Ols

## **General Facts**

The Ols are a deeply religious race worshiping the Black Hole and Star of the SS 433 system the star being worshiped mostly by the governmental side of their civilization as "the life giver" and the black hole being worshiped by the military side of their civilization as "the destroyer" the Ols actually evolved in the Sombrero Galaxy but lost almost all of their history before 18,000 BCE (due to a catastrophic war with the Varral) which is when they colonized the Silvoif system about 2,000 years after one of its component stars went supernova. The Ols are quite a strange species, they live in gargantuan underground caves on one of the three remaining planets of the Silvoif system which are lit mostly by glowing mushrooms that they brought from their original homeworld, they have very pale skin and mostly wear dark ritualistic looking robes with, gold, silver, blue, purple or green trims, they are fairly tall, taller than most humans at least, they have three legs which have two knees, they have eyes that are out to the side of their heads, like a Hammerhead Shark on Earth

## **Ship Design**

Ols ships are based on the SS 433 black hole which they worship, they are massive black spheres (to resemble the event horizon of a black hole) with very tall and thin white ridges around their equator (to resemble the accretion disc), the ship is powered at the very core by a micro-singularity reactor, Ols ships have two large Mintaka Cannon emitters at the poles of their ships (to resemble the relativistic jets of a black hole) due to the spherical shape of the ships they have the ability to move in any direction as they do not have a "front" they also posses weapons all over their surface meaning they have a full 3D, 360 degree firing arc, they do use fighter craft as well

## **History**

24,900 BCE: A large population of billions of Ols leave the Sombrero Galaxy in a massive fleet of ships headed for the Milky Way

19,000 BCE: The Ols intergalactic fleet arrives in the Milky Way 5,873 years after it left.

18,000 BCE: After a millennium of searching for a new home the Ols settle in the SS 433 system (which they call Silvoif) just 2,000 years after a supernova in the system turned one of the component stars into a black hole.

15,800 BCE: First contact with the Varral.

15,230 BCE: Tensions between the Ols and Varral spark a war.

15,190 BCE: The war between the Ols and Varral results in the Varral accidentally destroying all of the Ols history databases, they sign a peace treaty shortly after.

13,000 BCE: After a long time of seclusion the Ols return, time has made them forget much of their old history and they are now spiritualistic towards the star and black hole of the Silvoif system, worshipping the celestial bodies as their gods.

12,643 BCE: The Ols create the first Quantum Slip-Stream Drive in the Milky Way.

10,000 BCE: The Ols make first contact with the pre-FTL civilizations of the Onias and Vill, they notice that both races are on the verge of annihilating each other due to disputes over the names of, among other things, stars and planets. The Ols intervene and help the Onias and Vill over their petty disputes.

9,800 BCE: The Onias and Vill develop their own Warp Drives and join the Ols among the stars, the Ols offer to guide their people and prevent petty conflicts between them in future.

7,500 BCE: The Onias and Vill request protectorate status from the Ols which they accept.

4,900 BCE: The Ols, Onias and Vill go into a hibernation of sorts as they are in fear of the near myth that is the Varg.

2493 CE: The CVE make first contact with the Ols after stumbling upon them while exploring the Silvoif system, the Ols see the CVEs predicament with the Varg and opt to join their war against the Varg, the Ols also give Mintaka Cannon technology to the CVE.

2494 CE: The Ols introduced the CVE to the Onias and Vil after convincing them to join The Varg War.

2498 CE: The Ols assist in the evacuation of the Vill homeworld of Vantrp during The Battle of Arrarep before the planet is rendered uninhabitable by two Titan Varg Ships.

2500 CE: The Ols are involved in the Varg Navy Distribution Agreement (VNDA) which gives the Ols an 8th of former Varg ships.

2509 CE: The Ols join what will come to be known as The Great Galactic War.

2519 CE: The CVE gifts the Ols the Neutronium Tera-Cannon as a repayment for the Ols giving the CVE the Mintaka Cannon.

2525 CE: The Great Galactic War is over, The Ols provide their assistance in the Slip-Stream Mine cleanup however most of their efforts are targeted towards helping the Onias and Vill.

2567 CE: The Ols join the initiative to form a new Galaxy Spanning trade network, they assist in the construction of the trade hub station in orbit of Sagittarius A\*.

2600 CE: The Ols and the other races of the galaxy finally complete the Second Galaxy Spanning trade network.

2631 CE: Another group of several billion Ols come to the Milky Way from the Sombrero Galaxy, they are welcomed by the races of the Milky Way however are mildly disgusted by the fact that their Milky Way brethren have adopted spiritualism and worship the stellar components of the Silvoif system.

2640 CE: Internal tensions in the Ols between the spiritualistic government and the growing anti-religious group result in the spark of a civil war.

2700 CE: The Ols Civil War draws to an end and Ols space is fractured between the original spiritualistic government and a new atheistic government.

2703 CE: The Ols join Project Solio Caelesti.

2704 CE: Project Solio Caelesti is launched, the Ols contribute 2,250 ships to the 10,000 ship total.

2721 CE: A large space piracy group is founded with their hives popping up in disputed systems along the border of the spiritualistic and atheistic Ols, they exploit the political turmoil between the two.

2740 CE: Project Solio Caelesti is concluded with the intergalactic trans routes and Wormholes connecting the Andromeda Galaxy to the Milky Way.

2868 CE: The Ols give the Kik'larfrae some territory.

2896 CE: The Ols join the Second Great Galactic War
2900 CE: The destruction of Silvoif at the hands of the Silpers effectively kills one of their gods.

2997 CE: With the end if the Second Great Galactic War the fallout from the destruction of so many systems and ships send the Ols into slight dissaray, especially the destruction of Silvoif.

3030 CE: As the Ols try to repair the massive damage done back in the Milky Way they largely ignore the Andromeda Galaxy leading to a large group shifting towards Authoritarianism and provoking a small Civil War.

3094 CE: The Andromeda Ols Authoritarian Push draws to an end with Ols space being fractured into a third piece.

3108 CE: The Ols have a massive economic collapse caused by all their damaged things, the CVE and Figraa prop up the Ols to prevent a runaway collapse of the entire trade network.

4279 CE: The Second major Ols Civil War starts with numerous small governing bodies vying for power due to over a thousand years of gradual destabilization.

4362 CE: The Second major Ols Civil War draws to a close with Ols space fracturing into several more parts turning into a Fuedal territory with bickering Ols nations, powerful houses and even some companies turning into Megacorporations.

4518 CE: So began the long Ols Feudal Age filled with wars and squabbles between all the Ols nations, the Ols golden age had been over for many thousands of years and now began the slow wind down into a total political collapse.

6115 CE: The Ols Feudal Realms finally collapses with each nation basically ceasing to exist as trillions of Ols travel away to live a more prosperous life in other nations.

6117 CE: A large group of Ols set up a mission to travel back to the Ols home galaxy of the Sombrero Galaxy to rejoin their original home and it is finally discovered what the Materialist Ols were running from finding the original Ols have become a great cybernetic hivemind slowly assimilating the other races of the Sombrero Galaxy into their collective mind.

6121 CE: After the Great Ols Mind reverse engineers the Quantum Slip-Stream Drive they launch an invasion on the Milky Way starting the Great Ols Assimilation War.

6468 CE: After over 300 years of war and trillions of purged and assimilated souls the Great Ols Assimilation War comes to an end with the destruction of the Great Ols Mind in a long and bloody crusade through their home territory in the Sombrero Galaxy ending the long history of the Ols.