Many hundreds of years ago, two colossal colonization vessels left Earth. Their names were Zenith and Nadir, and their destination the star Aldebaran.
Many hundreds of years ago, two colossal colonization vessels left Earth. Their names were Zenith and Nadir, and their destination the star Aldebaran.
The portals are discovered in systems close to Terra. The First Horizon’s most promising worlds are colonized. The Second Horizon is explored.
The Empire consolidates its power in the First Horizon. The mystics later known as the Symmetry start to colonize the Second Horizon.
The Empire’s stranglehold on the First Horizon is tightened further to suppress rebellious tendencies. The Third Horizon is colonized with the Empire’s blessing.
The First Horizon lays claim to the Second Horizon. War breaks out. TheEmpire’s initial fortunes soon turn.
The 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.
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.
An 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.
Several 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.
The First Horizon’s fleets enter the Third Horizon. The 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.
Faced 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.
After 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.
The Zenith finally arrives at the Dabaran system, but it is already occupied so they choose the Kua system.
The construction of Coriolis
The Consortium begins the construction of Coriolis. Desmond Yriedes becomes the station’s first Governor.
The 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.
The 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.
The Order of the Pariah blocks the portals in their homesystem 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 accept the situation since the Order lifted the blockade.
The 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.
There are riots in the streets, started by unpatriotic groups backed by anti-republican interests. The Guard restores order, but is unable to arrest the real instigators.
The Judicators are formed with the aid of the Zenithian Hegemony, and go to work supported by new legislation against organized crime and anti-patriotic activity. The Popular Assembly removes Jalaman Ho as Governor through a vote of no confidence. Iria Shuliamaran becomes the eighth Governor of Coriolis.
The 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 lawsof the station. Kemal Dargosian becomes the ninth Governor of Coriolis.
The Ghosts from Xene: In CC 60, in the segment of the Traveler, the Emissaries arrive in the Kua system.
Emissary 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 Consortium, the Colonial Agency, and the Foundation organize a rescue mission.
The Taoan Incident: After a mining colony transmits a distress call to Coriolis in the segment of the Gambler in CC 61, a rescue fleet focused on the Ghazali passenger liner and the Legion’s Zafirah destroyer departs the station for the Taoan system.