In response, the Empire sent a great force of Imperial Knights, the Blood Eagles, to "subdue" the tribe. Isolated from the Great Human Empire, these people developed a sense of pride and started referring to themselves as a "tribe", the Children of the Phoenix, named after Harabec "Phoenix" Weathers, a legendary hero of the Cybrid wars. Many people traveled through the jumpgates and settled across the galaxies this movement was known as the Diaspora. A more powerful "meta-jumpgate", which covered much more distance, was later discovered and realized to be part of a vast network of them.
400 years later, having hunted down the remaining Cybrids across the stars, humans discovered the first Interstellar Transfer Conduit (dubbed " jumpgate"), a teleportation device or phenomenon (not clearly specified).
The 29th century saw humanity fighting the third and last war against the Cybrids, a sentient robotic race it had created. Thus began the development of Tribes Universe, a new MMO, and Tribes: Ascend, a new FPS. On October 23, 2010, it was announced that Hi-Rez Studios were the new owners of the Tribes franchise, thus canceling development on PlayTribes. PlayTribes was available for play during the 2009 Penny Arcade Expo at InstantAction's display in the expo hall. It was announced on May 14th, 2009, that they would soon be accepting email addresses for beta invites. March 17, 2009, GarageGames announced they have purchased the IP and source code for Starsiege: Tribes and will be releasing an update through the browser based game service, InstantAction. As of November 2007, the Sierra Master Server is no longer active, and has been replaced by a community-run master server. However, the master server was still active after this date.
On July 16, 2007, Sierra Entertainment announced that they would cease online support of Tribes starting on August 16, 2007. The outdoor environments were and still are relatively huge, extending for several kilometers in any direction, but "jetting" and "skiing" gave Tribes a fast-paced feel. In general, bases were scattered throughout the map depending on the gametype. Most of the standard maps were outdoors in a variety of climates, from sunshine to snow and hail. Tribes was one of the first online-only games of its kind and sported several multiplayer features that other games have only recently included (32+ player support, 128 players max, troop transport vehicles, several different player classes). It was developed by Dynamix and published by the company now known as Sierra Entertainment in 1998. It is the first of the Tribes video game series and follows the story from Earthsiege and Starsiege. Starsiege: Tribes (commonly referred to simply as Tribes) is a sci-fi first-person shooter video game.
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