The star that would one day be known as Sol began to condense out of nebular material, forming the sun and our solar system. Along with Earth, Mars is formed, and may have once supported primordial life.
Scientific theory
1 BILLION YEARS AGO
A ruthless, opportunistic and militaristic society develops somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy, utilizing highly advanced technology to subjugate many other species. Eventually the enslaved races rebel and destroy their masters. Apparently sensing that their time was at an end, the masters archive some of their knowledge and technology in "stasis boxes" which preserve this material over eons, surviving into the present day. Because no record of their spoken language or even of their name survived, these people are known today as "The Slavers."
The Slavers are first mentioned in "The Slaver Weapon" [TAS], but also figure in "The Grey Hole," as the personal weapon harness Garvok the Tellarite uses to devastate Aldebaran is of Slaver technology. MM
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO
The Kalandan Hegemony colonizes many planets across the galaxy and even constructs artificial worlds, such as one that will be discovered by the Starship Enterprise in 2269. Elsewhere, on the world that will one day be known as Yalc IV, the Kalandans place a device for creating artificial wormholes, utilizing the three moons of that world as a gravitational lens system. Sometime later, the Kalandans die out, apparently because of a massive plague. Their technology, however, survives into the modern era.
The Kalandans and their incredible technology are first featured in "That Which Survives" [TOS]. Yalc IV is the setting for "Tourist Season." MM
593 BC
Masemune Onada, a Japanese swordsmith, witnesses the fall of a meteor to Earth near his family home in Agarashima, Japan. He is able to retrieve a mysterious molten metal from the meteorite and forge a sword from the metal. Exhausted after the hard labor, Onada falls into a light doze, where he experiences visions of a distant future where man has learned to walk amongst the stars, and sees his remote descendant, whose skin is "white as the snows of winter," as the bringer of either salvation or destruction. Onada founds the House of Onada, ostensibly as a sacred order of warriors, with the ideal of shaping the future Masters toward bringing hope to the future of mankind. By the second century AD, the House of Onada is renowned throughout Asia and Eastern Europe as an unparalleled martial clan.
From the history of the House of Onada. ("The White Tiger") MM
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