{"data":{"id":15997,"title":"This Day in History: The Third Imperial Age","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/15997-This-Day-In-History-The-Third-Imperial-Age","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/15997","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/15997","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":5515,"name":"ThisDayinHistoryCLEAN.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/dc4tqfc6xj7u4r\/source\/ThisDayinHistoryCLEAN.jpg","alt":"","size":553274,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2017-01-11T01:10:45+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/5515","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/5515\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"July 4, 1457 CE\nIt\u2019s impossible to imagine what life must have been like for Humans almost 1,500 standard Earth years (SEY) ago. Humanity was still constrained to their homeworld, and though vast societies and cultures spread across Earth, many were not even aware of each other\u2019s existence. Attempting to cross one of the planet\u2019s major oceans was akin to a death sentence, one that some strangely believed would involve the boat simply falling over the horizon\u2019s edge.\n\nMeanwhile, on approximately July 4, 1457 CE*, the Xi\u2019an officially entered their Third Imperial Age by elevating U.e\u2019o se Kr.\u0113 to the position of Emperor. The coronation of U.e\u2019o se Kr.\u0113 was a historic event and cause for great celebration across the Xi\u2019an Empire, which had already expanded to many planets and systems. While much has changed for Humanity over the last two and a half millennia, House Kr.\u0113\u2019s control has remained resolute, as they still govern the Xi\u2019an Empire to this day \u2014 an outcome few Xi\u2019an would have predicted when they first gained power.\n\nThe Third Imperial Age pulled the Xi\u2019an out of a particularly tumultuous time in their vast history. The species had been locked into a centuries long engagement with the Kr\u2019Thak, a conflict that we have come to know as the Spirit Wars. To make matters worse, the species had been without an Emperor for over a century prior to U.e\u2019o se Kr.\u0113\u2019s coronation.\n\nThis period began during the Spirit Wars, in 1305 CE, when an expertly planned and executed Kr\u2019Thak attack targeted the reigning Emperor Xy.\u014d and her house. Timed to coincide with an important family celebration in honor of Y.ah\u2019a se Xy.\u014d, the house\u2019s great matriarch and first Emperor, the Kr\u2019Thak\u2019s orbital bombardment of the Xy.\u014d estate was executed with shocking devastation, leaving nothing but a massive crater behind. Then the Kr\u2019Thak activated dozens of strike forces around the Xi\u2019an empire, systematically targeting any location with a remaining member of the Xy.\u014d family. When the dust had settled, countless innocent Xi\u2019an had died, but the Kr\u2019Thak\u2019s plan had succeeded. The entire Xy.\u014d line had been eliminated and their house\u2019s long reign was over. The Xi\u2019an\u2019s Second Imperial Age had been brought to a brutal and decisive end.\n\nThe eradication of the Xy.\u014d house unleashed chaos across Xi\u2019an society, earning that period an ominous title roughly translated as The Dark. Those in the bureaucratic class tried to keep the government functioning, but struggled to do so without an Emperor and royal family dictating an overarching policy. The Xi\u2019an war strategy also suffered from the leadership vacuum, as the Imperial house controls the military just as directly as it does the government.\n\nInstead of a clear vision, powerful Xi\u2019an houses feuded and political factions formed. Some argued that retribution against the Kr\u2019Thak was necessary, while others claimed it was the time to discuss peace. Various houses acted unilaterally, with some trying to broker deals as others started secretly arming themselves. Similarly rampant inter-house conflict had demonstrated the need for a single ruling family during the Great Divide, triggering the formation of the first imperial dynasty. This time around, the dissolution of the Empire was a real possibility in the chaos that followed the death of House Xy.\u014d. Primarily due to the fact that a new Emperor could not be found.\n\nThe specifics surrounding the transfer of power from one house to another in the Xi\u2019an tradition is still not well known by those outside the species. What little is understood is that part of the process involves searching for certain genetic \u2018markers\u2019 that only the new Emperor will carry. Any and all Xi\u2019an are tested to see who might carry these markers. The process is an incredible bureaucratic undertaking in peaceful times, and nearly impossible during a war whose duration was approaching a millennium.\n\nThe Xi\u2019an tested anyone they could but still didn\u2019t find a match. After decades of this uncertainty, some Xi\u2019an philosophers pondered whether a new ruler would appear only after their war with the Kr\u2019Thak was over. Public opinion swung in that direction and eventually a ceasefire was negotiated by the remaining military bureaucrats.\n\nThough the specifics of this armistice with the Kr\u2019Thak have never been revealed to us, it allowed the Xi\u2019an to search for their next Emperor in earnest. Envoys were sent to every Xi\u2019an settlement, but even more years of hunting still did not reveal their new ruler. Some began to wonder if the Xi\u2019an were doomed to remain ungoverned.\n\nMeanwhile, powerful houses grew concerned that they might lose everything if a new Emperor weren\u2019t found. Divisions between houses grew deeper and the threat of another brutal civil war was all but certain. Therefore, while there\u2019s no evidence that a conspiracy involving a number of powerful Xi\u2019an families resulted in the Kr.\u0113 house ascending to power, rumors of this sort persist.\n\nThe official story is that U.e\u2019o se Kr.\u0113 was tested for the Imperial markers shortly after being born and proclaimed to be the new Emperor not long after. Some Xi\u2019an welcomed the coronation of an infant as a blessed sign for the start of the Third Imperial Age. They believed it meant that the Xi\u2019an had been given a new lease on existence after barely surviving their first interspecies conflict.\n\nOthers noted that the new Emperor being born into a powerful family was a bit convenient.\n\nIt was under these circumstances that an infant named U.e\u2019o se Kr.\u0113 was proclaimed the new Xi\u2019an Emperor on July 4, 1457 CE. Family matriarch IIth se Kr.\u0113 was given provisional power until U.e\u2019o was of age. Raised to be a ruler, U.e\u2019o se Kr.\u0113 eventually ascended to the throne with a quiet confidence and immediately instituted a number of sweeping changes. She strengthened settlements and military fortifications in systems connected to Kr\u2019Thak. She banned jump point hunting in those systems too, believing that the less contact with the Kr\u2019Thak, the more chance the ceasefire would hold. Some believe this shift away from Kr\u2019Thak space is what forced the Xi\u2019an Empire to expand in a different direction, one that would result in them crossing paths with Humanity.\n\nMillennia later, the Kr.\u0113 family still rules the Xi\u2019an Empire. However, the current Emperor Kr.\u0113 has no legitimate heirs, meaning that his family\u2019s rule will end with him.\n\nThere is much uncertainty about what will happen when the reign of house Kr.\u0113 comes to an end. Humanity has scant understanding about what will happen or how long it will take. There\u2019s also no clarity as to how it\u2019ll affect our diplomatic relationship, trade deals and so forth with the Xi\u2019an Empire. For now, all we can do is reflect back on what we know about the last time the Xi\u2019an had a political transfer of power. It happened on this day in history \u2014 July 4, 1457 CE.\n\n* For the reader\u2019s convenience, all Xi\u2019an dates have been converted to standard Earth time.","de_DE":"4. Juli 501 CE\nEs ist unm\u00f6glich, sich vorzustellen, wie das Leben der Menschen vor fast 2.500 Standard-Erdejahren (SEY) gewesen sein muss. Die Menschheit war immer noch auf ihre Heimatwelt beschr\u00e4nkt, und obwohl riesige Gesellschaften und Kulturen auf der ganzen Erde verbreitet waren, wussten viele nicht einmal von der Existenz des anderen. Der Versuch, einen der wichtigsten Ozeane des Planeten zu \u00fcberqueren, glich einem Todesurteil, von dem einige seltsamerweise glaubten, dass das Boot einfach \u00fcber den Rand des Horizonts fallen w\u00fcrde.\n\nUnterdessen, am etwa 4. Juli 501 n. Chr., traten die Xi'an offiziell in ihr drittes Kaiserzeitalter ein, indem sie U.e'o se Kr.\u0113 in die Position des Kaisers erhoben. Die Kr\u00f6nung von U.e'o se Kr.\u0113 war ein historisches Ereignis und Anlass f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe Feierlichkeiten im gesamten Xi'an-Reich, das sich bereits auf viele Planeten und Systeme ausgedehnt hatte. W\u00e4hrend sich f\u00fcr die Menschheit in den letzten zweieinhalb Jahrtausenden viel ver\u00e4ndert hat, ist die Kontrolle des Hauses Kr.\u0113 entschlossen geblieben, da sie das Xi'an-Reich bis heute regieren - ein Ergebnis, das nur wenige Xi'an vorhergesagt h\u00e4tten, als sie zum ersten Mal an die Macht kamen.\n\nDie Dritte Kaiserzeit zog die Xi'an aus einer besonders turbulenten Zeit in ihrer langen Geschichte heraus. Die Spezies war in eine fast 800 SEY Auseinandersetzung mit den Kr'Thak eingebunden, einem Konflikt, den wir als die Geisterkriege kennengelernt haben. Zu allem \u00dcberfluss war die Art vor der Kr\u00f6nung von U.e'o se Kr.\u0113 fast 90 SEY lang ohne Kaiser gewesen.\n\nDiese Zeit begann w\u00e4hrend der Geisterkriege, 412 n. Chr., als ein professionell geplanter und ausgef\u00fchrter Kr'Thak-Angriff auf den amtierenden Kaiser Xy.\u014d und ihr Haus erfolgte. Zeitgleich mit einem wichtigen Familienfest zu Ehren von Y.ah'a se Xy.\u014d, der gro\u00dfen Matriarchin und ersten Kaiserin des Hauses, wurde die Bahnbombardierung des Anwesens Xy.\u014d durch die Kr'Thak mit schockierender Verw\u00fcstung durchgef\u00fchrt und nur ein massiver Krater zur\u00fcckgelassen. Dann aktivierten die Kr'Thak Dutzende von Streitkr\u00e4ften im gesamten Xi'an-Imperium und zielen systematisch auf jeden Ort mit einem verbleibenden Mitglied der Xy.\u014d-Familie. Als sich die Aufregung gelegt hatte, waren unz\u00e4hlige unschuldige Xi'an gestorben, aber der Plan der Kr'Thak war erfolgreich. Die gesamte Xy.\u014d Linie war eliminiert worden und die 1.735 SEY Herrschaft ihres Hauses war beendet. Die zweite Kaiserzeit des Xi'an war zu einem brutalen und entscheidenden Ende gebracht worden.\n\nDie Ausl\u00f6schung des Hauses Xy.\u014d l\u00f6ste Chaos in der gesamten Xi'an-Gesellschaft aus und brachte dieser Zeit einen omin\u00f6sen Titel ein, der grob \u00fcbersetzt als The Dark bezeichnet wird. Diejenigen in der b\u00fcrokratischen Klasse versuchten, die Regierung am Laufen zu halten, k\u00e4mpften aber daf\u00fcr, ohne dass ein Kaiser und eine k\u00f6nigliche Familie eine \u00fcbergreifende Politik vorschrieben. Die Xi'an-Kriegsstrategie litt auch unter dem F\u00fchrungsvakuum, da das Kaiserhaus das Milit\u00e4r genauso direkt kontrolliert wie die Regierung.\n\nAnstelle einer klaren Vision bildeten sich in den m\u00e4chtigen Xi'an-H\u00e4usern feudale und politische Fraktionen. Einige argumentierten, dass eine Vergeltung gegen die Kr'Thak notwendig sei, w\u00e4hrend andere behaupteten, dass es an der Zeit sei, \u00fcber Frieden zu diskutieren. Verschiedene H\u00e4user handelten einseitig, einige versuchten, Gesch\u00e4fte zu vermitteln, w\u00e4hrend andere anfingen, sich heimlich zu bewaffnen. \u00c4hnlich heftige zwischenstaatliche Konflikte hatten die Notwendigkeit einer einzigen Herrscherfamilie w\u00e4hrend der Gro\u00dfen Spaltung gezeigt, was die Entstehung der ersten Kaiserdynastie ausl\u00f6ste. Diesmal war die Aufl\u00f6sung des Imperiums eine echte M\u00f6glichkeit im Chaos nach dem Tod von Haus Xy.\u014d. Vor allem wegen der Tatsache, dass kein neuer Kaiser gefunden werden konnte.\n\nDie Besonderheiten der Kraft\u00fcbertragung von einem Haus zum anderen in der Xi'an-Tradition sind auch au\u00dferhalb der Arten noch nicht bekannt. Was wenig verstanden wird, ist, dass es Teil des Prozesses ist, nach bestimmten genetischen \"Markern\" zu suchen, die nur der neue Kaiser tragen wird. Alle Xi'an werden getestet, um zu sehen, wer diese Marker tragen k\u00f6nnte. Der Prozess ist ein unglaubliches b\u00fcrokratisches Unterfangen in friedlichen Zeiten und fast unm\u00f6glich in einem Krieg, dessen Dauer sich dem Jahrtausend n\u00e4herte.\n\nDie Xi'an testeten jeden, den sie konnten, fanden aber trotzdem keine \u00dcbereinstimmung. Nach Jahrzehnten dieser Unsicherheit \u00fcberlegten einige Xi'an-Philosophen, ob ein neuer Herrscher erst nach ihrem Krieg mit den Kr'Thak erscheinen w\u00fcrde. Die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung schwang sich in diese Richtung und schlie\u00dflich wurde von den \u00fcbrigen Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcrokraten ein Waffenstillstand ausgehandelt.\n\nObwohl uns die Einzelheiten dieses Waffenstillstands mit dem Kr'Thak nie offenbart wurden, erlaubte es den Xi'an, ernsthaft nach ihrem n\u00e4chsten Kaiser zu suchen. Gesandte wurden in jede Xi'an-Siedlung geschickt, aber noch mehr Jahre der Jagd zeigten ihren neuen Herrscher nicht. Einige begannen sich zu fragen, ob die Xi'an dazu verdammt waren, unregiert zu bleiben.\n\nUnterdessen wurden die m\u00e4chtigen H\u00e4user besorgt, dass sie alles verlieren k\u00f6nnten, wenn kein neuer Kaiser gefunden w\u00fcrde. Die Spaltungen zwischen den H\u00e4usern wurden tiefer und die Gefahr eines weiteren brutalen B\u00fcrgerkriegs war so gut wie sicher. Daher gibt es zwar keine Beweise daf\u00fcr, dass eine Verschw\u00f6rung mit einer Reihe m\u00e4chtiger Xi'an-Familien dazu gef\u00fchrt hat, dass das Haus Kr.\u0113 an die Macht kam, aber Ger\u00fcchte dieser Art bestehen fort.\n\nDie offizielle Geschichte ist, dass U.e'o se Kr.\u0113 kurz nach seiner Geburt auf die kaiserlichen Marker getestet und kurz darauf zum neuen Kaiser erkl\u00e4rt wurde. Einige Xi'an begr\u00fc\u00dften die Kr\u00f6nung eines S\u00e4uglings als gesegnetes Zeichen f\u00fcr den Beginn des dritten Kaiserzeitalters. Sie glaubten, dass es bedeutete, dass die Xi'an eine neue Existenzgrundlage erhalten hatten, nachdem sie ihren ersten Konflikt zwischen den Arten kaum \u00fcberlebt hatten.\n\nAndere bemerkten, dass der neue Kaiser, der in eine m\u00e4chtige Familie hineingeboren wurde, ein wenig bequem war.\n\nUnter diesen Umst\u00e4nden wurde am 4. Juli 501 n. Chr. ein Kind namens U.e'o se Kr.\u0113 zum neuen Xi'an-Kaiser ernannt. Familienmatriarchin II. se Kr.\u0113 erhielt vorl\u00e4ufige Vollmacht, bis U.e.o. vollj\u00e4hrig war. U.e'o se Kr.\u0113 wurde zum Herrscher erhoben und stieg schlie\u00dflich mit stillem Selbstvertrauen auf den Thron und f\u00fchrte sofort eine Reihe von tiefgreifenden Ver\u00e4nderungen ein. Sie st\u00e4rkte Siedlungen und milit\u00e4rische Befestigungen in Systemen, die mit Kr'Thak verbunden sind. Sie verbot auch die Jagd auf Sprungbretter in diesen Systemen und glaubte, dass je weniger Kontakt mit den Kr'Thak, desto gr\u00f6\u00dfer die Chance ist, dass der Waffenstillstand gehalten wird. Einige glauben, dass diese Verschiebung weg vom Kr'Thak-Raum das Xi'an-Imperium gezwungen hat, sich in eine andere Richtung zu entwickeln, eine, die dazu f\u00fchren w\u00fcrde, dass sie Wege mit der Menschheit kreuzen w\u00fcrden.\n\n2.500 SEY sp\u00e4ter regiert die Familie Kr.\u0113 immer noch das Reich Xi'an. Der derzeitige Kaiser Kr.\u0113 hat jedoch keine legitimen Erben, was bedeutet, dass die Herrschaft seiner Familie mit ihm endet.\n\nEs besteht viel Unsicherheit dar\u00fcber, was passieren wird, wenn die Herrschaft des Hauses Kr.\u0113 zu Ende geht. Die Menschheit hat kaum Verst\u00e4ndnis daf\u00fcr, was passieren wird oder wie lange es dauern wird. Es gibt auch keine Klarheit dar\u00fcber, wie sich das auf unsere diplomatischen Beziehungen, Handelsabkommen und so weiter mit dem Xi'an Imperium auswirken wird. Im Moment k\u00f6nnen wir nur dar\u00fcber nachdenken, was wir \u00fcber das letzte Mal wissen, als das Xi'an eine politische Macht\u00fcbertragung hatte. Es geschah an diesem Tag in der Geschichte - 4. Juli 501 n. Chr.\n\nZur Vereinfachung f\u00fcr den Leser wurden alle Xi'an-Daten in die normale Erdzeit umgerechnet.","zh_CN":"July 4, 1457 CE\nIt\u2019s impossible to imagine what life must have been like for Humans almost 1,500 standard Earth years (SEY) ago. Humanity was still constrained to their homeworld, and though vast societies and cultures spread across Earth, many were not even aware of each other\u2019s existence. Attempting to cross one of the planet\u2019s major oceans was akin to a death sentence, one that some strangely believed would involve the boat simply falling over the horizon\u2019s edge.\n\nMeanwhile, on approximately July 4, 1457 CE*, the Xi\u2019an officially entered their Third Imperial Age by elevating U.e\u2019o se Kr.\u0113 to the position of Emperor. The coronation of U.e\u2019o se Kr.\u0113 was a historic event and cause for great celebration across the Xi\u2019an Empire, which had already expanded to many planets and systems. While much has changed for Humanity over the last two and a half millennia, House Kr.\u0113\u2019s control has remained resolute, as they still govern the Xi\u2019an Empire to this day \u2014 an outcome few Xi\u2019an would have predicted when they first gained power.\n\nThe Third Imperial Age pulled the Xi\u2019an out of a particularly tumultuous time in their vast history. The species had been locked into a centuries long engagement with the Kr\u2019Thak, a conflict that we have come to know as the Spirit Wars. To make matters worse, the species had been without an Emperor for over a century prior to U.e\u2019o se Kr.\u0113\u2019s coronation.\n\nThis period began during the Spirit Wars, in 1305 CE, when an expertly planned and executed Kr\u2019Thak attack targeted the reigning Emperor Xy.\u014d and her house. Timed to coincide with an important family celebration in honor of Y.ah\u2019a se Xy.\u014d, the house\u2019s great matriarch and first Emperor, the Kr\u2019Thak\u2019s orbital bombardment of the Xy.\u014d estate was executed with shocking devastation, leaving nothing but a massive crater behind. Then the Kr\u2019Thak activated dozens of strike forces around the Xi\u2019an empire, systematically targeting any location with a remaining member of the Xy.\u014d family. When the dust had settled, countless innocent Xi\u2019an had died, but the Kr\u2019Thak\u2019s plan had succeeded. The entire Xy.\u014d line had been eliminated and their house\u2019s long reign was over. The Xi\u2019an\u2019s Second Imperial Age had been brought to a brutal and decisive end.\n\nThe eradication of the Xy.\u014d house unleashed chaos across Xi\u2019an society, earning that period an ominous title roughly translated as The Dark. Those in the bureaucratic class tried to keep the government functioning, but struggled to do so without an Emperor and royal family dictating an overarching policy. The Xi\u2019an war strategy also suffered from the leadership vacuum, as the Imperial house controls the military just as directly as it does the government.\n\nInstead of a clear vision, powerful Xi\u2019an houses feuded and political factions formed. Some argued that retribution against the Kr\u2019Thak was necessary, while others claimed it was the time to discuss peace. Various houses acted unilaterally, with some trying to broker deals as others started secretly arming themselves. Similarly rampant inter-house conflict had demonstrated the need for a single ruling family during the Great Divide, triggering the formation of the first imperial dynasty. This time around, the dissolution of the Empire was a real possibility in the chaos that followed the death of House Xy.\u014d. Primarily due to the fact that a new Emperor could not be found.\n\nThe specifics surrounding the transfer of power from one house to another in the Xi\u2019an tradition is still not well known by those outside the species. What little is understood is that part of the process involves searching for certain genetic \u2018markers\u2019 that only the new Emperor will carry. Any and all Xi\u2019an are tested to see who might carry these markers. The process is an incredible bureaucratic undertaking in peaceful times, and nearly impossible during a war whose duration was approaching a millennium.\n\nThe Xi\u2019an tested anyone they could but still didn\u2019t find a match. After decades of this uncertainty, some Xi\u2019an philosophers pondered whether a new ruler would appear only after their war with the Kr\u2019Thak was over. Public opinion swung in that direction and eventually a ceasefire was negotiated by the remaining military bureaucrats.\n\nThough the specifics of this armistice with the Kr\u2019Thak have never been revealed to us, it allowed the Xi\u2019an to search for their next Emperor in earnest. Envoys were sent to every Xi\u2019an settlement, but even more years of hunting still did not reveal their new ruler. Some began to wonder if the Xi\u2019an were doomed to remain ungoverned.\n\nMeanwhile, powerful houses grew concerned that they might lose everything if a new Emperor weren\u2019t found. Divisions between houses grew deeper and the threat of another brutal civil war was all but certain. Therefore, while there\u2019s no evidence that a conspiracy involving a number of powerful Xi\u2019an families resulted in the Kr.\u0113 house ascending to power, rumors of this sort persist.\n\nThe official story is that U.e\u2019o se Kr.\u0113 was tested for the Imperial markers shortly after being born and proclaimed to be the new Emperor not long after. Some Xi\u2019an welcomed the coronation of an infant as a blessed sign for the start of the Third Imperial Age. They believed it meant that the Xi\u2019an had been given a new lease on existence after barely surviving their first interspecies conflict.\n\nOthers noted that the new Emperor being born into a powerful family was a bit convenient.\n\nIt was under these circumstances that an infant named U.e\u2019o se Kr.\u0113 was proclaimed the new Xi\u2019an Emperor on July 4, 1457 CE. Family matriarch IIth se Kr.\u0113 was given provisional power until U.e\u2019o was of age. Raised to be a ruler, U.e\u2019o se Kr.\u0113 eventually ascended to the throne with a quiet confidence and immediately instituted a number of sweeping changes. She strengthened settlements and military fortifications in systems connected to Kr\u2019Thak. She banned jump point hunting in those systems too, believing that the less contact with the Kr\u2019Thak, the more chance the ceasefire would hold. Some believe this shift away from Kr\u2019Thak space is what forced the Xi\u2019an Empire to expand in a different direction, one that would result in them crossing paths with Humanity.\n\nMillennia later, the Kr.\u0113 family still rules the Xi\u2019an Empire. However, the current Emperor Kr.\u0113 has no legitimate heirs, meaning that his family\u2019s rule will end with him.\n\nThere is much uncertainty about what will happen when the reign of house Kr.\u0113 comes to an end. Humanity has scant understanding about what will happen or how long it will take. There\u2019s also no clarity as to how it\u2019ll affect our diplomatic relationship, trade deals and so forth with the Xi\u2019an Empire. For now, all we can do is reflect back on what we know about the last time the Xi\u2019an had a political transfer of power. It happened on this day in history \u2014 July 4, 1457 CE.\n\n* For the reader\u2019s convenience, all Xi\u2019an dates have been converted to standard Earth time."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":71,"created_at":"2017-07-04T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"8 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-07 22:57:26","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":15996,"next_id":15998}}