Modern Era

The refers to the period of cosmic history beginning roughly with the Unification of Aeldrum at the end of the Interregnum, and ending with the Leandran War and start of the Post-Leandran Era.
== History ==
The 500-or-so years of the modern era saw technology in the cosmos advance from the steam engines and crude gunpowder weapons of the late Interregnum to sophisticated aetheric computers and interplanetary dreadnoughts. Deep aetheric exploration turned a cosmos shrouded in mystery into one well mapped and with comparatively few blank edges, with many pocket dimensions that had lain abandoned or forgotten since the Mage Imperium being rediscovered and reintegrated into the fold. Whereas pocket dimensions in the Interregnum were commonly split between multiple nations with only occasional multi-planetary empires, the modern era saw these various polities gradually coalesce (whether through true coalition or through conquest/colonization) into only a handful of empires and major cosmic powers.
Category:Historical Eras