[font=Arial]"...let the sins of the fathers be visited on their children..."
HISTORY
10 000 YEARS AGO ~ ALMANIA
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HISTORY
10 000 YEARS AGO ~ ALMANIA
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The Je'Har were not like the humans. The humans were wild, savage. Uncivilized. They made war upon each other for no better reason than that it was something to do. The Je'Har were better than that.
Or, at least, they thought themselves better.
A hundred centuries before the galaxy new the name of Emperor Palpatine; before the galaxy would become so embroiled in war and conflict that is was an everyday occurence instead of a rarity; before the Empire or the New Republic or the Galactic Coalition, the Je'Har made their own war.
To truly understand the situation, though, one must delve even further back. Back to before even the memories of the oldest Je'Har, for the Je'Har live lives many times those of humans or even Wookies, and they pass memories on from one generation to the next.
To truly understand, one must delve back to the very beginnings of time. Before Almania was known by that name, and before the Je'Har were called the Je'Har.
Back to when humans had not yet even come to the world, and given it a name, and the Je'Har a name.
The first humans came to Almania millenia before the Old Republic was even formed. When the galaxy was still unknown, only a scattering of unconnected planets. It was a scouting mission, and a colonization mission.
The travellers said they had been in space for one hundred years. None had seen a world but in photographs, all having been born on the great spaceship that brought them here.
It brought the Je'Har great pain to learn that these people had had no choice in their life: born to become a settler of a planet they knew nothing about. But they allowed the humans to take a part of Almania and to settle it, and call it their home, and live there in peace.
That peace lasted for two millenium. Then the humans became despotic and controlling. They attempted to enslave the Je'Har, thinking themselves superior to mere aliens. They attacked with weapons the Je'Har had never before seen, brought to them by friends from outer space.
And they brought a great and powerful Je'Har civilization, one that had lasted for thousands of years, crashing down. The Je'Har became the servants, mere pets to their human masters.
It took hundreds of years for the Je'Har to make their move. It was only a small time for them, though. Humans would live and die in the time it took the Je'Har to plan their retaliation.
And when it came, it was devestating. The Je'Har rose up in great numbers, armed with weapons stolen and adapted from the masters. Everywhere on the planet, all at once, the Je'Har rose up in rebellion.
Thousands died, and it was a dark day in the history of the Je'Har. But many times their number of humans died. Millions were killed, and when it was over all were taken as prisoners of the Je'Har.
And so Almania existed, ignored throughout the rise and fall of the Old Republic, ignored and forgotten, the humans rotting as prisoners of the Je'Har.
But history has a way of repeating itself, and it was not long before the Je'Har were once more on the recieving end. For, for all their wisom and planning, they had failed to consider that the humans hated even more than they to be made prisoners.
One man, Kuellar, who had suffered greatly under the Je'Har, rose up and destroyed them. The war was long, and both sides suffered greatly. Almania was ransacked, turned to rubble as the two sides fought on.
And when it was over, the Je'Har stood crushed, and humans once more ruled Almania. And this time there was to be no mercy to the Je'Har. No pets. Just a wholesale slaughter of an entire people.
Ironically, the genocide was ignored by the New Republic. Despite all their claims, the slaughter of the Je'Har went unheard of outside the system and its neighbours. Pleas for mercy were ignored, and the Je'Har continued to die.
But, again, history has a way of repeating itself. The sins of the fathers were being visited upon the children. And that included the sins of Kuellar's forefathers, who had first enslaved the Je'Har.
He, though, was long dead. Our story opens as the New Order settles into running the galaxy, and challenging the might of another Empire for supremacy.
And for this New Order, Almania has suddenly become a world of great interest.
And so the humans and the Je'Har must face for the first time a new and potential disastrous threat, this time from the outside. Not even the Empire can forsee the result of this move. What will happen in a thousand years? Ten thousand?
Our story opens as first Imperial fleet to see Almania in the history of that government arrives in orbit...
Or, at least, they thought themselves better.
A hundred centuries before the galaxy new the name of Emperor Palpatine; before the galaxy would become so embroiled in war and conflict that is was an everyday occurence instead of a rarity; before the Empire or the New Republic or the Galactic Coalition, the Je'Har made their own war.
To truly understand the situation, though, one must delve even further back. Back to before even the memories of the oldest Je'Har, for the Je'Har live lives many times those of humans or even Wookies, and they pass memories on from one generation to the next.
To truly understand, one must delve back to the very beginnings of time. Before Almania was known by that name, and before the Je'Har were called the Je'Har.
Back to when humans had not yet even come to the world, and given it a name, and the Je'Har a name.
The first humans came to Almania millenia before the Old Republic was even formed. When the galaxy was still unknown, only a scattering of unconnected planets. It was a scouting mission, and a colonization mission.
The travellers said they had been in space for one hundred years. None had seen a world but in photographs, all having been born on the great spaceship that brought them here.
It brought the Je'Har great pain to learn that these people had had no choice in their life: born to become a settler of a planet they knew nothing about. But they allowed the humans to take a part of Almania and to settle it, and call it their home, and live there in peace.
That peace lasted for two millenium. Then the humans became despotic and controlling. They attempted to enslave the Je'Har, thinking themselves superior to mere aliens. They attacked with weapons the Je'Har had never before seen, brought to them by friends from outer space.
And they brought a great and powerful Je'Har civilization, one that had lasted for thousands of years, crashing down. The Je'Har became the servants, mere pets to their human masters.
It took hundreds of years for the Je'Har to make their move. It was only a small time for them, though. Humans would live and die in the time it took the Je'Har to plan their retaliation.
And when it came, it was devestating. The Je'Har rose up in great numbers, armed with weapons stolen and adapted from the masters. Everywhere on the planet, all at once, the Je'Har rose up in rebellion.
Thousands died, and it was a dark day in the history of the Je'Har. But many times their number of humans died. Millions were killed, and when it was over all were taken as prisoners of the Je'Har.
And so Almania existed, ignored throughout the rise and fall of the Old Republic, ignored and forgotten, the humans rotting as prisoners of the Je'Har.
But history has a way of repeating itself, and it was not long before the Je'Har were once more on the recieving end. For, for all their wisom and planning, they had failed to consider that the humans hated even more than they to be made prisoners.
One man, Kuellar, who had suffered greatly under the Je'Har, rose up and destroyed them. The war was long, and both sides suffered greatly. Almania was ransacked, turned to rubble as the two sides fought on.
And when it was over, the Je'Har stood crushed, and humans once more ruled Almania. And this time there was to be no mercy to the Je'Har. No pets. Just a wholesale slaughter of an entire people.
Ironically, the genocide was ignored by the New Republic. Despite all their claims, the slaughter of the Je'Har went unheard of outside the system and its neighbours. Pleas for mercy were ignored, and the Je'Har continued to die.
But, again, history has a way of repeating itself. The sins of the fathers were being visited upon the children. And that included the sins of Kuellar's forefathers, who had first enslaved the Je'Har.
He, though, was long dead. Our story opens as the New Order settles into running the galaxy, and challenging the might of another Empire for supremacy.
And for this New Order, Almania has suddenly become a world of great interest.
And so the humans and the Je'Har must face for the first time a new and potential disastrous threat, this time from the outside. Not even the Empire can forsee the result of this move. What will happen in a thousand years? Ten thousand?
Our story opens as first Imperial fleet to see Almania in the history of that government arrives in orbit...