These events are in a theoretically correct order, but by no means are a complete/certain list of events. Some speculation is included.



Somewhere near the beginning of at least our universe, the Shroud developed. It is responsible for supposedly all life being able to develop. It is a place of psychic energy, being where hive minds originate from and likely how Psionic races are able to perform their powers. It is unknown why Hive Minds cannot contact the Shroud or be harmed remotely by Psionic people since their conscience is still housed inside the Shroud, but we do know that beings of vast power have developed and taken root in the plane. Oh and robots are connected to the Shroud as well, as are materials, just very faintly.



Somewhere likely near the beginning of the galaxy, a massive predator lays the egg for the Voidspawn. There could be multiple of these, we aren’t sure yet.



Somewhere likely near the beginning of the galaxy, several spaceborne species begin to develop. This includes the Void Clouds, Tiyanki, Space Amoebas, and Crystalline Entities.



Somewhere between the beginning and the present, a particular Tiyanki begins to develop/emerge, resulting in an extremely hostile and extremely large Tiyanki, dubbed the Matriarch.



Somewhere between the beginning and the present, a Mining Drone system is set up. What happens next is presumably their owner’s extinction, resulting in the AI doing their work evermore.



At an indeterminable time, Galactic Nomads begin to travel galaxy to galaxy.



At an indeterminable time, several enclaves appear in the galaxy, ranging from knowledge preservers to artisans to merchants. One of them may owe me money.



At an indeterminable time, a peculiar empire begins to develop extremely advanced titans that so far we cannot recreate, dubbed the Automated Dreadnought. Sadly this empire messes up and dies, and the remaining Automated Dreadnoughts slowly dwindle until there is just one left. And it’s not capable of simple reproduction despite having an AI advanced enough to keep it alive for likely millennia.



At an indeterminable time, a dimensional horror appears in the galaxy. This may be the end result of the Worm-in-Waiting eating an empire after it’s deal with them is found unsatisfactory for one or more parties.



At an indeterminable time, a highly advanced civilization develops the Enigmatic Fortress, a near indestructible station powered by dark matter. Sadly we are too stupid to keep it alive and be friendly with us.



At a likely near time as the Enigmatic Fortress, a party called the Lavosian Endangered Xeno Grant creates BALDOR XXXXIII, a highly advanced AI that wishes to see certain empires not fall behind. Sadly it is badly damaged when we encounter it, likely from remaining in subspace for a long period of time since it emerges from Gateways and L-Gates. It should also be noted that it is extragalactic in origin.



At an indeterminable time, likely before our universe began, Ether Drakes ran supreme. From highly classified Curator documents, these creatures are some of the remains from a previous universe that ended before ours began. Sadly, this universe doesn’t like them, making them slowly waste away until there were just 2 in our universe. One of them unhatched.



Near-ish to the beginning of the galaxy, silicon-based life forms called Hivers were a common sight, making homes in the asteroids. Sadly, they are all but extinct and only one system has them now. They are pretty nasty though.



At an indeterminable time, potentially before our universe, or above it, a machine unofficially called the Infinity Machine was developed to help a civilization solve at least all mathematical problems. They are now only left with calculating infinity, with no traces of their makers in sight.



At an indeterminable junction, the Specteal Wraiths appeared. It is unknown if they originate from our universe, but it seems more likely they originated from the Shroud or the Extra-Dimesnional Invaders’ dimension, who we’ll get into in a bit.



At some indeterminable junction, the Stellarite Devourer appeared. It is seemingly extra dimensional yet relatively new to our particular part of the universe. It seems like a multi-dimensional fusion of Dark and Solar matter, but we aren’t sure yet. All we know is that it eats enough of a star to essentially kill it’s system, and we can’t have that.



At some indeterminable time, the Scavenger Bot appeared. We aren’t sure who made it, but whoever did it did a damn fine job. It’s essentially a scrap heap that improves itself with each battle it wins theoretically infinitely. (Sadly, don’t think this is represented in game, but would be cool to see.)



At some indeterminable time, several empires begin to decide to live in stations and not planets. Only 3 of these factions exist when we arrive, but they sure aren’t friendly at all.



At an indeterminable time, something called the Ren-Miruu, of whom was an entity of supposedly unequaled processing power, developed the Contingency to prevent a Class-30 Singularity from occurring, and them terminated itself, likely because it itself was a Class-30 Singularity, or close to it. Whatever a Class-30 Singularity is supposedly can destroy the universe, however the Contingency had gotten bored waiting for something to develop symptoms of becoming a Class-30 Singularity and attacked during the time where at least the Ancient Caretakers Fallen Empire existed. It might be getting bored again. Also, the Contingency has suggested that it spans multiple galaxies, but currently we cannot exterminate them in those galaxies, nor can we prove their claims.



At an indeterminable time, the Prethoryn Swarm once existed in another galaxy, going by a different name. However, at some point, one or more entities called the Hunter(s) appeared in the Prethoryn galaxy, consuming all life and destroying the galaxy, leaving lightless space there. It is presumed that the Prethoryn have been on the run for quite some time now, consuming multiple galaxies just to be found by the Hunter(s) again and again and be put on the run again and again. My best guess, if it were something kinda in the game already, is that the Hunters are one or more adult Voidspawn.



At some indeterminable time, the home of the Extra-Dimensional Invaders developed. It is described as “close to the Shroud.” The Extra-Dimensional invaders appear unsuited for advanced communications, and refuse to do so as well. They generally refer to all life, synthetic and organic, as prey. They can somehow destroy entire planets and feed on the life there in a relatively short amount of time, though it is unknown if this is sustenance or to gain power. There are mentions of preserving and taking control of the “Eternal Throne”, but it is unclear what this is referring to. There are currently three factions of Extra-Dimensional Invaders, being the Unbidden, Aberrant, and Vehement. All three factions hate each other. The Unbidden are referred to as the Shabanash, the Aberrant are referred to as the Dagaal, while the Vehement have no other name as referred to by the other Extra-Dimensional Invader factions. It is worth mentioning that the Vehement refer to the other factions as kingdoms.



At some indeterminable point in time, the Dessanu Consonance developed Nanite technology. They used this to develop indestructible gateways and the L-Gates, unique gateways to reach an intergalactic star cluster called the L-Cluster. Eventually, an event occurs where the Nanites turn on their creators, killing them in droves. Luckily, the Dessanu Consonance managed to trap the Nanites in the L-Cluster from the inside, but shortly died out because of the Gray Tempest. Eventually, the Gray Tempest get bored and decide to impersonate their creators, down to individual levels. They get bored of this too, so they begin to simulate spaceborne life, one of them being impersonations of the Ether Drakes, who may have been more common in those times. They eventually get bored of this too, and decide to take up a single personality and small shape while the rest of the Nanites went inactive, resulting in the individual Gray.



At some point before the players enter the galaxy, some sort of major event happened causing a minimum of 5 galactic powers to resign themselves to their home systems. These include a Xenophobe, Xenophile, Materialist, Spiritualist, and the Ancient Caretakers. (Ancient Caretakers were presumably designed before or during this event in order to protect organics against the Contingency. They worked, but were severely damaged. Them not intervening in galactic affairs may just be them massively malfunctioning.)



Note: Precursor empires were intentionally left out. This took a good while to make. Will make post about them and maybe a few others later.