Perry Line

Perry Line Map

The Perry Line was the frontier between the UEE and the Xi'an Empire during the Xi'an Cold War. It was named in honor of Navy General Armistead Perry. The systems that once comprised the line are now known as the Transitional Systems.

Initial Name	Discovered By	Perry Line Name	Current Name	Current Control
Yā'mon	Xi'an Empire	Hadur	Yā'mon	Xi'an Empire
Th.us'ūng	Xi'an Empire	Pallas	Th.us'ūng	Xi'an Empire
Odara	UPE	Gurzil	Gurzil	UEE
	UPE	Horus	Horus	UEE
Kyuk'ya	Xi'an Empire	Indra	Kyuk'ya	Xi'an Empire
	Xi'an Empire	Oya	Oya	UEE (except Xi'an settlement on Oya III)
	Human Outlaws	Tohil	Tohil	UEE
La'uo	Xi'an Outlaws	Virtus	La'uo	Xi'an Empire

History

The Perry Line was known as the interstellar fortified no-mans land between the United Empire of Earth and the Xi'an. The UEE administration named the systems after deities of war. The zone was established shortly after finding a Xi'an explorer vessel in Gurzil in 2542, with the system beginning its transition into a militarized zone.

• 2483 (III.802 MXY) - Th.us'ūng system discovered by a scanning drone owned by the Pō’t.ōngp.ū. The system is primarily used by the Xi'an government as a testbed for experimental terraforming technology.

• 2515 (III.826 MXY) - Kyuk'ya system discovered by a Xi'an mining escort convoy via Yā'mon.

• 2528 - Navjumper Marie Sante reports her discovery of a new system to the UPE, alongside detailed documentation describing its celestial bodies. She continues to search the system for more secrets.

• 2529 - The Yā'mon system is discovered by Xi'an navjumper Āi se Cho'an. The system is designated as a supply system for the Xi'an military and placed under its protection.

• 2530 (III.838 MXY) - Human navjumper Kathryn Segovia discovers the Th.us'ūng system via Baker and sells the Jump Point's location to the terraforming company Gaia Planet Services. In order to offset the cost of this purchase, GPS opts not to report the discovery to the UPE.
  
  When GPS surveyors land on the third world from the system's sun Se'kith, they are quickly captured by the Xi'an, thus kicking off the events that would start the Xi'an-Human Cold War.

• 2531 - Human explorer Teesa Morrison discovers the Yā'mon system via Baker, encountering a Xi'an military escort team. High Naval Commander of the UPE Armistead Perry proposes that Xi'an systems connected to the UPE be placed under control of the Navy in case of an attack.

• 2539 - Human explorer Dahunsil Kosoko discovers the Odara system via Hadrian.

• 2542 - Xi'an explorer Nē" se Ruoth discovers Odara via R.il'a. The UPE responds by incorporating the system into the newly created Perry Line and changing its name to Gurzil, after an ancient Human deity of war. Yā'mon is the first system in the Perry Line, and it is designated Hadur after an ancient Human war deity. Th.us'ūng system is designated as Pallas.

• 2542 - Marie Sante finds a Jump Point in her system that leads to R.il'a - a heavily militarized staging post of the Xi'an Empire. The UPE closes her system to non-military personnel and designates it Horus as part of the Perry Line.

• 2548 - The UPE learns of the Kyuk'ya system via Yā'mon. It is adopted into the Perry Line and given the military designation Indra after an ancient Human god of war.

• 2566 (III.866 MXY) - Test pilots for the Xi'an House Ng.at'ak discover a system during the preliminary flight of a cargo ship prototype. The Emperor orders the construction of a colony on the third planet from the star, which has a naturally-occurring nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere and favorable climate conditions.

• 2587 (III.882 MXY) - UEE Navy Lieutenant Eli Price discovers the same system that had been found by House Ng.at'ak in 2566. The Xi'an government recalls the colonists from the third planet and leaves their unfinished settlement abandoned. The UEE claimes the system and adds it to the Perry Line, designating it Oya after an ancient Human deity of wind, storms, and death.

• 2716 - Smugglers Oisha Suen and Aadya Firmino discover a system via Nyx.

• 2719 - The UEE Navy locates a Jump Point to Suen and Firmino's system from Oya. The system is designated Tohil and added to the Perry Line.

• 2759 (III.1017 MXY) - A group of Xi'an outlaws discoveres the La'uo system via Ē'aluth. They make the system into their base of operations. Although the Xi'an government learns of the system's existence soon afterwards, they decline to claim it due to its lack of terraformable planets.

• 2771 (III.1026 MXY) - The UEE military detects a jump point from the Tohil system system to La'uo, forcing the outlaws that had lived there to flee as military ships from both sides of the Xi'an-Human Cold War flood in and take their place. La'uo is incorporated into the Perry Line under the designation Virtus.

Perry Line Pact and Dissolution

Main article: Perry Line Pact

On 2793-07-05, the Perry Line Pact was ratified and signed by both sides, officially bringing to end the Cold War and birthing a new diplomatic era between the UEE and the Xi'an Empire, one that has stayed strong through today. The Perry Line systems were split up between the UEE and the Xi'an Empire, becoming what are now known as the Transitional Systems.

Trivia

All Perry Line systems are named after the ancient human divine entities or gods associated with death, war, war craft and violence:

•  Horus, Ancient Egyptian deity; most notably was god of kingship and sky.
•  Hadur, Hadúr, The god of fire; and became the god of war for the Magyars.
•  Tohil, The god of war, sacrifice and sustenance for of the KʼicheʼMayans
•  Oya, She was an unbeatable warrior spirit of the African Yoruba religion.
•  Gurzil, A bull-shaped god of the Neo-Punic Berbers from Northern Africa.
•  Indra, Vedic deity of the heavens, storms, river flows and war.
•  Pallas, Ancient Greek Titan god of war craft.
•  Virtus, Ancient Roman deity of bravery and military strength.

See also

• The former UEE-controlled systems on the human-vanduul border of Orion, Caliban and Virgil