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The History Of The Star Wars Galaxy (Legends) {By SimoTheFinlandized - (c) 2021 CE}

The History Of The Star Wars Galaxy (Legends) {By SimoTheFinlandized - (c) 2021 CE} | =========================================== HISTORY OF THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE (Legends): (Written By SimoTheFinlandized - (c) 2021 CE) =========================================== IN THE BEGINNING... =========================================== Some thirteen billion years before the Battle Of Yavin, an immense cloud of gas and dust collapsed under its own gravity and coalesced to form a revolving disk, creating the galaxy. Over many more billions of years, the stars and planets began to form. By 5,000,000,000 BBY, life had begun to evolve in the galaxy, with some of the earliest examples of non-sentient life developing on the planet Goroth Prime. Around 2,000,000 BBY, many of the galaxy's most well-known species were evolving: the Wookiees began on Kashyyyk as a species of tree-climbers. The Oracle Of Pelgrin, quite possibly the oldest artifact in the galaxy, was believed to date from this period. By 200,000 BBY, the Zhell, ancient ancestors to the Humans, had developed an advanced stellar fusion-age civilization and were waging war against the near-human Taungs for control of their mutual homeworld of Notron, later known as Coruscant. ============================================== THE EARLIEST CIVLIZATIONS: ============================================== By 100,000 BBY, a mysteriously ancient yet extremely highly-advanced race known as the Celestials dominated the entire galaxy. Also known as the Architects, this spectacularly powerful Force-Sensitive race was believed to have been capable of manipulating and moving the very stars: surviving Celestial machinery like Centerpoint Station and the Cosmic Turbine could manipulate gravity on a titanic scale with repulsor pulses, tractor beams, and hyperspace wormholes. With this technology, the Celestials were believed to have been responsible for building the Corellian system, the Vultar system, and at least 15 other star systems, as well as the Hapes Cluster, the Kathol Rift, and the Maw black hole cluster. Pre-Republic specialists believed the Celestials to also be responsible for the hyperspace disturbance beyond the edge of the galaxy, possibly as a defense against outside interference. They were also believed to be responsible for the chain of hyperspace anomalies west of the Core that bisected the galaxy and prevented travel into the Unknown Regions. Speculation holds that the Celestials had crafted the hyperspace anomalies that bisected the galaxy in order to contain the Rakata's Infinite Empire. A number of other advanced space-faring races around this time became servants and clients of the Celestials. The insectile Killiks of Alderaan were exploited as laborers and were seeded across the galaxy, until around 30,000 BBY when they disappeared into the west of the galaxy and into the Unknown Regions, presumably relocated by the Celestials. The Kwa and Gree species made use of FTL-space-travel structures known as the Infinity Gates and Hypergates, respectively, to travel between planets and star-systems, and thus came into territorial conflict with each other. Other advanced species fled to escape the Celestials: the Sharu Civilization of the Rafa system located far in the galactic east had a brief period of expansion, spreading their iconic plastic pyramid cities as far into the Core as Aargau, but this may have attracted the attention of the Celestials and the Sharu thus buried their great pyramid-cities and sought refuge in primitivism in order to escape them. Likewise, the Columi of the planet Columus made surveys of both the Humans and the Duros in the Core Region and were unimpressed by what they found, but also fled back to their homeworld, perhaps to avoid retribution from the Celestials. ================================================= RISE OF THE RAKATAN INFINITE EMPIRE: ================================================= Around 35,000 BBY, the domain of the Celestials was usurped when the imperialist Dark-Force-sensitive Rakata slave race revolted. Stealing both very highly- advanced technology and the knowledge of utilizing the Force from the Kwa Civilization, they waged war against the many other servant races, and broke through the barrier surrounding the Unknown Regions into the galaxy proper and waged a war of complete extermination upon the Celestials. The eventual fate of the Celestials was unclear. They may have been trapped inside the galaxy by their barrier and destroyed by the Rakata slave-revolt, or they may have escaped through the barrier. By 30,000 BBY, the Celestials were nowhere to be found, and the Rakata's Infinite Empire had taken center stage. The newly-arisen advanced space-faring Rakata species fanned out from their homeworld of Lehon in the Tempered Wastes of the Unknown Regions, using FTL hyperdrives that channelled the power of the Force to guide them to worlds with strong Force signatures. The Infinite Empire occupied a considerable scattering of systems across the galaxy, but very vast tracts of territory between these holdings remained untouched, allowing smaller interstellar confederations to flourish. The Devaronians and the Gossam experimented with the tumble hyperdrive and scouted to explore the galaxy, and while worlds like Coruscant, Corellia and Duro were occupied by the Rakata, the native-species of the Humans, Duros, Selonians and Drall were able to study the principles of the Rakatan FTL force-hyperdrive. The Rakata proved to be exceedingly cruel masters, consigning entire subject populations to bitter slavery. After nearly five thousand years of dominance, the Rakata-ruled Infinite Empire collapsed after a devastating plague swept through the Empire that stripped the Rakata of their ability to use the Force. A massive colonial slave revolt finished off the empire by 25,200 BBY. ============================================= RISE OF THE GALACTIC REPUBLIC: ============================================= The decline of the Infinite Empire coincided with the reverse-engineering and perfection of Rakata hyperdrive technology by the other species of the galaxy. Developing technological replacements to its Force-based components, various advanced space-faring species struck out from their homeworlds, first with slower-than-light sleeper-ship colonies, followed by the development of the rather unpredictable hyperspace cannon. Through this re-use of Rakatan castoffs, a number of civilizations asserted themselves: the Humans and Duros dominated the Galactic Core, while the cetacean Herglics built up their own trade empire to the south. On the Rim, Human sleeper-ship colonies formed the Tionese civilization, which was united into a single powerful empire by a Tionese warlord named Xim The Despot, before coming into conflict with the empire of the kleptocratic mafia-style slug-like Hutts. This period coincided with the beginning of the Jedi Order on the planet Tython with its studies of the Force, as well as the religious rivalry between understandings of the light and dark sides of the Force. Conflict between the Jedi and the Dark Jedi would assert itself several times throughout galactic history, a cycle that would continue beyond the Yuuzhan-Vong War. In 25,000 BBY, in the aftermath of the Unification Wars, the various highly-advanced space-faring planetary-states of the Core assembled on the city-planet of Coruscant and signed the Galactic Constitution, establishing a civilization under a common law, language and currency, proclaiming the Galactic Republic. The Republic united the largely-Human Core Worlds, and the Core-World Founders included prominent political players like Coruscant / Alsakan / Corellia / Duro / Kuat / Alderaan, powerful military-strongholds like the Azure Imperium based on Axum / Anaxes / Esseles / Rendili, emerging commercial hubs like Tepasi / Brentaal IV / Humbarine, and worlds important to the medical, diplomatic and philosophical arts, like Chandrila / Caamas / Rhinnal / Shawken. ================================================= THE EXPANSIONIST ERA: ================================================= The Expansionist Era coincided with the foundation of the Galactic Republic and saw the beginnings of the official charting and settlement of much of the galaxy's eastern spiral. Scouts pushing east from Coruscant moved up two trade routes, the Perlemian Trade Route and the Corellian Run, which formed the boundaries of a vast wedge of space known as "the Slice". At the end of the Corellian Run lay Kalarba, a trade hub maintained by the merchants of Paqwepori, while the Perlemian led to the trade worlds of Tirahnn, Nouane, and Roche. No similar corridors were found to the galactic west, which resulted in much of that quadrant of the galaxy remaining unexplored and mysterious, becoming known as the Unknown Regions. This expansion saw the Galactic Republic come into conflict with the advanced space-faring Human civilizations of the Tion Cluster. After its victory in 24,000 BBY, the Galactic Republic swelled with more territory than it could initially govern as many systems clamored for protection against the depredations of the Hutt Domains. ================================================== THE GREAT MANIFEST AND INDECTA ERAS: ================================================== The Great Manifest Period began in 20,000 BBY with the widespread settling of the eastern Slice, with the dense web of star-systems at its tip becoming known as the Arrowhead. This region became heavily-dominated by Coruscant while Corellia dominated settlement around the Corellian Run. Rivalry between Coruscant and Alsakan over policy on the Perlemian Trade Route sparked the First Alsakan Conflict in 17,000 BBY, the start of the Indecta Era, and though peace would be brokered between the two, the Alsakan Conflicts would continue in an abbreviated form for some 14,000 years. The first five Alsakan Conflicts also discouraged settlement along the Perlemian, pushing colonists to the Corellian Hegemony in the Trailing Sectors along the Corellian Run and the growing Corellian Trade Spine. ================================================== THE KYMOODON ERA: ================================================== The Kymoodon Era, opening in 15,000 BBY, ushered another colonization boom on par with the Great Manifest Period. Improvements in the hyperdrive allowed many odd pockets of colonization to spring up in the unexplored northern and southern quadrants, and the Herglic Trade Empire joined the Republic, beginning a surge in development around the Hidakai Pool, which would become the Rimma Trade Route. However, the era stored up the seeds for future conflict, as the Republic's borders increasingly abutted those of Hutt Space, leaving isolated colonies open to raids by Hutt slavers. ================================================= THE PIUS DEA ERA: ================================================= Widespread resentment of the Hutt Empire on the Rim was tapped by a statesman named Contispex I and the humanocentric Pius-Dea religious sect to begin a series of Crusades against the Hutts in 12,000 BBY. The millennia-long Pius Dea Era would see many non-Human species conquered, persecuted, or exterminated until the Contispex political-dynasty was overthrown by the Jedi Order, and would foment extreme resentment among the species of the Rim. The subsequent Ductavis Era and Rianitus Period from 11,000-8000 BBY would be periods of retrenchment and rebuilding following the Crusades. ==================================================== THE RISE OF THE SITH ORDER: ==================================================== The Subterra Period of 8000-7000 BBY saw new mapping of the galactic southern quadrant, with colonies such as Malastare serving as anchors for the tangles of praediums that linked the region. Scouts also penetrated the Rishi Maze around this time. However, the lack of a super-hyperroute into the southern quadrant and the new colonies' general inaccessibility promoted lawlessness in the Rim and limited Coruscant's authority, which was believed to have contributed to the Second Great Schism of the Jedi Order in 7003 BBY, beginning a galaxy-wide uprising of Dark Jedi known as the Hundred-Year Darkness. In the war's aftermath, the defeated Dark Jedi were exiled beyond the Rim into the unexplored space north of the Perlemian. There, the Exiles settled the worlds of Korriban and Ziost within the Stygian Caldera, where they dominated the native Sith and established an empire. ==================================================== WAR WITH THE SITH-ORDER AND MANDALORIANS: ==================================================== During the Manderon Period, the Corellian Trade Spine and the Rimma Trade Route were established in 5500 BBY after the Herglics, Givin and Corellians linked together hundreds of pre-existing praediums, improving access to the southern quadrant. In 5000 BBY, the Sith Empire was rediscovered by the Republic, beginning the Great Hyperspace War when the Sith Lord Naga Sadow attempted to conquer the Republic. The Sith were defeated and once again driven into exile, but it was the beginning of a threat that would trouble the Republic for the remainder of its existence. A thousand years later in 4000 BBY, Sith teachings discovered on Korriban and Onderon enticed the Jedi Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma to the dark side, beginning the Great Sith War. The Sith's alliance with the Mandalorians, a group of warrior-nomads descended from the Taungs, in that war would prove to be the genesis of another threat to the Republic with the Mandalorian Wars. The Republic endured nearly fifty years of almost continuous fighting known as the Old Sith Wars as a result of Exar Kun until the Sith Empire was destroyed in 3950 BBY by the redeemed Sith Lord Revan. By 3700 BBY, the galaxy had been charted and settled as far as Farana in the north and Malastare in the south, but much of the northern and southern quadrants beyond the trade routes remained unsettled. At that time, however, the Brentaal-born explorer Freia Kallea extended the ancient Brentaal–Denon Route and linked several pre-exisiting praediums. By 3693 BBY, she had expanded the trade routes south of Denon as far as Imynusoph, mapping the full length of the Hydian Way, the only super-hyperroute to span the length of the galaxy. The ease with which vessels could now reach the northern and southern quadrants greatly expanded the Republic's footprint into the New Territories and the Western Reaches and opened up countless new sources of minerals, crystals and gases. From 3681-3642 BBY, however, the Republic endured decades of war and tension with a resurgent Sith Empire formed by exiles from the Great Hyperspace War, led by the Sith Emperor Vitiate. A second Galactic War broke out between the two in 3642 BBY, and chaos reigned until the Sith Emperor's redoubt of the Eternal Empire was defeated. ================================================== THE DRAGGULCH PERIOD: ================================================== In the wars' aftermath, the galaxy enjoyed several centuries of relative prosperity, which ended in 2000 BBY with the dawn of the Draggulch Period and the start of the New Sith Wars when the Jedi Master Phanius proclaimed himself Darth Ruin. In the ensuing millennium of fighting between the Republic and the New Sith, the Republic almost collapsed, culminating in the Republic Dark Age in the final century, when the Republic's authority effectively ceased to exist beyond the major trade routes and the HoloNet communications network ceased to function. The New Sith Wars finally ended when the Army of Light led by the Jedi Lord Hoth defeated Skere Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness at the Seventh Battle of Ruusan. A single Sith Lord, Darth Bane, escaped to establish a new Sith order, while Supreme Chancellor Tarsus Valorum proclaimed the Ruusan Reformations, which rebuilt the Republic from the ground up. ================================================= THE GREAT PEACE AND THE AGE OF CALAMITY: ================================================= The Republic's final millennium was largely peaceful, but the provisions of the Ruusan Reformations led to an increase in lawlessness in the Outer Rim Territories, which eventually found itself largely controlled by megacorporations or criminal cartels. This dissatisfaction was stoked into a Separatist movement by the Sith, which had spent a millennium in hiding. Orchestrating the Clone Wars, the Order of the Sith Lords managed to destroy the Jedi Order and restore their Empire under Darth Sidious. Sidious dissolved the Republic and replaced it with the short-lived Galactic Empire, and eventually dissolved the Republic's trappings completely. A legacy of Imperial rule was the opening and widespread settlement of the Deep Core, as well as the charting and exploration of much of the Unknown Regions. The Empire lasted for two decades of tyranny, but after the Galactic Civil War and the death of Darth Sidious at the hands of Anakin and Luke Skywalker, a New Republic was established from an alliance of free worlds. Despite this, the remnants of the Empire would continue to resist the new government for over a decade before finally signing a peace treaty. ================================================== THE YUUZHAN-VONG WARS: ================================================== The Yuuzhan Vong War was a watershed moment in galactic history, marking the first time that the galaxy had been invaded by an extra-galactic power, and the savagery of the war would influence galactic politics for over a century afterwards. Not long after the conclusion of the Galactic Civil War, an extra-galactic species known as the Yuuzhan Vong launched an invasion of the galaxy. The Yuuzhan Vong War devastated much of the galaxy, including Coruscant, and cost the lives of some 365 trillion beings, though they were eventually defeated by a new Galactic Alliance of the Imperial Remnant, the remnants of the New Republic, and a host of the galaxy's lesser powers. Another outcome of the war was a normalisation of relations between the galaxy proper and the Chiss Ascendancy, the dominant power of the Unknown Regions. Within a few decades, stable hyperroutes and colonies had been established into the region and had removed much of its mystery. ===================================================== THE LEGACY ERA: ===================================================== Some of the Yuuzhan Vong were incorporated in the galactic community, but the post-Yuuzhan Vong War galaxy proved incredibly difficult to govern, resulting in a Second Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Alliance and a Confederation led by Corellia. Within a century, the Galactic Empire had been restored under the Fel dynasty, although this time without Sith backing. Ultimately, however, the Fel Empire was manipulated by the One Sith, led by Darth Krayt, to declare war upon the Galactic Alliance after the Sith exploited lingering hatred of the Yuuzhan Vong to to make it appear that they were planning to re-conquer the galaxy. The One Sith usurped the Imperial throne shortly afterwards, forming a new Sith empire, but the resulting war between the Sith and the Galactic Alliance Remnant and the Fel-loyalist Empire-in-exile resulted in the Sith's defeat. Thereafter, the Galactic Alliance became the dominant government in the galaxy once again. ====================================================== | image tagged in rage comic blank template,star wars,history,sci-fi,literature | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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