Terran - A World History
4300 B.E.
From the earliest records available, it is judged that roughly 4300 B.E. was a time of peace and prosperity for the world of Terran. Texts and archeological finds tell a tale of an ancient, world spanning civilization rich in technology and magic. It was a world recently involved in interstellar travel, and it was this remarkable golden age that would cause its inevitable downfall.
Less than four decades after the long distance space program, the human world had its first encounters with non-human intelligent life. Unfortunately, such a momentous event was not a happy one, for the first contact was with the hostile slaver race, the Neogi. This began a two-century long war, as the humans of Terran fought against the attempting oppression of the Neogi.
Not much is known of this time period, save for that it is evident that the humans regularly suffered staggering losses against the space marauding tyrants, and were forced to consider outrageous tactics, strategies and plans of retreat. As the years continued to slowly grind away the humans’ resistance, a great scientist stepped forward with a truly ludicrous plan. Doctor Quaid Torstone proposed an idea to literally move the entire planet to a different star system. Great incredulity was the response to such an idea, and Doctor Torstone was practically laughed from government headquarters, but his idea was heard by a few who recognized its possibilities. Namely multi billionaire, Coric Heinst. He took in Doctor Torstone, helped him assemble a team to accomplish the outrageous goals, and funded a project that would define the Terran we have existing today.
It took nearly three decades for Coric to purchase lands on each of the cornerstone continents sizable enough to house the enormous projects. Coric was also the major supplier of warships for the Terran Space Fleet, and so he had enough political sway that his ‘pet project’ went relatively unhindered. So it was that nearly 50 years after it was originally introduced to the World Congress, Dr. Torstone’s Terran Translocation Plan was available when it became desperately needed.
4100 B.E.
The end of the Neogi Space Conflict was very pronounced. It ended in what very easily could have been the complete destruction of freedom of the Terran natives. The Neogi armies had decimated the human fleets, and were in the process of preparing for a land war to enslave the human population when the very elderly Coric Hearst called together an emergency hearing of the World Congress to decide if it was necessary to initiate the Terran Translocation. It was decided upon unanimously that it should be attempted, as even destruction in the attempt was better than racial enslavement to their nemesis.
And so it was in the end of the year 4096 B.E. that the World Congress ordered all people into emergency shelters, and to stock all food and fresh water possible. As they Neogi were preparing their inbound land attack, they found a vacant area of space where the planet Terran should have been.
The next several centuries lack much in the way of written recording of any kind, but archeologists agree that the land suffered greatly from the movement of the planet to another solar system. There are signs of great stress on the oceans and land masses of the world, and signs of mass extinctions, aswell as a dramatic reduction in human population. This time also coincides with what is known as the time of the Cataclysm in Thallenian history, and scientists agree that the introduction of such a large gravitational mass near the twin planets of Thallen and Stanul caused the degradation of the orbit between those two planets, hence causing the destruction of Stanul and the Cataclysm of Thallen.
Stanulian scholars had enough warning from the new celestial body, that word of the end of the world was spread. Through a smattering of ancient documents, it has been discovered that the Terran elven heritage descends from that of the Stanulian elves who had fled to the new planet with their powerful magics. It has also been hypothesized that all non-human intelligent life on Terran also came over from Stanul, before its orbit deteriorated.