Voxog-Althivian Conflict

The ongoing struggle between the Voxog Imperium and the Althivian Sovereign in the Andromeda Galaxy.

## Time of Hesitation

After the First Action of the Kastigar Reclamation was completed, both the Alshivah and the Voxog knew of each other's presence. The hero of the Alshivah, Oustanan Mesium, believed that challenging the Voxog would be an act of ultimate hubris. He knew as the Lord Commander of the Kasigar Legions that there would never be enough warriors to face the Imperium directly, he believed there was no need for such a battle since the Voxog was on the opposite side of the galaxy. But the Al-Kastros and the Hymmaihyia convinced him and his allies that destroying the Voxog was the only challenge left for the Alshivah, and the boon of purifying the galaxy of the hegemony of sin was too great to be ignored.

On the Terran day of March 13, 1824, in the 59th century of the Voxog and in the 738th year of the modern Alshivah, the newly crowned Oustanan Pahtetra Mesium, the Al-Kastros, and the Hymmaihyia declared the Voxog Imperium the greatest threat to the new Althivian Sovereign. Their highest goal, of which uniting the Alshivah was now the means, would be the extinction of the Voxog religion and way of life.

At first the people of Voxog did not care for the statements of a distant interplanetary kingdom. But as the years advanced, attacks on planets nearest to the Sovereign began, and they became more rapid and deadly than the last. Powerful battle carriers clad in azure and silver would charge out of hyperspace, thousands of aeroships would swarm out like insects from a nest, and when all fighters left the carriers would blink out before retaliation. Piloting these aeroship fighters were warriors who had one order; kill as many heretics before dying honorably for the Sovereign.

The Imperium would not directly retaliate against the Althivian Sovereign, to do so would be a drain on resources and a massive moral blow to a people who were already waning in their faith. Thus, orbital defence was prioritized for every integral Voxog world, garrisons and fleets were shifted, and the will of the people of Voxog were ruled by fear and hate.

## Years of Terror

With the Hogufex Crisis alreading blooming into fruition, the Voxog public were already concerned with decentralized attacks against the Imperium. The Hogufex; the Treasurers of the Code, were started by the Botorig Bio-Engineer Mu’nat Faithun and the Luscrign Sargent Kairo Denebris and their followers taken from the military complex known as the Bulwark. They were separatists with the goal of advancing genetic and neural engineering to create clone based super soldiers. Mu’nat and Kairo were motivated by the inaction of the Elected War Council after Althivian forces attacked one of the Bulwark colonies.

## The Thousand-Fold Beheading

Salrada Mahtetra Mesium, the Al-Kastros, the Hymmaihyia, and the Althivian Senate held a Tribunal to discuss the shocking events that had unfolded in the previous years. They decided that the methods of the terrorist cells were dishonorable despite their targets being Voxog. The leaders of these cells would be gathered and beheaded in the Public Square to discourage Althivians from the path of atrocity and to focus on the unification of the Alshivah.

## Treaty of Vendagu

With the disappearance of Ottahrikai Paterra Mesium, the Holy Throne of Kastigar fell to his wife; Hymasura Mahter Mesium and her two children, Athrus and Kaligha.

Vendagu, an unclaimed world once inhabited by the Vendusaga, a forgotten builder race. This planet in the Inner Rim of the Andromeda was the location of the Signing that would end Voxog support of the Scarvius Separatists and forbid the Althivian Sovereign from attacking the Voxog and neutral sapient-inhabited worlds.