99th to 70th Centuries BCE (FASA)

FASA Timeline
(FASA Roleplaying Game)

Reference Stardate -119/0101.01 Through -90/9912.31

9043 BCE

RSD -111/43: A contingent of both Gray and Ruddy Orions propose the Namazz Accord to the Kammzdast signatories at the Fifty-Ninth Rigel Conference. The accord grants Orions authority to reclaim their world ecologically with their own money, labor, and technology. This marks the first public responsibility allowed to them. In the altered version of events, the name of only one Gray Orion, Dufen Maads, has been preserved, and he is referred to as a Ruddy. No mention is made of any other Grays, though they did the bulk of the work in planning the re-ecologizing of Botchok.^[1]^[2]

RSD -110/50: For a few days, the Rigellians detain a Gray Orion, Talduk Sik, part of a technical working group about to go out-system. He is the first Orion that the Rigellians have studied, and he is carefully interviewed and questioned. The occasion becomes almost mystical for the Orions, particularly the Grays. To this day, some still think of the Rigellians as their Makers. For their part, the Rigellians think of the occasion as the first time they began to feel forebodings about the Orions.^[2]

RSD -104/8603: The Gray Orions of the colony on Sharu, aided by Ruddy managers and Green workers, divert a portion of the planet's industrial capacity to their own purposes without being detected. The textiles, calculators, and jewelry they produce is tiny and economically unimportant, but it is the first time Orions produce goods for their own benefit on an alien world.^[2]

RSD -101/91: Gray Orion navigators and computer watchmen are first used as crew aboard alien ships. Within a century, Ruddies will also be used as starship crew, earning a reputation for reliability. In less than 500 years, Orions will serve on most alien merchant vessels.^[1]^[2]

RSD -99/0109: The Orion Alliance is forged in secret on Botchok, and the news is passed by word of mouth to every colony. The Alliance, whose membership is purely Ruddy and Gray, declares that every colony and every Orion must master the alien technologies they find, with the ultimate aim of liberating Botchok and overthrowing the Treaty of Kammzdast. The Gray Orion Chairman, Klendal Hanok the Liberator, warns that victory will come only after many patient generations and so subtly that hardly anyone will notice.^[2]

RSD -98/2210: The Bema revolt occurs. More than 50 thousand Greens and lower-class Ruddies stage an uprising protesting their working conditions, which becomes a demand to liberate all Orions everywhere and release the homeworld. Julin Hyrax the Brave volunteers his Grays—all 3,000 of them—to the Magistrate of Bema to stop the revolt. Distrustful of any Orion, the Magistrate refuses. Julin leads his Grays, unarmed, against the revolutionary army and demands their surrender. The army slaughters Julin's Grays; only 22 survive the butchery. The Kammzdast signatories remember the gesture as a sea-change in Orion behavior, and for a while, the Orions revere Julin as a martyr to a better future. The revolt becomes the last Orion revolt for 5,700 years.^[2]

RSD -98/25 through -35/08 (7725-1408 BCE): The Era of Good Feeling: The Orions laboriously build for themselves a reputation for loyalty, honesty, and trustworthiness—a deception of the baldest kind. In this period, Orions gain rights to own their own enclaves and industry and to serve on alien starships.^[2]

RSD -97/30: The re-ecologizing of Botchok is finished; it will later come to be known as the First Stage, as subsequent adjustments are made.^[1]