Grand Praetor’s Log - Ta’Ki - 8023.45 GE

The earliest piece of Briary history, Grand Praetor’s Log ­ Ta’Ki ­ 8023.45 GE was a log on the Ta'Ki by The Grand Praetor.

"Grand Praetor’s Log ­ Ta’Ki ­ 8023.45 GE :

We were once the masters of our fate. A proud symbiotic race that conquered our contemporaries

with impunity. Augmented by special symbiotic entities we called the Bori’arri, we developed

abilities most species could only dream of. And as we grew in power, influence, and control, our

hunger for more became insatiable. We soon began to look beyond our local systems in search of

more species and races to subjugate to our might. At our strongest, our Grand Empire extended

into two sizeable sectors of the galaxy. However, it was about this time that our expansionist

policies and overconfidence brought us into contact with them.

We called them the Tevu. A pestering race of shape shifters and their insectoid allies. They were

deemed unworthy of the Praetor’s grace and since they could not be assimilated they were marked

for extermination. Unfortunately, we soon discovered that their infestation of the galaxy was much

greater than we anticipated. What quickly followed was massive series of wars and military

campaigns that would span the next several centuries. But even before the final campaign ended

and the last known Tevu world was eradicated of all life, our Empire’s true fate had already been

sealed.

We first realized this the moment one of our sectors experienced a supernova unlike anything we

had ever seen. We called it the apocalypse star. Within seconds, all life in the Reo’vara sector was

gone. Some feared that it was a Tevu superweapon. Others claimed it was an unexpected but

natural phenomenon that we had failed to detect in time.

In the meantime, we began to rebuild our fleets and civilization and continue to send out new

scouting and exploration vessels and motherships to find new civilizations that we could exploit

and bend to our will. The Grand Praetor was confident that we could return our people to their

former glory.

I am the Grand Praetor of the exploration and infiltration mothership, Ta’Ki. We were only 4 years

into our mission of exploration when the unthinkable happened. They were wrong. The apocalypse

star was not a natural phenomenon. It was a weapon. A last “Screw you” from a race we had

defeated.

That one reached our home system some 32 years after the extinction event in Reo’vara. I, my

officers, and this crew are all that is left of our once proud race. We are the Exiles. The lost

children of the Empire. The Novans."