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| Three million survivors on Actya formed into tribes. Initially, the tribes fought amongst themselves for limited resources. Over time, as availability of food and other necessities increased, the wars ended and the tribes were able to form a single, nation state. As the nation state prospered, a period of exploration saw new settlements established on three of the four major islands, Clessa, Adatlkina, and Edela.
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| Modern understanding about Actyan society from this period stems from literature and music which was preserved, originally by word of mouth, from the start of the Tes'Aeda and passed down from generation to generation.
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| '''Abara'''
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| The 500,000 survivors on Abaran had ample resources and settled almost immediately into a peaceful, agrarian society that placed a strong emphasis on the arts. Even by modern standards, the Abarans were highly advanced in their understanding of the relationship between mathematical and musical concepts.
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| A brief period of exploration led to the discovery of the uninhabited island of Tanis. Valleys and caves on the island proved to have unique acoustical properties and a colony was quickly established that is now home to the Kerelian Institute of Music, one of the most prestigious music schools in Federation space.
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| '''Reunification'''
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| 1500 years later, at the end of the Tes'Aedra period, an exploratory team from Actya happened upon the colony on the island of Tanis. This unexpected contact led to a series of historic meetings in which representatives of both societies discovered common belief systems and ancestry. Scientists on both continents formulated the theory, through examination of archeological evidence, that at one time, Kerelians had been one people.
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| Neither society had ever known bigotry or class warfare and while there were temperamental differences between the two groups, there were by far more similarities than differences. Ultimately the decision was made to unify under one planetary government. The Age of Enlightenment, as it is now known, saw the newly merged society make rapid advancements and moved from a pre-industrial state to intra-solar system exploration in a period of only about 150 years.
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| '''Space Faring Age'''
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| By 1905, Kerelians had launched their first satellite. Exploration of their own system followed within a few years. By the year 2003, the Kerelians had become warp-capable and were embarked on exploration outside of their own system. Encounters with other warp-capable species introduced the Kerelians to the greater galactic community but also led to an attack on their home world by a species known on Kerelia as the Ornis.
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| After the attack, the Ornis demanded unconditional surrender. The Kerelians fought back and within one year, the Ornis retreated never to be heard from again. To this day, neither the reason for the attack nor the reason for their abrupt departure is known.
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| The war had been brutal and led to a decision by the Kerelians to dismantle their warp-capable ships and retain only those ships that could provide for planetary defense and intra solar system commerce.
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| '''Contact with the Federation'''
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| In 2270, 138 years after the war with the Ornis, the first Federation ship made contact. Diplomatic and trade relations developed between Kerelia and several member planets. When the Federation offered membership, Kerelia politely declined though agreement was reached on other matters and Kerelia became a favored port of call for Starfleet vessels on shore leave.
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| About this time, a small, religious faction opposed to interaction with any other species, broke away and established their own colony at the southern pole, Ecosa.
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| By 2293, the Federation had started peace negotiations with the Klingon Empire and were maintaining a tense truce with the Romulan Empire. As a result of mounting fear that Kerelia could be open to a second attack by an alien species, Kerelia requested Federation membership and was admitted as a full member in 2297.
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| Kerelians, mostly from Actya, joined Starfleet; the first Kerelian to graduate from Starfleet Academy was Lieutenant Commander Nella Daren in 2352.
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| In 2371, a Marine training camp was established east of Actya Bay near the city of Afina. In their request for a base on Kerelia, the Marines cited the variety of training environments available -- deep oceans, low pressure atmosphere, and extremely rugged, high-altitude terrain in the mountains.
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| Over time, Kerelia also became a resupply point for Starfleet vessels and today, hosts permanent embassies for most of the Federation member worlds.
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| >> questions/comments: Some of the facts presented for the Bronze Age don't seem realistic. How could anyone know how many people lived in that time period? And if there was a way to know, then that should be presented here. For that reason, I haven't included numbers like 50 million in the "Bronze Age", 3 million on one continent, etc.
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| Three million survivors on Actya formed into tribes. Initially, the tribes fought amongst themselves for limited resources. Over time, as availability of food and other necessities increased, the wars ended and the tribes were able to form a single, nation state. As the nation state prospered, a period of exploration saw new settlements established on three of the four major islands, Clessa, Adatlkina, and Edela. | | Three million survivors on Actya formed into tribes. Initially, the tribes fought amongst themselves for limited resources. Over time, as availability of food and other necessities increased, the wars ended and the tribes were able to form a single, nation state. As the nation state prospered, a period of exploration saw new settlements established on three of the four major islands, Clessa, Adatlkina, and Edela. |