Beyond; follow-up

Just a few background bits and tie-ins. 

One, Collin married Hamren, son of Hamaf.  She also became the first Queen of Tara, although in all fairness he did most of the management.  She and Emperor Kevand had become quite close after the crash, and she was a driving force behind colonization. 
She also found out, shortly after arriving in the colony, that she was a werewolf.  The palace was designed around the hope that having secret passages and very thick doors would help keep other people from figuring it out.  It didn't work so well, and it can be safely assumed that anyone inside the palace of Tara, to this day, is either a Lycan, or sleeping in the extraordinarily well fortified guest quarters.  The number of moons that Tara possesses means that it is always a full moon, and often more than one.  All of Taran architecture has since been designed around the mentality of 'small windows, and lots of thick, metal doors'.  Over the last several millennia, Nieldic scientists have noticed that people from Tara can operate at full efficiency at only four hours of sleep spread over seventy-two hours.  People often fail to notice that they sleep at all. 

Two, Emperor Kevand  is generally considered to be one of the greatest Emperors of all time.  He managed to almost single handedly restructure the government, and appointed many non-nobles to rule the new colonies.  A further restructuring of the tax codes allowed him to impoverish most of the standing nobility,  rendering them powerless.  That tax code, with minor adjustments, is actually still used by the Danielandish.  Oddly enough, the system is designed less to tax the citizens and businesses of the empire and more to place the Empire in control of several critical and profitable industries, particularly mining.  He spent most of his reign working on that code, and managed to get it to work out in such a way as to make most of the Empire's raw materials very inexpensive while still offering a rather good wage to all the workers; taxes on the middle and lower classes dropped to a pittance.  The nobility however, was forced to shoulder much of the burden.  They took it surprisingly well, and only a few thousand of them had to be executed.  The rest followed his example and took over other critical industries, food production being one of the most popular. 

Jor became captain of the Rangers, and that unit was permanently assigned to guarding research facilities and testing new devices in combat.  They were expanded, and made a permanent division of the army.  He married Polly, but her family disowned her for it.  She enlisted with the Rangers and served as his second in command until they retired.  They had one son, Haelvan, who followed in their footsteps as commander of the Rangers.  He married one of Collin and Hamren's daughters and had several children prior to the Ga-Vok raid on Tara during the Ga-Vok war. 

Hamaf died(clearly). 

Jeanine fell in with a guild of thieves and thugs known as 'the Ukown'.  They never really accepted her, as a result of her obvious pursuit of a personal agenda.  However, she did manage to turn most of the guild towards the goal of cleansing the empire of the worse sort of nobles.  She had a son who followed in her footsteps as an assassin intent on justice, Gar. 

And lastly; the ship was later determined(much, much later) to have been human in origin.  An event of supernatural(and keep in mind that both magic and demons are considered a part of the natural universe to the Nielda) origins struck quite suddenly at precisely the moment of the crash and effected nearly the entire universe.  All civilizations prior to that point seem to have suffered debilitating catastrophes at the exact same time.  Ten years later the Nielda launched their first interstellar ship and established their first colony on another planet, Tara(or as it was originally known 'holy crap this place is dark fifty percent of the day!', or more officially 'world of the many dark islands'.