Rupeean History

With population centres established and self-sufficiency achieved in the short term, the upeean colony ship initiates its next phase of development. The ship's degraded AI misattributes population stability to full industrial development and shuts down ready for disassembly. Data, manufacturing capability and technology widely lost in the process, and the Rupeean civilisation would require untold centuries to recover.

Development of oral histories regarding the colony ship Oregano into a folk tradition and eventually a loosely organised religion. Oregano worship centred around the anthromorphised vision of a maternal goddess, and both the respect owed to the goddess by Her children and the injustice of Her sudden absence.

The end of the Rupeean Dark Age. The steam engine is independently reinvented in 3 seperate Polar nations, and complex homegrown technology begins to be introduced. Abortive wars of conquest/unification are frequent on both poles as fledgeling nations attempt to swallow one another whole.

First physical contact of polar civilisations is achieved, after the loss of 3 earlier coal-fired landship expeditions with all hands. Also the first testing of a diesel-powered landship later that year.

First transequatorial trade mission, using a combination of military carrier landships and Duner-caches to supply a fleet of large biplanes. Their patrons, the arctic Ruphaari's influential if scheming royal family, begin efforts to build a global league of nations in order to rule.

Catastrophic world war breaks out in both hemispheres, causing terrible damage to the biosphere's little fertile land as napalm based weapons are deployed liberally. The victorious League of Nations powers are immediately turned to solving widespread famine and accompanying plagues as populations almost collapse.

Probes sent to a cluster of comets that were seen behaving oddly. Examination finds the largest comet consists mainly of Cavorite, a milky blue crystal that bent or defied gravity under certain conditions. Retrieved samples were tested and incorporated into the first artificial gravity prototypes the following year.

Opening of the Grand Aeisi Spire, an efficient agrav-operated space elevator built not far from a majority-Duner republic's capital and owned wholly by the Aeisi government. Spaceflight and eventual colonisation of space accelerated remarkably as a result.   Also the first recorded official response to illegal activities in space, as a mining vessel is hijacked and the crew ransomed using rudimentary ship-ship weapons. This event marks the beginning of an arms race between criminal cartels and League police and naval forces that rapidly brings Rupeean naval technology towards a military standard.

First testing of a Lwyd Rift FTL drive, bringing a Rupeean craft to the adjacent star system and leading to first contact with the international community in the form of the Kitsunes. Contact is established and Rupeean horizons extend to the near-galactic (literally) overnight.

Construction of the Zaahiri Spire on Rasaan, a more robust and rationalised model of space elevator than the original Aeisi Spire, which maximises the flow of peaceful trade with other stellar factions. The nine-tailed posthuman Sestians remain close allies, and a Rupeean Sestian population soon develops in Rasaan’s colder climates.

Rupee Quay undergoes rapid institutional collapse into clan structures ruled by Cartels and petty dictatorships, creating a disparate reign of terror which drives hordes of refugees and skilled professionals out to the primary colonies in Rasaan Bandir and Tarii Bandir. The colonies studiously cut ties with their homeworld rather than remain associated with what is rapidly becoming a playground and staging point for pirates and other criminal outfits. This era permanently solidifies the reputation of Fennecs for appearing alongside Lanzian Harpies in various illicit activities.

Crixin Val Sel Uen, a Duner mercenary from a minor branch of the Uen clan, comes into unexpected command of an unemployed heavy landship. He soon pivots to a career in statecraft by overthrowing a corrupt and warlike dictatorship ruling chinaan in Kuraasi territory. Gathering a mix of civilian interests, partisan militias and professional military officers to his banner, Uen begins to contest and eliminate nearby Cartel successor states.

Calls to adopt the new constitution flood the northern hemisphere's petty dictatorships, and popular uprisings combined with conveniently timed attacks from Duner partisans and Coalition landships overthrow several in rapid succession. Other powers accept the new way of things, and adopt the model constitution in surrender.

Control of the rest of Rupee Quay Bandir is established after a hard-fought battle with a number of local and interstellar crime cartels, using the command styles and organisational patterns of desert-bound landships to rapidly train and equip a small starcruiser squadron. Modernisation and standardisation of planetary naval assets leans heavily on transequatorial landship development resulting in unconventional advances but a heavy reliance on cavorite propulsion and onboard/outboard stowage.

(and date of the beginning of the RP by Rupeean reckoning)