Vilani Settlement of Trojan Reach Sector
During
its decline, a revolt led the First
Imperium
to abandon its scattered settlements in Corridor sector.
These isolated outposts proved unable
to maintain trade in the face of vargr
piracy.
Surviving records state that several groups took their old, failing starships
and left to find safer worlds in Reft and Trojan Reach.
Evidence of the Vilani presence
has been found on multiple worlds in these two sectors. Most
finds are
dated between -2300 and -1700. Experts generally attribute the
occasional
site with earlier or later estimated dates to starship crews stranded
by
misjumps or some other such mishap.
Most of the Vilani settlements in Reft died out long before
the advent of the Third Imperium.
The Trojan Reach colonies fared somewhat better, at least for a
while.
In -2074 they formed a small state known today as the Sindalian Empire.
The Sindalian emperors ruled with iron fists prompting a 50-year period
of civil dissent that culminated in a bout of bacteriological
warfare.
The civilization of old Sindal - now Noricum (2018
Trojan Reach; D8867BB-1) collapsed, and the Empire itself fell in -1441.
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