The task of the guards, the long peace of the empire, and colonization efforts.

The heir of the Junlaerd was a much wiser, more stable man than his Grandfather. Under his reign many laws were established, and the Imperial Guards were tasked with driving out the demon worshiping cults, which had flourished under the Junlaerd, along with the numerous dark powers these cults had drawn to the empire. These Dark Powers came to be refered to as 'Shaditha' for the Nieldic word meaning darkness, and have been roughly translated to common( In the rare cases were Nieldic is translated at all) as 'shade'. The striking similarity is not lost on the Nielda or on those humans who are aware of such things, though the origins are often misunderstood by the later.

For a thousand years, the empire prospered and as one emperor passed on and a new one took his place the population grew. The military traditions of the Nieldic race fell idle, and their skill in trade and love for efficiency grew. But with neither disease nor war to hinder the growth of the population; Scientists and engineers were forced to work tirelessly to solve, or prevent, the imminent threats of starvation and overpopulation.

Until one day, the answer to their problems landed on forty million unsuspecting people.
simultaneously postponing the inevitable overpopulation, and opening a brand new world of interesting and noticeably brittle-boned people to the Nielda.

A team of the best scientists, engineers, and magicians was assembled to find out how the newcomers came to arrive in the middle of the crater where a large city had once stood. The few human survivors, later discovered to be a lost part of an exploration mission, made attempts to either communicate or defend themselves; depending primarily on how the person relating the account thinks he can pass off frantic arm waving and traumatic blood-loss. Few actual records were recovered, fewer survivors. In a stroke of luck, the interstellar drive was in tact enough to be reverse engineered; and enough of the ships crew survived to translate a basic dictionary, and be recorded for syntax and pronunciation. Tragically, or Fortuitously again depending on the story teller, none of the survivors survived the combination of highly infectious disease's and lack of properly sanitized medical facilities which existed on Danielland(a condition that has yet to abate).

After a series of rather barbaric, and simplistic, launch tests, the Nielda managed to launch their first Space station, and from it, launch their first interstellar spacecraft. Only a decade after their initial discovery of anything at all above the sky; they were establishing their first colony.