Fiction:Union of Mecholife/Histories/Bailt

Pre-Space Times(PRT)
The PRT includes everything from their creation as a cell to their first attemts at space flight.

As cells, the Bailt were all speed and no bite. They did not have any defence exept speed, and used it quite often. They ate plants, making themselves herbavores. When we first walked on land and breathed air, we were small, stubby creatures with only the most basic of body parts. By the time we become intellagent, we would be the domanint species and would be highly adaptable creatures. The first thing we did on land was found a nest by the sea. The second thing we did was attack our neighbors, in the hopes that we could erase the compatition early in life. It didn't work. We also found a large, beautifull seashell, which we added to our nest. Anyway, by the time we moved nests, we were out of people to kill in the general area, and hadn't allied anyone. We picked up the seashell and brought it with us. At our second nest, we allied as often as we attacked, and cemented ourselves as adaptable critters. Then, we moved to our third nest. We braught the seachell. Their was an Epic Ciminerdo nearbye. Beacuse of the Epic, we were forced to stay to one side of our nest. But that would not stop us! We learned everything we needed to become a tribal creature. The seashell was still there... As a tribe, we started small, with, for some reason, only 3 villigers. We placed the Seashell in our main tent, where it would be safe. Meanwhile, we got buisy breeding and fishing and gathering. We allied the brown village using the Flutes. Then 3 more villiges were founded. We started breeding again to catch up with them in size, and allied with the Cyan village. Then we wiped out the pink village, losing 2 tribe members... Frijo and Elmat will never be forgotten. After that, the Lavender Village was founded. We once again started breeding to catch up to them in size. Once were were at the maximume population, we attacked the Lavender Villiage. After a series of failures on both sides to destroy the other side, we both waited for a time, and then we, the Bailt Village, attacked them. The seashell was converted into a hron, with with our leader signaled the attack. We didn't lose a single tribe member in the ensuing battle. It was a great victory, and we celebrated afterwards. We then allied the remaining village and were ready to found our first city. We put the Shell Horn, also called the Bailt Horn, into a safe place, where it is said the very gods came and endowed it with great power... We founded our city, Bailt City, and then took 2 spice geysers as our first action. After that, we just let the world go as it wished, untill there were 4 main powers, then us. Then we started to trade with the ones we could. Within a few years, we went from 1 city to 4, and gained air travel. We continued our trading efforts, and swiftly bought 4 more cities. We then used cash infusion to buy all the other cities. With complete control over our planet, we could at last go into space...
 * Cell
 * Animals
 * Tribal Life
 * Age of Civilazation

Early Space Age
The ESA covers from when the Bailt got started with interstellar travel to when the first Bailt Empire collapsed.

When the CB was young, they were also alone. Their galaxy doesn't have a single other native species in it (other then the grox, but they don't count), for reasons unkown. The Cb had to learn everything i knows by itself, in a way very few other empires had to do. Quite an acheivement for a species only 30 thousand years old at the time.

The First Empires came about when the current emperor was assasinated by his own son, who was working for a small group of rebels that didn't like the way things were done. The Empire collapsed, and each planet had to fend for itself for a while. During this time of chaos, 3 distinct factions formed. The nomadic Navagors, who never left their ships, and were like taxi drivers in NYC. They knew all the shortcuts, and could get you where ur goin faster then anyone else. Then there were the Pirates. They were even better then the Navagators when it came to speedy entrances and getaways, but were no where near as nice. They occassionally set up Pirate Planets, which were bases of operations. They would pray on uwary ships of any sort, and were always the first to show up at the scene of a battle, ready to pray on the weakened victors and to steal scrap from the losers. The largest faction by far was the Empires faction. Basically, they were many different empires, each with their own plans and fleets, with shifting alliances and many assasination attempts. The Empires faction was the stabelest and strongest of them all, with many planets under ther control, almost an entire arm was taken up by our people. These small empire rarely controlled more then 50 or 60 planets, and war was a part of life. Empire rose and fell over the quarter billion years this phase covered. The First Bailt Empire (FBE) was created when one 50 planet empire merged with a 60 planet empire, giving that empire an edge over all the others. It swftly took over all the other empires, and became the FBE. The FBE was utterly against change, in any form. So they punished anyone who attemted new things or thought life could be different. The Pirates ad Navagators were banished, being a possible weakness. The Pirates didn't care, but the Navagortors left the area, along with a rather large number of other ships. These people would eventually move onto the fringes of the slowly axpanding empire, and there they would halt its advance. These many other people formed many different guilds, empires, coalitions, alliances, ways of life, religious followings, planet libraries, and any other kind of organazation you can think of. The many indevidual names and ideas of these fringe societies have been lost to time, but they were able to hold back an empire that had been growing since its foundation. many people in the FBE started dreaming about living like these people, not knowing how hard it really was. The citizens of the FBE, denied their rights, rebelled, and the FBE collapsed into chaos. As it collapsed, many of the people fled the pirates, burning planets, and harsh ways of living to go an explore the universe. The Shattering had begun...
 * First Empires
 * The First Bailt Empire

The Scattering
The Scattering encompasses all the times from when the first Bailt Empires collapsed to when the Bailt encountered the Grox.

As the many people fleeing from the destruction in the old empire spread out, they settled much of the galaxy. As they spread, the many faction came up with new ideas, cultures, and ways of life. Trade was rare though, because no one was near anyone else. The core was left largely unsettled because of the strange rumors about the place. As for the rest of the galaxy, well, it became ours. Planet separeted by vast swaths of stars redescovered space flight, and started to colonize the galaxy again. Each thought they were alone, except for the ones in the old empire and fringe worls. Those people were going through hard times, but they still had interstellar travel throught the entire scattering. Anyway, as the scattering comeced, each little colony world created its own forms of government, its own interstellar empire, and its own culture. As these many little empires started to bump into each other, territories started to overlap and war broke out.
 * The Early Scattering

War was breaking out throughout the galaxy as the many small empires and federations and allied planets started to collide, claims territory that others claimed, and fighting over it. Even in the old empire region there were minor wars. As the main and outer parts of the galaxy filled up, empires started to delve into the deaper parts, into the core sectors. Piraes were becoming more common and it came to one's suprise when a large colony ship suddently dissapeared when entering the inner core region, and no one paid it much heed. But when a large military fleet traversing the same territories dissapeared, people bgane to wonder why, and how 2 such large numbers of people could just vanish...
 * The Mid Scattering

As more and more empires crowned out the outer and main galaxy, empires and peoples started moving inward, toward the core. After a few disapreances in the inner core, a large group of empires made a temporary alliance to find out what was wrong. They sent in almost 4 million ships collectivly. Not a single ship returned, not even a transission. As the many people in the galaxy heard about the incedent, they started allying each other, and gathered a vast fleet, 7 billion strong, to enter the core region. But some empires held back, bacause even with such dangers out there, they wanted power. Those empires attacked their neigbores when they were weak, and took over control of vast swaths of the galaxy, and then one took the entire galaxy by allying with its neighbore. Meanwhile, in the inner core, the great fleet was decimated by the grox. Only a few thousnad ships survived, and when they limped home, the second Bailt empire was alerted the the threat of the grox...
 * The Late Scattering

Late Space Age
The LSA starts when the Bailt encounter the Grox and countinues untill they found the Coalition of Bailt.

The mystery destroyer had finally been found in the center of the galaxy, and they were called the Grox. Their empire was vast and strong, but could it stand against the newly founded Second Bailt Empire(SBE)? With the Grox controlling the core, the SBE could never be completely safe, and as such, they wanted to eleminate the threat of the grox. So then started by fortifying the outer core, which was the only thing restricting the Grox from reaking havic among the main and ourter Galaxy. That took about 70 years, and a vast amount of recourses. next, they started to ammass thousands of fleets among the out core worlds, one for each world. They got their fleet, but now they needed people to man it. So they started to ask for their population to start breeding, and the population did. But even with a quarter of the population volenteiring, they only had enuff people to man a thenth of the fleet. So they started cloning. For each natrualy born member there were fifty thousand clones. "Within a few years we had manned our fleet, and both clones and ships were being produced at a high rate. We sent our ships into the inner core, and attacked the grox from all sides. They didn't know what hit them. It took them several years and about 12 thousnad planets to react, to stop our advace."-A captain from that time- The SBE suplied many thousands of working ships a day, and not even the mighty Grox could stand up to the total producing power of the galaxy. They fell back, one planet at a time, and we had to fight for each planet. After ebout 300 years, the Grox were still defending the very center of the core. We amassed our fleets, by noe almost 3 trillion strong, and attacked them with everything we had. In that final push, we crushed them, wiping them out of our galaxy forever. We then met Steve, and got the SOL. Then we went about terriforming all the planet of the Inner Core region and gave them to the clones as payment for aiding us. Many clones chose to stay there, but a decent number declined, preferring to stay in the ships they had worked so long in. Without the need to produce ships and clones, there was a sudden lack of jobs in the SBE, and the SBE could not take such an economical depression. Entire planets were left without jobs, and the SBE almost broke under the strain. But they eventually got back on track, it just took about 800 years, considerably longer then the Grox War lasted. As time went on, the rulers of the empire slowly made the laws a little more strict, a little more harsh, and a little more freedom was lost. They had seen how well this worked with the Grox, and wanted to have the same kind of control. 400 years later, the people realized what had happened. They were furious! They rebelled, even the SBE's fleet rebelled. The SBE, after almost 1 1/2 thousand years of control, fell into ruin of its own creating. As the SBE collapsed, the people broke apart, each group of people sticking to their own. The Navigators stayed among navagortos, the Pirates among Pirates, the Freemen(the name of the first rebellion) with Freemen, Clones with clones, and the colonists with coloniests. Those were just the main groups, there were hundreds of others. Each faction had its own ideas, and each faction stuck to those ideas. They still do today. Small wars were common, and Empires fell and rose and fell again as time went on. This proccess continued for about 30 thousand years, untill a power hungry emperor by the name of Haliti scame into power by killing his father. He attacked his neigbores, and started to destroy them. He attacked navagators, who were by nature deemed neutral in all things, he even went so far as to use planet busters on 4 planets. The many other peoples got together and founded the Coaltion of Free Peoples (CFP) against Haliti. The enitire galaxy was against him, but he already controlled an entire arm. As the CFp and Haliti battled, people in Haliti's empire rebelled, weakaning him substantially at the key moment. Haliti was killed when his home planet was taken by the CFP, by his own son, a member of the rebel organazation there. The CFP was now a galactic organazation, and the name was changed to Coalition of Bailt.
 * War with the Grox
 * Aftermath
 * A new beginning

Galactic Age
The GA starts with the founding of the Coalition of Bailt and countinues to this very day.

Now that the CB was in power, they needed to organize themselves. They did so by setting up stations for every group of people that were part of it. The CB's fleet was now run by the Clones, as a police force against Pirates and the few roug Grox that were left. The CB was in the perfect position to become intergalactic, and did so by sending out colony ships to the Forma and Campfree Galaxies. They encountered the Sporemaster Alliance, and declined membership, but did ally them. Their colonies in the Forma galaxy are thriving and trading with the Sporemaster Alliance. In the Campfree Galaxy, the colonies are spreading like wildflowers, and are trading with the Sporemaster Alliance colonies there.