Disaster gives way to Greenbriar's first conflict.
Timeline for the Iron Stars play-by-post events.
Silvano leads an endeavor to protect psychics within Greenbriar's realm of influence.
Following the end of the Helldiver War, the Piggen find themselves at conflict with one another.
One of the first UNW's official military actions takes place, and they sustain their first casualties.
Greystar agents explore their new battleship, and learn about the fate of the ancient Slyth Empire.
The New Moon Cooperative begins venturing out into lands lost to the Shaper incursion.
On the planet Actala, SCAF explorers uncovered the remains of a Slyth facility where a project called The Black Masque was being researched. A team from human space later on had also stumbled across the facility and had viewed the experiments and work here as so vile that a cover up was ordered. Anyone with knowledge of the project was either killed, or ended their own lives to keep the secret. Lucas Abast and Vukan Korda infiltrated the facility, dueling with automated security, and were able to bring its discovery to the attention of Lord Mazzio. Mazzio ignored the warnings and donned The Black Masque, though it is unclear to all save Mazzio himself how the machine works. What is clear, is that his psychic powers have been nearly infinitely expanded. Actala is undergoing massive surface constructions as factories, defenses, farms, and other necessities begin popping up, constructed with the help of The Black Masque.
Seung Whitaker, Executor Dorlin, and all Whitaker Solutions personnel embark aboard their large flotilla of ships after delivering an important message about their intentions. He decreed that the group was leaving to find the Slyth homeworld to see if any still lived, and to see what might be discovered there in either case. Ceding his post as Governor of Terezinho, he created a large trust to allow others with fewer means to grow and explore with the intention that they would do good works wherever they went. Heading north, the ships pulsed one final goodbye message before beginning their long spike drill away.
In February 2668 a combined force of Agent Theta Eastmarch, Billy Rigers, and thousands of robotic soldiers from The Exalted Path were able to finally defeat The Alloy Host in open battle. A fierce fight took place around the space elevator ruins, where a parking ramp converted into a fort was captured. The Exalted Path have removed much of the infrastructure from the Alloy Host areas, though the planet is now cleansed of their presence. The remains of the space elevator and power plants have all been removed and taken into EXP hands for other matters. As for the Exalted Path, their fleet has left the system for parts unknown.
A string of thefts from polity storehouses across the Iron Sectors has investigators and internal security scrambling to determine who is responsible, and bring them to justice. Trivdei Technologies also suffered a loss when its shipyard at Olar was raided, stripping the faction of their space assets and forcing them to disband.
In a discussion led by Herald of the Protectorate Daitrij Sakharov , the ruling members of the polity sign their first political document. The Constitution of the Protectorate is an official set of rights and principles set down onto hard copy, but these tenets have always guided the Protectorate.
The Communist Brotherhood of Stellar States, Elysium Protectorate, Greystar Confederacy, New Moon Cooperative, and United Nations of Worlds send representatives to meet on the enclave world of Galatea to lay down short set of rules governing international relations in this new Post-Scream age. The Full Content of the Treaty is as follows: (Special thanks to Natalia Toivonen for transcribing)
Five adventurers from the Inheritor Alliance venture out from their sanctuary city of Dremlas to begin exploring their world Saliv. They aim to establish links with other communities that might have survived the scream, and repair any magical resonators found.
A combined Elysium Protectorate, Greystar Confederacy, and United Nations of Worlds assault on the Ghoul King of Urreturre begins on the planet Yauvani- the first planetary occupation of a hostile world in this post-Scream era.
The Yauvani Campaign progresses, and the critical areas of the planet are free after just two days of fighting. Liberation comes with some unforeseen difficulties.
A magical confluence of events changes the Iron Sectors forever.
An exploration team explores the mysterious pillars rising from the moons of Acastus.
The trusted royal agents of the New Moon Cooperative round up and arrest the noble families in a coordinated military action.
AGET, Knights of Draconis, and Operatives in the United Nations of Worlds destroy the last bastions of Ghoul resistance on Yauvani
Silvano Mazzio, Demigod psychic leader of the Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces delivers a scathing message to Galnet All-Sector News, warding the other polities away.
Beset by internal problems caused by the disconnect in faction communication, President Harkoni enacts his plan to federalize the United Nations of Worlds. Recognizing the growing threat of balkanization, and the growing eclipsing of power by their neighbors, the faction leaders reluctantly agree to the massive transfer of manpower and material.
The Psychic Academy takes their new flagship to raid a secret deep space research facility held by The Still Lady. The Soul Cage is recovered, after a fierce fight.
The combined forces of the Communist Brotherhood of Stellar States, Elysium Protectorate and the United Nations of Worlds launch a series of devastating covert operations on Urreture. Unable to cope with the rapid series of strikes, the Ghoul monarchy flees the capital.
The forces of the Communist Brotherhood of Stellar States, Elysium Protectorate, Greystar Confederation, New Moon Cooperative, and United Nations of Worlds send a task force through the metaspace storms around Rana, and assault the home planet of The Still Lady. The Still Lady was defeated, though Herald Daitrij and Agent Tychos were both killed in the resulting battle.
The Exchange of Light re-institutes its own Pre-Scream system of credits and banking, wiping out the finances of all polities and factions overnight.
Noel Hallewell of the Cooperative for the Advancement of Science and Technology discovers critical information about the alien wreck field in the Teucer system. A detailed record of the scrubbed reports is made available to the scientific community at large, and is as follows in the expanded view.
Teucer, Ares, and Ka'za of the Elysium Protectorate work with the Church of Ognyena to end the Overlord Curse. A kill team is sent into a deep the Church identified as a possible tomb and defeats the Overlord in pitched combat. Across the planet it seems that the dead no longer rise and the curse has been broken with the Overlord's return to death.
In December of 2668 Brizeno would be visited again. This time Phemno Mining Guild placed their planet cracker in orbit and demanded one hundred billion credits from the Galatea Council within seven days or the world would be destroyed. Hesitant to lose a populated world but refusing to give in to criminal threats a hastily assembled fleet of Aphroditan Guild of Exploration and Trade, Lamplighter Foundation, New Moon Cooperative, and Void Warden vessels raced south to confront CEO Eduardo del Sallas Bartel and his small armada. Other notables such as Typasius the Veteran of the Exalted Path and Barnabas Stransy , Captain of the Cool Springs also joined the fighting at no small personal cost to themselves. The planet cracker was destroyed after a major battle where both fleets were nearly annihilated. A planetary landing was deemed too dangerous due to dug in enemy positions and the surviving Galatea Council ships retreated back to friendly space for much needed repairs.
King Deveers of the New Moon Cooperative abdicates the throne as an Iron Cyst is found in his lungs. A long festering assassination attempt had been successful and with only a few months to live the heirless Monarch removes himself from office. Maxwell Buchcanon is named King in a small coronation and will be ceremonially leading the Cooperative as it enters a new era of constitutional monarchy.
Ambassador Issac of the Inheritor Alliance records a signal and it is heard by both the Galatea Council and the Northern Free-State Singularity. Both rush to send emissaries to court the polity hoping to integrate the strong magically inclined neighbor state. The welcome transmission is recorded below for posterity. This is an open message to any remaining polity since the events of the scream. This broadcast will be repeated.  The Inheritor Alliance calls out to any polity that has survived the Scream. Our home world of Saliv has been deeply damaged because of the events of the Scream and only barely survived thanks to our Metaspace Resonators. Saliv is a world deeply connected to Metaspace and because of this we are home to a large population of Psychic’s and Arcanist's, most of which are researchers and scholars all trying to rebuild Saliv's infrastructure. I am Ambassador Isaac and I come to you on behalf of the Inheritor Alliance Council. I call out in hopes of contact or support from any remaining polity, as we fear we are all alone. We are currently trying to rebuild our shipyard, if we can rebuild our ships we can hope to reinstate The Inheritor Anomaly Project to help worlds affected by MES as we are. We reach out in hopes for peace and support, our planet struggles with many internal issues. Many of our new born Psychic’s go untrained, some of our population has been mutated by the Metaspace Breaches we suffer and have become feral, and we have lost our Arcanotech Archives. Most importantly we reach out in hopes we are not alone in the universe. If you hear this broadcast please reach out. On behalf of the Inheritor Alliance, This is Ambassador Isaac signing off.
Members of the Northern Free-State Singularity, Inheritor Alliance, and Galatea Council polities meet on Saliv. Negotiations take the better part of a day. A non aggression pact is signed among all parties. All parties promise to respect the independence and territorial rights of the Inheritor Alliance. All parties except the Elysium Protectorate agree to be part of a metaspace research center built on Saliv's barren moon. The NFSS agrees to send a small warship and its contingent of soldiers to assist with the land war on Brizeno.
Seung Whittaker finishes his long journey to the Slyth core worlds where he meets an old friend. A small group of Slyth survivors who had entered cryo were recovered, led by a scientist named Archimend. The Slyth were allowed to retain temporary control over two Whittaker Solutions vessels to complete surveys and any technological recovery in the core systems. They agreed to remain there until sent for, and will determine if there is anything left to try to re-start Slyth civilization in its ancient origin worlds.
Galatea Council research materials are discretely shunted to the academic division of the New Moon Cooperative in order to understand the secrets of a recovered Fleshshaper Living Forge brain. The People's House of the New Moon Cooperative elects to use the discovery to rapidly change the planet of Meda to a more temperate climate. Although 36 Million people have been freed from climate collapse, the NMC's contemporaries weigh the best response to the selfish use of combined resources.
The Noctua are driven from their homes by the advancing forces of the Chimeran Ascendency and seek asylum among the polities of the Iron Sectors. The Galatea Council, Inheritor Alliance, and Northern Free-State Singularity all make their best arguments for attracting as many of the Noctua as possible. Promised a convenient and pampered lifestyle similar to what humans enjoyed before "The Scream" , over twenty million Noctua head north to settle among the NFSS and its subsidiary states, while lesser amounts scatter further south.
The Galatea Council and Inheritor Alliance hold their first ever Olympic like Galatea Games. Athletes and Polymaths from across the Iron Sectors come together to compete in a grueling series of mental and physical challenges.
General Ivan Wyke of the Elysium Protectorate officially announces the existence of the Heras L-Gate, the Weeping Company military organization behind it, and details as to joint operations taken by both sides during the fight against The Still Lady. General Wyke passionately argues for the native Herans to surrender the bodies of their dead to the Company, allowing them to use the biomass for new organic bodies to house brain slates. An official pact of friendship was signed between the Protectorate and Weeping Company as of this meeting.
The Communist Brotherhood of Stellar States, Elysium Protectorate, New Moon Cooperative, and United Nations of Worlds decide to put aside their differences and formalize the bonds of cooperation between them all. The Iron Stars Federation is formed. The Greystar Confederation declines membership, though insists relations will continue to remain warm with Federation members so long as the Galatea Tready remains enforced.
Silvano Mazzio and Seung Whitaker begin a military campaign against the Chimeran Ascendency by attacking the black hole at GcG8905 . The combined Whitaker Solutions and SCAF fleets make short work of the scout ships stationed on the northern Ascendency border.
The Inheritor Alliance commits half its entire army to a pitched battle. Terminals are driven out of the Northfield ruins. Many are killed within. The way is cleared for northward Inheritor Alliance expansion.
The Elysium Protectorate space trucker Jimmer Pitkins sells the contents of his ship armory to a terrorist group on Chloe. They seize the orbital platform can reign destruction on the peaceful planet below, bringing the United Nations of Worlds and the Protectorate to the verge of war. A massive series of sanctions from the United Nations of Worlds is levied and tensions continued to build over the next few months until the Void Wardens helped each side come up with a truce, and a plan for reconstruction of Chloe. This was the first true test of the Iron Stars Federation and most policymakers agreed it was a resounding success.
The Iron Stars Federation and Soverign Colonies Armed Forces agree to coordinate battle plans and work alongside one another to combat the growing threat of the Chimeran Asendency.
The Preceptor Archive on Vouris has changed from a place of promise and technological advancement to one of biological horror. The former explorers that inhabited this high tech vault discovered some kind of energy transferring relic, though the energy coming through it seems to be one of mutagenic, metaspace related properties. Contaimnent efforts to prevent the twisted abominations within from spreading form the first joint scientific cooperation between the Northern Free-State Singularity, and the Iron Stars Federation.
The Communist Brotherhood of Stellar States, the Elysium Protectorate, Lamplighter Foundation, the New Moon Cooperative, Void Wardens, and United Nations of Worlds embark on the most ambitious military campaign in the post-Scream era. A full scale invasion of Chimeran space involving several fleets, armies, and organizations all working side by side is commenced, the results expected to be protracted and bloody.
Captain Rayce Stardust of the Elysium Protectorate becomes the first person to entirely survey a planet in the Post Scream age. Korra-S has a complete surface record and map due to his efforts.
Four brave adventurers work to unite the warring factions of Polychrome under one political union and a new experiment into autonomous rule by the people is begun. The remains of the belligerent Everlife Industries are scattered, and the Stained Freedom Front renames itself into the Celestial Freebooter's Republic.
Dr. Jasper Artemis and Oron Lyons are present when the Soularium is activated for the very first time. Two captured Terminals are transferred into mechanical bodies, though the long term effects of this are not known at this time.
Eisheru Tidecaller resigns his leadership position within the Greystar Confederation to take on the mantle of Grandmaster of the Temple of the Five Suns on Terezinho. As the cult of Black Tide grows, the Five Sun warriors and other allied sunblades hope to turn the tide.
The Ashen One explorer Groshim, citizen of the Greystar Confederation pulls together years of painstaking research in the transference of conciousness to digital forms. He is the first of the Ashen Ones to leave their failing bodies behind, though many more of his species are expected to follow.
The Chimeran Ascendency presses for a cease fire, and a series of negotiations are undertaken in order to bring the current armed conflict to its close.
The Inheritor Alliance compeltes its Psionic Forge project, modeled after the instalaion on Rawhani.
A Noctua named Moff visits Extaurren on behalf of the Exchange of Light and Elysium Protectorate. They find the God-King and his people are upholding their side of the treaty.
Ivan Wyke uncovers a society that does not know how to stop being soldiers anymore within the Weeping Company of Nesuna. The council decides to abdicate their positions and name Ivan as the Governor-General of the planet so he has the required freedom to enact his agenda of reforms.
Reza and Truffles finally arrive at the Piggen homeworld. After investigating the Rubicon housing there was a terrible accident that caused the collapse of the entire structure. Dr Truffles and the rest of the expedition team are lost in the collapse.
The Great Galatea Space Race is organized by the people of the Galatea system . The participants included the Communist Brotherhood of Stellar States, the Elysium Protectorate, The Inheritor Alliance, the Greystar Confederation, the Mithrilheart Elected Monarchy, New Moon Cooperative, and United Nations of Worlds. The Soverign Colonies Armed Forces, and several other private entries to the race were also invited to participate.
The efforts of Sunblade of the Temple of the Five Suns , Dathian, uncovered two survivors of the order. One was found in the wreckage of a destroyer drifting in the T919 black hole system. The other was found on Phemno, performing life saving operations and medical care to the miners and guildsmen caught up in the violence there. Both were subsequently rescued and were brought back to UNW space . The survivors have since elected to settle on Asta near the central oasis on the planet. From there, one day their order may flourish again.
A mysterious figure broadcasts its image for several long seconds over the Galnet News broadcast. No one is sure who this skeletal looking figure is, or the reason for the broadcast. One thing is clear, the being knows where the transmission was coming from, and its response signal is getting steadily closer to the Iron Sectors with every passing day.
A journalist from the Greystar Confederation has a chance encounter in the jungles of Erdoza with an agent sworn to someone called Nekrotek Sorgitaine. A journey beyond the edge of known space is taken, and Magus meets this enigmatic new power face to face. Though the meeting was cordial , the undead-like servants of the Nekrotek and obvious preparations for something big left Magnus with many concerns upon their return to the Iron Stars.
A organization known as the Church of Benevolence strikes at the polities. Only the all seeing Greystar Confederation is spared their wrath.
The Inheritor Alliance launches its first ever off world military action to liberate the planet Psalarion from the clutches of a tyrannical Emperor
The Church of Benevolence and its scattered branches are discovered on many worlds. It is determined they revere a god like "Monarch" figure and follow their orders. How these orders are spread and the larger goal of their movement remain unknown. The polities of the Iron Stars all work with one another and internally to find and extinguish these branches, but new ones appear almost as soon as previously discovered ones are apprehended.
A branch of the Church of Benevolence on Aerope is rooted out. Scouts from the CBSS Salt uncover a possible connection between the Church of Benevolence, Rachk Warshard, Monarch, and the Supreme Nekrotek
Emperor Heins of the Imperial family of Psalarion surrenders and is brought to Saliv as a condition of the planet's surrender. The transitional government agrees to become the first partner planet of the Inheritor Alliance
President Harkoni of the United Nations of Worlds is suspected of being an infiltrator android and is impeached. The investigation by Governors Samson, Stosk, and Sola reveal gross negligence in the management of UNW affairs.
The Orion's Belt Trade Union is formed between Brizeno, Etxaurren, and Thora. These three planets offer preferential deals to the other trade blocs in the Iron Stars