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'''''Expansion: The History of the Galaxy''''' ("Экспансия: История галактики") is a Russian science fiction book series written by Andrey Livadny. Unlike many other series, Livadny's novels rarely include the same characters. For the most part, each novel focuses on one or several characters being thrust into extraordinary events at some point in the universe created by Livadny, spanning a timeline between the 23rd and the 39th centuries.
Unfortunately, the novels are plagued by [[Canon Discontinuity]], which could have been [[Hand Wave|explained away]] by [[Unreliable Narrator
The titular history of the galaxy is, for the most part, focused on humanity's expansion into the stars. Aliens only come to play in much later novels (according to the universe's timeline). Even then, there are surprisingly few alien races shown in the novels. However, this can be explained by the fact that humans have only explored a tiny part of the galaxy (despite the name of the series) and have only colonized slightly more than 200 worlds. In fact, the entire series tends to be human-centric, most prominently displayed by the so-called Galactic Wars, which only occurred in several dozen systems and without alien influence (aliens have not been discovered yet).
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It should be noted that all alien species in the novels can be classified as [[Precursors]], as most of them are several million years old, and some have stopped counting at several ''billion''. They left a number of ruins and artifacts, although only one is known to have been as far as Earth, but that was way before humans evolved.
To date{{when}}, the series includes 34 novels and 20 short stories. Additionally, several of the novels are organized into sub-series:
* ''Mercenary'': explores the consequences of creating an army of mindless androids to fight in a war.
* ''John Mitchell St. Ivo'': chronicles the adventures of the last descendant of the family that founded the largest [[Mega Corp]] in history.
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* ''Mechanoforms'': showcases the invasion of human space by self-replicating machines which are all that remain of a long-dead civilization.
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* [[Absent Aliens]] - played straight for the first half of the series (in-universe chronology). Other races discovered later and play an important part in the second half of the series.
* [[Abusive Precursors]] - the Shvergs were an ancient, expansionist race responsible for several genocides. Humanity has yet to meet them, if they are still around.
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