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===The Pax Humanica=== The Humans united the Orion Sector under the banner of the Pax Humanica, preaching the onset of an “age of enlightenment,” in an effort to bring about a harmony among all peoples. This led to many positive effects — a focus on making all colonies self-supporting so as not to rely on hyperspace and FTL-transported supplies, the promotion of trade within the boundaries of the Pax Humanica, and a devotion to culture and the arts that led to many great works being created by all races. The negatives to these developments included a lack of focus on scientific research, a reduced drive for expansion, with population control methods strictly enforced, and a tyrannical policy of insisting that all conformed to the “utopian” views of the Pax Humanica. The fascistic Humans ruled the Orion Sector with zero tolerance for aberrant behavior, monitoring and controlling the citizenry with brute-squad tactics. As a result, though the Pax lasted for almost 10,000 cycles, the civilizations within the Orion Sector did not expand much at all, whether territorially, militarily, or scientifically. A large part of this was due to the hyperspace flux that continued to hamper FTL travel, but the “artistic” progress toward a “utopian” society led to nothing but stagnation and Humanocentric socio-political elitism. Unbeknownst to them, the Antaran Hegemony was making constant strides forward in their ruthless goal to be masters of their domain. Even as the Pax Humanica restricted FTL travel due to the unsafe nature of hyperspace, the Antarans were studying ways of using wormholes to exceed hyperspace’ s limitations. This stagnation might have continued were it not for the fact that the Long Night finally ended. Ironically, the Pax Humanica barely noticed, having limited FTL travel so much that very few ever used it at all. However, pirates and traders and merchants all gambled with hyperspace constantly, and soon realized that the disruptions were all but gone. Their discovery was kept secret for their own profit, but idle gossip and boasting soon filled the ears of both the Pax Humanica empires and others nearby. Those other civilizations bordering the Orion Sector had developed to the point where FTL travel became a possibility, and some, having heard about the Pax Humanica from various travelers, sought to colonize within their borders. [[Elerians]], [[Gnolams]], and [[Trilarians]] entered Orion space with the same intent that all the younger races once had: expansion of their empires. ====Historical notes==== The [[Evon]] also appeared nearby at this time, deposited there by Mizara colony ships. The Mizara had eventually developed the technology needed to genetically manipulate and engineer local races within their space, even as the Orions and Antarans had done. The Mizara, however, engineered a race for the purpose of scouting the galaxy and searching for the “threat” of Center One descendants. Their function was to colonize and expand and explore the galaxy in the name of their “gods,” who had given them this divine mandate. Hundreds of colony ships loaded with Evon colonists and primitive technology (by Mizaran standards) were launched across the galaxy between 3000 GC and 3500 GC in search of habitable worlds to colonize. The Mizara could thus focus on expanding their local borders (still a gradual process due to the Long Night effect) and developing their own empire and resources for their great war: vengeance against Center One’ s descendants. When they expanded and came to a region of space that the Evon had dominated, it made it easier for them to assimilate that sector into their domain. When they came to a region of space where the Evon had been dominated, they knew that a potential threat existed there, and could concentrate more fully on securing that region through force. Mizara and Polarid expansion in the Galactic Core had eventually brought them into contact with each other. The Polarids had, by some incredible stroke of luck, settled in a system with a wormhole nexus similar to that which had orbited Center One, but far more stable and reliable. As a result, the Polarids survived and prospered during the Long Night, for travel through wormholes was not blocked, and their home system contained over a dozen wormhole endpoints. They managed to expand into a sizeable empire, and advanced quickly in the field of Wormhole Physics. Upon making contact with the hostile Mizara around 3900 GC, they began amassing their forces in threatened systems while launching an immense intelligence gathering operation. The Polarids learned of how the Mizara were using the Evon as advance scouts, and proposed their own project, the construction of an “Evon Killer” race, in response. It took several tries to succeed, and the Polarids dispatched many of their failed versions through a one-way wormhole that they had created. The endpoint of that wormhole was deep in the Orion Sector, and those failed “Evon Killers” ended up colonizing the first planet they found. They called themselves [[Humans]], and would one day use the cunning and ruthless instincts the Polarids had instilled in them to dominate the Orion Sector. The Polarids themselves finally succeeded in breeding what they felt was the ideal hunter-killer race, whom they called the Varakesh, and around 8500 GC began dispatching their own colonists throughout the galaxy on a search for the Evon.
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