Lesser Magellanic Cloud Timeline

The timeline and history for the Star Fleet Universe is one which has been firmly established in the many years since the birth of Star Fleet Battles, and it is included here to allow you to establish a setting for your adventures. It does not follow the standard Anno Domini or Common Era system, but instead features a 225-year period that begins with Y1, when Humans had their first contact with neighboring races.

This timeline covers events in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud. There is a separate Alpha Quadrant timeline and one for the Omega Sector timeline.

Please note: The numbers and letters in parentheses, such as (SL11) or (SH8), refer to scenarios in the Star Fleet Battles game wherein these historical events are recreated in a boardgame setting.

## Y-7240

The Chomak establish themselves in their star cluster.

## Y-112

The Maghadim develop space travel for the first time. They expand throughout the Core region of the LMC, crushing at least one space-faring race in the process, and eventually reach the limits of their expansion by the radiation shell. Faced with a limit to their expansion, they quickly blast themselves back into the Stone Age in a multi-sided civil war.

Y0
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The victors of the Maghadim civil war are able to hold onto a technological society by drastic measures. A re-colonization program begins.

Y1
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The Jumokian race develops primitive 2.1 (speed 10) warp capability and Early Lasers. Using their Gunship/Freighter they begin to explore and exploit nearby space.

Primitive warp and Light Lasers developed. Jumokian Gunship Deployed.

Y8
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The Uthiki begin to develop warships to defend themselves against Yrol raids.

Uthiki CT deployed.

## Y17

The Baduvai discover that their home planet’s star is due to expand into a red giant in the next 20,000 years. They develop early years warp travel, and expand to the stars.

Baduvai develop DGM and Class III mass driver.

## Y23

The Eneen, who had just developed nuclear weapons and a near-orbital space program, are contacted by the Jumokians, who have carved out a small mercantile empire. Establishing a colony on the other major world in the stellar neighborhood, the Jumokians take the Eneen on as “associate members” of the trading alliance, using them as marines, and to do the least prestigious jobs in the Jumokian League.

## Y25

Baduvai ships exploring North of Baduvai begin to mysteriously disappear. Exploration in this direction is abandoned as being too dangerous. It is later discovered that the Uthiki destroyed the Baduvai survey ships when they invaded
Uthiki space.

## Y29

Armed with the newly developed Tachyon Beam, the Northern faction of the Maghadim begins a slow march of conquest through the core.

## Y30

Neutron Gun developed. Eneen Gunship Deployed.

## Y30-33

The Eneen Rebellion: Prompted by a restrictive set of new taxes, and a lack of promised capital improvements, the Eneen revolt against the Jumokians. Using captured ships, the Eneen are able to take the Jumokian colony near their
homeworld and begin manufacturing real warships. The Eneen begin to expand, taking significant Jumokian territory, using a mix of their own ships and captured Jumokian vessels. Between the limits of supply and the limited number of available hulls, the war peters out.

## Y36

After consolidating their hold on N’gaawm, the Eneen expand northward to Grelish, and are dissauded by the Chomak. The threat of Chomak intervention blocked the Eneen Northern expansion for more than thirty years.

## Y37

The Baduvai encounter their first indigenous intelligent race on H’gar. Colonization begins regardless, and the indigenes are quickly displaced to reservations. Within sixty years, the native population is virtually extinct.

## Y40

Jumokian vessels, moving west in search of room to expand, encounter the Baduvai. At the conclusion of three years of negotiations, the technologically advanced Baduvai exchange warp 2.9 (speed 24) engine technology for the warp-tuned laser technology of the Jumokians.

## Y42

An unarmed warp 2.9 (speed 24) Baduvai survey ship enters Eneen space and is captured intact. The Eneen begin to reverse engineer Baduvai warp engine technology.

## Y43

Baduvai trade Speed-24 Warp and shield technology for Warp Tuned Lasers.

## Y44-47

The Eneen-Jumokian War. The Jumokians attack the Eneen with their new Early Warp ships only to learn that the Eneen also have deployed early warp ships. The Eneen, with their Corvette and Light Cruiser classes, grind their way through Jumokian space. By Y46, the outcome of the war is not in doubt, although the Jumokian “advanced technology” ships do slow the progress of the war. The final assault on Jumok takes a year and a half. The Jumokians attempt to enlist the Baduvai in making it a two front war. The Baduvai refrain until the Eneen are at Jumok, performing the assault. By Y47, with Jumok fallen, the Eneen turn on the Baduvai.

## Y44

The Baduvai, in response to the Eneen threat, begin deploying mass driver missiles with nuclear warheads on them, converting a long-ranged survey device into an impromptu weapon. The Baduvai convert the YSR to the YDD design.

Eneen deploy YCT and YDD. The Jumokians deploy the YCT. Baduvai deploy YDD, including ESM, GBM and Class I mass driver.

## Y46

The Baduvai send two warships to Jumok as observers. These ships are destroyed when Jumok falls to the Eneen.

## Y48-53

The First Eneen-Baduvai War. The lightly armed Baduvai ships enjoy an initial forward position against the Eneen. The Eneen strike quickly and manage to capture a Baduvai forward supply base. The Eneen relentlessly press the Baduvai back, using their superior weapons technology to make up for a smaller economy.

## Y51

The Eneen delay in reverse engineering the mobile base and tug from Baduvai samples buys the Baduvai time to finish development of the CPA-3 and the modern warp 3.2 (speed-30) warp drive. The Baduvai deploy the FFB, ML, and CA designs as the complements to the newly redesigned DD, the core of their fleet.

## Y52

The Baduvai, with their new ships, meet the Eneen in the battle of H’gar, which goes in their favor.
Responding to the threat of the Baduvai CA, the Eneen begin construction of the first war base to close the gate on Jumok and the rest of the Protectorates. The base, completed in Y53, is later copied by the Baduvai from observation.

## Y53

In a secret treaty, the Baduvai and Jumokians ally themselves. The Baduvai supply the Jumokian survivors with military and economic support. The Jumokians build hidden ship production facilities in the fringe and begin to build a fleet.

The first War Base is deployed in the LMC. The Jumokian CT is deployed.

## Y54

The Uthiki begin a slow, methodical program of colonizing suitable gas giants, starting from Uth. Uthiki FF and DD deployed.

## Y56

The Eneen, after extensive review of sensor logs and salvaged remains of Baduvai units, begin the process of upgrading their own weapons and shielding technology to modern levels. The Eneen begin intensive research into warp 3.2 (speed 30) technology, a process that will take them nearly twenty years to perfect.

The Eneen develop the Plasma-E and Neutron Beam. The Eneen begin to upgrade the YCT, YDD, and YCL classes to modern technology (CT, DD, and CL).

## Y58

The Eneen create a jury-rigged warp 3.2 (speed 30) destroyer by building a smaller carapace for their light cruiser design. The Battle Destroyer competes with the upgraded Early Years Destroyer to become the centerpiece of the fleet. Neither design is particularly successful, and this lack of a true destroyer that works within their fleet doctrine haunts the Eneen until the widespread deployment of the DW class.

## Y61

The Jumokians begin to raid the Eneen. Raids are limited to remote outposts and unescorted pinnaces and tugs due to Jumokian shipyard and repair limitations.

## Y63

The Treaty of Begrudged Tolerance officially ratifies the decade old cessation of hostilities between the Eneen and Baduvai. A loophole in the treaty results in a fixed installations arms race. Incited by the Eneen, who build a war base within strategic striking distance of H’gar. The Baduvai build a matching war base to counter it. This pattern is repeated for the next twenty years.

## Y66

Modern technology standard on Eneen and Jumokian CT, FF, DD.

## Y67

The Baduvai-Uthiki Conflict: The gradual expansion of the Uthiki on the northern frontier of Baduvai space is detected. The Baduvai encounter them in a series of meeting engagements in space, which initially go poorly for the Baduvai. The Uthiki, with goals and colonization needs that make no sense to the Baduvai, eventually cease hostilities. With a series of tense diplomatic incidents behind them, a treaty of alliance is struck. The Uthiki begin mutually beneficial trade with the Baduvai and the Baduvai are able to expand to the north of the Uthiki.

The Chomak withdraw from the rest of the Magellanic Cloud for unkown reasons. The justifiably cautious Eneen do not move into the vacated space for another three years.

## Y67-75

The Age of Exploration. The Baduvai and the Eneen survey to the north, trying to build up their economies to support the base building along their mutual southern border.

## Y75

The Eneen develop their CA design, using the experience gained from the DD.

## Y78

Baduvai and Eneen fleet elements meet on the northern frontier for each race, and combat begins over the world Sleern, which is in prime position to serve as a supply point for an assault on either stellar nation.

## Y79

The Baduvai develop and deploy Anti-Ship Missiles.

## Y79-85

The Northern War: With both nations tied to guarding The Line in the south, the Northern War ends up drawing roughly half of the Eneen forces, and nearly 40% of the Baduvai forces. Despite their numerical advantages, the hodge-podge nature of the Eneen fleet hinders them in fleet combat.

## Y82

The Baduvai assist the Jumokians in increasing the Jumokian ship building capacity and help design the Jumokian DD and DDT. Jumokian Raids increase against the Eneen.

## Y83

After capturing some astrographic data from the Eneen, the Baduvai send a destroyer squadron into the Core region, attempting to cut the Eneen supply lines. The squadron never returns. The Maghadim reverse-engineer the mass driver from one of the less damaged ships at the shipyard of Northern homeworld.

Maghadim get Mass Driver, ASM, DGM, and ESM from Baduvai.

## Y84-85

The two northern provinces change hands repeatedly between the Eneen and the Baduvai, as the homeworld fleets of each power aremobilized to reinforce or re-take the holdings.

## Y85-89

Maghadim destroyers and frigates burst out of the Core radiation zone, almost haphazardly. The first encounters occurred in Baduvai space, forcing a partial withdrawal of their northern fleet, soon followed by incursions into Eneen space, where they stumble into the fortifications at Ena. These raids continue for nearly four years, then stop, abruptly.

## Y86

In response to the threat of the Maghadim, and the impending problems with their economies from the war, the Baduvai and Eneen sign the Neutral Worlds Accord, agreeing to divide the economic input of the Neutral Worlds between them, and use it as a buffer state.

## Y89-96

Parlaying mass driver technology as a political favor, and promising an end to the confinement that has rendered much of Maghadim history a cycle of boom and bust, the brain drone Kk’chor is able to unify the Maghadim hives. Working from the intelligence data gathered from the raids outside the cloud, the small collar is developed, and many destroyers and frigates are converted to cruisers and heavy destroyers.

## Y91

Maghadim develop the Cruiser Collar. CL and CA become possible.

## Y91-92

Both the Baduvai and Eneen send task forces into the radiation shell. None of them return.

## Y96-103

The First Neutral Worlds War. The Maghadim mobilize 70% of their fleet through the radiation shell, capturing the minor planet Sleern with heavy casualties. The Eneen begin the first counter-offensive, and fare well in open space,
but less well in attacking heavily fortified bases. While the Baduvai and Eneen do not do formal joint operations, the net effect on the Maghadim is the same. Eventually, they are driven off Sleern and retreat into the Core radiation zone. Shortly after this, Kk’chor is killed by a bomb on a transport shuttle, and the Maghadim turn towards civil war.

## Y100

The Maghadim develop and deploy the Charged Penetrator Missile in the latter phases of the war. The Baduvai, despite seeing several examples in combat, are unable to duplicate it.

## Y101

As part of a program to resolve the shock problems on the FF, the Baduvai Develop the Charged Particle Accelerator-2 (CPA-2). The CPA-2 was smaller and generated much less shock than the CPA-3. The Baduvai Improved Frigate is released using the new technology.

First Jumokian CL built.

## Y102-104

The War of Jumokian Independence. Working on the assumption of Baduvai support, the Jumokians, striking from the Fringe, attempt to retake Jumok. They get crushed when the simultaneous Baduvai assault on the Line never occurs. This bloody assault kills most of the Jumokian Navy In Exile, with the remaining forces turning towards piracy (not as a means to liberate Jumok, but as an end in and of itself). Jumokian raids extend into Baduvai space.

## Y105

After decades of research, the Eneen make progress in warp design. They design and begin to deploy their third generation hulls, the FF, DW and NCL. These ships are designed to use new Eneen fleet tactics.

## Y111

Jumokian warships begin organized commerce raiding, using captured Baduvai and Eneen spacers as crew in the areas controlled by the opposing power.

## Y115

The Eastern faction of the Maghadim, on the losing end of a fight with the Northern-Western coalition, invites an Eneen task force into the Core to bolster their defense, shipping a freighter full of dilithium crystals out as payment.

## Y116

In reaction to the Eastern forces bringing in the Eneen, the Western faction brings in the Baduvai, selling them CPM technology.

## Y117-Y122

The Interior War: The Northern faction, along with dissident commanders from both the Eastern and Western factions, precipitate one of the bloodiest civil wars in Maghadim history. The Eneen and Baduvai mercenaries do far less damage to the Maghadim than might otherwise be expected, as East attacks North, and West attacks East. The foreign commanders, realizing that a crippled ship is all but forever consigned to the Core, act less than decisively. The
Baduvai commander refuses a direct order from the Western high command when she feels she is being used as cannon fodder. Eventually, the Baduvai forces are able, with cover from the Northern fleet, to leave the Core. The Eneen
forces fare much worse, and only a handful make it out.

## Y120

The Baduvai, having seen the Eneen war classes in action, begin development of their own war classes, spawning the DW, CW, and eventually the CS. Both the DW and DD class are kept in production, with the DW serving as a consort to
the CW, and the DD as consort to the CA.

## Y122

A Chomak squadron circumscribes the Fringe, stopping at the boundaries of the Line, making contact with the Baduvai in the process.

With the gift of a Baduvai CW as a flagship for the Uthiki fleet, the Uthiki officially become part of the Baduvai Imperium. While the Uthiki maintain autonomy and a separate fleet, the Uthiki and Baduvai economies are interdependent and the military high commands are unified.

## Y123-125

The Western faction manages to forge a strong coalition with the Northern faction. After the Eastern faction is subdued, power is shared between both capitals. With the realization that new resources must be gained from outside the Core, the NorthWest coalition begins a long military buildup.

## Y124

The first Baduvai CS is finally operational. The CS was first designed in Y120, but was delayed several times by technical problems and costly design changes. The Baduvai, with the command and control advantage provided by their new flagships, and feeling that Eneen suffered worse losses in the Interior war than they did, decide that the time is ideal to take out the Eneen once and for all. The Great War begins with a strike over the Line, and a large task force moving into the Neutral Worlds.

## Y125-136

The Great War: The Baduvai press with their denser fleets, moving through the fringe around the southern end of the Line. The southern offensive grinds to a halt on the Eneen Fleet Headquarters, while the northern offensive takes Sleern, working towards Ena from the north. Facing a stiffening defense in the south, the home fleet moves to that front and presses east, around the Core. At the battle of Ixor, the Eneen finally make a line that holds. As the Eneen southern fleet presses the Baduvai back, the Northern fleet holds its own. Eventually, the Baduvai are pressed back to the Neutral Worlds, which are acknowledged as theirs.

## Y127

The Maghadim develop the Kinetic Slug Missile to provide cover for units exiting the radiation shell.

## Y128

Based on the results of the combat experience in the Great War, the Baduvai begin refitting their CW, DW, and CS classes with AWRs. The refit is haphazardly applied at first, coming in only when ships come back for repairs of combat damage, and on new deployments.

## Y130

The Maghadim develop the large collar, making the Light Cruiser and Battlecruiser possible.

## Y133

Jumokian NDD class deployed. Commerce raids become an increasing annoyance.

## Y135

The Maghadim conduct feasibility studies on mass driver armed fighter-shuttlecraft.

## Y136

By Y136, all new Baduvai DW, CW, and CS classes have AWRs installed during construction. All existing ships of these types have been refitted.

AWR refit becomes standard on Baduvai war classes.

## Y138

The first Intruder arrives in the fringes of the LMC, carrying three Vipers and a Courier. A second Intruder, carrying the same satellite ships, arrives in Y139. An Infestor arrives with the components to set up the core of a Desecrator in the same year. Additional Intruders, carrying only one Viper with the rest of their hangar space carrying base components, arrive at the rate of one per year, until the Desecrator is complete in Y145.

Once the Desecrator and the RTN link to Andromeda is established , further Andromedan forces arrive, and the program to deploy Satellite Bases throughout the LMC goes into full swing.

## Y139

The Maghadim, after 14 years of economic recovery and military build up, strike outwards at Sleern. The depleted Baduvai garrison manages to pin half the fleet just outside of the radiation shell, while the other half manages to bombard and hold Sleern. Forward position secured, further fleet elements are pulled out of the Core, and components needed to build ground-based fortifications are rushed forward. The Eneen, having seen the flaws of their war design’s weaker rear shielding, take the time to implement an “S” refit. The Baduvai add more light lasers to all of the ships in their fleet in the “D” refit, to counter the mass driver threat of the Maghadim. Both refit programs are done on an “as needed” basis, and are not uniformly applied for years.

Maghadim “+” refit becomes standard. Eneen shield and Bank (S refit) upgrade begins. Baduvai light laser (D refit) upgrade begins. Both upgrades are applied to all new construction.

## Y139-145

The Second Neutral Worlds War: The Maghadim and the Baduvai fight over the Neutral Worlds. The Eneen join in Y141, exploiting the Maghadim forward position on the Baduvai. An assault on Sleern forces the Maghadim offensive against the Baduvai to pull back. A joint assault by the Baduvai and Eneen bleeds both of the Maghadim fleets dry, and forces the Maghadim to withdraw from Sleern, and the Neutral Worlds.

## Y141

The first unverified Magellanic loss to an Andromedan unit occurs when an Eneen antipiracy task force fails to return. Three years later, all three navies suffer patrol losses to ships of a “type previously unknown” in the Neutral World’s conflict.

The Andromedans make a concerted effort to clear out activities in the Fringe within striking range of the Desecrator.

## Y142-145

Jumokian piracy falls off suddenly, with no reported raids for a four year period, and raids after that at a dramatically reduced rate.

## Y146-157

The initial Andromedan drive to conquer the LMC crashes into the Baduvai and the Eneen in a two-pronged assault. Depleted by the Second Maghadim War, the casualties on the Magellanic fronts are quite high. The fledgling RTN allows the Andromedans to not only appear at the Magellanic’s weakest areas, but it also allows them to draw Magellanic fleet elements out of position to be destroyed piecemeal. The Baduvai and the Eneen sign the Temporary Cessation Of Hostilities to present a united front against the mutual threat, and manage to protect the provinces around their respective homeworlds.

## Y149

The Baduvai encounter their first Satellite Bases, and begin a concerted foray out into the fringe areas now controlled by the Andromedans. Both the Baduvai and Eneen spend the next four years looking for the Andromedan production facilities with no real success.

## Y150

Both the Eneen “S” refit and Baduvai “D” Refit are considered standard as of this date.

## Y151

Jumokian pirate activities, after almost a decade of quiescence, begin again.

The Andromedans suffer heavy casualties in an assault on Uth, but manage to destroy all Uthiki orbital industry and production facilities and to devastate the planet. The Uthiki shipyard is never replaced.

## Y152

The Andromedans establish a second Desecrator. Magellanic survey forces and intelligence processing resources are spread so thin that they overlook the second Desecrator for almost a decade.

The Maghadim make a third push from the Core region, worsening the situation for the Baduvai and the Eneen. Rather than face a two-front war, the Baduvai and Eneen cede Sleern and the Neutral Worlds to the Maghadim, in return for support against the Andromedans. The Triple Pact is formed.

## Y153

Representatives of the Jumokian pirates cautiously assist the Triple pact. Existing records of “unusual construction” followed by an attack by “pirates” are compared against pirate records. Several related reports are combined with the
Jumokian survey data of the fringe, pinpointing Andromedan production facilities.

The Maghadim permit the Baduvai and Eneen to establish repair facilities inside the Core region as part of the Pact that ceded the Neutral Worlds to the Maghadim. Both the Baduvai and the Eneen begin shipping personnel into the Core to support these facilities, using planets with higher gravities than the Maghadim can utilize effectively.

## Y154

Two years too late, the Magellanics mount a massive joint operation and destroy the first Desecrator, using Maghadim space as a staging area. Unfortunately, the Andromedans had established a second RTN link to Andromeda through the second Desecrator.

## Y156

After the losses from the Desecrator Assault, the Baduvai and the Eneen fleet elements are gradually forced against the Core radiation shell by the Andromedans. The previously established repair facilities inside the Core are quickly rushed to full colony status, and more, as the tide of Andromedans closes in on the Baduvai and Eneen homeworlds.

## Y157

As the Andromedan attacks increase in number, the Eneen and the Baduvai are forced to abandon their homeworlds and move their seats of government to the enclaves inside the Core. Major elements of both nations’ fleet strength are destroyed in a futile attempt to defend those unable to flee the doomed homeworlds. The pirates aid Baduvai and Eneen fleet elements that escape to the Fringe.

Eneen and Baduvai homeworlds fall.

## Y158

The Andromedans are able to maintain a permanent ship presence on the Milky Way side of the LMC. The third Desecrator is operational.

The last Maghadim fleet elements leave the Neutral Worlds and Sleern. Their access to the Core cut off by Andromedan patrols, they head out into the Fringe region of the LMC.

## Y159

An Eneen squadron encounters a Jumokian mobile shipyard. In an attempt to capture it, they destroy it.

## Y160

The Andromedans roam at will through most of the territory that once belonged to the Baduvai and the Eneen. Only an occasional raid comes out of the Core, and only a few scattered warships and mercantile vessels survive outside of the Core region and the Fringe.

## Y163

A joint operation is planned inside the Core region. All three races move out to assault the second Desecrator. The Baduvai and the Eneen mount several forces as “reserves,” which never show up at the fight. As a result, the Maghadim forces are mauled by the Andromedans, who then proceed to mangle the reserve forces piecemeal. A few remnants of this task force establish themselves out in the Fringes, and eventually link up with the partisan units there. For reasons that are unknown, the Andromedans fail to repair the crippled Desecrator until Y200, when it was used as a production facility for constructing the Devastator Battleship.

Assault on second Desecrator results in disaster.

## Y163-Y165

A Chomak task force intrudes into Andromedan controlled space. After three engagements, they withdraw to their own space.

## Y164

An Andromedan Intruder loaded with Satellite Bases attempts to penetrate the radiation shell around the Core, and is destroyed.

## Y165

The Andromedans finish their RTN links around the Core region, allowing them to put a reaction force near any breakout attempts by the three races bottled inside.

## Y170-183

The Andromedans shift the bulk of their forces from the LMC to the Milky Way Galaxy, establishing RTN links there, and conducting some light operations. Simultaneously, they upgrade the Satellite Bases around the Core to BATS, and deploy larger and heavier ships. The Andromedans apparently use the raids out of the Core by the Magellanics (and the partisan attacks from the Fringe, which were generally uncoordinated) as a training exercise. Some analysts believe that the size of the force the Andromedans kept around the core indicated an effort to prevent raids on the third Desecrator. The Magellanics used the raids to test their new weapon technologies.

## Y170

The Andromedans first send forces to Milky Way.

## Y172

The Andromedans work their way through the Fringe and stumble on Chomak itself, and are beaten back. Over the next decade, the Andromedans make several attempts to establish RTN links into Chomak space. All are rebuffed.

## Y168-178

The Baduvai, Eneen and Maghadim coordinate efforts in research, tactical doctrines and intelligence data, resulting in the refit programs of Y175. Internal friction is present during this entire period in spite of the Andromedan threat, and open splits and diplomatic fissures are present by Y180.

## Y175

In the Core, a refit program begins as the scientists of all three races are able to share research data and improved engineering techniques. Their refusal to share fighter technology causes a widening rift with the Eneen.

Y175 refit gives swivel mounts to the plasma-E torpedoes, upgrades Class I mass drivers to class II for Baduvai and Maghadim.

Flea fighter deployed by Maghadim. Technology is not shared. DDV built.

## Y176

Third Desecrator is modified in an effort to increase production capacity.

## Y180

In the Core, the Chigger fighter, with overdrive technology, is developed. The heavy carrier collar is developed along with the CVL and CV carrier classes.

Chigger fighter deployed. CVL and CVS laid down.

## Y182

Working independently, the Chomak and a Maghadim Task Force in Exile manage to locate and destroy two Satellite Bases. The destruction of these bases comes too late to prevent a major Andromedan assault on the Chomak.

## Y183

The Maghadim deploy their single largest carrier, converting their prototype DDV into a CVA. Series production of CVAs is planned, with one new CVA every three years. Subsequent activities by the Andromedans render this moot.

The Andromedans send a pair of Dominators with one Satellite Base and five Super Energy Modules through the radiation shell. One Dominator is crippled, and one Satellite Base is destroyed. The other opens an RTN link, and shortly thereafter, the Andromedans come pouring in. The Magellanics fight a retreating battle, and scatter out of the Core. The ring of bases around the core region shreds the vast majority of the Magellanic fleet elements; the only reason any survive is because a good portion of the Andromedan reserve fleet posted to “enclosure” duty is being used to flood the Core region. Analysis of the records indicates that the Dominators came as a complete surprise to the Magellanics.

Maghadim convert their sole DDV to a CVA.

Dominators crack the core. Super Energy Module first used. Maghadim start refitting CL and BC designs with the L refit.

Maghadim develop AFM.

## Y183-187

All three races lose ships to Andromedan patrols as they attempt to link up with fleet elements that survived from twenty years ago. The Maghadim are in particularly desperate straits as they are carrying the last three Hive Queens
of their race on three of their ships. Only one of them survives to make the rendezvous point.

## Y185

The Chomak fleet production facilities are destroyed and the remaining Chomak ships are scattered, the conquest of the Cloud is completed.

## Y186-187

The Andromedans mount security operations to clean up their rear areas while beginning major operations in the Milky-Way Galaxy.

## Y187

The Maghadim deploy the Wasp and Bumblebee Fighters as part of their squadron upgrades. They convert their scout to an CSV.

Wasp and Bumblebee fighters deployed. Maghadim convert an FFS to a CSV.

## Y188

Perhaps as a bribe to fend off attacks, the Maghadim sell Chigger fighter technology to the Eneen. The Eneen quickly convert their warships into casual carriers, but for reasons which remain unclear, never build a dedicated carrier design, able to support their fighters in combat.

The Andromedans invade and try to conquer the Milky Way Galaxy. They eventually fail. The Magellanics conduct raids into their rear areas, but achieve little.

Eneen are sold Chigger fighter technology, and extensively refit the design to handle the plasma-E torpedo. Eneen fighter refits begin.

## Y191

The Baduvai, who are physiologically unsuited to fighter operations, deploy an Interceptor for firepower support. In combat raids, it is abundantly clear that it is not sufficient to do the job, and after no more than thirty are made, the Outrider PF is built. Mech links are added to virtually every unit in their navy over the course of the next four years. The Baduvai are unable to develop a Warp Booster Pack.

Baduvai develop Interceptor, and later, Outrider PFs.

## Y195

Hindsight, and a careful review of Andromedan activities in the Milky Way in Y195-96, seem to indicate an ebb, which may be attributed to Magellanic raiding in the rear.

## Y200-201

Magellanics notice a drop in Andromedan activity and, emboldened, conduct several operations. The Andromedans do not respond as vigorously as before.

## Y202

The three forces from Operation Unity encounter the Magellanics. There are a few “shooting incidents” which end inconclusively. The Magellanics provide the location of the second Desecrator, and the probable location of the third. (Their own forays did not come close enough to the third Desecrator to let them pinpoint its location.)

## Y203+

The Magellanics begin to reestablish themselves. Hunting for Andromedan holdouts, which they are very good at due to their own experiences, they find the remains of their own worlds. (Andromedan occupation is usually very bad for the planets involved.) All of the Eneen subject races have been virtually exterminated by the Andromedans, and all three of the Magellanic races have been reduced to fragments of their former selves.

(MA1.3) INTRODUCTION AND REFIT DATES