The Age of Conflict

The Dark Ages is considered to be the time period when many primitive civilisations first seeded by the ancients advanced to a point where they are space-born and rediscover parts of the ancients’ technology. Open warfare breaks out across the galaxy as newly starborn empires seek to gain access to the ancient technology. This ended when several major warring factions deploy Nova bombs against each other, which induce supernova's in target stars and destroys the central systems of the major factions of the Era. A consequence of this is the largest galaxy wide extinction event on record, where 98% of systems supporting life are sterilized. The only major race to survive beyond the core cluster of stars around their home system was humanity.