THE HAMILTON INSTITUTE OF EXOPALEONTOLOGY
Historical Atlas



Hamilton Institute of Exopaleontology long-range exploration ship/relic-piracy control cruiser Tripitaka approaches the GD Anolis binary star system. A 395 million year old space colony ruin was salvaged from its orbit around the current innermost planet (originally the fourth or fifth planet before the expansion of GD Anolis A into an unstable Type-K supergiant). The alien ruin would soon have been destroyed by the dying star if not preserved.


This site is under constant revision as new discoveries are made and updated entries are added by our hard-working exopaleontology postdocs and graduate students.

The purpose of this Atlas is to provide a quick reference guide to the ever-expanding database on extinct alien civilizations. The Hamilton Institute of Exopaleontology is the leading research organization dedicated to uncovering the secrets of lost races. Besides academic knowledge, we hope that this Atlas also gives the reader a sense of awe at both the distances encompassed by some of the great extinct Empires and also the eons of time which are filled with once-thriving civilizations, rising and falling even before life evolved on Earth.


The Atlas will be arranged by galaxy, listing the known civilizations in reverse chronological order from most recent (including living species) to the most ancient. The timeline below represents our local region, the Orion Arm of the "Milky Way Galaxy". Most translations of alien names are from the Second Empire Yikoh using the Cheng-Bolinger transliteration system (if the original name that an extinct species used for itself is known it will be substituted). The timeline is divided based on the geologic history of Sola III and years are Earth Standard Years. ESY-1 is the year that the first human being walked on Sola-III-A [Apollo 11 mission, chemical-fuel technology level, United States of America].


RECENT HISTORY




TERRAN CENOZOIC ERA: Quaternary



  • UNNAMED INTERSTELLAR CIVILIZATION COS-E
    • Overview
      (Further information needed for threat assessment).


  • Major Events, 600,000 years ago: The "Muuh" are slaughtered by a fleet of automated war machines and only a few colonies are spared


  • Major Events, 800,000 to 1.2 million years ago: The "Muuh" achieve spaceflight and interstellar travel


TERRAN CENOZOIC ERA: Tertiary
  • THE "Doreens" [INTERPLANETARY CIVILIZATION HIE500CZE=HIE282RZE/D1] (extinct 4 million years ago)
    • Summary
    • Note: evolved from life forms left behind by "Halogenics" on the planet Omicron Afri III nearly 780 million years before, but culturally completely unrelated.
    • Impact on Earth's evolution: 0 (No known interstellar travel)


  • UNNAMED INTERSTELLAR CIVILIZATION HIE121CZE (disappeared 31 million years ago)
    • Overview
    • Homeworld: Possibly destroyed/devastated
    • Biology: Info to be added later
    • Impact on Earth's evolution: Uncertain


  • THE "Tunnlers" [INTERSTELLAR CIVILIZATION HIE441CZE] (extinct 33 million years ago)


TERRAN MESOZOIC ERA
  • Major Events, 78 million years ago: The "Muuh" evolve into a sapient civilization


  • Major Events, 90 million years ago: The "Jacks" form their most recent civilization, which collapses after 82,000 years


  • UNNAMED PLANETARY CIVILIZATION HIE565MZE (disappeared 125 million years ago)
    • Overview
    • Homeworld: Info to be added later
    • Biology: Little information
    • Impact on Earth's evolution: 0 (No known interstellar travel)


TERRAN PALEOZOIC ERA
  • Alien object "Omicron Hygeras 152-3343 Gm-A" (appeared 400 million years ago)
  • Major Events, 451 million years ago: The "Jacks" rise from dormancy and form a new civilization, which collapses after 56,000 years


TERRAN PROTEROZOIC EON
  • THE PTEMR EMPIRE (disappeared 678.3 million years ago)
    • Overview of the Ptemr Empire
    • Homeworld: Little is known about the Ptemr homeworld
    • Biology: The Ptemr have been described as winged, however there is no evidence they were flying creatures. Perhaps the 'wings' were vestigal, or ornamental, or even part of a uniform. The Ptemr also apparently had at least two manipulator-tentacles or tails instead of jointed limbs. Nothing is known about their evolution.
    • Impact on Earth's evolution: 0 to 1--there is evidence that a Ptemr listening post was established on Triton (Sola-VIII-G) but as the frontier shifted that satellite was abandoned. The Ptemr had little use for the intelligent or near-intelligent Exn slave races, so it is hypothesized that the early chordates and other primitive life on Earth at the time were ignored.


  • THE EXN EMPIRE (extinct 678.4 million years ago)
    • Overview of the Exn Empire
    • Homeworld: Little is known about the Exn homeworld
    • Biology: The Exn were probably vaguely humanoid with crystalline partial-exoskeletons. Little else is known about their biology.
    • Impact on Earth's evolution: 0 (No evidence that territory extended to our solar system)


  • THE "Halogenics" [INTERSTELLAR CIVILIZATION HIE282RZE] (extinct 780 million years ago)
    • Summary
    • Impact on Earth's evolution: 0 (No evidence territory extended to our solar system)


  • Major Events, 788 million years ago: The "Jacks" re-appear after having disappeared for unknown reasons; their new civilization collapses after 112,000 years


  • Major Events, 1.1 billion years ago: The "Jacks" a species of floaters occupying Type-J planets, appear for the first time, but unlike many Jovian species their civilization is short-lived and cyclical. The species disappears after a few tens of thousands of years in space.


ARCHEOZOIC/ARCHEAN EON
HADEAN EON
PRETERRAN EON (BEFORE THE FORMATION OF EARTH, SOLAR SYSTEM: 4.5 byp)
  • UNNAMED INTERSTELLAR CIVILIZATION HIE236XZE (disappeared 6-7 billion years ago)
    • Overview
    • Homeworld: Little is known except possible Planet Type
    • Biology: Little information except possible Evoltype
    • Impact on Earth's evolution: 0 (Predates formation of Sola III)


(FORMATION OF STARS IN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY)
(FORMATION OF THE KNOWN PHYSICAL UNIVERSE)







Refer to the glossary of terms and definitions used in the historical atlas

How to contact the Institute

An article on molecular phylogenetics explains some of the analysis techniques used to decipher the history of ancient civilizations by looking at their surviving offshoot species.

More information on Human life in The Orion Arm

Institute format developed by Aaron Hamilton, with additional entries by Orion Arm contributors.