Rise of the Senate

The few surviving FTL-Capable Empires meet and create the Early Galactic Senate. They lack the ability to enforce any real agreement and so it functions mostly out of courtesy and the very real memories of open war. With many worlds devoid of life, the Senate agree to a restoration scheme to re-seed many worlds with basic ecosystems and life forms, to ensure the survival of life in the event of another catastrophe. As the Era continues, the founding factions of the Senate instigate a peaceful culture among the stars and a policy of non-interference on the newly seeded worlds, where life is taking its early steps. As more surviving cultures rediscover or develop warp travel, the Senate develops its introduction procedures and expands its membership base. During this time, with more emergent factions gaining warp technology, the Senate sees the first factions decline their invitation and establish themselves without the Senates guidance. At first, the Senate accepts these factions, believing them not a threat to the Senate itself. However, later, the Eldorian Empire proves the Senate and its founding factions wrong, when they begin a conquest campaign from the outer rim that reaches into the core systems before being scattered at the Battle of Ikor, the homesystem of the Ikor, one of the founding factions, whose victory only came from the Ancient defence systems that guard the system. The defence system was severely damaged in the battle.

This led to the reform of Galactic Law, and thus the First Age