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       Imperial story by Moff Carlos Mendoza, Grand Admiral Mónica Hidalgo , Admiral Alejandro Araujo, Wing Commander Nathalye Miranda.

The "Origin of the Empire" is from "The Steele Chronicles", with some notes by Admiral Araujo.

The rest is from www.theforce.net timetales

Chapter I

Introduction: suspected Vorlon related  races and planets

  The Sharu, an ancient race that inhabits the Rafa System, begin to evolve 3,000,000,000 years ago. They are a technologically - advanced race, as evidenced by the wonderful buildings and monuments they build throughout the system. Scholars would describe the Sharu as "superhumanoids." Their descendants are the Toka.  

  Like most other animals on the planet Columus, the Columi evolve (2,006,200 before Battle of Yavin) to make use of this muddy world. Their ancestors were herbivorous lizards that, with the aid of a rather buoyant belly, crawled through the marsh on four webbed feet. Soon, the lizards developed the ability to stand on their hind legs in order to pull fruit and leaves out of the trees.

  The Columi (2,004,200 BSW4) learn to lay their eggs in the trees to better protect them from predators. Following that development, the Columi begin living almost entirely in the trees, developing hands in place of claws and evolving a prehensile tail in place of the heavy caudal appendage that they had dragged around as quadrupeds.

  The Columi (2,000,000 BSW4) are among the first star-faring races in the galaxy. Disappointed to find barbarian races on other worlds (if even that), the Columi soon give up space travel and returns to Columus to develop their own race. They spend the next millennium devoting themselves to meditation, science, and the improvement of their minds.

  Both the Columi or the Sharu could be possibly the ones that taught the Taungs space travel . Maybe it was the Vorlon themselves  (thru another species or an accidental discovery of some Vorlon tech by taungs on Coruscant)  or the First Ones. 

  The Corellian system is artificially created 1,000,000 years before the Battle of Yavin by an unknown race using planetary repulsors. A humanoid race slowly evolves there over the next million years. The repulsors are buried underground on each of the Corellian worlds, with the only external relic being the floating space station the Corellians later dub "Centerpoint." One prominent theory is that the original creators of Centerpoint Station constructed it when their own star had begun to go supernova. Once they arrived at the star Corell, they moved planets into orbit to give themselves a new place to live. Each planet's repulsor would have helped the tractor - repulsor to organize the planets into orbits. The unknown race that creates the Corellian star system, may have also been responsible for the unlikely cluster of black holes near Kessel known as the Maw. We believe that the first Ones or the Vorlon, or the Shadows were somehow involved in this issue, some people think that the first ones created the planet as another human colony allowing the Taungs to stay there with the help of  the Vorlon before they disappear . Meanwhile, Killiks, an insectoid race evolves on the planet Alderaan. The Killiks have four arms, each terminating in a powerful three - fingered claw, and two stout legs that appeared capable of leaping large distances. The Killiks construct monolithic hive castles that would last for millennia.

499,989 BSW4

According to Dr. Corellia Antilles, this is the approximate point at which xenoarchaeologists and xenoanthropologists estimate the majority of historical records for the galaxy begin being written in forms that will be decipherable in the era of the New Republic.  

Another civilization suspected to have relation with  the Vorlon (or were the Vorlon themselves) had it’s golden age 300,000 years before Battle of Yavin.    

The height of the Gree civilization. An alien race, the Gree resemble large, six-tentacled cephalopods. They are covered with gray skin that is often tattooed, especially around their large, bulbous heads. The brain case of the Gree hangs in a sac-like appendage from the back of their head, and seems to draw their huge foreheads even longer. They have no mouth, per se, but instead there is a series of fleshy folds beneath their eyes that serves as a vocal communication method. The foremost pair of tentacles is used for manipulation of objects, while the middle pair is used for heavy work. The rear pair is used for locomotion, and they appear to be shambling mounds of flesh when they move. The Gree civilization is immensely old (it is rumoured to be hundreds of thousands of years old and was well past its prime when the worlds were discovered by the Old Republic). They have a technology that is vastly alien to that of the rest of the galaxy, and has its roots in music and the Gree physiology. They developed the knowledge of quanta-technology and dimensional engineering (which defied future Imperial scientists). Their views of technology are biased, and the Gree find little use for droids and computers, which they consider unimportant. The Gree however, were undone by their technology, falling victim to the ability to use it rather than improve on it. The discovery of life-extending technology further accelerated their decline, until they no longer knew or cared about their own devices. The technology collapsed when none of the Gree could maintain it, and the Gree isolated themselves from the galaxy. Little is known about their life cycle and customs, although it was discovered that their number system is based on the number 14-the number of suction cups on each tentacle. They guard the Gree Enclave jealously, and any ship passing through it often disappears.

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