I'm taking inspiration with the Asimov's Foundation Universe, the Dune
Universe, Babylon 5 Universe, the pre-empire Star Wars Universe and
the MetaBaron Universe about a Human Galactic Empire around 10,000
years in the future. I'm working now on a revised chronology of
important events in human history, from the point of view of Imperial
Scholars and Historians (distorted by time) but basically the story is
this:
A benign and noble Great House unites Mankind and creates the
Galactic Empire (known as the Old Empire), and for almost 200 years
brings peace and prosperity to Man. But eventually an evil House
betrays and takes control of the Empire, ultimating becoming stagnant
and after 1500 years destroys most of Human civilization. Then comes
the Dark Ages (3000 years) when the Empire fragments into hundreds of
factions, some of them becomes isolated, many disapears or are
destroyed and almost all de-evolve technologically to barbarism. The
Empire territory is the 15% of the original and many of the technology
that still works is not fully understanded. When Imperial Xeno-
Archeologists find what's left of a dead, ancient and technologically
superior Alien race, the last remanants of the Empire began a secong
wave of conquest to gain the territory that was lost in the past,
controlling them with a pseudo-religion of Technology (to the
conquered barbarians technology=magic).
This is the setting for the Story I've been working for some years,
House Aereanis was conquered by the Empire almost 110 years ago and is
defending the frontier against the Maab/Ikarran (a Great Clan) for
more than 35 years (Chapter 1). Then comes the reports from the
fringes of the Eufrates sector of the coming of the unstopable Zidrii
Armada (Chapter 2).
If you can coment or give me new ideas, contact me
Thanks!