The First Intergalactic Conquest

Regnum Reprobi

The First Intergalactic Conquest was a devastating war that took place over the span of 3 gruelling years. Resulting in the decimation of the Krieg and the drastic depopulation of Genocius, the galaxy has still not quite recovered, despite it occuring almost 2 centuries ago.

## Events

### 2130 - Tensions Rising

Regnum Reprobi had suspected that the Krieg were planning a full-scale war at some point, and thus had been heavily surveying the species on their homeworld, Gesamt. Catching on to their spying, the leader of the Krieg Death Korps, Aleksandr Nowak was immediately outraged, and thus declared war against Regnum Reprobi and the galaxy as a whole.

Though initially a wobbly start, Regnum Reprobi were initially able to push the Krieg back for the first year. That would soon change.

### 2132 - Massacre

The war had been going for 2 long years. The Krieg had been able to strike alot of planets rapidly over the course of these years, with Regnum Reprobi being unable to fully stop them. However, the last straw was this attack. The Krieg targeted Genocius, a simple and small planet serving as a minor trading outpost. It was believed the Krieg attacked this planet simply because it could not defend itself, therefore making a statement to the rest of the galaxy that they would not hesitate.

This, however, had the adverse effect of enraging the rest of the galaxy. With the peoples of hundreds of systems demanding action, Regnum Reprobi set about drumming up a new way to defeat the Krieg. And thus, the Defenders of Order were concieved, serving initially as an assassin order of sorts. The Defenders, backed by a large majority of Regnum Reprobi's military, were able to sneak onto Genocius and strike the Krieg from the inside, with the expressed intent to disrupt the inner workings enough to force them back to Gesamt. This worked, but only after enough high-ranking officers were killed off. Unfortunately the plan came into action way too late - all but the nobility of Genocius had been wiped clean out.

### 2133 - Ending

With the assault on Genocius proving successful, the Krieg had fled back to Gesamt, ready for the next strike - unbeknownst to them, however, the Defenders had followed them. More high-ranking officers kept dying left and right, sending Nowak into some form of panic. He assembled the remaining officers in the offices of the Krieg Death Korps, with one final plan to take out Regnum Reprobi - a ship rigged with highly-explosive materials that would ram into their hub world. Unfortunately for Nowak, said ship had been hijacked and aimed towards their command station - such an action would take out the entire army's communications.

The sudden strike was a success - Nowak was unable to contact his forces and coordinate the final phase of his plans. With the comms cut off, the Krieg began fighting amongst each other, ruining Gesamt far more than they had prior. The war was at an end. Nowak commanded his armies using older communications systems, ordering them to go into hiding and to await further instructions. At last, the war was going in the Krieg's favour once again - up until one of the Defenders, a Prototype Falsus Unit going by Halik, broke into the war office Nowak resided in, and ended his life with a swift motion of his blade. Nowak was dead, the Krieg were left without a primary leadership and a station, and the Krieg had abandoned Gesamt and left it to rot as dictated by their leader's final order. The war had been won.

### Post-War

Re Obscura was never the same after the war. It took decades for Genocius to regroup and regrow to only a quarter of the planet's old population, Gesamt was left to be a relic of war, and Regnum Reprobi had lost millions upon millions of their military. The First Intergalactic Conquest highlighted flaws in Regnum Reprobi and how it operated, which would eventually lead to its downfall in later years, making it become a memory of the past. Smaller planets never recovered, and became empty with nothing remaining that would make them even remotely habitable. Whilst Regnum Reprobi may have succeeded in the short term, the war had consequences for the long term.

## Key Figures

* Aleksandr Nowak
* Halik

## Encyclopedia Galactica Entry

*"A devastating war that crushed the galaxy from the inside. The rise and fall of the Krieg Death Korps was truly a sight to see at the time. Small planets completely wiped out, the Krieg extinct and Genocius yet to fully recover, the scars of war will never fade away. Some people are still around to remember all of it, operating on both sides of the war. I pity them, and the burden of the memories they have to carry."*