Heytan Empire

The Flag of the Heytan Empire

The Heytan Empire was a dictatorship located in the Milkyway Galaxy for around 3 million years before being destroyed by the ISEOE in a three year war which killed over 5 billion. The Heytans were a militaristic race that conquered and plundered without mercy, a stark contrast to the empire they hold their roots from. At their peak they controlled over 984,000,000 star systems.

## Information

### The Aliens

The Heytans were a race of squid-looking aliens, with a squid-like head. They had scythe like hands and so could not grasp in the traditional sense, instead wrapping the hook around whatever they were holding. They were golden in colour with red eyes. They were bipedal (as with almost all advanced races) and stood at around only 5 foot.

### Holdings

The Heytans used to control around 984,000,000 or around 0.984% of the Milkyway, most these planets being used for resources or shipbuilding. The Heytans also spent a lot of the planet spaces to build new military technology, having masses upon masses of state of the art vehicles at their disposal. The only empire more militaristicly advanced was humanity itself. Only around 1,567 of their star systems held population centres somewhere within them. The Hyetans mostly held areas of the western Milkyway, their capital planet being quite exposed for an empire of their size if anyone could get out the Milkyway and attack from behind.

### The Currency

They use the currency of their old empire, the Cierm. This is now worth around 30.3 Qirsh but at the Heytans peak it was around 2.21 Qirsh. This currency is still used by many civilisations that came directly from the Ciermsium Imperium.

### The Military

Being as big as they were and influential, the Heytans had many worlds to build military technology on and they developed many weapons on-par with humanities. This put them at odds with other alien races but they were to much of a threat and so were never threatened. They had over 700,000 battle mechs by the time the war started and had over 150 naval divisions with over 600 Star Destroyers. They were the second-strongest empire behind humanity, a feat not easily achieved.

## History

### Old History

The Heytans were a race of aliens under the Ciermsium Imperium (Or Cier Imperium), an empire in the Milkyway with one supreme leader. This led to many instabilties within the empire, one species decided how others were treated. However, the Heytans were used mainly in the military as they were the most physically capable. The Imperium was not a militaristic one but would get entrenched into a war with The Great Cosmos Empire and had to hold them off for centuries. Eventually by the time the Cosmos Empire stopped their attack because of instabilties, the Cier Imperium began to have it's own and the Heytans were the main aliens leading the revolution. Eventually the leaders gave away power, the species split off to form their own empires and the Heytan Empire was formed.

### Early History

After being founded the Heytan Empire elected to have two leaders at one time, this way one could make sure the other would not have to much power and vice versa. They were also heavily religious, believing in the Cier God, Tuyathas as a supreme god. They would focus on building up their civilization but also use technology earned from the old Imperium to expand to other systems and get resources from there.

### The Civil Wars

The Heytans would never truly choose who would be leader. In one event a Heytan mercenrary killed both leaders of the empire and all successors. This led to a war over who would take leadership, and this cycle would continue for over 720 years, constant civil wars that hindered expansion and advances. Eventually they settled for a military general as leader and a council of generals and admirals. The Empire was properly established by 2135 as it would be until 3033.

### Humanity

The Heytans would meet humanity in 2476 but relations were not established until 2540. They were immediate rivals from the start, both wanting to expand, both wanting to rule the galaxy and because of this tensions flared and whenever they would meet, guns were fired. These little skirmishes weren't major and never resulted in anything besides a couple of injuries but humanity knew what they would do in case of an attack. The Heytans were also enemies to other empires humanity had met, noting how the Heytans massacred whole alien races in their pursuit for glory and power.

### The Heytan-Human War

On what would seem like a normal day, the Siege of Stone Pass would happen, humanities military outpost Stone Pass Barrier was taken over by the Heytans in a surprise invasion. This was intended to cut off humanities access to the Andromedan Galaxy as Stone Pass acted as not only a military base but a pass to get through to Andromeda. Because of this many civilians were there when they were attacked. The Heytans managed to take the outpost over, however, as they were getting a grip on the outpost, just seven hours later, humanity had formed a response. Super Star Destroyers ISN Valiant and ISN Warspite with their strike forces arrived, and humanity took back the outpost in just an hour. War was declared and neither side was prepared for the bloodshed.

After countless battles across the Heytan and human territories, the ISEOE had managed to find a way into the Gata System, thanks to intelligence mostly and set course there. They had managed to stay in the war as long as they had thanks to the Giaga Empire's aid and resources. Heyta was attacked by humanity in 3033. The Battle of Heyta would end the war and after over 2 months of naval battles, planet bombardments and land invasions, Heyta fell and the Heytan Empire surrendered. Humanity annexed all star systems of the Heytans and gifted five to the Giaga Aliens. The aliens were deported to other empires or integrated into society in some way. However, no Heytan Aliens exist anymore, for unknown reasons, though it's reckoned to be because of the Black Parties handling of them, deporting them to Andromeda where they would vanish and never be seen again.