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The Age of Ten Thousand Emperors, also called the Great Dark Ages, was a long period of ancient human history.
Historians consider the beginning of that period as 11100 BG, five years after the destruction of Ceres and the Age of Pretenders. It saw the Thinkers' Rebellion (7600 BG) against Emperor Neweh, the birth of Ibrahim Vaughn Holtzman (7593 BG) and the invention of the ornithopter (7585 BG).
The Age ended when Holtzman revealed his Holtzman Effect theories to six planetary systems, resulting in the Wars of Reunification; these in turn eventually set the stage for the Empire of Ten Thousand Worlds and the First Golden Age, two millennia later.
| Preceded by Age of Pretenders |
Events and Periods of History 11100 BG - 7562 BG |
Succeeded by Wars of Reunification |