The Anki Ascendancy is an empire consisting of the planets Anki, Gordon, Lunshi, Piplin, and Zetta (Lunshi and Zetta are NOT RIP-worlds and only reachable by starship travel). It was founded in the Earth Year (EY) 1630 when the humans of Anki declared independence from the Elvi Empire. There was no war since the humans had helped creating RIP-drive and Hyperdrive technology which negated the use of the RIP-gates to travel FTL around the galaxy.