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.

For other events, decade or year specific, see also:

500s, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509;
510s, 510, 511, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519;
520s, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529;
530s, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, 538, 539;
540s, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549;
550s, 550, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 556, 557, 558, 559;
560s, 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569;
570s, 570, 571, 572, 573, 574, 575, 576, 577, 578, 579;
580s, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589;
590s, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594, 595, 596, 597, 598, 599;