Timeline of Murese history

This is a timeline of Murese history recording the planet Mure's important events. All dates are given according to the Galactic Standard Calendar.

Timeline

Prehistoric era

• c. 1,000,000,000 BBY
  • The planet Mure and its four sibling planets accrete in the protoplanetary disk of the Five Deaths, a binary star system located in the bowels of the Deep Core.

• c. 3,000,000 BBY
  • A close encounter with Galactic Center results in the destruction of the Five Deaths' B-type main-sequence star and the expulsion of its F-type companion from the galaxy at an angle perpendicular to the galactic plane. The system comes to a rest 7,500 light years above Galactic Center. Only Mure survives the encounter, though its crust and mantle are lost to the black hole.

Murese Preantiquity

• c. 100,000 BBY–50,000 BBY
  • The Celestial civilization discovers the Five Deaths system and artificially repositions its F-type star to lie directly above Galactic Center, allowing it to more readily serve as a navigation aid for the galaxy's burgeoning spacefaring civilizations. This star is subsequently known as the North Star.

• c. 37,000 BBY–36,453 BBY
  • The Battle between the Kwa and the Rakata takes place on Lehon, with the Rakata embracing the dark side and turning on their benevolent Kwa patrons. The Kwa began retreating back to their central holdings in the face of relentless Rakata expansion in the Unknown Regions.

• c. 36,453 BBY– c. 35,000 BBY
  • The Rakata form the Infinite Empire, consolidating their vast holdings in the Rakatan Archipelago and Tempered Wastes and beginning preparations for an invasion of the galaxy civilizations east of the Core.
  • In response to ongoing Rakata aggression, the Celestials construct the Mortis Line, a galaxy-spanning energy barrier of hyperspace anomalies restricting travel between the western and eastern galaxy. The Rakata are contained to the Unknown Regions for a time.
  • The Celestials return to the Five Deaths with their Killik client species in tow, applying their astroengineering engines to the reconstruction of Mure. Using Force-sensitive stone gathered from the galactic plane, Mure is made into a localized Force nexus to permit ease of transit for the Force-powered technology of the Kwa and Gree.
  • The Stone Gods are carved on an island of the Broken Crown by Kwa, Gree, or Killik hands.
  • The Monolith space station is subsequently constructed, fully encompassing the planet in a hollow truncated icosahedron. Mure serves as a Celestial fortress world and forward observation post atop the Mortis Line.
  • Small regions of the planet are terraformed by the Celestials or their client species. The Meseren Star Temple is constructed in one such region by presumed Kwa colonists, though much of the planet is thought to have remained barren and uninhabited.

• c. 35,000 BBY– 34,129 BBY
  • The Celestial-Rakata War begins between the Infinite Empire and the Celestial-led coalition of eastern civilizations. The Rakata undertake several failed attempts to bypass the Mortis Line at its northern and southern extremities near the edges of the galaxy.
  • A Force Hound of the Infinite Empire discovers the Five Deaths system and learns that the Force-powered hyperdrives of the Rakata dreadnaughts are capable of reaching the Forceful world of Mure.
  • The Rakata attempt a series of invasions of Mure spanning centuries but are successfully repulsed by the Killik, Kwa, Gree, and Celestial defenders. The Rakata remain unable to penetrate the Mortis Line.

Murese Antiquity

• 34,129 BBY
  • The Rakata implement a false flag operation using stolen Kwa vessels to infiltrate the Monolith, deactivating its defenses and permitting the main Rakata fleet to dock with the station and invade the planet below. Mure is taken and its sparse population of colonists put to the sword.
  • With the Five Deaths under their control, the Rakata are able to successfully circumvent the Mortis Line via the Mure-Lehon Bypass and spread unmolested into the eastern galaxy. The Five Deaths becomes an important crossroads system of the burgeoning Infinite Empire, with the Monolith serving as a resupply waystation for Rakata vessels carrying soldiers east and tribute west to Lehon.

• 34,129 BBY–33,600 BBY
  • The Rakata commemorate their successful conquest of Mure by overseeing the terraformation of the planet for habitation using the terraforming and xenoforming stations. Mure is transformed into a verdant world and is settled by a variety of Rakata science colonies taking advantage of its unique extra-galactic position in the cosmos.
  • By 33,600 BBY, the Celestials completely disappear from the galaxy under unknown circumstances, but not before encompassing it within a hyperspace disturbance cage preventing travel beyond its borders. The Rakata move to defeat the vestigial remnants of the Celestial client species remaining in the east.

• 33,600 BBY–30,000 BBY
  • The Celestial-Rakata War comes to end with the final defeat of the Kwa and Gree remnants in the eastern galaxy. The Rakata and Infinite Empire establish uncontested galactic hegemony that lasts for millennia until the Rakatan Civil War.
  • For its centralized position at the center of the galaxy, Mure becomes a wealthy and powerful world universally acknowledged as the slavery capital of the Infinite Empire. The Rakata of Mure exercise increasingly greater influence in the Imperial establishment.

• 30,000 BBY–27,700 BBY
  • The Rakata encounter the Sith species on Korriban some time prior to 27,700 BBY, though accounts differ as to the nature of their relationship. The rebel Rakata faction led by Soa are believed to have subjugated and enslaved some limited numbers of Sith with the aid of a group of traitorous overlords.
  • In 27,700 BBY, the Rakata are defeated by the Sith King Adas in a failed invasion of Korriban, though the planet is left devastated by the conflict. The Sith relocate to Ziost and worlds farther afield like Tund, Malachor, and Arbra making use of captured Rakata ships.

• 27,700 BBY–25,793 BBY
  • As the slave capital of the Empire, Mure becomes the location at which many slaves are discovered to be Force-sensitive. As a result, it becomes a prime Force Hound training ground and comes to host an increasing number of Human Force Hounds culled from across the Empire.
  • The Infinite Empire launches an invasion of the Tython system in an attempt to conquer the nascent Je'daii Order, but are repulsed by the Force users with the aid of a traitorous Force Hound.

• 25,793 BBY–25,200 BBY
  • In the aftermath of the Rakata defeat at the hands of the Je'daii, confidence in the prevailing Empire political establishment declines drastically. Spearheaded by the predors of Mure, a number of major Rakata factions openly challenge the Daritha and Over-Predor on Lehon, setting the stage for the early phases of the Rakatan Civil War.
  • A multiplicity of concurrent slave uprisings occur across the Empire as the Rakata devolve into civil conflict, forcing the Rakata to resort to the use of orbital bombardments to maintain control over their former colony worlds.
  • An unknown slave species develops a plague that targets the Rakata alone and strips them of their Force-sensitivity. Unable to use their own Force-powered technology, the Rakata are forced to abandon their colonies en masse. The Empire's borders revert to pre-Celestial-Rakata War boundaries in the Tempered Wastes.

Murese Postantiquity

• 25,200 BBY
  • The Infinite Empire officially falls with the devastation of Lehon in a nuclear war. Isolated Rakata colonies continue to persist on the worlds of the Rakatan Archipelago, though these devolve into primitive civilizations without the use of their Force-powered technology.
  • Slave rebellions orchestrated by Human Force Hounds occur on the continents of Upper and Lower Mure. Bereft of their Force-sensitivity and fewer in number than their former slaves, the Rakata are unable to suppress these uprisings despite rallying under the banner of the Predor Osraa.
  • The Rakata withdraw to their walled city-states in the tropics and subtropics, secure in the knowledge that the ill-supplied rebel factions will eventually die off in Mure's harsh and unforgiving seasonal conditions.
  • In an effort to keep Murese society from collapsing into chaos, Osraa reorganizes the government of Mure into the independent First Predorate of Mure. Under this system of government, the sub-Predors of the Rakata city-states answer to the elected Predor of Mure residing among the remnants of the priesthood at the Meseren.

• 25,200 BBY–25,053 BBY
  • A period of societal decline among the Mure tribe begins on Mure, marked by protracted civil conflicts and internal wars between Rakata city-states. Only the Osraawa, the Rakata priesthood in isolation within the Meseren, resist the gradual cultural decay that affects the Murese Rakata.
  • Discussion about the fall of the Infinite Empire becomes a taboo subject among the Rakata remnant, who universally refuse to acknowledge the Empire's fall. The younger generations are taught that an infinite empire cannot fall, a belief that persists for millennia in the society of the First Predorate.
  • The Osraawa relocate from the Meseren to the nearby Temple of Inexorable Victory.

• 25,053 BBY–9066 BBY
  • With the birth of the Galactic Republic, Lehon is rapidly replaced by Coruscant as the capital of the civilized galaxy. As a result of Lehon's decline, the Five Deaths system and the Mure-Lehon Bypass lose their significance and are gradually forgotten in the eastern galaxy.
  • The Anzat species, one of the few spacefaring civilizations to retain record of the Mure-Lehon Bypass, make increasing use of the ancient Rakata passage into the Unknown Regions. Continuing the Empire's use of the system as a waystation, the Anzati make a habit of descending to Mure to prey on the Rakata for soup before continuing their travels.
  • Though primarily occupied with their own civil conflicts, the Rakata respond to the brutality of traditional Anzati soup-hunting practices by cannibalizing the Anzati they capture.
  • The reclusive Osraawa priesthood reverse-engineer captured Anzati technology. Repaired atmospheric shuttles enable them to partially resettle the Monolith, but their limited numbers and lack of the requisite parts and technical ability prevent them from repairing any Rakatan ships still docked in orbit.
  • Rakata priest-scientists reestablish use of the observatories located at the Monolith's northern and southern poles. They begin observing the plane of the galaxy as it lay beneath the system.

Murese Premodernity

• 9066 BBY
  • Rakata Force telescopes catch their first glimpse of the major Infinite Empire fortress world of Byss as it existed during the Empire's alleged fall. With light that last left the world 16,134 years prior finally finding its way into Rakata telescopes, the Rakata are forced to confront the reality that the Empire did indeed fall on at least one major world.
  • The revelation shatters the shaky society Osraa built with his First Predorate. Civil conflict and internal warfare consume the city-states of the Rakata, leading to the fall of the First Predorate and the rise of several feuding empires that engage in protracted conflicts with each other over millennia.

• 7000 BBY–6900 BBY
  • The Second Great Schism of the Jedi Order and resultant Hundred-Year Darkness occur in the greater galaxy, leading to the defeat of the Dark Jedi Exiles and their retreat to the Stygian Caldera. They encounter and enslave the Sith species, founding the Old Sith Empire in the years that follow.

• 6544 BBY–5399 BBY
  • Light from the former Rakata colony worlds of Coruscant, Caamas, and Corellia begins to enter the Rakata telescopes, showing the worlds as they looked during 25,200 BBY. Civil unrest is sparked anew by these revelations and continues unabated for centuries.

• 5100 BBY–5000 BBY
  • The Golden Age of the Sith begins with Marka Ragnos's defeat of Simus in a duel for the Dark Lordship of the Sith. The Empire reaches its fullest extent.

• 5000 BBY–4999 BBY
  • With Marka Ragnos's death, the Golden Age of the Sith ends. Naga Sadow seizes the title of Jen'ari and leads the Empire in an ill-fated invasion of the Galactic Republic subsequently known as the Great Hyperspace War. The Empire is soundly defeated and driven back to the Stygian Caldera.
  • Supreme Chancellor Pultimo authorizes a counter-invasion of the Sith Worlds aimed at the systematic extermination of the Sith species. The Sith-blooded residents of the fallen Empire flee to worlds like Thule, Tund, Vjun, and Ambria while others seek refuge in the furthest reaches of the Unknown Regions.

Murese Modernity

• 4990 BBY
  • The Kûskûshnwûlanjattsisottoikut, a group of Sith-blooded refugees aboard the Derriphan-class battleship Koshottoi, stumble across record of the Mure-Lehon Bypass in their perambulations across the Unknown Regions and travel to Mure in search of a refuge far from Republic reach. An encounter with the Monolith's energy-resistant ray shields disables the vessel and forces a landing on the surface of Lower Mure at a location known as Sith Landing.
  • The Sith construct a few small settlements around the site of Sith Landing and unsuccessfully attempt repairs. The southern hemispheric winter season (lasting a standard year on Mure) prevents them from exploring beyond their immediate vicinity.

• 4988 BBY
  • The Sith are discovered by Rakata scouts who mistake the refugees for a vanguard invasion force or an Anzati hunting party. The Rakata marshal a coalition force of warriors drawn from their city-states to confront the interlopers.
  • The Sith-Rakata War begins. Though numbering fewer than a thousand in total, the Kûskûshnwûlanjattsisottoikut are seasoned veterans of the Great Hyperspace War. Between their Force sensitivity and advanced technology, a group of five hundred Sith effortlessly defeat a Rakata army eight times their size in the Battle of Sith Landing.
  • Supported by the Koshottoi's half-dozen Blade-class starfighters and jury-rigged artillery pieces built from their warship's concussion missile batteries and point-defense cannons, the Sith use shuttles to leapfrog across the islands of the Encircling Sea and systematically conquer the walled Rakata city-states.

• 4987 BBY
  • The Osraawa priesthood learn from survivors' firsthand accounts of the interlopers' Force sensitivity. Hopeful that the Sith could be compelled to help restore the Rakata species' Force sensitivity, the Osraawa call for a ceasefire and meet with Sith representatives on the Broken Crown.
  • Rakata high priest Tuo meets with Koshottoi captain Lorus. Both acknowledge their inability to achieve complete victory over the other without settling for a Pyrrhic victory and agree to a truce. In exchange for providing the Sith with the uninhabited Meseren and permission to settle anywhere on Mure, the Sith agree to share some technology and secrets of their Force sensitivity with the Osraawa.
  • Both species agree to form a coalition government in defense of their collective interests. The Second Predorate, a diarchy ruled by a pair of Rakata and Sith Diarchs and overseen by a Rakata Predor head-of-state, is formed. Tuo and Lorus are elected to serve as the first Diarchs of the Second Predorate.

• 4987 BBY—c. 3678 BBY
  • The first phase of the Troubles—an ethno-nationalist conflict fought over the rights of Sith-blooded peoples to reside on Mure—begins.

• 4980 BBY
  • The Exile fleet under the direction of the new Sith Emperor comes at last to the forgotten Sith colony of Dromund Kaas. Reorganized into a new Sith Empire, these Sith begin their preparations for a return to the greater galaxy.

External links

• Timeline of galactic history on Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki