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Twilight

(-1776 to -1526) The failure of the Rule of Man triggered the collapse of most interstellar civilization. while interstellar travel and commerce continued, it was at a greatly reduced rate, and the many worlds of the Imperium turned in on themselves. The period of collapse is termed Twilight, and it lasted for two and a half centuries. Modern historians consider Twilight to have begun in -1776 when the treasury on Hub/Ershur refused to acknowledge a monetary issue of the branch treasury at Antares, which triggered a financial collapse and the destruction of large- scale trade within the Imperium. The end of Twilight is commonly accepted as the year -1526, when the last government claiming to be the Rule of an ceased to exist.

See also Long Night.

Twilight's Peak

Legendary or apocryphal story of lost starfarers on an unknown world who discover fantastic structures and devices while surviving a terrible winter. Phrased as an epic poem of execrable quality, the story is most notable only in that it is based on fact: a task force was lost in the time period specified, and it has not been recovered or accounted for.