Common space travel

Between the years 400 BCF to about 375 BCF, most of the Awakened Races attained the ability to easily travel the frontier of space. At this time, the races were able to produce spacecraft in an easy and affordable way which made them commercially available, albeit to the richest of civilians. Nevertheless, this new access to space travel allowed explorers and colonists to reach new planets which they claimed in the name of their home planets. This led to the rise of the Aitian Empires, the foundling empires that would spread across the stars and would eventually clash together in the colossal war that was the Great Galactic Conflict.

With the access to space, the Awakened Races gained their name from their discovery of the force that fills the universe, Psychon. This exposure led to the Awakening, in which occasional members of the races began to be able to manipulate psionic energy, becoming the first Psions.