User:SPARTAN-08BLAM!/Acacians

"Our lords, the ones you call the "Forerunners" gave our species guidance, took us from the hell that was Earth, and enlightened our kind. We are not Human, We are Acacian!"

- High King Mirith

Acacians are a race of semi-human aliens, who occupy the planet of Grathos.

=History=

At the same period in time, the Librarian attempted to index of species, a second Librarian named The Keeper. He found a sub species of pre-human beings that showed great intelligence. The Keeper saw great potential in the young species, but also grave danger from the flood. He gathered as many of these beings and took them to a planet somewhat similar to earth. There, The Keeper instilled into the minds of the  the pre-humans a great knowledge of Forerunner technology. The Keeper died upon the activation of the Halo array, but the Acacians (as they would soon call themselves), lived on.

Over the next 100,00 years the Acacians evolved similarly to the species on earth. At around 200 BCE the Acacians started to discover the ancient memory of the Forerunners. Thus began the search for their artifacts. At around 1500 CE they discovered a massive cache of Forerunner weapons. Upon finding these incredibly deadly weapons the entire Acacian population was thrown into a full scale war.

The Dark War
"The Dark War" as the Acacians called it was a war on a massive scale. The war started at a time of political unrest, two countries of Acacians were at politcal turmoil. Assassinations were common of high politcal leaders. There was a debate over which type of government should take over, A democracy or a Monarchy. This "war" finally broke out into militarized factions fighting each other when the weapon's were found. The people on the democracy side wanted to keep the weapons but only for special purposes. The Monarchists wanted to reproduce the weapon's and fully arm their soldiers with them. After much debate that went nowhere, an assassination attempt was made on the Monarchist leader with one of the weapon. The assassin was unsuccessful but this caused great disruption and sparked the war.

The war brought hundreds of thousands of dead fearing self extinction the two factions spilt and formed their own governments.

Unification
At about 2005 CE the two Acacian factions were flourishing, both of their populations were expanding. Space travel between planets had been founded 300 years ago, and research for inter solar travel was being heavily researched. At about 2310 CE a breakthrough was made. A Forefunner artifact was found, but it was much larger than any other found. The Acacian scientists soon found that the ship was a warship capable of travel between solar systems. Thus began even greater expansion.

Both governments feared coming across other alien threats, and soon decided to unite both factions of Acacian government into one. The Supreme Council was born. It was composed of elected officials that made all decisions for the Acacian Alliance. There were 18 seats and anyone could apply for election.

Expansion
Within 20 years the Empire controlled over 9 star systems and they had encountered no other alien life forms. The starships used by the Alliance were fast, able to have speeds of up to 3.4 Light years per day when in slipspace. Another Era of prosperity was born.

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