Fiction:Union of Mecholife/Histories/Demitris

Before Space Era
Before we became a space faring empire, we had to go through many, many things on our home world, Calandan. On Calandan, we evolved, creating weapons and learning how to use things like fire and metals.

pre-history
Being pre-history, we know little about it. We do know we lived in clans. The clans were semi-nomadic, staying in one place for the winter, but roaming around during the summer. In the winter, we lived in either constructed caves or natural ones, depending on if we could find natural ones. In this time, we knew the secrets of fire, and had some basic tools like axes, spears, and basic forgery.

Agriculture
When we learned how to grow things on farms so we didn’t need to find them or be nomadic is when we consider history to have started. The first small farms were in a fertile valley called “Green Valley” by the people of the time. It is the location of the first known city, a large network of buildings and roads that housed 300 people. At the time it was a city, now it would be a village. Anyway, as others saw how successful farming was, they also started farming. Pretty soon, Green Valley was the center of an advanced empire.

Green Valley
Green Valley was the pinnacle of civilization. They had advanced forging, able to smelt and use steel, copper, gold, silver, bronze, and most other metals. They had electricity when the rest of the world was using fire. Green Valley had advanced knowledge in medicines and healing arts. They had plumbing, systems of aqueducts, and were even working on powered air flight. They were super advanced. They were doomed to fall.

Green Valley falls
Green Valley was a world of magic’s and mystery to the rest of the primitive world. As word spread of these mysterious people living by the sea, with a green valley as their homeland, other clans got jealous. They wanted this knowledge. So they attacked, using sheer numbers and persistence to slowly kill of the entire Green Valley Empire. Finally, the war arrived at Green Valley itself. The mighty mountain walls protected it on 3 sides, the sea on the 4th. But there was a roadway into Green Valley along the coast, defended by 3 walls on each side, but still the weakest point it Green Valley’s defenses. The barbarian armies converged, making a truce until they could capture the prize they all wanted. & great armies were besieging Green Valley, and it couldn’t hold out much longer. Its total population was 20 thousand, a vast city of its time. The entire army was there, driven back by the efforts of the barbarians. Green Valley knew they would never win this battle, so they sent a group of people across the sea, and then the ocean, to find new lands untouched by the barbarians. A writing saved from those ships describes the final hours before the innermost wall was overcome.

''“We are losing. Badly. I have been chosen, along with my family, to flee in our biggest and greatest ships across the sea, to find a new land. About 500 other citizens have been chosen as well as 100 soldiers to protect us when we get there, if there is anything to defend against. I hope that there is nothing, because I’ve had enough troubles for one lifetime. The news is bad, the second wall has fallen, and the army is now defending the inner wall. Only that mighty wall defends us from the barbarians attacking. I pray it stands, but know it won’t. We’re headed for the ships, but the Emperor is no where to be seen… A messenger came, the Emperor will stay with his people, but his wife and underage children are coming with us, his orders. We’re just waiting now, for the message telling us to get on the boats. The third wall has fallen! I must go!"''

"We are on the boats, watching as the city burns. The walls have fallen, the aqueducts have been breached, and the screams are unbearable. I wish those left behind could come, but these ships cannot carry everyone. We will have our revenge though, someday in the future. We will not allow these beasts to get away with this, they will pay…"

It goes on to describe in great detail the city as it burns. Good enough detail that we can make a picture of what it may have looked like as it burned.

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After taking the city, the barbarians t=attacked each other, wiping out their own armies and leave the now uninhabitable city and valley filled with the bodies of the dead. We do not know what happened in that part of the world after this, as we are descendants of the Green Valley refugees.

Crossing the Great Ocean
The crossing is known to have been terrible. About 100 people never made it back to land. The ships were well made, but not indestructible. They were not built to withstand the sheer size of the storms out there. As the ships crossed, they were hit by a massive storm. It would have been a category 7 hurricane if it occurred on earth. It hit the fleet of 350 ships, and when it passed it took 37 of them to the bottom. 143 lives lost. The retreat very nearly ended there, but by a fluke of nature the ships got cause in the main wind stream of the storm, ejecting them out of it with little damage. The 37 ships lost were lost because of collisions with debris and other ships, not from the storm itself. After almost 2 months at sea, the ships arrived at their destination, land away from the enemies of old. They called this place “Harmony”…

Harmony
Harmony was the place where the refugee fleet landed. They immediately deconstructed 104 of the ships so they could build shelters and used the engines and mechanical parts to start their city. As their city grew in size and number, it started to spread. Unknown to the Harmonians, as they called themselves, they were being watched by many eyes, and not all of them were friendly.

War in Harmony
As the mighty city of harmony spread and started to found other settlements, it came under the aggressive eyes of the Jalinishi, a war loving clan of semi-nomadic barbarians. These barbarians looked at the wealthy, happy people of Harmony as demons from another world, with their magic’s and their powers. The Harmonians had no idea that they were being watched, and they didn’t keep a true army, just a basic police force. When the Jalinishi attacked Harmony, they were unprepared and lost 3 settlements before they could rally an army. The Harmonians swiftly got the upper hand, using tools as weapons and re-creating their army. Within a single 2 month period of time Harmony changed from a peaceful nation to a nation at war. They crushed the Jalinishi in their territories, but when they started to search for the source of the attacks and raids they were forced to take their time, making settlements to supply the army in its search. Harmony doubled in size during this period of time, bring it to the edge of the Jalinishi homeland. It also brought them into a struggle for power between the Jalinishi and the Garrani, who wanted peace and quiet in which to live their lives out. The Harmonians offered that, so the Garrani joined their nation, helping them find Jalinishi villages and towns. After about 4 years of warfare, the Jalinishi surrendered at Hamblo (the Jalinishi capitol). Harmony was a peace again.

Returning to Green Valley
After 200 years of peace and expansion, the Harmonians were ready to retake their ancestral lands of Green Valley. They were ready to rebuild, with ships that could cross the ocean in mere days, not months, and with air travel by balloon and zeppelin, they could now set up a serious offensive to take back Green Valley, and then to spread their peace across the entire of Calandan. They gathered their fleets and airships and a vast army, as well as almost 10 thousand Harmonians willing to go back and try again. They sent this massive fleet across the great ocean, this time no storms stopped them, and not a single life was lost at sea. Upon arriving at Green Valley, they found a civilization that was still at the level of swords and basic hand forging. Like medieval Europe on earth. The people that had once been barbarians bent on taking for their own everything they saw were now a vibrant culture with only few wars. They did have skirmishes and minor battles, but a general peace held sway. The massive fleet from Harmony approached the land where their ancestors had lived. They say that it was a green fertile land again, and uninhabited. When they landed and set up their settlement, they soon got a number of messengers and diplomats from nearby nations. All of them said “You are going against the code, we do not live here, it is a memorial to remind us of our own stupidity, and to prevent us from screwing up again.” To which they always got the response “We have returned to our ancestral lands, and we ask that you do not drive us away again.” As news spread, all the nations and kingdoms and clans joined together and asked to become part of Harmony. Harmony accepted, forgiving them for their past mistakes. The planet of Calandan was in Harmony at last…

The years of peace
After harmony gained control of all of Calandan, there were many years of peace. Each nation and people were permitted to make their own laws, so long as they followed the general laws of Harmony. Peace and prosperity ruled for hundreds of years, with depressions and recessions every so often, but that was natural. The general way of things was increased wealth for all, and ever advancing tech. Now, Harmony was ready to ascend into space, and spread their mighty peace across the universe…

Space Era
Once we entered space as a peaceful empire, much happened. This is the story of us in space.

Harmony is space
When Harmony entered space, they set about colonizing their solar system, then the space directly around them. They were peaceful, always allying with the other intelligent creatures out there. This went on until they encountered the Grox. Then they went to war, as the Grox did not understand the concept of universal peace. Harmony asked its allies to make a single focused push on the Grox, a push that would not stop until the Grox were extinct. They got their wish, and were the first to reach the center of the galaxy. They met Steve and got the Staff of Life. Harmony then advanced to a whole new level, one level above all the other empires in their galaxy. They were Galactic.

The fall of Harmony
Harmony dominated hundreds of thousands of star systems. This was Harmony at its prime. This was Harmony at the level of the Roman Republic shortly before it was taken over by an Emperor. Harmony was ripe for the taking, with peace as far as its boundaries spread. It had only a small defensive fleet, solely to defend its borders from the Grox. Of course, all member nations and empires had their own small police forces and defensive armies, but no one really expected to need them. That was the stage that was set when a wealthy and ambitious member of the Demitris species started to hire off pirates and mercenaries, starting his own small army. He intended to take over the entire of Harmony, and crush all species that were nor Demitris into dust. He is considered one of the evilest people in our history, outdone only by Ralla. His name was Onicho. Onicho the first Emperor of the Demitris Empire, killer of species, destroyer of planets, exterminator of galaxies. His war would wipe out or drive away all the creatures in Harmony that were not Demitris. All intelligent ones anyway, he had no issues with animals.

Onicho sent his armies out, attacking all those he considered evil, all those not of his species. He swiftly took over his own people, the original people of Calandan, and with several galaxies under his control as the war started, he was the largest faction by far. He built up his armies, hired the best generals, and wiped out all who opposed him. The war was long and hard, simply due to the sheer size of Harmony. As his armies concered, they killed everyone who wasn’t Demitris. No matter the age, all other species were considered animals. The war lasted 3 thousand years, but in the end he was victorious. He did destroy 2 galaxies by converting the gravitational energy into light, which scoured the entire galaxies of all life and at the same time released them from the bonds of the black whole. Because of the speed at which the stars were moving around the cores, they scattered, and never became a galaxy again. Most were captured by nearby galaxies, but some just went way, wandering forever among the universe, never stopping, not even when the stars die out…

When the war ended, almost 99% of the total population of “Harmony” was dead. The Demitris were the last ones left, and started breeding and cloning and spreading until, 3 hundred years later, they once again controlled all the stars in “Harmony”. Onicho declared himself the Emperor of Demitris and set up the government that we still use today. But there is still a ton of history between today and the founding.

Demitris Peace
Almost 10 thousand years of peace and prosperity followed after Onicho’s conquest. “Harmony” was a vast place, and there was plenty of space to spread. All people got food, and many of Onicho’s successors were good and just rulers, unlike their ancestor before them. As time went on, entire cultures and ways of life were formed, unhindered by the Empire. The laws were good ones, the army became a police force, and peace existed throughout the Empire. It was not to last. After all, we have yet to get to Ralla…

Ralla’s Reign
Ralla was the daughter of Emperor Denzou, and she wanted to get the Empire. The only way that would happen was if all her brothers were dead. As eldest daughter, then and only then would the empire fall to her. So she set up her traps and paid her assassins. She killed off all of her brothers one by one. Eventually, she was the oldest heir, and the there were no male heirs left. She became the Empress, and immediately the people felt the change. She re-wrote the laws and enslaved all the lower classes. The nobles and royal family became even richer, while all the other classes became poorer. She enslaved many, setting up a slave market and trading people as if they were objects. Only the nobles and royal family were happy about this change. But when the people revolted, she crushed them utterly, wiping out 7 star systems before all rebellion ended. The people lost all hope, and it continued this way for 142 years. Then, a massive revolt accured. The army was sent out to crush it, but when they arrived, they joined the revolt. As news of this spread, more and more people revolted. Eventually, even on Calandan the people revolted, killing Ralla and the nobles, and the royal family. It was a dark time in our history, and trillions died. But we were no longer an Empire. We would now attempt to resurrect Harmony.

New Harmony
New Harmony was an attempt to resurrect the peaceful entity that was Harmony. It was not successful. After a mere 2 hundred years it collapsed because we did not know enough about governing our selves and handling inter-people politics. The people began to look back on the time of the Demitris Empire as a golden age. Using public opinion as a powerful weapon, Vero, the leader of a small group of people that still called themselves The Demitris Empire, took over the entire of Harmony in a single peaceful year. It was known as the great revival. Vero promised peace and equality. The people joined with him in a massive uprising. He was now the Emperor of Demitris. Emperor Vero was a peaceful emperor and everyone was glad he was in control.

The New Demitris Empire
The new Demitris Empire is still active today, it’s the rule under which we live. It was Vero’s great great grandchild who agreed to join the Demitris Empire with the Sporemaster Alliance. We now had an ally for he first time in many thousands of years.