Historical Notes - O
Oasis, The: A civilisation of humans named for the planet upon which
the original settlers - survivors of a shipwreck - landed. Tens of thousands
of years earlier, Oasis had been an outpost of the Elves.
When they retreated back to their home galaxy, they left many articles
of their high technology behind. The people of the Oasis used these items
to found the dominant civilisation in the Orion
Arm of the Milky
Way. The Oasis merged with the First
Galactic Empire in 2676 of the Second Age.
Old Gods: The supernatural beings who originally took a small number
of humans from an ice-locked world called Earth to a world more conducive
to their growth and advancement.
Orion Association: A stellar empire based in the region of the
Milky Way with the same name, ruled by a series of articficial
intelligences provided by the First Galactic Empire.