Maybe. That would be nice. Don't worry, the story is gold, pure gold.
Basically, Terra had an environmental collapse. In only nine years the planet was made uninhabitable, all because of human stupidity. Although the majority of the population died, some people weresaved. There was an exodus off of the planet, helped by off-world ships, but the majority of the people who got away did so in massive colony ships, built hurriedly when the situation became hopless. Some of these ships colonized planets in the general vicinity of Terra, keeping in contact with the budding Terran Empire, but a very few left known space altogether, looking for a new start away from all of the insanity that made up their culture.
Only one of these ships survived the trip across deep space, landing eventually on a barely habitable world. The spaceship, from which they launched their landing pods spun away, lost. Conditions were harsh, technology and history were lost, many died, but human adaptability won out and a flourishing culture sprung forth. This planet was called Pil, and as humanity made the long march back to spaceflight the planet rapidly became a better place to live. Primitive terraforming techniques were applied with limited success and everything seemed right with the world.
The day humanity acheived spaceflight marked a turning point in Pilan history, but an incredible discovery schismed the culture. On the dark side of Pil's only moon laid the smashed remains of the colony ship, and investigation, while revealing little about where it had come from, gave no doubt that this was the source of humanity. The technology gained from the ship kickstarted Pil's technology, but all was not well on the planet.
The people had a very strong religion, based around multiple gods, which said that people came from divinity directly. A new religion destroyed this. These people said that the gods had sent them forth from somewhere else in punishment, and only in spiritual purity could the find a way to return. Science grew but the people were divided, and this built up for over four hundred years. Eventually, long after the first colonied on other planets were explored there was a cataclysmic war. The primitive ships, with no shields and weak armor turned space into a bloodbath as powerful weapons tore each other apart. Eventually a truce was reached, but already over 160 million had died. Most of the supporters of the old religion were on the galactic east, the new on the west and they made a line of demarcation, a huge network of hyperspace inhibitors through which no ship could cross. The Pilans (as the western group stayed named) controlled this with their marginally more advanced technology, while the Melkiori, on the east, simply grew out further and further until they formed spinoff colonies of their own. Several hundred years passed, then a huge ship came to Pilan space. They told of a huge Empire to the north, the home of humanity from which all Pilans must have come, who oppressed them. They has escaped the Melkiori rule, but has onlyentered a new one where they were second class citizens and curiosities. They had built this huge ship underground, where it could not be seen, and as a group left the planet. The force of the takeoff destroyed all surface life, and they barely escaped. The Pilans, in desperation, quickly erected a second line of inhibitors to the north, and all was good. Then again, after hundreds of years, rebels on the pilan border destroyed the inhibitors to the north and the universe held its collective breath as to what would happen next....
Good? What do you all think?
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'truly, if there is evil in the world, it lies in the heart of mankind.'
-Edaward Morrison
