Day of Reckoning

The Day of Reckoning is an event in Alyssian history that drastically changed the entire future of the Empire. After decades of research and energy drawing experiments were conducted on Alyssia, chief star of the system, the star began to display signs of instability, producing massive CMEs and flares. On the Day of Reckoning, the star began to expand, raising the temperature on Alyssia Prime to dangerous levels, prompting a massive evacuation of the system's planets. Although the Empire had foreseen this, and had prepared the entirety of their fleet for evacuation, the efforts were uprooted by the uprising of a massive group that would be the precursors to the First Many. The uprising fought off many of the empire's troops, and secured the evacuation vessels for the planet's upper class sectors, causing a massive tear as members of the upper class would now have to rely on slave vessels for evacuation. This shift in the evacuation resulted in the deaths of approximately 45% of the higher class.