Editing Primordial Evolution Game (section)

==The Bord==
[[Image:Bord chart.png|thumb|How the mighty have fallen.]]

We know relatively little of the Bord beyond when they crashed onto the planet. Scattered hints tell of a mighty and vainglorious people, one that has technology take care of their every need, leaving the average citizen weak and helpless with their machine-servants to cater to their every whim, but there is little concrete information at this time.

The Bord are an avian species of sentient aliens that rule a vast interstellar empire beyond the world on which Primordial takes place. They're technologically advanced, militarily capable, and we have no idea where they come from. All their vehicles look like effigies of themselves, and there's a possibility they might be fascistic.

Below are the current explanation of their hypothosized history.

===In-Universe History===

====Pre-Space Colonization====
All that is known is that the Bord are descended from some sort of waterfowl-like alien.
Bord legend tells of their kind viewing its own reflection in a pool of water and falling in love with it, recognizing, in Bord, true perfection of form. This marked the beginning of a long tradition of Bord vanity.

====First Empire====
1st empire was born when the bords achieved interstellar flight. They (presumably) utilized generation ships to colonize other solar systems. In these generation ships, the travelers lived and died, developed their own traditions and cultures. 1st empire rapidly grew and expanded, but splintered into small, warring sectors almost equally fast, due to the cultural differences between the new colonies. This age of warfare went on for an undefined age, until a new faction that managed to subdue them others emerged with their superior technology.

====Second Empire====
The 2nd empire was born from a faction of bords who had developed extremely potent technologies (high energy weapons, super advanced nanite systems, AI and so on.) This faction managed to conquer the other bord factions of that time, and grew supreme. During this golden age of technology, the bords expanded once more, with long distance sleeper ships which were maintained by advanced autonomous robotics and nanite systems.
They formed a mighty, more unified and technologically very potent empire, that was dominant for again, and undefined time.

The 2nd empire collapsed, when the technology of the bords went full skynet against them. Their dependency on their automated systems made the bords extremely defenseless against their hostile creations. What ever caused their nanite systems to go independent, was probably very similar to the (unknown) reason that caused the first vyrii nanites to form.
The 2nd empire collapsed quite fast, as the degenerate viral nanites used the unified communication network of the empire to spread themselves far too fast for any proper defense.

====Third Empire====

The 3rd empire rose from the ashes of the 2nd. How they survived against their former creations is anyone's guess, but they did and they managed to carve themselves an empire, that was almost as mighty as the ones that preceded them. Their whole gist is the abolishment of almost all advanced AI and nanite technologies of the 2nd empire, while they almost completely embrace the weapon technologies of the past. They are the most long lasting bord empire, and they have managed to maintain their stability and unity trough strong militarism, fascism and very potent method of control over their citizens. The 3rd empire plays into the natural behavior of the bords, who are quite lazy and self obsessed creatures. The 3rd empire provides easy living, entertainment, and pleasures for it's citizens, giving them no reason to rise against the authority. Of course, this easy life is just a cleverly disguised prison, and those few who do not fall for it are picked out by the system, and placed in fields where their abnormal behavior is of use.

In short, the 1st and 2nd empire both failed due to certain faults in their social design.
1st, for the lack of unified culture, 2nd for their complete dependency on their technology, and uncontrolled technological advancement.
3rd empire has eliminated those faults. There are basically no cultural differences between bord colonies of the 3rd empire. And while the life of a normal bord is very tied to the automated technologies, there are no true AIs behind these techs. As for technological development, the 3rd empire has a tight leash on it, in order to prevent the re-creation of the self replicating machines that ravaged the 2nd empire. Presumably, these machines still exist, and they are the main enemies of the 3rd empire.

====Fourth Empire?====

During the events of Primordial, it is not impossible to have yet another uprising against the authoritarian 3rd Empire, and creating a new, 4th empire -- but so far, this is just a possibility.

===Origins IRL===
''Hooo-boy''. You better sit down for this one. Basically, the Bord started as a joke, but now they're a huge part of Primordial canon.
The Bord were a small, fat, pudgy species of birds native to the tundra region. Problem was that the GM couldn't figure out how to explain their presence in that region. A joke image showed the Bord emerging from a crashed spaceship, as if they had flown and landed there from another world. Players liked the idea so much, Indonesian Gentleman eventually took it and  ran with it, and it was soon made canon.

The Bord later returned during the ocean reef games, where some toxic waste dumped into the world's oceans bore a familiar symbol on the side, the symbol of the Bord Empire. Cue a cutaway to Bord politicans denying any pollution of the waters of "Borgas IV", the Bord's name for the planet that comprises Primordial's setting.