Note that Master of Orion 3 canon diverges greatly from the other titles in the series. Perhaps the Antarans intend to return, too. The Orions left a single Guardian to protect their home. The reason for this is that the system is only uninhabited, not undefended. One planet circles this star, and it is reputed to be the original home world of the Orion race.ĭespite the incredible potential this abandoned world must hold, no one has yet plundered or colonized it. One was the tales of their power and legends of the Antaran war the other is the Orion system itself. They left only two legacies for the galaxy’s future inhabitants. Sometime after the war, the Orion race inexplicably disappeared. Physicists to this day puzzle over the theory and the technique, but the result was obvious: the Antarans were banished one and all from this dimension.Īt this point, even the storytellers admit that the legends become vague. Rather than exterminating the race, as the stories claim the Antarans would certainly have done, the Orions chose to imprison their enemies in a “pocket dimension”-a volume the size of a single star system, formed and carved somehow out of the fabric of space-time. The Orions eventually defeated the Antarans. That both races had the ability to raze planets no one contests. While we can never know if they truly flung entire star systems across deep space as weapons (as the storytellers claim), our astrophysicists have uncovered evidence of directed energy bursts, the power of which staggers the imagination. The Orion-Antaran war was a protracted holocaust of galactic proportions. The legends paint the Antarans as ruthless, xenophobic killers, but we all know that history is written by the victors. Perhaps it was inevitable that two such behemoths would meet in violence. The scope of their power and technical advancement has surely been enhanced by hyperbole, but that they were far superior to anything now known is indisputable. What is certain is that at one time both races coexisted in the galaxy. The legends concerning the Orions and Antarans are shrouded by time. Carried off on these well-intentioned, tiny feet, the facts deteriorate softly and painlessly into a condition generally referred to as “shrouded II, by Ectron Victor, retired Master Adjudicator, Psilon Central History Institute.)Īs a story is told and retold over the course of generations, no matter the attention paid to detail and no matter the importance of the tale, the truth is gradually nibbled away by little mistakes and innocent exaggerations. ( Excerpted from “Pre-Psilonic Galactic Civilizations” Vol. Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares Manual The loremasters call it Orion and it is written in legend that he who masters Orion masters the universe. It is said that the Masters left behind a world that contained marvellous secrets and powerful technology. As history has proven time and time again, unrestrained expansion inevitably leads to war.Įven though each race is very different from the others, all have legends of a master race that once controlled the galaxy. For nearly a century, population growth on all planets had outstripped planetary resources, and soon all the races were forced to expand and discover new worlds to colonize. In a somewhat weird twist of irony, we know more about the Antarans, the ancient enemy of Orion, than about the Orions themselves.īy the beginning of the 23rd century, ten races had emerged with the technology necessary to colonize deep space. While being the subject of a lot of speculation by the fans, everything about their race is shrouded by mystery. Introduced within the first Master Of Orion game, the Orions have become the very bedrock foundation on which the MoO universe is built.
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