The Orion Spur

The Orion Spur, birthplace of a species that ruled us all for a thousand years. A mighty people brought low by pestilence. Those mighty people were not Weren, boy, but they were more dangerous than a Kel'decar.

— Kelis Venk - Mentor to young Weren

The former Human empire once ruled the entire Orion Spur in addition to some parts of the Perseus and Sagittarius. The Empire subjugated several species that they came across during their nine hundred year reign using devices called Perfection engines, deceptively named devices which inhibited many species brain functions.

Expansion

During the early colonisation era of the Empire, many worlds were colonised, while most were not earth-like, they were still suitable enough to sustain environmentally controlled cities and settlements. If systems were unable to support life but able to provide resources to the empire, they were colonised with large space stations which only grew larger throughout the the later Imperial Stablisation era.
Through rapid colonisation and accelerated growth chambers, the Human race spread throughout the sector like an ever expanding plague, soon numbering in the trillions while other races only numbered in the billions. This rapid expansion brought about logistical issues with the systems that could not reliably produce their own food, even with hydroponics and long term deep storage. Human ingenuity, however, is ever driven forward by adversity and with the study of a place called The Foundry, the empire soon developed two types of technology that were well beyond their wildest imaginings.

Singularity Power

Event Horizon by Unknown

The capacity to harness the infinite power of a black hole to power a ship and its weapons. This particular step in technology also brought about the creation of hyper weapons, weapons of such a scale as to be able to destroy an entire star system in the blink of an eye, or to compress stars into new configurations, such as neutron stars.
Additionally hyper dense shielding was developed only for those ships which carried the hyper weapons, due to the immense forces unleashed when firing such weapons.

Wormholes

Third Nature by Unknown

With intense study into black holes, another form of travel emerged, stabilised wormholes. With great devices constructed in space during the stabilisation era, the Empire, was capable of travelling to any point within their territories within minutes, alleviating strained logistics and strategic concerns with how swiftly they had expanded.

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Galactic Sector