500s

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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.

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

Kuai Qing (Spinward Marches 1040) settled by dissidents from free-market Collace (Spinward Marches 1237).

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.

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 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.