Pre-Empire Ctarl-Ctarl History

Prior to the First Dynasty (Narl Oki-Oki) of the Tomoyo-Tomoyo Line, Ctarl-Ctarl remained confined to their own planet, with virtually no efforts towards slower-than-light space travel. The early Hunter-Gather Societies evolved into individual chiefdoms, often engaged in conflict with each other over mineral resources, hunting territories, and with the development of agriculture, prized farmlands. Unlike other early pre-industrial societies, and the modern Ctarl-Ctarl today, family rivalries and blood feuds seem to have rarely been the cause of conflicts, and indeed, it is popularly held that family ties in society were weaker prior to the First Dynasty. The existence of chiefdoms led to the evolution of the City-State, which remained the standard of Ctarl-Ctarl civilization for almost twelve millennia.

The end of this era, known as the Warring-States Period (Dashiyo Koto-Koto Nara), lasted almost six-hundred T. S, Years, until one powerful City-State, ruled by the Tomoyo-Tomyoa line of rulers, overcame its rivals. The progeny of the Tomoyo-Tomoyo spent the next century slowly, and bloodily, unifying the Ctarl-Ctarl, through the use of all means of technology and industry-driven warfare: the most effective and infamous weapons, which survive to this day in museums or in ceremonial use by the military, include the rifled-musket, the self-loading machine gun, the automatic rifle, the treaded, cannon-armed battle tank, the fixed-wing ground-attack aircraft and the submersible attack vessel, and even the Ctarl-Ctarl's first nuclear-fission weapon (Bokoni Hara-Hara). Many of these closely weapons closely mirror military weapons used in pre- and post-Nuclear Age Terran society: In the massive warfare sections of the Imperial Museum on Home, a restored nuclear-powered submarine, I-151, can be visited by foreign tourists and locals, and having your photograph taken with a self-propelled gun, a battle tank, or in the cockpit of an attack aircraft is practically a rite of passage for the children of military families. These ancient weapons of war are a testament to the Ctarl-Ctarl ingenuity for industrial warfare and their efficiency for killing each other throughout their history, one that easily rivals Terran history. Six-hundred years on literally unending warfare forms the core basis of the Ctarl-Ctarl's extremely rich military tradition, arguably unrivaled in the galaxy, augmented by reoccurring, frequent warfare in the present.

Ultimately, the Tomoyo-Tomoyo were successful, through warfare, genocide, and intermarriage with the other most powerful families, and dominated the states on Homeworld. One notable exception are the Kata-Kata Travelers, whom the Tomoyo-Tomoyo forced into exile. The Kata-Kata continued to live on the fringes of society, abandoning the traditional Ctarl-Ctarl way of civic life and leadership for an egalitarian community, often compared to the old Terran philosophies of communism or socialism. With the introduction of FTL technology, but prior to Sub-Ether Development, the Kata-Kata migrated off-world, often against their will, settling on a small, otherwise uninhabited planet within the Nochi-Nochi Star Cluster, Deitros Carinos. They exist to this day, not officially considered citizens of the Empire and exercising self-rule in their principally agrarian, egalitarian society, as a rejection of most Ctarl-Ctarl social norms: they do not engage in warfare, elect their leaders democratically, have abandoned the traditional social classes, and consider themselves pacifists and engage in a largely nonviolent lifestyle. Among most Ctarl-Ctarl, the Kata-Kata are seen as political and intellectual pariahs, and Travelers who return to Ctarl-Ctarl Society, and do not immediately assimilate, are often discriminated against or subject to harassment from the government and non-government organizations, making political reconciliation a lofty but unlikely goal.

The overwhelming majority of Ctarl-Ctarl, however, were unified in the first empire, the Holy Realm of the Tomoyo-Tomoyo Nation (Hoyia Koroyo Narl Tomoyo-Tomoyo). Many features of this Empire, including its government, military traditions, and social order survive to this day, and they will be elaborated on later. It also saw the rise of political and spiritual philosophies whose work survives in the present day, addressing everything from morality to jurisprudence to political economy and the nature of being.

The Tomoyo-Tomoyo Dynasty saw the government-ordered development of the first Ctarl-Ctarl spacecraft, an artificial satellite dubbed Miyo-Miyo I. A century later, the empire also saw the implementation of early FTL technology, as well as the development of the Sub-Ether Drive, allowing for population relief on what was considered at the time to be the overcrowded, overpopulated homeworld. In the following century, Home's population of over twelve billion dropped to just under eleven billion (with uninterrupted population growth) with STL space travel being widely used to colonized two dozen neighboring worlds. With the development of true FTL travel, the population dropped sharply to seven billion, with the Empire colonizing and terraforming more than two-hundred nearby worlds. With the development of Sub-Ether Drives, this trend continued to the present state. The Empire's current population of hundreds of billions of Ctarl-Ctarl is spread between nine-hundred habituated worlds, with Home remaining the most populous world with four billion residents.