Ibrahimian Empire

The Ibrahimian Empire was one of the larger historical empires in the Tau Kappa Cluster, controlling almost the entire planet of Mesopotato and various planets in modern day Zones 5-6. The empire came into decline around year -1300 with several Raider invasions crippling the fringe planets and eventually collapsed with the destruction of capital planet Mesopotato and formation of planets Jacob and Jordan.

## History

### **Planet's Founding**

The stellar bodies Z5M3MP, Z5M3MM1 and Z5M3MM2, were once one planet named Mesopotato with a moon named Potato. This planet was uninhabited but capable of supporting life on its temperate climate with oceans, deserts, and mountains.

Before Year -2500, a priest from the Kappa Dynasty led a group of freed slaves to find a new world on which to inhabit. The name of this priest was Noab, and he carried on his spaceship seeds of cultivatable plants, males and females of various domesticated creatues, and thousands of colonists.

By year -1800, the state of Noab was an established kingdom on the planet Mesopotato with thriving agriculture. A herdsman named Ibrahim had ammased a flock of over 10000 cattle, sheep, and servants. Night after night he would gaze upon the night sky and wonder of the land from which his ancestors came.

### **Vision of Empire**

One night Ibrahim had a vision upon gazing up at the night sky. He had a revelation to found an empire that would span across the lands of Mesopotato, comprising of people more numerous than the stars in the sky. "One day" Ibrahim remarked, "my seed will spread across the stars, sowing a vast empire."

Ibrahim used his wealth and servants to construct several space rockets. As a payload he attached embryo with his genetic material and colonial supplies. Two hundred rockets were launched to one dozen planets between the years -1750 and -1700, as Kappa Dynasty records in the *No End to War* texts confirm the stellar trajectories.

After Ibrahim's death, which occurred sometime before the Year -1600, the kingdom of Noab had fallen and the planet Mesopotato plunged into civil war between various factions. In Year -1525, Ibrahim's grandson Jacob united the warring factions and founded his own kingdom, named Jacob.

Jacob experienced a golden age of science and discovery, and by Year -1460, Jacob's son, Jacob, succesfully conquered eleven planets in Zones 5 and 6, forming the Ibrahimian Empire.

Jacob's passing was met with strife, as twelve of his sons each took control of a different planet in the empire. Each focused on trying to out compete the other in terms of population, economics, and military capability. Between the years -1450 and -1300, there was increasing incursions by Raiders in Zones 5-6.

### **Fall of Empire**

Slowly the Ibrahimian Empire fell, with each planet falling to the raiders one by one. Instead of coorperating, each planet acted in a paranoid manor and tried different, radical strategies to defend themselves from raids. In year -1300 the capital planet Mesopotao was invaded.

The city of Alexander was burned to the ground in Year -1297. There was a library in that city that contained records from all across the Ibrahimian Empire, and only a few pages and hard drives were preserved. The loss of the rest of the information is what makes the history of this planet and other planets ravaged in the Dynastic Wars difficult to decipher.

The kingdom of Jordan had come to the rescue to the kingdom of Jacob in Year -1296, driving the raiders away from Mesopotato. Since the home planet of Jordon's followers was overrun, there was a tentative deal for them to share the planet of Mesopotato. As the last two kingdoms of the Ibrahimian Empire, they had trouble sharing the limited resources of Mesopotato.

In Year -1211, civil war on Mesopotato had taken the toll of enough civilians for the militaries of both kingdoms to resort to drastic measures. A total war campaign was waged to conquer the continental divide long held at the Stronghold of Arab south of the Jacobian capital city of Jacob. A series of chain reaction nuclear warheads were discretely obtained and sent by the Jordinian malitia towards the Stronghold of Arab. Upon impact, the tectonic plate division known as the Fault of Arab caused the lithosphere of the planet Mesopotato to shatter.

Both the Jacobian and Jordinian militaries were initially unaware of the situation, as a plume of black smoke had reduced all planetary visibility. Both sides retaliated with more nuclear warheads, targeting in particular the weakened Fault of Arab and capital cities near the opposing fault line, known as the Pacificos Rimeros.

The resulting energy from impacts and explosions split the planet of Mesopotato in two, and the moon Potato flew out of orbit. Spies from the Trition Kingdoms were aware of the stolen nuclear warheads and had been monitering their activities. A standby crew was positioned in nearby space. They had preconstructed an early version of a vector stabaliser now known as the Jacobian Matrix, stabalizing the two planetary bodies and saving half the remaining population.

The empire had fallen, and now the remnants of its people struggle to survive on the planets of Jacob and Jordan.