-The Age of Stagnation-
Around fifty to sixty thousand years ago humanity left its solar system for the first time in a single man rocket known as the Rebirth 3 , this event would be dubbed by humans of that time as 'Phoenix rise' due to the name of the spacecraft.
With this achievement and the rockets successful return humans finally found a goal to drive towards causing the various factions and countries to hold an uneasy alliance as they slowly terraformed their solar system.
First it was their moon, then once the moon had its own self sustaining society it was the nearby planets known as 'Mars' and 'Venus'.
Before three hundred years after the 'Phoenix rise' humanity already had a rough population of 50 Billion members.
It was at this point humans stopped technological advancement, there was simply no way to terraform the planets known as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune as they were composed of gas.
For much of humanities upper echelon this was humanities limit, after all there had once been a renowned professor of theoretical physics who had decreed that humanities advancement, any civilisations advancement would be limited by only their greed.
A cruel statement that many other philosophers and scientists denied or found ways around, however in the end their pretty theoreticals could not beat the fact that he had spoken the truth even if not the whole picture it was enough.
The majority of humans lost their will to go higher, why would they have that desire? to make new advancements, to become a pioneer, who dares dream of such things when all they can see and feel is their confinement of a single planet, a single city, a single sector...
Truely who could dream? Why should I dream? Do I deserve to dream? No, I don't, survival is enough
That was the thoughts of the majority, an accurate yet deplorable style of thought.
Humanity nearly died that century, it nearly died because it, had in the end, strangled itself of greed, of imagination, of wonder, of desire. Instead of 'Living' all everyone did was stay alive.
Then a single scientific breakthrough propelled humanity, it gave them a reason to fight, to live to desire! and that was the existence of another species.
An intelligent species, one whose technological prowess surpassed humanity of that time.
These creatures were dubbed 'Solarians' from their species ability to survive by feeding off heat and radiation from different suns.
The discoverer of the Solarians was a young scientist, Apollo Initium.
He kept his discovery to himself as in his eyes humanity was a weak rotting wreck, there was no chance of advancement.
He eventually realised that while he had found traces of the Solarians they had not discovered Humanity.
To him the Solarians were a path for humans to further develop, to grow and dream once more.
With this thought he led a small team of trusted individuals to join hand with the Solarians and develop as fellow lifeforms.
Initially approaching the Solarians with the intent of peace, that was a fault he later claimed haunted him every day and night.
And so Apollo met with some Solarians and tried to initiate peaceful relations only to be mocked and ignored, however this did spark some Solarians to become interested in this odd group of apes.
They conducted vast research into humanity only to be shocked by what they discovered.
Learning of Humanities existence caused the Solarian race to fear for itself, for them it was unbelievable, In less than twenty thousand years a bunch of apes had pulled themselves from the Agricultural Age to the Information Age and then the Minor Space Age!
What horrifying speed, if given a few thousand more years whose to say they wouldn't have eclipsed the Solarians?
And so they did what any Empire in fear of being usurped did, they killed their would be usurpers without an ounce of mercy.
Their planets were razed by fire concentrated from their own sun, it was a purge of billions.
It was the most desolate and bleak situation for the remaining humans. Their worlds turned ash, their power stripped to nothing.
But from the ashes sprung life.
Apollo had survived this mass purge, and he had no desire to wait for his own demise in endless regret.
-Spacial Age/The Endless Age-
Apollo spent tens of years gathering survivors, feeding off scraps of Solarian technology and refining what scraps he had.
Then they were ready.
Humanity led by their guiding light, their first sun, Apollo Initium, humanity did what it had always been good at.
It was after all at its core, a warmongering species, one who crushed opposition with a bloody fist. It was Humanity
It waged war on the Solarians, bitterly at first, then as they took Solarian technology and their scientific insights, they adapted, they refined, they improved.
Humanity was almost eradicated several times in their brutal war.
They fought and fought, the wars were not easy, they were fighting an uphill battle, but across tens of thousands of years Humanity crawled out of its star system and spread like an all encompassing disease until its empire seemed to equalise with the Solarians, it was at this point the Solarians realised their mistake was not the choice to eliminate humanity but it was not finishing the job.
They were as they feared Eclipsed.
As humans once were they were hunted, they were the ones with the disadvantage now, and humans had no intention of giving them even a single speck of a chance to survive.
And so the Solarians were passed off as a footnote in history, they were the greatest and most hated enemy of Human kind.
-The Age of Recovery-
At this point it was only five thousand years before the current time.
Humanity once again stagnated, once again they played their foolish games, their infighting flared once more, however as this ages name suggested this time was mostly used for Humanity to consolidate its rule over the milky way it had conquered.
The children of the leaders of the Rebirth Era, each a power spanning many tens of thousands of start systems, gathered to form an organisation known as The Eclipsed Federation.
This Federation was made of three families.
The Star of War, The Saeuitia, The Generals and Commanders, each a bloodthirsty but deceptively intelligent warrior.
The Star of Fortune, The Aurum, The Vault keepers whose understanding of financial power rivalled supernatural.
The Star of Innovation, The Initium, The Researchers and Scientists with a thirst for knowledge that would let them go any length .
Together they were indomitable.
-The Fractured Age-
Exactly sixteen years ago.
The event known as the Fracturing, unlike every other major event listed thus far the Fracturing was not public knowledge, it was barely even understood by most elites with only the highest members of society understanding what it was.
For its physical appearance it was both rather simple yet endlessly complex, simply put it was as the name suggests, a fracturing of the very fabric of space itself.
It was numerous gaping wounds on a otherwise unscarred patch of skin.
However where this already strange event becomes stranger is the causation of the fracture.
Early on some Initium scientists theorised it was the result of overusing the ability to bend space and form wormholes, this however was both unable to be proven and made next to no sense as mapping the location of the fractures and wormhole points the two had no correlation.
These fractures and their surroundings were very quickly locked down and extensive research was going to be conducted.
It was going to be, before the fractures proved exactly what they had appeared for.