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THE DIFFERENT PHASES OF AUOT'ZAE
Since the dawn of time, all there was to the world were the four great nations of Dahet, Hōkat, Torura, and Gahal. Sometimes at war, sometimes at peace, breaking and uniting again to roughly their former shape because of the cultural similarities between the constituting tribes and the way terrain made it hard to expand much further. And when not at war with each other, it was against the "barbarian" tribes of the south - and this was the world at its finest working.
It wasn't until between 2600 and 2500 years prior to the Stellar Era (PSE) that the west and east societies connected again after thousands of years, using the steppe tribes as messengers and scouts into the far lands, however, being just as ancient as the east world, the west was pretty much on par with the east, both iron-age societies, living in the same continent and separated by an expansive montainous territory, with their only interactions being the occasional exchange of goods and technology through the exportations of wealthy and eccentric individuals, trying to figure a commerce route between the two "hemispheres" of the world. This without further development of sailing technology, this connection would remain impractical until 415 PSE, when the Ent'Shelari tried to find a way around the maritmal Gagot'ri blockade that lasted 40 years, and this pursue, making contact with the peoples of the south and the New World...
THE CONQUEST OF SIDESSIA
The continent is formed by an extensive chain of volcanic islands, the oldest and largest of those being mainland Sidessia. It has been continuosly inhabited by the Avipoda tropicans for at least 800 thousand years between 180 ~ 997 thosand years PSE, coexisting with the A. sapiens cer and A. sapiens australis between 300 and 180 thousand years PSE, falling during this period due disease and war with the newer more sophisticated groups.
The northernmost part of the continent is very rich in natural resources, both mineral and ecological due the equatorial climate, also sporting a great deal of deserted area like Australia. While the southernmost part of the continent is pretty frigid and deserted like the Fawklands due being inside the polar circle.
Prior to the Age of First Sail (500-400 PSE), there was no such concept as borders to the peoples of Sidessia, since anyone could set sail anywhere with enough skill and resources, and it was often done amongst the chains of islands of the Sidessian sea, conflicts were rather unnecessary since for the relatively small populations that inhabited the area, the islands were everything they needed, although this didn't stop major groups from establishing within a territory and developing rudimentary forms of agriculture for native fruits, cattle, and seaweed, which could be traded with the passing sailors in exchange of few goods, information, or even the trade of slaves and arrangement of mariages to keep the genetic diversity up a few notches.
The sidessian peoples had different levels of technological development with some central and northern tribes even having access to iron smelting thousands of years before bronze was even discovered in Azapabaet, while others remained as neolithic and hunter-gatherer societies.
The arrival of the Ent'Shelari in large ships at the Port of Geva in 385 PSE left a huge mark in Gevan culture and history. Being close but still inferior to the Ent'Shelari naval force, they became allies in the conquest of Sidessia by the northern powers, enslaving the nearby islander nations to work in the mining and farming of goods to be traded in Azapabaet. Soon followed by the Gagot'ri and the Gahel nations, exploring alternative routes to put up a competition agains the Ent'Shelari spice and metal trade, this competion started the Age of Great Navigation in 300 PSE, and this period established the basis on which major superpowers would come and rise prior to the stellar era.
In technological parity, this level of development is roughly equivalent to 18th century Earth.
THE CONQUEST AND LIBERATION OF THE NEW WORLD
Since 400 PSE, exploration fleets have been continuously sent to the new world by both the Ent'Shelari and Gagot'ri, followed by the eastern powers of Hukat, Torera, and Gahel-Nehil for the next 200 years. While in Sidessia those powers were met with shore-expanding armies and metal-working societies, the peoples of the new world could be said to be greatly underpowered and unbeligerant, needless to say that everything the superpowers couldn't have done in Sidessia was done to the new world, becoming a beacon of economic exploration by their ultramarine overlords.
The north mid-latitude location of the continent made it a prime candidate for intense settling waves by rich families and workers following the invention of the steam-powered ship, those families and enterpreuneurs built their fortunes with the industrialization of the countries and the exploration of resources granted by it. The rapid industrialization of the previously purely agricultural and mining center that were the colonies of the new world spiked a wave of armed revolts to try pushing the ultramarine powers off the new world, which could barely put up with an appropriate response due the large distances and amount of resources involved in such long travels.
These revolts also inspired phylosophical and political uprisings back home in the Dahetian empire and its northern colonies, now figthing at a minimum for the liberation of the northern territories and the more radicals for the collapse of Dahet in its entirety, this line of thought is what we currently understand under the banner of Socialism, which given the existence of vast corporate, ultramarine companies, and monarchies, clearly needed to be fought back.
THE INDUSTRIAL ERA AND WORLD WARS
The industrial era started back with the invention of the steam-powered ship and its sister technologies such as mass production and processing of metal, textiles, chemicals, food, and goods. In the old world the two major technological and industrial powers were the Ent'Shelari and the Hukat Empire, each controlling and influencing their neighbours and allies in Sidessia, hence why a great deal of trading and technology across the Dominion was still done in Hukat and Enselari, followed by the Gahel-Nehil Empire, but the latter was rather quickly surpassed by its new-world colony, Farkade, which not much time later after the start of the colony uprisings declared itself as a splitter Empire, and shortly after, a Union.
The Farkade Union was the richest of the new world territories and heavily funded sciences and the emancipation of the peoples across the continent from their parent powers along with East Terit Republic (splitter of the Torura Empire). Even when not directly involved, its spies and enterpreneurs invested heavily in planting and nurturing rebel movements across the globe which established puppet governments in its favor, sometimes failing into fascist and corporate regimes, and sometimes a civil war which had to be "fixed" by both sides throughout the period of 200 and 90 PSE. Many smaller and more sporadic conflicts came and went after the Somoga Event...
THE SOMOGA EVENT
In the mid spring of 50 PSE in a calm clear night for the Sidessian islands, the Somoga Square-Zaega* Array of radio telescopes received a wave of narrow-band radio signals coming from a neaby starcluster, it was known at the time that the Paza system was weakly gravitationally bound to this cluster, and so any new information about it greatly interested the astronomers involved. At first the signals came and went broadcasting for a few hours each day and sometimes every few days or weeks in a rather inconsistent but frequent enough that it was of concern and object of study for a couple of years, many astronomers tried to debunk the veracity of the signals while other debated different far out-of-this-world explanations for the origin of the signals, until they started popping around different systems across the star cluster. With better telescopes ground telescopes and later space telescopes, it was then possible to detect dark clouds of non-natural elements in the space around systems previously known to broadcast those intense narrow-band signals, and it was the piece of information they needed for the conclusion of this puzzle which extended for some 50 years... Those were evidence of interplanetary and interstellar wars in the space we now know as Dominion.
Their equivalent of the United Nations, SETI, and METI organizations all decided it was better for their own survival, to remain silent and not make contact with the alien conglomerate that seemed to expand for at least 20 systems as far as they could tell, being far inferior, they needed a plan for when the day of first contact arrived, they had a clock ticking over their heads, and no-one knew when the counter would count to zero...
They needed to go interstellar, and fast.
*Zaega, unit of length measuring approx. ~1.78 kilometers or 1.104 miles, it measures 1,024 Patas which are worth 1/32,768,000ths of their planet's circunference, or about 1.74m.
- M.O. Valent, 23/12/2022
