Human-Ak'tuli War

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Goals| - Defend human systems from assault
- Retaliate for perceived aggression
- Eliminate possible aliens threats2199
- Destruction of Herald of Inferno
- Secure peace for the Assembly2199
- Destruction of Herald of Inferno
- Prevent the formation of alliances
- Destroy heretical races

Strength| {UNKOWN} | {UNKOWN} | - 1 Light cruiser
- 840 Individuals
- Small number of autonomous drones (produced/deployed in situ)

The **Human-Ak'tuli War**, unofficially known in the human core worlds as the **First interstellar War**, was a series of skirmishes and conflicts between the nascent UHF and Assembly provoked by a rogue Azcalxochizin vessel, the *Herald of Inferno*. It is notable for being the first recorded armed conflict between two different sapient species in modern galactic history. Interestingly, it was also one of the few wars fought at least partially before either side had entered the Neutrino Revolution— meaning both sides battled without the benefit of artigrav, intertial recompensators, RENID shielding systems, stream-distortion sensors, effective FTL technology, or many of the other post-Neutrino technologies that underpin modern space travel and combat. As a result, the Human-Ak'tuli war hardly resembled what modern observers would call a "war"; it largely comprised of fitful skirmishing between small numbers of ships, often finding each other more-or-less by accident rather than plan.

## Outbreak

### "Glacier War" (2178-2190)

Lack of effective FTL means ships, materiel, etc. move incredibly slowly. Long-range sensors/comms extremely primitive. Leads to what historians dub the "Glacier War", where neither side is able to effectively move very quickly.

Shields aren't a thing because crappy tech, and armor isn't a thing because of mass limitations. PD exists but is crappy. Often even single glancing blow is enough to kill a ship. Compared to modern ships, these ships are small, slow, fragile, and basically terrible at everything except killing other crappy late-22nd-century ships (and even this is iffy). Fatality rates are high.

Poor CnC as mentioned means this part looks less like a modern war than a cold war, with intermittent skirmishes every few months over a period of years as fleet occasionally find each other and engage in extremely-small-scale (by modern standards) battles.

Tech advances on both sides to resolve the general terribad-ness of the "warships" of the time.

## The Ophiuchus War (2190-2198)

Second phase of war. Neutrino revolution begins, ships slowly start to become not-terribad. FTL is still shite, but first-gen recompensators/shields begin to show up. This phase of the war is features the first actual offensive, with the first prototype not-terribad human ships striking at a few known Ak'tuli colonies and meeting the first prototype not-terribad Ak'tuli ships. Seen from earth, this offensive mainly took place within the constellation Ophiuchus, giving thispahse of the war its name

### Mutual Contact with the Proc'nar

Begin pacifist-ing, trying to end the war immediately

## Revelation of the Herald (2198-2199)

Herald is found out, cornered, destroyed by joint Ak'tuli/Human ships after they learn to make halfway-decent ones and realize they've been set up.

## Result

neutrino revolution, groundwork laid for Confederacy