500s

This category covers events that span the years of the Third Imperium from 500 to 599 by century, decades and individual years.

Approximate Dates

• Barsoom (Solomani Rim 0239) begins heavy investment in space industries in an attempt to discourage predatory interest from Jardin (Solomani Rim 0233).

• Fafhrd (Solomani Rim 0912) virtually depopulated after a civil war destroys most of the world's city-domes.

• Vland (Vland 1717) at TL 13.

• Shapam (Solomani Rim 3009) colonized from nearby Champa (Solomani Rim 3109).

• Wepwaci (Foreven 1734) was settled in the late 500s to exploit its mixture of agro and mineral resources.

• Kwai Ching (Spinward Marches 1040) settled by dissidents from free-market Collace (Spinward Marches 1237).

• Aslan visit and possibly inhabit Mithril (Spinward Marches 1628).
• Corsairs expelled by the Imperial administration from Tersta (Corridor 0102).

• An alien race referred to as the "Batwings of Esperanza", and later identified as Droyne, die out within two hundred years of the colonization of Esperanza (Reft 0926).

• The Third Imperium first surveys Devi (Crucis Margin XXXX), although no manned landing is recorded, and the native sentient life form is not discovered.

• Addaxur participate in encounters between the Zhodani and the Aslan.

• Strin Venat, Duke of Feltan Subsector (in Massilia sector) and important Moot leader, dies - and is revealed as the captain of the "Ray of Death," a notorious pirate ship.

• Imperial explorations have gone beyond the Spinward Marches Sector and into Zhodani territory in adjacent Foreven Sector. Imperial colonists began to settle in Foreven.

• Aslan Ihatei began settling the trail-rim corner of Beyond Sector.

• Aslan demand for Dustspice lessens after development of synthetic forms; Tyeyo Fteahrao Yolr shifts to importing novel or valuable trade goods from the Spinward Marches to the Aslan Hierate.

Dates in the 6th Century

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For Century specific information see also:
0s, 100s, 200s, 300s, 400s, 500s, 600s, 700s, 800s, 900s, 1000s, 1100s.