The action takes place roughly 500 light years from Earth in the Helio system around the Earth year 1300 A.D. At the heart of this system is the star Helios. Orbiting about this star are 6 planets.

The fourth planet Magus has 6 planet sized moons orbiting it. They are named Nibe, Hume, Myria, Gorax, Zho, and Lacuna. Of these moons, 2 are terrestrial, Gorax and Lacuna. It is on Lacuna that our story takes place and it is home to five races of sapient beings. The native Khoblens, the three migrant races: Nibelings, Humens, and Myrians, and the colonial Goraxians.

However, it was not always as such. The history of how this all came to be, began 500 years ago and is a story of struggle and survival.

The history of our tale has a complex beginning with several threads of history all culminating on the moon of Lacuna. These threads came together roughly 500 years prior to the story’s beginning and each thread represents the history of a moon and it’s people.

The most significant of the early peoples are the Myrians as they are the most advanced of all of the races. For hundreds of years prior to The Great Migration the Myrians, mostly the priMyrians in particular, traveled the Orbital Lay Lines of Magus. These lines allowed portals to be opened between Myria and the other moons orbiting Magus. During these years of travel the priMyrians, the most advanced of the Myrian Breeds, made contact with many of the cultures of the different moons and began open policies of trade with the inhabitants. They exchanged goods primarily, but also ideas, technology, and secrets of mystical arts.

The first people that the Myrians came into contact where on the moon of Nibe. These people would become know as Nibelings and they would be prized for their magnificent craftsmanship and scientific advancements.

The second group that the Myrians came to know where the people of Hume. The inhabitants of this moon where exceptionally culturally diverse. The Humens and Myrians established a strong bond and were the only aliens ever permitted to set foot on Myria.

From early on it was apparent that different races had different aptitudes for mystical abilities. The Myrians were most adept at magic, the Humens were by far the best Seers (psionisists) and the Nibelings excelled in making items that utilized mystical energies. All of these specialized talents would work, as if by fate, to push these people together onto one world where they would be forced to live together or die trying.

The greatest Seer of Hume had a horrific vision of the future. In one years time all life on Hume as well as Myria and Nibe would be forever destroyed. A rouge planet that had been captured by Helion’s gravity a millennia ago was to cross orbits with Magus. When it did, it would be captured by Magus’ gravity and in the process make Myria, Nibe and Hume unlivable.

A council of Humens, Myrians, and Nibelings met and they hatched a plan to migrate both races to another world that would be unaffected. Giant lay-portals would be constructed in each land and they would open portals to a safe world that the three races would migrate to.

They decided to go to the moon of Lacuna. It was inhabited by the race of Khoblens. Most of these beings were still in the Stone Age so they would pose little, if any, real resistance. The soil was rich and fertile, and the climate varied but was mostly mild. This made Lacuna the perfect candidate for colonization.

To draw enough mana to make transit for everyone, they built The Oculon; a device with the largest and most powerful focus ring ever conceived. The time was nigh and the Oculon lit up and sent an intense wave of energy directly into the heart of Magus and the Eye opened wide for a brief moment. All of the lay-portals activated and just about everyone made transit to their new home.

The plan worked and most of the inhabitants of all three moons survived certain death. However, it would remain to be seen if they were truly saved or if they had only delayed the inevitable. An Ice Age was on the way, the Khoblens were not happy about their new guests, and far too many people were forced to live on far too little land.

Throughout the year leading up to the Great Migration, priMyrian agents slipped into Khoblen villages at night and infected the water supply with the Red Death. Entire villages were wiped out and the Red Death spread like wild fire. Khoblen casualties went into the millions. Areas were strategically opened for new colonization but not quite as much as the priMyrians had planned. The Khoblens were not nearly as susceptible to the Red Death as the priMyrians and the death toll was less than half as much as suspected.

It should be noted that while the Khoblens were very primitive, they were not stupid. Many of the tribes figured out that the priMyrians had betrayed them and they began to mobilize their forces to repel their new sworn enemy. It should also be noted that while the Humens and Nibelings had no idea of the priMyrian betrayal, the Khoblens didn’t know that.

When the waves of Humens and Nibelings started to arrive both they and the Khoblens were taken by surprise. The Khoblens hadn’t expected their arrival for another month and the Humens and Nibelings didn’t expect the land to be occupied. The Humens and Nibelings hadn’t planned to fight and the Khoblens hadn’t planned to let them take their land. It was a one way trip after all. Had the Humens and Nibelings even wanted to turn around they couldn’t and the language barrier further compounded the situation. Things quickly broke down into massive conflicts and the loss of life on all sides was massive. These battles raged long into the Settlement Era but the war with the Khoblens started on arrival day and didn’t end for over 200 years.

This is a polite euphemism of a severely brutal and extensive period of time. This era lasted about 250 years and began shortly after The Great Migration. It was the aftershock of over a hundred nations participating in a massive land grab. As one would expect many people were envious of their neighbor’s acquisitions and border disputes were abound.

While elements of this era existed all across Lacuna it was most predominately seen among the Humen lands. The Humens where by far the most diverse and abundant people to make the transit. They came over as hundred different nations with at least 10 different major religions. Theses differences mixed with new and uncertain borders, a constant aggressive enemy (Khoblens), and declining resources (climate change due to ice age) pushed these societies beyond the point of resolution. Hard decisions had to be made quickly on a daily basis and were often done at the end of a sword. The Humens went through a social distillation process that weeded out the weak and resulted in a few exceptionally strong nations.

The Myrians had made sure to establish their territories long before hand and their well planned brutal arrival left no questions of their settlements. The settlement era had little effect on the Myrian nations other than to make them more powerful as their neighbors slaughtered one another whole sale.

When the Settlement Era came to a close, border disputes and land acquisition had about come to an end. The survivors of these times had no more stomach to fight over land and resources except without first exhausting all forms of compromise available. Furthermore, the Khoblens had taken such heavy losses and had been pushed back so far into their own lands that they neither had the numbers or the will to fight anymore. They had essentially been broken.

At the end of the Settlement Era, the Khoblen lands had been reduced by at least a half of their former size. Humens, in a desperate struggle for survival, had pushed the Khoblens back in all directions. Entire tribal nations disappeared and those that were left were decimated. Many tribes came together and many of age old animosities were replaced with a hatred of a new enemies. The backstabbing, ruthless Myrians, and the vicious, bloodthirsty Humens. Of course, their allies, the Gherens would eventually have to go as well. They supplied the other two with magnificent weapons and vessels that aided them in their wars.

It was about 70 years after the Settlement Era that the Khoblens were able to regroup, rebuild, and begin their plan of counter attack. Most of what would be known as the Second Khoblen War happened in the Eastern Khoblen Territory. These tribes began to ally on a massive scale.

The second Khoblen War started in the summer of 327. Five hundred thousand Khoblen warriors armed to the teeth poured over their borders and raised hundreds of towns, killing and pillaging every step of the way. By the time their enemies had been able to mount an adequate defense, the Khoblens had pushed the Eastern territory out 200 miles in all directions.

Fighting continued in many terrible bloody battles but the Khoblen progression was finally stopped. However, they managed to maintain their new borders to this day and have finally established a stopping point for their enemies.

The War of Unification was a struggle to bring together the tribes of Astor (a cotenant of Hume)  to form a strong, powerful nation to stand against the priMyrian nation of nuMyria and the emerging threat posed by the modernized Khoblens to the north. While the Tribes of Astor were powerful when they stood together, it was rare that they did. Continual border and religious disputes kept them from ever forming any lasting alliances.

On an early spring morning in 465 King Servan led his troupes into battle. Servan managed to conquer or annex all the current lands of today's Astoria. He left all of the nobility in power and did not encroach on their laws or religion. They only had to pledge loyalty to Astoria, pay taxes for the common good of the nation, and supply soldiers in the time of need. In this way he hoped to build a strong nation that would stand against the priMyrian and Khoblen threat.

While there are those who still harbor ill feelings about the war, the general consensus is that the unification has improved life for everyone in the nation. The citizens feel safer, economy has improved, and the relations between nuMyria and Astoria have never been better.