Vaygr Empire

The Vaygr Empire (often referred to simply as the Vaygr) is an aggressive warlike faction led by zorozeenee that has existed since March 2313.
The Vaygr Empire operates under a Totalitarian government which frequently launches incursions into galactic clusters to gain total control of them by attempting to force local inhabitants to become vassals using military force, they are also known to attempt invasions of galactic clusters to conduct total genocides.
They are one of the founding factions of the Odium Pact. They consider dozens of factions and alliances from all over the multiverse as their foes, including the Union of Intergalactic States and the Onus Autonomous Singularity.
== Description ==
The Vaygr Empire have a singular goal; to enslave and conquer. They boast of powerful ships and strong leadership in order to show their subjects, allies and enemies alike that they are not a faction to be trifled with.
During its earlier years, the Vaygr was one of the most powerful fighting forces in the multiverse, however enlisted officer numbers began to degrade rapidly after 2315, and as a result, the Vaygr Empire is now a shell of its formed self, led by what is frequently described as a "skeleton crew"
The faction is mostly viewed by those outside the Odium Pact to be an affront to peace and order within the multiverse. They are particularly infamous for their use of practices that are unanimously viewed as "toxic" such as "exploiting" and "doxxing"
== Fleet ==
Main article: Ships manufactured by Vaygr Empire
=== Design Philosophy ===
Vaygr vessels are generally designed with fleet operations in mind. They primarily use large missile turrets for their fleet ships, however they also have been noted to use beams and cannons as secondary weapons or even as primary weapons on specialist ships.
=== Branch-off fleets ===
Main article: Vaygr Raiders, Vaygr Death Wing
The Vaygr Empire is known to create semi-autonomous fleets that branch off the main Vaygr faction, these subfactions will often have their own battle doctrines and style. The two main branch-off fleets for the Vaygr are known as the Vaygr Raiders and the Vaygr Death Wing. The Raiders are primarily focused on non-standard tactics for engaging their targets, most notably stealth attacks. The Raiders have been largely eclipsed by the Vaygr Death Wing, who in addition to non-standard tactics also make use of their own homegrown ships designed to operate alongside the main Vaygr Empire.
== Demographics ==
=== Ethnicity: Vay ===
The ruling class of the Vaygr Empire's citizens are of the Vay, a dying race of large, humanoid individuals. Average height of the Vay are 2.3 metres and 103 kg.
Each Vay is almost entirely cybernetic, augmented to the point that very little organic tissue remains. The Vay developed these augmentations in order to avert the death of their race; fully-augmented individuals are biologically immortal. The limited organic tissue in each individual contributes to them not being able to die of aging, and their cybernetic components can be replaced and maintained indefinitely.
This reliance on cybernetics also allows Vay to programmed, Vaygr's government takes full advantage of this and uses it to prohibit disloyalty towards the Emperor and his law. Military service members are programmed further then normal citizens to eliminate any identified flaws an inefficiencies as well as removing any ability disobey orders given to them. This has also opened a weakness within the Vaygr, where someone hostile to the Empire could turn the Vay population against their own empire.
When it comes to the living tissue of the Vay, the reason they still exist is because they are genetically modified. The genome of the Vay is modified to code for telomerase, making the telomeres of the Vay never shortening, another major factor to their immortality.
=== Ethnicity: Subjugated races ===
The bulk of the Empire's population is a mix of thousands of assorted races of many shapes and sizes, all of whom were subjugated and forced into slavery when the Vaygr conquered their homes. Each slave receives barely sufficient food for them and their family, and are expected to work in intolerable conditions. Children are taken to Vaygr "education camps" to ensure that new generations of slaves are even more subservient.
The original names of the subjugated races are never spoken, assuming the original name is even remembered, the Vay simply refer to subjugated species as slaves or "slave people"
=== Population ===
The total population of the Empire, as of the most recent census, was 1.68 billion, with the population numbers dominated by the thousands of slave races that make up the primary portion of Vaygr's workforce. It recently lost over 1 billion of its population in the events of the Red Uprising. Vay being primary cybernetic are incapable of reproduction, thus Vaygr's increase in population primary comes from natural reproduction from slave races in addition to a smaller contribution from the abduction of alien species during Vaygr's conquests.
A significant majority of the Vaygr live and work on the Citadel, the capital city-station of the Empire. The remaining citizens are spread throughout the Empire's space, with most outside the Citadel living on mining colonies and planets, and a smaller portion living and working aboard border control stations.
A significant portion of the Vay population serve in one of the Imperial defense forces; either the Navy or the Army. Vaygr views having an armed force compromised of alien races to be taboo, thus the armed forces consist only of Vay.
=== Income ===
Average income for citizens of the Empire is an impressive V$207,419 (Vaygr Credits) per annum, with staggering income inequality; the richest citizens, usually high-ranking military personnel, live lavishly.
All true Vaygr beings live at least an adequate life, provided they serve the Emperor appropriately, while the subjugated races that form the rest of the Empire serve as slaves in one of the many industrial centers; as do those Vaygr who are unable to earn a better life. Tax rates are around 15% for normal citizens, and military service members are not taxed at all.
=== Crime ===
Crime statistics from throughout the Empire show that crime within the empire has become a thing of the past: Vay citizens are unbreakably loyal to the Emperor and his law, and a remarkably large and well-equipped police force quickly taught the slave-races of the Empire that resistance is, in fact, futile.
== Politics ==
=== Government ===
The Vaygr Government does not have a ruling council nor a system of politicians and rule over the empire is determined solely by Military Hierarchy, the highest ranking military servicemen being the Emperor, currently the only other government official is Aceface, Vaygr once had a larger government however it shrunk significantly as time went on. The primary focus of the Vaygr government the armed forces, however Education and Law and order receive significant attention as well.
=== Foreign Relations ===
The Vaygr Empire is viewed negatively within the international community, described as "a direct opposition to economic, social and political stability in the entirety of the multiverse"
Vaygr have been known to commit hundreds of thousands of warcrimes both during wartime and within their own borders, most notably abduction of civilian populations to add to Vaygr's slave population and genocide. This has attracted military opposition from multiple political entities.
No foreign embassies exist within the Vaygr Empire, foreigners caught committing crime are never able to receive legal assistance from their home states which often results in imprisonment or even execution, often without trial. The traditional method of execution is decapitation by a 2.8 terawatt laser.
=== Trade ===
Vaygr trade regulations are very strict and heavily enforced, goods are only traded with other factions within the Odium Pact, trade of any good with any other foreign faction, especially technology is strictly forbidden.
All trade vessels are required to have either escorts from the Vaygr Navy or a registered Mercenary group, this allows Vaygr to constantly monitor and track all ships going in and out Vaygr territory and beyond.
The Vaygr is known to have one of the best border control laws and systems in the multiverse, galactic statistics find Vaygr to be one of the very few factions in the multiverse with a 100% success rate of intercepting smugglers and illegal traders.
=== Military ===
Before the Red Uprising, the Vaygr Empire supported a substantial combined defense force, however the amount of Pilots and Soldiers has suffered heavily. All military members are heavily augmented, and are fitted with much higher-grade components than average civilians have access to. Because of these components, in particular their processing upgrades, soldiers and pilots can be programmed as necessary and to a much higher degree then civilians, overwriting any perceived flaws or inefficiencies to make them perfect, absolutely loyal soldiers. This programming was also a weakness however, as overriding this code allows for reprogramming (or removal of programming) of Vaygr Personnel, as seen during the Red Uprising.
The Imperial Vaygr Navy is the backbone of the Empire, while a fraction of its previous power, still has access to dedicated Warships of great destructive potential. However it lacks the Manpower to crew the vessels aside from defensive operations and anti-partisan operations. After the Red Uprising it suffered numerous and crippling defeats at the hands of the Union of Intergalactic States and other, smaller states.
The Imperial Vaygr Army is both a planetary defense and assault force, although they rarely see true combat, with the Navy keeping the borders airtight, and the number of planetary settlements gradually decreasing. Most divisons see action as military police, others are placed in civil defense forces; responding to natural disasters and other emergencies and suppressing militarized dissidents.
Between these two forces, a special joint division has formed; the Marines. An Army unit trained to operate both on board spaceships and in the vacuum itself, they specialize in boarding actions, as well as clandestine ship capture or destruction. They are not publicized outside the Empire, as their role entails a significant amount of risk should they be detected while on an operation.
Recently, a subdivision of the Vaygr Imperial Navy appeared, referred to as Vaygr Death Wing, the true purpose of the branch is unknown however.
== Economy ==
=== Overview ===
The economy of the Vaygr Empire, worth 90.4 trillion Vaygr Credits (V$) per annum, is broadly diversified and primarily fueled by a thriving mining industry, alongside major contributions from arms manufacturing, private military contractors, industrial centers, and cattle farming (primarily for their meat)
=== Tourism ===
The Vaygr tourism industry is mediocre in comparison to other societies, primarily as a result of the large standing army and hostile nature of the Empire. Nonetheless, the Empire still welcomes a number of tourists each year. Most attractions in the Empire are man-made, monuments to the strength and engineering prowess of the Vaygr.
== Civilian Life ==
=== Vay ===
As the true citizens of the Vaygr Empire, the Vay enjoy a very luxurious life provided they earn it by serving the Emperor appropriately. Every Vay has a job to do; while "dirty work" is done by slaves, the more "relaxed" jobs are staffed by Vay. Some professions available to Vay citizens include accountants, traders, retail jobs, entertainment jobs, scientists and military careers in either the army, navy or marines. As such there is an employment rate of 100% amongst the Vay citizens.
As Vay are immortal, permanent retirement does not exist, rather Vay may earn "Recreation Periods" by working, where they share the same perks as a retired person would in another faction. Plenty of entertainment is available to Vay on recreation periods and working Vay alike.
=== Slaves ===
Slave races are looked down upon by the Vay ruling class, as they do most of the "dirty work" such as shipbuilding, mining and factory work. The implants slaves are fitted with are minimal, and are designed purely to ensure the slaves remain loyal to their masters. Slaves receive minimal rations at the end of work provided they have done enough to satisfy the slave master, who oversees all work done by slaves and hands out punishments as needed.
Common punishments for disobedience, lack of work or general misconduct include starving, whipping, electroshocks. Slaves are never killed unless they are deemed too much of a risk to keep alive.
The Slaves are required to live in "Slave Housing" which are commonly described as large Jails where slaves live and spend time while they are not being worked.
== History ==
=== 2313 ===
In March 2313, Vaygr was formed by Zorozeenee in the Nass Galaxies.
In July, Vaygr took control of the inner 8000 sectors of the galaxy, while in modern terms this amount of space is insignificant, at the time it was greater achievement due to the lack of FTL technology and ancient measurement standards meaning that sectors were significantly larger then they are by modern standards.
In September the Vaygr declared war on the Debrisian Federal Navy after political remarks made by their leader, beginning with a surprise attack on the DFN shipyards by a Vaygr Sphinx Battleship. DFN forces managed to drive the battleship away, but suffered heavy losses. After this, raids on the DFN became more common, with Thunderheads being sent every other day for two weeks.
Some time after, the Vaygr send a message to DFN informing them they had 2 weeks to withdraw all military assets from the Nass Galaxies else there would be consequences. FlyingDebris responded by telling his alliance (the UEF) to "destroy all their non-homebase stations and construct a titan or two to defend their homebase"http://i.imgur.com/8Cw4bFO.png. After two weeks, DFN had their homebase destroyed Vaygr forces, and soon after they left the cluster Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/vC4Plbbh.jpg Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/VDIDJEwh.jpg.
In October, Zoro founded the Odium Pact with Ridik, leader of Euro-Corp.
In November, the Vaygr, alongside Odium faction Euro-Corp, moved to the HSZ Galaxies and began their conquest. The conquest continued until the HSZ Galaxy was suddenly rendered uninhabitable.
=== 2314 ===
In May, the Lazarus Imperium and Starfleet attacked a Vaygr structure with a few ships. 1 or 2 Lazarus ships were destroyed from a distance, while the rest of them retreated to unknown locations. Both Lazarus and Vaygr forces stayed at their respective bases for a significant duration. Eventually, having finally grown tired of playing the "waiting game", each group proceeded to the other's base, coincidentally at the same time. One Vaygr ship split off to destroy the Lazarus base, and succeeded in doing so. As they had chosen the same jump route, both sides soon collided in a head to head battle. In the ensuing chaos, Lazarus and Starfleet lost many medium sized ships, while the Vaygr lost one titan and an Intruder-class Battlecruiser. The Vaygr eventually pushed Starfleet back to their base and destroyed it, leaving them victorious.
In August, the Vaygr raided Dovan Empire, extorting money from them, and officially ending friendly relations.
In November, Alliance Armada (later Atlas Alliance) and Calderon Republic (later Cobalt Royalty) entered the Odium Pact. Zoro and AA's leader Blackhawk soon became fast friends and strong allies.
In December, hostilities between Thryn Monarchy and the Odium Pact began, after a group of Odium titans intruded on Thryn space. Blackhawk and Zoro attacked the Thryn homebase with an AA Athena titan and a Vaygr Hunter Battleship, and Thryn defended with their homebase defence turret and two smaller ships in an anvil maneuver. The Thryn ships retreated after taking hull damage, after which Odium reinforcements arrived, and an CR battle-miner was destroyed by the homebase turret.
In December, an alliance called the Children of Kerensky (CoK) was created, composed of factions that were victims of Odium's, and in particular, Vaygr's outwardly hostile nature. Soon after CoK was born, they were infiltrated by a spy, Rezerian. Intel was gathered that the Children of Kerensky had a new ship under construction by Shadow Star Corporation, which would serve as their last hope of defeating Odium: the SSC Nightmare II. Rezerian, who had access to the prototype, promptly stole a blueprint copy. The SSC Nightmare II was never deployed by CoK itself, as it was stolen by Linwe. Linwe attempted to invade the Vaygr Empire in the stolen ship, but was soon foiled when Emperor Zoro, piloting an Oppressor-class titan little over half the size of the Nightmare II, destroyed it.
After that, just as CynicalCatalyst of SSC was about to record himself angering Blackhawk, Blackhawk himself made a public announcement exposing CoK’s existence and pointing to Nauvran and Tartaran Empire as the traitor. Not knowing Tartaran Empire’s past with Odium, a hasty decision was made to have them removed. A second channel was made in case Nauvran was the spy, in which Rezerian began posting pro-Odium material to the remaining members. This includes taunts and phrases such as “they got us good” and “how poorly we treat our friends.” At this point, evidence was gathered by all trustworthy members and Cynical announced through public channels how Odium's spies worked, leading to an increase in conflict between the two sides.
CoK was disbanded later in December. This is considered a victory by the Odium factions.
=== 2315 ===
In the Elwyn Galaxies in March, an Undivided Chaos supertitan and a Vaygr supertitan clashed. the Undivided Chaos vessel, piloted by Joelbrisco, jumped out before his ship began overheating and Vaygr declared victory via enemy withdraw.
There were minor hostilities between the Vaygr and Trident Industries, when both factions moved to a different galaxy in the Elwyn Galaxies, although these issues were quickly resolved.
After this point, Cobalt Royalty (a reformed Calderon Republic) and the Vaygr Empire destroyed a large Blue Star Squadron base.
Vaygr and AA then began to attack NFD assets, leaving New Ithaca Station and a number of outposts destroyed, as well as a large portion of NFD's fleet.
In April, a fight between Joelbrisco and the Vaygr began as an attack that was supposed to take place towards NFD. 3 Vaygr ships sat outside of NFD space ready to warp. All three ships jumped into the sector, but much to their surprise Joel was already there and firing his swarmer missiles. The swarmers hit the 2 smaller craft and destroyed them. The larger Vaygr craft (an Intruder) was able to escape with an emergency warp drive. The Intruder was then returned to the Vaygr base, it's pilot jumped onto a thruster stick and returned to the Vaygr base sector. Joel then staged himself outside the Vaygr homebase sector to attack, Flying Debris was already near the base in a Rockhopper, ready to attack with him. Joel attacked the sector, killing 1 or 2 people and destroying the jump stick, but not the Intruder. During this time Flying Debris destroyed an unknown unmanned small fighter under the Vaygr base. Zoro then grabbed his titan from another sector and returned to the Vaygr homebase. Flying Debris fled the sector in his Rockhopper, Joel didn’t leave and his battleship was destroyed by the Vaygr titan.
Cobalt Royalty and Vaygr Empire then had a small pre-planned fighter skirmish with the Thryn Monarchy and the Tartaran Expatriates. The Thryn/TE side had technical difficulties, and due to software glitches onboard their fighters, there were multiple deaths immediately after the start.
In August, the Odium Pact and all factions within it were dissolved as Ridik_Ulass made an announcement informing that the Odium Pact was now Euro-Corp Syndicate and was a supposedly friendlier faction. In October, the Odium Pact returned under Zoro’s leadership, Ridik and his followers removed. The Vaygr invasion of GenXNova Galaxies began.
Vaygr then began enforcing warpgate taxes on multiple factions within the spawn galaxy of GenXNova Galaxies, those who refused to pay taxes would have their warpgates destroyed and their bases blockaded for hours on end.
In November, an Intruder Battlecruiser piloted by Emperor Zoro attacked and destroyed Trident's former base in the GenXNova Galaxies, TRS Prometheus. Trident had however abandoned the base months before it was destroyed. The blueprint of the base was recovered however, and has since been made into the Prometheus-type Battle Station.
=== 2316 ===
With their operations in the GenXNova Galaxies a success, in January, Vaygr expanded to Stars of Arcadia and constructed the Galactic Citadel within 1 week of them joining. The conquest was intended to begin the next day however there were minor setbacks.
In mid-January, Vaygr announced here that they were preparing for war with the other large faction alliance, which Vaygr had branded as 'rebels', Onus Autonomous Singularity. This and the events that would follow would eventually come to be known as the "GenXNova Genocide"
In February, Vaygr Empire, supported by NeoMillenium and Arctic Storm, had a battle with the Onus Autonomous Singularity. The Odium Fleet took no losses and overheated the majority of the OAS fleet. The surviving OAS ships fled the battle.
Another battle was to occur with OAS and Vaygr, however the battle was stopped due to the severe spatial phenomena known as the 'Lagspike'.
Vaygr then expanded to the Elwyn Infinity Galaxies in April, and was preparing their strike force inconspicuously until a Trinova operator in the area informed the local nations of the imminent attack. Children of Ktulu launched a preemptive strike taking down several Vaygr mining vessels before the Vaygr warships were ready.
In spite of the attacks, the Vaygr Empire successfully constructed their fleet and boarded Children of Ktulu's largest vessel, capturing it unscratched. Soon after, the Vaygr Empire attacked and disabled most of Children of Ktulu's assets including almost all of the territorial claims. In a desperate attempt to delay the Vaygr, Children of Ktulu claimed systems in the outer rim, far away from their homebase.
Shortly after, a bomb planted by an unknown saboteur detonated on a Vaygr Cruiser, damaging it significantly and forcing it to retreat back to the Vaygr shipyard for repairs. Not long after this the EI Galaxy would be rendered uninhabitable.
Vaygr then ceased operations in the GenXNova Galaxies due to disagreements with the galactic laws present in the region.
Vaygr Empire then expanded to the Brierie Galaxies and Starbits Galaxies. A series of attacks that eventually resulted in the destruction of the Furon Empire homebase occurred in the Starbits Galaxies.
Vaygr suffered a series of attacks from Trinovan guerilla forces on Starbits; cloaked warheads were used to to deal damage to ships and stations, damage ranging from 0.3% to 1% armor HP damage. However, the stations were rendered incapable of defending themselves and had their jump drive inhibitors destroyed. Along with this, two Vaygr scout craft were destroyed and one Vaygr pilot killed in the fighting, while Trinova suffered zero losses. A contact docking exploit was also utilised by FlyingDebris to steal an Intruder blueprint.
Soon after, a member of the Vaygr was exiled from Starbits by the Galaxy's regional council after accusations of utilising an exploit to destroy the Furon Homebase were put forward by Trinova and Furon Empire in a Trinova backed investigation, this resulted in Vaygr ceasing operations in Starbits and leaving the region for good. This also resulted in FlyingDebris claiming 'victory' over Vaygr, only to be denounced by several Odium Pact members and Lecic (who at the time despised Vaygr).
Vaygr then expanded to the Light vs Dark Galaxies, and soon after Lego_8bit became the victim to Trinova warhead attacks, forcing him to take shelter in the Vaygr homebase only to be spawn camped. In the following days, Vaygr attacked Trident Foundries and Formiden Colonial Mandate. Trident lost several personnel and FCM lost a large amount of assets, but Vaygr returned with zero losses.
A large battle between Vaygr and Mortarian vs Formidden Colonial Mandate occurred on LvD, in spite of being outnumbered the combined Odium force took zero losses.
Vaygr then expanded to the TAW Galaxies and soon after constructed their base and fleet.
The battle of the Collama system then took place, a Vaygr fleet confronted an FCM fleet. The Enslaver-class Battlecruisers were ineffective due to a spatial phenomena that made their missiles fly through the enemy ships without damaging their targets. The Vaygr, knowing that they could not win the battle in these conditions retreated from the battlefield and returned some time later with a fleet of Centipede-class Battlecruisers, Two FCM Battleships and 2 Cruisers were destroyed with the remaining fleet withdrawing in order to prevent futher loss of resources.
Over the course of several days, FCM and FlyingDebris destroyed Vaygr-claimed systems via the destruction of the planets the Territorial Claim Unit was installed on; in response, Vaygr deployed a prototype station that was unable to be destroyed by conventional weapons, it had make use of "cargo blocks" with the actual faction module claiming the station several kilometers away. The cargo blocks would make the "signature" of the station appear away faction block which prevented it from being destroyed as all weapons would lock onto the cargo blocks. The TAW administration had taken no action against the usage of these stations in spite of it being later classified as an "exploit" and was made impossible to do after a "patch"
FCM had another battle with Vaygr, once again the Enslaver-class Battlecruisers were ineffective. The Vaygr fleet was damaged but no casualties occurred, the FCM fleet took no damage and thus was victorious.
A single Vaygr Centipede-class Battlecruiser piloted by Vaygr leader Zorozeenee was destroyed by an FCM fleet consisting of 6-7 battlecruisers.
Soon after the TAW galaxies were rendered uninhabitable, the Vaygr expanded to the Galaxies Aflame and FreaksRUs galaxies.
The Vaygr, soon after establishing sovereignty in the Galaxies Aflame cluster, find out the two largest factions in the galaxies, The Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance (both at war with each over) were protected from aggression by the galactic laws of the region, that requires factions to enter a so called "Roleplay agreement" before they could be considered at war. This halted Vaygr's ability to conquer the cluster.
Soon after the Galactic Alliance heard of Vaygr's warlike nature from other clusters, they sent a threat to the empire, warning them their ships will be "destroyed one after one". This was presented to the galactic council of the region, who deemed the threat grounds for a war under their "roleplay agreement" laws. The Galactic Empire's entire fleet was destroyed within a single day, forcing them to surrender and become vassals to the Vaygr.
The Vaygr began to subjugate and vassalise many smaller factions and colonies in the cluster. After the Rebel Alliance attempted to intervene against a faction resisting subjugation, the galactic council approved a war with the Rebel Alliance and within the space of 24 hours, the Rebel Fleet was completely annihilated, including a hidden ship storage cache.
The Vaygr continued to subjugate dozens of small factions in the cluster, taxing them to gain resources to build more fleets and warships in exchange for protection and the threat of war with the Vaygr removed.
The Galaxies Aflame cluster is soon rendered uninhabitable.
A significant presence was focused on FreaksRUS where routine information gathering from spy cells placed within serverside faction found that the Federation intended to build a fleet and declare total war against the Vaygr.
Acting on this intel, the spy cell took control of the Federation homebase and disables the turrets. The base was swiftly unclaimed and reclaimed by a faction hastily created by the spy cell, effectively turning their own homebase against them. A Vaygr fleet arrives to finish the job.
Multiple Federation hidden shipyards were then destroyed in the days following, causing the Federation to disband.
=== 2317 ===
Soon after the Elwyn Returnity galaxies become open to colonisation, multiple UIS factions and the Odium Pact begin an arms race, the cluster initially had some spacial phenomena that caused time warps and in some cases froze time completely.
The combined Odium force however quickly gained a huge resource advantage over its UIS opponents, which was used to begin frequent harassment attacks to slow down the UIS' ability to gather infrastructure and mine, which in turn caused the resource advantage Odium had over UIS to become even larger.
A faction known as the "New Daltof Republic" who was previously involved in conflict with Vaygr, made a threat to several Vaygr members to "join us or die" The NDR faction point reserve is drained and the NDR homebase was sacked and destroyed within 24 hours of said threat.
The Odium Pact force continued the attacks against UIS factions, the Formidan Colonial Mandate eventually has their FP reserves drained due to the constant attacks and had their homebase destroyed by a Vaygr force, which also recovered a large amount of resources, again increasing the resource advantage Odium Pact possessed.http://i.imgur.com/cxHNzPR.png http://i.imgur.com/47RnNSn.png
In response to the destruction of the FCM homebase, two representatives of the UIS claimed the base was a decoy, some time later an FCM member claimed the base was abandoned, the Odium Pact's response to the claims was "You clearly did not decide on what lie you were going to tell before you told it"
A period of quiet occurred, occasional attacks on the newly formed FCM faction occur but the clusters population eventually died down, the Odium force had decided at this point that the Elwyn Returnity galaxies were not worth maintaining infrastructure on.
FlyingDebris destroyed several planets being used as claim nodes by Odium, reducing them to one system. Odium forces did not attempt to take back the systems due to their prior decision to begin decommissioning the assets on the ER cluster and prepared to leave to find more populated clusters.
FlyingDebris damaged a Vaygr Battleship which was undocked due to a spacial phenomena known as a "bug" that resulted in the battleship undocking from the homebase, the battleship however was not overheated and was decommissioned alongside the remaining Odium assets on ER.
Odium Pact made an announcement on the StarMadeDock system stating Odium would leaving ER due to the lack of population to make war against.
A presence was then re-established in the LvD Galaxies. Several minor conflicts occurred but no major battles took place yet.
The Vaygr Raiders also established in the Brierie Galaxies, proceeding to cause havoc. Within 2 weeks, over 500k mass units of damage was done with only 2 Cyclops' being lost to battle damage.
The LvD Galactic News then reported that a Vaygr Despoiler had been brought to the brink of destruction by a Lightside aligned warship.
Seeing the potential for another galactic conquest, the Vaygr Empire was then brought to Brierie in full force. Within mere weeks the Vaygr Empire becomes the dominant force on Brierie, several factions are subjugated and forced into paying tribute to the Vaygr.
The faction "bobs_faction" had suffered a significant loss after Vaygr Empire attacked them for refusing to become vassals to the Vaygr, bob was lured into undocking a large battleship after Vaygr forces baited him into undocking by leaving a small miner outside his base.
The faction ---8DC--- after refusing to pay stripped everything from their homebase and moved their base of operations to a hidden base. The base was found by Magitek Kights force recon groups and was destroyed by a Vaygr force. Numerous resources and boarding gear were recovered from the debris.
The faction Geometric Killers were attacked after intel suggested they were undocking the entire GK fleet from its home planet to be moved to another system, the entire fleet was destroyed before they could leave, the largest being a 160k mass "doomcube".
Formidan Colonial Mandate was attacked by a Vaygr Cyclops-class Frigate in the LvD Galaxies, the FCM defenders initialy thought that the at the time unknown threat would attack the homebase, so FCM sent a large drone fleet, the "9th Reserve" to defend it, however this fleet was intercepted en route although not much damage was done due to spacial phenomena causing the missiles to strike the ship without doing any damage. FCM members Lecic and Comr4de then attempted to intercept the threat in a combined 112k mass fleet, which they attempted to use tactical jumps to close the distance between them and the Cyclops, which was firing from 15km away. However, this tactic proved to be ineffective as the Cyclops conducted tactical jumps of its own to prevent the FCM force from closing the gap. The FCM force eventually retreated as they were unable to damage the Cyclops due to the FCM vessels reliance on close range weaponry. An FCM ally "Resonance" also attempted to engage the Cyclops in an approx. 200k mass vessel, but withdrew after the Cyclops jumped away from it, which the Resonance ship did not pursue.https://starmadedock.net/threads/the-vaygr-empire-recruitment-open.28508/page-3#post-341188
The Vaygr Empire made an announcement that they had attacked and defeated a "resurgent OAS force" on Brierie which brought two ships totaling approx. 170k mass to the brink of destruction before they retreated and docked to the OAS homebase, the vessels were allegedly mining craft with no combat capabilities. An OAS station was destroyed some time after.
The Vaygr Empire published two engagements that had occurred on the Brierie and LvD clusters, which resulted in the destruction of a 286k mass vessel to the Vaygr on Brierie, and the destruction of an FCM force attacking an Infinite Legion Abaddon-class, resulting in an approx. 200k mass FCM battlecruiser commanded by Lecic being overheated. The Vaygr had also announced they had completed their objectives on Brierie and would be shifting the focus of their war effort to the LvD cluster.https://starmadedock.net/threads/the-vaygr-empire-recruitment-open.28508/page-3#post-341570
The Vaygr Empire was then challenged by Roninx to a fight (who had been previously bragging about the power of his titan) The Vaygr force, although outmassed by the Titan piloted by Roninx, had crippled the vessel within less than a minute. Roninx was able to retreat due to special phenomena known as "lag" caused by the titans docked hull plate, which was undocked due to weapons fire from the Vaygr fleet. Roninx escaped the destruction of his ship by outmaneuvering the Vaygr fleet and docked to his homebasehttps://starmadedock.net/threads/the-vaygr-empire-recruitment-open.28508/page-4#post-342301
 The Vaygr Empire Homebase was attacked by Merc Dragon in a 506k mass Nidhog piloted by Nosajimiski. The attacker came under fire from two 500k mass Despoiler-class Battleships and was destroyed.
The Aeron Empyrean attempted to lay siege to the Dark Colony on LvD with an approx. 600k mass NDS Salamis-class. The attack was halted by a combined Odium fleet.
Resurgent Thryn Monarchy forces arrived on LvD, they were attacked by a lone Vaygr Despoiler-class, who over the course of the invasion had destroyed a Thryn Miner, a large drone fleet and eventually 3 approx. 200k mass ships deployed by Thryn to counter-attack the invading Despoiler.
The Thryn were attacked again by Vaygr, resulting in another 3 approx. 200k mass vessels destroyed by a lone Despoiler.https://youtu.be/s68UcE-YZEk
The Vaygr Empire took note that the traditionally neutral faction, Order of Bogatyrs, was signing into a large amount of military agreements with light aligned factions on LvD. The Vaygr Empire, who at the time was a Dark aligned faction approached the leader Bogdan, requesting they disavowed these agreements. The traditionally diplomatic OOB however was not receptive to the Vaygr's request, thus the Emperor Zoro commanded his Officer, RedAlert_007 to send OOB an ultimatum to leader Bogdan, demanding OOB break all standing agreements with all lightside factionsA scanned copy of the ultimatum delivered to Bogdan https://imgur.com/a/60ExM. OOB once again refused, the Vaygr Empire declared war on OOB as a result.
After war on OOB was declared, a Vaygr force destroyed several OOB outposts and drone fleets over the course of the war. A battle between 3 OOB members and a Vaygr strike force took place as well, with OOB crushingly defeated.https://youtu.be/tqcfHQ7SAgE
The Vaygr Empire would loose an Agonizer-class Titan (800k mass) to a combined NRE/Dovan Empire fleet outmassing the Vaygr Empire vessel 2.5:1. The pilot, Zorozeenee would not be present for the ship being overheated as he crashed due to a strange force known only as "lag" upon rendering the large fleet. The NRE/Dovan Fleet took 4 minutes to overheat the vessel after engaging it.https://youtu.be/YAZJWtKvhAo
The Vaygr Empire deployed 2 Despoiler-class Battleships against 2 NRE Vega-class Battleships, despite of being outmassed by approx. 200k mass, the Vaygr fleet won the battle, destroying both NRE vessels, piloted by IKindaCrashALot and DistantLifeform.
A Vaygr Marine Duo attempted to board an NRE Vega-class Battleship after it is discovered by Magitek Knights force recon, the boarding attempt failed as the marine duo could not locate the faction block, which forced them to destroy it instead.
Magitek Knights discovered another 600k mass Vega Battleship and the Vaygr Empire destroyed it on the FreaksRUs galaxies.
The Vaygr Empire transferred into Brierie and noticed that a Dovan Empire Dovahkiin-class was made public on the blueprint list; taking advantage, the Vaygr Empire constructed a copy of the Dovahkiin-class to that blueprint before destroying it, with images of its destruction to be used for propaganda purposes.
Zorozeenee formed the Vaygr Death Wing, a branch-off of the Vaygr Empire that would preform a similar role to the Vaygr Raiders.
RedAlert, a former Senior Officer within Vaygr, had decided to publish a testimony against his former faction as he believed the actions of Vaygr were immoral and detrimental to the galactic development. The testimony published on the SMD system detailed several practices conducted by Vaygr leadership which goes against both galactic rules, and basic human morals. Many expressed their disgust at Zorozeenee, and by extension Vaygr over claims of doxxing, blackmail as well as the use of banned weapons and programs. The LvD authorities removed all Vaygr assets. Systemhack and FreaksRUs Galaxies would take action soon after with the Systemhack administration unanimously voting to ban all Vaygr members, and FRU deleting Vaygr assets and issuing bans to Vaygr members.
In the aftermath of the Red Uprising (where BPs and evidence of exploits were published), there was a total decline in Vaygr activity on all servers due to the release of their ship blueprints as well as administrator actions taken against the senior leadership members (Aceface/Zorozeenee)
Vaygr began to come back into activity, however the low amount of officers available to command Vaygr ships, and Vaygr losing the ability to gain resources via immoral methods that they had previously relied on for so long, would be a deadly blow to Vaygr's warfighting capabilities. Within a mere 3 weeks, the Vaygr Empire and Vaygr Death Wing would loose a significant amount of warfighting assets with the total mass lost just shy of 3 million. Most notable losses include two Despoiler-class Battleships, 7 Cyclops-class Frigates and a captured Dovan Empire 750k mass Dovakiin-class that Vaygr was intended to use to stage a fake battle for propaganda purposes, all these losses would come at almost zero attrition losses to the Trinova Technologies combat forces who inflicted the damage.https://starmadedock.net/threads/trinova-technologies-join-today-nfd-trident-industries-merger.22426/page-28#post-353599
In an attempt to downplay the recent enormous losses inflicted by Trinova Technologies, the leader of the Vaygr Death Wing, IKindaCrashAlot on behalf of the Vaygr would attempt to refute the claims of losses in combat during a discussion in an unofficial communication network. IKindaCrashAlot accused Trinova Technologies of fabricating news about battles that "never occurred" for the sake of propaganda, in response FlyingDebris published several surveillance images taken from the combat zones where the Trinova engaged and destroyed Vaygr assets, which confirmed that the battles occurred and were not made up for propaganda purposes.Images published by Trinova in response to damage control from IKindaCrashAlot https://imgur.com/a/c7af8
After the deadly losses inflicted by UIS and other entities, Vaygr's control over areas within galaxies such as the LvD cluster were totally lost, with their war efforts in all clusters grinding to a halt. This had significant effects on other factions, who rushed to fill the power vacuum left by Vaygr. This was most noticeable in LvD where Dark aligned factions, no longer able to piggyback off Vaygr's conquests, were quickly overrun by Light aligned Crusaders.
Vaygr Empire's public relations officer, Mortiferum, announced on the StarMadeDock system that he would be leaving Vaygr as had lost all interest in warfare. The Vaygr recruitment bulletin present on StarMadeDock would disappear soon after.
Vaygr Empire focused their remaining armed forces into LvD in an attempt to regain the control they once had over LvD. Within a day, recon groups had noted that they were already in possession of 93k mass Nightstalker-class vesselsRecon photograph of Vaygr Battleship: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/298712732830662657/384482981923913733/starmade-screenshot-0054.png, which raised suspicion among some of the enemies of Vaygr that they had discovered a new exploit to replace the ones that were exposed during the Red Uprising. Vaygr Emperor Zorozeenee claimed that Vaygr "mustered battleships from the death wing"Zorozeenee stating that Vaygr Battleships were obtained via Vaygr Death Wing: https://gyazo.com/3fdc90d42d9887a67e69e46614f7d383 which created even further suspicion as the leader of Vaygr Death Wing, IKindaCrashAlot had recently admitted to be in full support of the usage of exploits only a few days prior.IKindaCrashAlot stating his full support of exploit usage: https://gyazo.com/03ea1e99847b2d26e8e34cfcf20559a7
Vaygr Death Wing leader, IKindaCrashAlot was involved in an engagement against a joint Lightside fleet consisting mostly of Trinova Technologies ships, totaling approximately 850k mass. IKindaCrashAlot in an approx. 90k Nightstalker-class was joined by BigDude in an approx 270k mass Moloch-class and DestroyerOfWorlds who deployed two drone fleets, one of which consisting of 5 additional Moloch-class vessels. The conflict was disrupted by the interference of 5-6 waves of pirate fleets with an average mass of 100k per fleet. The total force of ships resulted in critical lag forcing both sides to withdraw their forces. This battle was declared a Dark Side victory due to Lightside losses of one Trinova 250k mass Hidatsa and one MercDragon 70k mass Torik.
In the FreaksRUs galaxies Vaygr engaged a 650k and a 250k drone of the faction SpaceCats and destroyed them. The faction Dead Pixels was also attacked losing a few 20k mass ships and a 40k.
Vaygr Death Wing emptied a Trinova Technologies storage on LvD, after an investigation the LvD administration determined that it violated the rules of war, and required the Vaygr Death Wing to give back half of the 2.8M mass worth of materials. 
Vaygr Empire lost their homebase in the Systemhack galaxies after Trinova Technologies operators infiltrated and captured the basehttps://i.imgur.com/KzcXsyM.png Photo showing seized Vaygr Citadel., with Jake Lancia of Trident observing; two Despoiler-class vessels were also captured. The Trinova operatives and Lancia posed for pictures alongside the seized Vaygr assets before Trinova broke them down for resources. 
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