The Ancients (No Supernatural Intervention)

The Ancients were the first human beings, the long-lived beings that advanced rapidly technologically before their infighting and technological miscalculations brought an end to the civilization they had built. This article is for the development of that civilization in the years noted on the timeline as A.D. (ante deluvian: before the flood). To them, though, time was measured as "A.M." (Anno Mundo: Year of the world). This civilization rose to a space-faring race that would eventually colonize worlds hundreds of light years from their home world.

Origin
Mankind was created out of the material in the ground of the planet called "Eretz," or Earth, on the sixth day of creation by the One God, Creator of all things. However, in this time line, the Almighty God chooses not to intervene in His creation. He provided a "test" to see if this race would go out on its own: the fruit of a tree in the midst of mankind's first home -- a tropical rain forest at the base of the tallest mountain on the planet at the time. Access to another tree, which provided an temporary antidote to the effects of the first tree, proved to be a boon to the rise of the race and its eventual dominion of other planets in the galaxy.

Energy
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Transportation
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Weapons
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Biological Sciences
Some time after leaving the forest, members of the Qeni, the tribe that had the first murderer as its father, figured out that the fruit ingested by the first parents had genetically altered all their descendants in such a way that even the most careful of humans would eventually die. Believing that a "cure" might be found in the original forest, expeditions returned to the mountain in search of any fruit or other plant part, that could reverse or at least arrest the effects of the "death gene." In the deepest reaches of the forest, they found reptiles of tremendous size that nonetheless seemed to show none of the obvious signs of aging. Fortunately for the explorers, these animals were plant-eaters and no danger to them. And the animals' favorite fruit came from a tree that grew in abundance in the swamps in the interior of the forest.

After years of attempting to cultivate these trees, the Qeni scientists decided that the only source of the pure compound was fresh fruit grown only in the soil of the original swamp. Over the years, though, members of the Abli and Seti tribes had inhabited lands all around the mountain. Expeditions to the Mountain became more difficult, so military units began to accompany the scientists to the mountain. As a result, the earth was in a constant state of war from the fifth century on. Though a synthetic version of the Cure was never developed, members of elite ruling classes among the Qeni and Abli had access to preserved extracts of the juice that allowed them to beat the biological time bomb in their DNA. More to come ...

The Gods
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The Records
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The Relics
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