Zenith and Nadir leave Terra. The First multigenerational colony ships to leave earth.
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History of The New Horizon
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1000 FC
Zenith and Nadir leave Terra
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900 FC
Discovery of the Portals
Population Migration / TravelThe portals are discovered in systems close to Terra. The First Horizon’s most promising worlds are colonized. The Second Horizon is explored.
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600 FC
The Empire Foundation
Political eventThe Empire consolidates its power in the First Horizon. The mystics later known as the Symmetry start to colonize the Second Horizon.
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500 FC
Empire Blesses the Third Horizon
Diplomatic actionThe Empire’s stranglehold on the First Horizon is tightened further to suppress rebellious tendencies. The Third Horizon is colonized with the Empire’s blessing.
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400 FC
The First versus The Second
Military actionThe First Horizon lays claim to the Second Horizon. War breaks out. The Empire’s initial fortunes soon turn.
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350 FC
Anti-Empire Uprising
RevolutionThe war between the First and Second Horizon is costly and bloody, and it also gives hope to anti-imperialist forces in the First Horizon. Massive rebellions erupt, but are soon crushed.
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300 FC
The Rebellious Rise
Diplomatic actionAn organized rebel movement is founded in the First Horizon. The rebels are accused of being the Second Horizon’s lackeys. The Emperor’s loyalists turn to the Dark between the Stars in hopes of reaching a final victory against the Second Horizon. The Empire infiltrates the Third Horizon and the Nazareem’s Sacrifice become important allies in the Emperor’s attempts to conquer the Horizon without bloodshed. The Emperor cannot afford another war, not even against the much weaker Third Horizon
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200 FC
A Third Divided
Political eventSeveral of the old factions in the Third Horizon become suspicious of the actions of the Nazareem, but their infighting prevents them from uniting against the First Horizon’s agents.
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129 FC
Start of the Portal Wars
Military actionThe First Horizon’s fleets enter the Third Horizon. Portal Wars begin. The old factions are primarily fighting the Empire, but also each other in confusing side conflicts. Many portals are damaged by the unchecked use of thermonuclear and antimatter-based weapon systems.
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99 FC
The Long Night
Era beginning/endFaced with the imminent threat of a full-scale invasion by the First Horizon, a plan is set in motion to isolate the Third Horizon. The few portals that link the First and Third Horizon become targets and are destroyed. The Portal Wars end and the Long Night begins; a time of recession, isolation and decay
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98 FC
Fall of the Empire
Disaster / DestructionAfter the enemies’ escape route has been cut off, the last of the imperial fleet is caught in the Odacon system and annihilated in the most devastating battle of the whole war.
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5 FC
The Zenithians
ExpeditionZenith finally arrives at a system with a red star – Dabaran.
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0 FC
Coriolis
FoundingThe Consortium begins the construction of Coriolis Station. Desmond Yriedes becomes the station’s first Governor.
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5 FH
Zenith - Legion War
Military actionThe fleets of the Legion and the Zenithian Hegemony engage in combat in the Hamura System with none of the combatants gaining the upper hand. Tere Mezzina becomes the second Governor of Coriolis.
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7 FH
Legion and Cosortium Pact
Diplomatic actionThe Legion and the Consortium form a defense pact.
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10 FH
Coriolis Station Completed
Construction beginning/endConstruction of the Coriolis station is completed.
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21 FH
Founding of the Council
Diplomatic actionAll other factions are invited to send representatives to the Council of Factions.
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34 FH
Free Trader Treaty
Diplomatic actionThe main trade routes through the Horizon are secured by the Legion. The Governor of Coriolis signs the Free Trader Treaty that gives anyone the right to use the star portals and forbids any one group from seizing control of a portal.
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41 FH
The Order of the Pariah
Diplomatic actionThe Order of the Pariah blocks the portals in their home system Zalos, but after being pressured by the other Council members, they back down and guarantee that the Free Trader Treaty will be respected. Ships can pass through Zalos again, but are heavily escorted and not permitted to dock. Reports slip out of the system about horrible events on Zalos, but the Order has no comment on the matter, as it is an internal affair. The Council has had to to accept the situation since the Order lifted the blockade.
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51 FH
Samaritan Medical Academy
FoundingThe Order of the Pariah opens the Samaritan Medical Academy on Coriolis, as well as launching a poverty relief program and a sanatorium for the hyper sick adjacent to the school.
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60 FH
The Ghosts of Xene
Cultural eventThe ghosts from Xene are discovered, and the Foundation makes the first formal contact with the spectres from the depths of the gas giant. The Governor orders the Guard to perform a series of purges of the Cellar, as it has become a hiding place for slummers and semi-intelligences that refuse to accept the laws of the station. Kemal Dargosian becomes the ninth Governor of Coriolis.
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61 FH
The Emissary
Diplomatic actionEmissary Alam from Xene arrives at Coriolis and is granted observer status on the Council. Contact with the colonies in the Taoan system is lost and the The Consortium, the Colonial Agency, and the Foundation organize a rescue mission.
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