Intergalactic Summit

Part 1. Athra.

In the beginning was the Word.

The Amarr wrote the Word down.

This was called "The Scriptures".

On Amarr island, the people of Amarr lived in a number of small city-states and independent small settlements. The first Amarr Emperor, Amash-Akura, united the island of Amarr, and proclaimed himself Emperor. Some events occurred during this time, such as the visit of the Sefrim, and the rebellion of Molok the Deceiver, who disputed Amash-Akura's right to rule. The Emperor defeated Molok, and the Empire prospered for a time.

Then the Udorians arrived.

The Udorians had also written down a Word, but it was a different word, one that was Unrighteous. This state of affairs could not be maintained, and eventually the Amarr went to war against the Udorians.

This was called "The Reclaiming".

The Amarr were aided by some of the Khanid tribes, who had met the Udorians, and had disliked the Udorian Word. There were also some other Khanid tribes who had not encountered the Word at all, and those Khanid had to be conquered and taught the Word.

Around this time was the first outbreak of Sani Sabik belief, whose followers believed that the Word should be written in red ink, or, preferably, the blood of sinners. The Emperor disagreed, and crushed the Sani Sabik.

Eventually, the Amarr and their Khanid allies conquered the Udorians, changed the spelling of the Udorian Word so that it was Righteous, and then eventually conquered the rest of the planet Athra, which they later renamed Amarr Prime.


Part 2. Space.

Following the conquest of the whole planet of Amarr Prime, the Empire began exploring space. Landing on several planets in the Amarr system, there were great discoveries made, that expanded the Empire's knowledge greatly, in all manner of scientific fields.

Eventually, the Amarr discovered a stargate on the outskirts of the system, and through careful study of the stargate, the principles of interstellar travelling were discovered. A gate constructor ship was sent to the closest system, and built the first new stargate that had been seen for thousands of years. This ushered in a new Age of Expansion for the Empire.

This era of Space Travel, also caused the outbreak of several religions, including a resurgent Sani Sabik, who once more believed that the Word should be written in red ink, or blood. The Empire fought them, and some of them fled the Empire to parts that were then unknown, but later turned out to be the Araz constellation, forming the Takmahl Empire.

The other religion that was problematic, was the Equilibrium of Mankind. These omnicidal maniacs believed that the Word should be written in black ink, on black paper, in bold type, and with an Exclamation Mark. This frankly ludicrous suggestion was swiftly rejected by the Empire, and a short war was fought, which dispersed the EoM.

Around this time, is alleged to have been the so-called Mad Emperor, who was rumoured to have decreed that the Word should be replaced by his own Name. Again, the Empire rejected such ludicrous suggestions, and the Mad Emperor was defeated, and defeated so hard, that nobody now knows what his name might have been. So much for him.

Continued expansion of the Amarr Empire led to the discovery of the Ealurians, on the planet Ealur. This was profoundly theologically important, and led to the announcement of a new Reclaiming, which was to Reclaim all of Space. Because the Ealurians were so primitive, they were not able to understand the Word, or how to pronounce it, and so were enslaved, to educate them.

Later, during this Reclaiming of Space, the Ni-Kunni were found, and quickly understood the Word, and were thus not enslaved for very long.

Later still, the Minmatar were discovered, and found to have significant technology, which came as quite a surprise. The Minmatar were conquered and enslaved, after failing to properly pronounce the Word.

Some time later, the Khanid family seceded from the Empire, due to disagreements over how the Emperor should be selected. The ruler of the Khanid realms named himself King Khanid II, proclaimed that the Word should have an apostrophe in it, and that he was supreme overlord of the Khanid Kingdom. He also became a rather Rude person during this time, and generally behaved in ways that most conservative Amarr strongly disapproved of.

The Khanid Family was replaced by the Tash-Murkon Family in the Imperial Succession, the Tash-Murkons being descended from Udorians, who by this time had learned to pronounce the Word properly.

Eventually, the Empire came into contact with the other major powers of the time, the Gallente, the Caldari, and the Jovians.


Part 3. Interstellar interference.

These other powers, were not keen on the Word, and in the case of the Gallente, their strange accents meant that proper pronunciation was impossible. War threatened, although the Emperor of the time was cautious, and foresaw that war would only be ruinous for all involved.

The Jovians however, blasphemed, and wrote the Word upside down, which was a grave insult, and provoked the Amarr to declare war. This war did not go particularly well, and the Emperor called a ceasefire.

Around this time, the Gallente, by providing weaponry and training, caused the Minmatar to rebel, which caused a lot of damage and destruction in the Empire. The Emperor held back from obliterating the Minmatar, because he was a man of peace and compassion.

Eventually, the wars fizzled out, and a time of peace occurred. The scholars of Amarr used this time to contemplate the Word, and how it might be pronounced differently, to better convert the other races.

A few other events occurred, such as the Rise, Decline, and Fall of Sansha's Nation, and the formation of CONCORD, and the adoption of a new calendar.

Much later, the invention of the capsule, caused further dramatic change.

The Khanid set forth to the State after we separated, inventing the rocket-propelled rocket and seeding the stars with our Achuran cousins.

All nude scupltures must be banned!

It's anemonemone. Amnemonemomne.

A figure central to Udorian religious texts that even we could never properly pronounce. The ineffable should never be easy to pronounce.

They're just having some fun with various onanomatoh... anonemato... onamotepe...

Words.

If I had a million ISK each time I mispronounced a word...

I've just finished reading the three-tome Complete History of the Six Cities by Nehrzad of Udhaneh and if what it says is true, the ancient Udorians weren't able to pronounce quite a large number of words from the Proto-Amarrian, because their language, though related, simlpy lacked the needed sounds.

And that is why bells Jin-gle.

The plural of "Quzjyx"

Quzjyxs..... "Cues-jicks" Does that make me Amarr now?