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Library Data: TTech Levels : - Tech Levels or Technology Levels are a convienient way of measuring the relative level of technological advance a planet has or a piece of equipment was manufactured by. For example a planet may have a technology level of 11 but a weapon may be a tech level 11 rifle. See the article on Tech Levels for more detailed information.Terra : - Homeworld of the Solomani race and, according to the Solomani Hypothesis, the entire Humaniti race. Terran : - The name for humans from Terra until they changed their name to Solomani (meaning men of Sol). Terran Confederation (-2398 to -2204) : - Interstellar government consisting of Terra and its colony worlds. The Terran Confederation has its roots in the formation of the United Nations Space Coordination Agency (UNSCA) in -2499. In addition to handling mundane responsibilities that helped avoid conflict, UNSCA soon became a clearing house for space operations. One of UNSCA's natural directions was research. In -2431, UNSCA researchers in the system's asteroid belt, who were looking for better drives to transport ores, discovered jump drive. The first jump drives were used only in the solar system--they were too weak to be used for interstellar travel. In -2424, for various reasons, the first interstellar jump expedition travelled to Barnard's Star rather than Alpha Centauri. Upon their return in -2422, the expedition members were hurried into a hushed meeting with UNSCA. The expedition had encountered alien intelligent life, humans no less! The expedition members had encountered a Vilani prospecting outpost, an outpost on the very fringe of a vast, advanced empire controlled by alien humans. It came as quite a shock to the Terrans that many of the worlds only a few parsecs away were already claimed. Politicians echoed the popular sentiment that it was unfair for alien humans from several hundred light- years away claim worlds near Terra. Individual nations began expanding their armed forces and building starships. Over the next two decades, UNSCA and the United Nations transformed itself into a true world government, which administered the defense of Terra against the Vilani Empire. When Terran colonies formed on other worlds were granted membership in -2400, the UN officially changed its name to the United Worlds. Two years later, upon the admission of colonial representatives to the Secretariat, the name was changed again to the Terran Confederation. The Terran Confederation fought a series of interstellar wars with the Vilani Imperium over the period -2408 to -2219. These wars ultimately resulted in the fall of the Vilani Grand Imperium of Ziru Sirka. The Confederation was dissolved in -2204 upon the proclamation of the Rule of Man to replace the Vilani Imperium. See also Rule of Man and Solomani. Third Imperium : - The interstellar empire that has emerged from the Long Night from what used to be the Sylean Federation. Tiananmen : - The Tiananmen was a 75000 ton Navan Federation heavy cruiser. It was located crashed on the second planet in the Megalma system where the crew had apparently suffered from some kind of plague. It was boarded by the IISS and most of it's computer cores recovered for analysis by Imperial Naval Intelligence. Trailing : - The galactic direction pointing against the galactic spin. Tranison : - The INFAT Tranison is a 100,000 ton Imperial Fuel Tanker attached to the Third Fleet. Trojan Points : - In a gravitational system composed of a small body orbiting a much larger one (such as a planet and star or a moon and planet), there are two stable points lying in the small body's orbit 60 degrees ahead and behind it, and thus equidistant from the small and large bodies. These are called Trojan Points (also LaGrangian points, which are abbreviated as L4 and L5). The Trojan points of of a gas giant near an asteroid belt commonly collect a cluster of asteroids. The name comes from the first such cluster discovered by Terrans at Jupiter in the Sol system; the asteroids are named after mythical heroes of the Trojan war. Truro : - The IND Truro is an 8,000 ton Imperial Destroyer attached to the Third Fleet. Twilight (-1776 to 1526) : - The failure of the Rule of Man triggered the collapse of most interstellar civilization. While interstellar travel and commerce continued, it was at a greatly reduced rate, and the many worlds of the Imperium turned in on themselves. The period of collapse is termed Twilight, and it lasted for two and a half centuries. Modern historians consider Twilight to have begun in -1776 when the treasury on Hub/Ershur refused to acknowledge a monetary issue of the branch treasury at Antares, which triggered a financial collapse and the destruction of large- scale trade within the Imperium. The end of Twilight is commonly accepted as the year -1526, when the last government claiming to be the Rule of Man ceased to exist. See also Long Night. |