Enginia

Homeworld of the Ingineers. Located in the Engi system in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Hohm historians debate as to whether or not Enginia was the first planet to develop life in the universe, as the first life on Enginia emerged nearly four billion years earlier than any other recorded planet in the Local Group.

Hohm's sister colony, Paradi, was built near the coordinates of Enginia, taking advantage of the previously established Slipway constructed in ancient times by the Coalition.

Enginia was an M-class planet as determined by the Coalition Planetary Classification Schema. It had an equatorial radius of 6,370 km, and a polar radius of 6,352 km, with a mean density of 5513 kg/m3 and an approximate mass of 0.999 M⊕, around 5.9728 × 1024 kg.

Enginia was the singular primary example of a habitable planet, the exact definition of an M-class planet. Planets Earth and Ibad were selected for the Grand Experiment because they so closely resembled Enginia.

The Ingineer species emerged in the grasslands of Poloko, one of Enginia's continents. Several breeds of the Ingineers migrated out of Poloko across a landbridge to the neighboring continent of Loloka, where they spread quickly. Some groups constructed primitive boats, and sailed for the far shore of the continent of Gillarga. For a time, the Ingineers were hunter-gatherers, until civilization finally emerged. The first permanent settlements were built in the Farkio Basin, twin cities Cinstance and Lorgeno. Cinstance was constructed on the western edge of the basin, while Lorgeno was built south-southwest inside the basin proper. They enjoyed mutual trade of goods, exchanging crops and livestock with one another for hundreds of years as they grew. Eventually, Lorgeno covered most of the interior of the basin, from the populace center to the fields of grain and grasses, while Cinstance grew around, forming a protective wall. The two cities began to disagree on certain policies, and war eventually erupted, leading to the destruction of both cities and the near-complete loss of the proto-Farkionese cultural legacy. Around the time that Cinstance and Lorgeno fell, settlements and civilizations popped up across Loloka. Some of these were of particular interest; namely the city-state of Athonis, positioned on the eastern coast of Loloka. Athoniese voyagers would take to the sea and cross the Pondola Ocean, creating settlements on Gillarga and interacting with the tribes that had arrived thousands of years before. The city of Volhallo was a major power at the time, controlling much of and located in the middle of the Asgor Mountains on the Loloka-Asgoni Plate line, north-west of the Farkio Basin. Volhallo was the central trade hub for hundreds of small tribes in the frigid tundra to either side of the ridge. These tribes were collectively known as the Ygg, and the valiant warriors of Volhallo who protected the city and officiated trade were the Midgarde. Volhallo and Athonis would be the oldest early civilizations to last to the industrial revolution. Trade between Athonis and its colonies on Gillarga, mainly Olempys, Delfi, Rohm and Spirto. These four cities would have seats in the Athonian Senate, representing the populations of their respective territories. This system worked for a very long time, nearly a thousand years, until Spirto and Rohm revolted and seized the southwest coastline of Gillarga, and began conquering inwards towards the unmapped wilds of Gillarga, forming the Spirton Empire under the rule of Kisar Iilus, the first emperor of Spirton.

This crisis soon arrived on the doorstep of the Jillan Sultanate, across the Great Desert of Gillarga. When the Spirton troops arrived on the edge of the lush forests of west Gillarga, they were faced with steep mountains, and across them, the Great Desert. At the foot of the mountains, there was a Jillan Farij, an outpost to watch the mountains for the forest people to protect Jillan across the sands. Among the Spirton troops were spies from Olempys, and in the ensuing battle, the Jillan Farij Guards slaughtered three hundred and seventy-two of the four hundred and twelve Spirtons, the survivors of which fled back across the mountains, through the forests, and back to Spirto. The Olempyian spies reported to their city, and a delegation of peace was sent with seventy souls from Olempys, Delfi, and Athonis. The delegation would arrive at the Jillan Farij and initiate peace talks, following the Jillan customs and learning their language. Eventually, Jillan would ally with Athonis and its daughters, providing them with advanced Jillan technology and knowledge. Soon, the war between Spirton and Athonis ended, with Rohm begrudgingly returning under Athonian rule. Spirton would go on to construct a new city in the forest, and relocate their capitol from Spirto to the new city of Gaea. Spirton would become a massive empire in time, but for the next hundred years, they would bide their time. Meanwhile, Athonis and Jillan would continue trade, with tensions growing, as Jillan refused to allow any Athonians to cross the Great Desert to Jillan proper. All communication between Athonis and Jillan would be cut off after a time, allowing Spirto to expand north without Athonis's knowledge.

At the same time as the Spirton Empire was founded, city-states would grow and wage war with one another across Loloka and Poloko. The ruins of Cinstance and Lorgeno would be uncovered by a group of exiles from Volhallo, and be rebuilt under their old names over a few hundred years. These two cities were intricately linked, and in time they would become one city; Lorgence. Lorgence would become the largest city on the planet, and would remain that way into the future. In Jillan, preparation were made by the Sultan to push east, and soon enough Jillan was able to find a chain of uninhabited islands off Gillarga's eastern coast, which they settled as Jikar. The collective knowledge of Jillan would be moved to Jikar, and the islands would be shut off from outside contact for one hundred years, by decree of the sitting Sultan as a measure to preserve the knowledge of Jillan during the civil unrest brewing in Jillan. When the time arrived, a boat was sent from Jillan to Jikar, and upon arrival, wonderous technologies had been created. The industrial revolution was in full swing on Jikar, and would quickly spread to Jillan. As Spirton once again went to war against Athonis, Jillan would spread north and south with the aid of new technologies like gunpowder and rifles, rounding the Great Desert and controlling nearly an eighth of the landmass of Enginia. Jillan ships would arrive on the west coast of Loloka, contacting Lorgence. Lorgence would become a melting pot of Jillan and Lolokan cultures, and electricity would be invented there. Soon enough, the petty feud between Athonis and Spirton would be ended by a pincer of Jillan forces from Gillarga and Lorgence troops from the west. Athonis and Spirton would be absorbed into the global civilization, and time would continue to pass.

The final barrier for world unification would be Valhallo, who had developed their own technologies and cut off the Nurso region of Loloka from the advance of the Engin, the alliance between Jillan, Lorgence, Athonis, Spirton, and the rest of the world. With tensions rising, Valhallo sucessfully detonated three nuclear devices near major Engin cities, with the fourth intended for Lorgence failing to detonate. The cities of Athonis, Jillan, and Delfi were reduced to rubble, and fear of further attacks from either side began a cold war that lasted nearly forty years. The conflict was concluded when Valhallo surrendered under the mounting pressure of the Engin's nuclear arsenal and growing military strength. The surrender led to a period of peace, and the advent of widespread fission power pushed Engin into the future.

The Engin government would be refined over the decades, with control being shifted from a sultan to a representative democracy, with progress being slow and methodical. The rapid advancement of technology coming out of Jikar slowed with the production of computing devices and the shrinking of transistors reaching the furthest bounds. Around this time, the population of the planet exploded, and the need for more space rose.