Timeline
Below follows a simplified history of known spacefaring species.
710: Alba is abandoned, the colony ships that escape form the two fleets that depart Alba in opposite directions.
710-1602: The Foremarch, a semi-legendary period of O-Kimmigani history. Several worlds are partially settled in the course of this long sublight journey, but all were ultimately deemed unfit for a majority of the species to permanently inhabit for various reasons. Some modern species of Kimmigan originate from the crude genetic manipulation performed to acclimatize the settlers during this period.
1026: The roving O-Kimmigan fleet encounters the Civago homeworld of Civa, marking the first incident of first contact between two sophont species in galactic history. They depart on friendly terms with several new ships and Civago to crew them.
1507: Civa is unified under the Council of Nine.
1604: The O-Kimmigani encounter a paradisiacal garden-world requiring no genetic-level acclimatization and declare it New Alba. The fleet is dismantled and the new homeworld settled.
1605-1643: Rapid technological advancements are made by the O-Kimmigani as the result of the abundance of resources allow them to commit experiments long dreamed of during the Foremarch. Underspace travel and QEC (quantum entanglement communications) are two key inventions of this era.
1644: The central government of New Alba declares itself the Alganna Eternity with the mission of becoming a star-spanning empire, for the survival of not simply the Kimmigan species but civilization itself.
1692: Civa is reached by the Eternity. There is a minutes-long skirmish in orbit, but the Civago world-government quickly sees the merits of joining those they had been friendly to in the past. The Council of Nine is integrated into the Eternity as a Great House.
1750: TODO marsupials go here
1761: Tradespeech is developed linguistically as an interspecies lingua franca. It proliferates throughout Eternity space and eventually becomes the first language for most Eternity citizens.
1805: Fen's Council of Clans is established, marking the formation of unified Ruzkahni government.
1825: The Eternity discovers the Zylaari homeworld of Dhaarakt. The Zylaari are slowly lifted out of their bronze age and join the Eternity, but not as a Great House due to their lack of a unified planetary leadership to represent them. Zylaari are distributed across the Great Houses gradually over the next several decades.
1901: Directorate expedition to Ora and Jesoba.
1947: A long-dead and outdated deep space Eternity scout probe drifts into Earth's orbit and crashes near Roswell, New Mexico. Although the technology aboard is obsolete by Eternity standards, and heavily damaged during atmospheric entry and the subequent crash, this violently revolutionizes human technological development over the next century.
1985: Directorate expedition settles Ora and Jesoba. The Jesobans are unintentionally infected by the deadly Porthovirus, but quick action on the part of Jesoban and Directorate scientists prevent it from becoming a true pandemic. This event is today viewed as a triumph of interspecies cooperation and scientific advancement.
1991: The leader of one of the three main human powers dies. In fear of collapsing as a power, party leadership manages to revive him, secretly using alien-derived technology to do so.
2000: The three main human powers are in a semi-hostile space race, and all operate permanent settlements on their moon.
2015: The three main human powers all operate permanent settlements on Mars.
2040: Cellenic scientists build their first FTL craft, returning to Fen successfully. The first human extrasolar colony ship arrives at Proxima Centauri.
2041: The Modern Directorate is formed.
2052: Directorate begins exploration initiatives and sends their new wave of FTL craft into the cosmos.
2054: Directorate Encounters human colony in Proxima Centauri.
2054 :The United Families are first-contacted, capture Directorate vehicles and citizens and begin the process of reverse engineering their FTL.
2055: The alien technology used to keep the leader of one of Earth's power blocs finally fails, and that bloc instantly collapses. The Sol system is immediately plunged into many disparate and devastating proxy wars as the remaining two powers jostle for control. The UNSAC (United Nations Space Affairs Committee) tries and fails to keep order.
2063: The Directorate encounters a Sol system in chaos. Themselves relatively new to FTL travel, they naively offer aid to all humans who seek to flee to space, whether to join the Directorate or establish colonies of their own. A solid plurality of humans (and the vast majority of those already living off of earth) take the offer and distribute the species throughout the stars, far from the control of the weakened and brain-drained Earth governments.
2065: The Directorate and United Families encounter each other peacefully. They return the vessel and surviving crew.
2088: The United Families successfully reverse-engineer FTL in secret, well ahead of any Directorate desire to share technology.
2131: The Eternity is first officially encountered by the Directorate. The meeting is somewhat contentious but ultimately does not break into open conflict.
2260:
2279: The Free Colonies Revolution, or Scarlet Revolution, is launched by a united front of dissatisfied settlers from the Directorate and Eternity on the borders of both. The League of Free Colonies arises in protest of the poor conditions caused by the standoffish policies of both powers.
2286: current year.
