Omega
- 2,000 BCE (Roughly)
The El-Aurian empire begins to seed promising worlds with examples of interesting
primitive cultures - hoping to preserve diverse cultures for the future - They
become a third wave of "Preservers" spreading human and other humanoids
throughout the galaxy, mystifying later generations
- 0 AD
El-Aurians perfect genetic long life treatments - El-Aurians alive at this time
now have a functionally open ended lifespan.
- 1,000 AD
El-Aurians become the "Third Empire" which focuses on being less arrogant
and filled with Hubris.
- 1919
El-Aurians View with interest and concern Earth's first world war and rapid
technological evolution. They begin a last "Preservers" project to
try and preserve endangered cultures from Earth - some opine that the whole
planet may well be in danger.
- 1930
The El-Aurian Last Preserver project begins taking up Chinese villages from
the path of the Japanese Manchurian invasion, Eastern European people and villages.
These people are held in suspended animation until proper worlds can be found
for transplantation. The Last Preserver Project mentioned in Rigellian records
which translate El-Aurian terms into Rigellian characters
- 1947
Fearing a nuclear holocaust, the El-Aurians start lifting Americans and Europeans
from shipwrecks, plane wrecks and isolated locations. They also take a selection
of artifacts - this project is disagreed with by many El-Aurians with direct
experience of Earth
- 1955
The Vegan Tyranny feels that the El-Aurians are challenging them too much in
the area of the Last Preservers project - The Vegan Tyranny is all about control
and has arranged a truce with the El-Aurian empire based on mutual non-interference
The Vegan Tyranny arms and hires Orion mercenaries - traditional and hated enemies of the El-Aurians who then smear Omega in a brutal surprise attack The Orions fire full starship broadsides into El-Aurian cities leaving craters and nuclear winter. The Orions drop a bio-weapon which malfunctions immediately - deadly in the first few days - Survivors quickly gain immunity.
Many of the Survivors are Earth Humans suddenly released from underground vaults - they find themselves on a bombed out world in what seems to be Armageddon. Panic and violence result
- 1975
On the last Preserver Project - Colloquially known as "Omega" Earth
Survivors have formed into bands trying to re-establish their own cultures and
rebuild. El-Aurians who reveal themselves and try to explain what has happened
are regarded as mad-men, killed as foreign invaders and spies, or burned as
witches.
Many El-Aurians stay under cover with the survivors trying to guide them back towards some form of civilization.
Repeated El-Aurian rescue missions to Omega find little to try and rescue - and the whole thing is written off as a horrible disaster.
- 1995
On Omega, Asian and American descended survivors discover each other and begin
a generations long war - each blaming the other for the destruction of "the
World"
El-Aurian survivors can interbreed with the Earth Human Survivors - the children inherit the long El-Aurian lifespan.
- 2155
On Omega, the Asian versus Caucasian war has largely been decided in the Asian's
favor - the Caucasian peoples are forced into a nomadic, wild lifestyle reminiscent
of the American Indians. The Asian peoples are characterized by Iron Age and
masonry technology and cohesive cultures of warlords and brutal suppression.
- 2268
The Federation Starship USS Exeter is sent to Omega to explore vague and obscure
mentions in ancient records. They fall prey almost immediately to the malfunctioning
Orion Bio-Weapon - Captain Ron Tracey goes mad, and scours the planet for what
he considers the secret of immortality.
The USS Enterprise, sent to investigate the loss of the Exeter, discovers some elements of the truth.
- 2274
The Federation establishes a cultural rehabilitation mission/science mission
on Omega. Urged by Vulcans they take up a passive stance, offering Federation
civilization as a voluntary alternative, but not using force on the natives
except in extremely limited cases of self defense This Mission is called the
"PAX Colony"
- 2275
The Federation mission to Omega, "PAX" discovers 1950s NACA scientist
Dylan Hunt in an underground chamber. Awakened - he becomes an avid, if occasionally
clueless partisan of PAX - Hunt's existence, confirmed by records search on
Earth begins to shed light on the extremely odd cultures of Omega
Hunt begins a series of adventures where he helps out Archaeology, Anthropology and Diplomatic missions to the natives of Omega, and helps defend PAX against the inventively cruel and destructive attacks of various warlords.
- 2285
On Omega, the PAX Colony is growing by leaps and bound as refugees and escapees
from the brutal cultures surrounding PAX "Opt in" to the PAX way -
this makes Warlords paranoid and crazy - attacks step up, merely highlighting
the differences.
- 2297
On Omega, Dylan Hunt, after years of effort tracks down Lorian, A hunter, trapper
and woodsman living in the wilderness of Omega. Lorian is one of the El-Aurians
who set up the project, and has survived by isolating himself. Lorian tells
Dylan Hunt the whole story Hunt promises to keep the details secret. Lorian
joins Hunt's crew as a partisan of PAX, something he was initially deeply suspicious
of
- 2305
Dylan Hunt retires from active Adventuring on Omega, becomes a civic Leader
in PAX
- 2320's
El-Aurian refugees on Earth gain enough economic power and enough information
to begin trying to track down El-Aurian Survivors on Omega. In the end, the
El-Aurians elect to support PAX as the best option for recovering El-Aurian
Survivors. Lorian dismisses the El-Aurians claiming they haven't learned the
lesson of Omega or the Borg, he elects to stay with the PAX colony and try to
build something worthy on the bones of the El-Aurian failure.
- 2325
Dylan Hunt Aged approximately 80 dies on Omega.
Federation Intelligence gains Hunts secret Memoirs, and begins an investigation. Most of the story is revealed at this time. Pro-El-Aurian factions on the Federation Council elect to leave well enough alone and hope that PAX works out.
- 2365
On Omega, The PAX colony now controls most of the Continent upon which it was
founded - No Warlords can challenge it. PAX controls a trade network which reaches
all over the planet and effects human life all over it. It is well on it's way
to accomplishing its mission of allowing the Omegans to evolve voluntarily into
a Civilized world.
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