My idea:
2014. The Wizards faction is in ruins; they are, by almost an order of magnitude, the faction which suffered more losses in the war (only the Belters, never the most united faction, come close), and most of their settlements, including their capital, have been attacked and heavily damaged. The survivors face the peace with a combination of relief, post-traumatic shock, and fear, and face one question: What do we do now? in the normal course of events, they would have retreated to their asteroids, rebuilt, and eventually return, having lost their illusion, which would take a long time to rebuild and doom their faction to the mid tier.
But that course of events was sidetracked when Noah Gordon called a secret conference of a few independent SMOFS and the leaders of several factions, including the Minister of Magic and Queen Serenity. He revealed a part of the Fenspace Catalog that had been kept secret due to the security issues during the war, a part that would change the Wizards forever: Magic is real.
The danger was not gone, so Noah asked those leaders to keep the data contained for the time being. The Minister of Magic first idea about hidding magic was to blow up in anger and reveal the whole thing, but with all the suffering his (her?) people had gone through , the wizards had reached the height of paranoia. He promised Noah that, while he could not keep magic secret to his faction, the wizards would not reveal the secret until it was time.
As soon as he went back home to Hogsmeade he summoned the entire Wizengamot and ministry in a secret meeting, and for the next six years the wizards began the Mad-Eye Regency. First the Wizengamot, and in the next few weeks as the news were passed, the entire faction in a private referendum, passed the Statute of Secrecy.
The wizards faction retreated to the Belt. The rest of fenspace noticed it, of course, but passed it as the result of the war: The Wizards were licking their wounds. Indeed, they were licking their wounds: They rebuild, and fortified, their cities, trained more Aurors, and rebuilt their faction. They also went back to their Towers and began exploring Magic with a passion. They did not manage to keep the secret fully -rumors appeared form time to time- but no one really paid then much attention, thinking that it was just the usual handwaved "magic" they had used since the beginning.
The Statute was finally lifted in (insert date here: either 2020 or 2023, in the new season).
2014. The Wizards faction is in ruins; they are, by almost an order of magnitude, the faction which suffered more losses in the war (only the Belters, never the most united faction, come close), and most of their settlements, including their capital, have been attacked and heavily damaged. The survivors face the peace with a combination of relief, post-traumatic shock, and fear, and face one question: What do we do now? in the normal course of events, they would have retreated to their asteroids, rebuilt, and eventually return, having lost their illusion, which would take a long time to rebuild and doom their faction to the mid tier.
But that course of events was sidetracked when Noah Gordon called a secret conference of a few independent SMOFS and the leaders of several factions, including the Minister of Magic and Queen Serenity. He revealed a part of the Fenspace Catalog that had been kept secret due to the security issues during the war, a part that would change the Wizards forever: Magic is real.
The danger was not gone, so Noah asked those leaders to keep the data contained for the time being. The Minister of Magic first idea about hidding magic was to blow up in anger and reveal the whole thing, but with all the suffering his (her?) people had gone through , the wizards had reached the height of paranoia. He promised Noah that, while he could not keep magic secret to his faction, the wizards would not reveal the secret until it was time.
As soon as he went back home to Hogsmeade he summoned the entire Wizengamot and ministry in a secret meeting, and for the next six years the wizards began the Mad-Eye Regency. First the Wizengamot, and in the next few weeks as the news were passed, the entire faction in a private referendum, passed the Statute of Secrecy.
The wizards faction retreated to the Belt. The rest of fenspace noticed it, of course, but passed it as the result of the war: The Wizards were licking their wounds. Indeed, they were licking their wounds: They rebuild, and fortified, their cities, trained more Aurors, and rebuilt their faction. They also went back to their Towers and began exploring Magic with a passion. They did not manage to keep the secret fully -rumors appeared form time to time- but no one really paid then much attention, thinking that it was just the usual handwaved "magic" they had used since the beginning.
The Statute was finally lifted in (insert date here: either 2020 or 2023, in the new season).