*gasp pant* Okay, I'm done. 160K of describing rigidly mechanistic events while at the same time trying to develop a personality for my race... whew.
And then, just as I reached what looked like Peace In Our Time, MEE kicks in. I thought I'd disabled that, darnit!
This has been spellchecked but not really edited yet; for now I'm just sick of looking at it.
Later on I guess I'll try to turn it into something less like a list of events and more like an actual story.