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Elite Timeline

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The following is the official timeline of the Elite universe.
==20th century==
===1950s===

*First man in space, controlled nuclear ﬁssion, transistor, start of the nuclear arms race;

===1960s===

*First man sets foot on Luna;
*Commercial ﬁssion power is achieved;
*First integrated circuits;
*First computers are built;

===1970s===

*Probes are sent across the Sol system;

===1980s===

*The Nuclear Arms Race ends;

===1990s===

*First serious environmental problems on Earth appear;
*Controlled nuclear fusion achieved;

==21st century==

===2000s===
*First (minor) armed conﬂict between a nation and a "multi-national" corporation takes place;

===2010s===
*Overpopulation starts to become an important problem of Earth;

===2020s===
*First international environmental protection enforcement agency is founded;
*First commercial space station is built;

===2030s===
*Major energy crisis takes place;
*Fossil fuel restrictions are imposed;
*Religious unrest appears across the planet;
*First baby is born off Earth;

===2040s===
*World War III takes place;
*Huge technological advancements are made;
*Huge loss of life, dreadful environmental damage;

===2050s===

*War is gradually abandoned due to popular rebellions;

*Commercial fusion power is achieved;

===2060s===

*Period of rebuilding after WW3 beings;

*Dominance of corporations is increased;

===2070s===

*First man on Mars;

*Frst permanent Moon base;

===2080s===

*Manned exploration of the Sol system;

*Orbital cities are built around Earth;

*First interstellar probes are launched;

===2090s===

*First permanent Mars base;

*Luna is heavily industrialized;
==22nd century==

===2100s===

*Discovery of fossils on Mars base;

*Higher-dimensional space, mostly referred to as hyperspace, is confirmed;

*Humans spread throughout the Sol system;

===2110s===

*Arrival of message from ﬁrst interstellar probe to Alpha Centauri system. First pictures taken of an extra-solar planet in the Lagrange point on the two main stars;

===2120s===

*Presence of life on Tau Ceti 3 is detected;

*Frst armed conﬂict in space over rights in the asteroid belt;

===2130s===

*Hyperspace capable probes are sent to all nearby systems;

===2140s===

*Manned spacecraft sent to Tau Ceti;

===2150s===

*Colony established on Tau Ceti 3;

*Major corporations sending ﬁrst private colony ships;

===2160s===

*The race for the stars begins;

*Enormous production eﬀort to produce ships;
*A mass exodus from the Sol system begins;

===2170s===

*First attempt at terraforming Mars beings;

===2180s===

*Life on Delta Parvonis is discovered and made extinct in same year from bacteriological infection;

===2190s===

*Discovery of life on Beta Hydri 4, Altair 5;

*Human colonials are spreading out of control;
==23rd century==

===2200s===

*Earth environmental recovery program started;

*The terraforming of Mars is abandoned;

===2220s===

*Extinctions on Tau Ceti 3 are increasing;

*Earth threatens to send a police force if the colonists do not cease their killing of indigenous life;

===2230s===

*The ultimatum sent by Earth is ignored;

===2240s===

*First interstellar battle takes place;

*Founding of the Galactic Federation, founder members: Sol (Earth), Tau Ceti, Delta Pavonis, Altair, Beta Hydri;

===2260s===

*Spread of Federation inﬂuence;

===2270s===

*Second attempt to terraform Mars begins;

===2280s===

*Discovery of ﬁrst non-human relic in space. Origin still unknown in 3200;

*First man "outside" on Mars (i.e. breathing unaided) on completion of terraforming;
==24th century==

===2300s===

*Remaining indigenous life on Tau Ceti 3 preserved in special enclosures;

===2310s===

*News of elimination of a reputedly sentient race on Achenar 6d by private colonists causes outrage in the Federation.

*Achenar refuses to join the Federation, many terraforming projects started;

===2320s===

*Federation sends war ﬂeet to Achenar. Resulting enormous space battle won by Achenar;
*The Empire of Achenar is founded;

===2330s===

*Spread of the Empire from Achenar to surrounding worlds.
*The Empire and the Federation go to war;
*The ﬁrst Space Dredgers are built as a means of providing heavy industrial capability on the front lines of the war;

===2340s===

*The Federation and the Empire continue hostilies towards each other;

===2350s===

*Sirius Corporation founded, which quickly increases its financial status as a result of supplying the war ﬂeets;

===2380s===

*A Peace Treaty is signed between Empire and Federation.
*The Empire-Federation Cold War begins;
==25th century==

===2401 - 2409===

*The Galactic Cooperative of Worlds is formed as a arbitrating body to maintain the peace between the Federation and Empire as well as the independent systems. It is given a very large budget through equal contributions from the Federation and Empire as well as contributions from other multi-world political entities. This budget is used primarily to produce adequate police forces and a well-armed navy which would come to the aid of any system threatened with invasion by another system.

*An era of peace begins to settle over human inhabited space, though there is still much tension between the Federation and the Empire.
==27th century==

===2650===

*TerraCorp is founded on Earth and specialized in producing various manufactured goods used in the frontier expansions;

===2700===

*Python class star cruiser is produced by Whatt and Pritney Ship Construct of Inera;
==28th century==

=== 2752 ===
*First Coriolis Station around Lave;

===2762===

*Viper class heavy ﬁghter is produced by Faulcon Manspace of Reorte and becomes the standard GalCop Police ship. The design is sent to all shipyards on medium to high technology worlds for immediate mass production;
==29th century==

===2850===

*Space Dredger TerraCorp One suﬀers a drive coil failure during a hyperspace transit, vanishing from known space;

===2852===

*Gecko is produced by the Ace & Faber HullWorks of Lerelace;

===2855===

*Cobra MkI, produced by Paynou, Prosett, and Salem shipyards of Zaonce, introduces revolutionary Prosett drive which alters the course of ship engine design all over the known galaxy;

===2856===

*Anaconda class freighter is produced by RimLiner Galactic of Barnard's Star. It is hailed as the largest freighter class built to date and remains so until the late 3100s;

*Orbit Shuttle is produced by Saud-Kruger Astro Design of Achenar. It steadily begins phasing out the old Transporter as the standard surface-to-orbit cargo and passenger carrier;

===2878===

*Asp MkII is produced by GalCop Shipworks, Eta Cassiopeia and becomes the standard GalCop Navy patrol and combat craft;

===2900===

*After a series of peace talks, the Empire and the Federation decide to form a special joint task force whose oﬃcial purpose is research and development of spacecraft and space living technology. It is given the name "Intergalactic Naval Research Arm", or INRA for short;
==30th century==

===2914===

*The Adder is produced by illicit Outworld Workshop. Actually, the ship was an INRA design, but this information was considered Top Secret until 3290;

===2982===

*Sidewinder scout ship designed by Faulcon deLacy Shipworks and produced by Spalder and Starblaze corporation of Eta Cassiopeia to satisfy GalCop Navy's need for a fast and manoeuvrable forward reconnaissance craft. The design immediately becomes very popular within space piracy;
==31st century==

===3017===

*The Boa class star cruiser is produced by Gerege Federation SpaceWorks, Gerege;

===3027===

*Krait class ﬁghter is produced by Faulcon deLacy Shipworks, ININES;

===3028===

*Moray Star Boat is produced by Marine Trench, Co., Earth;

===3050===

*First reported contact with insectoid alien race known as the Thargoids ends in hostility;

===3055===

*The Thargoid invasion oﬃcially begins. Massive ﬂeets of Thargoid warships carrying remote controlled ﬁghters ruthlessly cut a swathe into occupied human territory, encroaching on a cluster of stars centered around Alioth.

*GalCop Navy is mobilized to respond;

===3100===

*Cobra MkIII is produced by Cowell & McGrath Shipyards of Lave;

*Fer de Lance Lightspeeder is produced by Zorgon Patterson Group. It becomes a favorite with bounty hunters, but becomes outlawed in the late 3100s due to its overuse by pirates;

*The GalCop Navy manages to repel the Thargoid invasion, defining a frontline, centered on sector 9,9.

*The Thargoids begin sending small reconnaissance ﬂeets behind the battle line and deep into Human territory to survey various systems for later conquest and to raid commercial shipping;
==31st century==

===3101===

*Worm class landing craft is produced by Sirius Corporation of Sol to provide a means for larger ships to oﬀ-load passengers and cargo without the need of an orbital station;

===3110===

*Mamba class ﬁghter designed as a racing craft by the illicit Reorte Ship Federation. The design is standardized and mass produced by Radlett and Rayburn Shipyards of Reorte and is later outlawed by the GalCop due to its lack of suﬃcient safety features;

===3123===

*Galactic Cooperative is reduced in its power to that of an interstellar police force due to its failure to fully defeat the Thargoid invasion.

*The Existence of the INRA is oﬃcially announced by the Federation and Empire and the INRA Attack Wing is created. Citizens of both superpowers are encouraged to enlist to help stave oﬀ the invasion. GalCop becomes known as the Interpol and it ﬁnds itself under much scrutiny by the Federation and Empire.

===3127===

*The Federation and the Empire oﬃcially reject authority of the Interpol and form their own police forces. The Interpol is relegated to policing non-aligned systems and smaller confederacies;

===3145===

*The Imperial Courier is produced by the Gutamaya Corporation of Achenar;

===3147===

*The Imperial Trader is produced by the Gutamaya Corporation of Achenar;

*The Osprey attack ﬁghter is produced by the Imperial Shipyards at Vequess;

===3166===

*The Tiger class heavy trader is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol;

===3171===

*Maximillian Weaver is born in Schuller's Landing on Lave to tree farmers Robert and Marsha Weaver;

===3179===

*The Puma class clipper is produced by the Gupta Industrial Corporation of Alpha Centauri;

===3182===

*The Lion class heavy trader is produced by the Gupta Industrial Corporation of Alpha Centauri;

===3185===

*The Panther class clipper is produced by the Gupta Industrial Corporation of Alpha Centauri. It is the largest privately-owned freighter ever produced to date and remains so until the release of the Quest class ship;

===3189===

*The Constrictor medium trader is produced by the Vega Line Corporation;

===3190===

*Maximillian Weaver graduates from the Starpilot Academy with his pilot's license and departs his home planet for the ﬁrst time in his life to seek his fortune;

===3191===

*Maximillian Weaver decides to join the INRA in the ﬁght against the Thargoids. He meets Ronald Dreyfuss, son of wealthy mining company executive on Boston Base, Barnard's Star and convinces him to join the crusade;

===3193===

*Thargoid invasion halted by INRA's introduction of a Mycoid virus into the Thargoids' living machinery. Thargoids vanish from human space entirely and Humanity begins a period of re-colonization and revitalization;

===3194===

*Maximillian Weaver leaves the INRA under suspicious circumstances;

===3195===

*The Eagle Long Range Fighter is produced by Faulcon deLacy Shipyards, Reorte;

*Weaver re-designs the Sirius Corporation's MB3 Mining machine, making it even smaller and more eﬃcient. He calls it the MB4 and earns an enormous amount of money by selling the design to the Dreyfuss Mining Company of Barnard's Star;

===3199===

*The Eagle MkII is produced by the Federal Military Shipyards at Eta Cassiopeia;

*The Eagle Mk. III is produced by the Gutamaya Corporation of Achenar a few months after the MkII is released, ultimately ﬁxing problems caused by the MkII;

*Ronald Dreyfuss inherits the Dreyfuss Mining Company due to his father's death. The company becomes Weaver-Dreyfuss Mining with Max Weaver and Ron Dreyfuss becoming co-owners. The company specializes in Frontier system mining and production of the MB4 mining machine, though they have licensed other corporations to produce the MB4 as well;

===3200===

*Elite 2: Frontier begins;
==33rd century==

===3219===

*The Tiercel class light freighter is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol;

*Mark Jameson Pritchard is born in New York, Earth, Sol;

===3228===

*The Skeet class star cruiser is produced by Whatt and Pritney Ship Construct of Inera;

===3229===

*Weaver, Baker, Dreyfuss, and Stone Mining Corporation formed as the result of a merger between Weaver-Dreyfuss Mining, Baker Technologies, and Stone Limited;

===3230===

*Alioth uprising. The system, which had been subjected to many battles between the Empire and Federation, was freed in a massed insurrection against both sets of invaders. The Alliance of Independent Systems is formed. Oltiqu is renamed Gateway as it joins the new Alliance;

*Argent Amalgamated Aerodynamics (Inc.) is formed by Meredith Argent and Mic Turner and based on the newly-renamed world of Argent's Claim. The company immediately announces its position as "The Oﬃcial Alliance Shipbuilder." Construction begins on the soon-to-be-famous New Rossyth shipyards;

===3231===

*The AAAI's New Rossyth shipyards are completed. The new facility utilizes state-of-the-art technology and immediately begins producing its own ships;

*The Harrier class medium ﬁghter is produced by the Perez Corporation of UV Ceti;

===3234===

*The Gyr class medium ﬁghter is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol;

===3236===

*Alioth system economy stabilizes due to business interests taking up residence on the system's three terraformed worlds. The New Rossyth Shipyards reach an incredible production record, which is unsurpassed by any other shipyard in the known galaxy;

*James K. Winston is born in Newtown, Nirvana, Phekda;

===3237===

*The Mantis class transport is produced by the AAAI of Alioth;

*The Harris class heavy ﬁghter is produced by the Perez Corporation of UV Ceti;

*The Wyvern class light explorer is produced by the AAAI of Alioth;

*Mark Pritchard joins the Federal Military;

===3240===

*The Lanner class heavy trader is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol;

===3244===

*Pritchard, after serving through the mandatory waiting period, is transferred from the Federal Army to the Navy with an Ensign's commission;

===3245===

*The Griﬃn Carrier is produced by the AAAI of Alioth;

===3247===

*The Lanner MkII heavy trader is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol;

*The Merlin class medium ﬁghter is produced by the Perez Corporation of UV Ceti;

*The Spar class medium ﬁghter is produced by the Perez Corporation of UV Ceti;

*The "Incident at Delta Pavonis" in which Mark Pritchard is involved. An attempt at a show of force by the Federation though the performance of large-scale manoeuvres close to Imperial space turns into one of the greatest military disasters to date. Thousands of lives are lost both by the Imperial and Federal armed forces and nobody is ever completely certain of which side ﬁred the ﬁrst shot;

*Mark Pritchard oﬃcially resigns his commission from the Federal Navy and becomes a lone-wolf trader;

===3248===

*The Imperial Explorer is produced by Gutamaya Corporation of Achenar;

*The Viper Mk. II is produced by Faulcon deLacy of Inera;

===3250===

*Frontier: First Encounters begins;

*The Osprey-X attack ﬁghter is produced by the Gutamaya Corporation of Achenar;

*Maximillian Weaver, while living on Boston Base, Barnard's Star, is saved by Mark Pritchard from an INRA assassination attempt;

*Scientists at New Rossyth Shipyards, backed by WBD&S and the Sirius Corporation, design and build the revolutionary Class 4 Military Drive. It is determined that the new engine is so powerful that it can only be installed in ships of Python size or larger;

*Valhalla Liberation Army commander Dentara Rast is assassinated;

*New Rossyth Shipyards secretly builds the Crimson Arrow.It is ﬁrst new Python class star cruiser in over two hundred years and is outﬁtted with the new Class 4 Military Drive.The addition of this new drive, plus the use of some new, lighter, and more durable hull materials gives the new ship the designation Python MkII. The ship blasts its way out of its hidden orbital hangar to avoid destruction by a surprise attack by the INRA and then engages its experimental hyperdrive and disappears;

*Mic Turner of AAAI fame completes his design of a brand new type of starship called the Quest class. New Rossyth Shipyards begin laying the groundwork for this new vessel;

*V.I.P. Maximillian Weaver is declared oﬃcially missing;

===3251===

*Max Weaver returns to Alioth in time to celebrate his 80th Birthday;

*New Rossyth rebuilds prototype Class 4 Military Drive and mounts it on the prototype Quest class ship, the Turner's Quest. The Quest class starship is oﬃcially announced and becomes the largest privately owned vessel ever produced;

===3252===

*The second Quest class ship, named Argent's Quest is laid down at New Rossyth Shipyards;

*Another INRA attack on a secret asteroid base in the Alioth system results in the theft of a vaccine to the Mycoid Virus with which the Thargoids were infected in order to bring about a victory for Humankind over the Thargoid invasion;

===3253===

*An oﬃcial peace between Independent Alliance and Thargoids is established when the captured vaccine to the INRA's mycoid virus is stolen from a secret INRA research base and delivered by the crew of the Argent's Quest to the Thargoid home system of Miacke;

*The ﬁrst Thargoid warship ever to be ﬂown by a human arrives in Alliance space;

===3255===

*Relations between Thargoids and Humanity become more amicable as both species begin exchanges of technological and cultural ideas;

*Winston pulls oﬀ a foolhardy assassination of one of Phekda's maﬁa at Boston Base, Barnard's Star, starting his infamous bounty hunting career;

===3258===

*The Crimson Arrow, manned by most of her original crew, as well as a Federation and Thargoid scientist, sets out into deep space on a special reconnaissance mission;

===3261===

*The Veliaze crisis. The Empire sends out a massive invasion ﬂeet to take Veliaze, just south of the Alliance system, Gateway. This causes widespread panic in the Federation and the Alliance. The Alliance quickly retroﬁts a number of Long Range Cruisers as capital battleships (the Valiant class), and the Alliance Joint Navy is formed under the command of Adm. Rafe Wilson;

*AJN's training academy, the Turner Space Combat Academy, is opened at Dublin Citadel (Gateway);

===3262===

*Veliaze joins the AIS, much to Hengist Duval's annoyance;

*INRA tries to prevent Veliaze from joining the AIS. The AJN Bounty is dispatched to protect the new Alliance member. Although its mission was successful, it received such heavy battle damage that it was scrapped the same year;

===3265===

*James Winston and his crew of fourteen bounty hunters smash the notorious "Sirius Templar" organized piracy ring;

===3268===

*Winston joins the AJN's security division - the AJNIB, after an unorthodox recruitment method is used on him;

===3269===

*The AJN Eastwood is destroyed after a collision with Phekda 6. The entire crew abandoned ship successfully when it was apparent the collision was unavoidable;

===3270===

*The new AJN battle cruiser, the Victor class, is unveiled. The ﬁrst ship of its class, the AJN Hood, is launched;

===3272===

*The AJN ﬂagship, the Valiant-class AJN Fearless is replaced by a Victor class ship of the same name. The ship is commanded by James K. Winston;

===3276===

*A strange object of unknown origin is discovered in the vicinity of Liazeda (-12,3). Named the LRA (Liazeda Radio Anomaly), the Alliance research ship, the Lion, is sent to investigate. The LRA and the ship disappears and its fate is still unknown in 3296. Only a handful of crew, who were deploying probes from two Explorer-class vessels return;

===3280===

*Winston is promoted to Fleet Admiral of the AJN;

===3284===

*Federation Democratic Council ratiﬁes the Interstellar Crisis Management Act which allows for "rapid access to any and all available resources to deal with any crisis which eﬀects an entire system or systems. This can be anything from the threat of supernova, medical emergencies, and similar incidents;"

===3288===

*First fatigue problems found in the AJN's Valiant-class battleships. The AJN Enterprise is scrapped after unusually high fatigue damage is discovered. The ship is replaced by a new Victor class, the AJN Ark Royal;

===3289===

*Battle of Biggs Colony.

*74,000 Imperial Soldiers killed by under-estimated rebel forces on the planet of Biggs Colony in the system of Altair;

===3294===

*Winston steps down as Fleet Admiral, and becomes the commander of the Turner Space Combat Academy;

*The Cause is started by a group of anarchists dedicated to "bringing the concept of justice to populated space" through direct action against mega corporations and governments;

===3296===

*A Phekdan government is formed, and the system joins the AIS. The Federation and Empire try and take Phekda when it is discovered that the system is ripe for military fuel production. Skillful diplomacy and a show of force by the AJN repels the attack with little bloodshed;

*Deep space probes return with news that the star, Betelgeuse, went supernova. The Alliance Science Council dispatches hundreds of deep space probes to study the nova. Meanwhile, a second LRA-object is discovered. Considerably more caution is taken examining this object. It still yields few secrets, and eventually disappears with a number of deep space probes attached to it;

*James Winston is captured by Federation forces and held in prison on Boston Base, Barnard's Star. This creates a massive protest by Alliance citizens and the military. Winston's nephew ﬁnds himself harassed by the Federals due to his presence on the station at the time of his uncle's capture;

*Membership in The Cause increases exponentially as a result of Winston's alleged kidnapping by the Federation and imprisonment;

*The Cause makes its oﬃcial base on Davies Earth in the Quator system and aquires the Long Range Cruiser Azure Sunset;

Elite Timeline

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The following is the official timeline of the Elite universe.
==Timeline==
===21st century===
==1950s==

*First man in space, controlled nuclear ﬁssion, transistor, start of the nuclear arms race;

==1960s==

*First man sets foot on Luna;
*Commercial ﬁssion power is achieved;
*First integrated circuits;
*First computers are built;

==1970s==

*Probes are sent across the Sol system;

==1980s==

*The Nuclear Arms Race ends;

===1990's===

*First serious environmental problems on Earth appear;
*Controlled nuclear fusion achieved;

===21st century===
==2000s==
*First (minor) armed conﬂict between a nation and a "multi-national" corporation takes place;

==2010s==
*Overpopulation starts to become an important problem of Earth;

==2020s==
*First international environmental protection enforcement agency is founded;
*First commercial space station is built;

==2030s==
*Major energy crisis takes place;
*Fossil fuel restrictions are imposed;
*Religious unrest appears across the planet;
*First baby is born off Earth;

==2040s==
*World War III takes place;
*Huge technological advancements are made;
*Huge loss of life, dreadful environmental damage;

===2050's===

-War gradually abandoned due to popular rebellions. Commercial fusion power

===2060's===

-Rebuilding. Dominance of corporations increased

===2070's===

-First man on Mars, ﬁrst permanent Moon base

===2080's===

-Manned exploration of solar system, orbital cities around Earth, ﬁrst interstellar probes launched

===2090's===

-First permanent Mars base, heavy industry on Moon

===2100's===

-Discovery of fossils on Mars base, "hyperspace" discovered, humans throughout solar system

===2110's===

-Arrival of message from ﬁrst interstellar probe to Alpha Centauri system. First pictures taken of an extra-solar planet in the Lagrange point on the two main stars.

===2120's===

-Presence of life on Tau Ceti 3 detected, ﬁrst armed conﬂict in space over rights in the asteroid belt

===2130's===

-Hyperspace capable probes sent to all nearby systems

===2140's===

-Manned space craft sent to Tau Ceti

===2150's===

-Colony established on Tau Ceti 3. Major corporations sending ﬁrst private colony ships

===2160's===

-The race for the stars. Enormous production eﬀort to produce ships, and mass exodus started

===2170's===

-First attempt to terra-form Mars started

===2180's===

-Life on Delta Parvonis discovered and made extinct in same year from bacteriological infection

===2190's===

-Discovery of life on Beta Hydri 4, Altair 5. Human colonials spreading out of control

===2200's===

-Earth environmental recovery program started, terraforming of Mars abandoned

===2220's===

-Extinctions on Tau Ceti 3 increasing. Earth threatens to send a police force if nothing is done about it

===2230's===

-Ultimatum sent to Tau Ceti ignored

===2240's===

-First interstellar battle, formation of the Federation, founder members: Earth, Tau Ceti, Delta Pavonis, Altair, Beta Hydri

===2260's===

-Spread of Federation inﬂuence

===2270's===

-Second attempt to terra-form Mars started

===2280's===

-Discovery of ﬁrst non-human relic in space. Origin still unknown in 3200

-First man "outside" on Mars (ie breathing unaided) on completion of terraforming

===2300's===

-Remaining indigenous life on Tau Ceti 3 preserved in special enclosures

===2310's===

-News of elimination of a reputedly sentient race on Achenar 6d by private colonists causes outrage in the Federation. Achenar refuses to join Federation, many Terra-forming projects started

===2320's===

-Federation sends war ﬂeet to Achenar. Resulting enormous space battle won by Achenar

===2330's===

-Spread of Empire from Achenar to surrounding worlds. War between Empire and Federation.

- The ﬁrst Space Dredgers are built as a means of providing heavy industrial capability on the front lines of the war.

===2340's===

-Continuing battles between Federation and Empire

===2350's===

-Sirius corporation founded, and grew rich supplying the war ﬂeets

===2380's===

-Treaty signed between Empire and Federation. The Cold War begins...

===2400's===

- Galactic Cooperative of Worlds is formed as a arbitrating body to maintain the peace between the Federation and Empire as well as the independent systems. It is given a very large budget through equal contributions from the Federation and Empire as well as contributions from other multi-world political entities. This budget is used primarily to produce adequate police forces and a well-armed Navy which would come to the aid of any system threatened with invasion by another system. An era of peace begins to settle over the populated galaxy, though there is still much tension between the Federation and Empire.

===2650===

- TerraCorp founded on Earth and specialized in producing various manufactured goods used in the frontier expansions.

===2700===

- Python class star cruiser is produced by Whatt and Pritney Ship Construct of Inera.

=== 2752 ===
- First Coriolis Station around Lave.

===2762===

- Viper class heavy ﬁghter is produced by Faulcon Manspace of Reorte and becomes the standard GalCop Police ship. The design is sent to all shipyards on medium to high technology worlds for immediate mass production.

===2850===

- Space Dredger TerraCorp One suﬀers a drive coil failure during a hyperspace transit and disappears from known space.

===2852===

- Gecko is produced by the Ace & Faber HullWorks of Lerelace.

===2855===

- Cobra MkI, produced by Paynou, Prosett, and Salem shipyards of Zaonce, introduces revolutionary Prosett drive which alters the course of ship engine design all over the known galaxy.

===2856===

- Anaconda class freighter is produced by RimLiner Galactic of Barnard's Star. It is hailed as the largest freighter class built to date and remains so until the late 3100s.

- Orbit Shuttle is produced by Saud-Kruger Astro Design of Achenar. It steadily begins phasing out the old Transporter as the standard surface-to-orbit cargo and passenger carrier.

===2878===

- Asp MkII is produced by GalCop Shipworks, Eta Cassiopeia and becomes the standard GalCop Navy patrol and combat craft.

===2900===

- After a series of peace talks, the Empire and Federation decide to form a special joint task force whose "oﬃcial" purpose is research and development of spacecraft and space living technology. It is given the name Intergalactic Naval Research Arm, or INRA for short.

===2914===

- Adder produced by illicit Outworld Workshop. Actually, the ship was an INRA design, but this information was considered Top Secret until 3290.

===2982===

- Sidewinder scout ship designed by Faulcon deLacy Shipworks and produced by Spalder and Starblaze corporation of Eta Cassiopeia to satisfy GalCop Navy's need for a fast and manoeuvrable forward reconnaissance craft. The design immediately becomes very popular with space pirates.

===3017===

- Boa class star cruiser produced by Gerege Federation SpaceWorks, Gerege.

===3027===

- Krait class ﬁghter is produced by Faulcon deLacy Shipworks, ININES.

===3028===

- Moray Star Boat is produced by Marine Trench, Co., Earth.

===3050===

- First reported contact with insectoid alien race known as the Thargoids ends in hostility.

===3055===

- The Thargoid invasion oﬃcially begins. Massive ﬂeets of Thargoid warships carrying remote controlled ﬁghters ruthlessly cut a swathe into occupied human territory, encroaching on a cluster of stars centered around Alioth. GalCop Navy is mobilized to respond.

===3100===

- Cobra MkIII is produced by Cowell & McGrath Shipyards of Lave.

- Fer de Lance Lightspeeder is produced by Zorgon Patterson Group. It becomes a favorite with bounty hunters, but becomes outlawed in the late 3100s due to its overuse by pirates.

- The GalCop Navy manages to beat the Thargoid invasion back, a battle line is drawn, centered on sector 9,9. The Thargoids begin sending small reconnaissance ﬂeets behind the battle line and deep into Human territory to survey various systems for later conquest and to raid commercial shipping.

===3101===

- Worm class landing craft is produced by Sirius Corporation of Sol to provide a means for larger ships to oﬀ-load passengers and cargo without the need of an orbital station.

===3110===

- Mamba class ﬁghter designed as a racing craft by the illicit Reorte Ship Federation. The design is standardized and mass produced by Radlett and Rayburn Shipyards of Reorte and is later outlawed by the GalCop due to its lack of suﬃcient safety features.

===3123===

- Galactic Cooperative is reduced in its power to that of an interstellar police force due to its failure to repel the Thargoid invasion. Existence of the INRA is oﬃcially announced by the Federation and Empire and the INRA Attack Wing is created. Citizens of both superpowers are encouraged to enlist to help stave oﬀ the invasion. GalCop becomes known as the Interpol and it ﬁnds itself under much scrutiny by the Federation and Empire.

===3127===

- Federation and Empire oﬃcially reject authority of the Interpol and form their own police forces. Interpol is relegated to policing non-aligned systems and smaller confederacies.

===3145===

- The Imperial Courier is produced by the Gutamaya Corporation of Achenar.

===3147===

- The Imperial Trader is produced by the Gutamaya Corporation of Achenar.

- The Osprey attack ﬁghter is produced by the Imperial Shipyards at Vequess.

===3166===

- The Tiger class heavy trader is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol.

===3171===

- Maximillian Weaver is born in Schuller's Landing on Lave to tree farmers Robert and Marsha Weaver.

===3179===

- The Puma class clipper is produced by the Gupta Industrial Corporation of Alpha Centauri.

===3182===

- The Lion class heavy trader is produced by the Gupta Industrial Corporation of Alpha Centauri.

===3185===

- The Panther class clipper is produced by the Gupta Industrial Corporation of Alpha Centauri. It is the largest privately-owned freighter ever produced to date and remains so until the release of the Quest class ship.

===3189===

- The Constrictor medium trader is produced by the Vega Line Corporation.

===3190===

- Maximillian Weaver graduates from the Starpilot Academy with his pilot's license and departs his home planet for the ﬁrst time in his life to seek his fortune.

===3191===

- Maximillian Weaver decides to join the INRA in the ﬁght against the Thargoids. He meets Ronald Dreyfuss, son of wealthy mining company executive on Boston Base, Barnard's Star and convinces him to join the crusade.

===3193===

- Thargoid invasion halted by INRA's introduction of a Mycoid virus into the Thargoids' living machinery. Thargoids vanish from human space entirely and Humanity begins a period of re-colonization and revitalization.

===3194===

- Maximillian Weaver leaves the INRA under suspicious circumstances.

===3195===

- The Eagle Long Range Fighter is produced by Faulcon deLacy Shipyards, Reorte.

- Weaver re-designs the Sirius Corporation's MB3 Mining machine, making it even smaller and more eﬃcient. He calls it the MB4 and earns an enormous amount of money by selling the design to the Dreyfuss Mining Company of Barnard's Star.

===3199===

- The Eagle MkII is produced by the Federal Military Shipyards at Eta Cassiopeia.

- The Eagle Mk. III is produced by the Gutamaya Corporation of Achenar a few months after the MkII is released, ultimately ﬁxing problems caused by the MkII.

- Ronald Dreyfuss inherits the Dreyfuss Mining Company due to his father's death. The company becomes Weaver-Dreyfuss Mining with Max Weaver and Ron Dreyfuss becoming co-owners. The company specializes in Frontier system mining and production of the MB4 mining machine, though they have licensed other corporations to produce the MB4 as well.

===3200===

- Elite 2: Frontier begins.

===3219===

- The Tiercel class light freighter is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol.

- Mark Jameson Pritchard is born in New York, Earth, Sol.

===3228===

- The Skeet class star cruiser is produced by Whatt and Pritney Ship Construct of Inera.

===3229===

- Weaver, Baker, Dreyfuss, and Stone Mining Corporation formed as the result of a merger between Weaver-Dreyfuss Mining, Baker Technologies, and Stone Limited.

===3230===

- Alioth uprising. The system, which had been subjected to many battles between the Empire and Federation, was freed in a massed insurrection against both sets of invaders. The Alliance of Independent Systems is formed. Oltiqu is renamed Gateway as it joins the new Alliance.

- Argent Amalgamated Aerodynamics (Inc.) is formed by Meredith Argent and Mic Turner and based on the newly-renamed world of Argent's Claim. The company immediately announces its position as "The Oﬃcial Alliance Shipbuilder." Construction begins on the soon-to-be-famous New Rossyth shipyards.

===3231===

- The AAAI's New Rossyth shipyards are completed. The new facility utilizes state-of-the-art technology and immediately begins producing its own ships.

- The Harrier class medium ﬁghter is produced by the Perez Corporation of UV Ceti.

===3234===

- The Gyr class medium ﬁghter is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol.

===3236===

- Alioth system economy stabilizes due to business interests taking up residence on the system's three terraformed worlds. The New Rossyth Shipyards reach an incredible production record, which is unsurpassed by any other shipyard in the known galaxy.

- James K. Winston is born in Newtown, Nirvana, Phekda.

===3237===

- The Mantis class transport is produced by the AAAI of Alioth.

- The Harris class heavy ﬁghter is produced by the Perez Corporation of UV Ceti.

- The Wyvern class light explorer is produced by the AAAI of Alioth.

- Mark Pritchard joins the Federal Military.

===3240===

- The Lanner class heavy trader is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol.

===3244===

- Pritchard, after serving through the mandatory waiting period, is transferred from the Federal Army to the Navy with an Ensign's commission.

===3245===

- The Griﬃn Carrier is produced by the AAAI of Alioth.

===3247===

- The Lanner MkII heavy trader is produced by the Core Industrial Corporation of Sol.

- The Merlin class medium ﬁghter is produced by the Perez Corporation of UV Ceti.

- The Spar class medium ﬁghter is produced by the Perez Corporation of UV Ceti.

- The "Incident at Delta Pavonis" in which Mark Pritchard is involved. An attempt at a show of force by the Federation though the performance of large-scale manoeuvres close to Imperial space turns into one of the greatest military disasters to date. Thousands of lives are lost both by the Imperial and Federal armed forces and nobody is ever completely certain of which side ﬁred the ﬁrst shot.

- Mark Pritchard oﬃcially resigns his commission from the Federal Navy and becomes a lone-wolf trader.

===3248===

- The Imperial Explorer is produced by Gutamaya Corporation of Achenar.

- The Viper Mk. II is produced by Faulcon deLacy of Inera.

===3250===

- Frontier: First Encounters begins.

- The Osprey-X attack ﬁghter is produced by the Gutamaya Corporation of Achenar.

- Maximillian Weaver, while living on Boston Base, Barnard's Star, is saved by Mark Pritchard from an INRA assassination attempt.

- Scientists at New Rossyth Shipyards, backed by WBD&S and the Sirius Corporation, design and build the revolutionary Class 4 Military Drive. It is determined that the new engine is so powerful that it can only be installed in ships of Python size or larger.

- Valhalla Liberation Army commander Dentara Rast is assassinated.

- New Rossyth Shipyards secretly builds the Crimson Arrow.It is ﬁrst new Python class star cruiser in over two hundred years and is outﬁtted with the new Class 4 Military Drive.The addition of this new drive, plus the use of some new, lighter, and more durable hull materials gives the new ship the designation Python MkII. The ship blasts its way out of its hidden orbital hangar to avoid destruction by a surprise attack by the INRA and then engages its experimental hyperdrive and disappears.

- Mic Turner of AAAI fame completes his design of a brand new type of starship called the Quest class. New Rossyth Shipyards begin laying the groundwork for this new vessel.

- V.I.P. Maximillian Weaver is declared oﬃcially missing.

===3251===

- Max Weaver returns to Alioth in time to celebrate his 80th Birthday.

- New Rossyth rebuilds prototype Class 4 Military Drive and mounts it on the prototype Quest class ship, the Turner's Quest. The Quest class starship is oﬃcially announced and becomes the largest privately owned vessel ever produced.

===3252===

- The second Quest class ship, named Argent's Quest is laid down at New Rossyth Shipyards.

- Another INRA attack on a secret asteroid base in the Alioth system results in the theft of a vaccine to the Mycoid Virus with which the Thargoids were infected in order to bring about a victory for Humankind over the Thargoid invasion.

===3253===

- An oﬃcial peace between Independent Alliance and Thargoids is established when the captured vaccine to the INRA's mycoid virus is stolen from a secret INRA research base and delivered by the crew of the Argent's Quest to the Thargoid home system of Miacke.

- The ﬁrst Thargoid warship ever to be ﬂown by a human arrives in Alliance space.

===3255===

- Relations between Thargoids and Humanity become more amicable as both species begin exchanges of technological and cultural ideas.

- Winston pulls oﬀ a foolhardy assassination of one of Phekda's maﬁa at Boston Base, Barnard's Star, starting his infamous bounty hunting career.

===3258===

- The Crimson Arrow, manned by most of her original crew, as well as a Federation and Thargoid scientist, sets out into deep space on a special reconnaissance mission.

===3261===

- The Veliaze crisis. The Empire sends out a massive invasion ﬂeet to take Veliaze, just south of the Alliance system, Gateway. This causes widespread panic in the Federation and the Alliance. The Alliance quickly retroﬁts a number of Long Range Cruisers as capital battleships (the Valiant class), and the Alliance Joint Navy is formed under the command of Adm. Rafe Wilson.

- AJN's training academy, the Turner Space Combat Academy, is opened at Dublin Citadel (Gateway).

===3262===

- Veliaze joins the AIS, much to Hengist Duval's annoyance.

- INRA tries to prevent Veliaze from joining the AIS. The AJN Bounty is dispatched to protect the new Alliance member. Although its mission was successful, it received such heavy battle damage that it was scrapped the same year.

===3265===

- James Winston and his crew of fourteen bounty hunters smash the notorious "Sirius Templar" organized piracy ring.

===3268===

- Winston joins the AJN's security division - the AJNIB, after an unorthodox recruitment method is used on him. [Note: There's more of this story to come, but I'm not giving it away since it's part of "Deceit, Harmony & Pleasure" I haven't written yet. And yes, I do have an outline of what happens ;-)]

===3269===

- The AJN Eastwood is destroyed after a collision with Phekda 6. The entire crew abandoned ship successfully when it was apparent the collision was unavoidable.

===3270===

- The new AJN battle cruiser, the Victor class, is unveiled. The ﬁrst ship of its class, the AJN Hood, is launched.

===3272===

- The AJN ﬂagship, the Valiant-class AJN Fearless is replaced by a Victor class ship of the same name. The ship is commanded by James K. Winston.

===3276===

- A strange object of unknown origin is discovered in the vicinity of Liazeda (-12,3). Named the LRA (Liazeda Radio Anomaly), the Alliance research ship, the Lion, is sent to investigate. The LRA and the ship disappears and its fate is still unknown in 3296. Only a handful of crew, who were deploying probes from two Explorer-class vessels return.

===3280===

- Winston is promoted to Fleet Admiral of the AJN.

===3284===

- Federation Democratic Council ratiﬁes the Interstellar Crisis Management Act which allows for "rapid access to any and all available resources to deal with any crisis which eﬀects an entire system or systems. This can be anything from the threat of supernova, medical emergencies, and similar incidents."

===3288===

- First fatigue problems found in the AJN's Valiant-class battleships. The AJN Enterprise is scrapped after unusually high fatigue damage is discovered. The ship is replaced by a new Victor class, the AJN Ark Royal.

===3289===

- Battle of Biggs Colony. 74,000 Imperial Soldiers killed by under-estimated rebel forces on the planet of Biggs Colony in the system of Altair.

===3294===

- Winston steps down as Fleet Admiral, and becomes the commander of the Turner Space Combat Academy.

- The Cause is started by a group of anarchists dedicated to "bringing the concept of justice to populated space" through direct action against mega corporations and governments.

===3296===

- A Phekdan government is formed, and the system joins the AIS. The Federation and Empire try and take Phekda when it is discovered that the system is ripe for military fuel production. Skillful diplomacy and a show of force by the AJN repels the attack with little bloodshed.

- Deep space probes return with news that the star, Betelgeuse, went supernova. The Alliance Science Council dispatches hundreds of deep space probes to study the nova. Meanwhile, a second LRA-object is discovered. Considerably more caution is taken examining this object. It still yields few secrets, and eventually disappears with a number of deep space probes attached to it.

- James Winston is captured by Federation forces and held in prison on Boston Base, Barnard's Star. This creates a massive protest by Alliance citizens and the military. Winston's nephew ﬁnds himself harassed by the Federals due to his presence on the station at the time of his uncle's capture.

- Membership in The Cause increases exponentially as a result of Winston's alleged kidnapping by the Federation and imprisonment.

- The Cause makes its oﬃcial base on Davies Earth in the Quator system and aquires the Long Range Cruiser Azure Sunset.

Empire

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[[File:EmpireInsignia.png|thumb|200px|Insignia of The Empire]]

The '''Empire of Achenar''', colloquially referred to as the '''Empire''', is one of the three [[:Category:Factions|superpowers]] of human inhabited space, the other two being the [[Federation]] and the [[Alliance]]. The Imperial Palace, seat of the [[Emperor]], is situated on [[Achenar/Capitol|Capitol]] in the [[Achenar]] system.

Although a peace treaty has existed between the Empire and the Federation since 2382AD, there have never really been any peaceful relations between these two old enemies. The Empire despises the Federation and everything it stands for, and vice-versa.

The Empire is less technologically dependent than the Federation, choosing to keep and employ slaves for the work which machines would usually perform in other parts of the universe. The Empire is also a proponent of human cloning, a topic which the other factions find abhorrent and have officially banned within their own [[Imperial Jurisdiction|jurisdictions]].

Imperial society is based on a "client" system - much like ancient Rome - and strictly stratified, with people being able to move between strata based on money, patronage and [[influence]]. It values both status and honour very highly. Whilst it is acceptable to flaunt wealth, treating people well is a question of honour - and this includes slaves. Having an unpaid debt is seen as utterly dishonourable - an honourable Imperial citizen would sell themselves into slavery to clear a debt they couldn't otherwise afford.

The Imperial Law is seen and enforced by [[Imperial Senators|Senators]] who themselves are above the law. They can order executions, and can even kill people themselves, though sometimes (rarely) they may be held to account for their actions by the [[Emperor]]. In the Empire very little is illegal, but many things are frowned upon, like excessive use of narcotics.<ref>http://www.elitedangerous.com/galaxy/gs-empire/</ref>

Imperial design puts an emphasis on the glamorous, glorious, and aesthetically beautiful, with extravagance in abundance. Everything in the Empire looks impressive, from their cities, to their ships, right down to the clothes worn by Imperial subjects.

==Ranks==
{{:Empire/Ranks}}

==Faction Ships==
* [[Majestic Class Interdictor]]
* [[Imperial Cutter]]
* [[Imperial Clipper]]
* [[Imperial Courier]]
* [[Imperial Eagle]]
* [[Imperial Fighter]]

==Permits==
{{For|a list of Permits|Permits/Empire}}

Permits are required to access certain systems that are otherwise locked out by the computer of your [[Frame Shift Drive]] (FSD).

Such permits are rewarded by the controlling faction for that locked system, when you become friendly with that faction, by accomplishing missions such as "Imperial dispatch" and receiving ranks. You can often find that faction on a station outside the main system they control.

Once finished several dispatch quests, simply visit the Bulletin Board at any of the faction's stations to accept a job titled "Imperial invitation". Accepting the job automatically adds the permit to your FSD computer.

==History==
What is now known as the Empire began around in the middle of the 23rd century, with the architect of peace and an anti-Federation activist [[Marlin Duval]]<ref name="GalnetBirthOfAnEmpire">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/559fe59e9657ba1b5a47e853 Galnet News: The Birth of an Empire]</ref>. She had long spoken out against the oppressive Federal administration of the time. Such was her disenchantment that she gathered her family together, along with many supporters, and left the Federation. Marlin led them to a distant star system called Achenar, many light years from Sol, in order to found a new colony based on peaceful ideals. A suitable home was found orbiting Achenar 6, a Class III gas giant, and Achenar 6d was colonised. Now named [[Achenar/Capitol|Capitol]], this moon formed the core world of what would later become the Empire.

The colony started off extremely well, and an administrative council was formed with Marlin at the head, in order to fairly distribute power throughout the colony. As the colony expanded, so did [[The Imperial Council|the council]], with a determination that any and every situation was dealt with via peaceful methods and dialogue. This arrangement worked very well indeed and the colony continued to prosper.

===Accusations of Genocide===
Imperial historians record that many native species were found on Capitol during colonisation, which the colonists took great care to protect as best they could. Among these species, unbeknownst to the newly-formed republic, were one of the few sapient species to have been encountered by humanity. Imperial scholars have suggested a number of factors led to the extinction of this species, not least of all imported bacteria carried along with the colonists.<ref name="GalnetBirthOfAnEmpire">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/559fe59e9657ba1b5a47e853 Galnet News: The Birth of an Empire]</ref> Within a few short years, this indigenous species had been rendered extinct.

Federal historians, citing Federal decrees of the time, paint a different tale. The official Federal version of events alleges that Capitol was in fact sterilised on the orders of [[Henson Duval]], brother of Marlin Duval, prior to terraforming some years after Marlin's death. Imperial scholars disagree on whether this was due to innocent confusion over misunderstood or misrepresented information, associating plans for the terraforming of nearby world [[Achenar/Conversion|Conversion]] (a project which would not be completed until 2696) with that of the genocide, or a deliberate political smear campaign based on Marlin Duval's antagonistic relationship with the Federation.

Whether mistakenly or not, the Federation threatened retaliation if this action were repeated, later using this event retroactively as the pretext for a failed invasion attempt in 2324AD<ref name="GalnetBirthOfAnEmpire">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/559fe59e9657ba1b5a47e853 Galnet News: The Birth of an Empire]</ref> which would secure the newborn Empire's standing as a major galactic power.

===The Birth of an Empire===
The original government of Achenar was recorded as a democratic republic, elected senators representing the people and a council of high-ranking politicians acting as an executive body for the republic. Marlin Duval, as the founder and a popular political figure, retained a great deal of political power in this period, but enjoyed only a position of influence within the council rather than the absolute leadership of later Emperors.

Some few short years after the founding of the Republic of Achenar, Marlin Duval was killed in a [[The Imperial Shuttle Accident|shuttle accident]], in which her partner and children also perished. No evidence ever surfaced linking her brother Henson to the incident, but even the most loyal Imperial historians openly accept that the event was suspicious in light of his subsequent actions.

Assuming control of the senate as Marlin's closest living heir, Henson Duval quickly disbanded the ruling council and installed himself as leader of the Achenar system's colonies. Citing the continued threats made by the Federation and their defencelessness in the face of a military invasion, Henson began a campaign of propaganda rejecting his sister's pacifistic ideals. Such was his passion and power of persuasion that he succeeded in converting the capricious colonists to his doctrines in a remarkably short period of time.

Utilising his popularity among the colonists and strong control over the colony's government, Henson declared that control of the colony and any associated systems would pass from father to son. With this declaration in 2314, the Empire as we know it was born.

At this time, the federation continued to invite the colony to accept Federal rule and abandon their fledgeling Empire. Not only were these invitations met with outright refusal, but the Empire also began to approach nearby colonies to recruit them ''away'' from the Federation. Most historians agree that this was the catalyst for the Federation's move from diplomacy to military action.

===The First Empire / Federation War===
Whether in the face of the Empire's sedition or the stated charges of genocide, the Federation began an armed invasion of the Achenar system in 2324. As the largest power in the known galaxy, the Federation hoped to cow the rebellious system with sheer military might and thus bring them under Federal control.

They arrived to find a fleet of military vessels and defence platforms, designed and constructed in anticipation of just such an armed invasion. It is worth noting that while Achenar did not represent the first system that the Federation had sought to bring to heel through military dominance, the primacy of the Federation had not yet been challenged at this time and historians suggest that the Federation's military may have grown complacent. While sizeable, the Federal fleet of this time was made up of multi-purpose vessels and not the warships employed by the Empire. Outgunned and outmanoeuvred by the Imperial Fleet, the Federation were forced to retreat and accept the sovereignty of the Empire for the time being.

With the Federation embarrassed and the threat of the Federal fleet undermined, many systems flocked to the Empire in the following years. From one system, the Empire had quickly grown to a galactic power in less than a century since its founding.

==Lore==
{{quote|Arguably the most powerful person in the galaxy, Emperor Hengist Duval, is sick.

He has ruled the Empire now for 67 years since his coronation in 3233 following the death of his father, Hesketh Duval.

Emperor Hengist is only 118, born only a week before the death of his grandfather, Hender Saik Duval. Some say Hender’s spirit had already transferred to Hengist at that time.

The Duval Imperial line has been unbroken for almost a thousand years. There have been power struggles in the past, but the usurpers have been successfully dealt with behind closed doors.

This time is different.

Hengist has been not involved himself in politics for a long time, relying on his Chancellor, Senator Blaine and has taken a laissez faire attitude towards a handful of increasingly powerful and ambitious Senators whilst Harold, the current heir, quickly made a name for himself as a feckless playboy.

The warlike Senator Denton Patreus, last seen trying to destabilise the Eranin system during the conflict surrounding its 30th Anniversary of Independence from the Federation, continues his manipulative power-broking in the galaxy at large.

The preposterously rich Senator Zemina Torval is using her slaver corporation supporters and personal fleet of Majestic-class Interdictors to suppress revolts and to further her ambitions.

Commentators expect others to show their hand, too.

Much like in Imperial Rome on ancient Earth, Senators determine the tax rates of their supporters and both Patreus and Torval have become hugely popular back home as they have each used their huge wealth to lower taxation to zero.

There is a real prospect of the next Emperor not being a Duval. And the bitter fight for succession is about to spill out into the open.

Meanwhile, the Federation and Alliance of Independent Systems are watching with keen interest.

On 16 December, the first shockwaves from this battle for the Imperial succession will finally hit the galaxy at large.

How you choose to respond will have a direct bearing on the ultimate outcome.|Newsletter #52<ref>[http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=560d50221f Newsletter #52]</ref>}}

{{quote|Originally founded by Marlin Duval, who led the colonization of the Achenar system in the mid 23rd century, the Empire is based on a ‘cliens’ system. Society is strictly stratified, with people being able to move between strata (lower strata particularly) based on money, patronage and influence.

The Empire values both status and honour very highly indeed. So whilst it is acceptable to flaunt wealth, treating people well is a question of honour – and this includes slaves. Having an unpaid debt is seen as utterly dishonourable – an honourable Imperial citizen would sell themselves into slavery to clear a debt they couldn’t otherwise clear.

Law is seen and enforced very differently in the Empire. Senators are responsible for enforcing the Emperor’s laws, but the Senators themselves are above the law. They can order executions, and can even kill people themselves, though sometimes (rarely) they may be held to account for their actions by the Emperor. Some Senators are warlike and may take over systems in the name of the Empire, to get the spoils, and they may get a good deal of support as a result. Some Senators do not tolerate slavery, and regularly speak out against it, but from the basis of honour - not suggesting it should not be legal.

In the Empire, very little is illegal, but many things are frowned upon, like excessive use of narcotics.|Newsletter #22<ref>[http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=f72c0f91b2 Newsletter #22]</ref>}}
== Imperial Senate ==
'''Structure'''

All Senators and the Emperor can ‘sit’ in the Senate, but it is rare that all participate at the same time. The Chancellor is a Senator with additional powers, and he or she runs any debates in the Senate. They are appointed by the Emperor. It is otherwise structurally flat by law, but in practice has power blocks within it, led by the more important/powerful Senators. Not all Senators are equal. There are regular votes on issues of the day, and the Senator’s voting power is the total number of Citizens (in turn represented by Clients, and blocks of Clients by Patrons) they currently represent. They are influenced by their most powerful Patrons – who in turn are not all equal, and Patrons may move their block to another Senator at a whim, particularly if they feel their current Senator is not representing the views of their Clients. Senators can lose Patrons quickly if their actions are unpopular, but bear in mind a Senator sets tax rates and healthcare for all those that support them, so can effectively bribe Patrons to ally themselves with them. The most powerful Senators can have a hundred or more times the voting power than others, and a Senate majority can be just a few of the major Senators, but honour requires that the views of all Senators are listened to politely. Before voting against them.

'''Location'''

Historically it used to always physically sit in the Senate House on Capitol (Achenar 6d). It is near to the Imperial Palace. Technically it still does sit there, but in practice most Senators ‘sit’ virtually by remote projection – though by tradition there are a number of events (like the accession of a new Emperor, and on ‘Empire Day’ (January 2nd) where it is considered ‘proper and polite’ to attend physically, where a party atmosphere descends on Capitol as the entourages of each Senator arrive in their finery.

'''Senators'''

'''Selection/appointment'''

There are Senators that have come up from the Military, or by corporate success – but by the very nature of Patronage, and the cost of the petitions, it can be very exclusive, with family inheritance being important too.

There are no elections. A Senator represents a group of Patrons, who in turn represent Clients, and each of those represents a group of Citizens. This representation is public. Anyone can see who is currently supporting each Senator (Patron, Client), and their numbers. There are 1,000 Senators by Imperial Decree, dating back to the first Emperor a thousand years ago. A very popular Patron can petition to become a Senator if he or she thinks they could represent more Citizens than one of the least popular Senators. That less popular Senator the petitioner chooses to target has the opportunity to rally support against the challenger for seven days, but as does the popular Patron, and at the end of that period a decision is made based on their support, and that Patron cannot petition again for 1 Earth year if they are unsuccessful. Similarly a deposed Senator cannot petition to become a Senator again for a year. Posting a petition has a cost (1 Bn CR, paid to the Emperor) to prevent time wasters, which is returned if the petition succeeds. When a Senator dies or chooses to retire, usually their chosen successor takes their Senatorial seat. Most Senators will have such a chosen successor already working closely in their entourage, and familiar and friendly with their most powerful Patrons so continuity is assured; as a result generally their petitions are unopposed. Sometimes multiple petitions are made for the same Senatorial opening, which can happen when a Senator and their entourage dies in the same event, so this is the nearest the Empire gets to an election, with the most popular succeeding in their petition.

A controversial issue can result in a sudden mass realignment of Patrons, but this can happen at any time; the system is pretty dynamic.

Similarly there are not just senatorial petitions as above, but there are petitions for Patrons, Clients, and Citizens. A citizen petition is where a slave or child of a Citizen, or even a foreigner, petitions to become an Imperial Citizen. For children this is a fairly informal process, which is really a coming-of-age party with a brief ceremony at the start, which happens when they reach 21 years old. Apart from the Emperor, royal standing is separate from political standing. Knights, Princes etc exist, and only a few get involved in politics – and then it is mostly by influencing and supporting friendly Senators from behind the scenes, but there is nothing stopping them also becoming Senators.

'''System representation'''

Effectively all Imperial systems have representation, but indirectly. Every Imperial Citizen has a right to representation by a Client. Every Client has a right to be represented by a Patron, and every Patron a Senator. Senators generally represent power bases – which can be many systems or a specific interest group, and typically many hundred Patrons – though it is up to the Senator how many Patrons they have. There is not a fixed number. So if a system has just one Imperial Citizen living there, they will have representation in the Senate – but most likely only indirectly through their Patrons. It is likely there is a Patron at the head of each of the larger Imperial Minor Factions for example, but not a Senator.

'''Tenure'''

Generally until death, or until they choose to retire. Occasionally an unpopular Senator is challenged by a petition (see above), and that can also end their term.

'''Day to day responsibilities'''

To represent their Patrons as they see fit. Senators can also hold other roles, like Admiral of the Fleet, Chancellor, Leader of the House (runs the Senate hearings when the Emperor and Chancellor are not present). Senators can also have private interests, and generally represent one or more Corporations – often with large personal shareholdings in them. They are fully entitled to be biased towards their own interests, and generally do, as long as most of their Patrons hold much the same interests. Senators are above the law, subject only to a decree from the Emperor, and through history it has even been known for Senators to go to battle against each other.

'''Patrons'''

It is important to note that a Minor Faction is likely to be led by a Patron, NOT a Senator.

''Governments and politics in Elite Dangerous <ref>[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=225156 Governments and politics in Elite Dangerous] by Michael Brookes</ref>''

== See also ==
* [[:Category:Imperial key people|Imperial Key People]]
* [[:Category:Imperial Hierarchy|Imperial Hierarchy]]
* [[Events]]
* [[Emperor's Dawn]]

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