General Timeline

The breadth of human history is, as of now, lost to the whole of Mankind and its creations. What lays beyond the veil of the Dusk of Gold is unknowable, the disappearance of the Golden Men and the fall of the Kryssiad have left historical knowledge in shambles or entirely erased. Knowledge of what came before the Kryssiad is obfuscated by time, digital and physical decay, and the work of those who wish to bury the truth. Even definitive knowledge of the Homeworld is shrouded in hotly contested mystery. It is the mission of the Archivists, then, to shed light on our shadowed past, and though the task is monolithic, it is our work that shall uncover the past to learn the truth of Humanity's origins, to understand the failings there for a better future.

To this day, Chronate operatives scour known space for knowledge lost or abandoned as means to piece together a past forgotten, often in the face mystery, obfuscation, and death in their quests for knowledge. Conclaves scattered throughout the Sphere's stars help in tandem with the Archive to parse the seemingly insurmountable data, treaties, and oral histories to paint a cohesive and collective knowledge of ourselves.

Starting from the Dusk of Gold to the present, the collected findings below are what the Archivists have managed to uncover. Still, events continue to be discovered, analyzed, checked, and added to existing records within the Archive; it maybe even that the Duskveil will be lifted in time. For now, however, the long history of Post-Kryssiad Humanity is all we have.

Below is the culminated work of the combined Archivists.

## Dusk of Gold

Ten millennia ago, the Golden Men disappeared and the Kryssiad came to an end.

The Silence did not come immediately, despite what some historical societies teach, but was staved off for nearly eight centuries. The various clone slave-castes of the Golden Men that remained after their masters’ disappearance attempted to bring some kind of order to the madness that followed, but no Kryssiad clone slave-caste was as successful as the Sjittite Empire. As the Golden Men’s Kryssiad Sjit Navy, the Sjittite’s long reign over the Sphere was ensured by the vessels they were genetically engineered to sail and born to command. Though the etymology behind their name is lost to time, their hold over more than two-hundred fully-colonized star systems etched their names into the annals of history.

It is unknown how many Sjittite clans existed during this time, but their considerable reach and timely responses to uprisings or unrest suggests that there is a considerable number of them, each with powerful ships and weapons that leave vassal states in fearful obedience. While non-Sjittite peoples do have the technology to reach star systems within a limited range, the reach that the Sjittite clans possessed was unmatched.

Not long after the establishment of a cooperative strategic alliance between the Sjittite clans was struck, an emperor (Ancient Sjittite: *Ram seen*) was throned from Clan Arseen (*Arseen ser*). For 1.433 years, the Sjittite Ram seen  ruled over the Sphere with a continuously hardened grip over their territory. Their tyranny, couched in the necessity of interstellar cooperation and security, gave the Sjittites all the power they desired for nearly 1.500 years.

* **Dusk of Gold** — The Golden Men disappear en masse without explanation.

### The First Empire

* **Age of Caelea**, **000** – **2.346 AKn** — Without lord or leader, the slave races of the Golden Men dissolve into confused chaos. Interstellar communications, without the Gilded Ones to release ansible genelocks, degenerates into system-running starships and the Kryssiad’s Sjit Navy disseminating the information by starcloud-dropped datapackage or even word of mouth. Those Kryssiad holdings beyond the Fade are lost to the inhabitants of the Sphere in their entirety. Interstellar trade networks dependent on ansible relays break down and the economic security of interdependent systems are tossed into upheaval. The Age of Caelea begins.
* **084** – **353 AKn** — Following the Dusk of Gold, the cloned Sjit sailors of the Kryssiad Navy scramble to maintain order across the Sphere having lost contact with other naval elements beyond the Fade. Abiding by their command structure, the Sjittites devolve from what was considered a well-regimented navy into sailing tribesmen under a strict caste system. Fleet lords (*Ser ’as-kaar*) convene with each other regularly as to decide the fate of the Sphere and to share information with one another.
* **The First Sjittite Empire**, **353.15.38** — Siin-sjarkuur Arseen is named *Ram seen*, Emperor of the Sphere and All Those Within It, beginning the 1.433 year reign of the Sjittite Empire.

### Developments

* The Golden Men disappear en masse, sending the Kryssiad into blind chaos
* The Sjittite Empire is born in the wake of the Golden Men’s passing, first by conquering clans and then through a rigidly structured monarchy

## 1.000 AKn

The Sjittite Empire entered the 2nd Millennium faltering under the weight of its responsibilities and the steady decline or outright loss of integral Kryssiad technologies that made their clan-fleets as effective as they were at the start of their reign.

Though they had not lost a single battle against a singular or even several rebellions until the turn of the new millennium, without access to the extensive ansible network and the upheaval of society during the first 353 years after the Golden Men's disappearance laying waste to or neglecting caeletime infrastructure, it became increasingly difficult to locate berthing suitable for their aging vessels. Maintenance and ingenuity had bought the Sjit tribes 1.222 years, but their powerful starships were on the decline. They required drydock and the skilled labor to conduct complex repairs, refueling, and rearming, as well as the industry required to facilitate such an undertaking. It was unfortunate, then, that these services were rare within reach of one another and unheard of together.

To make matters worse, news of the clans' apparent technological infirmity only served to exacerbate growing resentment toward the Sjittites in general, and the *Ram seen* in specific.

### The Sjittite Collapse

* **The Great Unveiling**, **1.786.05.22** — As rebellion after rebllion arose across the Sphere, it became abundantly clear that the Sjittites were not as all-powerful as their subjects believed. They were far from the seemingly infinite numbers they helped foster through their Far Jump technology. As news spread via courier, more and more angry peoples rose up against their masters and struck back, swarming the Sjittite fleets until there were only 317 remaining.
* **Scattering of the Clans**, **1.797.13.40** — After the total collapse of their empire, the Sjittites the remaining fleets were hunted down and reduced to less than one-hundred. Those worlds conquered by total invasion were taken as permanent homeworlds for a majority of the Sjittie peoples while some fled into the Dark, such as Fleet Nassam. With their reign decisively ended, the Worldbound Sjittites were allowed to live and prosper under the condition that there would never again be a *Raam seen* ruling over the Sphere.

### Silence Reigns

The 852 years that followed the fall of The Sjittite Empire are ultimately unknown. Historical records from this period, gathered through Archivist connections to various nations and peoples, are a mixture of historical investigation, self-reporting, speculation, and possibly even total fabrication. Details presented are those that are largely highly educated guesses. That said, concrete dates are difficult to come by in the extreme.

* **The Silence**, **1.797** – **2.346 AKn** — Without access to reliable, gene-unlocked interstellar communications, and the Sjittites having lost much in the way of krystech ships equipped with Gilded Technology ansibles, the nations of the Sphere lost the ability to speak between each other. Many nations that were before the Silence began were gone or outright replaced by the time Settaari scientists were able to reconnect the Sphere via a reliable, stable ansible network.
* **1.800 AKn** — Aurikkoma Klytie zou Gaarane rediscovers the Gaarane condensate, allowing for more stable and far-faster interstellar travel for the first time since the Dusk of Gold.

### Developments

* The Sjittite Empire collapses under a fragile façade of power, brought down by simultaneous rebellions throughout the Sphere
* The Silence begins as the Sjittite clans are scattered and access to krystech superluminal communications is lost, lasting for 549 years

## 2.000 AKn

When the Veil of Silence was lifted, it was the Afa-Settaari who lit the signal first. If they had survived the Long Quiet, there was precedent that other peoples had as well. Scientists maintained the ansible network as other such facilities were brought online to further connect the Impyrriad's growing interstellar holdings held together up until then by the tireless work of courier vessels and their crews. Hope for external contact faded gradually as the years turned to decades and decades to centuries, the program looking for extra-Impyrriad signals was put into dormancy to service the already existing Afa-Settaari colonies. The Impyrriad's focus had turned to frigewawrd expansion.

Many undertakings were made to dive into the Deep outside of the Altkorr, many notable and far more less so, but all ended in a seemingly new silence. Of the 112 attempts, none managed to retain contact with the Impyrriad for more than two-hundred years, ending with disappearing ansible signals. Each colonial endeavor was more expensive than the last, so expensive in fact that the Impyrriad eventually forbade further attempts after the loss of Imperial Prince Bevar Thithes zou Yev'kell. Those in power turned away from outward expansion to instead focus on domestic issues caused by the repeated loss of extra-stellar colonization.

The Impyrriad was entirely taken aback when the Busaanids made contact 382 years after the Settaari ansibles began broadcasting their signals, 852 years after The Silence began.

* **Rise of the Klonarchy**, **~2.067 AKn** — The Afa-Settaari Genetic Impyrriad is presumed established.
* **The Second Sjittite Empire**, **~2.129 AKn** — The Busaanid Empire is presumed established.
* **2.267.03.19** — Settaari scientists and artificers, lead by Eyiksis zou Osogyr, are able to bypass the gene-lock on the Bovkaan Ansible Relay Complex on Settaar Prime, allowing other such complexes within the Altkorr to be accessible and solidifing their hold over the Inner Worlds. No Outer-Sphere peoples are known to definitively exist.
* **2.346.03.34** — The Teyko Ipyroria Project colony is established.
* **2.401.01.02** — Imperial Prince Bevar Thithes zou Yev'kell establishes a colony within the Kaiburr System, relocating millions of his subjects in an attempt to overcome the longstanding trend of colonial disappearance largely attributed to the size of a colony's population.
* **2.452.14.35** — The Teyko Ipyroria Project colony goes dark and is presumed lost.
* **2.505.10.40** — The Imperial Yev'kell colony goes dark and is presumed lost.

### The End Of Silence

* **2.649.07.08** — After 852 years, the Silence comes to an end. The Afa-Settaari Impyrriad establishes first contact with the Busaanid Empire, having received silence for almost eighty years.
* **The Lotus Blooms**, **2.655.05.10** — The Empire of Lutaan makes ansible-contact with the Sphere shortly after the Busaanid Empire's initial connection, stating auspicious coincidence for their sudden correspondence.

### Developments

* Both the Afa-Settaari Genetic Impyrriad and the Busaanid Empire were presumed established within the 852 years leading to initial Busaanid contact via ansible network since the start of the Long Quite
* Impyrriad colonies experience concerningly high rate of disappearance, including the Teyko and Yev'kell expeditions

### Period Title

* **3.557.01.40** — The Inaeic Empire makes ansible-contact with the Sphere.
* **3.772.08.37** — The Sun Empire replaces the Lutaan Empire, making ansible-contact with the Sphere.

## 4.000 AKn

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* **4.891.08.04** — The civil war to decide the next ruling dynasty after the fall of the Sun concludes, and the Shaohe Empire is officially established by making ansible-contact with the Sphere.

### Period Title

* **5.000.00.00** — Something happened.
* **5.000.00.00(est)** - Inaeic Empire collapses, Aegymanid empire rises in its place.
* **5.351.04.36** — The Alfssandic Kingdoms makes ansible-contact with the Sphere.
* **5.552.03.11** — The Kingdom of Cambrathir makes ansible-contact with the Sphere.

### Chryss Is Risen

* **5.560.16.22** — The Holy Khaetolic Empire makes ansible-contact with the Sphere.

### Period Title

* **6.000.00.00** — Something happened.
* **6.102.02.40** — The Xiuying Empire replaces the Shaohe Empire, making ansible-contact with the Sphere.

### Fall of the Busaanid Empire

* **6.257.12.34** — Busaanid Empire collapses into pieces of itself, losing ansible-contact with the Sphere.

### The Third Sjittite Empire

* **6.268.16.27** — The Empire of Gaennaan makes ansible-contact with the Sphere.
* **6.844.09.14** — The Qigaang Empire replaces the Xiuying Empire, making ansible-contact with the Sphere.

### Period Title

* **7.000.00.00** — Something happened.
* **7.000.00.00(est)** - Aegymanid Empire collapses in on itself following internal strife, beginning the Inaeic Dark Age.
* **7.309.12.01** — The Tang Empire replaces the Qigaang Empire, making ansible-contact with the Sphere.

### Period Title

* **8.000.00.00** — Something happened.
* **8.000.00.00(est)** - Lathyrene Potentate rises to promenance, ending the Inaeic Dark Age.
* **8.002.01.32** — The Changyu Empire replaces the Tang Empire, making ansible-contact with the Sphere.
* **8.006.07.27** — The Empire of Thuul makes ansible-contact with the Sphere.

### Period Title

* **9.121.09.32** — The Tū'reine Republic makes ansible-contact with the Sphere.

### Rise of a Republic

* **9.612.00.00** - The Wars of Ruin begin within the fallen Lathyrene Potentate.
* **9,621.00.00** - The Inaean Republic is formally established.
* **9,833.00.00** - The Wars of Ruin come to a close, leading to the formal ratification of the Inaean Republic by all of it member states.

### The Republic Ascended

* **9.891.02.14** — The Sovraadt Uraanz makes ansible-contact with the Sphere.

### Period Title

* **10.000.00.00** — Something happened.
* **10.000.04.04** — The civil war to decide the next ruling dynasty after the fall of the Changyu concludes, and the Empire of Zhuyaai is officially established by making ansible-contact with the Sphere.
* **10.457 AKn** — Current year.