Epoch

Millions of years before the events of Ringo, Earth was in the middle of a space race. The three big powers, USA, Russia were all in space trying to claim planets and areas in the solar system as politicians scrambled to come up with legislation about such activities. The US had its eyes set on Jupiter, but one hectic morning, the news broke that a Russian space cruiser had planted flags on all of Jupiter's moons, the agreed upon method for conquest of planets with no ground to stand on. Furious, NASA chief strategist (NASA is fully a military branch at this point) goes into a fit of blind rage, firing previously untested "theta wave" bombs at the Russian cruiser. Minutes later, all out space war was in action. Biological weapons, nukes, experimental black hole tech, fusion bombs, shit you've never even tried to imagine is all being shot around the solar system and at earth. It doesn't take long for most of humanity and the entire solar system as we know it to be obliterated and changed forever. the surface of our planet now a gnarled crust of obsidian and pools/clouds of biological and chemical weapons' elements. The crew of the Russian cruiser survived, but their genes began to mutate quickly. they developed blue skin, yellow eyes, they could no longer pronounce their own language, and they forgot almost all of who they were. These initial people would go on to become a veritable Lapita culture but for the universe, and for millions of years, their evolved descendants would become the many humanoid races that populate the world of Ringo. This is what is now known as the Intelligent Life Expansion by historians, but Medrodians call it "The Epoch"