Planet History

## Method of Timekeeping

Sweeps last exactly 2 years and each sweep is divided by Quarters (lasting 6 months)

 Thaw
 Storm
 Icelock

## Feudal Era

*Lasted ~12 million sweeps (?) since planet’s founding*

Al2rnia used to be under a feudal system before the Board came into power. Instead of five fuschia signclades, there were six, the extra one being the Selach signclade. Each signclade had its own territory, called principalities, to rule over. Fuschias used to be revered as goddesses during this time due to their effective near-immortality.

The Ziggurat was less stringent about their reproductive practices, which resulted in fuschia wigglers being thrown into the ocean basically whenever instead of at a fixed rate. Therefore, there were multiple fuschias per signclade, all of them with warring interests —  within their signclade or outside of it. Descendants tried to kill their ancestors to gain power over their principalities, some tried to gain control of the copepod to use industrially, and the fuschias in charge warred against each other for power and territory. They treaty-formed, treaty-broke, made peace, made war... It was a turbulent era as a whole.

The Arhinn and Malcos lines were in charge of protecting the copepod against other fuschias, a more militant approach to copepod care compared to the animal husbandry of modern Alt2rnia.

A schism between the Selachs and the Arhinns caused the latter to completely wipe out the former. The Arhinn signclade approached this mass extinction by first killing off Selach-aligned violets, killing the Selach fuschias while they were struggling to maintain power without their violets, and then colluding with the Ziggurat to wipe their genetic code from the gene records. As these events took place, they plunged the planet into chaos. Non-genocidal fuschias started siding with the Spearmaiden to prevent the Arhinns from wiping out the Selachs, and lots of people died on every side of the conflict, including fuschias. This is when warmbloods found out that fuschias were not indestructible, and can be killed.

It was just a bad time for everybody, so after the Selachs were wiped out, the fuschias retreated to their hatchgrounds to lay low for 1000 sweeps while the warmbloods fought amongst each other.

## Pre-Board Era

*Lasted ~1000 sweeps*

In the absence of fuchsias, the chapter of Al2rnia’s history between the Feudal Era and the Board Era was a devastatingly violent time. After several violet signclades had slowly recovered their populations from the violence that ended the feudal era, they were immediately wiped out by purples (though their genetic records remained in the Ziggurat.) It wasn’t unheard of for purples on ships to stake out violet hatchgrounds on gun-bearing ships.

Fuchsias were absent from their hatchgrounds for 1,000 sweeps, long enough for anyone who remembered the feudal era to die. During this time, they bided their time thousands of meters underwater. Since they’d taken industry knowledge to the bottom of the sea with them, large amounts of necessary knowledge were altogether lost: crop yields were devastated, fossil fuel extraction and refinement was near-totally arrested.

In this particularly harsh and dangerous 1,000 sweeps, purplebloods were uniquely equipped to survive and gain power. They organized themselves under several competing parochial lines of governance, which evolved into the present day clown cults.

## Board Era

*Sweep 0 - Sweep 15213*

The fuchsias resurfaced twelve thousand sweeps before the present day, slaughtering a few dozen particularly violent or powerful purples and anyone else who had taken hold of excessive power in their absence, reestablishing fuchsia control under the veneer of corporate democracy. This veneer is the Board, which has persisted ever since. The existence of the Board, and the economic interdependence between fuchsia corporate umbrellas, serves also to discourage them from excessively violent infighting.

### Population Pacification Partnerships

These were partnerships between the Ziggurat and the Board made to eliminate lineages from the genetic pool that were too powerful, such as ones known for their mind control powers or particularly strong auras. Cerulean psychic powers are wiped out altogether, whereas purples retain only the lowest-level powers. An effort was also made to eliminate warmblood psionics, which succeeded for lines that had visible powers or greater control over them. That said, ceruleans and purples did the work of carefully keeping track of their lineages and their notable achievements for centuries on end, whereas warmblood bloodlines were monitored far less closely and their powers were less visible. This mean warmbloods with powerful – if frequently uncontrollable – powers are not unheard of.

### Chiono Era

*Sweep ~12000 - Sweep ~14000*

The Era when Chiono was the Malcos on the Board of Fuschia.

#### Chiono-Era Reforms

Chiono Malcos' ethos was 'when possible, warmbloods should self-manage, as they have insights that would escape those of different walks of life'. She believed in education as a democratizing force, which led to the digitization of the schoolfeeds. Additionally, she implemented democratizing reforms up and down the hemostrata, including giving the Latoil line the Provost title, and enabling teal mobility in such a way that later enabled the rise of the Optimizer.

#### Arhinn-Malcos Consolidation

The other notable element of Chiono Malcos's two thousand sweeps on the Board is her matespritship with Untovy Arhinn. Closely collaborating on multiple business fronts, they also agreed on a blanket moratorium on replacing existing Board members, not even the ones who are going insane from old age. Between the two of them, Untovy and Chiono believed that they could keep their aging, increasingly senile fellow Board members under control. This consolidated all real power as shared between them, safe to see themselves as The Good Ones. They successfully maintained control of the Board and built their girlboss empires together in great harmony – until 16-year-old Eubala Malcos had different ideas.

### Eubala Era

*Sweep ~14000 - Sweep 15213*

The Era when Eubala was the Malcos on the Board of Fuschia.

#### Ziggurat-Board Relations

Until roughly 1000 sweeps before the present day, the Ziggurat and the Board's relationship was largely cordial, and there was room for variability from Spearmaiden to Spearmaiden with regards to data-sharing and collaboration. This changed ten sweeps into Osikis Versii's life. After Alepis Rinari attempted to assume Board power over the Ziggurat by poisoning its water supply, Osikis executed her in front of the rest of the Board. As a result, the Boardroom was moved five hundred meters underwater, and all pretense at cordiality between the Board and the Ziggurat ended for good.