Travian Civil War

The Travian 'Civil' War as it was referred as by the Travian Star Republic at the time was a large scale conflict between the Travian Star Republic and the Travian Star Empire. It encompassed the entire Travian Alliance at the time and lasted for several centuries until the interference by the Alzorian Union which sided with the Republic.
== Build up & Cause ==
The Republic during the early days of their space exploration had begun to bully out the other Travian States on Travia. Slowly but surely taking control of the world piece by piece, continent by continent. This caused many to split off from the world and into the stars setting up colonies which eventually became their Capital worlds. One such Nation would become the Travian Star Empire. It through luck and determination became relatively equal in size, military strength and influence with the much older Travian Star Republic of that time. The Republic, The Empire and the other Travian States came together to establish the Travian Alliance, A place where issues which effects the Travians as a species as a whole can be dealt with in an equal and fair footing. Originally designed Leadership of the Alliance would rotate through the Travian States and all States had a vote on matters which would effect the Alliance proposed by the Leadership.
The Republic using clever manipulation and lobbying manage to convince the states that this system was inefficient and as such got this rotational system abolished and established itself as the supreme ruler of the Alliance, Over time they changed the Alliance into something of an empire. Taking resources from the other states to further their own holds and plans. Leaving the other states poor. The Empire jealous of this and seeing that they were the rightful rulers drew up plans to seize control of the Alliance for themselves and struck in a surprise attack of the Travian Alliance Council in the attempt.
== The War ==
Their attempt failed and evolved into a full blown conflict with the Republic, angry with the Empire's attempts to undermine it they went on the offensive but found that the Empire had built up it's military to the point of being equal with it's own. This led to the war slowly spreading out across the Alliance, The other states caught in the cross fire. Finding their own planets seized by one or the other to further their wars against each other. Some planets became complete battlegrounds as the two fought for control over it, Leaving the planets completely devastated and some even inhabitable by the intensity of the fighting.
The two states fought each other to a stalemate. Neither being able to get a upper hand on the other, Territory Gained one day then lost in the next. This continued like this for centuries. The Republic unable to forgive the Empire for it's transgression against their authority, The Empire steadfast on their belief that they had the Right to rule all of Travian space. Over the years one by one the Minor states collapsed by the war, destroyed in the cross fire or absorbed by the one of the two. It also saw the devolution of their culture and technology as knowledge was destroyed in the fighting, science left aside for pumping out war machines. Billions died in the conflict, worlds completely burned of life and in some cases atmosphere due to the use of weapons of mass destruction. It even causes the Travian Alliance to completely collapse.
== The End of the War & the Aftermath ==
The war looked to be never ending. With both unable to break the stalemate and unable to not fight each other it took and outside force to throw the tide in own of their favour. And it came in the form of the Alzorian Union, Having reformed after it's own collapse long ago they took the side of the Republic having been the side which defended itself against the Empire's first shot by their attempt to overthrow them.
This turned the tide against the Empire which eventually was forced to withdraw and sign a peace treaty which ended the conflict.
With the end of the conflict the Republic and the Alzorian Union would evenutrally establish the Commonwealth of Interstellar Systems, A Federation of nations designed to stop a similar scenario from ever happening again. While the Empire pulled back it's borders away from the Republic and found itself next to the Imperial Empire becoming it's vassal state and establish the Imperial Dominion. For several centeries after the conflict the Republic's and the Empire's Relations was hostile at worst, poor at best. But the destruction of their mutual Homeworld of Travia by the hands of the Fallen has led to a steady improving relationship between the two.