This is the Starfinder universe built off the backbone of Paizo's setting. They laid the groundwork and from there, we explored and expanded upon it by playing multiple different campaigns branching through it, sometimes even crossing paths. New events, cities, adventures, and dangers were created and introduced into the Starfinder Universe as we progressed.
The Gap is a confusing and difficult to research event where history is a blur. No one knows how long it lasted or why it happened, but history in The Gap can only be seen into on average, 300 years in, and even then, what one person may reads happened in a history book may be entirely different then what another reads. It seems it may have lasted multiple millennia, and history can be seen and accurately told on anything Pre-Gap. Whatever may have caused it, this is essentially a fresh start for the Galaxy at large and some people have adjusted to their new reality faster then others.
Triune reveals itself and grants the secret of Drift travel to the universe— particularly the worlds of the Golarion System. Vercite engineers construct the first Drift engine, based on the designs granted by the machine god Triune. The Chaos Wyrm, captained by the android Aleksana Guryari, makes the first known voyage through the Drift, bringing home conclusive proof of travel to a distant star system.
Eox’s Bone Sages launch the Magefire Assault against Absalom Station.
First contact between the Golarion System and the Veskarium, the vesk empire.
The first major hostilities between inhabitants of the Golarion System and the Veskarium. The Veskarium invades the Golarion System, making first landfall on Triaxus and ravaging the mountaintop city of Aledra. Though a multiworld alliance manages to drive off the invaders, the ensuing "Silent War" with the Veskarium costs innumerable lives and prompts the formation of the Absalom Pact.
Absalom Pact signed, binding all worlds in the Golarion System in mutual defense and governance.
An alien pathogen dubbed the Stardust Plague blazes through the Pact Worlds, killing millions.
First contact between the Pact Worlds and the shirren race.
Androids are granted full Pact Worlds citizenship.
Discovery of the Burning Archipelago within the sun.
The kasathan worldship Idari arrives in Pact Worlds space. The Idari arrives and takes up orbit around Akiton, preparing to colonize it. A diplomatic delegation from the Pact Council—backed by the entire fleet of the Pact Worlds—convinces the kasathas otherwise, and the Idari instead takes up a solar orbit just past Verces and petitions to become a Pact World.
First contact with the Azlanti Star Empire.
Castrovel’s lashuntas and formians sign a landmark peace deal, ending millennia of conflict.
The Swarm attacks both the Pact Worlds and the Veskarium, prompting an alliance. After more than 200 years of conflict, the Silent War between the Pact Worlds and the Veskarium is interrupted when the Swarm invades both systems. In order to survive, the two governments agree to end their hostilities, working together to successfully rebuff the Swarm’s mindless destruction.
This is the general starting point of all our campaigns, though occasionally a later date will be chosen.
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