User:Tacitus/Eras

WIP page on a more solid division of in-universe eras.

Prehistory
The pre-Forerunner history of the galaxy, the age of the Forerunners, their downfall and departure, and the rise of pre-Covenant galactic civilizations.

Antiquity/Early Covenant
The pre-Covenant history of the San'Shyuum and Sangheili, as well as the Covenant's Archaic and High Antiquity periods.

Intermediate/Middle Period
The Covenant's Late Antiquity and Feudal Eras. Characterized by decentralization of power, especially in its later ages.

Consolidation Era
Ages of Covenant history since the Second Illumination. Marked by re-centralization of power and the creation (or re-creation) of many institutions we know as staples of the Covenant.

Interplanetary / Space Age
The Golden Age of Space Colonization, the Interplanetary Wars, the Reconstruction Period and the rise of the UEG, the various techno-corporate conflicts and crises of the 22nd century (2000-2299)

Translight / Colonial Era
Humanity's interstellar expansion period; the settling of the Inner and Outer Colonies, the Inner Colony Wars, Pax Humana, the UNSC-CMA cold war, and the Colonial Insurrection (2300-2524)

Great War Era
The Human-Covenant War (2525-2552)

Schism / Reconciliation Era
2553-2599?

An era marked by decentralization in the aftermath of the Great Schism, as well as humanity's cultural and political splintering.