While the New Ordained Dominion only became a recognized power near the midpoint of Year 7, rumors suggest that its origins have been around for nearly a century, gathering power and tracing their way through the upper echelons of governing powers. Others believe that it originated with the discovery of the Force, but these historians are often dismissed as quacks and lunatics, this may be because they are quacks and lunatics, though it's more likely that the Dominion would not like its history to be wide-spread knowledge.