The Tetratic Empire
The Tetratic Empire was the last of a short series of political organisations which controlled our spiral arm of the galaxy in the period after the end of the Amnyine passage and before the foundation of the Society Of Contemporary Races. It collapsed in the face of the Asamack Response eight hundred thousand years ago. The Tetratic Empire is reasonably well documented, unlike the increasingly mysterious civilizations before the Amnyine passage, such as the Grumm movement and the Cata-Zin. When compared with these older cultures, it was neither remarkably extensive, long lived nor technologically advanced but by virtue of the fact that it held sway in relatively recent times it played an important role in modern history. There are many Tetratic Empire stations scattered throughout the Bubble and beyond and some, in vacuum conditions, are almost perfectly preserved. Recovered Tetratic Empire technology helped more than one species rise out of the Age of Convalescence (particularly the Paladen) and was of great significance to the embryonic organisations that joined together to form the Society of Contemporary Races. We rely on the records of the Counter Xarctic Traders for firsthand accounts of the nature of the Empire and its peoples. It was, we are told, heterogeneous, ambitious, benevolent for the most part and ultimately badly flawed. It produced some technologies which none of the Society members have yet been able or willing to recreate.
The cover image shows a group of Tetratic Invigilators, a kind of quasi judicial military force, inspecting an expeditionary outpost of the Empire.
Disbandment
The Asamack Response to the Empire eventually proved more attractive and successful, leading to a long decline and final collapse of the Empire structures and organisations.
DISBANDED/DISSOLVED
1100000 BCE - 800000 BCE
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Government, Leadership
Successor Organization
Location
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