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The Drack were an indiginous people-group who lived for some 2,000 years on the southern-side of the [[Erum Range]].
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The Drack were an indiginous people-group who lived for some 2,000 years on the southern-side of the [[Erum Range]]. The Drack are notable for their early development of high technology, and for rendering a large chunk of the [[Greater Continent]] uninhabitable(though the Marcons typically get blamed for that).
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==History==
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The Drack began as the Bear Clan during the [[Age of Darkness#The Black Period|Black Period]] of the Age of Darkness. By the Gray Period, they had already settled on a fertile plain south of the Erum Mountains, along the coast of [[Clearwater Sound]].
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By the beginning of the [[Mage Wars]], the Bear Clan had evolved into the Drack, a name used both for the people-group and for the country. The region around Clearwater was, at the time, a very fertile plains region, with many natural countours trapping abundant water. The Drack quickly became skilled earth-workers, building dams and culverts and canals all over their region.
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By 3475 [[B.G.A.]], the capital city of Daraka was at the center of a sophisticated network of waterways allowing for trade and irrigation all over what was the called the Clearwater Plain. Nuclear fission was probably discovered around this time, and by 3455 B.G.A., the first Drack nuclear reactor went critical. Electricity had been known to the Drack for decades by then, and at the time, they were considered the leaders in [[Magic-Tech]].
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The Drack also had access to several working [[Road]]s and had established numerous off-world colonies. By the [[Mage Wars#The Intermediate Period|Intermediate Period]], the Drack controleld several planets throughout the verse. They had not, however, developed space-travel, nor any means to reach these colonies except through the Roads, which they had not yet learned to reproduce. Daraka, the capitol, still remained the hub of the entire Dracken world.
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The beginning of the [[Mage Wars#The Dynastic Period|Dynastic Period]] can typically be set as the proto-Marconian invasion of Drack. The Marcons had begun a big to take over the entire Greater Continent, and decided to begin with Drack.
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The Drackens, meanwhile, had been preparing for this invasion for generations, and unleashed a vast arsenal of inter-continental ballistic missiles at targets in Marconian territory. Dozens of massive craters on the Marconian side of the [[Barrier Range]] were still visible by the [[Ages#The Sixth Age|Sixth Age]], and mark the sites where Marconian cities and towers.
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But the Drack would not succeed in modifying the Marconian topography nearly as badly as the Marconians would devastate the Clearwater Plain. The Marcons build dozens of secret towers within the Barrier Range, selecting targets not of strategic value, but of geologic weakness. They aimed their spells at the very earth itself, raising huge mountains and opening volcanoes. In a year and a day, the vast Drack civilization was reduced to ashes.
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Of much greater concern, however, were the nearly 1000 years worth of nuclear waste the Drack had been accumulating. They had, from the outset, understood the dangers of radioactivity, and taken great pains to properly and safely store what materials they could not recycle.
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However, with their world quite literally rent asunder, their precautions were ill-effective.

Revision as of 21:32, 19 July 2012

The Drack were an indiginous people-group who lived for some 2,000 years on the southern-side of the Erum Range. The Drack are notable for their early development of high technology, and for rendering a large chunk of the Greater Continent uninhabitable(though the Marcons typically get blamed for that).

History

The Drack began as the Bear Clan during the Black Period of the Age of Darkness. By the Gray Period, they had already settled on a fertile plain south of the Erum Mountains, along the coast of Clearwater Sound.

By the beginning of the Mage Wars, the Bear Clan had evolved into the Drack, a name used both for the people-group and for the country. The region around Clearwater was, at the time, a very fertile plains region, with many natural countours trapping abundant water. The Drack quickly became skilled earth-workers, building dams and culverts and canals all over their region.

By 3475 B.G.A., the capital city of Daraka was at the center of a sophisticated network of waterways allowing for trade and irrigation all over what was the called the Clearwater Plain. Nuclear fission was probably discovered around this time, and by 3455 B.G.A., the first Drack nuclear reactor went critical. Electricity had been known to the Drack for decades by then, and at the time, they were considered the leaders in Magic-Tech.

The Drack also had access to several working Roads and had established numerous off-world colonies. By the Intermediate Period, the Drack controleld several planets throughout the verse. They had not, however, developed space-travel, nor any means to reach these colonies except through the Roads, which they had not yet learned to reproduce. Daraka, the capitol, still remained the hub of the entire Dracken world.

The beginning of the Dynastic Period can typically be set as the proto-Marconian invasion of Drack. The Marcons had begun a big to take over the entire Greater Continent, and decided to begin with Drack.

The Drackens, meanwhile, had been preparing for this invasion for generations, and unleashed a vast arsenal of inter-continental ballistic missiles at targets in Marconian territory. Dozens of massive craters on the Marconian side of the Barrier Range were still visible by the Sixth Age, and mark the sites where Marconian cities and towers.

But the Drack would not succeed in modifying the Marconian topography nearly as badly as the Marconians would devastate the Clearwater Plain. The Marcons build dozens of secret towers within the Barrier Range, selecting targets not of strategic value, but of geologic weakness. They aimed their spells at the very earth itself, raising huge mountains and opening volcanoes. In a year and a day, the vast Drack civilization was reduced to ashes.

Of much greater concern, however, were the nearly 1000 years worth of nuclear waste the Drack had been accumulating. They had, from the outset, understood the dangers of radioactivity, and taken great pains to properly and safely store what materials they could not recycle.

However, with their world quite literally rent asunder, their precautions were ill-effective.