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Today the Rodulans have returned to their quiet lives as farmers and unusually adept artists in their free time though more and more young Rodulans are leaving their homeworld for the Stars above, something the rest of the Rodulans are unsure of what to do about.  

[[File:Rodulan_Ancient.jpg|350px|thumb|left|An example of Rodulan Ancient Era architecture, as you can see even in the cities agriculture was still very much part of daily life.]]

Rodulan recorded history (Officially) begins 9,067 years ago with the founding of the city of Etaje on the island of Killudoran, though as modern scholars have pointed out, recorded history extends about another 1500 years before Etaje was founded though in considerably less detail. So regardless, with the founding of Etaje began the Ancient Era of the Rodulans where their incredible artistic qualities were first displayed. In this millennia long period of growth from the Bronze Age to the Steel Age, the Rodulans would map much of the surface of their paradisiac ocean world and eventually by the end of the Ancient Era, most of the major islands had established contact with one another. This era of increased contact and trade would lead to the Rodulan’s first attempt at a unified government spanning most of the planet’s surface.  

However ambitious the Hegemony’s plans were, as the name implies, the Esharani didn’t simply govern other islands, they dominated them. This system of Etaje dominating the Hegemony in a near brutal fashion, combined with the very slow means of communication between Etaje and other member states made the Hegemony unsustainable. Though the Hegemony enjoyed a short 30 year period of reform on Etaje’s part during the reign of Archon Dreddica the Gone Too Soon, her successor Archon Heddila the Last, proved a ruler bent on establishing an Empire based on Etaje’s control of the league, however her wars backfired and the Hegemony collapsed upon itself…

[[File:Rodulan_First_Era.jpg|350px|thumb|right|An example of Rodulan First Era architecture]]

After the collapse of the Esharan Hegemony the different Islands also warred with one another and Basul Rodul descended into a Dark Age. Many priceless works of art would be lost during this time and this era of warfare also marked the first instances of Rodulan telepathy being used as a weapon.  

Year 10 of the 3rd Age of the 4th Era would also be known formally as Year 10 of the Towers Age in the Divine Era. Another less formal example primarily used by the vast majority of the Rodulan population simply recognizes the year and age. For example, 3:10 Towers would represent the 10th year of the third age named Towers.

The Glory Era reaped the benefits of the Great Reformation and the spreading of these ideas and the formations of different Cantons across Rodulan. The Rodulans also started to form scattered rural agrarian communities versus the City States of the Ancient Era and the Esharan League. There is however a deep sense of unity among these communities and many form grand Federalist leagues with some major economic centers. The rural communities providing the cities with food and crafted goods and the cities providing the agrarian villages with protection, technology and a better standard of living later became the basic foundation of the Rodulan concept of the Island State.

To call the second Era the ‘Black Era’ is a bit of a misnomer considering it’s extremely peaceful history and it is universally accepted among the Rodulan population that the Chrono-Guardians made a very serious error in their reading of the signs.  

The Third Era is commonly considered the most significant of the early Era’s post the Great Reformation and involved a sudden burst of the teachings of the Reformation and a series of (Relatively) rapid technological advancements that propelled the Rodulans into an era of technological development similar to Earth of the early 1700’s.  

A new series of Religious sects developed on Basul Rodul as well and it is from this renewed sense of religious interest that the Era takes its name from. These religions all stemmed from a common source in the form of the Prophetess Dikken and quickly spread across the islands. These religions are noted for their non-existent Dogma and though these various sects differ in their interpretations of Drikken’s prophecies and teachings, they rarely quarrel with one another. In the cases where this did happen it was found that Religions themselves fought with one another and the sane masses of religious Rodulans refused to take part in holy war. A mirror of what happened on Earth where religious followers fought one another but not religions themselves.  

Where the rest of Basul Rodul progressed slowly in their technological development, the Krzexxi Islands of the South-West of the planet progressed in a similar fashion to Earth (Albeit more slowly) and fully embraced industrialization and did not cling to remnants of Agrarian life. As such, by the time of the Divine Era the Krzexxi were already past their industrial revolution and had ironclad warships, advanced medicines and a technological level of mid-19th century Europe while the rest of the Rodulans slowly advanced towards the industrial revolution. Their caution and slow development as to not affect their highly agrarian culture would later prove to be their undoing…

An age marked by rapid industrial development in the East and the complete overturn of standard life in the Fourth Era, the Fifth Era is commonly seen as the first major turning point in Rodulan history as the entire species progressed rapidly towards a technological level of 21st century Earth. This Era also marked a decrease in traditional Agrarian lifestyle and increased urbanization in the East. A less mutually beneficial and advanced form of capitalism also evolved in the East that for the first time in thousands of years, some Rodulans found themselves incredibly poor and unable to provide for themselves with the collapse of their Agrarian society.  

The Storm Era ended with Revolution brewing on the Horizon as the gap between the poor farmers and the rich industrialists became greater and greater.  

A great time of upheaval, the Sixth and Seventh Eras were marked by constant and vicious war, both internally and externally. This period was a violent one in Rodulan history and is quite thoroughly documented thanks to a system of “Telepathic Historians” like the Ullians though it is rarely spoken of. The Rodulans maintained a peak technological level similar to that of early 21st century Earth but the technological level only remained constant on some parts of the planet.