Historians of the Laurasian Empire

This page lists the Historians of the Laurasian Empire and the Laurasian civilization, from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries AH. Laurasian historiography is one of the most distinguished in extra-galactic civilization, and has origins extending back to before the First Laurasian Space Age. Laurasian historians write in three ways: the biographical tradition, the annalistic tradition, and the monographic tradition. The first revolves around detailed biographies and accounts concerning individuals important in galactic or Laurasian history; the second comprises year-by-year histories, covering periods of time, or extending through all periods of galactic history; the third comprises non-chronological accounts of events and circumstances in Laurasian history. This page notes the significant historians, gives some details about their lives, and their major works.

=The Historians=

Sir Flavius Josephus (1437-1501)
Sir Flavius Josephus (January 3, 1437-March 21, 1501), was a renowned Donguarian-Laurasian scholar, historian, and hagiographer. He was born on Donguaria Prima, as Joseph bin Hayyah, the son of the Donguarian Prince Rudolph bin Hayyah (1390-1461) and his wife Tamaya (1412-75), who was herself a member of the powerful Heshruddia family. Educated on Laurasia Prime, graduating from the University of the Empire in 1460, Josephus became the commander of Donguarian forces of Jotapata, and surrendered to General Vespasian when that stronghold was overrun by Laurasian forces. Josephus used old Donguarian prophecies to claim that Vespasian would become Emperor; Vespasian, in return, decided to give him his freedom and to employ him in his service. In 1470, he changed his name to Flavius Josephus. He became the friend and advisor to Vespasian's son, General Titus, and was rewarded for his services in 1475 by being made a subject of the Empire, knighted, and appointed to the Governing Senate. He had already established his residence on Laurasia Prime from 1471, and resided there for the rest of his life. Settling in as an average Laurasian gentleman, he devoted all of his time and effort to works of historical value. The two most important works produced by him were The Donguarian Rebellion (1488) and The Antiquities of the Galaxy (1491). The first work contained a brief outline of the history of the Donguarian Stellar Empire, the Kingdom of Polonia, and the Polonian-Donguarian Commonwealth. It then discussed about, in detail, the Commonwealth's weakening and fall to the Laurasian Empire in 1434, and from thence, further developments related to the beginning of Laurasian occupation. Its most important focus, however, was on the Donguarian Rebellion of 1466-73, describing the campaigns of Vespasian and Titus, and the relationship of the events in the rebellion to events in the Empire at large. Josephus's second work, The Antiquities of the Galaxy, was a twenty-volume historiographical work focusing on ancient galactic history, from the formation of the galaxy (c. 13 billion BH) to the conquests of the Marauder Empire in the fifth century AH. It contained valuable materials on the Founders, Cree, Shapeshifters, Metasians, Paulines, Old Robertian Empires, Old Huntite Empires, the early Stellar Republic of Laurasia, the Arachosian and Marauder Empires, the Millian and Neo-Cadarian Empires, and the emergence of such civilizations as Kalbacha, Venasia, Polonia, Rasdalla, Briannia, Homidinia, Lacia, Donguaria, Xilania, etc. Josephus drew extensively upon archeological findings, primary and secondary sources, and upon the histories of previous writers to compile his work.

He died on March 21, 1501, in Christiania, Laurasia Prime, and was interred at St. Colombia's Cathedral. His body would be translated to the Westphalian Cathedral in 1535, and in 1782, he would be among the individuals honored in the Gallery of Historians, during the reign of Aurelia the Great.

Sir Decabulus Aoari (1456-1520)
Sir Decabulus Aoari (November 9, 1456-June 3, 1520), was born on Caladaria, in the Laurasia Prime Purse Region. He was the son of Sir Cornelius Aoari (1407-81), who served as the Senatorial Procurator of Goldaria from 1447 to 1462, and was one of the most respected regional administrative officials in the Empire. His mother was Lady Demonstratia Aoari (1431-97), who was a quarter of a century younger than her husband. From youth, Aoari was raised in a privileged, prestigious household. He lived primarily on his father's estates in the Goldarian Provinces, such as at Yularen, Constantia, Stenbock, Daala, Natasi, and Pellaeon, thereby developing an appreciation for the customs and the cultures of the peoples of the southern Central Core. His father, when not attending to his duties as Senatorial Procurator, also took his family on trips to various regions of the Empire; Aoari visited worlds from Horacia, to Donguaria Prima, to Clancia, to Morgania Major, and so forth, thereby gaining a further awareness of the diversities of languages, cultures, and customs within the Empire as a whole. This was to have an influence upon him in his historical works. In 1474, upon his graduation from St. Nicantius's High School on Goldaria, from whence he graduated as salutatorian of his class, he won a full-ride academic scholarship to attend the University of Caladaria. There, he came under the tutelage of the renowned Professor of Dialetics and Rhetoric, Sir Quintillian Fabius (1435-1500), who was one of the most renowned rhetoricians in the Empire.

Aoari came to develop a passion for oratory, for history, anthropology, sociology, archeology, geology, astronomy, and for languages. He mastered Arachosian, Lacian, Dasian, Halegothican, Brestord, Kuevian, Ashlgothian, and Jarjanican, and developed a literary knowledge of Marauder, Homidinian, Torfian, Amelianian, and Melorkian, thereby being able to grasp and to understand the works of the past. His passion for the political sciences and for legalistic thought was also to pervade his works. Upon graduation from the University in 1478, Aoari entered the Imperial Civil Service, joining the staff of the Imperial Bureau of Correspondence and Bureaucracy. He showed much merit in his work, and by 1481, during the reign of Emperor Titus, had advanced to become a Quaestor of Ralina Vixius. In 1488, he was named Praetor of Caladaria, and then a quindecimivir, an honorary civilian official of the Imperial Almitian Church, as relating to its secular processions and observances. In 1492, he accepted a seat as Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric and Political Science at the University of Chancia, where he remained for twenty-six years. In 1499, he was named to the Governing Senate by Emperor Antigonus, and in 1501, became Chief Correspondence Clerk of the Inns of Christiania, one of the Empire's premier law chambers. From 1497, he also served as a suffect of the Cities of Christiania and Constantinople on Laurasia Prime, and adjunct of Barsoni City, Briannia. It was in 1494, the year after the death of his fatger-in-law, General Agricola, that he began writing his historical works.

Between 1494 and 1517, he produced five major works of significance: the Life of Agricola (1498); the Origins of the Kuevians and Halegothicans (1500); the Dialogues of Laurasian Oratory (1502); The Annals of the Laurasian Monarchy (1509); and The Histories (also 1509). He also wrote a number of epigrams, communiques, poems, essays, and legal briefs, comprising some twenty volumes. In Agricola, he explored the life of his father-in-law, and his campaigns in the Hypasian and Angelican Provinces. In this work, he included a comprehensive account of the Empire's advance in those regions, and the original circumstances of the conquest of 1443, under Claudius II. In his Origins, he provided valuable material about the Barbarian Invasions of 1106, about King Genseric of Kuevia, Theodoric the Great of Halegothica and his predecessors, and the origins of those peoples from their original galaxies. He included tales and legends which they had passed down, along with pointed analysis of their actual development, and the influence of the Founders on them. His Dialogues expounded upon oratory, poetry, and the importance of both in dialetics, in law, and in the other social sciences. This included accounts of speeches given by such great ancient Laurasians as Cicero and Livy. The Annals contained an comprehensive account of all Laurasian monarchs in the Space Age, from Arasces the Founder himself down to Emperor Antigonus I; the Histories covered the Theocratic Republic of Laurasia, the Galactic Confederation, and the early days of the hyperdrive. In all of his works, Aoari employed sharp irony and witty observation; he placed a heavy emphasis upon original sources, quoting from a variety of earlier historians and contemporary accounts.

Aoari served as Governor of Goldaria from 1512 to 1517, which was his last great post. He then retired following the death of Emperor Antigonus to Mordan, and died there on June 3, 1520, at the age of sixty-three. He was interred at his family's plot on Caladaria.

Sir Polydorus Vergil (1670-1755)
Sir Polydorus Vergil (July 31, 1670-April 18, 1755), was one of the most renowned Laurasian scholars, historians, and clerics of the eighteenth century in the Laurasian Empire. Born in Ostia, Laurasia Prime, on July 31, 1670, he was the son of Georgius Vergil (1640-91), who was a respected businessman and medicinal practices handler on Laurasia Prime, and his wife Faustina (1642-1711), regarded as the "greatest beauty in the city of Ostia." His grandfather, Antoninus Vergil (1622-96), had been a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Christiania, as would his own brother, Cassius (1666-1741), at the Universities of Constantinople, Oxia Vixius, and Augis IV. Vergil was from early on taught the value of hard work, ethics, and loyalty to one's peers, and he held on to these virtues throughout his life. He was educated at the University of Laurasia Prime, from whence he obtained his bachelor's degrees in theology and in political science in 1692. Four years later, following service with the Imperial Jurisprudence Academy, he was ordained a priest in the Imperial Almitian Church, in which he would remain for more than forty years. Vergil now decided to continue his education at the St. Peter and Paul Eccleasticial Academy, from which he obtained his MA in Theology and Comparative Sciences in June 1700; he would work towards his PhD in Speculative Theology in due course, receiving it from his former alma matter, the University of Laurasia Prime, in 1710.

From 1702, he had once again entered governmental service, and came to the favor of Emperor Neuchrus. In October 1704, he became Dean of St. Verone's Cathedral in Ostia, and by 1713, had accumulated a number of other church benefices; Archdeacon of Ostia Monastery, Prebend of St. Langston's Church at the Cron Drift; Prebend of St. Colombia's Cathedral; and Precentor of the Almitian Monasteries of the Holy Order of Fontrevrault. In April 1715, he was briefly imprisoned on the orders of Emperor Antigonus, after a dispute with Cardinal Wolesius, but was released in due course and resumed with his duties. In 1720, he became a full Professor at his alma mater, the University of Laurasia Prime; he would be promoted to Vice-Chancellor of the institution in 1726, and ultimately Dean of the College of Theology in 1731. In 1735, Vergil would become a Suffect of the City of Christiania, and in 1739, a Councilor on the Holy Synod for Education. He would be made a member of the Commission of Economy in 1743. He maintained this imperial favor through the coming vicissitudes, and would serve both Demetrius II and Didymeia I loyally, though obliged to switch his religious allegiance a number of times.

Vergil published over thirty significant works during the course of his lifetime, but three were of the most importance: The Inventions of the Space Age (1699), which contained an extensive account of all significant scientific, technological, and other innovations since the commencement of the Laurasian Space Age in 1045 BH; The Collected Legends of the Wild Marshes (1725), with an extensive analysis of the tales and legends of Merlin, Gunevere, Lancelot, Arthur, Morgania Major, and the associated fiends; and the most important of all, The History of the Laurasian Civilization (1734). This work, originally commissioned by Emperor Neuchrus in 1705, was published in a number of different editions; these included those of 1713, 1734, 1746, and 1755. In his work, Vergil drew upon earlier historians, such as Cassius Dio, Marcellius, Ulagrai, Aoari, Josephus, Victor, Tranquillius, Kamanius, and Abbott Athanasius. He also drew upon contemporary sources, ranging from biographies and memoirs to manuscripts, religious scripts, technical and diplomatic documents, private and state correspondence, holofilm recordings, microfilm recordings, oral testimony, and visual records. He divided his work into twenty volumes. The first seven described the history of the Laurasian species, from its earliest beginnings (pre 100,000 BH) to the end of the reign of Demetrius the Great in 2186 BH. The next five described events from Demetrius's death in 2186 to the invention of the hyperdrive in AH 1. The remainder described the history of the Laurasian species from AH 1 to 1755, when the latest edition was published. Vergil's work was to prove a valuable source for the period 1660-1737, and he provided considerable detail about the state affairs of the reigns of Neuchrus I and his son, Antigonus III.

Vergil himself retired to Ettleman in his waning years, and died there April 18, 1755, at the age of 85. He was interred at St. Agapius's Cathedral on Manzo.

Sir Demetrius, Baron Monompahlaus (1710-97)
Sir Demetrius Hanarania, 1st Baron Monompahlaus (July 14, 1710-March 22, 1797), was, along with Sir Antigonus Gibbeoneous and Lady Athena Vassalina, one of the most prominent Laurasian historians of the eighteenth century. Similar to his two contemporaries, Baron Monompahlaus had gentle origins. He was born in Cruzania City, Kigonia, the son of Sir Festus Hanarania (1683-1716) and his wife Cornelia (1685-1716). His father, Sir Hanarania, was the heir to Hanarania Corporation, which was one of the largest industrial technology firms in the Caladarian Galaxy. Established in the late sixteenth century by Sir Eutropius Hanarania (1544-1609), it owned two hundred major industrial facilities throughout the length and breath of the Empire; dealt with factories, commercial firms, and shipping lines across civilized space; and had contracts with the Imperial Laurasian Court and with many other noble families in the Empire. Hanarania was the third of his parents' children; his two elder siblings were his brother Seleucus (1708-16) and his sister Placidia (1709-16). The early years of his childhood were spent on Kigonia; he and his siblings were doted upon by their mother. His father, in the meantime, worked in conjunction with his grandfather, Sir Zosimus Hanarania (1647-1728), on the commercial activities of the corporation. In later years, Baron Monompahlaus was to recount his memories of his parents and siblings, such as they were. He recalled the tranquility and stability which seemed to prevail in the Hanarania household. But on June 9, 1716, a horrific accident occurred.

Sir Festus and Lady Cornelia, along with Seleucus and Placidia, had been traveling on a repulsorlift to retrieve young Demetrius from the household of his grandparents, where he had spent time with them. Along the way, their repulsorlift was engulfed in flames, killing all on board. Hanarania was only six years old when he lost his parents and siblings. Now an orphan, he was taken into the care of his grandfather, Sir Zosimus, and his grandmother, Lady Justina (1652-1734). Both of his grandparents were moralistic, hard-working, but kind-hearted individuals, determined to raise their grandchild (who had inherited his father's hereditary knighthood) and to provide him with the semblances of family life, now that the rest of his inner family was gone. They pushed him both academically and athletically. He excelled in school; in 1723, the elder Hanaranias moved their chief residence to Laurasia Prime, and enrolled their grandson at St. Agatholica's High School in Christiania. The young Hanarania participated in cross-country, shockball, and fencing; he also became a member of the forensics, historical sciences, and legalistic clubs. He established strong relationships with all of his peers, and graduated in 1728 as valedictorian of his class. From thence, he was easily admitted to the University of Laurasia Prime. His mentor came to be Polydorus Vergil himself, who was Dean of the College of Theology. Though the young Sir Hanarania was shaken by his grandfather's death just days after his high school graduation, he nevertheless persisted. He became a member of the Dean of Political Science's list; Co-Chair of the Chancellor's Leadership Class; and a star athlete on the shockball team. In 1730, he and his classmates won the All-Galactic Championship on Laurasia Prime. For this, they were invited to the Imperial Laurasian Court. Hanarania therefore got to meet Emperor Antigonus himself, and the Lady Anna Boleyenia. Both were impressed by the young man, and praised his merits. Given a financial reward, he returned to his studies. In June 1732, he graduated, magna cum laude, as salutatorian of his class (something which he would come to regret), and from thence became an intern with the Christiania Historical Society.

In 1734, the year of his grandmother's death, Hanarania inherited the family business. He had, in college, developed a passion for economics, and proved his business acumen. Between 1734 and 1741, therefore, he focused most of his efforts on expanding Hanarania Corporation. To this end, he had to travel extensively throughout the Caladarian Galaxy, and to the Great Tesmanian Cloud. Yet at the same time, he secured the post of Associate Lecturer at the University of Belkadan, where he served from 1735 to 1743, and helped to upgrade the reputation of that institution. He also became a senior clerk with the Historical Society and a member of the Capitalist Association of Gardner in 1744. On August 7, 1736, he married his childhood sweetheart, Lady Pulcheria Maravania (1713-98), to whom he would be married for sixty years. They did not have any children, however. It was his wife, in 1741, who convinced him to turn his attention to his literary and historical interests, as he desired. He therefore handed over daily administration of the Corporation to his cousin, Sir Olympodorus Hanarania (1715-81), who would handle the affairs of the business for thirty years. Hanarania did, however, retain his seat on the Board of Directors. In 1742, he came to the Imperial Laurasian Court, having accepted the post of Vice-Archivist of the Personal Library, and remained at that post until 1751. Thus, he witnessed the execution of Katharina Howardis; Emperor Antigonus's marriage to Katharina Parsius; and the turmoil of events around his death, as well as in Emperor Demetrius's early years. In 1748, Hanarania would complete his doctoral studies at the University of the Empire, and was awarded his PhD in Galactic and Civil History. His 50-page dissertation, Genseric the Great: The Impact of One Man, would be published in a revised format in 1759, and ranked among the 4% that passed first inspection by the doctoral panel. In 1745, after two years of work, he published his first work of note, A Study of Historical Science, an analysis of the field of history itself. It was the first of more than fifty works which he would publish during the next half-century. There followed, in succession, The Life of Grand Princess Constantia (1748); The Battle of the Bosworthian Fields: An In-Depth Analysis (1750); The Spirit of Laurasian History (1752); and A History of the Empires of Mesia and Gatheria (1754), all of whom established his reputation.

In 1749, he became an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Caladaria, eventually being promoted to full Professor in 1755. He survived the Didymeian Persecutions, diligently switching his allegiance to Traditionalism during Didymeia I's reign; in 1756, he would publish two works, The Errors of the Almitian Reformation and The History of Paul and the Angels of Almitis, ingratiating himself with the regime. Upon Aurelia I's accession in 1758, however, he changed course, and in 1759, published The Essays on the Necessity of Reform in the Church. In 1757, he became a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Caladaria; of the Galactic Association of Historians in 1759; and of the Christiania Historical Society in 1762. It was in 1763 that he published a seminal work, Seleucus the Victor: Great Reformer and Emperor, an exhaustive, 800-page account, of the founder of the Empire. This earned him accolades from all throughout the Empire, and he was awarded the St. Gregory's Prize for Historical Merit the following year. In 1765, he accepted a position with the Galactic Holonet, and began hosting The Hanarania Commentaries, which would continue until his death. In 1764, he had published The Structure of Society in the Time of Seleucus the Victor, this was followed by The Reforms in the Age of Antiochus the Great (1766); The Great Revolt (1767), concerning the revolt of 1373 against that Emperor; and Josephus: The Man and His Legacy (1768), about the famed Donguarian-Laurasian historian. In 1769-70, he published The Arachosian Essays, with analysis about the Wars of the Arachosian Diadochi, and their relevance in current politics. In 1770, Hanarania became Chancellor of the University of Caladaria, and the following year, President of the Galactic Guild of Academia.

He held both positions until 1785. In 1772, his next seminal work, The Third Laurasian Period: A Time of Turmoil and Revival appeared, a very authoritative account on the reemergence of the Stellar Kingdom of Laurasia. He followed it with Honorius the Terrible: Tyrant or Savior (1774), which earned him universal acclaim for its biting, but accurate portrayal, of that Laurasian despot. The following year (1775), he was made a baron by Empress Aurelia, being created 1st Baron Monompahlaus. The new Baron became a honorary member of the Free Economic Society in 1777, and in 1779, would publish his Economics of the Seventeenth Century, exploring the Empire's financial troubles during that century, and their relevance to historical events. Beginning in 1780, he would enter the lecture circuit, ranging from Laurasia Prime, to Kalbacha, to Hunt Major, throughout the early 1780s. In 1781-82, he published three more works: The Culture of the Dasian Yoke, Vespasian: A Man and His Legacy, and Caligula's Follies, which earned additional praise. He began conducting a correspondence, from 1777, with Sir Gibbeoneous, and in a series of communiques, would praise him for his exhaustive studies on the Dasian Empire. He already enjoyed, from 1729, a good friendship with Lady Vassalina, and was in fact godfather to her three younger children. Baron Monompahlaus also contributed his services to numerous archeological expeditions, and in 1784, would publish his Reflections on the Shapeshifter Monuments, which included a authoritative translation of their surviving transcriptions. The following year, he was awarded the Order of St. Alexander, the highest civilian honor in the Empire. He retired from the Guild and the University of Caladaria; in 1786-87, he would publish The Patriotic Treatises, denouncing the aggression of the Holy Spamalkan Empire. It was in 1788 that he began his magnum opus, A Complete History of the Laurasian Empire. This work, which would not be published until 1796, the year before his death, would earn further praise. Like Gibbeoneous, he consulted all prior historians, and dug extensively through primary sources. The work, published in six volumes, and covering Laurasian history from 1321 to 1795, would become the authoritative state history of the Empire, sealed as such by the Empress in January 1797.

In 1790, Baron Monompahlaus, along with Gibbeoneous, was made an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences; in 1791, he was made Chairman Emeritus of the University of the Empire. Between 1789 and 1795, he published a number of smaller works, while continuing to work on his Complete History. These included The First Laurasian Period (1789), The Lacian Overlordship and its Consequences (1790), and Laurasian Relations with the Core from 412-1434 (1793), which was an abbreviated version of the history of the Empire's interactions. When the Complete History was published on July 14, 1796, the Baron was congratulated by his colleagues, and treated to a party in his honor at the Galactic Opera on Laurasia Prime. Prominent nobles, gentlemen, magnates, and performers from throughout the Empire attended. In August and September 1796, he conducted a lecture tour in the Purse Regions, and in November, published his last completed work, The Commentaries on the Imperial Laurasian Government, a brief treatise concerning the operations and procedures of the Empire's government, and how they had changed over the course of the past century. By January 1797, his health was in serious decline, and he came to Laurasia Prime. He died at the Diplomatic Palace in Christiania on March 22, 1797. Given a state funeral by orders of the Empress, he was, due to his nobility, interred at the Westphalian Cathedral.

Sir Antigonus Gibbeoneous (1737-94)
Sir Antigonus Gibbeoneous (May 8, 1737-January 16, 1794) was one of the most distinguished and respected historians in galactic history. He was born in Purania Colony, Daramia, the son of his namesake father, Antigonus (1704-70) and his wife Julia (1709-46). He had six siblings, five brothers and a sister, but all of them died in infancy. Gibbeneous's father, who would become Knight Banneret of Daramia in 1756, was one of the wealthiest Laurasian gentlemen in the Solidaritan Provinces. He owned properties on Michael, Deanna, Wendy, Coen, Impania, Blackria, Nezbit, Sheryl, Laronn, Quanna, Massanay, Sassanay, and in the Istantius Region, as well as in other star systems besides. The young Gibbeoneous, however, suffered from poor health, and would reflect in his later years that he felt himself "oppressed and stifled by my Mother and by the attendants of the household." Nevertheless, he was an excellent pupil, and he did very well academically. He attended St. Kingria's High School on Daramia, and eventually graduated from there in 1754 as the valedictorian of his class. During his time there, he was the President of the Historical Studies Club; Vice-Captain of the Forensics Team; and a founding member of the Analytics Club, which dealt with rhetoric and with the application of history to daily life. He was also involved with the school journal and the Community Service Board. He then won a full-ride scholarship to attend the University of the Empire (from which he would graduate in 1758), dabbled between Traditionalism and Reformism, and from 1755 to 1761, had the chance to study and live abroad in Spamalka and in Haxonia, attending lectures and events at the Universities of Ravenna and Madrid. He also became acquainted with the works of Vergil and of all earlier Laurasian historians; he particularly admired the Annals and Histories of Aoari; the Summaries of Ulagrai; and the Chronicles of Abbott Athansius. He also studied The History of the Evolution of the Core Peoples by the ancient Murphian historian Vo'rill (AH 6-84), absorbing the information about the exploits of the earliest Laurasian and Murphian explorers in space, and the development of civilization on Horacia and on Murphy. He also became familiar with the works of Pascal, Seneca, Cicero, Burrus, Vigil, Boethius, Erasmus, Morius, and numerous other greats.

In 1761, following his return to the Empire, he published his first work, Essays on The Study of Literature, with an account of the differences, and the similarities, between Amulak and Caladarian Galaxy works. He then began work, in 1765, on a History of the Kingdom of Ashlgothia, but lost patience with it and never finished it. He then wrote (1768), the Memoirs of the Empire, which described the literary and social conditions then prevailing in the Caladarian Galaxy. This work gained little notice and was considered a flop. In 1770, his father died, and Gibbeneous, who had kept to his literary interests, inherited the estate. He became involved in the social clubs of the Empire, was admitted to the Imperial Academy of the Arts in 1772, and in February 1773, was named to the City Council of Purania on Daramia. In 1774, he published his next work, Commentaries on Huntite Mysticism, which earned him praise from literary circles. The following year, Gibbeoneous became an investor in the colonization of New Vindictoria, which yielded profit. Yet from 1771, he had already been at work on what became the seminal piece of his life: The History of the Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Dasian Empire.

For this work, which would take Gibbeoneous twelve years to completely publish, he drew upon an extensive number of primary sources. Among the many historians he consulted were: Ulagrai, Aoari, Josephus, Abbott Athanasius, Dio, Victor, Marcellus, Arrian, Vergil, contemporary historians Foxius, Vassalina, and Baron Monompahlaus, Tranquillius, Kasanius, Asagius, Parrania (the great chronicler of the fifteenth century), Juyvani, Fuwati, Masarani (these three being Abbathian historians), Bletto (Brestord historian in Attila's court), Sharangai (court historian to Kublai Khan), Bede (historian of the Amelianians), Malemsetius (Laurasian historian of the eighth century AH), Cressius, Thamana (Venasian historian), Theuderic (Halegothican historian of the thirteenth century), Wosewski (Polonian historian), Clevius (Melorkian historian of the fourteenth century), and Umari (Dasian historian of Timur the Devastator). He was also granted special permission, by the Imperial Ministry of Culture and Communications, to access the Imperial Archives, the Monarch's Personal Library, and the official State Collections of Laurasia Prime. Gibbeoneous dug up holofilm recordings, visual records, oral testimony, state correspondence, state documents, communiques, war reports, war dispatches, guides, local histories, chronicles, annals, archeological collections, original manuscripts, religious documents, astrographic reports, news reports, and almost every other kind of document he could find. He would estimate that he consulted more than 20,000 different sources during a course of nearly twenty years.

On February 17, 1776, he published his first volume of Rise, Decline, and Fall. The reception to it was enthusiastic throughout the Empire. Gibbeoneous was praised for his heavy reliance on these original sources; for his writing style, with wit, irony, and detail; and for the chronological organization of his work. His footnotes, in particular, made very specific notes about every source and every historian whom he consulted. He was showered with accolades from throughout, and with financial reward. The first volume alone made him a profit of more than €5.5 billion dataries, and sold in excess of ten billion copies. Gibbeoneous brought out Volumes II and III in 1781, and Volumes IV, V, and VI in 1788 and 1789. These volumes, too, made billions upon billions of dataries, and sold countless copies throughout the Empire and even beyond, in the Great Amulak Spiral. In 1782, he would be knighted by Empress Aurelia, named a Suffect of the City of Christiania, and in 1785, he would become Chancellor of the Imperial Academy of the Arts, a post he held until his death. He corresponded with the great figures of his time, such as Lord Treasurer Burghley; the Earls of Leicesterius, Jadia, Hannah, Sarah, Estatius, Oxfadia, and Southerton; the Duke of Christiania; Chancellor Walsingis; Procurator-Generals Bagonius and Bromelius; Chief Procurator Whitshiftus; and even with a monarch, Joseth II of Austarlia. His fame spread throughout extra-galactic civilization, and from 1788 to 1794, he would be a guest lecturer at all of the major universities and institutes of the Empire. In 1790, he published his Autobiographical Recollections, describing in detail his process for formulating his work. The final edition of Rise, Decline, and Fall, compiling all of the respective volumes, was published in 1792; the foreword was written by Empress Aurelia herself. The work ultimately comprised some ten million words, across more than 2,000 pages, and was one of the most comprehensive Laurasian historical studies ever published. It began with the story of the Dasian subjection to the Torfian Hordes in the early 1st millennium AH, chronicled their centuries of exile in the Galactic Void, and then pushed into the Dasian intrusions of the eighth century, and thence, to the story of the ninth through thirteenth centuries, among the most eventful in galactic history. Genghis Khan, Ogedei Khan, Mongke Khan, Kublai Khan, Toghun Temur, Batya Khan, Chomaqan, Timur the Devastator, Dost I and Dost II, Tokugaistus the Great, Bodi Aligh, Genghis-Timur, Jebe the Last; all were chronicled, in full detail, in his work. Everyone from Alaric to Genseric the Great, to Wrangia Althia, to Ricimer, to Odoacer, to Theodoric the Great, to Theodoric II, to Attila the Brestord, found their place in his work. The work ended at 1300, to provide a framework of the half-century following the fall of the last Dasian Khanate. All told, it covered the period from c. AH 100 to 1300, a period of 1,200 years.

By the late 1780s, however, the great author's health was in serious decline. He had an emergency bypass operation in November 1789, and in 1791, was obliged to take the waters of Idyll. He then sojourned in the Wild Marshes and the Western Central Core, seeking to find solace at the resorts evident in many of those star systems. These efforts however, came to naught, and in December 1793, he went to Manzo. His health entered its final decline; by the beginning of the new year, he was on his last legs. He died on January 16, 1794, aged 56. His death was received with great mourning at the Imperial Laurasian Court and throughout the Empire. He was, on the orders of Empress Aurelia, given a state funeral on Laurasia Prime, and interred at St. Colombia's Cathedral. His fellow historians, Monompahalaus and Vassalina, both old enough to be his parents, but of which he had the same stature, both delivered eulogies at his funeral.