Timeline

Galactic Timeline
This page is dedicated to detailing the evolution and growth of the Galaxy as a whole. It shows how the Galaxy's civilization has changed overtime.

Galactic Prehistory
16bya 

The Universe comes into existence from the Big Bang.

10bya 

The first population of stars is recorded.

8bya 

The Milky Way Galaxy is formed.

4.3bya 

The Harbinger Race, which is the first instance of intelligent life is found in archeological studies, appears around this time. The Harbinger Race went extinct from self-inflicted nuclear war after a few thousand years.

2.6bya 

The First Light, the first effective FTL via massless travel is recorded in archeological studies. The Arterus Verge in the Cygnus Arm was home to the civilization that discovered it. They later went extinct for unknown reasons, but it is suspected to be a war with a civilization they discovered, though their historical records are vague.

356,000ya 

The Sorian Empire’s first signs of existence appear in archeological studies. The Sorian Empire expands exponentially over the next thousand years. Their territory expands from a small garden world in the middle of the Perseus Arm to a massive Empire nearly encompassing half the Galaxy. They are widely considered to have been the most successful civilization to ever exist.

112,000ya 

The Sorian Exodus from Galactic history, their influence seems to instantly vanish over the course of five standard years. They mysteriously leave the Milky Way Galaxy on a very clear line, one year they were there, the next year they were gone. Scientists have theorized what happened to them, though no group or study has created a solid theory that is supported by the majority. Most modern civilizations have developed within their borders, creating the widely accepted idea that the Sorian Empire was highly scientifically oriented and had uplifted many younger races and set them on the path of development and advancement.

First Galactic Era
23,000 BCE

The Arkhian species rises on their world of Armlakh as their civilization blooms with discovery at the start of the Arkhian Bronze Age. Citinians enter their Late Neolithic Age as they develop their first efficient agricultural systems and ways of producing polished stone tools and efficient production of architecture. On Earth, the Gravettian Phase of the Upper Paleolithic is categorized as the beginning of tool making. Isonians on Esonai

22,500 BCE 

Arkhians begin to modernize slightly, entering their early Iron Age. Entering the era of Empires, Armlakh's land is split into vast chucnks as massive kingdoms wage war over major water ways. Citinia drifts toward a more settled time as the Citinian people begin to show more tribal minds, forming tight-knit clans around small territories. Some clans show tendencies for war, but are later put down by more diplomatic groups. Protosanäan begins to show up in historical data and archeological sites from this time, though its writing system is very primitive.

22,000 BCE

The Inusuni discover nuclear technology and within fifty-six years, Isunal, the Inusuni homeworld is cast into an age of nuclear holocaust. Nuclear winter destroys the ecosystem and forces the Inusuni into a state of barbarism and fuedal states, their civilization having not been ready for such vast power. On Vex, the Citinian species begins to develop basic bronze weapons and proto-mathematics, moving slowly into their own Bronze Age while the Arkhians pass through their Iron Age, discovering electricity and developing larger city-states.

21,500 BCE

Citinian technology proceeds at an extreme rate as the highly intelligent race discovers the key to iron from bronze as they slowly develop small city-states on Vex which grow to world-spanning Empires with a few hundred years. Their rate of growth is seen as alarming by the Ligidigari, the species that once inhabited Citinia until about 21'',256 BCE. ''

21,256 BCE

Arkhians discover nuclear fission and soon send their first nuclear-powered vehicles into orbit around Armlakh. It is considered the beginning of the "First Space Age" of the modern era. The age begins the growth of a much larger and more diverse Galactic civilization. Though they are the only species at this time to have reached space, they will not be alone for long.

21,212 BCE 

Ligidigari civilization on Citinia crumbles as they are caught in a galaxy-spanning war with an unknown species. Scars of war were originally found on the moon's surface, though no traces of their actual civilization has ever been found beyond the Oräan system. The Citinian culture, at one point, mistook the Ligidigarin vessels in Vexian orbit as gods and goddess and this is reflected by the Sanäan phrase: "ora an ölangawkxtsala" which literally translates to: "God of the Outer Space." On Isunal the Inusuni people slowly begin to redevelop their civilization from the ashes of their ruined world and on Armlakh, the Arkhians slowly begin to discover the benefits of high-speed space travel and found their first permanent colony on their system's outer planet of Almali.

21,000 BCE

The Dathani people discover electricity on their homeworld, Gartog, and within begin to develop a planet-wide communication network. Their intelligence quickly presents itself in their extremely unqiue understanding of electrical patterns. Soon linking all of Gartog under a unified exchange of information and ideas, the Dathani begin to rapidly develop. On Citinia the Citinian people also discover electricity, though their application of it is slower than other races as they attempt to refine its use to a more tuned direction. Within fifty years they discover wireless electrical transmitting and radio waves, linking the nation-states of Vex in an instant exchange of information, data, and ideology. The language of Sanäan becomes a standard trade tongue among Citinians at this time and they become a more unified species.

20,870 BCE

The Citinian people discover nuclear fusion technology before fission. Within ten years, most cities, including underground settlements, are powered by nuclear reactors. The species rapidly progresses to the implementation of nuclear weapons into militaries. The threat of mutual distruction leads to the formation of the Unified Republics of Vex, the first government of the collective Citinian peoples. United under a single banner and led by Senators, the [[Citinians advance at an extreme rate.

20,500 BCE 

The Citinian people discover space travel through fusion-torch technology and land their first colonizing effort on Ilos in 20,495 BCE. Dathani governments unify their people under the Dathani Empire, a governing body dedicated to the spread of Dathani  influence throughout the Galaxy. They soon discover space travel and colonize Gartog's moon: Glukh. The Arkhian Empire discovers Arterus Technology through extensive research and soon colonize their first planet outside of their home system. It is considered the first step towards the spreading of a galactic community.

20,412 BCE

Citinia is founded as the newest colony by the Citinian people. They are astonished by the ruins of the world-city on their homeworld's moon and later declare what was believed to be a military base of galactic importance their new capital. The Senate move their hall to this new Palace and declare the founding of the Citinian Republic to be official. Within five years, the Republic discovers Arterus Technology in the archives of the old military base and attempt to fully integrate this into their exploration vessels. They soon found the newest colony in their growing control on the planet Shikxalkx, named after an ancient Citinian god of fire.

20,000 BCE

The Citinian and Arkhian people make contact and begin forming the structures of a galactic economy and community for both of their governments to coexist. The Citinian Republic ceases control of three new planets and the Arkhian Empire claims as a now staggering eighty-four.

15,651 BCE 

The First Galactic Era comes to a crushing end as the Arkhian Empire loses more than half of its territory to the war with the Corinthini Collective. This is also considered to be the beginning of the Galactic Dark Ages where war and fueding governments dominate. The Corinthini become the largest power in existence and "accept" the Citinian Republic as a client race, against their will. Citinian-Corinthini animosity grows to an inborn trait.

Second Galactic Era
15,650 BCE

The Second Galactic Age Begins.

7155 BCE

Ngoi Kongï is born on Ilos.

Third Galactic Era
5017 BCE

Ngoi Kongï enters war with the Isonian Monarch, the First Republican War begins. On Earth, neolithic cultures were just beginning to develop the wheel in Mesopotamia.

3957 BCE 

Kohn Ȥra is born on Arlëan.

3613 BCE

At the age of 2587 GSYs,  Ngoi Kongï dies of old age. His spot as the Majority Leader of the Citinian Republic is replaced by Kohn Ȥra from the Corthan moon of Arlëan at the age of  252.

139 BCE

Ŗom Käshim is born on Vex.

485 CE

Kohn Ȥra declares war on the Isonian Monarch due to political tension that breaks because of piracy raids on Citinian Naval Vessels and begins the Second Republican War.

493 CE 

Ŗom Käshim of Vex leads the Oräan Rebellion and overthrows the ruling Majority Leader and establishes the new government as the Paramount Leader of the Citinian Empire and soons offers peace terms to the Isonian Monarch to end the eight-year conflict that costs nearly eighteen billion lives.

2528 CE

The Skerge is considered by some, as the "Third Galactic War" though it lasted a mere two GSMs (50 GS Days or 62 Earth Days). Fought between the Terran Colonial Republics and Citinian Empire as allies, and the Isonian Monarch, a belligerent against the two Galactic Superpowers, the war was fought on the planet Makritopo, a human colony invaded by Isonian forces in the third month of the year, causing an uproar as the Queen claimed that the world was rightfully theirs for falling within the border region and being undeclared on a Galactic Scale.

2580 CE 

Modern day. The Current Galactic Calendar is in the year 5550 with the first novel beginning on <042.5550>.