The Height of the Inarin Empire
At its peak the Inarin Empire Faction The Inarin Empire The great predecessor civilisation of Elshore, built by the Iru across thousands of years and ended by the servant-race rebellion known as the Chaos. was a world unto itself: cities across Northland, a moon-based space programme, an orbital satellite network, an engineered-sentient workforce, and a Sentinel programme capable of fielding tens of thousands of autonomous combatants. It was also an empire that believed its own architecture was permanent. That belief was the seed of everything that followed.
Key traits
- The Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. Senate commissions Annilian Ltd. and Erengin Ltd. as the industrial engines of empire; their servant-line products operate every system from city maintenance to war.
- The BAWSent programme, a hive-mind Sentinel collective, is built and initially stationed on the Traveller; the creator of BAWSent is later known as the last Serton of Inarin.
- A satellite network of over a thousand platforms watches the sky; the Liir Cosmology The Two Moons Two moons attend Elshore: Liir, the near and swift one, and Ressor, the far and slow one. orbital station serves as the pivot of both the space programme and strategic intelligence.
- The empire operates under a parliamentary monarchy in its final centuries; the Senate holds formal power, though noble houses retain deep influence.
- At IR 1700 (the opening of what becomes the Chaos Event The Chaos The Chaos was a continent-wide civilisation-collapse spanning approximately ninety-eight years, beginning around year 1700 of the Inarin Calendar when the Iru Parliament of the...), the Inarin Parliament strips all rights from the four servant lines, a catastrophic miscalculation that ignites the world.
- Inarin at its height commands all of Northland and reaches into the south; no other political structure on Elshore rivals its territory, its technology, or its capacity for violence.