Fiction:Eradian Empire

The Eradian Alignment began as the Eradian Empire in 1892. Then they only had three colonies including the homeworld. They sent out many probes. In fact, many of the UFOs seen on earth from 1904-1987 were Eradian probes. In 2055 they started extensively buying out and expanding into 24 new systems. In 2123 they merged with their subspecies, the Erinar, and becoming the Eradian Alignment. In 2242, The Erad-Earth war began. At the end of the Erad-Earth war in 2249, The Alignment had won, And gained 8 new systems. In 2521 they completed their greatest work, the Orbital Solar Farms of Erad (the O.S.F.E.) In 2601, the Eradian civil war broke out because of an economic dispute where 14 systems seceded and formed the Eradian Rebellion. After a war of stalemates leading up to 2607, The war was over and the Rebellion rejoined the Alighnment. In 2699, The Alignment began forging lucrative contracts with local empires. By 2750, They had a contract with someone on the other side of the galaxy. In 2788, they struck their first intergalactic contract in the Mirus galaxy. They are currently working on buying systems in the Mirus galaxy.