ATORIAN TIMELINE
800 PE: Fehran Industrial age begins
660 PE: Fehran space programs successful
600 PE: The Atorian clan consolidates its wealth and influence to become a sociopolitical entity.
525 PE: Atorians hold all major offices of power in government and big business. Advanced space travel research begins
512 PE: Successful space programs employed by Struthios
501 PE: First Fehran expansion under the directives of the Atorian clan
501 PE: 1st Atorian Expansion Phase begins
500 PE: Atorians first recorded contact with Draconoids
495 PE: All male Atorians are stripped of power and replaced by females. This marks the beginning of the clan Powers
444 PE: 1st Atorian Expansion Phase ends
443 PE: Struthios begin advanced space travel research
405 PE: Fehrans advanced space travel methods successful
375 PE: 2nd Atorian Expansion Phase begins
318 PE: 2nd Atorian Expansion Phase ends
305 PE: Fehrans discover how to use gravity wells for Point-to-Point travel
256 PE: 3rd Atorian Expansion Phase begins
250 PE: Fehran Homeworld destroyed
177 PE: 3rd Atorian Expansion Phase ends
20 PE: Lady Constance declares all female Fehrans to be Atorians. Male unrest begins. Constance becomes the official ruling family in the Atorian clan
1 IR: Lady Alimira Constance accepts the title Empress from her clan Powers. The Atorian Empire is born
10 IR: Atorian males are all officially removed from positions of any responsibility. They are declared second-class citizens, and protests begin
29 IR: Atorian Empress, Lady Alimira, abdicates rule to her six daughters. They vow to end the violent male uprisings of the past two decades
31 IR: The Atorian Empresses declare males to be inferior to females, and relegate their status to that of property. Males are rounded up and sold. Many react violently. One of the Empresses is killed by male rebels
35 IR: A new Atorian Empress is appointed and the War of Understanding begins. Atorians effectively perfect the science of human augmentation by chemical experimentation
36 IR: The Imperial Ladies finish their division of the Atorian Empire and begin separate but united rule
55 IR: The War of Understanding ends as the Atorian males surrender. "Man Worlds" are created to house those not already owned
127 IR: Atorians lose their seventh research vessel in black hole experiments, causing them to officially abandon such research
188 IR: Atorians develop the Genetic Codex (the ultimate tool for perfect cloning)
270 IR: Chlorzi War (early on)
375 IR: Atorians perfect their robotic/cybernetic technologies
387 IR: Imago-Machines invented by the Atorian Empire
404 IR: 4th Atorian Expansion Phase begins
410 IR: Zede Wars begin
480 IR: 4th Atorian Expansion Phase ends
489 IR: Atorians complete first working Matter/Anti-Matter power plant. The energy of the entire planet is needed to start it. This inspires the Empresses to create other planets for the sole purpose of creating energy. The Energy Planets are born.
490 IR: Atorians offer antimatter R&D contract to the Struthios
506 IR: Nen is converted to an Energy Planet which kills off most of the Innensi
566 IR: Kisents first forge kisentite weaponry (500 years later the Atorians become major buyers of kisentite weapons)
600 IR: Photins ally themselves to the Empire
635 IR: Matter/Anti-Matter experiments destroy the Struthio home world
658 IR: Katerine Jeury Incident
670 IR: The Nexus developed by the Atorian Empire
680 IR: Wattasid Raiders wiped out by the Atorian Empire
688 IR: Atorians conquer Danude, forcing the Danaus to flee
750 IR: The Empresses choose their respective home worlds and establish security perimeters on and around them. They also enact measures to close the Empire and prevent the defection of its citizens and the spread of information
815 IR: Tagoniglomerate is formed by the merging of nine Tagonican mega-corporations (200 years later the Atorians become adversarial with TGE)
830 IR: Felias Information Network officially established (60 years later the Atorians establish their own info-network - the AIN)
850 IR: 5th Atorian Expansion Phase begins
856 IR: Atorians begin the Maizixxis Purge; hostile AI planetary take-over
867 IR: Burzzad ally with the Atorian Empire
870 IR: 5th Atorian Expansion Phase ends
875 IR: The continued expansion (and silence) from the Atorian Empire frightens other races who band together by laying the groundwork for the FAR
875 IR: The Federation of Allied Races is officially established. Atorians and Altess first meet
922 IR: Dansall Minor asteroid impact
924 IR: Ultra-UU class battleships first introduced by the Atorian Empire
930 IR: Atorians discover Dionii race
939 IR: Atorians and Viltrumites first meet
950 IR: Atorians begin their own antimatter research
944 IR: Atorians establish diplomatic ties with the Golgan Republik
1050 IR: Atorians relations with TGE deteriorate; boycott ensues
1098 IR: Fifth Expansion complete
1101 IR: Atorian embassy installed on the city-planet Mycos
1150 IR: The Cat and Bird War ends
1155 IR: Fanrats begin raids against the Atorian Empire
1170 IR: Atorians begin trade relationship with city-planet Halstansir
1183 IR: Atorians drop anti-matter bomb on Cebus homeworld
1188 IR: Cres ally with the Atorian Empire
1239 IR: The Pantherans' home world of Seriv becomes an Atorian Energy Planet
1241 IR: Atorians begin trade relationship with city-planet Lindstur
1250 IR: TMC reaches its current status. Charters include over 900 planetary systems
1270 IR: Diatome Pirates begin raids against Atorian targets
1275 IR: The Fret ally with the Atorian Empire
1288 IR: Dragon (astrofauna) begins to rampage within the Atorian Empire
1291 IR: Ultra-WW class battleships first introduced by the Atorian Empire
1300 IR: FAR expansion at its largest
1305 IR: Sixth Atorian Expansion Phase begins (they typically last 100 years)