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==History of Phoenicia== The colony at Phoenicia was set up for reasons lost to time and the Scream. What is known is that the world was successful and well-populated during the Mandate Era, and played a central role in the economy of the sector. The metadimensional event known as the Scream ended interstellar ties in Wyrm Sector, and the loss of sane psychics collapsed the planetary industries. The period following the collapse saw the population fall from an estimated 1.5 billion to roughly 200 million. These survivors formed loose, warring states around the remains of pretech cities. After four centuries, these states were methodically conquered and absorbed by the nascent Phoenician Empire, then led by Emperor Harper, which succeeded over two generations of war and diplomacy in uniting the planet. Following the Conquest Period, technological and industrial development improved sharply as pooled resources fed a sustained effort to reinvent and deploy advanced technologies. In the same timeframe, power within the Empire was slowly being transferred from local rulers and nobility to the bureaucratic classes, partially to insulate Imperial power from rival nobles. Empress Hinata presided over a series of democratic reforms that ended when she abdicated the throne 50 years ago. 23 years ago, in-system spacecraft recovered the hull of the Naxos, a Mandate vessel left adrift in the mid solar system. Reverse engineering and study of its systems led to the development of the first postech spike drive. After several years of testing and analysis of its navigation maps, initial surveys of the sector began. Twelve years ago, Phoenicia launched its first colony in the neighboring Tyre system. After two years, the strain of supporting a fledgling colony while developing new shipyards and related technologies left the government overstretched, a situation that hereditary nobles along the hilly regions in the west and northwest attempted to exploit. They rebelled, leading to a decade-long civil war that ended with the orbital bombardment and then nuclear bombing of Hill Prince military bases and urban centers. Broken, the surviving rebel princes fled the system, leaving an exhausted world to rebuild. In the last year, the Phoenician Authority has mapped the routes along the arms of the sector, made the Tyrian colony self-sufficient, began initial colonization of the adjacent Sidon system and made contact with two human-inhabited worlds. Interstellar trade and diplomacy is slowly expanding, but the colony efforts and reconstruction on the homeworld have slowed efforts to build up the fleet. ===The Civil War=== *The Hill Princes rebelled because they used to have a lot more power, basically. The nobility used to run things, but the Imperial government had been chipping at them for a long time, and eventually the last empress took them out entirely. Lots of nobles still had power, but they had to be appointed or actually run for election (gasp!) to participate in the government. The princes up in the hills took that the most personally, in part because they were the most insulated from earlier changes and in part because (truly) the Authority hasn't been great at respecting the needs and unique challenges of the mountain communities. Also commercial spike drives gave them the ability to bail if things went south (things did go south and they did bail, hence the rebel pirates). *So, from one angle, the civil war was nobles vs democracy. From another angle, it was a struggle for dominance between the heavily industrialized mountain regions and the advanced and prosperous domed cities off the coast. And while the rebels were obviously messing with maltech and killed Cortez' dad in cold blood, it's also the case that the Authority used orbital bombardment and nuclear warheads on civilian targets. Like, dozens of them. *That the government was overtaxed and vulnerable was just the spark, really. The tensions had been there for decades.
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