POST REVELATION

At the time of the revelation, where the Soroteth had announced themselves to their barbarian kin, There presence on Trenoret was in decline, they had long before started a sequence of steps that the Trenoc would follow across space thousands of years later.

The revelation occurred roughly 35,000 years ago, and seems to have affected every tribal clan across the whole of Trenoret at roughly the same time. It is thought that by this time the Soroteth civilization had reached a high level of technological ability, circa Earth in the 2070’s. They had by this time begun contemplating the idea of leaving there own homeworld for the neighboring planet of what would be called Soret. The archaeological evidence that has been collected despite the Soroteth’s censoring activities shows that by this time most of the Soroteth population was collected together in tight population centres and during this period they were slowly erasing their past across most of the countryside.

It is almost certain that the Soroteth built an orbital tether to transfer its people and artifacts into space, and it once stood near the heart of their continent near the modern city of Hassorot. It is thought that about 400 hundred years after the revelation most of the Soroteth population had transferred to the increasingly habitable planet Soret, and that over the next 200 hundred years the migration would be complete and the land returned nearly to its natural state with nearly no trace of the people that had once lived there.

What happened to the orbital tether is not known, if it was of conventional design then a 40 thousand kilometre long carbon cable will have had to be disposed of, it is most likely that the cable, and possible attendant asteroid were sent into the sun, as no trace of the asteroid or the cable has ever been found in local space, a more exotic possibility exists that the asteroid was in fact turned into a spacecraft for transporting large numbers of the Soroteth, along with some of their most valued artifacts to Soret.

It is certain that 700 years after the revelation there were no Soroteth left as the second colonization of that continent began by explorers from Jarok who had started to map out the deserted continent. The Soroteth’s activity in local Trenoret space had also significantly died down by this point, with very few orbiting satellites observed (though these could have well been stealthed, as in the later stages of the Trenoc’s space age some orbiting stations were found.)

From detailed analysis of Soret, in particular studying the deposition of water ice at the poles, the transformation of this planet coincided roughly with the revelation suggesting that at this time the Soroteth had established a significant base on this planet and were rapidly bringing about the changes required to make it habitable within the next few hundred years so that its population could have a second home.

From the ice records and from other evidence (especially archaeological artifacts, the Soroteth saw no need to cleanse Soret in the same fashion as Trenoret) it has been found that the terraforming process may have only taken two hundred years, with the surface habitable to the Soroteth as early as 80 years after the revelation. Despite the immense efforts the Soroteth went to make Soret habitable (which is still the case to this day) this civilization would not stay long here, since there main move to space a significant proportion of their population went on to work in the asteroid belt and further out into the system, it seems that although they were technologically far away from interstellar flight they were beginning to make the preparation for this transition.

It is these asteroid colonies that are perhaps the most revealing about the Soroteth culture, as apart from the most sophisticated technology they have been effectively abandoned, (in such good conditions were these habitats that they were colonized during the Trenoc space age and provided invaluable outposts in their interplanetary era.

It is thought that about 400 years after their migration from Trenoret they had achieved technology of a similar sophistication as the federation, however we do not see further migration until about 1300 years after the revelation, what was holding them back is unknown, indeed their technological pace had slowed somewhat when they began colonizing the surface of Soret. Perhaps this civilization was taking some time to understand its place in the universe, we do after all see evidence for this new contemplative age in the form of impressive structures on the surface of Soret amongst its new forests.

Beyond Soret we know little of what the Soroteth did, they left Soret completely about 14,000 years ago though they had been very much in decline on this world 2000 years after revelation. Occasionally new archaeological finds are discovered in federation space suggesting further history of the Soroteth, but as to the truth there are only theories. Some have suggested that the Soroteth had settled somewhere else in federation space, and had then transcended, or that perhaps as the federation extends its frontiers they might actually be found, or at least the remains of their civilization post transcension. Some suggest that the lack of evidence suggests that Soroteth may just be wandering space, or have perhaps fell victim in some interstellar war in federation space after there migration. The most enigmatic evidence is the fact that Pholi know well the Soroteth, suggesting that they at least had paid one Pholi world a visit, some suggest that the Pholi maybe even granting the Soroteth sanctuary, that the Soroteth might exist amongst the Pholi population, or that the Pholi offered the Soroteth transcendence so they could watch their siblings develop and evolve without fear of the chaos they would cause them.

The Trenoc remain hopeful of one day contacting the Soroteth, they have been the guiding light in their civilization since its formation, and even as space opens up for exploration the Trenoc feel that the Soroteth will lead them into new understanding about them and themselves.