Deep-Space surverying agencies discover the planet 41 Uphi-1 orbitting around its namesake star. Long-range spectral studies reveal the planet's atmosphere to contain a multitude of valuable resources - such as rich levels of Helium-3, a valuable fuel-source in aneutronic fusion power generation - which prompts the Second Committee to commission and launch a colonization ship towards 41 Uphi, naming the planet Parime after the mythical lake surrounding the golden city of El Dorado.
History of the Colony
An abbreviated timeline of major events of the Kemys and its descendants.
Journeying Period
4398 U 4499 U
The 2nd Committee of the Union has decided that Parime's resources are valuable enough for a ship to be commissioned and sent to colonise its orbitting moon.
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4398 J
14 /2
Parime Is Discovered
Discovery, Exploration -
4401 J
2 /14498 J
1 /12
The Kemys Is Launched
Population Migration / TravelA colony ship, christened the Kemys, is officially charged with the mission of colonizing Parime and leaves its docks with a full colonisation tools, data and human beings to begin its long journey towards the distant system.
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4498 J
1 /12
The Kemys Is Lost
Disaster / DestructionAs the Kemys finally reaches 41 Uphi, an unforseen solar-storm from the star cripples the ship, leading to a runaway sequence of catastrophic malfunctions that forces the crew to prematurely abandon the ship with only a fraction of the supplies and data they were sent with. One of the colony landers, containing a majority of salvaged data, were lost in the ensuing evacuation, which led to the partial technological regression of the colonists. The evacuees' failure to retrieve the damaged and irradiated omninode systems within the colony-ship led to the Second Committee officially declaring the Kemys lost.
Early Colonization Period
4499 U 4700 U
Having survived the destruction of the Kemys, the surviving colonists resolve to forge ahead and construct the first colonies in the system, despite having lost centuries of knowledge and technology.
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4500 EC
5 /1
Crash Landing
Era beginning/endThe evacuating spacecraft make their landings on the surface of Falias to varying degrees of success, but with minimal loss of life. Excavation of the moon's surface and construction of the first colonies begins.
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4508 EC
22 /4
Population-Boom
Population Migration / TravelTo meet imminent growing demands in manpower, Lt. Kioko authorises the gradual activation of the Kemys's recovered cryotrays and zygote-pods, leadiing to a substantial boom in colony population.
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4559 EC
4569 EC
Helium-Mining Commences
ExpeditionColonial officials begin construction of spacefaring infrastructure and gas-mining ships to meet the colony's demand for power by way of Helium-3 fusion power-plants, and launch their first fleet in 4569u
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4591 EC
Central Refinery 01 is Constructed
ExpeditionIn order to meet the increasing power-demands of the colony, the first permanent gas-refinery is constructed and placed in orbit around Parime, where research and production of specialised large-scale scoop ships takes place.
Location
Central Refinery 01
Fractured Period
4701 U 4998 U
Following the independance of Vaduz and later the Helium Co-Operatives, the unified status of the Parime colonies is considered lost and replaced with competing political powers.
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4701 F
25 /6 02:00
Independance of Vaduz
Political eventFollowing public mandate for independance by spacefaring colonists in the wake of numerous political and socioeconomic incidents, Overseer Nishida Yoshiro signs the Free-Lanes Accords on behalf of the Parime Founding Colonies, granting autonomy to the Rhine Conglomerates of orbital-habitats under the new name of the Vaduz Orbital Collective.
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4751 F
New Management.
Civil actionFollowing the scandal of Overseer Macleod's exposed corruption, a coalition of governmental activists led by Custodian Clarissa Bader succesfully overthrow the Parime Founding Colonies' governmental body through legislative-action. A new provisional government is installed in its place, the Democratic Commonwealth of Falias and Parime.
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4808 F
22 /4
Gas-Miners Unionize
Civil actionFollowing deteriorating economic relations with the DCFP and Vaduz, a collective of the largest worker's union-groups in the Parime gas-mining industry consolidate to form the Parime Gas-Mining Unions, comprised of over 68% of all active and retired workers in the industry.
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4852 F
28 /4
The Helium Co-Operatives are Founded
Civil actionIncreasing pressure from worker's unions within Parime's atmospheric-mining stations leads to the creation of the Helium Co-Operatives, a collection of 'ship-states' that operate independently of Vaduz and the DCFP
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4880 F
Sanzu Isolabs are founded
FoundingThe Democratic Commonwealth of Falias and Parime establishes a new colony on one of the few viable patches of land on Loum for the study of dangerous and anomalous materials, which would later take in a civilian populace and civil-infrastructure for long term habitation.
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4889 F
Co-Operatives Fend Off Paramilitary Intervention
Military actionFollowing a trade-dispute in transportation costs of Helium 3, Blue-Comet Security Solutions dispatches a combat-force onto one of the Helium Co-Operatives' scoop-vessels in an attempt to indimidate and forcibly claim ownership of extracted resources on behalf of the DCFP, only to be repelled by on-ship security forces and forced into retreat.
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4916 F
4960 F
Blink-Gate Construction Commences
Construction beginning/endIn preparation for the eventual reclamation of the Kemys, the system's powers would briefly commense construction of a blink-gate's superstructure based off of partial schematics retained in the initial evacuation of the colony-ship. However, progress slowed to a halt in the aftermath of the Food Fights that would lead to the dissolution of the Democratic Commonwealth of Falias and Parime and the formation of the Falias United Colonies. Interest and progress in the project would be functionally halted as the system adjusted to its new geopolitical structure, and only the retrieval of the necessary black-box components from the Kemys would have construction continue in earnest.
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4951 F
The Food Fights
Civil actionContinued mismanagement of funding and staffage by the Democratic Commonwealth of Falias and Parime's governing body leads to a runaway series of catastrophic malfunctions in Falias' main agricultural facilities, damaging vital food-producing machinery and rendering the overwhelming majority of foodstuffs inedible. Riots and fighting over remaining food supples erupted all over the colony, and were only stopped when a paramilitary force led by Lieutenant General Elfriede Henson overthrew the DCFP in a military coup and redistributed their hoarded supplies to the public.
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4951 F
The Falias United Colonies are established
Military actionIn the wake of riots and civil-collapse following food-shortages instigated by mismanaging of colonial infrastructure, the DCFP's leadership is toppled in a military coup, replacing the top portions of the colony's governmental and judicial elements with a military provisional-government and renaming themselves the Falias United Colonies.
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4981 F
Gunboat Diplomacy
Military actionIn response to the Vaduz Orbital Collective declaring additional regulations and laws on ships passing through their claimed territory, the FUC constructs three new Marshall-class military spacecraft, sending them out on patrol-routes just outside of Vaduz jurisdiction in in a display of military power. This marks the begining of a state of cold-war between the two powers.
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4991 F
20 /2
Sanzu is lost
Disaster / DestructionThe Falias United Colonies deploy an inspection-team to the Sanzu colony on Loum, following standard procedure after the colony initiates an emergency lockdown of one of its isolab-sectors for unknown reasons. Aproximately two hours after the inspection-team arrives, twenty minutes behind its expected departure, the entire colony enters a state of emergency lockdown, and all vehicles and ships within range of its outer-defences are fired upon until they leave. Only a repeating transmission originating from an exterior beacon clues anyone outside to the fate of Sanzu.
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4994 F
8 /1
Reconnection
Technological achievementFollowing a succesful expedition into the irradiated husk of the Kemys, the Vaduz collective discover much of the once-abandoned technology be in repairable condition, in particular the base-components for rudimentary blink-technology and Omninet-nodes having suffered no damage to their paracausal 'black-box' components. Provisional communication is reestablished wiith the Third Committee, and a diplomatic mission is arranged.
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4994 F
10 /15011 F
Blink Gate Establishment
Construction beginning/endUtilising recovered technology from the Kemys and cutting-edge manufacturing schema from outside the system, the Vaduz Orbital Collective resumed construction of a rudimentary blink-gate on one of Parime's lagrange points. Despite substantial delay in construction caused by hostilities with the FUC, the gate is eventually finished in 5011 with the assistance of arriving Union forces (in exchange for as of yet unknown political favors) and activated shortly afterwards.
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4995 F
The Shimano Deal
Diplomatic actionThrough unknown means, representative bodies of the Smith-Shimano Corpro's Congressional Diplomatic Corps establish a private line of contact with the Vaduz Orbital Collective beneath the notice of the Union Omninetwork Bureau. The SSC succesfully negotiate a clandestine agreement of supplying the Vaduz with manufacturing licenses and schematics for advanced technological systems, in exchange for services of an as-of-yet unknown nature.
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4997 F
23 /2
Operation: Clear Skies
Military actionIn retaliation for the FUC's increased trade-tarrifs on water-ice, the Vaduz Self-Defence Corps authorise a strike mission to eliminate an newly-installed communications satellite above Falian orbit, claiming the satellite and its broadcasts were passing unpermitted through Vaduz territory. The strike was performed using state-of-the-art 'Orbital Liason' mechanised chassis, using newly acquired manufacturing data procured from SSC collaboration.
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4998 F
29 /10
The Annihilation of Bregenz
Disaster / DestructionColonel Milton Pineda and a crew of fourteen unknown subordinates infiltrate the hangar of the Bregenz agricultural-station, in an attempt to preemptively sabotage the primary food-supply of Vaduz by way of a high-yield gamma-emitter. The discovery of Colonel Pineda's illicit cargo combined with the crew's unsufficient familiarity with the device's use lead to the emitter dispersing its full payload at once, flooding the entire station in an immediately lethal field ionizing radiation and killing a total of 7,182 crewmen. Vaduz declared the act an declaration of hostility, while the FUC disavowed any knowledge of Pineda's actions, claiming him to have gone rogue.
Antagonism Period
4985 U 4999 U
Tensions between the Vaduz Orbital Collectiive and Falias United Colonies leads to an unspoken cold-war between the two powers, that would inevitably lead to open conflict
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4991 A
20 /2
Sanzu is lost
Disaster / DestructionThe Falias United Colonies deploy an inspection-team to the Sanzu colony on Loum, following standard procedure after the colony initiates an emergency lockdown of one of its isolab-sectors for unknown reasons. Aproximately two hours after the inspection-team arrives, twenty minutes behind its expected departure, the entire colony enters a state of emergency lockdown, and all vehicles and ships within range of its outer-defences are fired upon until they leave. Only a repeating transmission originating from an exterior beacon clues anyone outside to the fate of Sanzu.
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4994 A
8 /1
Reconnection
Technological achievementFollowing a succesful expedition into the irradiated husk of the Kemys, the Vaduz collective discover much of the once-abandoned technology be in repairable condition, in particular the base-components for rudimentary blink-technology and Omninet-nodes having suffered no damage to their paracausal 'black-box' components. Provisional communication is reestablished wiith the Third Committee, and a diplomatic mission is arranged.
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4994 A
10 /15011 A
Blink Gate Establishment
Construction beginning/endUtilising recovered technology from the Kemys and cutting-edge manufacturing schema from outside the system, the Vaduz Orbital Collective resumed construction of a rudimentary blink-gate on one of Parime's lagrange points. Despite substantial delay in construction caused by hostilities with the FUC, the gate is eventually finished in 5011 with the assistance of arriving Union forces (in exchange for as of yet unknown political favors) and activated shortly afterwards.
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4995 A
The Shimano Deal
Diplomatic actionThrough unknown means, representative bodies of the Smith-Shimano Corpro's Congressional Diplomatic Corps establish a private line of contact with the Vaduz Orbital Collective beneath the notice of the Union Omninetwork Bureau. The SSC succesfully negotiate a clandestine agreement of supplying the Vaduz with manufacturing licenses and schematics for advanced technological systems, in exchange for services of an as-of-yet unknown nature.
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4997 A
23 /2
Operation: Clear Skies
Military actionIn retaliation for the FUC's increased trade-tarrifs on water-ice, the Vaduz Self-Defence Corps authorise a strike mission to eliminate an newly-installed communications satellite above Falian orbit, claiming the satellite and its broadcasts were passing unpermitted through Vaduz territory. The strike was performed using state-of-the-art 'Orbital Liason' mechanised chassis, using newly acquired manufacturing data procured from SSC collaboration.
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4998 A
29 /10
The Annihilation of Bregenz
Disaster / DestructionColonel Milton Pineda and a crew of fourteen unknown subordinates infiltrate the hangar of the Bregenz agricultural-station, in an attempt to preemptively sabotage the primary food-supply of Vaduz by way of a high-yield gamma-emitter. The discovery of Colonel Pineda's illicit cargo combined with the crew's unsufficient familiarity with the device's use lead to the emitter dispersing its full payload at once, flooding the entire station in an immediately lethal field ionizing radiation and killing a total of 7,182 crewmen. Vaduz declared the act an declaration of hostility, while the FUC disavowed any knowledge of Pineda's actions, claiming him to have gone rogue.
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4999 A
1 /6
Artemis is Invaded
Military actionUtilising technologies and weapons procured through negotiation and deal-making with the Smith-Shimano Corpro, Vaduz attack the Artemis Port-City via a mass orbital-drop of infantry, heavy vehicles and mechanised chassis. Thousands of local military personel are killed and remaining governmental structure is crushed, while Vaduz forces sustain minimal casualties.
Hostilities Period
4999 U 5006 U
In response to the destruction of Bregenz, the Vaduz Orbital Collective declares a state of open hostilities against the Falias United Colonies, plunging the system into war. Major settlements are spared the worst of these fights owing to their necessity to maintain the system's interconnected life-support logistics, but devestating kinetic-bombardments and limited nuclear-exchanges devestate the icy tundras and dark voids between FUC and Vaduz settlements.
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1 /6
Artemis is Invaded
Military actionUtilising technologies and weapons procured through negotiation and deal-making with the Smith-Shimano Corpro, Vaduz attack the Artemis Port-City via a mass orbital-drop of infantry, heavy vehicles and mechanised chassis. Thousands of local military personel are killed and remaining governmental structure is crushed, while Vaduz forces sustain minimal casualties.
Cease-Fire Period
5006 U 5016 U
After arriving in the Parime system, Union Administrative Task-Force 505F-Parime declares and enforces a cease-fire between the warring factions, but are unable to fully prevent further incursions and conflicts until reinforcements arrive.
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5008 U
Union Forces Demilitarize Artemis
Diplomatic actionFollowing intense diplomatic conferences, Union succesfully negotiates the withdrawal of Vaduz military forces from Artemis and declares the port-city a Union-administrated demilitarized zone, handing partial control back to the FUC in exchange for maintaining trade-routes with Vaduz.
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5010 U
13 /2
Deceive The Heavens and Cross The Ocean
Military actionIn an attempt to foster relations and partially reduce local military power in the wake of arriving reinforcements, Union Administrator Merican succesfully petitions for the Parime Pan-Military Collaboration Pact, recruiting personell from both Vaduz and the FUC to assist the Union in nearby systems.