The Great Separation

“This tale is the most recorded throughout what has been discovered of the Provenance. Found on a multitude of home worlds and others, the story rarely varies, allowing a near complete telling of the apocalyptic event. The Provenance had spread across most, if not all, of the galaxy as their technology developed. As they began reaching new heights, some became scared of the consequences for such advancement. Those scared took drastic action, beginning riots and protests, but their group was small compared to the vast majority of the galaxy eager for new developments. The group became more desperate, and what occurred next is responsible for the death of the Provenance race. A smaller faction of the renegades, claiming to know the consequences of the technology, became terrorists of an incomprehensible degree. These terrorists sabotaged every bit of space and space faring technology the Provenance had in one fell swoop, so great was their misguided fear. All the advanced technology of the Provenance was lost, and the race fell quickly to ruin and death, not knowing how to survive without what they had grown so dependent on. As a side effect of the event, all ships in transit lost power, and those that had been in orbit came crashing down, streaks of fire in the skies of the planets that were now the Provenance’s prisons. Their people were greatly disturbed, and riots and panic broke out when the scale and extent of the destruction was revealed. The ending of the technology temporarily spared communications, lasting just long enough to spread the story of what had occurred and allow for a few desperate attempts at getting home. The wars that followed quickened the demise of the Provenance, and now none remain.”

The Provenance had spread out across most, if not all, of the galaxy as their technology developed. No records have been found of true contact between the Provenance and other sentient, developed races, so archaeologists assume that the Provenance were the most forward of their time. From what legends can be found, the Provenance’s technology was reaching new heights, when some became scared of the consequences for such advancement. Those that were scared took drastic action, riots and protests began, but the group that realized the danger was small compared to those excited for the new developments, so the projects continued on. What occurred next is what caused the death of the Provenance race. A small group of renegades, those who claimed to know of the consequences of the new technology about to be put into play, became terrorists of the highest degree. They sabotaged every bit of space and spacefaring technology they could, so great was their fear of what would happen. A great blast echoed out across the galaxy, frying every advanced computing system and most electrical equipment, and the technology that the Provenance were so proud of was completely destroyed.

As a side effect of the blast, all the ships lost power, those that had been in orbit came crashing down, streaks of fire in the skies of the planets that were now the Provenance’s prisons. Their people were greatly disturbed; riots and panic broke out as they came to realize the extent of what had been done. The story is only told once, in a ruined Provenance ship on an unmarked world, as when space faring technology was destroyed, so was interplanetary communications, and none knew what had occurred. The populations died out rather quickly, riots and wars took the lives of more than a few, and their inability to live without technology took out the rest. A few scattered groups survived, some sleeper ships, a few cryostasis labs. Some believe that all races in the galaxy are descendants of the adapted Provenance.

Sleeper ships- deepspace exploration ships, people were put into advanced cryosleep, in an attempt to reach far out stars, and possibly other galaxies. How the ships are controlled is unknown, they appear only rarely out in the far reaches, and none has ever been recovered.

Numahs and Loreans are the closest known races to the Provenance.