1928 Zaal’marr asteroid impact on Ophiuchi homeworld, millions perish. (Dark Ages)
2023 First manned Ophiuchi space flight ends in disaster. The main mission succeeds, but the spacecraft breaks up on re-entry. Fusion stations begin operating on the planet.
2025 First fully successful manned Ophiuchi space mission.
2029 First manned Ophiuchi landing on Asmofar, inner moon of home world.
2040 Planetary referendum to terraform inner O2 worlds fails.
2052 First Ophiuchi manned interplanetary flight reaches Mattar. The first Ophiuchi space city is begun.
2054 Ophiuchi government constructs mass-driver on Asmofar, extracting lunar resources and hurling them into space for use by first deep- space manufacturing facilities, speeding establishment of additional extra-planetary colonies.
2062 First Ophiuchi colonists land on Mattar.
2079 Colony population on Mattar passes 10,000 mark.
2093 Ophiuchi establish mining colony on fissionable-rich planet Alraad. Hostile environment requires a largely automated presence, and the Ophiuchi become extremely adept at colonization of hostile worlds.
2107 Ophiuchi perfect fusion-powered reactionless drive, making true deep-system exploitation
possible.
2124 Ophiuchi survey vessel Mendaneb vanishes in outer reaches of the Ophiuchi home system. Nothing further is heard of her.
2129 Population on Mattar passes 1,000,000 mark.
2137 Survey ship Tannamak disappears in the same general vicinity as Mendaneb. A search fleet of five
vessels is dispatched.
2138 Ophiuchi vessels Alhabam, Shikar, Bossam, Dibuwa, and Zhofar encounter and pass through the warp point which claimed Mendaneb and Tannamak. Science officers realize what happened almost immediately, but not before encountering three Losoti destroyers. The Losoti have moved into space only recently--a process greatly accelerated by their capture and analysis of the unarmed Mendaneb, which landed on Losot after involuntarily making transit. Only the damaged Zhofar manages to return and transmit a warning to base... just before her destruction by two Losoti pursuers.
2139-2143 Ophiuchi Association hastily cobbles together a war fleet, relying heavily on missiles, which meets a Losoti invasion of FG and DD class vessels. The invasion is thrown back, despite heavy casualties, and a genuine battle fleet is built, with units up to CL class. A counter invasion defeats the Losoti home defense fleet and compels Losot's surrender. The Association disarms the Losoti and establishes a fleet base to keep an eye on them, then turns its attention to warp point exploration.
2144 Ophiuchi Association Survey Command formed. In the wake of the Losoti experience, OASC survey ships are of CL size and heavily armed but have standing instructions to use weaponry only in self-defense.
2146 Ophiuchi Association begins interstellar expansion at a slow, careful pace, moving with methodical precision to establish forward bases in each new system before exploring the next. The Association has no intention of suffering another Losoti episode.
2159 Ophiuchi Association encounters the Creposh, at a pre-aviation stage of industrialization, who eagerly accept Association membership. Alien race, the Bese, discovered. Ophiuchi and Bese sign expansive treaties and begin working together(Treaty of Nalon). A Ophiuchi corporate expedition is sent to Togliss. The planet is a mineral storehouse. The Orphu’char ship disaster kills 150,000 Ophiuchi colonists.
2165 The Losoti Revolt. A planet-wide Losoti conspiracy almost succeeds in seizing the Ophiuchi base in the Losoti system. It is narrowly defeated, and the Losoti are prohibited all spacecraft. Poorgl Homeworld discovered. A Bese merchant ship discovers a derelict warship drifting in space, sparking a revolution in R&D. The first Ophiuchi heavy cruiser(CA) is built, partly in reaction to the revolt. Conflict in Yabrill System; eight separate skirmishes involving the Zaymar.
2195 Ophiuchi Association overhauls its fleet and government organization, creating the Ophiuchi Association Defense Command, with its own service academy, and providing greater integration of alien races in the Association's governing organs. Evidence of a earlier star spanning empire in Ophiuchi space is found and dates to 200,000 years previous.
2205-2212 First Interstellar War. First major conflict between the Orion Khanate and the Terran Federation.
2211 Ophiuchi find the Zhitmar System, which has been almost sterilized by a vicious interplanetary war. Unfortunately, much of the extinct combatants' automated weaponry remains functional, and the survey squadron takes very heavy losses before it can retreat. Damaged alien freighter goes into orbit of Gomphi; Ophiuchi and the alien Akaffi achieve a peaceful first contact.
2214 Ophiuchi Association decides to occupy Zhitmar despite its weaponry, regarding this as a golden opportunity to examine a high order of alien technology, and builds its first true capital ships to beat down the surviving defenses. First Contact with the militant pre-industrial Caan, system quarantined.
2217 First Ophiuchi dreadnought Al-Montasaur is commissioned. Expansion of the Association includes the Marlaxx race. Wobanna discovered. It is a rich system with three inhabitable worlds that soon makes it a major commerce and industrial center of the Association.
2218 Ophiuchi Association returns to Zhitmar in strength and methodically knocks out its automated weapons. Intensive research begins. War between the Aieun and the R’8lek. President Orphusaar visits eight of the larger stellar systems in the Association. Ophiuchi colonize Kartabba. The Shadmar declare war on the Aieun; OADC intervenes.
2224 Ophiuchi survey ships enter System Z-132, with two additional warp points, and, following established procedures, the OADC delays exploration of the new warp points while planning construction of a forward base. Within three months, however, rival Orion and Terran survey fleets arrive in the system. Combat breaks out almost immediately, with neither combatant aware of the interested (and horrified) Ophiuchi presence. In the end, the Ophiuchi commander decides to intervene. The machine-like Bray’lon join the Association. Three Association ships disappear during a visit to Sankra VII. Ophuichi scoutship discovers Ekh’l Homeworld. First E-beam developed by the OADC. Numerous commercial vessels destroyed on the Association’s colonial frontier. First Overload Dampener developed. Togwatee System discovered(four habitable rosette worlds).
2225 The war quickly spreads out along the Terran/Orion frontier as Khan Liharnousik'hirtalkin seeks revenge for his defeat in ISW-1. The Terrans, however, persevere in attempts to establish communication with the unknown third party and succeed within a few months. While the Ophiuchi are not immediately prepared to formally ally with the Terrans, they do feel humanity seems more reasonable than the Orions and agree to a provisional truce so long as the Federation does not attack them. After the Terran victory in the Second Battle of Ophiuchi Junction, however, the Treaty of Ophiuchi Junction, signed on June 9, 2226, begins a centuries-long tradition of alliance between the Association and Federation. Numerous attacks on the colonial frontier now point to an alien race of unknown origin. Tangri first contact.
2227 The Terran-Ophiuchi Alliance presents a united front to the Khanate. Liharnousik briefly attempts to resume hostilities following Second Ophiuchi Junction, but he is clearly out-numbered and is badly handled in several engagements. Belated and rather fumbling efforts to break up the new alliance fail, and the Orion Caste of Assassins removes Liharnousik, replacing him with his younger brother, Liharnoww'hirtalkin, then only 16 Terran years of age.
2227-2229 Gorm-Khanate War. Conflict between the Gorm and the Orions. The Lirkrinish discovered in Ophiuchi space; they quickly join the Association when they see the OADC’s overwhelming firepower.
2228–2230 Second Interstellar War. The new Khan is forced to accept the Treaty of Mattar on January 19, 2227, ending the Second Interstellar War.
2241 Rigelians observe Terrans and Orions, the Rigelians begin planning for all-out war.
2244 Orions and Terrans detect the Rigelians.
2244-2247 Third Interstellar War. Vicious warfare involving the Rigelians against the Orions, Terrans, Ophiuchi, and Gorm. Directive 18(systematic elimination of a species) implemented by Orion and Terran forces.
2246 Treaty of Valkha alliance signed between Orions and Terrans.
2298-2302 Theban War. Major conflict between Thebans and Terrans.
2360-2370 Fourth Interstellar War. Brutal conflict between the Alliance races and the Arachnid Omnivoracity. Directive 18 again used in this conflict.
2401 The Ophiuchi Association comes under attack by the Kingdom of Abella. After several months of fighting, the OADC overwhelms the Abellans and confines them to their homeworld, claiming their former territory as their own and continuing to expand down unexplored warp points in the Nesz’maar Region.
2438-2444 The Terran Federation’s Civil war breaks out. The Ophiuchi are distressed at the Insurrection but declare neutrality during the conflict. The OADC protects the Bantu Cluster from rebel human forces in the latter part of the war.
2450 The Ophiuchi Association joins the Pan-Sentient Union as a “associated power”.