Genocide of the Dwemer Collective

### Performers

New Elysian Order; Tyrisian Hand; Tanaki Union; Veralion Imperium; Dwemer Collective;

## Overview

The Genocide of the Dwemer was a single event that caused the complete extinction of the Dwemer Collective. The Elysian High Chancellor Evran was convinced by their AI "Alpha" that the Dwemer represented a huge threat to the galaxy, so the High Chancellor ordered a genocidal mission against the people of the Dwemer.

### The Genocide

An Elysian ship secretly delivered a vile of the biological weapon VX-050, also known as Chemical 050. Once deployed it sent a neural shockwave through the Dwemer's partial hivemind causing their brains to literally short circuit and be reduced to a liquid state. The Elysians, once 050 was deployed, downloaded the entire Dwemer database, almost like a keep-safe, before evacuating the system not to return until horrifically violent tensions erupted between major powers.

Due to the Dwemer's previous isolation, and the secrecy of the mission, the event was not discovered for a few years until the Tyrisian Hand came upon the system and investigated the capital planet that was the Dwemers. They discovered the dead bodies and diagnosed quickly the "melted brain" thing. The Tyrisians also took note of the massive fleet orbiting an inactive forge world in the system.

Unknown to the Tyrisians or other major powers until the military exclusion zone was formed, the Dwemer were attempting to develop a cure to the chemical, but the scientists would later be found dead by their lives' work.

When the Tyrisians discovered the planet and investigated, the Veralion approached who'd been manning the subspace gateway in that system for decades. They demanded what they were doing in the system, and the Tyrisians attempted to lie and say they were meeting with the Dwemer leaders but the Veralion only partly bought it and called in the Tanaki. Hearing about capitalists here, sent the socialist nation into a frenzy and they sent a sizable military fleet to the system. This sparked the tensions that would only get worse from here on out.

### The Aftermath

Due to tensions, none of the four sides now present in the system want to do anything too drastic, all whiles the Tyrisians were gaining control of Alftand's systems. The Tyrisians also, under the Veralion and Tanaki's noses, stole the Dwemer's database. Military schematics, plans, information, the works.

#### Tanaki/Requiem Firefight

Seeing the Tanaki as a threat, the Tyrisians covertly charged up and fired the Requiem Array around Aetherius Prime and fired on the Tanaki fleet. This resulted in a brief but intense firefight between the Tanaki and the planet's defences, and whilst this occurred Elysian diplomats suggested a military exclusion zone, which all sides agreed to, some more reluctant than others.

After the Requiem array shut down, the Tanaki were suspicious as it could have been the Tyrisians but they had no proof.

#### Cold War

The Veralion fleet began to leave and swapped them out with the pre-agreed max of 6 scientific vessels. Tanaki and Tyrisians do the same, with the Tyrisians swapping out ships regularly. Whilst the Tanaki, Veralion, and Elysians studied the bodies, the Tyrisians snuck naval personnel onto the shipyards above the Dwemer forge world and began to get the ships ready for combat. At the same time, the other nations were locked out of the city's controls by Tyrisians. Trams were shut down and defences were under their covert control.

Meanwhile, Veralion, Tanaki, and Elysian scientists were sent down to Alftand where they gained control of certain sectors. Control over the rest of the systems was in the hands of the Tyrisians, but it became a constant battle between Elysians and Tyrisians, with Elysians believing they were breaking into the Dwemer's systems when it was the Tyrisians blocking their moves in an attempt to maintain control over the city, but more importantly, Requiem.

### Fight for Sector 000

Upon learning of the Dwemer's super-AI, "Oracle", aka "Construct 00", both the Tyrisians and Elysians began a hurried journey to the south pole of the planet. The Tyrisians made it there first.

Activating defences in the region, they opened fire on the Elysian convoy for a few seconds, trying to deter them, but when that didn't work they instead initiated a sector lockdown. This resulted in the AI building retracting into the ground and blast shields being lowered.

When the Elysians finally breached the defences and stormed the control room, they found Tyrisian scientists downloading the inactive AI "Oracle" into their ship through a mobile transmitter. After Oracle was removed, and after a heated discussion, the sector went onto lockdown. A self-destruct alarm sounded and a countdown began.

Teams from both sides in other sectors worked furiously to stop the self-destruct, and when it was lifted all were transported to the Elysian craft, including the Tyrisian away team. The ship carrying Oracle fled the system and took the AI to interstellar space in Tyrisian territory for study.

This sparked the Tyrisian programme, "Project: Oracle"

### Exclusion

When tensions reached a peak, with the Tanaki and Veralion furious about the Tyrisian's actions of "stealing" the Dwemer AI "Oracle", they voted to expel the Tyrisian Hand from the military exclusion zone. When they pulled out they activated the now fully operational navy above the Dwemer forge world in Aetherius Prime, effectively stealing 5,000 Dwemer warships.

## Key members/individuals

* Tyrisian Hand - Discovered Dwemer dead, infiltrated and took over computers, stole Construct 00, stole 5,000 Dwemer warships, trusted the Elysians over any other nation in this incident.
* New Elysian Order - Acted as a neutral force in this event, and created a military exclusion zone to prevent war over the system and technology. Secretly, they had been the cause of the incident but right up until the end of this reset no one found out.
* Tanaki Union - Acted as the most anti-Tyrisian force in the incident, and suspected them of subterfuge. They became long-time rivals of the Tyrisians after this incident, backed up by the Veralion Imperium.
* Veralion Imperium - Second to discover the Dwemer's death, and suspected the Tyrisians to be at fault. They were more neutral than the Tanaki, but also strongly opposed the Tyrisian's involvement in the incident.