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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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

>> 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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