12,000 BCE
          • The last Ice Age begins to draw to a close.  Climate fluctuations accompany this change in environment, and the Earth's biosphere is thrown into chaos.
          • By this point, the Lost Civilization has degraded into a highly ritualistic, decadent culture, dependent more on its trade partners than any  domestic labor.
        • 11,500 BCE:  Faced by extreme  decadence, major environmental changes, and internal revolt, the Lost Civilization collapses.  The survivors will be assimilated into local populations.
        • 10,000 BCE:  The earliest known examples of agriculture by Humans on earth (disregarding the Lost Civilization) occurs in the Middle East.  This revolution, eventually replicated many times over the globe, will allow Human populations to become sedentary, to develop small villages, and will eventually lead to the rise of ancient civilizations.
        • 9800 BCE:  The Aagüla have moved into interstellar space, and begin a program of colonizing all red dwarf systems within 20 light years of their sun.  During the course of this, they will encounter the Tsubar'ey.  The highly ritualistic Aagüla regard the Tsubar'ey as gods, a notion reinforced when the Tsubar'ey claim to have created them.  A Tsubar'ey-worshipping religion will swiftly develop.
        • 9500 BCE:  The Neolithic on Earth begins, centered in the Middle East.  Farming communities are becoming common, and some of the earliest true cities are developing, such as the Levant's Jericho.
        • 7600 BCE:  The Satlek, an ammoniagenic species discovered by the Aagüla, are given interstellar spaceflight by that species.  The two races form a binding partnership which will last millennia.
      • The Local Restriction Period (6600 BCE to 1300 BCE)
        • 5000 BCE:  A small atheistic group makes certain pieces of information known to the greater bulk of Aagüla society, showing that the Tsubar'ey are not gods.  A major ontological crisis ensues, and the result is a "holy war", perhaps best characterized as a war of revenge, lead against the Tsubar'ey.  This is the beginning of the Local War, and it will be fought terrorist style against the superior Tsubar'ey, though far more directly against the allies of the Orion Corpus.  Among the combatants are the Satlek, who support the Aagüla in their fight.
        • 4800 BCE:  The Tsubar'ey finally end the Local War, conducting a swift and decisive assault on the Aagüla and their allies.  Their punishment is to be confined to their home systems, where they can do no further harm to the infant interstellar community.
        • 3500 BCE:  The Aagüla are allowed to move back out into interstellar space.  Their main goal is to regain control over their former holdings.  They will become a very reclusive species, never forgiving the Tsubar'ey, and holding those who work with them in contempt.  Their polity, unnamed by themselves, will come to be called the Red Dwarf Empire by Humans,  whom the Aagüla will also regard with distaste.
        • 3300 BCE:  The rough beginning of Earth's Bronze Age.  While the invention of bronze occurs in many different places and at many different times throughout the world, this is the generalized and accepted starting date for this period in history.
        • 2100 BCE:  The Satlek return to interstellar space, and begin reconstructing their own interstellar polity, which will slowly come to encompass many systems within 30 light years of their own sun.
      • The Local Resurgence Period (1300 BCE to 10,101 CE)
        • The Early Human Global Period (1300 BCE to 1500 CE)
        • The Late Human Global Period (1500 CE to 2010 CE)
        • The Expansionist Period (2011 CE to 2300 CE)
          • 2011 CE:  A multinational announcement for the need of Humanity to explore and colonize the Solar System is made.  While rivals, the space faring nations of the United States, Russia, China, and India nevertheless come together in agreement on this matter.  It is generally seen as the beginning of a new era for space exploration, and is regarded as the beginning of the Expansionist Period.
          • 2020 CE
            • Severe weather disruptions, ranging from flash floods to seasonal droughts, become more and more prevalent as the Earth warms.
            • World population reaches approximately 7.6 billion people.
          • 2023 CE:  A semi-complete catalogue of planetary systems within 40 light years of Sol is completed, including several candidates of habitable worlds.
          • 2040 CE:  The Arctic regions have become ice free during the summer.  While this increases international trade by providing a quick and easy shortcut from the West to the East, it also has severe ramifications to the planet's climate.
          • 2053 CE:  The first launches of robotic interstellar probes.  Capable of traveling up to 0.2c, these missions will begin adding to the compendium of extrasolar planetary systems within fifty years, and will continue to return results for another fifty.
          • 2074 CE:  China establishes the first permanent colony on the Moon.  It is one outpost, which will soon be followed by several others.
          • 2080 CE:  Rising sea levels from the melting ice caps and vanishing alpine glaciers begin to flood populated coastal areas around the world.  In the less developed nations, disease increases and food shortages become common.
          • 2100 CE:  Climatic and environmental conditions are literally on the edge as many ecosystems are strained to the point of being unable to deal with further major environmental changes.  Increased drought levels around the world lead to a proliferation of "dust bowl" conditions.
          • 2176 CE:  War erupts in the Middle East, fought by the local nations over scarce resources and territory.  The matter quickly escalates to neighboring regions, disrupting the spread of resources around the world.  Eventually, a world war status is reached.
          • 2182 CE:  A nuclear exchange in the Middle East, with isolated weapons being used as far east as eastern China, and as far west as Central Europe.  The exchange decimates the Middle East, effectively ending the global war, save for some isolated skirmishes in far regions for the next few weeks.  However, the far more grave result is the collapse of the global ecosystem, as the already strained environment buckles under the adverse effects.  Many believe that a climatic red line has been crossed, and future events will bear this out.
          • 2192 CE:  A collapse of Antarctic ice shelves heralds the beginning of a global meltdown.  Coastal regions will be decimated, causing huge death tolls, unchecked disease, and mass migration of many populations.
          • 2210 CE:  The first permanent colonies on Mars are established.  Utilizing the Moon as a stepping stone, the movement to the planets has slowly but surely begun.
          • 2234 CE:  The first orbital habitat, christened Caprion, is largely constructed in a wide Earth orbit.  This is the first of many such habitats proposed, and it will serve as the anchor point for a future space elevator.  As the planetary climate continues to collapse into near chaos, plans are being made for sizeable chunks of the Human population to abandon the Earth.
          • 2247 CE:  The first semi-permanent outpost on Mercury is established.
          • 2259 CE:  The first mineralogical shipments from mercury begin to arrive at Earth.
          • 2261 CE:  Human populations on the surface begin to move into arcologies, great enclosed facilities largely isolated from the extremes of weather.  This is, however, a slow process, and less than 3% or the world's population are able or willing to make such a move.
          • 2273 CE:  The Mercurian solar power collection grid comes online.
          • 2279 CE:  The Moon declares its independence.
          • 2287 CE:  The surface of Mercury is entirely covered by the self-repairing solar collection grid.
        • The Great Hegira (2301 CE to 2550 CE)
          • 2301 CE:  Large amounts of people begin to move into Earth's orbital habitats, collectively called the Halo.  These large movements are considered to be the first true steps in Humanity's fleeing of a chaotic Earth, the beginning of Humanity's Great Hegira.
          • 2325 CE:  Mars declares itself independent.  Originally founded under the auspices of the corporation American Technologies General, the colonies here are now unified under the government of Amtech.  Controlling the movement of materials and resources from the Asteroid Belt, Amtech has become a serious and major player on the interplanetary stage.
          • 2332 CE:  Mercury declares its independence, founding the self-contained polity of the Hermian Republic.
          • 2251 CE:  The first generation equatorial Collider comes online on Mercury.  Encircling the entire planet, precisely on the equator, this system manufactures antimatter, and becomes the key to Hermes' power as a self determining nation.
          • 2364 CE:  Various stations begin to declare their independence, a situation which leads to a global crisis as suddenly tens of thousands of Earth refugees are denied passage from the surface to new homes in the Halo.
          • 2372 CE:  The Station Wars erupt.  Fighting revolves around the need for people to move into orbit, and the independent stations which want no new residents.  This period of conflict is sporadic, but spurs on the development of various space-based technologies.
          • 2379 CE:  The Station Wars come to an end with the complete destruction of a Station, and the loss of nearly 35,000 people.  The Stations are granted full recognition as independent states, on the condition that they allow refugees from Earth at least temporarily, while new habitats are being constructed beyond the Halo.
          • 2450 CE:  The Earth has only remnant year around ice in Antarctica; the global meltdown has drawn largely to a close, with the surface hot and wracked by major global storms.  Surface conditions are miserable, with some regions excessively dry as well.  The Hegira, disease, death by catastrophe and war, and other factors have reduced the population on planet to 6.3 billion.
          • 2467 CE:  Piracy in the Belt becomes a problem as group of renegades begin to hijack ore ships, selling the material to young habitats or those habitats still under construction.
          • 2481 CE:  Most Belt pirate groups have become unified under the leadership of a man known only as Altair Jones.  Suddenly, the pirates have become a distinct military force, and are a direct competitor to Amtech.
          • 2492 CE:  The Martian War erupts between Amtech and the Belt.  This is Humanity's first interplanetary war, and it showcases some of the most advance technologies yet utilized for spaceships and space-based weaponry.  The War, however, will have massive repercussions throughout the Inner System as resources from the Belt cease their flow to the Stations, the Colonies, and the Earth itself.
          • 2499 CE:  The Martian War comes to an end as the other Inner System governments join the fray, and within a matter of months reduce the Belt forces to pockets of scattered and ineffectual criminals.  The political alignment of the Inner System governments is drastically rewritten, and with all of them possessing their own fleets, conditions are swiftly fallen to attitudes of nationalism, progress, and suspicion of their neighbors.
        • The Commonwealth Period (2551 CE to 2800 CE)
          • 2551 CE:  Brokered by the New church, most Inner System polities come together into an alliance, forming the Inner System Commonwealth.  Only a handful of governments do not join, the majority of these being located beyond the Belt.
          • 2575 CE:  The majority of the Earth's Human population now lives within arcologies.  Series of arcologies, linked by mass transit systems, constitute the old governments.  Open areas are allowed to return to the wild, and the old works of Mankind, with a few exceptions, are left to fall apart under the forces of nature.  The arcologies themselves have become almost completely reliant on resources gathered by off world colonies.
          • 2615 CE:  The second generation Mercurian equatorial collider comes online.  Far more efficient at antimatter production, this system remains online to this day, constantly being upgraded, and able to produce set amounts of antimatter to order.
          • 2672 CE:  A trade war between Amtech and Hermes over power exports erupts.  This is widely seen as the beginning of the fracturing of the always fragile alliance of the Commonwealth.  Repercussions from this battle will resonate on in various forms, sometimes manifesting as shooting wars, most often being acted upon by fiery rhetoric and condemnations.
          • 2794 CE:  The New Church Father Archon is assassinated while en route from Caprion to Mars.  Condemnation and blame flies, with various political factions blaming each other.  A shooting war begins between Amtech and the Moon, precipitating the breakup of the Commonwealth and the Inner System War.
          • 2798 CE:  Amtech invades the Earth, capturing Caprion and taking control of the orbital tower.  however, their siege is disrupted and definitively repelled by hitherto unknown military forces belonging to the New Church, forces which have been quietly building for decades, and which have gathered the latest technologies and employed the most rigorous of training.  In short, the New Church forces are devastating and their usage is complete.  The Church claims the Earth as her own territory, and demands a cessation of all hostile actions against it.  Shortly after, the Church begins repelling all invaders from CisLunar space.
        • The Hegemony Period (2801 CE to 3100 CE)
          • 2801 CE:  The New Church Hegemony is officially founded, with its capitol set  in Caprion.
          • 2841 CE:  The Republic of Hermes joins the Hegemony, and becomes simply the nation of Hermes.
          • 2857 CE:  The last of the Solar System independent nations have been annexed by the New Church Hegemony, effectively unifying the entirety of the Human species under one polity.
          • 2813 CE:  The coldest winter in 300 years in recorded across the northern, and, later, the southern hemispheres of Earth.  It is a trend which will consider, spurred on the by the slowing of the oceanic convection system as fresh water continues to dilutes the oceans.  These trends will slowly continue, bringing the planet closer to the beginning of a new ice age.
          • 2850 CE:  There are only thirteen primary arcologies left on Earth, housing a total population of 1.2 billion people.  There are communities of people scattered across the planet, but these are primarily primitive cultures, established during the past few centuries by various "back to basics" groups that have now gone completely tribal.  Their total worldwide population amounts to approximately 300,000 people.
          • 2879 CE: An outpost is established on Sedna, the furthest point in which there is a permanent Human inhabitation in the Solar System.  Regular travel between colonies extends out as far as Saturn, with the frontier regions being considered those beyond the ringed planet's orbit.
          • 3044 CE:  When activated by an exploratory craft coming to Sol from Tsevorda, the ArcWays and the GateWay are discovered.  This arrival heralds a new beginning in Mankind's understanding of the universe, his history and current place in it, and the possibilities that it holds for him.
          • 3046 CE:  Formal diplomatic ties are initiated with Tsevorda by the Hegemony.  Regular travel between the systems, via the GateWay and ArcWay, are begun.  Later that year, the first teams are sent out to explore the ArcWay Network.
          • 3066 CE:  The Amasha Unity is encountered while exploring the ArcWay network.  Immediately, hostilities erupt between this system and the Hegemony, beginning the Unity War.
          • 3074 CE:  The Unity War is concluded as the Hegemony and its allies make their final assault on the Amasha homeworld.  The Voter Republic's total defeat and their government's replacement by a Hegemony appointed interim government also marks a darker and hidden milestone, the ascension of the new Hegemony Father Archon, Lord Father Luther Potswaine-Harris.  Harris will slowly begin to institute changes and appoint allies to key government positions after succumbing to extreme xenophobia, fueled by his experiences as a soldier during the Unity War, and his own inherent paranoia.
          • 3083 CE:  Harris founds the New Doctrine Party, a political party which is made up of ultra-conservatives, who openly advocate Humanity's place as the dominant species in the Hegemony, and the inherent right of the Earth to make policy for all worlds.  Despite loud vocal criticism of the Party, Harris covertly sees to it that its members will gain key governmental and military positions.
          • 3098 CE:  The assassination of several key Hegemony government officials while touring a new colony made up of various Human, Lost Colony, and alien representatives.  This incident is used by the New Doctrine Party as an excuse to begin crackdowns on non-Humans, and brings the Party to full political power.
        • The Dominion Period (3101 CE to 3180 CE)
          • 3101 CE:  A new government, the New Church Dominion, is declared by the Council of Archons and the New Doctrine Party.  Immediately, a program of placing former Hegemony worlds under the Dominion's thumb is begun.
          • 3116 CE:  The Khai are hunted down, and become the first victims of the Dominion's program of genocide against alien intelligences.
          • 3145 CE:  The T'chebsoni are wiped out by the Dominion, as are a large number of Human residents on the planet..
          • 3165 CE:  The Free Worlds Campaign is begun.  Founded by representatives from Earth, Orra, Tsevorda, and an AI designated CHAN, this group will grow quite large, and will covertly begin a campaign to topple the Dominion.
          • 3172 CE:  The first of many Dominion soft targets are hit by the Free Worlds Campaign.  This is the first step towards their toppling of the Dominion.
          • 3179 CE:  Utilizing the ArcWays as a tool for quick hits and escapes, the Free Worlds Campaign begins to make true military strikes against the Dominion, on the ground and in space.  Many world governments are heartened by this and begin to rise up.
          • 3180 CE:  The Dominion is toppled by a massive military strike, and a small surgical strike on Caprion itself.  Harris himself throws himself out of an airlock rather than to allow himself to be captured.  The Dominion is gone, and the remnants of the Church hierarchy involved with the New Doctrine Party are either arrested, or go into hiding.
        • The Reconstruction (3181 CE to 4210 CE)
          • 3185 CE:  The ArcWays become heavily fortified in many systems, and passage through them is often denied.  It is a time of isolation and nationalism among the worlds of Man, and not since the discovery of the ArcWays to begin with will there have been such a large push to colonize new worlds, all of which are off of the Network.
          • 3190 CE:  As the Solar System becomes a network of fractured polities, with many different ones rising and falling during this period, the arcologies on Earth slowly become emptied.  Only the arcology surrounding the ArcWay, and the one connected to the Caprion orbital tower remain inhabited, and these are constantly vied for by other  governments.  For the Solar System as a whole, it is a period of uncertainty and divisiveness.
          • 3236 CE:  The first of the Kentauric  Emperors seizes power over the government in the Alpha Centauri System.  Thus is founded the Imperial Kentauric Empire, which will swiftly move to consolidate within itself both Alpha Centauri B and Proxima.
          • 3253 CE:  The Kentauric Empire begins a campaign of conquering other systems in the ArcWay network.  This will begin the growth of the Empire, and mark it as perhaps the most influential force on the Local Neighborhood since the Hegemony.
          • 3257 CE:  Facing the threat of a conquering Empire, the many polities of the Solar System come together and found the Solar Coalition.  Initially a method to pool military resources, this will eventually become a true and unifying polity, one that will unify the Solar System.
          • 3340 CE:  The Miogenic Atoll is founded by a colonial group with a distinct interest in cybernetics.  Located at a star in the Periphery, the Miogenics are not connected to the ArcWay network, and thus will remain unmolested by the Kentauric Empire.  They will, however, gain technological advances rather quickly as they allow the first unions between AI's and Humans.
          • 3572 CE:  A Human colony on an ArcWay world is destroyed.  it is eventually learned that the act was performed by the Aagüla, an intelligent species which had colonized a colder world further out in the system.  This marks the beginning of the so-called Aagüla Incursion, in which the Red Dwarf Empire continues to molest colonies in systems that they perceive as their own.  Their tactics never present a unified enemy to fight, and the Aagüla will become the "bogeyman" of the Local Neighborhood.
          • 3588 CE:  The Aagüla begin striking at Human worlds beyond their territory.  This is an impetus for non-aligned worlds to seek membership in the Kentauric Empire, which has become the most influential polity in the Local Neighborhood.
          • 3614 CE:  The Proxima Conflict, an unpretentious name for a major battle between the Kentauric and Red Dwarf Empires.  The Aagüla are beaten back after the arrival of a fleet from the Solar Coalition.  Further response by the Aagüla is cut off after the Tsubar'ey, still an unknown element to Humans, warn the Red Empire from further molesting the development of the Humans.  The Aagüla, remembering their history well, return to their worlds and remain uncommunicative with any Human polity.
        • The Old Neighborhood Period (4211 CE to 6200 CE)
          • 4211 CE:  The Solar Coalition, Tsevorda, and Orra join together in an alliance which forms the League of Worlds, a new interstellar alliance with the goal of uniting Humanity, and withstanding the ever growing Kentauric Empire.
          • 4550 CE:  The ArcWay Network worlds are largely divided between the Kentauric Empire, and the League of Worlds.  The Empire will begin to spread out to non-network systems, establishing new colonies, claiming territory.  Even though interstellar travel will preclude any form of meaningful contact between these systems and the main body of the Empire, the simple prestige is enough to justify their existence.
          • 5000 CE:  The Miogenics have come to control all worlds within 15 light years of their home system.  They remain aloof from the rest of Humanity, and their existence is largely ignored by the Local governments, and considered almost mythical by the average citizen.
          • 5234 CE:  The Kentauric Empire makes official contact with the Red Dwarf Empire.  Feeling that their Tsubar'ey-imposed peace has been violated, the Aagüla respond with hostility, which the Kentauric Empire easily returns, having recognized the species as their old adversary.  For several months, the two sides trade invasions.  It does not take long for the League to become involved as well.
          • 5245 CE:  The Homefront Pact is established between the Kentauric Empire and the League of Worlds.  It's goal is to specifically contain the Aagüla aggression.  Facing the combined Human forces, the Aagüla do indeed back down, and accept an uneasy peace.
          • 5430 CE:  The Oswagii, a sapient species that has dabbled in star travel for several hundred years, makes a First Contact with the Kentauric Empire.
          • 5433 CE:  Several colonial systems belonging to the Oswagii formally band together to form a single polity, in response to Kentauric Empire movements within their systems.  By the end of the year, these alliances will become the Union of Synchronized Systems.
          • 6189 CE:  Understanding that it will become more and more difficult to remain hidden, the Tsubar'ey decide to make contact with both the Kentauric Empire and the League of Worlds.  They utilize an adopted Human colony, the Tartessos'ey, for the task.  While an information exchange is begun between these polities and the Orion Corpus, the Tsubar'ey themselves remain highly reclusive.
        • The Middle Neighborhood Period (6201 CE to 8100 CE)
          • 6200 CE:  The establishment of the Bejart Dynasty in the Kentauric Empire.  This Dynasty heralds a new era of conquest and expansion by the Empire.  And indeed, while they are often adversarial with the League and other polities, to the point of open war, it is during this period that the Empire will spread a unifying set of standards across the Local Neighborhood, standards which remain to this day.
          • 6313 CE:  The Miogenics abandon their interstellar holdings en masse.  While there is some indication that they have left, their absence makes little impact on the Local Neighborhood.
          • 7100 CE:  The League has become the equal to the Kentauric Empire in strength and influence.  As such, the two polities more and more butt heads over network systems.  Eventually, a form of a cold war develops between them.
          • 7315 CE:  The Satlek are contacted by the League.  This initial contact leads to conflict, but a peace is soon established once it becomes clear to the Satlek just how widespread Humans are in the Local Neighborhood.
          • 7331 CE:  A pact is signed between the Human polities and the Satlek, allowing the colonization and usage of worlds within Satlek systems that are not being utilized by that species.
          • 7724 CE:  The League allies itself with the Union of Synchronized Systems.  It is a cooperative agreement that will allow a rich cultural and informational exchange, as well as outposts by each species in each other's territory.
        • The Late Neighborhood Period (8101 CE to 9700 CE)
          • 8101 CE:  The death of the Last Kentauric Emperor brings an end to the Empire itself, and the fracturing of its holdings.  While most systems maintain their independence, many others turn to the League for support.
          • 8107 CE:  The Aagüla begin moving against systems once held by the Kentauric Empire.
          • 8112 CE:  The League of Worlds drives off the Aagüla, with the aid of Tsubar'ey ships.  It is the first example of cooperative efforts between the Corpus and the League, though no repeat event will happen for centuries.
          • 8444 CE:  The Miogenics reappear in the Local Neighborhood, initiating contact with the League.  Their services are offered as technological caretakers, even though they themselves are largely incomprehensible to Humans.  While they have no homeworld in the Local Neighborhood, and seem to appear and disappear at will, they nonetheless give themselves an organizational label.  They will be known as the Garden Oekumene, and they make no attempt to hide their willingness to terraform any world.
          • 8874 CE:  The Red Empire begins a new offensive against the League, heralding in a time period of aggression between the polities.  The Union will also be drawn into the long fray, while the Satlek will remain carefully neutral.
        • The Miogenic Period (9701 CE to 10,101 CE)
          • 9701 CE:  The Tsubar'ey open up complete diplomatic relations with the League.  This level of interaction opens up a new era in understanding of the Galaxy's history, as well as the potential for technological  advancement.
            • The League of Worlds controls the majority of the ArcWay Network, with only a few worlds either independent, or protected.  Travel and exploration off of the Network continues, but at a slow pace due to the time lag involved.
            • The Garden Oekumene continues to work throughout the League and its allies, an almost subliminal presence.  They have created thousands of habitats and have terraformed hundreds of worlds, but their real work is done on the millions of smaller pieces of technology which pervade the League.
            • The Miogenic Atoll has come to fill their entire star cluster, having long ago discovered and activated the old Tsubar'ey portal network.  However, no others are allowed into the network, and the Miogenics are able to activate them only when needed.  Even the Tsubar'ey do not have access.
            • The Red Dwarf Empire remains within their systems, and maintain an adversarial stance in regards to the League and her allies.
            • The Satlek remain confined to their systems as well, neutral and eager to do business with any polity.
            • The Union of Synchronized Systems remains a staunch ally of the League, expanding throughout the Local Neighborhood with Humanity.
            • The Orion Corpus moves throughout the Local neighborhood, interacting with the various polities, but rarely actively interfering with them.