======The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire====== {{ roleplaying:campaign:nfl:decline.gif }} =====Preface===== William S Gibbon is a distinguished historian of Great House Toulard. Born on the planet Toulard itself, he was from his earliest life attracted to the history of the Empire. He was educated at the prestigious University of Toulard and of course majored in the History of the Empire. He currently holds the seat of Emeritus Professor of History and the Chair of the Historian of the University. He was recognised with a Baronetcy by Her Majesty the Empress Matarra in 938 Y.E. for his work on the History of the Empire. He also holds the Degree of Excellence from Great House Toulard. It took him many years to bring together and compose this, the classic chronicle of humanity in space, here presented in its 'brief' form. Scholars agree that while the Complete History of the Decline and Fall of the Human Empire is a more complete and accurate work, its size and style of prose make it inaccessible to all but the most dedicated of historians. This manuscript does not encompass all events that have happened to humans and the Empire in the last two thousand years in their entirety. Gibbon included in his Brief History only those events that had a fundamental effect on shaping the Empire into what it is today. For example, little mention is made of the events of the later Empire - the hostility between Great Houses Linsud and Sablah for example. The Treason of Tycho in 520 Y.E. also is absent. Gibbon felt that they were insignificant events when put side by side with the Pogrom or the Great Civil War. These events are covered comprehensively in the Complete History, and concerned parties are invited to look there. Little reference is made to the histories of the other species with which we share the Galaxy, except where those species influence human history in a significant way. The slorel are only briefly mentioned, even though they affect much of our modern life. It appears that Gibbon, like most of us, knew little of the affairs of the mrashans. This then is the Brief History, as presented to Her Majesty the Empress Matarra seven years ago, in its second edition. This edition corrects some publishing faults and one or two factual errors, particularly in the Timeline section. Annotations are made by myself. I am a historian and the publisher of this Second Edition of the work.
4th December 943 Y.E
Melissa Riordan
Great House
Toulard
-1000 P. E. | Global war on Earth |
998 P. E. | First crude hyperdrives developed |
995 P. E. | Exodus begins |
608 P. E. | Discovery of jump gate on Bonanza. Beginning of Bonanza colony. |
598 P. E. | Bonanza colonists begin investigating jump gate |
522 P. E. | First contact with mrashan race |
518 P. E. | Agreement of alien races to withhold technology from humanity |
456 P. E. | Rainu Fleming acquires warp drive technology from mrashans. Beginning of the First Golden Age of colonisation |
455 P. E. | Khalroth and crelos begin 'punishment' of mrashans |
453 P. E. | Last mrashan FTL-capable ship destroyed. Mrashan homeworld placed under embargo |
299 P. E. | Battle of Bonanza - beginning of the Pogrom |
273 P. E. | Human capital moved to Faraway |
250 P. E. | Pogrom ends. Construction of human battlefleet begins |
226 P. E. | Tal and crelos disagree in council |
225 P. E. | Beginning of open war between tal and crelos |
213 P. E. | Human ambassadors offer alliance to the tal, but are refused |
212 P. E. | War begins to turn against tal. Offer of human alliance accepted. Humans move against the khalroth-crelos hegemony |
209 P. E. | Tal-human alliance defeats khalroth-crelos hegemony. Declaration of the Demarc |
75 P. E. | Vursace Muric comes to power on Midgard |
68 P. E. | Arrival of the mrashans to Midgard |
67 P. E. | Mrashans advise Demarcator of Midgard situation. Governor Muric sacked by Demarcator. Support for Muric grows in the Council. |
65 P. E. | Demarcator rallies a fleet to dispatch to Midgard. Popular uprising in Midgard, supported by mrashans |
64 P. E. | Demarcator assassinated, Civil War begins |
4 P. E. | Pilus Koreg I takes control of Loyalist fleet |
1 P.E. | Final assault against the Rebels at Faraway |
0 Y.E. | Koreg declares end of Demarc, founds New Empire of Humanity. Rebuilding begins |
10 Y.E. | Rebuilding ends. First Rebuilding Day declared |
15 Y.E. | Search for Old Earth begins |
124 Y.E. | Old Earth found, colonisation begun |
920 Y. E. | Border war with gh'inn |
936 Y. E. | Today |