Creature:Calcimion

Origins
The earliest recorded Calcimions are two legged reptiles without arms that hunted the plains of Eluki in the Mabius Galaxy. They hunted in small packs of three members, keeping their nests in the open. As time continued the creatures evolved to have small weak arms.

Commonly these packs would grow large, at this point they would seperate into two smaller packs. In this way the Calcimions slowly evolved and became widespread. It is believed that they crossed to the second continent on Eluki before it had completely separated from the first.

Towards the end of their evolution the Calcimions developed stronger, more powerful arms along with a straighter, more upright spine. This led to their earliest age as sentient beings.

Rise in Sentience
As an undeveloped and tribal race, the Calcimions expanded through test of strength. They waged war against other rising tribes and one another. When not fighting other tribes the Calcmions would capture and test their strength against the wild animals of their environment.

This led to one of the rituals of the main Calcimion tribes, hunting of Epics. Every ten years, Calcimion Tribes near eachother would come together to hunt the Epic Creatures that strayed across the land. This ritual slowly brought the tribes to social order instead of just a barbaric test of strength back and forth.

Eventually the uniting led to a much more complex system. The Calcimion grew into a Middle age of prosperity. As Clans clashed for dominance over territory, eventually leading to the formation of nations, culture began to grow within the Calcimion world. As the Clan Wars ended, and nations rose up. As the nations clashed in endless war, causing a jump start on war technology that improved Civil technology as well.

As two nations rose up to conquer the rest, the planet of Eluki was quickly engulfed in devastating warfare that scarred the planet terribly. Eventually the two sides came across Atomic Weaponry. With the risk of unrepairable damage to their home planet, the two sides agreed to form a truce. During the time this truce lasted, the groups advanced to reach into space. Although it was not far, the Calcimions explored their own system.

On a planet within their system they found the remains of what appeared to be a massive ship. As they sent manned vessels to retrieve and analyze the crash site, they discovered that the remains were from an ancient vessel of the Mabius Empire. Using the technology found on this ship, the race advanced quickly to colonize their entire system, the truce of nations becoming a coalition.

Rise and Fall of the Calcimion Empire
As the Calcimions began to extend their reach into space, they became a single unity. The Calcimion Empire began to spread its influence, allying itself with many empires, although destroying others that it perceived as a threat. As the Empire became larger and more powerful they quickly became corrupt with power. They began destroying allies and enemies alike. Expanding heavily, the empire finally reached the Core of their galaxy, only to find much of the area surrounding it blockaded by a massive network of weapon-like installations.

Sending a scout fleet to investigate, the Empire found itself suddenly bombarded from all sides by liberation forces from smaller empires. This allowed them to expand to reach out over half the galaxy within months while the Scout Fleet searched the Core Area.

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