Fiction:Arqorillan Renaissance

The Arqorillan Renaissance, or Girdo Renaissance, is a multi-species civilisation in the Imi-Khauat sector of the. While the government of the Renaissance itself is not native to the galaxy, or indeed the universe in which it resides, the vast majority of its inhabitants are the indigenous Arqorillans, who were conquered by the technologically superior Girdo Renaissance upon their arrival.

Origins
Much of the astrography of the Arqorillan Renaissance bears the history of the Arqorillan species, who evolved in the humid equatorial rainforests of the super-earth Arqorill during what was otherwise a major ice age. Deforestation by the Arqorillans led to a vast increase of the amount of carbon dioxide in their atmosphere and a corresponding reduction in oxygen, melting the ice sheets, flooding the coastal plains, and triggering a mass extinction of the larger arthropod fauna.

The bulk of the modern Renaissance's central administration comes from the Girdo Resistance, an alliance of rebel forces united against the Coalition of Delpha in a parallel universe, hence their alternative name. By early 2782, the Resistance had defeated the Coalition in the, but this was trapped in a pocket universe and doomed to destruction by the , threatening to make their victory futile. However, they were granted a lifeline: supernatural beings, purporting to be Messengers of, contacted them. The Messengers claimed that the Xhodocto's purpose was merely to remove "godspawn" life from the universe and allow truly alien species to flourish, and thus the Girdo Empire, whose goals were similarly aligned, would be allowed to survive. Nevertheless, their artificial galaxy was still doomed, and their only chance for survival was to enter a portal to another universe. This portal led them to the Imi-Khauan sector.

No longer fighting a war of attrition against a superior foe, and believing their passage through the portal to be a kind of spiritual rebirth, the Resistance adopted the name Girdo Renaissance.