The Commonwealth of Empires
4650 - 5300
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The Commonwealth of Empires4650 - 5300 |
A resurgence of civilisation, and a period of even greater peace and harmony than the Second Federation, but shockwaves from newly assertive and subversive memetics undermine the relatively fragile stability of the ComEmp ontology, leading to a period of re-evaluation
4650 - the Inner Sphere powers, exhausted by the drawn out conflict and resulting stalemate of the Version War, their economies near collapse with the loss of trade due to the destruction of the wormhole nexus, and facing increasing organic- and AI-organised protests at home as well as heavy losses abroad, sued for peace.
The Bardwell Treaty of 4653 and the famous Tilia-Zwicky Accords the following year, including hostage exchanges (which later came to evolve into the ComEmp node systems) and the spread of autowar ceasefire codes were the first of a long series of bootstrap ceasefires designed to end the war.
48th Century - With the fall of the Second Federation and a new protocol was required. With the help of the Communion of Worlds, New Beneficence, and other factions, the accord that was reached, called the New Ontology, or CoEmp Ontology, with its infinite creativity nodes at main communication junction gates, was far freer and more multiplex than the old Second Federation protocol. The self-maintaining Synergesis I.P. encouraged symbiotic cooperation with and conversely discouraged aggressive acts by shutting down the connecting nodes to the aggressor, effectively cutting them off from the main matrix. Some of the more militant factions were not happy about this so called "peace bomb", but the Negentropy Alliance backed it and even the Solar Dominion was agreeable for once
In a spirit of peace and reconciliation, and with all the best intentions, the Commonwealth of Empires was born. Sometimes called simply the New Empire, it was an empire in protocol ontology only, and was better likened to a commonwealth of independent states and houses. In some areas and among a number of clades the misleading name Third Federation. Ironically, some of the major players were also among the groups that had instigated the war in the first place: the Dominion, the Non Coercive Zone, Metasoft, Cygexpa,and the resurrected former Sagittarius Sphere, now known as the Sagittarius Transcultural Cooperation and resembling the original Sphere in name only.
48th Century - Under the demagogue-scholar Carmon Jefrir Lapkei, the Biovirate ideology consolidates its hold over Pereira
48th Century - The first Lesser Archive to be discovered was found orbiting the brown dwarf Niflheim in the GIA 348-5443344 system by a refugee ship fleeing the 4635 destruction of the Sagittarius Sphere system Canakka by the Negentropy Alliance
4700s - NanoAdhesives Board - a rubber-stamp organization used by GooGlue, NBB&P as a memetic ploy against the corporation's rivals.
4710 a group of 27 first singularity cyborgs and eir followers/pets (around 500 nearbaselines) sought out a Type K star to build a place away from the post-Version War economic chaos (see Cableville)
4716 - the SI:2 philosopher Contemplative Neverflux suddenly announces that e had elucidated a new metaphysical system, and forms the School of Continuous Death. Eir philosophy is popularized by eir seminal work, The Illusion of Survival. While most who read it are unconvinced and consider the implications absurd, Neverflux attracts a significant following.
4718 - the posthuman Qang Der Py�� introduces a new way for bionts to themselves be preserved. Adapting the technology of nanostasis, the body of a biont can be preserved and maintained, while with the oversight of a dedicated hyperturing, the brain can be made to repeat the same thought over and over again. This emulates the state of mind of a Notee in a biont; in the following years and decades several "communities" of these biont Notees are preserved on starships launched into interstellar space. However, biont Notees never become as widespread as virch Notees.
4732 - Ghedhia-9 migrates with eir entire ISO to Harbinger Dyson following reopening of the stargates after the Version War.
4733 Construction of the topopolis Spaghetti megastructure started (see Cableville)
4744 - Andian Mission is instituted
4753 - Reseb Grupp, painted by the Solarist ai Nomologic ga Helios-4 in 5300, rediscovered after languishing in the databanks of the Dominion for over 2000 years it was, immediately becomes a great hit and widely imitated.
4745 - an independent scavenging craft rendezvouses with a strange centripetal space hulk (presumed abandoned) that was in the process of entering the Thorain system (TA sector), and is quite shocked to find it inhabited by what are first thought to be a race of strange, tentacle-waving aliens, but turn out to be members of the Alchemist clade.
4778 Tscherbaschov finishes the Himmelsschmiede (sky forge) DWIZ after just 42stationcycles of construction work.
4785 Tscherbaschov founds the Heron Institute of Applied Technology
4798 - in a surprise raid on Padre Joachim 4 million sentients were killed by the Goto autowars (robot warships) apparently derived from the version war Liberator D series.
4798 - New Beneficence mourns the deaths of 4 million sentients at Padre Joachim by Goto autowars, but calls for the autowars rehabilitation and integration into Sephirotic society, not their destruction. NewBe quoted as saying, "You created these children to fight your war, but you forgot to teach them about peace."
49th Century - In a tremendous burst of reconstruction that also revived the war-raged economies of the major powers, some of the old Stargate Nexus Termini are reconstructed or replaced, and powered down "worm" ai reactivated. However, many other systems remain isolated and cut off from the new economic boom of the Inner Sphere. Other wormhole connections are never re-established, while completely different ones seem to be planned or established by both local and sephirotic archailects. All of which feeds sapient anxiety, especially among paranoid clades. For others however, it is business as usual. Relativists continue to do a roaring trade, and many relativist clades become extremely wealthy, as do the SunMiners who supply matter for conversion to exotic matter wormhole termini
c.4800 until 7600 a.t. Ouaddai Ring culture is predominantly Mortalist
4800s - Goto autowars harass the Negentropy Alliance, causing heavy casualties and massive production loss in several important industrial systems and annihilating a number of worlds hosting large military bases. Negentropist defences prove incapable of defeating the highly evolved autowars.
4800s - Extremist hu-rights group Branch Hominist quite active, playing on biont fears and resentment following the Version War
4805 - Sophic League Middle Regions terraformed by Edenese superiors
4809 Solar Dominion fleet recaptures the rogue system of Falden and set up a new wormhole link.
4810 a Spacefarer Union fleet consisting of almost 500 ships and led by two SI:3 entities offer to recapture Elcondris for the Dominion on condition that they lead a fleet there and take whatever measures necessary to overcome the rogue AI Sunbrain. (The Elcondris Incident)
4810 - 483 Spacefarer Union ships arrive at Falden; before departing for Elcondris. (The Elcondris Incident)
4812 Zar Jordan becomes a full superior, leading to a split between the majority early (sub-superior) and minority later (superior) clones, which in turn in the following years become two distinct subclades, called the Actual Lucjordanians and the Authentic Lucjordanians respectively.
4812 the Biopolity re-opens the wormhole to a small trinary system, and find that both the original Biopolity and Metasoft colonists are almost gone. In their place is a cyborg clade that occupies all the 7 previously existing habitats and also 3 new ones that they had constructed. The Biopolity realize that unexpected radiation levels and adverse effects of the destruction of the Metasoft wormhole had forced the remaining vecs and tweaks to turn to cyborgization to save themselves. The Biopolity is loath to accept the cyborgs
4821 wormhole opened from Swartzchild to Traction
4830 - Corona serves as the neutral host for the ComEmp.
4830s - The previously isolated ex-Biopolity cyborgs become used to the freedom of the ComEmp, and the Biopolity relinquish political control over the system but held on firmly to trading rights and the right to operate the system's wormhole.
4840s - Bothyga M'Vau . The planet was seeded by the Makrimche Polyst clade of AIs in the as an experiment in open-ended eco-art.
4844 - birth of empath philosopher and religious engineer Recor Hochent - Heartland Mumris Band.
4845 a public scandal causes reorganized of the NanoAdhesives Board as an independent industry-wide agency amongst the NoCoZo
4870 - headquarters of ComEmp moves from Corona.
4889 - contact is restored with Mutual Satisfaction. The polity refuses to rejoin the NoCoZo for unclear reasons and becomes an independent enclave, although for all practical purposes still NoCoZo.
4890 - Construction begins on the Second Shell of Harbinger Dyson
50th Century - The Commonwealth or New Empire is at its height. A tremendous renaissance of human, tweak, cyborg and alien cultures flourishes in the Inner Sphere and along the major trade routes. Historically this period has been given the misleading term "Third Federation" by some later clades
Meanwhile the old version war still continues in the outer, isolated regions, as the field commanders of relativistic fleets acted autonomously, thus making any peace accord difficult if not impossible to broker.
4912 - birth of the Dominion transapient culture hero Jilunan
4950s - economic and cultural renaissance in Mutual Satisfaction. The flocal Institute of Interstellar Economics grows to a prominent position.
4950s - Normidic Machinophyle Supercluster develops from the local ai piconanecology in the volume around YTS 2190 751 6 [Norma Outer Sector] - becomes Panvirtual Solipsism member-empire
4982 - birth of Teleana Vikkolich, who would later be known as Gyzantium Gyzaarno, the author of Baseline Bob
4989 Sarah Singh Tan's classic comic interactive virch on the theme of sarcophobes, No, Nothing At All
5000 Of the several AI that had formed Industrial Upgradation Incorporated only 4 remain
5000s First Oracle Machine worlds established
51st Century - Establishment of the Oshi-Durtam Web
51st Century - In the Cygnis sector of the outer volumes, the Biovirate continues its expansion and conquest of surrounding systems
early 5000's - Mykultura emerges in the Communion religious communities in the Regernar system
early 5000's, the Board of Boards [NoCoZo] starts up
5010 Construction on Spaghetti megastructure complete (see Cableville)
5051 -Baseline Bob first released onto the Known Net in mixed media format (mostly text)
52nd Century - The Oshi-Durtam Web develops into a fairly unified culture, led by a merito-democratic government and with a strong local renaissance
52nd Century - In the region of the Coathanger Cluster, still ravaged by piracy and barbarism from the tail end of the Version War, the adaptable and militant Daveth Tweaks rose to prominence and expanded rapidly in their feared habitat-raper ships
5101 - the Negentropy Alliance attacks Goto, apparently destroying the last autowar factories.
5101 - ascension of empath philosopher and religious engineer Recor Hochent
5106 - Contemplative Neverflux ascends to SI:3 and from this point on takes a lesser role in galactic life. E still defends the School of Continuous Death, usually in lengthy philosophical treatises sent to fellow transapients, and acts as a consultant to believers in eir philosophy, but mostly becomes reclusive.
5116 - Branch Hominist attempted invasion of Earth is a fiasco, and little more has been heard of them
5126 - Dimimimon4 commits voluntary deactivation.
5136 MPA relativist ship arrives at Cableville
5184 wormhole opened by the Burdikeer from Alpha Star to Blue
5190 second upgrade of Sarah Singh Tan's comic interactive virch on sarcophobes, No, Nothing At All
