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Their early history is partially a mystery. Not much effort has been expended trying to learn more about it. What is known or at least what a few educated experts believe is that each of the 15 large island continents may have had their own distinct cultural sub-group. In this certain tales and legends tend to support this and describe certain wars and conflicts that resulted in the elimination of some of these groups. | Their early history is partially a mystery. Not much effort has been expended trying to learn more about it. What is known or at least what a few educated experts believe is that each of the 15 large island continents may have had their own distinct cultural sub-group. In this certain tales and legends tend to support this and describe certain wars and conflicts that resulted in the elimination of some of these groups. | ||
Recorded history does confirm the elimination of | Recorded history does confirm the elimination of five of these sub-groups, three of them as a result of a war of genocide that killed off every man, woman and child. In these three cases it was the result of a deliberate and systematic plan to exterminate the enemy. The other two groups seem to have been absorbed into the sub-group that defeated them. | ||
As time passed wars were fought, the more advanced the technology the more devastating the war. This continued for many generations until the final case of sub-group genocide as a result of a truly brutal and devastating war. The leadership of the last 6 remaining sub-groups met and debated the problem over a period of almost 13 years. | As time passed wars were fought, the more advanced the technology the more devastating the war. This continued for many generations until the final case of sub-group genocide as a result of a truly brutal and devastating war. The leadership of the last 6 remaining sub-groups met and debated the problem over a period of almost 13 years. | ||
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When the Enterprise took longer to rescue the scientists than the new government had allotted, a Xantoran patrol ship fired upon them. | When the Enterprise took longer to rescue the scientists than the new government had allotted, a Xantoran patrol ship fired upon them. | ||
Since then the government has flopped back and forth between different factions with a number of brutal civil wars being fought. | Since then the government has flopped back and forth between different factions with a number of brutal civil wars being fought. | ||
==Government== | ==Government== | ||