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The earliest history data available shows that the history of the Ga'teran people is one of war, war and war. In the beginning it was family versus family, then tribes versus tribes. They fought for any and every reason. The only thing that prevented their own racial destruction was the size of their world and the vastness of the swamps. When a family or a tribe lost to many warriors they would pull back, retreat away from the danger. | The earliest history data available shows that the history of the Ga'teran people is one of war, war and war. In the beginning it was family versus family, then tribes versus tribes. They fought for any and every reason. The only thing that prevented their own racial destruction was the size of their world and the vastness of the swamps. When a family or a tribe lost to many warriors they would pull back, retreat away from the danger. | ||
As time passed the battles were being fought less frequently but they were getting bigger. The family gave way to the rise and importance of the tribe. No single family could afford the loss that many of | As time passed the battles were being fought less frequently but they were getting bigger. The family gave way to the rise and importance of the tribe. No single family could afford the loss that many warriors. During this period technological advances were few and usually had to do with tools, food collection, weapons or war. With the rise of the tribal system large areas became more secure. It provided the stable environment needed for more advanced discoveries. Now true the Ga'teran people will never be mistaken for scholars. In fact almost all their advances in technology have to do with making life easier, solving some engineering problem or creating a better tool, weapon to handle a specific job. | ||
Regardless of these limitations they had entered into an industrial revolution. Machines, equipment and other high tech solutions to problems made even more of them available to be warriors. Battles grew even bigger. Tribes were destroyed. The last few families simply vanished. It was during this period that the last true war was fought. They lost 7/10ths of their total population. Whole regions were depopulated. | |||
Regardless of these limitations they had | |||
===We are not alone=== | ===We are not alone=== | ||
It was at about this same time that they learned that they were not the only race in the cosmos. Contact was made with a strange looking species that came from the stars. A race that looked weird, with lots of eye's and strange tentacle like arms. The aliens landed and greeted the Ga'teran people, who promptly attacked and killed them. | It was at about this same time that they learned that they were not the only race in the cosmos. Contact was made with a strange looking species that came from the stars. A race that looked weird, with lots of eye's and strange tentacle like arms. The aliens landed and greeted the Ga'teran people, who promptly attacked and killed them. | ||
It was this contact, this new knowledge that there were aliens living among the stars that resulted in a massive change to their culture. They could now find new enemies, new challenges that would be worthy of their might. However this forced them to face the fact that they needed to alter parts of their culture if they wanted to survive. A new solution to the problem of how to deal with their blood thirsty rages and all consuming need for combat and bloodshed had to be found. | |||
===Reaching the Stars=== | ===Reaching the Stars=== | ||
The result was the creation of the arena matches, first blood battles and a new modified, controlled and regulated system for war was created. It allowed them to grow and expand. Not just in population, but in ideas and technology advances. | The result was the creation of the arena matches, first blood battles and a new modified, controlled and regulated system for war was created. It allowed them to grow and expand. Not just in population, but in ideas and technology advances. | ||
With the alien ship to study they made some astounding advances. Their technology advanced so fast that they were building crude star ships with in 10 years, having made over 250 years of scientific advancements during those same 10 years. | With the alien ship to study they made some astounding advances. Their technology advanced so fast that they were building crude star ships with in 10 years, having made over 250 years of scientific advancements during those same 10 years. Once they started to produce star ships they quickly swarmed into outer space. Now it is true they lost a large number of those early ships but they also learned. They made better ships, discovered other worlds, asteroids and just how wide and complex space was. | ||
Once they started to produce star ships they quickly swarmed into outer space. Now it is true they lost a large number of those early ships but they also learned. They made better ships, discovered other worlds, asteroids and just how wide and complex | |||
They created colonies, mined asteroids and firmly made their presence known. They were here to stay. | They created colonies, mined asteroids and firmly made their presence known. They were here to stay. | ||
Part of this included a number of wars. The first war resulted in the [[Irlan]] being the first alien race to feel the iron heel of the Ga'teran war machine and | Part of this included a number of wars. The first and extremely disappointing war resulted in the [[Irlan]] species being the first alien race to feel the iron heel of the Ga'teran war machine. This passive pre-industrial species put up no fight, surrendering and they were turned into slaves. They soon came into contact with the [[Saurian Empire]] and shortly after the destruction of the Hobus star the remains of the fractured Romulan Empire. | ||
==Government== | ==Government== | ||