Lambda Timeline

This part of the timeline occurs after the New Colonial Age, beginning in earth year 2925. They will be labeled according to the Demetian year count. Each year on Demet is 393 days long.

## D 01.00: Dawn of Intelligence

In year 0 humans arrived from Kyandor at Demet. They were met with a powerful geomagnetic field that threw their navigation systems off, causing them to crash.

Their communications equipment was destroyed. No help ever came for the surviving 4 of the 10 original crew, as it was assumed that if they heard absolutely no word from them, the system was too dangerous for colonization.

Using the artificial gestation systems aboard the ship, they created 4 races, the Ald first, who failed. The Prifeli second, who were rejected. The Une third, the true success. The Saraph fourth, the ones who killed the humans aboard the ship.

## D 01.30: Settlements Start

During this period, the races have reached their second generation. They breed as fast as possible to expand their population.

The villages get larger and larger until, in about 100 years, the population reached the thousands. They continue to grow and grow for several centuries to build their numbers. Most history during this time was expanding of territories.

## D 05.34: Expansion Conflicts

The Une begin moving on the surrounding land, violently taking territory and slaughtering Ald by the hundreds. During this time, the Ald created legends of Une as demons.

The Une kept up their rigorous expansionism into the west for several decades until 0576, when they reached their magic rich inner territories. This forced their expansion to the east. It took them many centuries as the ALTUS AI was delaying them as long as possible with equipment failure and other means.

It was during this time that several thousand Ald wanted to avoid the war altogether and fled north, into the ever dark polar region of Demet. They would not be seen again for thousands of years.

## D 07.23: Humans' Second Visit

Humankind decides to take a second pass at colonizing the solar system, mistakenly landing on what would become Altus due to the two worlds almost sharing an orbit.

They discovered the Elania during the dawn of their bronze age, swiftly leaving after losing several people to hunters in the nearby city. The objects the humans left behind advanced their technology, so as to put them in the information age by the next 23 centuries.

## D 08.50: Aldi Religious Persecution

Escapees from prison camps in the Unem Territories no longer believed in the Ald gods, and refused to do so when pushed to.

This caused mass exile into the wastelands of war between the two territories and across the strait between the southern tip of Aldmis and the large continent to the south of it. Large camps of the exiled refugees banded together in a loose alliance of tribes.

## D 11.08: Birth of NAR

The influence of the Ald outcast coalition, the name they called themselves, reached the Unem borders. First fearing the Une as the demons they were during the Expansion Conflicts, quickly learned their true nature as a reclusive and advanced species similar to their own.

With assistance, they allowed them to more quickly adapt to the radiation filled wasteland that was the strip of desert between the tropical Holy Provinces and the subarctic Unem Territories.

The sparse band of tribes united into a new and powerful nation, finally able to contact the Ald who had been living far to the south. They called themselves the New Ald Republic.

## D 11.37: Demetian Trade Alliance

Nearly 30 years after the NAR was assisted by the Unem, a neutral city was established on the east coast of Aldmis. People of any species were allowed to travel to it, be employed and purchase property. It was intended as a trade area, to allow the passage of technology into the Ald parts of the continent, and knowledge of magic into the Unem parts.

The magic was lost on the Unem however, and wouldn't truly understand, or be able to study it efficiently for over 2 millennia.

## D 13.87: The Veta Purge

On the other side of the world, away from the relative peace of the western hemisphere, the east was enduring its own share of issues.

In the 87th year of the 13th century, there was a genetic split among the Saraph. Several families lost their urge to expand and conquer, instead suggesting withdrawal from the lands they had dominated. This included one of the 8 "Pure" Families. This started a crusade of expulsion, killing off the mutated families.

The gene was too powerful however, and was spreading faster than it could be removed. All were rounded up and forcefully moved to the near uninhabitable southern tip of the continent. They ended up forming their own country devoted to behaving in contrast to how they were treated by the Saraph in their home lands.

Most was stagnant after this, if you don't count below the 50th parallel.

The various Prifeli tribes in the dense jungles and arid regions of the southern hemisphere began organizing into several bronze age empires decades before the Veta Purge. Nearly the entire continent was united under the rule of one woman at the start of the 14th century, and her lineage would continue for generations to come.

## D 17.08: Saraph in Aldmis

The Saraph who lost their homes due to mutation, now known as Vetasaraph, expanded to every piece of land in the ocean on the western side of Aldmis. While exploring further east, they landed in the Holy Province. The ald revered them as divine, but not as high as their gods, affectionately referred to as 'Dark Skinned angels, armed with offensive magics the likes of which none but the Qinia have ever seen'.

They traded with them for magic, breeding with them and integrating their magic into the bloodline of the Vetasaraph.

Ald had the technology to make gunpowder firearms, but never did. They were seen as evil by the high priestess of the time, Awena Deuxe.

## D 20.82: Saraph-Unem Contact

The Unem expansion finally reaches through the island chains of the ocean between Aldmis and the unnamed continent the Saraph called home, the original breed adopting the name Mortesaraph. The Saraph and Unem mostly never spoke, as they never got along at all.

The Vetaseraph however, were happy to begin communications with new people.

## D 25.99: Aldi Civil War

The parts of the Holy Province that were disconnected from the capital by way of dense jungles and swamps decided, in D 25.99, that they would break away from the rest of the Holy Province. The northern half was almost entirely opposed to the split. The vote to succeed the southern half was made by all cities inside that half, 76 percent voted for it.

This led to a short and furious conflict which ended in the near total destruction of the half of the first ald city, Azera's Town, and the northern half surrendered. North took the name 'True Holy Province'.

The lower half, as of now, is simply known as the South True Holy Province.

## D 31.09: Altus Information Age

The 9th year of the 31st century was a landmark day in the history of the Elania. This was essentially their internet launching as a satellite network launched on a large scale. A true high technological achievement for them. It combined an archive of information, forums, and file sharing with augmented reality.

## D 31.72: Demet-Altus Contact

The closest ever approach since the collective went online caused the Une to be able to access it, making contact and appearing as glitched human-esque avatars in the Collective.

Knowledge and technology was traded for safety and land on the surface of their respective planets, which was later needed. The relations were warm, causing an alliance to form quickly.

## D 31.99: Mortu-Unem War

In D 31.99, first hostile contact between Une and Saraph was made, the Mortesaraph seeing them as merely an obstacle in land they wished to occupy. The Une lost half of their land in the following few years.

The war was mostly quiet after that. Most cities on the islands of the central ocean were dominated and destroyed fairly quickly, leaving only their mainland territories. It was during this time that the V-Res of the UDTN was formed as a backup plan in case of total annihilation.

The war truly culminated in 32.07 (Story Aldmis: Oppressed World ) when the MorteSaraph attacked relentlessly, cutting the numbers of every other race down to a fraction. The three other races were poorly defended for an attack of that scale.

Several thousand space/air fighters destroyed the dense capitals, ending hundreds of thousands of lives. It was during this time that the Elania came to rescue as many survivors as possible, evacuating them to Altus.

After almost a year of rebuilding and preparation on Altus, the counteroffensive was launched. When they arrived with their fleet, it was discovered that what remained of the Unem on Demet had been fighting back the entire time. A resistance made possible by the copy of the ATLAS AI assigned to the colony ship 32 centuries ago.

The AI had shut down every assault vehicle owned by the saraph. As their technology was a near copy of human technology, the AI had access to the system controls of every piece of technology they owned. This wasn't to stop them, but to give the Unem a fighting chance.

It had its own agenda. It spoke out against the destruction of the Ald and Prifeli to run a test on their interactions over long periods of time. Having one race crippled or wiped out was not a factor it wanted, which the Une were grateful for.

In the end, the MorteSaraph lost. They were faced with a choice. Either end their quests for genocide, or submit to it themselves.

To this day, the MorteSaraph are angry people. They have cool diplomatic relations with the others, and tend to keep to themselves. Whoever didn't have the tendency for hatred, such as Saijun Yukii who later became the leader of the reformed Eastern Union, were welcomed into the new peaceful society of Demet and Altus.

## D 32.49: Lambdan Colonialism

Without war or rigorous expansionism draining Unem resources, the newly united races of the star system pooled to explore it. The last moon of Icari, Hi, was the first destination for the Une.

The plants, or plant analogs, discovered here on the humid desert moon were highly dependent on the large shallow oceans, being grouped tightly around them in dense jungles. When intelligent life touched them, it took their form as a third intelligent species in the system.

They think more slowly, due to their "nervous systems" not being designed for Demetian activities. If given time they can become competent, but not ever truly mastering any skill. They are better suited as companions than as workers.

The Elania colonized the northern regions on the second moon of Lambda Prime, known to them as Eufor. Demetians called it "Euphoria" because its atmosphere caused ecstasy in Demetian occupants after mere hours, and killed in days.

Chambers filled with air from the moon are popular relaxation spots, and the Elania profit greatly from exporting these gasses.

## D 32.99: Cross-Colonization

The first Unem cities began popping up on the equatorial regions of Altus, and the first Elania cities began appearing in the polar regions of Demet. The Ald who fled from the war almost 3000 years prior put up resistance however.

They had been transformed into sickly white people, their hair as white as the Saraph and black eyes larger than any of the other races. They called themselves Ald no longer, for they were the Fretyan. Frostborn.

The areas of the desolate ice they called home overlapped with the space given to the Elania by the other races. The Elania peacefully retreated and allowed them to inhabit the areas that they already live in.