The Kadall
04-06-2005, 11:58
Chronicle of The Kadall
(0) The Solar Year Zero is marked as the date that the first gate-to-gate teleportation was successfully conducted. Although travel between gates was much faster then could possibly be attained in a spacecraft, travel could not be done successfully without a reciprocating gate. Therefore long-term space travel meant both attempting to tow a gate or its components or successfully arriving and then constructing a gate at the desired location.
For this reason it took nearly 400 years for the first ‘space nation’ to be founded, the Old Empire. Gate technology brought trade, materials, technology and culture but also a great potential for military advantage. Until the year 392.6 (Battle of Thellram) the use of gate technology had been strictly limited to civilian and scientific advantage but it became a constant source of military exploitation afterwards.
The year 702.5 marks the collapse of the Old Empire. The Old Empire had been exhausted by 52 years of almost constant warfare and was now surrounded by three hostile power blocs. The Empire was relatively quickly defeated by the New Empire before politically, socially and economically imploding. During this period of decline the outer fringes of the Old Empire were raided or invaded wholesale by the Empire’s neighbouring powers.
The Exodus (693-700.1) was organised to evacuate the elite of the Old Empire along with the best of Imperial technology and culture to the safety beyond the limit of occupied space. A series of secret spacecraft were commissioned for the journey with the intention that a new Empire be founded. Seven ships were commissioned however only five made it to the destination, one was destroyed by sabotage and the second failed to make a course correction after its crew was gassed and the ship sped out into empty, unknown space…
All but five of the crew were able to survive the gas leak but it took six months to completely recycle the atmosphere during which time the command centre was sealed off. When it was re-opened the ship was off-course and had leaked a large amount of its propellent. Fortunately the ship had been designed for the requirements of deep-space travel, including facilities for cryogenic storage. The crew, preferring optimism, then made the painful decision to freeze themselves, not knowing if they would ever be awoken, but hopeful.
The procedure prevented two of the crew from going into cryogenics and they lived their lives on the ship adapting its systems to produce food and clean air before having three children, founding the first line in a generational ship. Their children then used the medical facilities on board along with its storage of genetic material to avoid incestuous offspring and so the procedure continued limiting the crew from 2-5 in each generation.
In 977.4 it was accurately estimated that the ship would be able enter a nearby solar system. This was too late for the remaining crew whose water and atmospheric recycling system had become dangerously degraded. The final generation was placed in cryogenic cells as their parents worked on equipping the ship for the procedure of entering the new solar system and finding the badly needed frozen water.
In 1,119.0 the ship neared the sun, its huge ancient solar sail activated and as the light-energy increased it powered the on-board scanning program to locate ice in the nearest asteroids. The four on-board probes were launched, one heading further towards the sun to investigate the planets, the others, suspiciously spider-like began to spiral out towards the nearest asteroid to mine it for its precious frozen gasses.
Three years of slow and accurate repetition by the mining probes had replenished the ship with fresh water and a new atmosphere but one still susceptible to the poor on-board recycling systems. In the year 1,122.7 the previously frozen generational crew where resurrected by the automated system they had co-designed with their long-dead parents. Only two of the three were reawakened successfully and they began to wake the several hundred year old crew of the original mission.
The total number of survivors was only eight which was already enough to stress the environmental systems on-board. There were further problems when a radiation leak sterilised several hundred genetic stores before the reactor core had to be ejected, making the ship entirely dependent on the ancient solar-sail. To worsen the seemingly dire problems there probe revealed there were no planets readily inhabitable or easily terraformed with the limited tools onboard.
The alien system they had landed in was revealed to comprise of small outlying gas planets and two planetoids uninhabitable with their orbit to the bright star. A gas-giant closely orbited the sun, providing the crew with their best harbour thanks to the thick belt of crushed ice and bust as well as the shielding it provided from the solar radiation pouring off the sun and out into the empty realm of orbits and gravitational pulls.
The Bruxella had been equipped with the intention to provide the heavy machinery for building the original infrastructure on the three moons of the original new world. Around the super gas-giant now named Lemuria Pergus (“The shining Harbour”) six moons orbited; uneven, erratic or unstable, except one called Kadan (“hope”) the largest moon with an unusual orbit around the northern pole of Lumeria Pergus.
Kadan rotated regularly with a slow diagonal orbit that looped around the planet’s pole and then swung down towards mid-latitudes and back up again. A landing probe was unloaded and revealed that Kadan had probably been pulled into the unusual orbit by a large comet in the moon’s ancient geological history, leaving behind moderate deposits of ice collected from the comet and sweeping through the planet’s ice-belt onto it’s new orbit.
From 1,123.4 – 1,153.1 the Bruxella unloaded 1,950,000 tonnes of ice collected from the ice-belt while the mining probes deposited an additional 2,850,000 tonnes. The heavy machinery onboard had also been unloaded and began to construct deep and narrow reservoir pits for the ice. Onboard there was dissent about the program for colonising the moon and the water and atmosphere had to be constantly replaced.
Further machinery was unloaded onto the moon and used to knit silicon-carbon plating to store the water. In the Terraforming Era (1,234.4 – 1,154.1) the focus of the survivors became constructing a new settlement on Kadan with several critical adaptations made. In the First Year of Settlement (1,155.0) a new colony had been built beneath the irradiated surface of the moon with ample ice for the settlement’s water, atmosphere and fuel for several decades.
The settlement Hue Atora (“The Atrium”) received most of the ships contents, including the damaged genetic cargo. There was considerable debate about the fate of the faithful ship that had taken the colonists so far, far away. Some wanted it destroyed as a symbol of all the pain and suffering, others wanted it crashed into the moon and used for new construction and another wanted to preserve the ship as an icon. A band of pro-preservationists made the radical decision to live in the ship, deserting the new colony permanently.
Expanding the hydroponic system they adequately compensated for the air and water recycling system. The colonists below however slowly began to expand their numbers through the same artificial semination techniques of the generationalists. In the year 1,180.0 as part of the 800th commemoration the first of the species from the genebank was successfully produced, 8 small sewerage-consuming fish. A joint decision between the conservationists and the colonists was made to fill a number of craters with ice for future storage. In the Second Terraforming Era (1,182.3 – 1,256.7) 19,980,000 tonnes of ice, dust and metal was added to the moon’s craters before being sealed by huge domes of silicon-carbon plating.
Four more settlements had been constructed and the population continued to rise at 5,180. New manufacturing techniques became available, providing better safety and efficiency to the survivalist ‘dig-outs’ of the original colony. A considerable proportion of resources as devoted to expanding the fleet of satellites that ferried ice from the planet’s equator to the moon. The Second Terraforming Era ended in 1,256.7 when the Bruxella suffered a major tear in the hull and was gracefully landed and entombed in a carbon-alloy exhibition hall.
The Third Terraforming Era from (1,289.5 - 1,341.2) delivered a further 19,344,000 tonnes to the moon creating a total of 39,324,000 tonnes. The total population had risen to 10,370 with the main settlements becoming increasingly better furbished and supplied with a diverse range of food and accompanying flora. The discovery of thorium isotopes lead to the rapid industrialisation of the settlements as they could no access greater amounts of electricity, heat, gasses and water raising the general living standard.
The Fourth Terraforming Era was the most industrious with a determined effort to complete the mission of creating an atmosphere around the moon. In the years 1,341.9 – 1,589 over 6,616,350,000 tonnes were distributed across the moon, the process accelerated by the construction of a space platform. The ice was packed into craters but also underground reservoirs. The population had expanded to 788,120 across 70 settlements. The final phase of the Terraforming Era had two components, the mass construction of thorium reactors to melt the ice and the construction of a solar shield to warm the moon.
Neither of these were simple procedures and the entire resource market was dominated by the demands of both programs. Micro tremors and fluctuations in surface temperature cause problems with the ice inside craters and reservoirs as well as the stability of building sites for the reactors. The Solar Sail was a particularly slow project requiring perfection in manufacturing and assembly.
The Year of Nevu Kadan (1,450.0) was signalled as the sun came across the Kadan Date Line starting a synchronised activation of the thorium generators and the unfurling of the Tremuph! solar sail. Ice had continued to be unloaded onto Kadan but now only on the northern pole where the solar sail was focused. Within the craters thermal heat was discharged into the ready-made glasshouses and slowly the ice began to thaw, releasing carbon dioxide, sulphur, bromide, ammonium, ozone, oxygen and hydrogen.
Atmospheric ‘pumping stations’ powered by the reactors combined oxygen molecules in ozone and hydrogen and oxygen into water before releasing them and the other combined gasses as thin narrow jets entering the otherwise void surface of Kadan. The northern ice shelf became a violent steaming vapour field distributing its awkward clouds into the high atmosphere where they quickly condensed and fell as piercing shards of ice across the northern hemisphere.
Ice continued to be shipwrecked onto Kadan, around the northern pole they would evaporate into the cloud storm that roared amongst the regular ‘night lights’ of the moon’s magnetic field against both the sun and the gas giant’s. Throughout the ‘summer’ season of maximum solar exposure Kadan accumulated a thin, toxic atmosphere, rich in carbon and trace greenhouse gasses as well as moisture – or ice. During the Age of Clouds (1,451.0 – 1,480.0) 6 billion tonnes of ice was methodically melted and released as vapour creating a steadily thicker and warmer atmosphere.
The Age of Storms (1,481.0 – 1,525.0) was created by water vapour in the lower atmosphere being able to condense into rain and sleet, forming instant lakes and dangerous flash flooding. This caused problems for many of the settlements but not major disasters. The variation in heat produced wild winds that blew these low-level storms across the planet causing damage to the fragile dome coverings of many craters. A second solar sail was manufactured and finally launched to provide better heating to the southern pole where large deposits of ice still remained.
The Age of Water (1,526.0 – 1655.0) was the result of increasing levels of greenhouse gasses allowing for more condensation and water forming on the surface. The first lakes would freeze or evaporate but surface temperature levels rose up to 2-3 degrees in some locations allowing for liquid water to form on the surface. Permanent ponds became lakes and lakes became small seas attracting more stable and seasonal weather patterns.
The Great Terraforming Age (1,656.0 – 1,800.0) was ceremoniously marked by the Prime Chairperson distributing bacteria, algae and fungi spores across a ploughed and irrigated field. The most primitive of life forms began to convert the toxic atmosphere and corrosive surface water into oxygen and tempered environment. 80 years later the hardiest of life forms, cockroaches, were released into the new world. Zooplankton, macropods, arthropods, molluscs, and fish were all distributed into the new oceans.
(1,801.0 – 1879.0) became the Age of Paradise on account of the increasing spread and diversity of flora and fauna that lived uninhibited on the surface. Several expeditions were made to the surface and five settlements were evacuated from flooding. Fierce storms still troubled the new world but terrestrial insects, small mammals and several types of reptiles and birds were eventually released as heath lands became grasslands, wetlands and thick forests.
The New Dawn of Civilisation arrived in (1880.0) when the first above surface settlement was constructed at Duzundra. The below-ground settlements were evacuated, particularly as most had become crowded since further expansion was complicated by the above surface conditions and the risk of flooding increased.
First Dynasty established (1,927.6). The rapid population growth and material increases brought from surface living as well as the unprecedented freedoms created a reactionary conservative movement who created a genetic replica of the last Emperor, Dallmorthave III. Under the ancient Charter of Imperial Legislation Dallmorthave IV inherited all the rights of the original monarch.
Dallmorthave IV maintained key aspects of the technocratic system beneath him but made sure he closed the avenues for power rivalry. The Imperial capital of Duzundria became the hub of commerce and culture with heavy industry banned from the urban limits. The city’s size doubled and became a showcase for the period’s integrated technology.
Second Dynasty began (1,999.3). Kellnav I founded a hybrid dynasty after her fertilisation procedure was interrupted requiring immediate genetic tailoring stitching a foreign undamaged DNA strand to the undamaged components. Kellnav I brought a genuine aesthetic sense that marked her reign as one that celebrated in the arts and spawned a universal style. The focus on the arts shifted into the science across the Second Dynasty prompting an increase in ‘practical’ sciences.
Genetic Revolution (1,999.8 – 2,174.2) with support from the Kellnav Dynasty genetics and the other medical science flourished with off-shoot developments such as nanotechnology founded during this period. The most significant event was the beginnings of the Eugenic and Amplified Beings movements. Although both parties would split into polar faction they shared many similarities and were complimentary subjects initially.
Third Dynasty (2,134.1) Unable to maintain genetic integrity a new Dynasty was founded; only lasting a brief period Mergazana was popularly viewed as foolish and incompetent and blamed for a fall in living standards with an aggressive taxation policy to fund an ambitious space exploration program. Mergazana was ousted in a popularly supported Palace Coup lead by Chancellor Hekkarti.
Fourth Dynasty (2,178.7) Chancellor Hekkarti founded a new Dynasty based initially on popular support of the public and army to defuse an otherwise explosive situation. Hekkarti reduced taxes and increased funding to the arts but also deregulated working conditions, corporation law and a raft of civil liberties in an increasingly paranoid state of mind. Hekkarti played on bigotry between the ‘natural’ and ‘mutant’ populations to distract the population from the lowering living standard.
Naturalist – Moderated War (2,229.4 – 2,241.5) erupting race riots between Naturalist and Moderated extremists groups in the city of Humaradiom went uncontrolled for five days before the military moved in. Hekkarti sanctioned the violence against the Moderateds sparking rioting and violence against both sides in every major city. The Moderate dominated region of Kulambra and Tramdria became republics and waged a long bloody battle against the Hekkarti forces.
In the Hekkarti controlled cities large round-ups were proceeded by internment and in-camp brutality as well as several cases of prisoners being burnt alive by angry mobs and even camp guards. The Huxell-Avraian Union rejected both the Moderateds and the Eugenic policies of Hekkarti. Hekkarti also unleashed a General Terror on the population resulting in hundreds of thousands ‘disappearing’.
The Flood (2,241.3). A Moderated extremist group took control of the remaining northern solar sail which had been turned into a solar cannon to vaporise the Moderated Free Cities. They began to superheat the atmosphere above the southern polar ice cap, the largest reserve of water on the surface. Heavy storms where induced and sea levels rapidly rose. Large urban centres were flooded causing mass casualties, mainly civilian.
Storm damage and flooding also affected the inland Moderated cities but the damage had been released with vast stores of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses producing a new warming cycle that kept sea-levels rising for the next 20 years. In retaliation Hekkarti released a round of nuclear missiles onto the Moderated Free Cities.
Naturalist – Moderated Peace Treaty Signed (2,241.5). The bitter war came to an end with massive casualties on both sides and no clear victor. Causalities continued to climb and a hole in the southern ozone shield was reported. Hekkarti was a despised figure and lost favour with the armed force before being shot on board the Royal cruiser Tarango.
Fifth Dynasty (2,243.9). The final dynasty was invested in Ropon II who oversaw the evacuation of the declining highlands. His lasting legacy was the rapid development of maritime technology embodied by the new, floating, capital, Nondakarri. Ropon II held a tentative grip on power needing to accommodate the views of regional powers that controlled key resources. Ropon II also had many artefacts dredged from the ocean.
The Age of Terror (2,262.7 – 2,270.3). Sparked by regional factions and a break down law and order this was a period of hardship, hunger, death, disease and violence. Gangs and warlords controlled many islands while the Royalist controlled mainland territories were ruthlessly authoritarian. During this time the Archipelago of Kadall was re-settled by Moderated and Naturalist survivors.
Union of Kadall (2,273.5 - 2408.3). The Fifth and final Dynasty ended its pretence of control over all-Kadall with the Treaty on the Union of Kadall. Signed by every recognised power it brought uneasy peace and a time to rebuild and restore order. The Royal Dominion was the largest authority and still maintained its iconic duty but was otherwise ineffective. The Archipelago of Kadall came under Royal administration and was extensively rebuilt as the new centre of government.
Nondakarri was anchored at the heart of the Archipelago although the Archipelago remained autonomous. New adaptations were made in using GM bacteria and algae to process diluted chemicals from the ocean as well as pioneering aquathermic power generation. The Archipelago increases its population and wealth through trade and administration.
Kadall Civil War (2,408.4 - 2,421.1). Frustrated by interfering from the All-Kadall Commerce Network in Imperial domestic affairs and suspecting their antagonism of dissent in the Out Fringe the Fifth Dynasty goes to war against the AKCN. Kadall was drawn between the AKCN controlled client states, the Royal Federation and the Republican guerrilla army in the Outer Fringe. The war was played mostly through diplomacy and key strategic battles.
The AKCN lacked broad support and was defeated by the Royal Federation but the Republican Army gained control over the outer fringe. The victory brought rationing and shortages as well the curtailing civil liberties. Intellectuals and liberals defect to the Republican Army which was struggling to gain a decisive victory over the Royal Federation. The blow comes during a large-scale mutiny in the Royal armed forces.
Nondakarri returns to the Archipelago much to the discontent of locals. Under cover of darkness the defected Ropondria sails into the Archipelago close enough to sink the Nondakarri in three shots. In the mourning the King is summoned to the City’s Council Hall and demanded to sign an abdication treaty. After six hours the king signs the treaty and returns to the Nondakarri after which it unloads most of the military inhabitants and sails onto the horizon.
The Urban Republic (2,422.1). After the Kadall Civil War the Archipelago became a complete sovereign E-Republic and remained independent from the Republic of Kadall forming a loose confederation with the other independent republics. The city operated an extensive merchant marine protected by its civilian defence forces but was markedly absent of a standing army. The Archipelago became well known for its extensive reefs, BioReserves and the fresh-water lake Ulladri.
The New Union of Kadall (2505.0). The Republic devolved through referendum into a federation of states becoming the Union of Kadall after the Constitution of Kadall was signed by every state bringing a common distribution of wealth, technology and enshrining basic civil liberties. The Archipelago became the de facto capital until moving to the Strappondro Platform orbiting above Kadall.
First Contact (2550.2). A deep-space exploration probe discovered radio broadcasts originating from Kadall prompting further investigation. Contact was established over 1,800 years since the original colonists fled. The Kadall marketed the territorial limit of the Sphere of Influence by the New Solar Union, having moved from outside to the periphery of ‘civilised space’. A Quantum Gate was constructed brining a thousand years of history, science and culture. The Kadall would eventually sign the Treaty for the Confederation of Sovereigns and expand their solar territory to another three stars.
(0) The Solar Year Zero is marked as the date that the first gate-to-gate teleportation was successfully conducted. Although travel between gates was much faster then could possibly be attained in a spacecraft, travel could not be done successfully without a reciprocating gate. Therefore long-term space travel meant both attempting to tow a gate or its components or successfully arriving and then constructing a gate at the desired location.
For this reason it took nearly 400 years for the first ‘space nation’ to be founded, the Old Empire. Gate technology brought trade, materials, technology and culture but also a great potential for military advantage. Until the year 392.6 (Battle of Thellram) the use of gate technology had been strictly limited to civilian and scientific advantage but it became a constant source of military exploitation afterwards.
The year 702.5 marks the collapse of the Old Empire. The Old Empire had been exhausted by 52 years of almost constant warfare and was now surrounded by three hostile power blocs. The Empire was relatively quickly defeated by the New Empire before politically, socially and economically imploding. During this period of decline the outer fringes of the Old Empire were raided or invaded wholesale by the Empire’s neighbouring powers.
The Exodus (693-700.1) was organised to evacuate the elite of the Old Empire along with the best of Imperial technology and culture to the safety beyond the limit of occupied space. A series of secret spacecraft were commissioned for the journey with the intention that a new Empire be founded. Seven ships were commissioned however only five made it to the destination, one was destroyed by sabotage and the second failed to make a course correction after its crew was gassed and the ship sped out into empty, unknown space…
All but five of the crew were able to survive the gas leak but it took six months to completely recycle the atmosphere during which time the command centre was sealed off. When it was re-opened the ship was off-course and had leaked a large amount of its propellent. Fortunately the ship had been designed for the requirements of deep-space travel, including facilities for cryogenic storage. The crew, preferring optimism, then made the painful decision to freeze themselves, not knowing if they would ever be awoken, but hopeful.
The procedure prevented two of the crew from going into cryogenics and they lived their lives on the ship adapting its systems to produce food and clean air before having three children, founding the first line in a generational ship. Their children then used the medical facilities on board along with its storage of genetic material to avoid incestuous offspring and so the procedure continued limiting the crew from 2-5 in each generation.
In 977.4 it was accurately estimated that the ship would be able enter a nearby solar system. This was too late for the remaining crew whose water and atmospheric recycling system had become dangerously degraded. The final generation was placed in cryogenic cells as their parents worked on equipping the ship for the procedure of entering the new solar system and finding the badly needed frozen water.
In 1,119.0 the ship neared the sun, its huge ancient solar sail activated and as the light-energy increased it powered the on-board scanning program to locate ice in the nearest asteroids. The four on-board probes were launched, one heading further towards the sun to investigate the planets, the others, suspiciously spider-like began to spiral out towards the nearest asteroid to mine it for its precious frozen gasses.
Three years of slow and accurate repetition by the mining probes had replenished the ship with fresh water and a new atmosphere but one still susceptible to the poor on-board recycling systems. In the year 1,122.7 the previously frozen generational crew where resurrected by the automated system they had co-designed with their long-dead parents. Only two of the three were reawakened successfully and they began to wake the several hundred year old crew of the original mission.
The total number of survivors was only eight which was already enough to stress the environmental systems on-board. There were further problems when a radiation leak sterilised several hundred genetic stores before the reactor core had to be ejected, making the ship entirely dependent on the ancient solar-sail. To worsen the seemingly dire problems there probe revealed there were no planets readily inhabitable or easily terraformed with the limited tools onboard.
The alien system they had landed in was revealed to comprise of small outlying gas planets and two planetoids uninhabitable with their orbit to the bright star. A gas-giant closely orbited the sun, providing the crew with their best harbour thanks to the thick belt of crushed ice and bust as well as the shielding it provided from the solar radiation pouring off the sun and out into the empty realm of orbits and gravitational pulls.
The Bruxella had been equipped with the intention to provide the heavy machinery for building the original infrastructure on the three moons of the original new world. Around the super gas-giant now named Lemuria Pergus (“The shining Harbour”) six moons orbited; uneven, erratic or unstable, except one called Kadan (“hope”) the largest moon with an unusual orbit around the northern pole of Lumeria Pergus.
Kadan rotated regularly with a slow diagonal orbit that looped around the planet’s pole and then swung down towards mid-latitudes and back up again. A landing probe was unloaded and revealed that Kadan had probably been pulled into the unusual orbit by a large comet in the moon’s ancient geological history, leaving behind moderate deposits of ice collected from the comet and sweeping through the planet’s ice-belt onto it’s new orbit.
From 1,123.4 – 1,153.1 the Bruxella unloaded 1,950,000 tonnes of ice collected from the ice-belt while the mining probes deposited an additional 2,850,000 tonnes. The heavy machinery onboard had also been unloaded and began to construct deep and narrow reservoir pits for the ice. Onboard there was dissent about the program for colonising the moon and the water and atmosphere had to be constantly replaced.
Further machinery was unloaded onto the moon and used to knit silicon-carbon plating to store the water. In the Terraforming Era (1,234.4 – 1,154.1) the focus of the survivors became constructing a new settlement on Kadan with several critical adaptations made. In the First Year of Settlement (1,155.0) a new colony had been built beneath the irradiated surface of the moon with ample ice for the settlement’s water, atmosphere and fuel for several decades.
The settlement Hue Atora (“The Atrium”) received most of the ships contents, including the damaged genetic cargo. There was considerable debate about the fate of the faithful ship that had taken the colonists so far, far away. Some wanted it destroyed as a symbol of all the pain and suffering, others wanted it crashed into the moon and used for new construction and another wanted to preserve the ship as an icon. A band of pro-preservationists made the radical decision to live in the ship, deserting the new colony permanently.
Expanding the hydroponic system they adequately compensated for the air and water recycling system. The colonists below however slowly began to expand their numbers through the same artificial semination techniques of the generationalists. In the year 1,180.0 as part of the 800th commemoration the first of the species from the genebank was successfully produced, 8 small sewerage-consuming fish. A joint decision between the conservationists and the colonists was made to fill a number of craters with ice for future storage. In the Second Terraforming Era (1,182.3 – 1,256.7) 19,980,000 tonnes of ice, dust and metal was added to the moon’s craters before being sealed by huge domes of silicon-carbon plating.
Four more settlements had been constructed and the population continued to rise at 5,180. New manufacturing techniques became available, providing better safety and efficiency to the survivalist ‘dig-outs’ of the original colony. A considerable proportion of resources as devoted to expanding the fleet of satellites that ferried ice from the planet’s equator to the moon. The Second Terraforming Era ended in 1,256.7 when the Bruxella suffered a major tear in the hull and was gracefully landed and entombed in a carbon-alloy exhibition hall.
The Third Terraforming Era from (1,289.5 - 1,341.2) delivered a further 19,344,000 tonnes to the moon creating a total of 39,324,000 tonnes. The total population had risen to 10,370 with the main settlements becoming increasingly better furbished and supplied with a diverse range of food and accompanying flora. The discovery of thorium isotopes lead to the rapid industrialisation of the settlements as they could no access greater amounts of electricity, heat, gasses and water raising the general living standard.
The Fourth Terraforming Era was the most industrious with a determined effort to complete the mission of creating an atmosphere around the moon. In the years 1,341.9 – 1,589 over 6,616,350,000 tonnes were distributed across the moon, the process accelerated by the construction of a space platform. The ice was packed into craters but also underground reservoirs. The population had expanded to 788,120 across 70 settlements. The final phase of the Terraforming Era had two components, the mass construction of thorium reactors to melt the ice and the construction of a solar shield to warm the moon.
Neither of these were simple procedures and the entire resource market was dominated by the demands of both programs. Micro tremors and fluctuations in surface temperature cause problems with the ice inside craters and reservoirs as well as the stability of building sites for the reactors. The Solar Sail was a particularly slow project requiring perfection in manufacturing and assembly.
The Year of Nevu Kadan (1,450.0) was signalled as the sun came across the Kadan Date Line starting a synchronised activation of the thorium generators and the unfurling of the Tremuph! solar sail. Ice had continued to be unloaded onto Kadan but now only on the northern pole where the solar sail was focused. Within the craters thermal heat was discharged into the ready-made glasshouses and slowly the ice began to thaw, releasing carbon dioxide, sulphur, bromide, ammonium, ozone, oxygen and hydrogen.
Atmospheric ‘pumping stations’ powered by the reactors combined oxygen molecules in ozone and hydrogen and oxygen into water before releasing them and the other combined gasses as thin narrow jets entering the otherwise void surface of Kadan. The northern ice shelf became a violent steaming vapour field distributing its awkward clouds into the high atmosphere where they quickly condensed and fell as piercing shards of ice across the northern hemisphere.
Ice continued to be shipwrecked onto Kadan, around the northern pole they would evaporate into the cloud storm that roared amongst the regular ‘night lights’ of the moon’s magnetic field against both the sun and the gas giant’s. Throughout the ‘summer’ season of maximum solar exposure Kadan accumulated a thin, toxic atmosphere, rich in carbon and trace greenhouse gasses as well as moisture – or ice. During the Age of Clouds (1,451.0 – 1,480.0) 6 billion tonnes of ice was methodically melted and released as vapour creating a steadily thicker and warmer atmosphere.
The Age of Storms (1,481.0 – 1,525.0) was created by water vapour in the lower atmosphere being able to condense into rain and sleet, forming instant lakes and dangerous flash flooding. This caused problems for many of the settlements but not major disasters. The variation in heat produced wild winds that blew these low-level storms across the planet causing damage to the fragile dome coverings of many craters. A second solar sail was manufactured and finally launched to provide better heating to the southern pole where large deposits of ice still remained.
The Age of Water (1,526.0 – 1655.0) was the result of increasing levels of greenhouse gasses allowing for more condensation and water forming on the surface. The first lakes would freeze or evaporate but surface temperature levels rose up to 2-3 degrees in some locations allowing for liquid water to form on the surface. Permanent ponds became lakes and lakes became small seas attracting more stable and seasonal weather patterns.
The Great Terraforming Age (1,656.0 – 1,800.0) was ceremoniously marked by the Prime Chairperson distributing bacteria, algae and fungi spores across a ploughed and irrigated field. The most primitive of life forms began to convert the toxic atmosphere and corrosive surface water into oxygen and tempered environment. 80 years later the hardiest of life forms, cockroaches, were released into the new world. Zooplankton, macropods, arthropods, molluscs, and fish were all distributed into the new oceans.
(1,801.0 – 1879.0) became the Age of Paradise on account of the increasing spread and diversity of flora and fauna that lived uninhibited on the surface. Several expeditions were made to the surface and five settlements were evacuated from flooding. Fierce storms still troubled the new world but terrestrial insects, small mammals and several types of reptiles and birds were eventually released as heath lands became grasslands, wetlands and thick forests.
The New Dawn of Civilisation arrived in (1880.0) when the first above surface settlement was constructed at Duzundra. The below-ground settlements were evacuated, particularly as most had become crowded since further expansion was complicated by the above surface conditions and the risk of flooding increased.
First Dynasty established (1,927.6). The rapid population growth and material increases brought from surface living as well as the unprecedented freedoms created a reactionary conservative movement who created a genetic replica of the last Emperor, Dallmorthave III. Under the ancient Charter of Imperial Legislation Dallmorthave IV inherited all the rights of the original monarch.
Dallmorthave IV maintained key aspects of the technocratic system beneath him but made sure he closed the avenues for power rivalry. The Imperial capital of Duzundria became the hub of commerce and culture with heavy industry banned from the urban limits. The city’s size doubled and became a showcase for the period’s integrated technology.
Second Dynasty began (1,999.3). Kellnav I founded a hybrid dynasty after her fertilisation procedure was interrupted requiring immediate genetic tailoring stitching a foreign undamaged DNA strand to the undamaged components. Kellnav I brought a genuine aesthetic sense that marked her reign as one that celebrated in the arts and spawned a universal style. The focus on the arts shifted into the science across the Second Dynasty prompting an increase in ‘practical’ sciences.
Genetic Revolution (1,999.8 – 2,174.2) with support from the Kellnav Dynasty genetics and the other medical science flourished with off-shoot developments such as nanotechnology founded during this period. The most significant event was the beginnings of the Eugenic and Amplified Beings movements. Although both parties would split into polar faction they shared many similarities and were complimentary subjects initially.
Third Dynasty (2,134.1) Unable to maintain genetic integrity a new Dynasty was founded; only lasting a brief period Mergazana was popularly viewed as foolish and incompetent and blamed for a fall in living standards with an aggressive taxation policy to fund an ambitious space exploration program. Mergazana was ousted in a popularly supported Palace Coup lead by Chancellor Hekkarti.
Fourth Dynasty (2,178.7) Chancellor Hekkarti founded a new Dynasty based initially on popular support of the public and army to defuse an otherwise explosive situation. Hekkarti reduced taxes and increased funding to the arts but also deregulated working conditions, corporation law and a raft of civil liberties in an increasingly paranoid state of mind. Hekkarti played on bigotry between the ‘natural’ and ‘mutant’ populations to distract the population from the lowering living standard.
Naturalist – Moderated War (2,229.4 – 2,241.5) erupting race riots between Naturalist and Moderated extremists groups in the city of Humaradiom went uncontrolled for five days before the military moved in. Hekkarti sanctioned the violence against the Moderateds sparking rioting and violence against both sides in every major city. The Moderate dominated region of Kulambra and Tramdria became republics and waged a long bloody battle against the Hekkarti forces.
In the Hekkarti controlled cities large round-ups were proceeded by internment and in-camp brutality as well as several cases of prisoners being burnt alive by angry mobs and even camp guards. The Huxell-Avraian Union rejected both the Moderateds and the Eugenic policies of Hekkarti. Hekkarti also unleashed a General Terror on the population resulting in hundreds of thousands ‘disappearing’.
The Flood (2,241.3). A Moderated extremist group took control of the remaining northern solar sail which had been turned into a solar cannon to vaporise the Moderated Free Cities. They began to superheat the atmosphere above the southern polar ice cap, the largest reserve of water on the surface. Heavy storms where induced and sea levels rapidly rose. Large urban centres were flooded causing mass casualties, mainly civilian.
Storm damage and flooding also affected the inland Moderated cities but the damage had been released with vast stores of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses producing a new warming cycle that kept sea-levels rising for the next 20 years. In retaliation Hekkarti released a round of nuclear missiles onto the Moderated Free Cities.
Naturalist – Moderated Peace Treaty Signed (2,241.5). The bitter war came to an end with massive casualties on both sides and no clear victor. Causalities continued to climb and a hole in the southern ozone shield was reported. Hekkarti was a despised figure and lost favour with the armed force before being shot on board the Royal cruiser Tarango.
Fifth Dynasty (2,243.9). The final dynasty was invested in Ropon II who oversaw the evacuation of the declining highlands. His lasting legacy was the rapid development of maritime technology embodied by the new, floating, capital, Nondakarri. Ropon II held a tentative grip on power needing to accommodate the views of regional powers that controlled key resources. Ropon II also had many artefacts dredged from the ocean.
The Age of Terror (2,262.7 – 2,270.3). Sparked by regional factions and a break down law and order this was a period of hardship, hunger, death, disease and violence. Gangs and warlords controlled many islands while the Royalist controlled mainland territories were ruthlessly authoritarian. During this time the Archipelago of Kadall was re-settled by Moderated and Naturalist survivors.
Union of Kadall (2,273.5 - 2408.3). The Fifth and final Dynasty ended its pretence of control over all-Kadall with the Treaty on the Union of Kadall. Signed by every recognised power it brought uneasy peace and a time to rebuild and restore order. The Royal Dominion was the largest authority and still maintained its iconic duty but was otherwise ineffective. The Archipelago of Kadall came under Royal administration and was extensively rebuilt as the new centre of government.
Nondakarri was anchored at the heart of the Archipelago although the Archipelago remained autonomous. New adaptations were made in using GM bacteria and algae to process diluted chemicals from the ocean as well as pioneering aquathermic power generation. The Archipelago increases its population and wealth through trade and administration.
Kadall Civil War (2,408.4 - 2,421.1). Frustrated by interfering from the All-Kadall Commerce Network in Imperial domestic affairs and suspecting their antagonism of dissent in the Out Fringe the Fifth Dynasty goes to war against the AKCN. Kadall was drawn between the AKCN controlled client states, the Royal Federation and the Republican guerrilla army in the Outer Fringe. The war was played mostly through diplomacy and key strategic battles.
The AKCN lacked broad support and was defeated by the Royal Federation but the Republican Army gained control over the outer fringe. The victory brought rationing and shortages as well the curtailing civil liberties. Intellectuals and liberals defect to the Republican Army which was struggling to gain a decisive victory over the Royal Federation. The blow comes during a large-scale mutiny in the Royal armed forces.
Nondakarri returns to the Archipelago much to the discontent of locals. Under cover of darkness the defected Ropondria sails into the Archipelago close enough to sink the Nondakarri in three shots. In the mourning the King is summoned to the City’s Council Hall and demanded to sign an abdication treaty. After six hours the king signs the treaty and returns to the Nondakarri after which it unloads most of the military inhabitants and sails onto the horizon.
The Urban Republic (2,422.1). After the Kadall Civil War the Archipelago became a complete sovereign E-Republic and remained independent from the Republic of Kadall forming a loose confederation with the other independent republics. The city operated an extensive merchant marine protected by its civilian defence forces but was markedly absent of a standing army. The Archipelago became well known for its extensive reefs, BioReserves and the fresh-water lake Ulladri.
The New Union of Kadall (2505.0). The Republic devolved through referendum into a federation of states becoming the Union of Kadall after the Constitution of Kadall was signed by every state bringing a common distribution of wealth, technology and enshrining basic civil liberties. The Archipelago became the de facto capital until moving to the Strappondro Platform orbiting above Kadall.
First Contact (2550.2). A deep-space exploration probe discovered radio broadcasts originating from Kadall prompting further investigation. Contact was established over 1,800 years since the original colonists fled. The Kadall marketed the territorial limit of the Sphere of Influence by the New Solar Union, having moved from outside to the periphery of ‘civilised space’. A Quantum Gate was constructed brining a thousand years of history, science and culture. The Kadall would eventually sign the Treaty for the Confederation of Sovereigns and expand their solar territory to another three stars.