Fall of the First Modian Confederacy
(Excerpt from “End of the Dark Age”, 95 NMC/283 GE)
"It is said it took only a single day to destroy the first Confederacy. In a single blow centuries of Modian civilization was destroyed. Its cataclysmic events and the resulting Great Collapse would take Modia nearly five centuries to recover from.
The Emeton Crater stands as the last monument of the once great capital city of the Confederacy. Contemporary reports describe a “great fire raining from the sky”, setting entire continents aflame and cities in ruins. Within a year billions of our people lay slaughtered. Civilization would crumble and soon a technological Dark Age would consume us. It is perhaps out of sheer luck that we fared better than our ancient ancestors millennia ago.
And what of our colonial empire? As we rediscover Arebel, the Jewel of the first Confederacy, we find a ruined tomb completely devoid of our brethren. Are there any other Modians out there among the lost worlds of our empire? I dread the answer.
But who is to blame for this? As I read our lost history I can see only one worthy of the blame. Only one race capable of such brutal savagery against our people. The race of darkness that invaded and overran our galaxy in a fury of genocidal destruction: that monstrous race we know as Humanity. Our forefathers trusted that the Humans would leave us in peace and look at what they did to us! Perhaps it is fitting that they seem to have annihilated themselves. I can only hope they finished the job, lest their hordes return again. And as we burned, what of the others? Were all the other aliens to weak and cowardly to help us? Or did they bask in our face with the humans? As we head to the stars Modia must trust no race but our own. Should we ever encounter the Humans they must know no mercy. We will strike back at them tenfold! We will find the human homeworld and do to it what they did to ours! For the glory of Modia and the honour of our predecessors!"
