Xelaxixax

## Description

A verdant and resource rich world recently discovered in 7003 CE, Xelaxixax is the homeworld of the xellix, a poorly understood reptilian people often regarded by the rest of the world as savage and unintelligent. Much to the contrary, the xellix have an extremely rich culture, and those that have interacted have noticed that despite their seemingly aggressive and territorial nature, they are simply superstitious and insular, preferring to keep their world for themselves without outside interference. This need for independence and self-sufficiency has been challenged continuously since their discovery by the lanixx run multinational mining corporation known at the time as Tavarix Resource Development LLC (TRD).

## History

After launching several probes into the atmosphere to monitor the planet’s resources, TRD discovered massive yields of iridium, platinum, and copper, all essential materials for the construction of energy weapons.

### Corporate Interests

Realizing that they had stumbled across a proverbial goldmine, the lanixx named the planet Xelaxixax, meaning “Bounty” in their language, with xellix meaning “cattle.” However, several of their first few excavation teams were ambushed and murdered by xellix warriors belonging to a multi tribe alliance known as the Northern Alliance of Ter’sia. These Ter’sian warriors were armed with rudimentary gunpowder weapons and travelled using gas-powered trucks and buggies.

Enraged by this attack on their workers, TRD recruited mercenaries from Reuvein Security Consulting, a xamon run private military contractor, to guard their mines and pacify nearby xellix tribes that were deemed dangerous or troublesome. Those that were not destroyed were instead driven from their homes and placed into internment camps run by either xamon or lanixx, intent on teaching them language and other knowledge that was deemed civilized. These newly educated xellix were then put to work as workers in the rapidly expanding iridium and platinum mines of TRD. After several years, another rival company, this time the gorgon run Yimraz Mining Corporation (YMC), began to settle in the southern continent of Leminax. There, YMC began to colonize the planet more aggressively, assimilating entire regions of xellix populations and using them as labor and even arming them as soldiers to defend their interests against TRD.

Seeing the entrance of YMC as a threat to their interests, TRD sent xellix warriors led by xamon officers to raid YMC’s mines and company towns. However, TRD was unprepared for the xellix’s war doctrine, which involved excessive force and frequent pillaging, shocking TRD and causing several galactic powers to take notice, notably the Holy Zyyntorean Empire and the Gorgon Empire. Both had different reactions, however. The zyyntorean condemned the companies for their abuse and exploitation of the xellix, while the gorgons saw the conflict as an opportunity to colonize the world outright.

Thus, a three way conflict began, with the zyyntoreans sending SAR forces to disrupt operations for both sides while the gorgons funded and armed YMC troopers and their xellix militias in 7016 CE. The forces of TRD and Reuvein were no match for the zyyntoreans, who beat them back at every turn, razing hundreds of their camps and destroying several of their mines.

However, the xellix saw the zyyntoreans as the invaders, having been indoctrinated and manipulated by TRD into believing that their mining operation was beneficial to industrialization and prosperity. As such, zyyntorean Honor Chapters and SAR forces were frequently attacked by xellix militants, whose knowledge of the land and fierce fighting spirit made them formidable opponents, causing the zyyntoreans to withdraw their forces after they declared war on the Spravac Empire in 7021 CE to assist the Deltaverse, leaving the xellix and TRD to fight against YMC and the imperial gorgon forces.

What became known as the Xellix Resource War had ended, and with its end the Xellix Civil War began.

### The 1st Civil War

Other nations, including the Lanixx Federation and the Xamon Confederacy also took notice, deploying battalions of their soldiers to arm and train what became known as the Hosian Bloc, a coalition of newly formed xellix nations loyal to TRD.

By 7024 CE, the entirety of Xelaxixax had chosen sides in the corporate war, with a large Dejist population taking root in the nations and city-states loyal to the Great Selethian Empire. The Dejists were especially deadly, terrifying and pushing back lanixx and xamon soldiers and their xellix militias. The Hosian Bloc’s warriors suffered from worse equipment and poor morale in comparison to the fanatical and shamanistic Dejists and their gorgon allies.

By 7027 CE, much of the Hosian Bloc had been absorbed by the gorgons and their xellix forces, calling themselves the Federal Coalition of Olixar, taking its namesake from the capital trading hub of Olixar. In 7030 CE, the xamon withdrew their forces, choosing to prepare their soldiers for their conquest of the Deltaverse on Shagra, leaving the lanixx and what remained of the Hosian Bloc to fend for themselves against the increasingly powerful Olixan Army.

After just three more years of war, the Olixans and the gorgons had taken the entirety of the planet. However, relations between the Olixans and the gorgons quickly deteriorated, as the ethnically and politically diverse xellix populations, now realizing the gorgon’s true intentions, collapsed into infighting in 7034 CE, beginning the Second Xellix Civil War. Splitting into several factions, the xellix ripped each other apart, oftentimes cities were turned to rubble as the Xamisch speaking, Dejist, and Latikan speaking populations fought each other. Additionally, a population of xellix nativists calling themselves the Native Socialist Defense Army (NSDA) formed in 7037 CE, seeking to bring back the old xellix cultural values from before the Resource War. The NSDA focused primarily on terrorist attacks against Dejists, massacring entire towns or forcibly marrying xellix children to village elders to ensure that they were instilled with native cultural values.

The Dejists were armed by the gorgons, who continued to fight on their world, acting as peacekeeping forces to protect Dejist populations while continuing to arm them and civilize them, industrializing several of their cities by giving them proper sewers, electricity and running water. These advancements drew other xellix to their cities, however this also brought terrorist attacks at the hands of the NSDA and the Xamisch speaking militants, which had coalesced into a coalition of cities calling themselves the National Defense Front of Xellix (NDFX). The NDFX were also still armed by xamon arms dealers, primarily those employed by the Vondraks. In return, NDFX were instructed to capture xellix civilians and give them to the Vondraks to be used as slaves.

After news of the Vondrak’s involvement was released in 7046 CE, the zyyntoreans once again threatened involvement, however they were still dedicating their forces to helping rebuild the Ures Empire as well as keeping an eye on the Spravac who were embroiled in war with the NRR. The return of the zyyntoreans caused the gorgons to act, who threatened war with the zyyntoreans if they got involved. In response, the zyyntoreans sent Honor Chapters and Vonin Bands to Xelaxixax, hoping that their presence would convert neutral xellix populations to their cause and tip the balance of the war.

Sure enough, militias of Zyyntorist xellix allied with the Vonin rose up, promising to take in and protect xellix prosecuted by the other factions. This new rising faction, calling themselves the United Militias of Valeez (UMV), frequently fought against the NSDA and the NDFX, though less so with the latter. In 7050 CE, the gorgons, after facing severe public backlash from their citizens for the long and costly war, finally pulled out from Xelaxixax, leaving the Dejists to fend for themselves against the other factions. In a bid of desperation, the primarily disorganized Dejists sided with the Latikan speaking population, formed the Federal Defense Front (FDF). Since the FDF still controlled the capital city of Olixar, the FDF declared themselves as the sovereign power of Xelaxixax, calling themselves the Democratic Federation of Xelaxixax, holding their first democratic elections in 7052 CE. The winner of the election, President Tar Xel Vocix, promised to end the constant bloodshed on Xelaxixax, organizing the militias of the FDF into the Federal Security Force, armed with a collection of gorgon, lanixx, and captured xamon weapons and armor. The Security Forces, now the most powerful military on the planet, swept aside the other factions, easily defeating and absorbing the NDFX and pacifying the UMV, leaving only the NSDA as the only army still willing to fight.

In an attempt of propaganda and public image, Vocix declared the war over, ending the 2nd Xellix Civil War in 7054 CE, 20 years after the war started. Despite the end of the war, the NSDA continued a low level insurgency in several parts of the planet, mostly confined to the northern reaches of the Op’zal Valley and the Tarlax Jungle.

### Jungle Insurgencies

The insurgency persisted for over a century, with several major military operations launched against them by the Security Forces in 7064 CE, 7066 CE, and 34 AUA. An official ceasefire was established between the two belligerents and mediated by a joint zyyntorean, lanixx, and xamon delegation in 58 AUA, allowing the NSDA to form their own autonomous zone in the Tarlax Jungle and Op’zal Valley while the Federation of Xelaxixax owned the rest of the planet.

Though the ceasefire was finalized, the NSDA, now called the Native Republic of Tarlax, was still displeased with the results, only capitulating to the demands of the delegation and the Federation after being convinced that their war was unwinnable.

However, the NSDA made secret deals with the Xamon Empire, who offered to arm them in return that they supply them with slaves whenever they got a hold of any. This state of affairs lasted until 530 AUA, 24 years after the end of the Union War. During the Union War, the Federation used the excuse of the war to place increasingly harsh regulations on their citizens, during the war the public was satisfied with the excuse. However, after the war’s end, the Federation refused to lift the restrictions, causing widespread riots and civil disobedience amongst its citizens. The worst of these was the Olixar Protest of 534 AUA, after Federal Police fired into a crowd of protesting youth, causing over 60 of them to be killed or injured. The massacre kickstarted what became known as Bleeding Olixar, a period of bloodshed within Olixar and later in other cities characterized by violent riots and even terrorist attacks carried out by several militant groups, including the NSDA, which saw the conflict as an opportunity to reignite their insurgency, beginning the 3rd Xellix Civil War in 534 AUA. In response to the sudden increase in violence, the Galactic Council Peacekeeping Corps sent a joint task force of soldiers from the Orbam Republic, the Lanixx Federation, the Drag Republics, and the Surotian Empire to maintain peace on key locations of Xelaxixax, offering aid to starving populations and assisting the Federal Security Forces in raiding and pacifying rebel forces, primarily militants from the NSDA.

Despite the operation’s intention of maintaining peace and improving relations between the rival factions, their actions only emboldened the xellix fighters, who believed the soldiers to be colonizers enforcing the tyranny of the federal government. The operation, called Joint Task Force Green- Operation Xellix Peace (JTFG-OXP), in response to the continued violence, doubled down and recruited more forces to assist them, including human soldiers from New Germany and New Switzerland. The addition of new forces made little difference, as violence persisted well into 550 AUA, with OXP making little headway in quelling the rebel forces. In addition, the DFX was becoming more and more corrupt, at times generals in the Security Forces would outright rebel, becoming travelling warlords with no allegiance, pillaging and conquering small towns and villages for their own gain, using the excuse that they were keeping the peace to do what they pleased. The DFX made no effort to stop these warlords, causing a rift between them and Task Force Green, leading to decreased morale amongst the soldiers of the Peacekeeping Forces.

In 556 AUA, 6 years after another three million soldiers were sent to help in the war effort, the DFX collapsed after the NSDA successfully launched a coup in Olixar, capturing and hanging the presidential cabinet and their families.

### The New Order

With the DFX now nonexistent, the NSDA declared themselves the new government of Xelaxixax, referring to themselves as the Socialist Native Republic of Xelaxixax (SNRX). Task Force Green, with their mission failed, withdrew from the planet, leaving the SNRX to rule the planet as they saw fit, though it was not a peaceful rule. A coalition of the xellix tribes and militias, calling themselves the New Hosian Alliance, continued to fight, beginning the Hosian Insurgency. The Hosian Insurgency, in addition to a new set of sanctions placed on the SNRX by the Galactic Council, kept the SNRX in a constant state of disrepair and poverty, ensuring that it never rose to prominence, as the SNRX continuously espoused that it intended to take its revenge on the galaxy for its imperialistic wars against Xelaxixax.

From 556 AUA to 784 AUA, the SNRX continued to rule the planet, placing heavy restrictions of freedom of expression and outright outlawed the practice of religions such as Dejism, Zyyntorism, or any other faith that differed from that of the original xellix tribal pantheon. Technology deemed imperialist, that is anything given to the xellix by the foreign powers, was confiscated and destroyed. Despite ruling the planet, the SNRX had no real uniform military, instead using militias and groups of fighters loyal to their cause to continue fighting the Hosian insurgents, who still had their armies and weapons left behind from the last civil wars. The New Hosian Alliance was also not above hiring mercenaries and pirates, primarily zurok, stalaxian, and spravac raiders, to attack and raid Republican cities and bases. These raids were devastating to Republican morale, and caused support for the regime, which was already low, to plummet to critical levels. As more cities and regions pledged their support for the NHA, the insurgency escalated to full scale war in 784 AUA, beginning the 4th Xellix Civil War as the two sides mobilized their forces.

The Native Republic began conscripting every able bodied fighter they could, including minors as young as 12 to fight, arming them with whatever weapons and uniforms the Republic could afford.

### The Grey Tide

In a bid to control Xelaxixax once and for all, the gorgons and even the spravac got involved, both of them arming the NHA in 790 AUA to tip the scales of the war in their favor. The spravac even sent units of Feral Gunners, lightly armored guerilla troops, to assist the NHA.

However, in 795 AUA, spravac and gorgon troops began exchanging fire after spravac were ordered to by the Didact in charge of the operation, Didact Tzártziv Sógcairé, to keep the gorgons from furthering their own interests. After the incident, spravac raiders began seizing control of several gorgon mines and camps, slaughtering the guards and workers and taking control of them for themselves. The gorgons retaliated in kind, sending a fleet to blockade Xelaxixax to prevent reinforcements or supplies to assist the spravac.

The gorgons gathered militias within the NHA loyal to them, primarily Dejists, and launched a campaign against the spravac and Hosian soldiers loyal to the Empire. The gorgons and Dejist militias took the spravac by surprise, pushing them back well into the thick Hosian Jungles, though the Feral Gunners ensured that every mile they took was stained in gorgon and Dejist blood.

While the NHA collapsed into infighting, the SNRX fortified their positions and launched an offensive of their own, attacking both the spravac and gorgons at every turn, though they tended to avoid the spravac because of the terror they caused the poorly trained SNRX soldiers.

In 803 AUA, the spravac broke through the gorgon blockade after Incubi and xamon Imps infiltrated the gorgon flagship, the Jorlan-Class heavy dreadnought Will of the Huntress and detonated its hypercore, causing a massive explosion that destroyed almost the entirety of the gorgon fleet and even lit up the Koren Valley, blinding those that looked directly at it. After the destruction of the Huntress, spravac and zurok pirate ships arrived and destroyed the rest of the fleet, later landing large hordes of spravac, stalaxian, zurok, and xamon auxiliaries to assist the spravac in their war effort against the gorgon, NHA, and SNRX forces. The hordes of pirates and mercenaries proved devastating, after just a year of combat, they successfully captured Olixar, effectively beheading the central Republican Government, leaving only SNRX generals and other officers in the field to continue the war for the SNRX. From Olixar, the spravac had a strong base of operations, taking control of several militias and units of the SNRX, compiling them into a single force to be used to enforce imperial control over the planet.

Those that resisted the spravac in Olixar were promptly silenced, often violently, which quickly stopped all riots and protests within the capital upon witnessing the horrors that the spravac did to those that resisted their rule.

Despite now owning the capital, the spravac still had to contend with the rest of the planet, as the NHA that supported them had changed allegiance to the gorgons, as they were infuriated by the spravac’s abuse of their own people. Unable to gather significant reinforcements from the Spravac Empire, which was currently preoccupied with raising forces for their wars against the Syrus Remnant in Andromeda.

In 806 AUA, Olixar was retaken again by rebel NHA and SNRX forces. However, fighting between the two factions broke out over who would own the capital. During the clashes, the spravac forces in the capital escaped and reunited with their forces spread through the region to find another base of operations, this time in the form of a gorgon base known as Fort Maczen. The spravac forces successfully took the fort, killing all of the soldiers and using the refugees in the camp as labor and food rations.

After losing Fort Maczen, confidence in the gorgons amongst the NHA plummeted, and public support for the gorgons back in their empire also lowered once again, forcing the gorgons out again in 807 AUA, leaving the planet for the spravac and the rebel factions.

Despite being technologically superior, the spravac deemed the planet no longer important for the moment, and withdrew their forces in 809 AUA to leave the planet for the NHA and SNRX to war over. The 4th Civil War finally ended in 815 AUA after 31 years of vicious fighting and bloodshed. At this point, the xellix had grown weary of nearly 900 years of constant warfare and suffering. With the NHA rising triumphant from the 4th war, the new government, calling itself the People’s Republic of Xelaxixax, resolved to cease the warfare that plagued the xellix people. Adopting a fierce policy of religious and cultural tolerance, many foreign languages and cultures that the xellix had adopted over the millenia were free, in theory, to live in harmony with each other without fear of persecution.

### From Ashes

Additionally, the PRX also adopted a new economic policy, one with a large social safety net and a capitalistic angle on trade. After 888 years of war over mostly the planet’s rich resources, the xellix knew that if they could harness their resources and trade them, they would prosper.

Hiring out zurok and ingorian economists, the xellix sold their copper, iridium, and platinum to the rest of the galaxy, refining it on their homeworld and quickly improving their way of life through the trade. They established ties with the zyyntoreans, gorgons, and a myriad of other nations. The only empire they avoided outright was the Spravac Empire, whom they both loathed and feared for the horrors the spravac had inflicted upon them.

Conflict briefly arose in 832 AUA after a cabal of Vondraks, spravac Thrall Lords, and zurok Dark Slavers invaded the planet, causing significant damage to the PRX economy and population after kidnapping and enslaving nearly 40 million xellix civilians over the course of two years, engaging in skirmishes with the PRX Army at every turn. The war tipped in favor of the PRX after a joint task force commissioned by the Galactic Council arrived. The force, known as Joint Task Force Blue- Operation Freedom’s Promise (JTFB-OFP) arrived on the planet composed of New German Volkswehr, zyyntorean marines, and Drag Republics soldiers invaded the region that the spravac and Vondraks had captured.

The soldiers of OFP battled fiercely with the combined forces of spravac Vortzian Scars, Vondrak Blackwatch, and zurok Dark Slavers. The Vortzian Scars were especially deadly, causing heavy casualties for the Volkwehr and the drag soldiers. In 836 AUA, the cabal was forced to retreat after most of their chattel were freed by the task force.

After freeing the xellix captives, JTFB offered to remain on the planet to prevent the world from being exploited further. The xellix accepted, but only on the condition that zyyntoreans command the majority of the forces.

While garrisoning the planet alongside PRX troops, Zyyntorism spread throughout the population once again, which perturbed much of the majority Dejist population. The conflict rose to critical levels in 843 AUA after a Dejist terrorist cell known as the Vixzaud bombed a Zyyntorist church, killing not only 200 worshippers and bystanders, but the clergy as well. The deaths of the clergy infuriated the zyyntoreans, who began stationing Honor Chapters in the major cities to hunt down cells of Vixzaud. While battling the terrorist cells, Vixzaud used the destruction caused by the conflict to fuel hatred for Zyyntorist citizens, leading to increased attacks against them.

In response, gangs of Zyyntorists began training with Honor Chapters in order to defend their mostly segregated communities from attacks against Vixzaud or other groups. One such group was the Dejist Militia of Freedom (DMF), which launched a full scale guerilla war against JTFB in 851 AUA. The DMF and Vixzaud continued to fight JTFB until 911 AUA after a ceasefire agreement was reached, as both sides had agreed that the bloodshed was too much to bear. The war had displaced hundreds of millions of citizens, most of which were forced to seek asylum elsewhere in the galaxy, mostly on the Ures world of Desmond, the zyyntorean planet of Kierik, and Orbam. This massive xellix refugee crisis came to a head after the Orbam Republic petitioned the PRX to get control over the situation, as they were beginning to get at full capacity in housing the refugees. In order to help in the conflict, the Orbam Republic sent its troops to Xelaxixax to assist in hunting down and destroying the DMF and Vixzaud, successfully destroying the latter in 906 UA after discovering their main base in a joint raid with zyyntorean marines. Despite making headway, the Volkwehr were withdrawn after the war’s popularity plummeted amongst the New German public. Public support in the Holy Zyyntorean Empire remained strong however, who remained along with the drags and the Orbam Republic forces to continue assisting the PRX in finishing off Vixzaud in 911 AUA.

In an effort to cease religious persecution and violence for good, the PRX declared that religious tolerance would be a subject of class in all schools starting as early as primary school. The new act made a major difference, and religiously motivated hate crimes lowered by several orders of magnitude.

In 927 AUA, only 16 years after the defeat of Vixzaud, the xellix were requested by the Coalition of the Milky Way, helmed by Viacota Gai Zelem of the Holy Zyyntorean Empire and Baneful Ire of the Qaze Dominion to join their coalition against the Spravac Empire. Though the xellix’s hatred of the Spravac Empire was deep, the xellix distrusted Baneful Ire and found themselves identifying more with the cause of the Gorgon Empire and the Sanshem Pact, a newly formed political and military bloc that promised its members that they would be protected by the exploitation of both the Spravac Empire and the Coalition. The PRX was also swayed by the recent joining of the Laxou Federation, the Orbam Republic, and the Drag Republics, all three of which were, in the eyes of many xellix, instrumental in the development of the xellix and later down the line assisted them in their many bloody civil wars.