Historical Notes - C
Casablanca: (Niko's history until 1371) It is surrounded by a
tall wall and most of the buildings within it are white. You see a
number of great pyramidal shaped structures, apparently great
temples. There are many squares, and the whole places seethes with
humanity. The harbour is filled with ships of all shapes and
sizes.
Niko tells you that the coastal area of Mestom
running south from the Rackham River to the jungles some 100 miles
south of here had been the independent state of Casablanca until
997TA. In that year the state finally surrendered to Mestom, with
whom it had been fighting a losing war with for the previous six
years.
During the first century of Mestomian occupation, the occupiers
concentrated on consolidating their control, but after that their
interest waned. Casablanca is far removed from the rest of Mestom,
geographically, culturally and economically. Since 1300, Casablanca
has been acting more and more like an independent state. The
installation of the weak leader Lord Pedros, in 1344, had accentuated
this trend.
Cosmic Empire: An outgrowth of the
Second
Galactic Empire, it was dominant
during what was later called the Second
Golden Age. It was the Cosmic Empire
which went to war with the Elves
and was victorious. The Empire ended abruptly when civil war broke
out in the Local
Group in 5180 of the Second
Age.