GALACTIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: TORIAN CONFEDERATION

The Torian Confederation

We don’t know much about the Torians yet but what we do know is both frightening and tragic.  There are conflicting reports on what kind of people the Torians are. Some day that are barbaric monsters who commit the most heinous crimes imaginable to each other and to anyone who happens to come near them.  Others say that they were once a peaceful people.

What we do know for sure goes something like this…

The Torians had a sophisticated and advanced society two thousand years ago when a Drengin exploratory probe entered their star system. The Torians had some basic space travel but had not really pursued it. Their planet was technologically very advanced. They had long cured most of their major diseases and had an average life expectancy of nearly 5000 years (nearly twice the current average human life expectancy of around 2600 years).

The Drengin probe contained information on how to build a star gate and how to link it to the primary Drengin star gate. In this way, the two races could travel to each others’ worlds.  It was a very exciting time I imagine for the Torians who had not encountered any life forms outside their world before.

Over a generation, the star gate was built and activated.  Within months of its activation, a Drengin invasion fleet arrived and conquered the planet.  Now, depending on who you believe, they were either “civilizing” the “barbaric” Torians or the Drengin are little more than ruthless conquerors.

For the next thousand years, the Torians lived in thrall to the Drengin Empire. Over time though, the Torians were able to liberate their home world and drive the Drengin Empire away. There is a great deal of speculation on how this was done and only in time will we learn more about this.

One would think that the Torians would be bitter enemies of the Drengin Empire.  But that doesn’t seem to be the case from what we’ve learned.  They have a fairly neutral stance towards the Drengin which again, is a bit of a mystery.

What is frightening to us humans is that this scenario could have happened to us.  The Arcean Empire sent a similar probe to Earth and we built the star gate they designed too. The Arceans could easily have conquered the Earth at that point but chose not to for reasons we do not know.

Today, the Torians are a formidable power in the galaxy. With all the races now equipped with hyperdrive the race is now on to expand into the galaxy at the expense of others.  It will be an interesting time for all.