The Cabal

The Cabal

By Darman Sejuk

Disclaimer: The author of this story does not, in any way, profit from the story and all creative rights to the characters belong to their original creator(s).

Time Line

2054- After years of silence the Order 'The Seers of the Throne' waged a war across the Earth to destroy all other orders in place of their own.
2060-After 6 long years the five orders that comprise the Coalition of the Mage finally defeated the Seers of the Throne. The war while still kept secret from the sleeps of the world still cost the lives of many mages of all the orders.
2062-As the effects of what was to become the greatest mage war in history began to fade several cabals of mages composed of a mix of orders began to form a more organized alliance of mages built upon the trust the orders gained from working together in the war. They came to call it The Coalition of Mages.
2067-With the continued growth of the Coalition, the mages affiliated with the Free Council apply their knowledge towards advancing humanities space exploration programs. with the possibility of increased resources from the different planets in the solar system the other orders begin funding the programs.
2069-Armstrong Outpost at Shackleton Crater is formally founded as the first human settlement on Luna, on the 100th anniversary of the first lunar landing. With the first colony of humanity developing the call for colonists grew exponentially.
2075-As the colonies on Luna grew and became self sustaining humanity turned its eyes towards The Red planet. Plans are delayed for automated ships to deploy and terraform the planet to allow for easier colonization.
2103-After several decades the process of transforming the red planet into a world that could allow humanity to live on the surface is completed and the first colony is founded.
2140-an incident with a few remnants of the Seers of the Throne Order forced the Coalition to fabricate a false identity as an intelligence agency that serves as the research and investigation arms of the Systems Alliance.
2148-A facility hidden in the wastes of the Promethei Planum is discovered. Many of the orders members travel to the location to learn the secrets of the ancient outpost. Thanks to the skills of the Free Council order the information is quickly translated and the identification of a then unknown element was discovered. It was called "Element Zero".
2149-Complete translation of the 'Prothean Archive' was not possible when several data storage systems failed from old age. Though the rest of humanity doesn't realize it, the Technical specialists of the Free Council manage to transcribe much of the data before being lost. One of the barely recovered records stated that their race was hunted down and exterminated by a great enemy. With the warning about a possible threat existing somewhere in the galaxy the Systems Alliance uses the knowledge to find and activate a massive device trapped in ice just outside the orbit of Pluto.
2150-While the systems Alliance began the process of building a massive fleet to combat the great threat that was forewarned in the Archive the five great orders begin the plan to secretly infiltrate and enhance the System Alliance to improve the abilities of the sleepers. As an entire generation of mages join the Alliance from soldier to civilian contractor the general abilities begin to grow.
2151-The Systems Alliance begins plans for the construction of a massive station that would house the combined government of the Earths nations along with the colonies currently founded and future ones. The Collation of Mage orders see this as an opportunity to create the biggest Sanctum for all mages.
2156-Arcturus Station is completed and made the capital of the Systems Alliance and the secret prime Sanctum of the Coalition of Mages.
2157-Members of the Coalition stationed on the colony of Shanxi report an attack by an unknown force when exploring beyond the Shanxi Relay. Knowing that the Coalition couldn't keep this secret they quickly alerted the Systems Alliance of the development. Despite the numerical superiority of the attacking aliens the collection of cabals that called Shanxi home and the many mages that served as the local fleet and ground forces used their arcane abilities to out maneuver and survive conflicts between the two forces for several months before the Citadel Council thanks to the STG took notice that the Turians we're deploying forces beyond the space of the citadel and any ships that came back were severely damaged.
2158-NOW