#samaranth

A note: Dual calendar: the xanthan year is divided into two 180-day cycles, called Akht (harvest) and Senmarr (sowing). This gives the standard 360 day year, which measures the amount of time in standard galactic days (about 22.3 hours) it takes the xanthan homeworld to orbit fully around its star.

This is the 'standard' calendar used by the Council, military, and space-faring xanthan. There are a number of cultures that use a four-season calendar, and many others that have adopted calendars based on the planets on which different xanthan colonies reside—even adopted from other cultures the xanthan have co-mingled with.

Another note: “ka” or “Kaliktaratr” refers to a passage of ten-thousand years; as such, each time ten thousand years has passed the calandar resets, so that 1 ka 9999 becomes 2 ka 0. The name refers to the xanthan who came up with the system.

Pre-Kaliktaratr (pka) 0: xanthan homeworld is destroyed in nuclear hellfire; survivors struggle to re-establish themselves for thousands of years.

pka 1446: victory over the last Imperial forces of Advenchalt declared after thirty year struggle for liberation. The word “xanthan”, which means “walker”, is officially declared the universal tribal affiliation for all who survived the nuclear holocaust, and the great Rebuilding begins.

pka 8867: the first xanthan space colony is established.

pka 9866: first contact with another space-faring civilization established with Vordites; trade relations begin.

9 ka 608: the Xanthan Galactic Republic is formally declared

9 ka 3112: the Melkiat and Sverden are destroyed, sparking the conflict between the Xanthan Galactic Republic and Hverst Imperiate.

12 ka 1306: Samaranth is born.

13 ka 1218: Samaranth stages a coup against the Xanthan Council, dissolving it and the Xanthan Allied Galactic Republic, forming the Xanthan Republic under her exclusive control.

13 ka 1295: the last Hverst Queen is slain in the invasion of the Hverst homeworld. Shortly after achieving this goal, Samaranth disappears without a trace.

13 ka 1315: the Great War is finally ended with the total capitulation of the Hverst military and State.

Here are my moons and seas. Behold, and look upon a galaxy once filled with life - a myriad of civilizations and peoples ignorant to the fates that would befall them.

It is the year 12 ka 1306. The great War has exhausted the xanthan and their Enemy for nearly thirty-thousand years across the stars. The xanthan are losing, star by star; world by world. Their Council knows this, and are trying desperately to keep the public from realizing it, too.

One day, in the traditional harvest cycle of the xanthan calendar, an xanthan named Samaranth is born on a station transversing the Ekit star circuit. Their birth is long awaited by the Council; first of a secret genetic-spiritual project which, they hope, will turn the tide of the War forever.