? PF: Near the center of a great spiral galaxy, where stars are much closer together than Earth's sun and its neighbors, a Human race developed. They were not identical to the Humans of Earth, but they were not very different, either. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

? PF: Vrusk had developed limited space travel decades before Human contact. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

? PF: One of the Vrusks' mining colonies had already contacted another race, the shape changing Dralasites. The two races had been exchanging information for several years. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

Dralasites expanded from Fromeltar and the Vrusk mining colony was Zik-Kit. (Implied by Dramune Run SFKH1)

? PF: When these Humans discovered that waves of subspace pi-tachyon particles could cross interstellar space faster than light, they realized they had found a link to the star. A radio message that would have taken years to travel between stars could be sent with subspace communicators in months or even weeks. The Humans started broadcasting news of themselves to the neighboring stars, and found they were not alone. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

? PF The Humans made contact with an inventive race of insect like creatures called Vrusk. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

? PF: The Vrusk and Dralasites were pleased to learn of another race. They sent a wealth of scientific information to the Humans. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

? PF: Using this new knowledge, the industrious Humans quickly developed interstellar spaceships. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

 ? PF: The three races met in a large area of space known as the Frontier. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

? PF: There they also discovered the Yazirians, a race of tall, maned humanoids. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

? PF: Soon, settled worlds in the Frontier became melting pots for the four race, with dazzling mixtures of architecture and alien cultures. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

302 PF Dramune colonizied by Dralasites, whose race expanded from Fromeltar. (Dramune Run SFKH1)

? PF: To supply the needs of these worlds, the first interstellar company, the Pan-Galactic Corporation, was formed. It developed interests everywhere, from scientific research to farming to spaceship building. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

? PF: PGC even created its own language, Pan-Galactic, which soon became the most common language of all races on the Frontier worlds. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

? PF into FY: Many large companies which started later were modeled on PGC but none approach the size or power of the Pan-Galactic Corporation. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

? PF: Then, the Sathar appeared. No one knows where they came from or why. They attacked and destroyed lonely systems on the edges of explored space, moving slowly inward. Survivors described Sathars as wormlike creatures 3 to 4 meters long. That was all that was known about them, because they would rather kill themselves than be captured. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

(This is probably when 1 FY should start) As the danger increased, the Humans, Dralasites, Vrusk, and Yazirians formed the United Planetary Federation (UPF) to defend their worlds. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

? FY: The mysterious Sathar were forced back, but before long they returned in a more sinister form. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

? FY: The Sathar had learned that they could not beat the UPF in battle. Instead, they began hiring Yazirian, Human, Dralasite and Vrusk agents to sabotage interstellar trade and interfere with local governments. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

? FY: The UPF created the Star Law Rangers, and interstellar police force, to track the Sathar's agents from planet to planet and fight them on their own terms. But despite the efforts of the Rangers, the sly Sathar agents have become the most dangerous threat ever to face the United Planetary Federation and the frontier corporations. (Basic Game rule book inside cover)

36 FY: Last war between Inner & Outer (but every 20-30 years they have gone to war) (Dramune Run SFKH1)

41 FY: Gullwind was commissioned 1/1/41 (Dramune Run SFKH1)

9/15/61 FY When Dramune Run SFKH1 occurs (Dramune Run SFKH1)

44 FY: A human merchant named Seccitte Zebulon; who regularly made shipments to the Truane’s Star system; ship accidentally misjumped when leaving that system, and Zebulon star system is discovered. Upon return to Pale, Seccitte sells the astrogational information to the government of Pale. The Truane’s Star system was divided at the time. (The Volturnus Connection Building background for Volturnus campaign by Stephen Bonario)

45 FY, Pale’s government created a Planetary Research and Development division to open up the Zebulon Star Route. Pale launched a deep-space probe to explore the system. The probe

reported astrophysical data on the system and its only habitable planet (now called Volturnus). It was discovered that great mineral wealth existed on Volturnus, Pale became eager to

colonize the planet. The Research division began taking

development bids. The contract to develop Volturnus was awarded to a healthy company called MINER (Mining for Industrial use of Natural Earth Resources). Plans and negotiations went on for a year, and MINER planned to begin settlement of Volturnus in early F.Y. 47. (The Volturnus Connection Building background for Volturnus campaign by Stephen Bonario)

47 FY: Two calamities struck the Pale/MINER colonization project of Volturnus at this time, causing the whole thing to fall through. First, New Pale began to receive non-human colonists from Pale. A majority of humans on New Pale were HUSPs (a slang term for persons believing in a racist political philosophy called Human Superiority). The HUSPs preferred this racially isolated planet and didn’t want it contaminated. Pale uses military force to bully the weaker government into allowing other races to settle there. Pale saw this as a way to increase food production on New Pale and perhaps drive food costs down. Several months later, the HUSPs banded together and began terrorizing the new colonists, also attacking Pale’s colonial protection forces. New Pale thus declared itself to be in a state of war with Pale. Pale-New Pale War begins. Pale focuses on the direct defense of its critical food supply source. Money from the Planetary Research division was diverted to this cause because it was felt profits from Volturnus operations would not be realized fast enough to help the war effort. Pale also believed that, if it could gain full control of New Pale, it could become a much more powerful stellar government. (The Volturnus Connection Building background for Volturnus campaign by Stephen Bonario)

47 FY: The kidnapping of the head of MINER, a Vrusk, who was later reported killed when the demanded ransom was not paid. His body was never recovered, and his will called for the liquidation of MINER, with all monies then deposited into a private bank account. It was widely believed that a rival companywas responsible for his death. (The Volturnus Connection Building background for Volturnus campaign by Stephen Bonario)

This was a turning point for

Volturnus. It gave the Eorna another

twenty years to fulfill their Great Mission,

but it also brought the Star Devil to

Volturnus.

47 FY: The former head of MINER secretly retained all the classified information on Volturnus and the Zebulon star system. He had rigged his kidnapping and death, then assumed a new identity as the Star Devil. His initial intent was to set up an illegal mining operation on Volturnus before the government

of Pale could do so. To help realize his plans, he drew on the private bank account his will had set up. But as time went on, he instead became involved in pirating operations. (The Volturnus Connection Building background for Volturnus campaign by Stephen Bonario)

The war on New Pale consisted of a series of HUSP-led terrorist attacks on food service shipments to Pale. Pale was forced to continue to spend money on ensuring its food supply remained

secure. This became difficult in the early 50s because Pale had an overabundance of resources that were also low in demand. It suffered an economic depression, and many Pale-based mining companies went out of business. One mid-sized corporation, based in Point True, Pale’s capitol, began to acquire these small companies hoping to gain a planet-wide monopoly. The corporation was Streel.

53 FY: Streel completely controlled all mining operations on Pale.

54-63 FY: Aware of this, the Star Devil approached the Pan-Galactic Corporation and worked out an agreement with it. The Star Devil, using bases in the Gruna Goru, Prenglar, and Dixon.s Star systems, ran weapons shipments from Wartech Corporation to the HUSPs on New Pale. Pan-Galactic financed the cost of the weapons, while the Star Devil furnished the ships. Gun-running proved profitable for both PGC and the Star Devil, allowing the latter to become a potent force. The Star Devil was able to develop Volturnus before Trauna’s Star could do it, while keeping Streel busy investing money in the war effort instead of in business projects like PGC did.  The Star Devil expanded his pirate bases to the Araks, Athor, and Scree Fron star systems.

63 FY Star Devil began putting his Volturnus mining plans into operation. PGC begins buying the ore (illegally) from Star Devil.

63 FY: The end of the Pale-New Pale war. Streel struggled through those nine years of war, yet continued to grow into

a larger corporation despite it. In F.Y. 63, in cooperation with the Pale Militia, Streel made an effort to end the war by pouring millions into the militia’s coffers. Confronted by an army of far superior quantity and quality, the HUSPs were soon crushed out of existence, despite the best efforts of PGC and the Star Devil to save them.

New Pale became a stabilized planet. Its new government then joined Pale’s, and the two began united rulership of the Truane’s

Star system.

64 FY, Streel became aware of the long-deserted Zebulon colonization attempt. It urged the new government to develop the system claimed twenty years ago. Streel even helped finance a new Planetary Research division. The division sent an exploratory team three and a half months (140 days) into F.Y. 64.

65 FY: Nine months (360 days) later, a second team was assembled the player characters. Beginning of Voluturnus Modules.

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