Thank you for enrolling in the Regulian Cultural Advancement Program! As your first lesson, we'd like you to read the following impartial overview of Regulian History, beginning from plantary unification to the current day.

All years are listed in AD for the benefit of our newest colonial subjects. In order to set the stage for the period, one could compare the technology of 1355 AD to be in line with Earth's Pre-World War II period. The prevailing theory of Regulian Imperial Scholars is that during that period, Earth was just beginning to experiment with iron smelting and one can only imagine how advanced Earth might have been had contact been established earlier.

1355
AD – Areth I of the Eastern Regulian Empire invades the Western Regulian Empire without declaring
war. Manages to take the Imperial Palace for week before withdrawing.
It is rumored that he conceived Hasham III here. Conflict ends in a
white peace, with neither side willing to commit to total war.

1373
AD – Hasham “Maneless" III takes the throne after Hasham II
dies from shock after his femur shattered when he fell down a flight
of stairs. Areth I claims that he's his bastard son, citing that he
has no mane and probably dyes his fur to look more Western. Hasham
III denies this.

1375
AD – Areth I invades the Western Empire and proclaims himself the
first Emperor of Regulus. He is not recognized by most historians and
Hasham III never surrendered or abdicated, fighting with rebels to
reclaim the throne

1380
AD – Areth I dies suddenly of a heart attack. Hasham III returns to
the Palace and marries Areth I's daughter, willfully defying the
rumors that she is his half-sister.

1399
AD – Hasham III dies and his simpleton son, Hasham IV takes the
throne.

1500
AD – Regulus moon landing

REDACTED BY THE ORDER OF THE EMPEROR AND THE CLAW

1553
AD – Regulians invent interstellar drive tech

1602
AD – Regulians make first contact with Lupiad-Sirian Empire.
Regulian scout-ship was irreparably damaged when it collided with a
Lupiad-Sirian station. The three Regulian scientists were rescued and
given a warm welcome on Lupus.

1603
AD - One of the scientists stranded on Lupus became close with Queen
Arneith of Lupus and the Queen officially took her on as a consort,
marking the first known interspecies relationship in the galaxy.

1604
AD – Two of the Regulian scientists were returned to Regulus Prime.
The Regulians welcomed them back with an elaborate friendship
ceremony.

1606
AD – Queen Arneith of Lupus and King Ulthur of Sirius made an
official visit to Regulus. Emperor Hasham IX welcomed them and took
one of their daughters, Princess Heryas as his wife, creating what
would later become the Regulian Imperial Alien Harem. Heryas would be
central in maintaining friendly relations between the two Empires

1615
AD – Heryas's control over her husband became public knowledge.
Anti-Lupiad-Sirian sentiments started becoming common among Regulians
after tales of Heryas sexually dominating the Empress Ashia with the
Emperor's knowledge and wishes became well-known.

1616
AD – Outrage erupted on Regulus Prime after it became known that
Heryas was negotiating to give the Lupiad-Sirian Empire the rights to
build an outpost on one of their moons as a gesture of friendship.
Emperor Hasham IX took to television to defend his consort's
actions in a widely hated broadcast where the Emperor often paused
and nervously looked behind him, where Heryas was thought to be
hiding behind a doorway. Some spectators close enough to the podium
reported being able to smell her rancid scent.

-Empress
Ashia, breaking with tradition, released an audio tape to the media
where she made her own speech, calling for all loyal subjects to
support her in taking back control of the Empire. Hasham IX and
Heryas claimed that the tape was a forgery and that Ashia was
faithfully serving the Empire, but refused to have her make a public
appearance and word got out that she had left the palace and was in
hiding.

-War
of the Two Queens began, splitting Regulus into two sides:

Hashamites
– Supporters of the Emperor. Initially consisted only of the most
strict loyalists to the Emperor along with conservative groups who
believe the Imperial Succession is absolute. Heryas however, noticing
that support was vastly against them, forced the Emperor to make a
public promise of reforming the Empire into a Federation, where the
East Regulians and West Regulians all have strong autonomous
governments. This would cause massive gains in support among the East
Regulians, who had lost a lot of power following the union of the
Empire, however, it would cause the conservative nobles to leave the
Hashamite side and the reforms would be not enough for potentially
liberal supporters.

Ashites
– Supporters of the Empress Ashia. Thanks to populist rhetoric and
anti-alien sentiment, Ashia managed to get a lot of support from
common West Regulians, who were fearing that with increased
Lupiad-Sirian influence, they would end up subservient to aliens.
Initially, very few nobles supported the Ashites, but once Heryas
proclaimed the Federationist reforms, a lot flocked to Ashia's
side, believing it to be the lesser of two evils.

1618
AD – War of the Two Queens concludes with the Ashites winning.
Hasham VII is forced into retirement and Ashia declares herself
Empress-Regent, despite having a son who is of age. Ashia publicly
demotes Heryas to the status of slave in an elaborate ceremony and is
confined to a small room in the harem for the rest of her life. Ashia
took hundreds of Lupiad and Sirian captives as concubines for the
Harem and began publicly listing which ones she slept with each
night. The Harem's purpose at this point, evolved from a system to
encourage good relations through marriage, to a symbol of Regulian
subjugation of other species.

-Ashia
maintains peace in Regulus, but avoids bringing the Empire into a war
with the Lupiad-Sirians, despite public outrage and all intelligence
reports stating that they were financing the Hashamites and were even
considering military intervention. Her goals end up being fostering
unity on Regulus Prime and putting down any remaining notions of
independence in East Regulus. East Regulus ends up even more
marginalized as land is seized and redistributed towards West
Regulians, and rebellions are put down violently.

1655
AD – Ashia passes away and her son, Hashia I takes the throne.

1661
AD – Hashia I, influenced by militaristic ministers, suddenly
declares war on the Lupiad-Sirian Empire, taking both Regulians and
Lupiad-Sirians by surprise. The Regulian fleet had initial major
victories, taking many outposts and colonies from the Lupiad-Sirians
and exterminating or enslaving the Lupiad-Sirian colonists.

-The
First Lupiad-Sirian War begins

1666
AD – After a series of disastrous battles and stalemates, the two
Empires sue for peace. Hashia I ended up pulling off what he expected
to be a major dipolomatic and pragmatic gain, when the Lupiad-Sirians
agreed to allow the Regulians to annex some of the colonies they
invaded, in return for Hashia visiting Lupus and performing a
humiliating kowtow towards the Dual Monarchy

1667
AD – Hashia I visits Lupus and the treaty is personally signed and
bowed towards the King and Queen of the Lupiad-Sirian Empire. They
left to a backroom and discussed some private matters, of which
created many intimate rumors. From then on, Hashia I was dogged by
people claiming he smelled like Lupiad-Sirian musk.

1668
AD – Surveys on the annexed colonies by Regulian scientists reveal
that the colonies are lacking the resources that the Lupiad-Sirians
claimed they had and what resources they did have, were in areas
prone to cave-ins and flooding, sparking rumors that they were
booby-trapped. Hashia I's popularity begins to sink to new lows.

1669
AD – Hashia I is drowned by his bodyguard while bathing at a resort
retreat. With Hashia I's heirs being considered weak and his
siblings being aged Hashamites, General Litho, a mixed
Eastern/Western Regulian, forms a military junta and takes control of
the government, declaring himself Regent.

1675
AD – General Litho marries Hashia I's oldest daughter, Princess
Ashia on the day she came of age. He declares himself Emperor Litho
I, despite according to law, he is merely an Emperor-Consort. As
Empress Ashia II was a weak-willed figurehead, he effectively had no
one contesting this.

1676
AD – Litho I declares an alternative to war with the
Lupiad-Sirians, ignoring cries to avenge the Empire's humiliation:
focus on colonizing the stars at a rapid rate. Space exploration ends
up growing to a massive extent, fueled by government propaganda and
promises of new ducal titles to worthy colonists, regardless of birth

1714
AD – Beta Vulpeculae is discovered by the Regulians and
Lupiad-Sirians at almost exactly the same time. Both Empires
guarantee the independence of the Vulpeculan Princes, while secretly
undermining the others authority and working to diplomatically annex
the primitive species

-Lupiad-Sirians
have initial success, thanks to their similar physiology to the
Vulpeculans. Attempts to foster mixed children with the Vulpeculans
fail and they end up abducting several prominent Vulpeculans in an
effort to force reproduction, which also fails.

1720
AD – Shots are fired between the Regulian and Lupiad-Sirian fleet
above Beta Vulpeculae. Historians argue as to who fired first. The
Lupiad-Sirian fleet retreated after heavy losses and the Regulian
Empre demanded an immediate surrender from all several hundred
Princes of Beta Vulpeculae. They get a unanimous agreement after
threatening to orbital bombard the ones who refuse.

-The
Second Lupiad-Sirian War begins

1722
AD – Litho I passes away in his sleep. Litho II ascends the throne,
despite being a sensitive poet who never wanted to be Emperor, unlike
his father; and despite having hung himself before his coronation. In
order to prevent any chaos during wartime, Prince Raljesh, Litho II's
brother, having not the time to find a look-alike, created the
greatest puppet-show in the galaxy, fooling billions into thinking
Litho II was alive when in reality his corpse was manipulated with
thin wires.

1730
AD – Sirius surrenders after a long bombardment campaign to the
Regulian Empire. Queen Donia of Sirius, declared a separate and
unconditional surrender. Lupus is outraged and pogroms begin against
Sirian residents.

1732
AD – Lupus falls after the Regulian marines invade. The battle is a
massacre on both sides, with heavy losses, neither Empire having had
to invade or defend an entire planet before. The Lupiad King, Dondio,
goes into hiding without surrendering and is never found.

-The
Lupiad Provisionary Government officially surrenders and the
Lupiad-Sirian Empire is officially annexed

1733
AD – Prince Raljesh reveals his deception about his brother and
declares himself Emperor Raljesh I. Despite some being outraged about
having being lied to for almost a decade and some suspecting he
suddenly murdered his brother, Raljesh deflects all criticism and
allows an impartial autopsy on his brother that reveals that he has
indeed been dead for a long time. Regulians end up supporting him
after scholars agree it was a clever move.

1735
AD – Raljesh I goes on an Imperial tour, visiting all the new
realms he conquered. After spending time on Vulpeculae, he ends up
popularizing the Vulpeculan consort slave trade, declaring them to be
the fairest species in the galaxy.

-While
on Sirius, he ends up making friends with a lot of prominent
businessmen and giving them royal decrees to start their own private
space-faring businesses, so long as they remain loyal and report all
findings to an assigned representative of the Empire.

-Raljesh
I is shot by a needler in the chest while on Lupus. One of his
surgeons, a Lupiad, attempts to murder him during his surgery but is
killed by another Lupiad doctor with a scalpel. The Emperor's heart
stops during this fight and the nurses barely managed to revive him
to save his life.

1740
AD – While writing his memoirs, Raljesh I has a stroke that sends
him into a coma and is immediately set up on life support. With
advances in technology, Raljesh I can essentially be put on life
support for eternity. With his children unwilling to turn off life
support in the hopes that he comes out of his coma and due to his
enormous popularity, a myth is concocted about the Emperor having
gone to sleep now that his realm was at peace and would return when
he was needed.

-Thus
begins the Sleeping Emperor Era. Ducal and Kingly vassals received
increased autonomy by the Regents, selected from the ranks of
Raljesh's children and grandchildren. Space exploration was now at
a peak, having no rival Empires threatening it.

-Lupiad
rebels end up starting a major uprising on Lupus but are put down by
the Regency government, showing that the government was not weakened
by the Emperor's slumber.

1850
AD – The Regulians discover Procyon and their inhabitants, the
Procyonids. They agree to become Regulian vassals, but give a dire
warning that they are being threatened by another Empire, the
Lacertans.

-Gamma
Equuileius and Earth are also discovered at this point with probes.
No contact is made with them yet.

1851
AD – The Lacertan fleet shows up at Procyon and defeats the
Regulian fleet in a humiliating defeat. The Regulians, before
retreating, attempting to take as many Procyonid refugees as they
could.

-The
Lacertans enslaved the Procyonids and displaced them. Procyon
terraforming beings, turning it into a mostly desert planet

-The
First Lacertan War begins

1852
AD - Facing a crisis and a lack of faith in the Regency Government,
Emperor Raljesh II is declared Emperor. A direct descendant of
Raljesh I, he declares himself the awakened Sleeping Emperor and
quietly takes Raljesh I off of life support, allowing the ancient
Regulian to finally pass away quietly.

1853
AD – Raljesh II, personally leading the Regulian fleet, has his
flagship disabled and invaded by Lacertan and Equuileian marines.
Photographs and videos showing the Emperor being humiliated leak into
the Extranet for public viewing

-Raljesh
II is declared dead by the Regulian Empire and his younger brother,
Raljesh III takes the throne. In reality, Raljesh II spends the rest
of his life a prisoner of the Lacertans, but it becomes illegal to
state that he's anything but dead.

1880
AD – The First Lacertan War comes to a close. Raljesh III meets
with Speaker Shivlev and the Regulians recognize their ownership of
Procyon and given exclusive colonial rights to Gamma Equuleius. In
return, the Lacertans give the Regulians exclusive rights to Earth.

-Although
disappointed with the results, the Regulian Empire is relieved by the
peace. The Lacertans fought well, had higher manpower, and were more
technologically advanced; the Regulians recognized that it was a war
they could not win.

-Raljesh
calls for an Imperial Reconstruction effort, to help rebuild their
crumbling infrastructure and manpower reserves. This also included
increasing military production, foreseeing that another war was
inevitable.

1885
AD – Increased scouts and probes visit Earth. Upon seeing the
rapidly advancing humans and their manpower, the Lacertans show an
unwillingness to allow unrestricted Regulian colonization. Skirmishes
and blockades of Regulian expeditions begin without much resistance,
thanks to Procyon being so close to Earth

1900
AD – Raljesh III passes away. His Grandson Raljesh IV takes the
throne.

1908
AD – The skirmishes between the Regulians and the Lacertans heat
up. A mass driver misfire ends up landing on Earth in Tunguska,
creating the very first orbital bombardment of Earth.

-The
Second Lacertan War begins. The war only had one major battle which
ended in a stalemate. The rest was a series of indecisive skirmishes
and they were infrequent.

1935
AD – Raljesh IV passes away in a rumored suicide. His son, Haresh I
takes the throne.

1940
AD – A white peace is signed between the Lacertans and Regulians.
The original articles of the previous treaty are recognized and they
both promise to honor them.

1945
AD – A Regulian colonization of Earth is stopped when they witness
two massive explosions on Earth, far largest than they thought
possible by the natives. The colonization is put on hold indefinitely
until they can replan.

1947
AD – A Lacertan ship crashes on Earth in New Mexico. Survivors
unknown. Incident is covered up by the Lacertans, as it's a
violation of the treaty.

1992
AD – Haresh I passes away after his heart failed while visiting a
concubine in the Harem. Haresh II takes the throne.

2001
AD – Haresh II abdicates in favor of his son, Haresh III, and
retires to Lupus, citing the climate as more agreeable to him.

2015
AD – Fearing increased Lacertan activity on Earth and the
uncovering of the 1947 incident by Regulian intelligence, the
Regulians invade and conquer the planet in a matter of months. Earth
is annexed as a vassal state: Kingdom of Earth and a Regulian is
crowned King.

2030 AD - Vassalized Earth occurs during this time

2031
AD – The Third Lacertan War begins

Sometime during this period, Outcast Planet occurs

2035 AD - Return to Vassalized Earth occurs (Coming December 20th!)