Chronicles of galactic Antiquity

The Chroniques of galactic Antiquity are series of Cartoon written by Valerie Mangin whose accounts constitute a universe of Science-fiction and published since 2000 by the editions Sun Productions and as from 2006 in its solar Quadrant collection. These chronicles evoke the history of new a Roman Empire made up in the future on the scale of the galaxy and are inspired freely by mythology gréco-Roman and mythical accounts ancient authors. They are illustrated by Aleksa Gajic (series the Plague of the Gods ) and by Thierry Démarez (series the Trojan ).

Establishment of the universe

The heading “Chronicles of galactic Antiquity” appears in 2004 on the last of cover of volume 4 of the Fléau of the gods and the first volume of the Dernier Trojan . The two series are written by Valerie Mangin starting from an idea of her husband Denis Bajram. The first evokes the existence in a universe of Space operated of a Roman empire, galactic Roman Orbis, which undergo the invasions of people of barbarians hitherto unknown, Huns. In 2004, Mangin writes a new series, Last the Trojan , again taking again elements of the ancient history in a universe of space science fiction: the Trojan War then the wandering of Énée and Ulysses in Mediterranean.

In August 2006, with the publication of the last volume of the Plague and the fourth of the Last Trojan , the universe of the Chronicles of galactic Antiquity extends from a chronology and advertisement from two new series: Imperator on the origin of Orbis and the War of the gods during whom the divine characters of the Fléau will act on humanity after having been projected in the past at the time of the Trojan War. In Carthago , the fourth volume of the Last Trojans , two other series of the Chronicles are evoked: Attila of the Fléau seems an oracle furtively on the future of Orbis and the Auguste emperor with whom it Virgile poet tells the adventures of Énée and hero of Imperator , is more visible than in the preceding volumes.

Inspirations

Valerie Mangin exposed her intentions in the reappropriation of the Greek and Roman history ancient in inserts of volumes 2 and 4 of the Dernier Trojan . She writes thus that “in Greece even more than in Rome, it was the tradition for each author to improvise freely around the general groundworks of the Trojan War and the voyages of the survivors. To shout with the scandal because a poet would not have respected such part of the account would have seemed absurd to the listeners of the time. ”

the Plague of the gods share of the war between Attila and Aetius in the middle of the 5th century, to develop then in the description of galactic Orbis and the interrogations on the supposed divinity of the characters of fiction Attila and Flavia Ætia.

Last the Trojan is freely inspired by the adventures of Énéide of Virgile and the Odyssey of Homère, respectively on the parallel wanderings of the Trojan Énée and the Greek Ulysses. Mangin the force to be crossed during their voyages in a mythology reinvented by a poet of Orbis to like the founder of the galactic empire. In addition to the introduction of elements of science fiction (the Pentacontre S antiques preserve their form while becoming spaceships, the Mediterranean is replaced by interstellar space, etc), Mangin includes contemporary sets of themes there: the definition of the Femininity and the Masculanité in the Queen of Amazones (volume 2) for example. The series by confronting new Virgile with a new Auguste founder of Orbis recalls that the writing of Énéide coincided with the reign of Auguste, first Roman Emperor to Ier century before Jesus Christ.

Fictitious history of the universe

The end of the Fléau of the gods announces the beginning of the War of the gods which claims to tell the Trojan War at the time when the “gods” of the Fléau are projected in the past, giving an extraordinary origin to the gods of the Greek Polythéisme.

The meeting of Human with extraterrestrial people is placed at XXVIIIe century and is concluded with the rapid controls of all the galaxy by Humanity and the exile of extraterrestrial in XXXIIIe century at the time of the events leading to the foundation of Orbis told in Imperator . Auguste becomes the first galactic Roman Emperor after a civil war where the Italian Fascisme and the Racisme (here, against the extraterrestrial ones) inspired Valerie Mangin.

Last the Trojan is located around 3300,46 years after the foundation of Orbis by the new Auguste. It mixes the reality created for the Chronicles: Virgile Secundus amusing the imperial court of Orbis; but also, a mythological fiction that this poet rewritten to make forget the real causes of the foundations of Orbis, a civil war.

754 years after the foundation of Orbis (the Fondation of Rome takes place into -753 according to the tradition), the will to forget the past and to rewrite the history of Orbis that Virgile Secundus announces, is completed by two decrees of the galactic emperor Constantin. One states that “galactic beginning did not have and will not have end”. The second prohibits the scientific research so that the apogee and the peace of Orbis remain without war risk caused by an arms race. These edicts are explained in the Plague of the gods . They justify the easy victories of Huns vis-a-vis little trained Roman legions and that is hidden under the hill of Rome the library of the Vatican.

According to the plank chronology published in 2006, the Plague of the gods is placed at the end of the events envisaged by the authors for the galactic Chronicles: with the forty-fourth century after Jesus Christ, 1100 years after the foundation of galactic Roman Orbis, this one is under the threat of Huns, whereas the Romans believed being the only people of the galaxy. The real causes of this war are gradually revealed with the two heroes, Attila and Flavia Ætia. These causes imagine technological reasons with the existence of the gods of the Greek Mythologie and Roman.

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