First Magellanic War

## Casualties

The **First Magellanic War (FMW** or **MW I)**, also known as the **First Galactic War** or the **War Against Human Aggression (WAHA)**, refers to a series of conflicts, primarily in and around Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with some limited action in the Milky Way, that occurred in the 23rd Century during the HIN's campaign to ensure human sovereignty over the LMC during the period of HPL rule over the Sapien Council and HIN Congress. Because of the widespread devastation that came as a result of the war, the Milky Way experienced a mass migration of its population to the Andromeda Galaxy. Until the Andromeda Wars, the First Mangellanic War was the deadliest conflict in modern intergalactic history and had a severe impact on humanity's reputation on the intergalactic stage for many decades.

## Background

### Human Interstellar Network

After humanity developed FTL technology in 2082, they began a rapid and aggressive campaign to colonize the local bubble surrounding their home system, the Sol System. In just five years humans colonized ten systems, and in another five they had colonized 100 more; all of these systems fell under the government of the Human Interstellar Network. Their aggressive culture, widespread ambition and hardy physiology allowed humans to quickly rise to the position of one of the Milky Way's most advanced civilizations. They eventually colonized a planet dubbed Terra in 2199 and were considered advanced and cultured enough to be invited to join the Federated Galactic Alliance. Despite widespread civilian opposition to the offer, the Sapien Council - the collective ruling body of the HIN - accepted the offer and the HIN was admitted to the Alliance, forcing human society to adopt federal laws.

These new laws, along with the accompanying restrictions and regulations, gave a new platform for the Human Preservation League, a human-supremacist political party and militia group that advocated for complete *Homo sapien sapiens* (Earth-human) sovereignty over the Sol System during the Sol Secession War. Their violent means and advocation for mass-genocide of Martians had erroded their credibility until the HIN joined the Alliance, at which point they gathered significant support due to their human-supremacist, isolationist propaganda, which struck a chord with most human commoners.

During the Congressional Elections, the HPL candidates won a major majority in the HIN Congress, which resulted in twelve of the fourteen Congressional delegates to the Sapien Council being members of the HPL. This new political majority, coupled with their widespread popular support, allowed them to change the HIN into an effective one-party fascist dictatorship. Under this new regime, the HIN's colonization efforts became even more aggressive, in some cases forcing other races out of new systems.

When the HIN reached the Large Magellanic Cloud, they declared the entire satellite galaxy a human territory known as the Magellanic Republic, an autonomous region under the flag of the HIN. This action was declared illegal by the Council of the Golden Worlds, of which the HIN was a part.

## Aftermath and Legacy

### Legacy

The war would end up being the single deadliest modern conflict to happen in the Milky Way and the deadliest conflict among the races of the Alliance until the Andromeda Wars. The war was a catalyst for mass migration of both population and influence to the Andromeda Galaxy, leaving the Milky Way the political capital of the Alliance. The reputation of humans as aggressive, prideful creatures was permanently cemented in the minds of other races and humanity as a whole struggled to regain their credibility for decades. Although the general view on humans has improved thanks to their efforts in the Second Magellanic War - a similar but far less widespread conflict several decades later - the view that they are highly aggressive and uncompromising as a whole is a widespread opinion of many races even into the 29th Century.