Post by Zaku on Jul 24, 2008 12:21:20 GMT -5
Black Wind Principality
2725- Alliance frontier colony Otocoto suffers from strange virus. Reports to the FSA show the colony population almost completely wiped out. A ship is sent to investigate.
2725- Marines find Inhabitants are in a strange death like state, Dead yet alive. The Undeath are born. The colonists beg for help from Marines. The Marines dust off and leave the planet. FSA orders the planet destroyed. Colonists intercept message and leave in colony ship. The colony ship breaks through the blockade and escapes into deep space. The planet is bombarded with plasma mines until the atmosphere boils rendering the planet uninhabitable.
2726- The colony ships drifts in space for a full year before landing on a desert world at D-4. The planet is named Haven by the colonists. The Undeath begin setting up colony infrastructure.
2728- Colony infrastructure destroyed in major sandstorm. Issallia Baker rallies the colonists. She encourages the colonists to reinvent the technologies from the wreckage.
2729- Deposits of Iron found. The colonists begin to use iron for their technologies. Undeath tradition of patchwork technology begins.
2733- The iron mine hits an underground river. A large lake is formed above ground. The city of New Haven is built around it.
2738- Undeath Biologists manage to engineer plant life. The colony thrives.
Late 2739- Major sandstorm threatens to overwhelm colony. Issallia becomes a hero by inventing a shielding system to block sand storms.
2740- Issallia and her supporters kill the ruling council. Issallia declares herself Queen. She declares that the best inventors will be given land grants and titles of nobility for useful inventions that will benefit the colony.
2832- Planet wide Terraformation begun. Planet is soon upgraded from desert to Terran class.
2910- Planet is fully populated. The Undeath begin a space program to colonize new worlds. Queen Issallia had Promised Land and titles to whoever builds a ship and leads people to new worlds.
2980- Nearby Worlds colonized. Queen Issallia declares nation to be the Black Wind Principality. She grants fiefs to the best inventors in the Principality.
2993- Issallia marries Garren Tavrin. Garren soon becomes Liege Lord of the military.
2995- Colonization pushes east rapidly.
3045- Strange Aliens make contact with the local lord Erin MacTaversh on the planet Erinos at I-7. The Aliens refer to themselves as the Drow , and claim that in 46 years a non colonization pact with the FSA would expire. The FSA would soon be coming into black wind territory. Queen Issallia Grants many fiefs in preparation for the return to the FSA fold.
3091- The time limit on the no colonization agreement expires. FSA citizens make a mad dash for planets on the western frontier.
3178- Lord Ramirez Rodriguez local scout fleet encounters FSA held planets at F-10. Ramirez pulls his flotilla back and contacts the Queen for advisement. Queen advises Ramirez to make contact.
Early 3179- Ramirez makes contact with FSA fleet. Ramirez offers a hand of friendship the FSA. Queen Issallia had expressed her wishes to rejoin with the FSA and become part of humanity once again. FSA fleet fires upon lord Ramirez’s ships. A valiant battle is fought before the FSA retreats from Black Wind space. Enraged at such an action Queen Issallia declares war on the FSA.
3180- The Drow express their hatred of the FSA and begin to supply arms and war golems to the Black Wind forces.
3250- FSA suddenly and without warning declares a ceasefire. The war ends but the Queen finds FSA to be governed by fools. She withdraws her offer to rejoin the FSA.
3251- Embassies are established and boarders are drawn between the three empires. A non aggression pact is signed.
3722- FSA and Drow begin to bicker between each other. Queen Issallia decides not to become involved in the dispute.
3724- Humans calling themselves the Holy Lunarian Empire declare a state of hostility towards the three empires. They refer to them as infidels and demand they convert to a new religion. All three promptly refuse.
3730- Missionaries begin to arrive from the Lunarian Empire. Most end up dead by accident or experimentation.
4038- The Princess Liara Baker is born.
4042- Current date.
