Fiction:Aoshtai Galaxy

 CURRENT YEAR: 14,584 POST RUINAM; 2825 AD

"It is no easy matter for a foreigner to understand our galaxy. For millennia, the Golden Throne was all we have ever known: we lived and died for it for untold generations, our civilisation bound together by tradition, honour and justice. Now, traditions are broken, honor is meaningless, and justice is nowhere to be found – and the Throne itself lies in ruins. For the races of Aoshtai, one question had remained forever since: 'What do we do now?'"

- Duchess Carnio of the Bound States of Os

Aoshtai, the Golden Realm (also known to Gigaquadrantic cartographers as Aegis-AO51, or to some as Rhya) is a large spiral galaxy located in the Aegis Cluster of the First Gigaquadrant. Isolated for billions of years from the rest of the Gigaquadrant by sheer distance, Aoshtai became home to thriving and dynamic civilizations. Over the course of time, empires rose and fell, until one race calling themselves the Aoshati, or Throneborne, united under a single ruler, conquered the galaxy, and gave it its name.

For a thousand generations, the Aoshati Emperors ruled in overlordship over the galaxy's many races and creeds from their capital of Abzu. The galaxy was prosperous and at peace until the covenant that Priphon the Conqueror had made with Rhya, the Guardian Soul of Aoshtai, expired. The Empire's slow decline into decadence and dysfunction was well advanced by that point, and two enemies from without––the galactic invasion of the machine consciousness Jinohl and the raids of the barbarian Nibbairu race––precipitated the gradual collapse Golden Throne. After the sacking of Abzu, known forever as start of year 0 of the Aoshtai calendar, the galaxy was cast into an age of darkness and violence.

Fourteen millennia have since passed and the galaxy still lives under the shadow of these ancient giants. New civilizations have emerged from the ashes of the new, some attempting to recapture the glories of the past––others seeking

Civilizations

 * Morterium
 * '''Continuum of the Aleei

Astrography
Political map of Aoshtai