Rio Sapo War

Rio Sapoan ships hovering over the irradiated remains of Pennsylvania

### Participants

Rio Sapoan Empire, Earth, The Backyardigans, Keenan's Squad, the MVSF, Erebus, The Illuminati, The Lumknights

An Allied squad in Mongolia during the war's first year

The **Rio Sapo War** was a five year long conflict between the people of Earth and the Rio Sapoan Empire. Initiated in 2084 after a failed annexation attempt by the Sapoans turned into a bloodbath, the Rio Sapo War saw close to 700 million humans killed, with most of Earth reduced to a nuclear wasteland. Peace was briefly declared in 2089, though this was a ruse by the traitorous human leader Mr. Flemming, and the final weeks of the conflict saw the newly formed "Organization", which included Rick Gryphon, the Lumknights, and the Illuminati, engage the MVSF and their allies in a battle that would shape multiversal history for years to come. The Rio Sapo war is famous for directly preceding Erebus's second rise.

## Backround

By the 21st Century, the Rio Sapoan empire had conquered large sections of the Milky Way Galaxy, subjugating hundreds of worlds and stripping them of their resources. They lacked, however, worlds under their control that closely matched Rio Sapo's conditions, and desired a planet with fertile oceans that could easily be terraformed to fit their needs. At the same time, rumors began to spread of a powerful army of humans who could travel between universes, and sought to topple the Sapoan empire. The origin of these rumors is unknown, but it was enough to convince the empire's current leader, Empress Mendoza, to set her sights on Earth.

Earth, meanwhile, had advanced to a point where it was beginning to establish interstellar colonies, such as Ben Central, and came into contact with alien civilizations such as the Shrekk, the Matoran, and the Mothership Zeta aliens. Medical technology had also improved greatly, and human aging had been cured. They were unaware, however, of the Rio Sapo Empire's designs for the world. First contact with the Empire was made in 2080, though relations between Earth and the Sapoans remained distant.

## Invasion

On January 14th, 2084, the Sapoan Empire deployed it's main fleet to Earth, quickly annihilating any defensive ships and surrounding the world with an energy shield that prevented anyone from leaving. At the same time, the Shrekk Confederacy invaded Ben Central, renaming it "Ben Shrektral." They did this under the advice of Mendoza, who the Shrekk believed was an ally. Secretly planning to invade Shrekka as well, Mendoza wanted her enemies distracted and fighting each other.

Human leader Mr. Flemming rushed to Mendoza's battlecruiser in the wake of this attack and attempted to negotiate peace. Denied, Mendoza began atomic bombing campaigns against many human settlements, and sent Mr. Flemming back to earth with a warning: a crusade was coming, and with it, the end of all Humans and also Shrekks.

Initial human response was frenzied and patchwork, but leaders like Dr. John Nash and the legendary private Keenan rallied aboard the USS Celphone Radiation, and struck back against the Sapos, destroying Mendoza's personal battlecruiser as it tired to land in Arkansas. While emboldened by this victory, it was clear to all involved that the war had only just begun.

## Later Battles

The fallout from Mendoza's bombing campaign devastated the Earth: thousands of species were driven to extinction, and millions of humans starved to death as crops failed and cites were reduced to rubble. The Rio Sapo Empire, however, was not able to secure a foothold on the world, as a special operations team known as the "Backyardigans" performed nonstop tactical strikes against their war machine. Meanwhile, surviving human battlefleets rallied at the city of New Eden would destroy many Sapoan ships, bringing the battle to orbit on several occasions.

As more and more of the Earth became ruined by war, Mendoza began to grow worried that, even if she could wipe out the humans, there would be nothing left of the world to colonize. Around the same time, Mr. Flemming contacted Mendoza in private, and proposed a peace deal: he would end hostilities and gradually allow the Sapoan Empire to annex Earth if, in exchange, he got to make Nicuragua into it's own planet. On the condition that the Backyardigans would die, Mendoza accepted.

## Final Crisis

this is the part where rick gryphon shows up and stuff and everything goes fucking crazy the timeline for this war makes no sense, only 4 years pass according to the movie but thats kinda whack, also how long was rick there? he's at the end of rio sapo zero so did he just kinda. hang out for the whole war? cuz rio sapo zero is like the first few months right? fuck im tired.

From what I remember Rick Gryphon and the Lumknights want to make erebus so theyre fucking around in the background while Dave collects all the different versions of dave to stop ms mendoza (which is hilarious now btw) and then transformers happens and then the siege of mandalore happens, and then mr eldred kills ms mendoza and yay we won augies great municipal water district