| rdfs:comment | - The Klingon First Empire was forged by Kahless the Unforgettable, after his defeat of the tyrant Molor and the Fek'Ihri. (DS9: "The Sword of Kahless") It was presumably succeeded by the Klingon Second Empire.
- The First Empire was an era of humanity on Terra. It was started by Aleksandr (Alexander III of Macedon, or "Alexander the Great"). A millennia-long period that saw humanity's advance, there was a brief interval in the Century Without an Emperor. The Imperial Seat changed many places such as Byzantium (15800 BG), Madrid, London and Washington D.C., and eventually Ceres after Terra's destruction. During 13004 BG, the Suspensor-nullification effect was discovered by a computer, the Verifax Mark II (known millennia later in fragmentary records as the "Verifax Marktoo").
- The First Empire existed long before the events in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It was contemporaneous with the Kallorian Empire which fell 119,739 years before Burn's Sleep. It was an empire of humans, born from the legacy of the T'lan Imass, from whom it took its name. The Empire was formed on the continent that eventually came to be known as Seven Cities and expanded to other continents. The Holds were first discovered in the Empire, and the Nameless Ones originated from this time as well.
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| abstract | - The First Empire was an era of humanity on Terra. It was started by Aleksandr (Alexander III of Macedon, or "Alexander the Great"). A millennia-long period that saw humanity's advance, there was a brief interval in the Century Without an Emperor. The Imperial Seat changed many places such as Byzantium (15800 BG), Madrid, London and Washington D.C., and eventually Ceres after Terra's destruction. During 13004 BG, the Suspensor-nullification effect was discovered by a computer, the Verifax Mark II (known millennia later in fragmentary records as the "Verifax Marktoo"). It took about a century of experimentation and guesswork before Imperial navigators learned how to operate the suspensor-nullification effect field, because it was considered an Imperial secret, and jealously guarded. Eventually the secret was leaked, and House Ceres and its most powerful and influential allies began a program of exploration and exploitation greater than any other since the beginning of the empire. However, this use of the suspensor-nullification device doomed the first Empire, which collapsed after 3,000 years of continuous rule in space. The centrality crucial to Imperial administration was impossible to maintain when there was no quick method of communication from one end of the Empire to the other. Communications became strained during 12200 BG and the Empire of Ten Worlds. The Empire dissolved totally in 11200 BG and the Empire of a Thousand Worlds
- The Klingon First Empire was forged by Kahless the Unforgettable, after his defeat of the tyrant Molor and the Fek'Ihri. (DS9: "The Sword of Kahless") It was presumably succeeded by the Klingon Second Empire.
- The First Empire existed long before the events in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It was contemporaneous with the Kallorian Empire which fell 119,739 years before Burn's Sleep. It was an empire of humans, born from the legacy of the T'lan Imass, from whom it took its name. The Empire was formed on the continent that eventually came to be known as Seven Cities and expanded to other continents. The Holds were first discovered in the Empire, and the Nameless Ones originated from this time as well. "Its vast fleets had sailed forth to map the world. The coasts of all six continents had been charted, eight hundred and eleven islands scattered in the vast oceans, ruins and riches discovered, ancient sorceries and fierce, ignorant tribes encountered. Other peoples, not human, all of whom bled easily enough. Barghast, Trell, Tartheno, Fenn, Mare, Jhag, Krinn, Jheck… Colonies had been established on foreign coasts. Wars and conquests, always conquests. Until… all was brought down, all was destroyed. The First Empire collapsed in upon itself. Beasts rose in the midst of its cities, a nightmare burgeoning like Plague. The Emperor who was One was now Seven, and the Seven were scattered, lost in madness. The great cities burned." ―Description of the First Empire It began to crumble under the rule of Dessimbelackis. Wars raged in the west, and a misguided attempt by some of its citizens to control the magic of shapeshifting led to the transformation of nearly an entire city into Soletaken and D'ivers. This alerted a group of T'lan Imass to the source of the sorcery, who then slaughtered as many afflicted citizens as possible. The Soletaken and D'ivers who escaped became known as First Heroes. The threat was also present on the continent of Lether, leading to the creation of the Jheck. The colonists succeeded in driving them away to the northern ice wastes, hoping they would die out there. After the Empire started crumbling, its colonies became isolated. The Empire's colonies on Lether lost contact with their progenitor, leading to a short period of independent city-states, eventually leading to the Kingdom of Lether. Many people believed King Diskanar would, at the end of the Seventh Closure, ascend and assume the title of First Emperor, making the First Empire reborn.
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