Fiction:The Nobi Nations of Drenol/History and Calendar

Time

 * 99 GSS in 1 GSM
 * 66 GSM in 1 GSH
 * 33 GSH in 1 GSD
 * 9 GSD in 1 GSW
 * 5 GSW in 1 GSMo
 * 13 GSMo in 1 GSY

1 Galactic Standard Year(GSY)= 2.5 earth years.

Abbreviations

 * GSS=Galactic Standard Second
 * GSM=Galactic Standard Minute
 * GSD=Galactic Standard Day
 * GSW=Galactic Standard Week
 * GSMo=Galactic Standard Month
 * GSY=Galactic Standard Year

Calendar Itself
The Nobi calendar goes by Galactic Standard (GS).

13 months, named after the 13 Lesser Gods.


 * Garran- Home of Family Week(21st) and Friends Celebration(33rd).
 * Opili- Home of the Day of Lost Souls(17th).
 * Wento- Home of Day of Gifts(1st).
 * Verin- No Holidays
 * Cantro- No Holidays
 * Oppola- Home of the Day of Demons(25th)
 * Arren- Home of the Day of Gifts(24th)
 * Ponal- No Holidays
 * Berio- Home of Nira Memorial Day(18th)
 * Allin- Home of the Day of the Dead(32nd)
 * Fereos- Home of Veridini Day(6th)
 * Hydrod- No Holidays
 * Iyyena- Home of the Day of Memories(12th).

Note: Birthdays can occur on any day of the year

History
Our history is not long, but we will continue to expand it as our resources grow.

A note on time
1 GSY is 2.5 earth years long. We state time in Galactic Standard Years, or GSY, and thats how we measure time from an event that starts the age. 200 GSY after the FWOW would be how we would say it, and translates into 500 earth years.

Pre-history
Before we started recording our history. To learn this, we had to look though our fossil records.

Cell Stage
As a cell, we were omnivores, we were also scavengers, eating things already dead. We didn't attack things back then, not unless we knew we would win. Ha! Even then we were smarter then most creatures.

Animal Stage
As an animal, we were scavengers and hunters, we only attacked if we would win. We wiped out a number of other species, became friends with others. We were and are adaptable. We were also stronger then the rest, no one dared try to take a meal from us, but we took from them all the time.

Recorded History, Before Space(BS) lol
This was when we reach intelligence and started to record our history.

Tribal Stage
As a tribe, we were rather warlike. We destroyed one more tribe then we allied, and because of that we became a warrior tribe and a military nation. As a tribe, we lost a few battles, but won more then we lost. We were victorious, and created the first city on our planet.

Civ Stage
In the civ stage, we were a military nation, but we also took control of economic and religious cities, and in the end we were an economic nation, though leaning on the side of militarian. As we had been mostly adaptable and economic, we entered space as Traders.

Recorded History, After Space(AS)
In the beginning, we didn't have FTLT, so we made these immense ships, called "Generation Ships", designed to hold many generations of our descendants, hence the name. We had lived in the Tronji system for several thousand years as a spacefaring species, but trapped in the system, when we realized we were nearing the systems population limit. Soon, we would no longer be able to sustain our population in the system, and we knew that would cause potentially species destroying wars. So we built the Generation Ships, and sent them out at 10% the speed of light. They were seeds scattered on the wind, the destinations chosen because they seemed like good choices. We knew most of the ships would never make it (or so we thought at the time), so anyone who went on them took a major risk. 300 Generation Ships were created, sent out, and eventually reach a destination. 1 of them never left the system, due to political stresses. It was destroyed as it left, half empty, shortly before the War for Malabri.

War for Malabri
The population had reached critical mass, the Generation Ships hadn't removed enough of the population, and the systems resources were dwindling fast. What did you expect, a flower show? The various planets and nations went to war over Malabri, which was the place that the most food could be grown, and as such was very prized. When the war started, the only rule was "don't hurt Malabri", anything else was fair game. By the end of the war, even Malabri was damaged, the entire northern hemisphere rendered uninhabitable and dangerous, with monsters and refugees fleeing swarms of nanotech and biological weapons. The southern hemisphere survived in much better condition, but even there you could find devastating deceases and monstrous creations attacking everything they encountered. It was about then that a friendly species that had found and helped 7 of our Generation Ships came and saved us. They came in, saw the damages, and instantly started to aid us. They brought food, water, and gave shelter to the millions of refugees fleeing the devastation of Malabri. They called themselves the Wurble Empire, and were very friendly, they saved us from ourselves. The Wurble were our first allies, and they, along with the 7 Generation Ships they found, rebuilt and rejuvenated the Tronji system. We have a nice monument to remember them by.

The Age of Expansion
Every Empire has one, an age where they do nothing but get better and better and better. Sadly, they never last. Anyway, with Tronji out of commission, our people had to spread to the surrounding worlds to save themselves. In that first year alone we settled 33 worlds. In the ensuing years, we settled about that many a year. Within 20 years we had settled most of the Spiral Arm we lived in, had reunited with 138 of our Generation Ships, and had an empire equal to even the Grox when it came to sheer size. We didn't have as good a military though, but since the Grox and the Nobi had an uneasy truce, neither side attacked the other. Our tech advanced, we learned how to use the "Ekti Drive", as its called. We just call in the "Drive" or "Engine" now. We achieved many things, but we always wanted more. And because of this, we attacked one of our many neighbors in what was supposed to be a minor squabble over territory, but turned into an war that came to span the entire galactic arm, and almost got the Grox involved.

First War of the Worlds
The Slothy were a peaceful species, they did nothing to deserve our wrath, but we attacked them because they just happened to live on some of the most pristine worlds in the Spiral Arm at he time. They also had a single planet of "White Spice" as its called. We wanted that very dearly, and so we took it. During the battle for their homeworld, a Planet Buster "accidentally" fell out of our weapons hold, and somehow activated on the way down and destroyed their planet. At least, thats what we told the many nations and empires within hearing of this. Yea, they didn't beleive us. We were now at war with almost 23 different empires, all at once. THe Slothy had lived in a very populated portion of the galaxy. We decided that this was a perfect time to test our new weapons systems on a real enemy, see how they worked in the field of battle. We attacked them in return, and the FWOW started. It lasted a mere 8 GSY, and wiped out 13 species (The Wurble among them), nearly destroyed another 37, and very nearly got the Grox involved. Thankfully, the accidental attack on one of their ships was forgiven because of the show we offered them as we attacked our neighbors and destroyed other species. They found that very funny to watch, and sided with us, which ruined even more relationships of ours... fail. Anyway, when the war ended, we were trillions in debt to nations and empires we paid to stop attacking us, the economy of the spiral arm was ruined, interstellar space was an obstacle course of destroyed fleets and dead planets and star systems, and no one trusted anyone else, least of all us. It was finally time to rebuild.

Battle of Rames
Rames was a complex system. It has 2 gas giants, 7 rocky planets, an astroid belt, and a comet cloud. It was basically a normal system, except that it was heavily populated, like super populated. There wasn't a rock in the system that didn't have someones name on it, and as such it was one hell of a target in the war. Its industrial campacity was massive, and it was where the bulk of our ships and weapons came from. So of course it was attacked, but because of its weapons factories and storage facilities, when it was attacked everyone had to be extra careful not to hit anything unstable or combustable. No lasers, pulses, or anything with fire or heat could be used. When the overwhelming enemy force attacked, the people there made a critical decision: They would blow themselves to hell instead of let our enemies get ahold of their massive factories and weapons stores and wealth. And they did. The last known transmission from that system was to the enemy flagship, in response to their demands of surrender: "We'll surrender to no one but death, filth! But we'll take you with us!" and then they detonated a planet buster on one of the planets there. It started a chain reaction that destroyed every living thing within the system, and left nothing but dust behind, slowly moving into an orbit. Even now, over 1,720 years later, it is still empty and dead, with nothing but dust to show there was ever anything there to begin with.

Age of Reconstruction
The Spiral Arm was in chaos, no one knew who to trust, entire portions of the arm were empty, and everyone wanted to expand and cover the scars of the FWOW. So did we, but we owed so much Sporebucks that it wasn't even funny anymore. We had to spread and pay taxes to other nations in order to keep up with the debt. Luckily, we found most of our Generation Ships as we spread, and they helped us pay for the war. We spread to galactic sized empire, and in the last uncolonized spiral arm, we found the Veridini, a "peaceful" species that had saved and helped 6 of our Generation ships create their own smaller empires, which were absorbed into ours. The Veridini and Nobi alliance lasted for several hundred GSY, and the whole time we thought they were friends, we believed them when they said they had only found 6 Generation Ships. They lied. They had found not 6, but 7 of our Generation Ships. They had kept the 7th for themselves, using its population in an attempt to create a super race of warriors and healers, an entire species that could out do them someday. And they were getting away with it too, until they went to far. They kidnapped a young Green Priest who had the misfortune to be alone on their homeworld, Harilo, and the Veridini were planning to attack the Grox (at least, thats what their records said). So basically, they wanted her Telekinetic powers to run in the the bloodline of the hybrids, to better their fighting strength and coordination. Nira was with an older Green Priest, who they killed to prevent them from communicating outside of the system.

Nira
"I was alone. Completely alone. Not another Nobi in the entire system, no Green Priests, no telelink, no friends of any sort. But that was the least of my worries, as I was soon to find out. You see, I was being sent to the breeding world of Palon, a small colony of the Veridini. Since this is a memory, I will often add small bits of info into it, to help you understand. Palon means, in Veridini, "Fair Trade". It is a small system, only 2 rocky worlds and 1 gas giant, a medium sized red-yellow star, one habitable planet. Palon itself was a larger world, it had twice the gravitation pull of Jeron, where I was born and raised. From the first day I was there, all the way until I escaped after my last pregnancy, the Veridini kept me pregnant with a child at all times, their scientists making sure I was "healthy". The first one was the easiest to handle, my 11 month pregnancy went as they had expected, and there were no complications. I got to care for the child for 3 months, after which it was taken from me. I wouldn't see him again for many many years. I named him Dobro, which means "Calming Wind" in my native language. He was the first of 9 children that I had among them, the 10th being had later, in the safety of my own species. I was there for 12 years before I managed to escape. I will not describe the things that I went though there, the memories are to horrible for me to bear, even now, 3 years after my escape. During this time I saw how they treated the other Nobi that were with me, the ones who had been on a Generation Ship when they were captured. The descendants of the "Lari-Kate" (thats the name of the ship found there) were unable to comprehend a free world, a world where our species made their own choices and lived their own lives. Free will had been bred out of them, but hundreds of years as slaves to the Veridini. I made many attempts to escape over the 9 years I was in the breeding camp, but none were successful. For 9 years I was used as a reproductive system, a body for producing more bodies until, finally, they decided that I was no longer worth the risk, but they didn't want to kill me, they feared that they may need my genes again. So instead, they sent me off to a little island in the middle of an ocean, all alone, without anyone to help me, without even a guard. They grew cocky and foolish, thinking that the ocean could stop me from trying to escape. I built a raft, after 3 years on that isolated little island, and I made it to the mainland. I then made my way to the breeding colony, without them knowing I was there, and stole a single spaceship. I fled, being chased by their ships, and made it o the nearest system I knew was controlled by the Nobi Empire. Once there, the Veridini ships couldn't kill me, because the entire planet below knew I was human, and knew I was a Green Priest, killing me would have been enough to cause a massive war between the two species and would have destroyed the fleet sent after me. So they let me go, and I told my species of the horrors on Palon."

- Nira, My Story

Note: This is much shortened, because the full story is to large to read along with our history, and it much more vivid and direct about what happened, it leaves no tale untold, no memory unremembered, no event censored. We have needed to censor and shortened it in order to make it readable for all ages.

Second War of the Worlds
After Nira escaped and told us of her torture, we immediately went to Palon and found her story to be true. We took the planet, and demanded answers and reparations from the Veridini. They refused, saying that we had aggressively attacked a sovereign planet for no better reason then false rumors, claiming we had set up the whole thing to justify a war with them. It was a case of "our story or theres?" and it divided the galaxy into 3 factions. The Nobi Faction, the Veridini Faction, and the hybrids, who couldn't decide which side they favored, as both had a part in their creation. There were also some neutral factions, and the Grox of course just told us to leave them alone. In the end, no one was neutral, everyone had a side. The Veridini attacked first, after we took Palon, going for a small and mostly undefended farming planet called Riches (right-ches). They burned the farms and buildings and people in equal measure, and got themselves some of the meaner empires on their side. Our retaliation was absolute, we wiped out every single city on their homeworld (Kilon), and then, once it was empty of living people, we torched it. It is now a wasteland of glass deserts, melted mountain ranges, and even a number of open volcanos that look like sores from an infected wound. The war progressed in much the same manner, each side doing vast amounts of damage to the other, until finally a Grox planet was accidentally torched when one of our ships crashed into it during a battle. The Grox then sided with the Veridini, and we very nearly lost just then. If half the empires on the Veridini side hadn't joined us, the Grox would have crushed the Nobi Alliance swiftly and surely. As it was, most of the empires in the Nobi alliance were destroyed in the first 6 GSY of the Grox participation in the war. After that, our fleets started to upgrade in tech, using the ruins of Grox planets and ships, as well as the ruins of Veridini ships and planets, to grow stronger. The final nail in the coffin occurred when the hybrids sided with us, and lent their unique skills and powers to our cause. Even as we were wiping out the Veridini and Grox, they wiped out all the other empires in our galaxy, out of sheer spite. They knew they were going to lose, so they attack the defenseless empires on the galaxy, the ones devastated by the war and unable to defend themselves. They even wiped out what few allies they had left at that point. It was then that Nira wrote her famous last letter.
 * "This is going to be my last word to the universe. By the time you read this, I will already be dead. I have a warning to give you, a message, a lesson you must learn. Being alone is the hardest thing in all the universe to be. The Veridini and Grox are the last living sentient lifeforms in the galaxy. When they die, our species will be completely alone. That would be a very sad fate indeed. It has been 8 years since I was last on Palon, but the memories are still fresh, I will never forget. But I can forgive, and I have. The Veridini have more then paid for their crimes, and this war has no purpose now. It is time to make peace between our species, time to forgive each other for our crimes. We have both committed great crimes. The torching of Harilo, the butchering of Hames, the slaughter of Igro. Yes, we have committed crimes equal to their own. It is time to forgive them for their crimes, and to ask forgiveness in return. This war has run its course. That is my last wish, that this war I started finally run its course, that Veridini and Nobi can once again live together in peace. That... is my wish. Goodbye, my friends and comrades. At least try to make my last wish come true."

- Nira's Last Letter, 638 AFWOW.

We did not forgive, we did not forget. We wiped them out, completely and utterly. The Veridini fell at Jeron, the Grox at Groxima. Jeron was torched after we took it, and then planet busted for good measure. We didn't want a singe memory of their species to survive, but the hybrids saved the entire history of their ancestors, they have it still, and they will never give it up. Groxima was made habitable, and is now a galactic memorial and a place to learn about the Grox culture. We didn't leave a single Grox or Veridini alive, and because of that Nira's prediction came true: When we were alone, we lost all purpose. For almost 150 GSY we had been at war, we had been fighting, growing, spreading. But now... nothing. We were alone.

The Lonely Era
Yea... we didn't do much of anything until the end of this era, so there is no reason to record all of it. We basically stagnated, grew boring, spread throughout the galaxy, and eventually ended up finding a small library from before the FWOW, which somehow survived the First and Second WOWs.(Some think the "Warders" had something to do with this) In it was knowledge of our species from when we were younger, still trapped on our homeworld because of technological limitations. We knew about the way the world worked back then, but had no first hand accounts of it. In this library, we found some, and we saw how they had survived being alone back then: By creating their own nations out of their own species. Because they had different nations despite being the only species there, they didn't stagnate, and even became more advanced. In the galaxy we lived in at the time, there was only one massive empire, with only 2 other factions (Green Priests and Hybrids), and both of those were just other portions of the empire. Change was slow to come, but when it did it spread like wildfire... almost literally. We hadn't known just how fragile the Empire had been back then, it took only the lightest touch to cause the entire thing to collapse into civil war and absolute chaos. With the idea of being able to follow your own dreams, being able to become the leader of a nation and people, flying around the galaxy, everyone tried to get a piece of the power. Well, not the Green Priests or Hybrids, they knew they would remain their own nations and peoples, they couldn't do any less. In the war strewn period that followed the revelation, many new nations, empires, kingdoms, and peoples formed. And out of that chaotic time, the Nobi Nations were born. -Add More to This Section when you think of how to do so-

Recorded History, After Nobi Nations Formed(ANNF)
We finally reach the current times. We had finally found a cure for our loneliness. Not a complete cure, but a better one then none. Now, instead of living alone and wallowing in our mistakes, we were fighting, expanding, advancing once more! We were finally able to break free of the stagnation of being alone. We were changing again. It was in this manner that we developed the Transgates, constructed Council Station (took us almost 300 years, that one), and started to stabilize into a single Empire of many Nations, as we are now. It took us a long time, but we finally got things right, and even as we got things right, we also managed to make our Ekti Drive efficient enough for intergalactic travel. Nira would be proud of us, even if we didn't listen to her final advice, we learned our lesson, and learned it well. Being alone is the saddest fate any being can suffer though, no matter what being they are.

Erip Goes Nova
Erip, a large star in the largest and most populated portion of our empire, went nova unexpectedly one day, out of the blue. It was a large Blue Supergiant, uninhabited system, no known reason for its going nova. We did not have time to evacuate, and billions died. The death toll is still unknown, but the damages are predicted to be in the trillions. We lost a very important base there, but the other empires don't know about that so don't tell them. It was experimenting with advanced nanotech and Femtech healing and repair centers, as well as with a new weapon that was supposed to be able to take out entire systems. We don't know what happened there specifically, but we are very worried about it, and have sent in military ships to make sure everything is safe and hidden.