The Long Night
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-1776: Official start of the Long Night.
-1723: The Droyne of Askoapoy help transplant the human scientists to Gralyn.
Circa -1620: Coventry is established as a prison planet by the Second Imperium.
Circa -1372: Khtearle settled by a refugee noble family from the Daibei sector.
Circa -1320: Use of Coventry for three centuries as a prison planet and a site of numerous cruel and lethal biological experiments on unwilling subjects, ends.
-1118: The First Aslan Border War begins between the Aslan and the Second Imperium.
Circa -1100: The alliance of Reavers in Reavers’ Deep sector collapses.
-1100: An Aslan colony ship mis-jumps into the Zemlya system and crashes.
-1087: Drellesarr colonized by Reaver warlord Blackjack Duquesne as a refuge for his raiders.
Circa -1030: A Reaver warlord, Grand Admiral Izanak, flees to Drexilthar. A minor human race made up of three ethnic groups, the K’tring, the Akakhad and the High Iltharians live on the world. He contacts the early industrial High Iltharian ethnic group and forces them to repair his ships.
Circa -1020: Admiral Izanak leaves Drexilthar after his ships are repaired by the High Iltharians, and vanish into history.
-1019: The Iltharans use their new knowledge gleaned from the Reaver warships to subjugate the people on the Tring and Akakhad Continents.
-1012: First Iltharan spaceship is launched from Drexilthar.
-1010: Pendang is attacked by Khalyasyu' Clan.
-1002 – The first Iltharan starship begins in-system jump trials.
Circa -1000: The Lshana, a minor non-human race of Lhshami, achieve a stable civilization that continues to the present.
-1000: The High Iltharians, using reverse-engineered Reaver technology, have finally united Drexilthar and begun to launch jump-capable starships.
Circa -1000: A human warship from the Reaver state on Drexilthar crashes on Gaajpadje. The crew's descendants form the K'tring human minor race.
-988: Traneer settled from Drexilthar, primarily by Akakhad and K’tring political refugees.
-988 to -970: The Drexiltharans establish their empire by conquering the other inhabited worlds of the Drexilthara Main, namely Tashrakaar, Drellesarr, and Drenslaar.
-962: A series of Reaver attacks from Lishun sector on shipping near Sylea (Core 2118) force its ruling classes to stop ignoring the Reaver problem.
-959: Baron Ricardo Urquhardt gains support to establish the Justice Fleet, to respond to Reaver attacks on Sylean shipping by retaliatory assaults on Reaver worlds.
-930: Baron Urquhardt's anti-Reaver tactics force the Reavers to abandon Core sector.
-890: Iltharans from Drexilthar develop the jump-2 engine. They start roaming through the neighbouring star systems, claiming them for their budding empire and "taxing" anyone they find. With the exception of Drinsaar, a former Reaver base, the Iltharans do not actively occupy any other systems aside from Rintarna, which voluntarily joined them. The Drexiltharans have the philosophy that "If our ships can reach it, it's ours".
-835: The Loakhtari Clan sponsors creation of The Eakoi Corporation, a trade company headquartered on Eakoi.
-800: The Eakoi Corporation establishes a base on Danelag.
-685: Opitan recovers jump technology.
-676: A colony ship from the Reaver Kingdom on Oloma crash-lands on Cuslets.
-645: Aslan led by Leahyakhyen colonies Roakhoi. Leahyakhyen and his followers, who had lost their lands in a clan war, had fled the Hierate looking for new land holdings. Two generations later, after several natural disasters including volcanic eruptions, plague, and famine, destroy the colony ships and technological base.
-480: The colony ship Bold Endeavor, bound for Andrios in the Urlaggash subsector, is attacked by Reavers and misjumps to Roakhoi, where it crash-lands. Although initially hostile towards each other, both the humans and Aslan of Roakhoi have created an integrated society with primarily Aslan cultural values.
-250: The Gralyn System achieves a sustainable jump industry.
Circa -200: Caledon acquires jump technology from Sylean traders. Colonies are established on a number of other worlds, including Duncinae, Ranald, and Fulton.
Circa -200: Roakhoi is first surveyed by Aslan explorers.
-200: Concorde settled by Aslan looking for land holdings.
-180: Stuart settled by colonists from Caledon.
-102: Jamieson Dundas of Caledon establishes the Principality of Caledon, comprising large portions of the Caledon and Scotian Deep subsectors in Reavers' Deep sector.
-100: War breaks out on Zemlya between the Human nations and the Aslan populations.
-100: The Loakhtari Clan begins moving into Eakoi and Ea subsectors in earnest, greatly assisted by The Eakoi Corporation.
-86: A Drexiltharan base is established on Ildrathir (later renamed Victory).
-75: Luiwaiwuah and Turin are settled by the Tlyetrai of Hoa.
-63 to -7: The Asian Cultural Reform. The reform modified and codified Aslan culture and sets the future direction of the race.
-54: The Battle of Victory. A small Caledonian fleet defeats a much larger Drexiltharan fleet. The system is renamed Victory by the Prince of Caledon to commemorate the event.