Uglud
We first became aware of the Uglud in 2587. They inhabit the overgrown planet Moagmougvi in the Mougmaogla Ugmag system. They are noble, solitary, and passive.
The Uglud have learned how to catch water-dwelling creatures such as the liaglugmo, which is now a staple part of the Uglud diet.
The Uglud have begun to cultivate crops, including vudmuigvu, a kind of sour fungus.
The Uglud have developed a simple system of writing, which they use primarily for storytelling.
The Uglud make extensive use of stone tools in a variety of contexts, including when hunting the wild voto.
The Uglud have mastered the control of fire. They use it to cook their food, and to light their villages at night.
The Uglud have begun to watch the skies and recognize patterns in the movements of stars, which they use to navigate over great distances and keep track of time.
The Uglud have developed a sophisticated understanding of basic mathematics, such as arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.
The Uglud have domesticated a species of small flying animals. The pets assist their Uglud owners with hunting in exchange for food and shelter.
The Uglud have begun to construct permanent dwellings and other structures, making especially extensive use of the wood of the vudmuigvu plant as a building material.
In 2664, many of the warring Uglud city-states were united under a single banner by an individual known as Muto the Ruthless. The city of Laidluigmu Muglatvu has been declared the capital of the resulting empire, which rules over approximately 14% of the entire Uglud population. Like many other Uglud states, it is governed by a council of oligarchs.
The Uglud have begun to make use of more sophisticated construction techniques, relying on sturdy structural elements such as arches and buttresses to support larger and larger buildings.
The Uglud have learned how to build ships and sail them across the oceans of Moagmougvi to explore and trade over increasingly greater distances.
The Uglud have discovered how to forge molten metal into jewelry, tools, weapons, and armor.
The Uglud have begun to use lenses and mirrors made from polished crystal, glass, and water to redirect and focus light.
Some of the Uglud have begun to experiment with alchemy, systematically searching for new ways of combining and manipulating ingredients to yield useful chemicals, compounds, and medicines.
In 2776, the Uglud population reached 25 million individuals. Many of these live within permanent cities, the largest of which is known as Laidluigmu Muglatvu and has a population of 81,000.
The Uglud have developed a simple printing press, and mass-produced versions of important texts have begun to circulate widely throughout the world. Transcriptions of folktales are especially popular.
The Uglud have begun to construct wind and water mills, which redirect the forces of the natural world to perform repetitive mechanical tasks such as grinding grain and pumping water.
In their efforts to understand the motion of planets in the sky, free-falling bodies, and projectiles, the Uglud have developed a new branch of mathematics which is immediately recognizable as calculus.
The Uglud have developed a practical and cost-effective steam engine, which can be fueled with wood or coal.
The Uglud have built elaborate pipe and sewer systems to supply their larger settlements, such as Laidluigmu Muglatvu, with fresh water and a hygenic means of waste disposal.
The city of Laidluigmu Muglatvu has become renowned among the Uglud as a center of commerce and trade. In particular, the elegant clothing produced there is highly sought after by traders around the world.
The Uglud have discovered a way to manufacture gunpowder, which they primarily use in warfare.
Through systematic observation and categorization of the various living things on Moagmougvi, the Uglud have begun to develop a more sophisticated understanding of biology. Some theorists have even put forth the idea that dramatically different-looking organisms, such as the voto and the liaglugmo, may in fact share a single common ancestor.
The Uglud have begun to develop rockets.
The initially controversial hypothesis that diseases are caused by microorganisms has begun to catch on among the Uglud, leading to the widespread adoption of public health policies which have greatly reduced the spread of disease.
In 2888, an emerging religion known as Viudvuagmi became the official religion of the largest Uglud state. Adherents of Viudvuagmi wear striking green cloaks to mark themselves as believers.
The Uglud have successfully tamed electricity, and are now beginning to deploy it throughout society. Electric lights are widespread, electric motors are used to drive factories, and the growing need for electric power has led to the construction of power plants near every major center of Uglud population.
The Uglud have developed flying machines which can carry them into the skies above Moagmougvi.
The Uglud have begun harnessing the power of electricity to send messages across very great distances with unprecedented speed. Due to the overhead of encoding and decoding messages, long-distance communication remains far from instantaneous, but it is now possible for individuals on opposite sides of Moagmougvi to exchange several messages over the course of a single day.
With the development of the transistor, the Uglud have begun to construct more sophisticated electronic circuits.
The Uglud have arrived at a sophisticated understanding of genetics, which has enabled them to craft new forms of life by deliberately modifying the genes of existing organisms.
The Uglud have discovered that electromagnetic waves may be used to transmit information, enabling the development and widespread deployment of media for audiovisual broadcasting.
The Uglud have begun to build general-purpose programmable computers.
The Uglud have taken their first tentative steps into space, launching craft capable of supporting several individuals into orbit around Moagmougvi before retrieving them safely.
The Uglud have begun to connect their computers into a single vast network, enabling communication and collaboration on a truly global scale.
The Uglud have developed an accurate model of the internal structure of the atom, which has also enabled them to understand the phenomenon of radioactivity.
The Uglud have begun to understand quantum physics.
The Uglud have developed a form of artificial general intelligence which rivals many of their own intellectual capabilities.
In 3093, following decades of negotiation, the various sovereign Uglud nations came to an agreement concerning the establishment of a unified planet-wide government for all of the Uglud.
The Uglud have constructed their first cost-effective quantum computers, dramatically improving their collective ability to perform certain types of calculation.
Through their investigations of quantum phenomena, the Uglud have discovered a means of sending and receiving messages which travel at speeds exceeding that of light itself.
The Uglud have begun to experiment with the use of "intelligent materials", in the form of swarms of programmable nanobots.
The Uglud have begun to establish permanent colonies on worlds other than Moagmougvi. Although still largely unable to travel outside of the Mougmaogla Ugmag system, the distribution of Uglud civilization across multiple worlds greatly reduces the risk that they will collapse due to any crisis of merely planetary scale.
The Uglud have successfully tested their first faster-than-light starship. No longer are they trapped within the gravity well of the Mougmaogla Ugmag system: they are now free to take their place alongside us as fellow wanderers among the stars.
In 3114, the Uglud joined us.