Lunar Event

In year 11 BLE the main planet of the old system (the name lost to history), began to travel in an elliptical orbit, causing some confusion to many of the Arcane studies who did their best to make sense of it. It was predicted that the two moons orbiting the planet would be on a collision course with the planet in the coming 10 years.

In the years leading up to 3 BLE, the peoples of the main planet of this system began to flee from the planet, taking what they could on ships hoping to hop to other neighboring planets for safety. This exodus expadnded in 2 PLE to traveling with many passengers through the rift following SF SGT MJR Yuthra and her fleet.

A tear in space appeared at this time, just past the fifth planet in this system, and the Arcane society moved in to study it. In the interim of trying to figure out where to house refugees, an idea was proposed to travel through the rift, where it could be seen with certain devices, a different looking space in the areas beyond the rift. At this time it was deemed too dangerous to explore beyond the tear, and the peoples would remain in the current system.

In a hearing before the Council of the System, SF SGT MJR Yuthra was granted permission to lead her fleet and ships that included those owned by the most powerful Arcane Researchers to travel beyond the rift. Gearing up, they left a week before the Moon collided with what was once the central planet for the System.

The larger of the two moons collided with the planet that was once called home. This caused a ripple effect in the solar system, causing changes in the planets nearby. Those that once supported life, now seemed unable to.

The ships Yuthra commanded were caught in the shockwave of the Moon's collision and it thrust them through the rift. Arriving to a new system, that was familiar and yet not. The fleet once through stayed in space for 35 years, until it was determined that damage had been done to the ships by something, and they needed to seek refuge on a planet, rather than studying the planets of this new system more before making a choice. Choosing one that looked like the home they lost, with deep blue waters and green land, the fleet started to make their way to this planet.

A treaty between the UPS and YE was signed to agree to have a boundary line marking what parts of the close systems was whose, and that the outer ring would be a shared and a neutral zone in the immediate known systems. This belt would be used for resources and as a throughway to send ships legally from one to another.

In the year 485 PLE, the Rift started to have a leak of other colors... not just the white edges. The most prominent that was noticed was the darkest blue almost black. Around this time other beings started popping up on the empire planets and became more of a problem than the UPS threat. The Yuthran Empire turned their focus to this rift, and after 20 years, the UPS joined in the fight to attempt to fight this leaking and the monsters. United by fighting the one enemy, lines between the peoples that had been apparant for so long became blurred.

Creation of academies on planets to train Martials. Primarily intended to aide the war effort against the creatures and other effects from the rift. There are a few in the Yuthran Empire, but only one smaller one in the UPS.

In the latter years of this war against the rift, a council of battle worn mages, those who had the most experience and powerful spells, met to decide on actions going forwards. The plan of Yiria was hatched, and they continued to amass mages to the front lines to help them, attempting to strategize their attacks under the direction of this group of about ten individuals.

Over the years and years of this war with no end in sight, the Council of Mages met one final time to make the decision none had wanted to make, that one of their members had suggested long before, that was to use their life forces to ward off the things leaking into this side of the rift. In doing so, the hope of ever returning to the system that none called home in centuries would be lost, and the hope of seeing what remained would be but a childish dream. In a battle where one had a vision of a large entity coming through the rift, it was decided. In the heat of a battle, this council drew a complex set of arcane markings, including runes from each of the 8 schools as long as some from ancient magiks, was created infront of the Rift. This runic symbol grew in flashing lights and colors, and the council slowly started to glow until the rune light seemed to absorb them. One by one the army of around 10,000 mages fighting also started to glow, slightly different pigments according to the school of magic that was their primary focus. Over a period of about 10 minutes, the runes started to fly up towards the rift, the other mages starting to be absorbed into the warding as well, and these runes completely surrounded the rift, with a glowing set of chains and a transparent shimmering window covering the rift. At the end of about 20 minutes, the glowing of teh chains dimmed, leaving a black set of giant chains covering the rift from side to side, anchored at each rune, and the shimmer still there, as if the souls absorbed were fighting this leaking before it had a chance to enter into this side of the rift.

The start of the era primarily focused on studying the arcane with the intent to be more advanced than others. The two empires on the edge of falling into another war at the drop of a pin.