Expansion

The Expansion was an era of colonisation by humans when Earth was on the brink of a period of five thousand years of inhabitability. (TV: The Ark in Space) Though in the following millennia nobody came to Earth and far from the freight routes, humanity thrived throughout its many colonies. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment)

It was around this time that the first star-pioneers reached Andromeda. Eventually that whole galaxy became dominated by humans. Another particularly successful colony was GalSec, which in ten thousand years carved out an empire with bases throughout Mutter's Spiral. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment) The time was marked by war between GalSec and the Wirrn. (AUDIO: Wirrn Dawn)