Hot War

An Axis Order Battleship, fleeing from a Seestern Fleet

*"Both parties are behaving like primitives, fighting a hopeless conflict, so hereby i suggest an exclusion of the Seestern Empire and Axis Order from the Galactic Commonwealth Council! ~ GC Salzig Representative Fracturer Krgkak*

## General

The Hot war was one of the Galaxies largest conflicts, mainly between the Leftern Block and the Enlightened Covenant. It began as a direct response from the Enlightened Covenant to the Lote Domy Invasion. On the 05.11.2310, The Axis Order launched a full scale invasion into the Eris Order. Seeing the Eris Order as an potential future Block member, the Leftern Block invaded through the Lote Domy Empire. After establishing a significant foothold in the Axis Order, the Block forces were slowly beginning to wither away, as the Axis forces, occupying the Eris Order withdrew to help defend the Axis Order. The Entire Covenant would now focus its effort on pushing back the Block Forces. The most important victory for the Covenant was the Battle of Tai III, where they defeated the Leftern Block base of operations in the Axis Order. They quickly sliced through domy, as virtually no Block forces were present there. As they neared the Seestern Border, the Covenant was outsmarted by the Leftern Block as they launced a surprising invasion from the Eris Order into Schwebtron Manufacturing, who were fully occupied after only 3 months. As the EC forces withdrew from domy, the Block quickly reestablished their foothold there. The Block forces in the Schwebtron Manufacturing were outnumbered and avoided confrontation with the EC fleet by again retreating into the Eris Order. The Axis Order now with a new military leader, led the second invasion wave into the Eris Order but a stagnated front was formed due to the Block increasing their Numbers to mach the Covenants. This steady front remained for 4 Years untill an armistice was eventually signed, returning original Axis and Eri Territory, making the Lote Domy Empire a politicaly neutral state and Incorperating the Eris Order into the Leftern Block

## Detailed Timeline

### First Eris Order Invasion (2310 - 2311)

The idea to annex the Eris Order was one that was long there but it was debated that an accual invasion would ruin the Axis Orders Diplomatic stance in the galaxy. Yet Minister of Naval Affairs Ryan Kane saw an oppurtunity and, with lots of protest, occustrated an invasion into the Eris Order on the 05.11.2310. The Technologically and Numerically inferior Eri Fleets were no match for the Axis Invaders. They quickly conquered the colonies of Lera and Sagratus Prime, butchering over half a billion civillians in the process in order to intimidate the Eris Order into submission. Yet this only achieved the enragement of the Lefern Block, who on the 06.2311, launched a combined invasion into the Axis Order through the recently occupied Lote Domy Empire, forcing the Axis Order to withdraw from the Eris Order.

### Invasion of the Axis Order (2311 - 2315)

The Invasion went very smoothly at first for the Leftern Block, as most of Axis Forces were busy fighting the Eris Order. They overrolled various Axis Starports and even conquered three cololnies, including one of the most important Axis Order economical worlds, Tai III, where the Leftern Block established it's base of operations. For two years, the Leftern Block raided Axis systems and worlds and even once a small UBR contingent managed to push as far as the Axis Order home system, but they were ultimatley defeated there. As Axis forces returned from the Eris Order in 2313, they were joined by all other Covenant military assets. Now with the Covenant forces being superior, Block casualties began to amass and they began loosing their foothold in the Axis Order. Their ultimate defeat would result in the Battle of Tai III.

### Battle of Tai III (07.2315 - 08.2315)

The Battle began with the Entire Covenant Armada (500+ Ships) entering the system. While a significant chunk of Block forces, mostly consisting of UBR ships, was present, they were still hopelessly outnumbered. The Block Base of Operations, stationed in orbit avove Tai III, sent a distress call in order to reroute all Block forces to the Tai system, however, this distress call was hijacked by Long Boi agents and thus never reached its intendet recievers. Covenant forces quickly moved to engage the Station and its defenders. Frontier Admiral Rubyclaw tried his best, achieving killratios up to 1:3, yet the Covenant numberes were too high to defend against. Rubyclaw's flagship was the last ship standing and it supposedly on its own took down 7 ships in its last stand, but the ship was boarded by LBST Gir Afe who killed the entire crew. In a display of honor Gir Afe allowed Rubyclaw to defend himself, yet despite him being armed and Gir Afe unarmed, he was killed. With Rubyclaws death, the UBR forces were without a leader and the Block forces in generall were, while still numerous scattered. Fortunatley the arrival of Admiral Amboss gave the forces a new leader, who ordered every force outside Block territory to move into the Eris Order.

### Conquering of Domy Territory (2315 - 2316)

With Block forces gone, the Covenant quickly reconquered Axis Order territory and moved into the Lote Domy Empire, where resistance was also virtually none existent. Throughout the Domy Invasion Campaign, the Covenant lost only 2 Corvettes. It was believed that all of the Block forces were defeated, since all offensive action from the Leftern Block has stopped completely. Unbenownst to them however, was the fact that the Seestern were heavily fortifiying their borders, in order to make the Covenant further believe that the Block lost all their offensive assets while in reality their ships were under maintinance in the Eris Order waiting for the perfect moments to strike.

### Battle of Globbodron (11.2316 - 12.2316)

The Battle of Globbodron was the only time throughout the Hot war where fighting took place on Leftern Block territory, specifically, the Seestern Empire. On 11.11.2316, almost 100 Covenant ships moved into the system to conquer it. Yet they heavily underestimated the defensive elements inside the System. The Seestern Empire had recently developed Advanced shields, which were deployed firstly on defensive stations. Covenant ships just couldn't penetrate them and over half of the fleet was lost during the battle. The rest retreated back into Domy territory and laid siege to the Seestern border hindering further Block ships from comming through. An armistice was suggested to the Block by the Axis Order, which demanded the Blocks ceasing of Aggressive activities and the Integration of both the Domy and Eri into the Enlightened Covenant. Yet in the same day as this proposal was sent, Hunderts of Block and Eri ships, now equipped with Advanced Shields, launched a surprise offensive into Schwebtron Manufacturing, overwhelming the Covenant.

### Schwebtron Occupation (2317 - 2319)

As 80% of Schwebtron forces were currently aiding the main covenant fleet, few remained behind to defend the Schwebtron Manufacturing, since an attack onto Schwebtron territory seemed ridiculous for the Covenant to take into consideration. Virtually all Schwebtron defense forces were located in the Kemala System. The Buick Swarm, led by Commander Eyes of Extak intercepted Schwebtron forces present in the system in a battle that lasted only 42 minutes. It was a hopeless fight seeing as only a small mix of cruisers and Destroyers faced a horde of over 1000 Corvettes. Meanwhile Seestern Forces began securing all borders of the Schwebtron, manipulating their transmissions into making the rest of the Covenant think that nothing was wrong while the UBR Conquered all Planets near simultaniously. This became the fastest conquest of an empire in history, taking just 3 months. One year passed with no Empire noticing and the Populus remaining under control. Yet an unexpected man would begin a furious campaign of resistance.

### McPolk Resistance (2318 - 2319)

McPolk CEO Nirbogg Watchsail was among the first to find out what was really going on in the Schwebtron Manufacturing. As he told the Covenant, nobody believed him as communications with Schwebtron seemed legit. So he began creating his own plan to save the Schwebtron due to him not wanting to loose 60% of Mc Polks Market share which was in the Schwebtron Manufacturing. He occustrated a heist, stealing weapons from Polkanian Army depots and mounting them on the McPolk Merchant fleet. in the third month of 2318, 40 Ships (incl. some mercenaries) enterd Schwebtron Territory. They quickly established foothold in the Perma System, wiping out the local Seestern garrison. Confused, the Seestern sent a small squadron of corvettes to investigate, much to Nirbogg's pleasure as theese corvettes were quickly boarded by McPolk Troops. In order to recieve the Covenants Attention, he sent the corvettes to attack the Axis Order, after which it became clear to the Covenant that they were conned. The Block knew it was time to leave Schwebtron territory as the combined Covenant forces would wipe them out. Mc Polk CEO Nirbogg Watchsail became a Saint of the Covenant after his actions.

### Second Eris Order Invasion (2319)

As the Covenant moved to reconquer Schwebtron Manufacturing, the Block recaptured the Lote Domy Empire and new reinforcements, especially from the Seestern Empire were brought in to match the covenants numbers. The covenant didnt know that 95% of the Block's forces were now present in the Eris Order. As the new Minister of Naval Affairs Zermon Matros led the Covenants forces into the Eris Order and quickly met heavy resistance from the Leftern Block. A base of fortifications had been set by both sides on the three star line in the Eris Order. Casualties were Equal on both sides and no gains were made for both.

### Star Fortress Warfare (2319 - 2323)

The Brutal conflict continiued for 4 years, with the Covenant suffering slightly more casualties, due to them attacking. In the end, no side made gains or losses. On a political scale, both the Covenant and Leftern Block were made a laughing stock by the Galactic Commonwealth and kicked out of various council positions. Ultimatley an armistice was signed to end suffering on both sides.

## Armistice

On the 12.11.2323, a Salzig delegation ship invited ambassadors from the UBR, Axis Order, Eris Order and Lote Domy Empire and negotiations began. 6 Days passed with nobody leaving the negotiation room as the debate was very fierce on all sides. It was ultimatley decided that all territories would return to the year 2300, making the First Lote Domy invasion theoretically never happen and for exchange the Eris Order would join the Leftern Block with a recently discovered wormhole in the Lote Domy Empire leading to the Möllark - Eris Border serving as a connection for the Block.

## Aftermath

### Leftern Block:

The Leftern Block found itself at the Beginning of a recession. This was made worse by the fact that they now faced to fight a monstrosity which came out of an ancient artifact the Seestern uncovered. Following this immeadiatly, the Bunga Infestation began, putting a large strain especially on the UBR, which went from the Second Strongest nation to be lucky to enter the top 10 in just a few years. The Seestern tried their best in aiding all states but they failed in the Buick, who suffer 150 Years later because of this conflict. The Eris order began slowly rebuilding but also with minor succes as the galaxys economy was now focused on containing the Bunga threat.

### Enlightened Covenant:

The Covenant was hit much harder from the Conflict than the Block, not only due to the Schwebtron Industry being completely lost. The only unharmed state was the Polkanian Star Empire, which temorarily became the largest economy in the Covenant. A major recession had hit the Covenant states which reached it's peak during the Andromeda Crisis. While being initially worse off, the recovery took much faster for the Covenant.