Bystoria

Collective Republic of Bystoria
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Capital	Qanam IV
Official languages	Bystorian, Galactic Standard
Recognised national languages	English, Gaelic
Demonym(s)	Bystorian
Government	Hivemind
Legislature	N/A
•	13 AC (After Collapse)
Currency	Credits

History

Collapse (76 BC - 0 AC)

Around 76 BC (Before Collapse), political division and the rise of aggressive and/or xenophobic governments began to rise, starting what's known as the Collapse Period. This period was riddled with tensions, war, and polarization. Some people who saw the direction things were headed to hunkered down and prepared for the apocalypse. At 30 BC, the world plunged into nuclear war and everyone but those in the bunkers died in the blasts, or from the radiation. They waited in the bunkers for a long time. The exact amount of time is not, and perhaps will never be known, but what is known is that most of the bunkers survived the war and the radiation that came after. The time at which the majority of bunkers opened back up was logged as 0 AC (After Collapse).

The Expansion Period (0 AC - 13 AC)

After the bunkers opened, people set out to re-establish themselves, and find others. Old wounds reopened, and the world found itself at war again at 4 AC. A set of people from a bunker on the northern end of the planet found themselves watching history repeat itself, and determined to stop it. This group consisted mainly of the descendants of veterans and cyber-soldiers, who described the horrors of war to their children in great detail. The group dubbed itself the Bystor Brotherhood and set to work. They armed themselves and quickly took most of the planet, recruiting many more soldiers and helpers along the way. Most people only had civilian weapons at the Collapse, whereas the Bystor had a military arsenal courtesy of their ancestors. By 13 AC, they had established themselves as a planetary government.

Resource Expansion (13 AC - 632 AC)

After the Bystor established themselves as a planetary government, they set out to reconstruct the planet from the destruction that the new wars had brought. This period of reconstruction lasted to around 146 AC. After reconstruction, the government shifted to a much more democratic state and focused on the advancement of technology. This was accompanied in part with a focus on military technology as well, in part due to the military roots of the Bystorian people. However, all these required resources which the planet was drained of long before the collapse. This need for resources resulted in the need for interplanetary, and later interstellar, expansion to fill the growing needs of the Bystorian people. Most civilizations that the Bystorians encountered were less advanced in tech and submitted and/or asked to be annexed by Bystoria, who obliged their requests. Eventually, Bystoria had effective control over their home universe by 488 AC.

Universal Spring (632 AC - 874 AC)

In 518 AC, a means of interuniversal travel was found