The Archian Sector
Travelers Era
The Travellers era started around 2021 AD The Archian people finally uniting under one banner after a bitter war between the Acol Initiative and the Confederate Republic, in the end the Confederate Republic won, and after some years of rebuilding immediately looked to the stars. The current President John Marcey Hamptom put trillions into the Space program that would take Archian people to the stars, the Moons of Illania had been visited some time ago, but people had yet to visit them again, this would soon change.
2022 saw the first settlers settle on the moons of Trill massive domed constructs lay in craters across both Moons Helios and Phoenix
Many years passed as the moons where developed and stations built to accommodate the next phase of what was now known as the Trill initiative, in 2027 the First ship capable of inter system travel was built, the ANV Illustrious. a massive 120 meter construct built in the orbit of Illania. Its mission was to explore the Planet of Haderon the second planet from the sun. It had long been known that the planet was a hot jungle planet with a thick but breathable atmosphere.
The Crew of the Illustrious where dubed the Travellers men and women who where taking up the 4 month expedition to the planet.When they finally arrived Illustrious parked its self in orbit, what they found was a planet still experiencing a Cretaceous period of evolution, dinosaurs roamed the thick lush jungles, as hundreds of animals and planets tried to survive on the beautiful world.
Upon returning back to Illania the Travellers stories spread like wild fire in every community. There was a call to colonise the planet and soon Several vessels of the now known Illustrious class where completed and modified to carry colonists to the planet. These New Travellers where pioneers given an Ill fate as soon as they made land fall they where beset by creatures killing off a good third of the colonists with in the first year. The Remainder collected in the fortified city of Fort Haderon hiding behind its massive walls they managed to survive through grit determination and supplies from the ships that came every 4 months.
The Expansion
The Expansion era began with the Successful terraformation of the Two moons of Illania the Moons where given an atmosphere over the course of several centuries turning them into something comparable to hot scrubby Savannah style planets. They instantly became popular places to live due to the freedom of being able to move around the moon with protective clothing.
2040 Brought about the Expansion ere for real With Haderon now Capable of protecting its self from the menaces of the planet the confederacy turned to the 6 moons that orbited the massive planet, as well as the planet Kressler. The now 12 strong fleet of Illustrious class Frigates where sent out once again to take colonists to distant planets.
2045 the Impulse drive was invented by a Doctor Marcus Cunningham, marking a new speed in steller travel. The Impulse drive allowed ships to travel from Illania to Haderon in a month.
The Confederates started to expand across the entire star system for the next hundred years countless moons where colonised and developed, it was seen as a golden age for the Confederacy and a golden age for space travel. On Kressler The Scientist Adrian Phillip Johnson discovered the Conductive properties of the Zelocite crystal over charging a small splinter of a crystal and having it explode with double the yield, thankfully Dr Johnson and his staff where not killed due to the blast proof workstation they used.
Energy Era
With the Discovery of the Zelocite crystal and its properties soon came an age of Unparalleled Energy creation, Soon after its discovery the Zelocitee crystal was harnessed in the first reactors in Illania, Producing an infinite amount of energy, Whilst the reactors where small to begin with and could only power very small areas the advantages where seen immediately.
The Zelocite Cyrstal when placed into a controlled situation was able to not only replenish its own energy reserves but double its output, with out exploding. This realisation made the Zelocite Crystal the most sought after commodity on record ever since the Gold Rushes of 1732. This brought a wave of Economic growth to the planet Kressler as mega corporations fought over the Finite deposits of Zelocite crystal. Soon Mega corporations took to Pirating Freighters of competition, this lead to the first and only Merchant war, a 2 year long war between several mega corporations over Kressler. the War was only Halted after the intervention from the newly formed Archian Space Navy.
The Secound Expansion
With the Zelocite crystal quickly becoming the staple power source for all colonies within the Trill system, scientists where able to put this new found power source to use in the fledgling space navy and Commercial designs. The Impulse drives efficiency was greatly improved with the Zelocite's cleaner and infinite power supply. Allowing The Already impressive speed of the Current ships and new ships to be increased, taking down travel times to Haderon and its moons from one months to little under two weeks.
This prompted the second expansion into the rest of the Trill system, nce again hundreds of thousands of colonists headed out colonising the many moons of the Gas giants Donovan and Goliath, Many writers of the time likened this to the masses of colonists colonising the great expanse of the Confederacy many hundreds of years ago.
For the first time Candaria was visited, the closest planet to the sun, was not as hot as expected the thin hydrogen atmosphere was observed to block out some of the suns harsh rays leaving the Planet a cratered rocky world with an equatorial area full of active volcanoes and rivers of Metal rich lava. 2201 Candaria was colonised not by colonists but by criminals, the planet was deemed by the confederacy, as a place these low lives and criminals could be put to use, many years before an installation was made to shelter the first bath of prisoners until they managed to dig under the surface. This took less time than expected as almost instantly the tunnelers broke into a catacomb of caves. It wasn't till later when more specialised sensors where available that it was realised that the entire Crust of the planet was riddled with catacombs.
Several years later, the Scientist Mathius Geller, Came up with a theorem that could potentially allow for faster than light travel, through a dimension or more specifically the space between dimensions known as the void. Through the use of Zelocite focusing theoretically a generator could be used to rip a hole into space time and take ships to this Void, where they would be able to open up another window to the specific co-ordinates.
In 2207 the first manned test was conducted the ANV Frontiers powered up the prototype Void drive and was sucked into the Void almost instantly. Reappearing in the exact same co-ordinates it had left an hour later, the Test was deemed a success and All Ships of the Archian Space Navy where quickly equipped with this new FTL drive.
Era of the Confederacy
With the Invention of the Void drive the Confederacy could travel to the stars with in no time at all, the only problem was the greater the distance from the entry point to the exit point in real space, the greater the energy required to open the rift to that sector in space. This prompted bigger and more powerful ships than the Confederacy currently had. So several years and considerable amounts of money where put into Building the ANV Explorer The first vessel capable or interstellar travel.
The system Ursa-Gamma was selected due it being the closest sun to the Trill system, its co-ordinates calculated. The entire of the Confederacy held its breath in anticipation, when the word came back that the Explorer had reached the system and it held a planet almost identicle Illania, the entire system went into celebration, soon after the Serenity and Atol systems where explored,and a few years after that colonised.
Whilst the Confederate modern era isnt known for the modern day Confederacy in all its glory, it is known for its accent to what is now the Modern confederacy. By the end of 2213 the Confederacy had colonised the Serenity, Atol, Ursa-gamma systems and had started moving people to the Magnus and Harvey Systems in an other quick succession of Colonisation programs.
The Archian Navy had grown and swelled to almost 1000 ships, used to protect the vulnerable systems from pirate attack and to Deter Aggressive Corporate show downs.
The Long 72 Hours
Although Called Post 72 Hour War era, this period of time started with the first contact with extra terrestrial life, The Kitsune Empire of Xiscapia. Whilst searching the ruins of an ancient civilization, long dead Admiral Kang came into contact with with a scout ship of the Kitsune Empire who had claimed the system in the name of the empire.
Kang Ignored, the warnings and continued the salvaging operations. Prompting a retaliatory response marking the Start of a brief but bloody war, that changed the confederacy's outlook on the universe.
Battles between the empire, broke out in several surrounding systems, with the Kitsune coming out on top in all but one of the battles. This stark realisation that the Confederacy was not the top dog in the galaxy forced them to initiate diplomatic contact and sign peace with the Empire. The Brief 72 hours in which this war was waged, is seen as something of a shameful thing in the confederacy and isn't talked about much.
The Split
Roughly 5 years after the 72 hours war, The Confederacy began to fall appart from within. With the stress of propping up an on going war within the Gamma quadrant and juggling porblems on the homefront. Many factions and systems began to slip out from under the Senates grasp. The Most notrious was the Military Uprising on Eramus, which resulted in a military juntas installing itself on the planet taking control of the world and the assests that where in space. The Massacre on the planet sparked the First Seperatist civil war within the Confederacy which saw many of the outer lying Confederate Systems joined with the New Eramus Republic embroiling the nation in a 5 year long bloody civil war that saw the confederacy brake up in several smaller factions.
Currently three major factions vye for power over what is now dubbed as the Archian Sector. The Illanian Republic, The Archiian Coalition and The New Eramus Republic
