The Coming of the Meir and the Breaking of the Senate
The Meir People Meir The only people of Elshore not born of it. arrived as refugees and became a fault line. Their settlement was granted without Senate approval, their technology outpaced the empire's own, and when the Parliament moved to enslave them as it had enslaved everyone else, the attempt failed, the first time Inarin's force had been met with something stronger. That failure was a signal to every servant line watching.
Key traits
- Liir Cosmology The Two Moons Two moons attend Elshore: Liir, the near and swift one, and Ressor, the far and slow one.'s orbital station first detects the Meir generation ships at ~129 BTC (IR 1671); at first contact (~115 BTC, IR 1685) the Meir request permission to settle Elshore or the Traveller.
- Emperor Alahnio Iklafoo grants settlement rights unilaterally, bypassing the Senate; the Meir land at ~108 BTC (IR 1692) and found Vaparium Place Vaparium The Sovereign Arcology of Vaparium, the Meir homeland in the south and the most technologically advanced structure on Elshore., the House of Blood, in southern Elshore.
- Meir technology is more advanced than the empire's; their single-sex, millennium-lived biology and four-armed physiology mark them as nothing the empire's engineering has ever produced.
- When the Inarin Parliament attempts to enslave the Meir after stripping servant-race rights at IR 1700, it fails: the Meir repel the imperial force and withdraw to Vaparium.
- Vaparium then becomes a sanctuary for fleeing servant races; the Meir choose military neutrality rather than alliance, but their act of resistance changes the political calculus for every people watching from within the empire.
- The Meir's formal recognition of the Maan Council Faction The Maan Council The founding war council established in AC 1 by Rokhir Savil after the servant-race rebellion overthrew the Inarin Empire. at Chaos Event The Chaos The Chaos was a continent-wide civilisation-collapse spanning approximately ninety-eight years, beginning around year 1700 of the Inarin Calendar when the Iru Parliament of the... Year 47 is the moment neutrality acquires a political weight of its own, lending legitimacy to the servant-race rebellion without crossing into open war.