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The Phoenix Project was supposedly born in the final years of the Solomani Rim War (990 to 1002) as Solomani leaders saw the possibility of their defeat and the loss of the homeworld to the invading Imperials. The project was said to have consisted of two distinct parts: prepositioned caches of military goods to supply the coming uprising and a continuing program for the training of guerrillas.
The caches were concealed in many different places on Terra in areas calculated to preclude accidental discovery over the years. Each cache contained large quantities of munitions, weapons, vehicles, and medical supplies, all of varying technological levels so as to be of use regardless of the technical knowledge of the users. Each cache was hidden with its location entrusted to a single local family. These families were to form the core of the guerrilla forces when the rising was to take place.
A massive Imperial counter-guerrilla effort in 1040 to 1045 was directed at the discovery and destruction of the caches and the arrest of the families entrusted with their secrets.
Persistent rumors of two additional aspects of the project-Lambda (a codeword to trigger the uprising) and Omega (the reinforcement of the uprising by offworld Solomani) - have been dismissed as baseless by Imperial officials.
Many historians believe that the extent of the plot was
great exaggerated by Imperial authorities, and hold that it was little
more than an extreme example of wishful thinking on the part of the Solomani
leadership. At any rate, the Phoenix Project no longer threatens the security
of the Imperium, if indeed it ever
did. -ld IE