The Intergalactic Jilm War

The Intergalactic Jilm War was the largest war that has and will ever occur. Begun by The Thaw with the thawing of Big Jilm and occurring simultaneously with The Cosmic Civil War and The Second Coming of Christ it would see unimaginably high death tolls and the participation of all members of the Multiverse in some form or another. Its probably the most central conflict in the entire Jilm Lore, being the culmination of Big Jilm's path of hell.
This period is unequivocally considered the most tumultuous in the history of the Multiverse, with the largest death toll of all time, the overhaul of the Cosmic Alliance into the Cosmic Federation and its first ever war with another galactic entity in the form of the First Ming War.
Its legacy is a painful and complicated one still being argued on by scholars, and its likely it will never be fully agreed upon.
== Background ==
The Cosmic Alliance in 4589 had seen peace reign for over 9000 years, at least internally, with the only exception being the short War of the Void. With no real military and the Blues unwillingness to create one many within the Alliance had long feared some form of catastrophe could strike that they would be unable to deal with. Combined with long standing corruption and the controversial inclusion of planets like LemonGrab, it goes without saying that the Alliance was far more divided than the Blues wished to portray. This was compounded by multiple economic crisis that plagued the alliance all throughout the 4000s, caused almost entirely by government incompetence.
== The Thaw ==
On October 15th 4589 at around 11:30 Earth Time, a date which will forever live in infamy, a humanoid creature found within the ancient glacial ices of upper Canada was thawed by a team of Blue and Human scientists on the Earth orbiting station of Hope. The creature had been discovered some months earlier to much excitement, as a sentient life form this old had never been unearthed before. There was hopes of thawing and reviving him before making a grand spectacle of showing the creature all the wonders the Cosmic Alliance had achieved since his time period. It would have been fantastic PR for the unpopular coalition that led the cosmic senate at the time. The station was fashioned with dozens of cameras to capture the event in real time, with a live feed broadcast across the whole of the cosmos. So important was the event that the Senate held a special meeting so they could watch it live with the rest of the galaxy.
Unfortunately for them, what they thawed that day was Big Jilm and the deceased Little Jilm.
== The First Moments ==
As Big Jilm opened his eyes for the first time in millennia, he didn't seem to know what to make of it all. He was unusually disoriented after his long sleep, and this gave major confidence to the team that surrounded him. But then he saw the body they were thawing next. The Body of Little Jilm. The one being in the Multiverse Big Jilm cared for. As Big Jilm saw his brother's corpse and was suddenly reminded of his death at the hands of the Silent One a rage grew within him, a rage so great it would start the path to him going cosmic. With that, the cameras recording the thawing failed and it began.
Though what occurred afterwards isn't known with much certainty (as there were no survivors) from what we can gather Big Jilm killed, raped, pulped and consumed all living creatures on the station before somehow getting a craft that ferried him straight to Domus, the heart of the Cosmic Alliance.
The consequences of this event were immediate. As the whole of the Alliance had been watching this live it caused waves of panic across the regions of space that were closest to the station, with many panic buying and preparing for the worst. The senate was utterly baffled as to what to do, and even something as simple as a statement wasn't issued for nearly an hour after the event. Overall the effects can best be explained as space 9/11. Panic was further exacerbated from the fact that they had no idea where Big Jilm was during his transit to Domus, which took 2 days.
== The Fall of Domus ==
Domus at the time of Big Jilm's arrival was essentially defenseless. So many centuries of peace meant that basically no armed resistance of any kind existed on the plant, except for the small police force and the Jedi Knights. Big Jilm landed around the government sector of the planet, and what later became known as the Scourge of Domus began. As he killed his cosmic form grew and grew, and within a few hours of his landing he was impervious to physical attack and had gained the ability to soul-rape. No one could stop him, not even the Jedi Knights, who were almost exterminated as they tried in vain to save their temple and the senate building. As many senators were still in the area at the time the losses among them were also catastrophic, with only around 4000 of the 69000 senators and delegates surviving to flee to the temporary (later permanent) capitol of Skeel.
With the fall of the main urban center of the planet Domus fell into total anarchy. As refugees attempted to flee into space those who were unable to get off world could only buy time as Big Jilm, soon to be called Astral Jilm, razed each city, town or village. By the end of the week all of Domus was gone, with the planet so destroyed it was forever uninhabitable. Only around 500,000 of the planet's 12 billion inhabitants managed to flee, making it one of the single largest massacres in galactic history.
The shock of the planet's loss was unimaginable. The entire galaxy was thrown into chaos, as the millennia long head of galactic government was destroyed almost overnight. It took some days before the temporary capitol of Skeel was even declared a new mustering site for survivors, as the blues had not even set up emergency contingency plans.
== The Second Coming ==
At the same time as the Thaw a massive event began on Earth; the second coming of Christ. His coming signaled the beginning of Armageddon, when the human race would be strengthened and be led in a war against Satan and the armies of Hell for control of the Earth. This event managed to distract the planet as well as cause it severe death and devastation, to the point that Earth could commit basically nothing to the wider conflict against Astral Jilm. That was until the armies of Heaven and Hell joined forces to stop Astral Jilm, as both realized that he not only desired to destroy literally everything that exists in all dimensions but could actually carry out this intention. This was the only time Heaven and Hell joined forces against a common enemy.
Alongside them rose a new champion as well; the hero Alfred Mossman Landon, commonly known as Alf. Due to interference from the Time bandits he was brought to the future after his defeat in the presidential election of 1936.Instead of doing the expected thing someone in his situation would do, that being suffer mental collapse at the unspeakable horrors happening all around him, he instead rose up as an almost demigod like figure and took to leading humanity at the right hand of Jesus Christ himself. His first major engagement would be the now legendary battle of Warsaw, where demons had been trying to claw into the city for several months and had almost managed to break through the human and angel lines. Alf's arrival can only be compared to that of Joan of Arc in its effects on morale; he turned the battle and could be seen beating the fuck out of demons with his bare hands and, eventually, a captured demon XiphactinusBlade.
This victory galvanized the Human and Angel forces but it still took several years before the truce was declared, costing Earth precious time in the fight against Astral Jilm. By the time of the comings end Alf had been declared God Emperor of Man by Jesus and was ready to take the fight to the Jilmists.
== Start of the Cosmic Civil War ==
Soon after the catastrophe at Domus a blue monk from an influential senatorial family named Advena, later known as Advena I, announced a radical new plan to save the galaxy against the overwhelming odds they were facing; he would take the throne as Emperor of a new Imperial Cosmic Federation.
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