Centralia Interstellar Empire

The Centralia Interstellar Empire refers to the largest and most economically powerful nation of the binary. Their main settlement is the planet of Corona, where they have full control of most of the planetary surface and effective control over the whole surface.

It was officially founded on 345 aboard the italian Ark ship "Invicta" after a minor civil war amongst the settlers ended with the crowning of Emperor Josphus Timer and the founding of his new Empire. For nearly a century, the Timer dynasty ruled with an iron fist aboard the Ark ship until they found and went into the Exodus Cluster, a mysterious binary star system with no familiar constellations nearby that could help them locate their location.

Nowadays, the Empire stands as the largest nation in territorial, population and military claims in the system, and is locked in a brutal cold War with the Federation of Exiled Nations on the other side of the Binary

History
As is the case with all other recorded history in the Binary Star System, the empire's history is filled with gaps ad unknown during the long voyage and the Fall.

The Empire asserts that it originates from Ark 1503, which housed large amounts of European, Middle Eastern and Central Asian refugees and which parted with Group K during the Long Voyage, however, this is questioned by many citizens both within the Empire and outside.

Ark 1503 made various breakthroughs in the medical and sociological fields of technology, and quickly managed to spread its influene amongst the other Ark ships of Group K, working as a kind of hospital and healthcare hup within the fleet itself. In the year 290 ATF a brutal civil war broke out within Ark 1503 between its democratically elected council and the medic class, which lasted up to the year 345 ATF when a general by the name of Joseph Timer took complete control over most of the installations of the ship and crowned himself Emperor Josephus Timer.

The Timer dynasty ruled with an iron fist over the Ark with the help of a secretive life extension technique until they discovered the Exodus Binary in the year 398 ATF, and settled the territory now known as Centralia within the Centauri sea in the south of the planet, officially renaming the Empire into the Centralis Empire.

The colonization of the new planet proved difficult, as no form of advanced plant or animal life had yet evolved within the mostly barren world and many other Arks had managed to claim large swathes of the planetary surface. The colonization and terraformation of Centralis is still taking place, with the Empire dedicating large amounts of resources to adapt Solar life into the alien environment.

The first contact with members of another Ark took place in the year 415, when Imperial scouts made contact with citizens of another nation called "Almeria". Conflict proved short lived, as both powers were overstretched and not capable of fighting any sort of war.

Contact with human nations proved frequent in the brief period known as the Rediscovery. It quickly became evident that other Arks had managed to establish societies in the planet's surface, and the Empire seeked out a number of aalies in the case of a coming conflict.

By the year 467 ATF, the planet was divided between the planet found itself divided amongst 4 major military alliances, where conflict errupted in 469 ATF between the Major Centralian Defense and Exploration Pact and The Old Worl Republics Alliance. The conflict soon turned global as the many alliances fought brutal wars over and over for dominance of the planet's surface.

The Age of Conflict officially ended in 601 ATF when the struggling Almerian Republic signed the Treaty of Reunion, officially becoming an Imperial protectorate and effectively unifying the entirety of the planet under Imperial Rule.

The unified Centralis then expanded into the Corona system, establishing territories around the system and competing against bothe the Syniu Triumviarte and the many independent smaller nations for dominance over the resources of the planetary system. This culminated in the year 714 ATF when the Interplanetary War officially started in Corona with the battle of Obscura.

The Empire managed to break the Syniu and the Independent Alliance in short but brutal campaigns, then sending multiple craft towards Esana, where Imperial forces would manage to capture Ataya and Apophis- as well breaking the Inabis at Kaliah.