Andromeda Wars

### Result:

Pyrrhic Federated Galactic Alliance victory* Hanza Republic flees into Messier 110, shielded by a network of black holes
* Collapse of the Andromeda Coalition and subsequent execution of several coalition leaders
* Alliance struggles establishing authority within the Whirlpool Galaxy, allowing for the formation of the Frontier Defence Force

## Casualties

The **Andromeda Wars** were a series of long-stretched, major intergalactic wars lasting for a total of 184 years taking place within the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way, and their satellites. It involved the vast majority of nations in and around the galaxies. The war was a period of Total War, meaning that the entirety of a nation's resources were devoted to fighting this war. Civilian targets were attacked as though they were legitimate targets and there were no restrictions on the weapons used.

The war was fought between the Federated Galactic Alliance and the Andromeda Coalition, the latter being a loosely governed alliance of militias, homesteaders, bandits, smugglers, mercenaries, terrorists and pirates all rising up as citizen soldiers when the need arose against the growing oppressive rule of the Alliance. The wars consisted of four major periods of conflict: the First Andromeda War, lasting from 2505-2508; the Second Andromeda War, lasting from 2510-2616; the Third Andromeda War, lasting from 2627-2656; and the Fourth Andromeda War, taking place in 2689. By far the most devastating and widespread of the wars was the Second Andromeda War, in which the Coalition held an entire sector of the galaxy as its own sovereign state, the Hanza Republic, which still exists as a microstate within Messier 110.

The wars only stopped when it became obvious that an independence movement would be more likely to succeed in the newly colonized and weakly-governed Whirlpool Galaxy, leading to the formation of the Frontier Defence Force. The collective devastation of the conflicts marked the end of the Andromeda Age of modern intergalactic history.

## Background

### Spread to Andromeda

The Andromeda Galaxy was the second galaxy to be colonized by the races of the Federated Galactic Alliance, who had already spread throughout all corners of the Milky Way, their home. For several decades, Andromeda was a mostly lawless frontier populated by homesteaders, mercenaries and pirates; although these many factions were often at war with one another, they all shared a common love of freedom and exploration.

When the First Magellanic War broke out, it not only caused immense devastation to the Alliance's population, but also to infrastructure and the economy. This catalysed the mass migration of refugees to the Andromeda Galaxy; within two years the population of Andromeda had grown from less than 500,000 to more than 2 billion individuals, bringing with them the need for government to keep order.

## First Andromeda War (2505-2508)

> *Main Article: First Andromeda War*
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## Second Andromeda War (2510-2616)

> *Main Article: Second Andromeda War*
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### Hanza Republic and the Free Sectors

> *Main Article: Hanza Republic*
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## Third Andromeda War (2627-2656)

> *Main Article: Third Andromeda War*
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## Fourth Andromeda War (2689)

> *Main Article: Fourth Andromeda War*
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