The Combine

The **Combine** is a large faction that controls it's entire universe of origin and approximately 200 other universes. They are led by the Advisors.

## Origins

The Combine has it's earliest traces to the United Nations, United Nations Space Command and The Coalition. It was officially formed when Sam Deven had met with M00NDUST, Aries Azure and Jack Collins, talking about a way to combat future threats besides the Galactic Republic, which had just been founded. The group decided upon the foundation of the Galactic Combine of Allied Systems, in order to deal with the threat of the Fallen Empire, which was already on its way to regroup with the shattered remnants of their initial assault army after the events of the Great Sol War. The Combine was formed between the Confederacy, Guardians, Brotherhood of Steel, and UNSC, and began a long war against the Fallen that ended with the destruction of their culture and a House of rebellious Fallen known as House Salvation joining their ranks to study the Darkness, which had just entered the system. After the Fallen were defeated, they sought out the Cabal Empire, which had just broken free from the Fallen's control. The Cabal was brought to Sol, and settled on Mars. For a time, the system had peace, until the arrival of the Hive and Taken. They invaded Mars, Titan and the Moon, yet were pushed back and out of Sol. The Combine pursued them, destroying their war-fleets of Tombships all the way to Fundament. The trio of Hive Gods stood against the Combine, but were shattered upon a thousand blades. After this, it was revealed that the Taken were controlled by the Darkness, which attempted to claim their universe for itself. Yet even the Darkness fell to the Combine, and the Pyramids were silenced, encased in energy fields that prohibited them from activating. There was more peace for a time, and the Combine flourished. However, Chancellor Clovis Bray, who was secretly a Sith Lord and had founded the Republic to become a new Empire, feared the consequences of having the Clone Armies taken away from him. As a result, he created Clones of the Council on Kamino, as he believed the only thing that could stop them was themselves. In a single swift move he took control of the Republic's armies, and brought their full military force to Earth, where he, the Awoken, House Dawn, and the people of Earth founded the Unified Earth Government out of fear of the Combine invading Earth. The Combine sent Reaper fleets and Spartans to Earth, and began a war against the UEG.

The Battle of Earth was costly, and ended in the loss of over four billion Human lives, and the lives of many more Clones. Earth itself was nearly destroyed in the conflict, but ultimately was subdued by the Combine, whose forces began spreading out across the continent from Australia and Antarctica. Africa was taken in a matter of days, with heavy glassing occurring in South America. Asia and North America were the last to fall, with many areas heavily destroyed or glassed. Entire nations burned to the ground in a single day, with the last strongholds in Europe eventually falling. The few billion surviving humans fled to central Europe, specifically the City of Light and the Traveler. The Guardians, still relatively new, had split: Cordova-9 and Fives, the Hunter and Warlock Vanguard, wanted to side with the Combine, but Nara Venj, the Titan Vanguard, wanted to fight for humanity. Nara took on both Cordova and Fives head-on, defeating them both in a battle that nearly destroyed the Tower. With help from Hexiron and with Combine Spartans and Brotherhood of Steel soldiers closing in on all sides, Nara Venj and the 6 Titan orders fought the Battle of Six Fronts, buying time for Hexiron's fleets to get the last humans off-earth. Hexiron and the Republic's fleets fled to the Skyriver System, taking refuge in the Outer Rim while the rest of the Guardians pledged loyalty to the Combine. With the Milky Way secure Earth was repopulated with Combine settlers, the Combine moved on to the grander schemes.

Their next target was the Skyriver System, and destroying the remnants of the Human fleet. During the Battle of Six Fronts, the Traveler left Earth, joining Humanity's survivors. Skyriver itself was in a bad state, with criminal organizations like the Hutt Clans controlling most of society there. So when the current Skyriver government heard of the Combine's offer of safety, they accepted, unaware of the consequences. In the meantime, the Hexiron and Republic's survivors were on Corellia, rebuilding their numbers. Clovis Bray had since gone off and founded The Concordat, a military faction devoted to the destruction of the Combine, alongside the Exo and Clone Trooper military, alongside any citizens of Skyriver who resisted the Combine's new control over their galaxy. The Republic, now led by Amelia and Cassidy Taggart, who had escaped Earth along the rest, worked alongside the House of Dusk and allied Guardians to create a massive ship built around the Traveler, with the ability to evacuate humanity to the reaches of space. This ship was called the Eternal Hope, and was their best bet to escape the galaxy. The Empire eventually found Corellia, beginning the Republic's last battle. Ana Bray and the Warmind, Rasputin, managed to get themselves onto the Combine's command ship, the Prydwen, and overload it's engines at the cost of their own lives. This caused the Prydwen to explode, presumable killing Moondust, who was on the ship. However, Moondust survived, and led the detachment of Combine soldiers on the ground against the Republic's Clone Army. The Concordat managed to escape, but the Clones were all but vanquished and Amelia and Cassidy Taggart were captured. In the end, due to the sacrifice of Cara Dune and many other freedom fighters, the Eternal Hope and the few remaining allied cruisers evacuated Corellia and jumped to Deep Space, not to be found again for hundreds of years.

## The Covenant War and early expansion into Andromeda

After the Battle of Corellia, the Combine had yet another galaxy under their belt. Returning to Sol after the long campaign, Amelia Taggart was privately executed by Moondust, and the Sentinels were forced into servitude, some of which were loyal to Moondust and others of which had fled. Around this time, Sam Deven detected several slipspace ruptures around Reach, and, upon traveling there, discovered the planet under attack by a new race known as the Covenant. Reach was unfortunately glassed and the Combine soldiers there fell, beginning a long war against the Covenant. After about a year of heavy fighting and a second battle on Earth when a large Covenant fleet mounted a surprise attack there, but was driven back at New Mombasa. Eventually both the Covenant and their sister faction, the Banished, were defeated and taken as slaves alongside the Fallen and Clone population. The Combine, now triumphant, continues their expansion into Andromeda and Crimson Fleet territory, while the Concordat and Eramis's remaining resistance members regroup in the Milky Way.

## The Reality Engine project

In the end, nothing could stand before the Combine. The Crimson Fleet fell like all the rest, and the Combine's domination continued across the galaxy. Eventually, approximately 9 years after the initial destruction of Earth, the Combine managed to utilize the Pyramids as a mean of inter-dimensional transportation, constructing massive Reality Engines that broke the fold of space and time. These engines created a performation between a universe and it's respective Boarder-World, allowing the Combine to enter it and set up another Reality Engine to enter the next. Using this method, they expanded to their neighboring universe, Universe 0:2, and began their invasion of it. 0:2 was relatively under-developed at the time of their invasion, but was soon subjugated. Then they attacked 0:3. Then 0:4. Their gradual invasion of the multiverse continued until they reached Universe 0:13. This universe possessed a force of warriors known as The Galactic Conglomerate, an organized force with the power to push back the Combine's approach. This began a long war against the Conglomorate that lasted over 200 years, and ultimately ended with the Conglomorate and the Concordat's defeat. The Combine once again resumed their conquering of the multiverse over the next 1,900 years, only recently having their march obstructed by the Phoenix Unified Command.

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### vehicles

**Synths (biological and self-replicating war machines)**

Synth types
 Helltank
 Patrol-Drone