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Inheritor Era

• "Icarus Age" begins (Human space)
• Second generation colonies launched (Human space)
• Massive construction projects common (Human space)
  • Cherryh station
  • Hephaestus
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• Humans begin forays into jump technology
• Nano-Plague activates
• Collapse of nanite-based technologies (Human space)
• Human societies stabilize, having adapted or failed.
• "Interstellar Church of True Form's Return" founded
• "Icarus Age" ends (Human space)
• "Diamond Dust Age" begins (Human space)
• "Reconstruction period" begins (Human space)
  • Beginnings of human interstellar economy.
  • Initial formation of Merchant Cartels
  • Displacement of Forsaken begins.
• SPEC drive invented (Human space)
• Displacement of Forsaken accelerates.
• "Reconstruction period" ends (Human space)
• "Exploration period" begins (Human space)
• First Contact: Unadorned discover Mishtali (Human space)
• Joint Shaper/Light-Bearer venture discovers ancestors of Dgn and Shmrn in system dubbed "Beckett's Murky Venture".
• Light-Bearers discover Ktah
• Light-Bearers occupy Ktah
• Andolians discover Ktah
• First human interstellar conflict (later dubbed "The Fraternal War") begins
• Hoshino uprising, Light-Bearer presence on Ktah neutralized, nuclear retaliation kills over 1 billion Klk'k.
• Andolians liberate Ktah system human
• "Ktah restoration project" begins
• Andolians reveal Light-Bearers' Space-Born project, muting Light-Bearer support from other factions
• Widespread ramp up of space-based military assets begins (Human space)
• Andolians systematically debilitate Light-Bearer faction, liberating Space-Born and Shmrn. Andolians now responsible for more human deaths than any other group in human history.
• Surviving Light-Bearers turned over to Klk'k, Space-Born, and Shmrn custody.
• Light-Bearer meme-group rendered defunct
• Andolians cede control of several former Light-Bearer colonies to other factions, primarily Shapers as compensation for lost investements.
• Independent Shmrn colonization effort begins.
• "Andolian Protectorate" established as entity in control of Andolian and Klk'k affairs
• Diplomatic talks concerning the formation of "Confederation of Inhabited Worlds" begin
• League of Independent Human Worlds (LIHW) formed
• "Exploration period" ends human
• "Diamond Dust Age" ends (Human space)
• "Confederation Age" begins (Human space)
• "Paranoid Avarice period" begins (Human space)
• Independent human meme-groups aggressively absorbed by larger meme-groups.
• "Confederation of Inhabited Worlds" formed
• Internal conflicts abate. Military buildups continue due to increased assessments of risk from potential alien sapients.

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The History of First Contacts

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