The Historian casts his eyes back over the rich history of the DDS Universe.Its been some time since i have written for this website. For the last few months i have been on Dino-Land researching the once mythical First Dino Space Age, which thanks to Ronald's mission last year is now somewhat less of a myth...
The First Dino Space Age is the name given to the first technological civilisation on Dino-Land which rose around 6000 years ago. Little trace of this civilisation remains on Dino-Land and much of what is known about them is wrapped in myth. Even what the civilisation called itself is unknown.
These Dinos developed technology and finally reached out to the stars. Their space faring technology was thought to be fairly primitive, possibly using warp drive and not hyperspace technologies meaning that they were limited to around the speed of light. However they managed to set up colonies on planets near to Dino-Land and further afield. These colonies were not an empire due to the difficulties in maintaining communications which was only by ship (FTL communications was unknown to them) and even ship travel took years or even decades. Later on these Dinos managed to discover natural wormholes which allowed them to spread further afield in a limited manner (the Bolitic use these wormholes to this day).
So around 5000 years ago a Dino space faring civilisation was beginning to develop. Unfortunately on Dino-Land itself things were turning sour. An obsession with the occult and black magic had given rise to the Acheron faction who tapped into secret and hidden knowledge from earlier, alien and even less known civilisations. The Acheron began to use genetic engineering to create a "super race", among the improvements being in massively increased psychic powers. These augmented beings were known as the Chosen.
The Chosen sought to take over the planet and enslave the non-augmented mass of the population. War ensured, which soon escalated into a full nuclear onslaught that destroyed the First Dino Space Age and left little trace. Dino-Land was left in ruins, a small number of survivors left in the Dino equivalent of the Stone Age. However these Dinos did eventually form the Dino Republic we know today.
The Dino space colonies were also affected by the war and similarly devastated or left cut off from supplies and also regressed. These colonies sometimes died out but many survived and now form the likes of Sirikwan, the Repicans and the Bolitic Confederacy. In some cases the racial memories of the war have survived in the form of hatred of the mother planet.
The furthest colony managed to avoid the war though they did struggle when cut off, however they did manage to keep their civilisation and technology intact. This is the Malanas Assembly, whom Ronald met last year and helped provide which much of the above information. Because of their largely unbroken technological development over the millennia the Malanas possess technology and a culture far in advance of anything else we know of in the galaxy. So it could have been for all of the Dino colonies perhaps if the Acheron had not risen. However our human history is likely to have been greatly changed too. While it is not thought Dinos from the First Dino Space Age visited Earth it surely would have happened sooner or later and they may have conquered us, fostered us, or even eaten us...
