Pre-Ascension Era

The Pre-Ascension era covers the period of time between the Architects' disappearance and when the chosen races were uplifted by the Sentinels. Ending 2,998 years ago, this era was mostly filled with the evolutionary processes of Spectra’s races, as they became more and more behaviorally modern. While the chosen races lived out their lives on the Planes, so too did others like the Signon evolve and grow in the oceans of their home-world. This was a time of growth, of learning, and of progress. No race is known to have been space-faring during this period aside from the possible exception of the Exodeists, as they are not natives to Spectra and most of their people’s history from that time has been lost. A great point of contention between the Irvagaleni and the Kugraw is which of them discovered the means with which to fish first. For a long time, the Irvas upheld that their race had done so as evidenced by cave drawings on their plane depicting tribal gatherings around campfires with baskets of fish- however, the recent discovery of a primitive fish-hook in the belly of a fossilized eel on the Gamma Plane seems to disprove that claim, and instead suggest that Kugraw fishing techniques predated the Irvas by nearly seventy years.