Mobfmo
We first became aware of the Mobfmo in 2484. They inhabit the chilly planet Mjopfjomja in the Maobfmo Modaq system. They are creative, enduring, and passionate.
The Mobfmo have learned how to catch water-dwelling creatures such as the moimop, which is now a staple part of the Mobfmo diet.
The Mobfmo have begun to cultivate crops. One especially popular crop is a kind of sour vegetable known as mjopfjomjo.
The Mobfmo 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 Mobfmo use stone tools for many things. This has dramatically improved their efficiency in hunting the wild miomiob.
The Mobfmo have developed a simple system of writing, which they use primarily for worship.
The Mobfmo have begun to construct permanent dwellings and other structures. They make especially extensive use of wood as a building material.
The Mobfmo have learned how to build ships and sail them across the oceans of Mjopfjomja to explore and trade over increasingly greater distances.
The Mobfmo have mastered the control of fire. They use it to cook their food, and to light their villages at night.
The Mobfmo have developed a sophisticated understanding of basic mathematics, such as arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.
The Mobfmo have discovered how to forge molten metal into jewelry, tools, weapons, and armor.
In 2654, many of the warring Mobfmo clans were united under a single banner by an individual known as Dimoib. The city of Mjobfjomjo has become the capital of the resulting empire, which rules over approximately 19% of the entire Mobfmo population. Unusually for the Mobfmo, it is governed by a hereditary monarch.
The Mobfmo have begun to use lenses and mirrors made from polished crystal, glass, and water to redirect and focus light.
In 2689, an emerging religion known as Maodob became the official religion of the largest Mobfmo state. Adherents of Maodob wear plain blue cloaks to mark themselves as believers.
The Mobfmo have built elaborate pipe and sewer systems to supply their larger settlements, such as Mjobfjomjo, with fresh water and a hygenic means of waste disposal.
In 2702, the Mobfmo population reached 25 million individuals. Many of these dwell within permanent cities, the largest of which is known as Mjobfjomjo and has a population of 69,000.
The Mobfmo 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.
Some of the Mobfmo have begun to experiment with alchemy, systematically searching for new ways of combining and manipulating ingredients to yield useful chemicals, compounds, and medicines.
Due to its role as the birthplace of several major Mobfmo religions, including the especially prominent Maodob faith, the city of Mjobfjomjo is regarded by many of the Mobfmo as a holy site. The highest-ranking Maodob official in Mjobfjomjo is considered the de facto leader of the Maodob church as a whole, and pilgrimages to the city are commonplace.
The Mobfmo have developed a simple printing press, and mass-produced versions of important texts have begun to circulate widely throughout the world. Scary stories are especially popular.
In their efforts to understand the motion of planets in the sky, free-falling bodies, and projectiles, the Mobfmo have developed a new branch of mathematics which is immediately recognizable as calculus.
Through systematic observation and categorization of the various living things on Mjopfjomja, the Mobfmo 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 miomiob and the moimop, may in fact be descended from a single common ancestor.
Although initially controversial, the hypothesis that diseases can be caused by microorganisms has begun to catch on among the Mobfmo, leading to the widespread adoption of public health policies which have greatly reduced the spread of disease.
The Mobfmo have discovered a way to manufacture gunpowder, which they primarily use in warfare.
The Mobfmo have begun to develop rockets.
The Mobfmo 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.
The Mobfmo have domesticated a species of small fluffy predators. The pets assist their Mobfmo owners with pest control in exchange for food and shelter.
The Mobfmo 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 Mobfmo have developed a practical and cost-effective steam engine, which can be fueled with wood or coal.
The Mobfmo 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 Mobfmo population.
The Mobfmo 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 Mjopfjomja to exchange several messages over the course of a single day.
The Mobfmo have developed flying machines which can carry them into the skies above Mjopfjomja.
The Mobfmo have discovered that electromagnetic waves may be used to transmit information, enabling the development and widespread deployment of media for audiovisual broadcasting.
With the development of the transistor, the Mobfmo have begun to construct more sophisticated electronic circuits.
The Mobfmo have begun to build general-purpose programmable computers.
The Mobfmo have taken their first tentative steps into space, launching craft capable of supporting several individuals into orbit around Mjopfjomja before retrieving them safely.
The Mobfmo have begun to connect their computers into a single vast network, enabling communication and collaboration on a truly global scale.
The Mobfmo have developed an accurate model of the internal structure of the atom, which has also enabled them to understand the phenomenon of radioactivity.
The Mobfmo have developed a form of artificial general intelligence which rivals many of their own intellectual capabilities.
The Mobfmo have begun to understand quantum physics.
The Mobfmo have begun to experiment with the use of "intelligent materials", in the form of swarms of programmable nanobots.
In 3019, following decades of negotiation, the various sovereign Mobfmo nations came to an agreement concerning the establishment of a unified planet-wide government for all of the Mobfmo.
The Mobfmo have constructed their first cost-effective quantum computers, dramatically improving their collective ability to perform certain types of calculation.
The Mobfmo have begun to establish permanent colonies on worlds other than Mjopfjomja. Although still largely unable to travel outside of the Maobfmo Modaq system, the distribution of Mobfmo civilization across multiple worlds greatly reduces the risk that they will collapse due to any crisis of merely planetary scale.
Through their investigations of quantum phenomena, the Mobfmo have discovered a means of sending and receiving messages which travel at speeds exceeding that of light itself.
The Mobfmo have successfully tested their first faster-than-light starship. No longer are they trapped within the gravity well of the Maobfmo Modaq system: they are now free to take their place alongside us as fellow wanderers among the stars.
In 3045, the Mobfmo joined us.