Giaga Empire

The Flag of the Giaga Empire

The Giaga Empire are an Intergalactic Empire located in the Milkyway Galaxy, also part of the Milkyway Defence League. They are most known for the Giaga-Human War in 3026, a war ending in 3030 that remains the only war humanity took part in where they did not come out victors. The Giaga Aliens are proud of this and over achievements. The people are reptilian in nature, specifically lizard-like.

## Information

### The Aliens

The Giaga Aliens are reptilian-creatures, bipedal in stature. They do not match any reptiles we know of and are oddly warm-blooded, completely alien, as expected. They are quite big as well.

### Holdings

The Giaga Aliens hold 80 Star Systems, most of them being purely for resources and trading, the aliens being mostly situated around the home system and areas around it. They use the common, expand out from the homestar technique. The Giagans are situated in the North Eastern parts of the Milkyway, as shown by the green dot in the map given. Aols-1 is at the center of their empire as Earth is ours.

### Currency

The currency of the Giaga Empire is the Comdos, it is quite valuable but not as valuable as the Qirsh, one Comdos being worth around 4.42 Qirsh. It has gone up in value throughout the years, however.

### Military

The Giaga military mainly focuses on the policy of Guerilla Warfare. Because of the isolationist policy they took, they do not focus on a powerful space navy, humanities Naval Squadron 109 in particular managed to be the most successful unit in the Giaga-Human War because of this. Their planets are mostly terraformed, the important ones anyway and because of this the terrain is perfect in warfare. When humanity would land they were picked off. This is truly where the Giaga Empire thrive.

## History

### Early History

One of the empires that came from the Cosmos Empire, specifically the North Eastern areas of the Milkyway. They got their independence as the Cosmos influence in the Milkyway faded, the first part of the Cosmos Empires fall. It took millions of years for them to develop a proper society but when they did they started their expansionist policy.

### The Expansionist Era

The Giaga Empire would have a similar policy to old humanity, taking over neighbouring systems after taking over their own. As the Giaga Star System was taken over completely by the Giagans, they would declare countless wars over centuries. They would expand past neighbours, enemies and everyone else before resting around the middle 2500's, near the time Humanity was reaching it's peak growth. The two empires would meet but their influences would not impact each other as the Giaga Empire had now taken an isolationist policy.

### The Isolationist Policy

The Giaga Aliens decided to settle down, to expand their knowledge and technology, to keep up with the growing power on their door and from the exhaustion of war on the population. This policy allowed them to continue developing at a rapid pace, they now focused on trade and intergalactic relations, and terraforming worlds was their main goal. The first terraformed world they changed was Division-1, the second planet in their system.

### The Giaga-Human War

The IPS Comet would crash over the Giagan planet of Giga-098, now known to be engine malfunction, back then believed to be a deliberate attack. Smaller companies got involved, they were hoping to get paid by Stellar Star and get the publicity of being the first to find the shipwreck. All they knew was it crashed somewhere in the Giaga System. The Giaga Aliens didn't take to kindly to the constant ships entering and leaving the system, and then humanity, in an attempt to get money or star systems, blamed the Giaga Empire and demanded them to pay for the comet with either 45 billion Comdos or 5 star systems. The Giaga Aliens obviously refused and war was declared 13th October 3026.

Humanity favoured a quick strike to their capital as the Giaga's main areas, military posts and population centres. This was a common move they would use on smaller empires, but this would be the wrong choice against the Giaga Empire, humanity didn't play the long game which would be their downfall. The first battle was at East Dauhy, a human settlement. The Giaga Aliens did this strategically, to see the strength of their enemy and this would be the only offensive the Giaga Aliens would take throughout the battle. What the Giaga Empire was not prepared for was the army size. Cybermechs, Tanks and the humans even had a grenade that seemed to blow up everything in a 80 meter radius if set to maximum power. The Giaga Aliens used this knowledge, analysed how humanity fought and this battle may of been a one-sided affair, but it would set a precedent and eventually lead to the final battle being the bloodbath it is known as.

Humanity set a course, they would take over star systems leading to the homeworld of the Giaga. The first planet they took down was on the outskirts, a simple planet used for mining resources. The Giagan Space Navy as small as it was (small for an empire either way) put up fights but never committed significant forces, the Giaga Battle Plan was going to plan, it was going well. Humanity went to the next planet, this one also being used to generate resources for trade, but this time they were met with resistance. The planet itself had many rocky craters, hills and other geographical landmarks. This, alongside it being a barren wasteland with a hardly breathable atmosphere, meant that humanity struggled. What should of been a simple conquer mission took over 9 months, over 200k deaths in this battle alone and humanity had wasted a year and a quarter of the war on an insignificant planet. Even worst, 160k of those deaths were humans.

The campaign continued and after that set-back the Hootsforce in particular reigned terror upon the star systems leading to the homeworld. Star system after system fell and in 3030, four years into the war the final battle would take place, The Battle of Aols-1 over Aols-1. Humanity had reached the homeworld, but this would be where the war took an unexpected turn. Since the Giagans had only sent a fraction of their navy, army and others, humanity didn't send many. Naval Squadron 41 was sent, the unit had only 42 Star Destroyers, 173 Star Cruisers and 460 Star Assaulters, still massive to any other empire but for humanity it was poor. The Giaga Aliens didn't have Star Destroyers but this didn't mean they were weak though, they had over 1,100 Star Assaulters and 750 Star Cruisers and 300 back-up Star Frigates as the homeforce, along with over 850,000 soldiers. Humanity sent troop ships with a capacity of 900,000 but only sent 500,000 soldiers. As S-41 entered the zone around Aol-1, they were met with fire. The Giagan home fleet destroyed many troop transports, over 120,000 died before they even landed. Over 200 vessels were destroyed by the Giaga, many crews being completely destroyed. The men that landed trudged through into a city. It was abandoned, no one there, at least that's what they thought.

As tanks and soldiers marched through the city, it was to quiet. General Tomori was in charge of the unit and would be one of the only survivors to not be affected long-term by the war. He described it as a feeling of being watched, any building was a hiding spot. All of a sudden as they entered a street of buildings, guns fired. Soldiers died at a rapid pace, tanks were turned and soldiers attempted to retreat. General Tomori spotted a gun from one of the buildings and the soldiers tried with all their strength but they were picked off. General command called for the Hootsforce but it would take them half an hour from their location, an extra 15 as well to get the troops in transport vessels. The Giaga Aliens took many down, and then the missiles came in, tanks destroyed, cybermechs sent to the floor and even jets were blown out of the sky. Eventually General Tomori was cornered by a Giaga task force and surrendered, forces around surrendered and a peace treaty had to be signed.

The treaty was signed 13th July 3030 on the ISN Warspite, the Hootforces's loaned Super Star Destroyer. The Giaga Aliens were respectful and even generous, they offered humanity four star systems on the outskirts of their territories of the empire and in return humanity gave them the money they demanded in the original terms and even some warships. They also signed a non-aggression pact that would be valid until 3100. The Giaga Empire and ISEOE knew they would benefit from working together, and this war would turn out to be a warm-up.

### Giaga Influence over Heytan-Human War

The Heytan-Human War was the same year after the Giaga war. The Heytans were despised by many empires in the Milkyway including the Giaga Empire. The Heytan Empire did the first blow and despite being levelled in resources from their previous war, the Giagans sent resources and aid to the humans as a sign of good will and even lended one of their military posts to them. Once the war was over humanity thanked the Giagans by giving 5 star systems from the Heytan Empire to them, letting them have 80 Star Systems again.

### The Milkyway Defence League

In 3035 the Milkyway Defence League was formed by the ISEOE, Giaga Aliens and 5 more empires, eventually expanding throughout the years. As founding members the Giaga Empire had a call for the league headquarters to be in their system, however, a vote agreed for it to be in the main Council Building. This alliance allowed the Giaga Empire to prosper in trade and not be threatened by any outside threats, having the military aid of the ISEOE and other empires.

### Continued Assistance and Peace

Now with this alliance and work on intergalactic affairs, the ISEOE gave the Giaga more cargo vessels, these were capable of leaving galaxies and coming back, and the Giaga got resources from Andromeda mainly thanks to the colonies settled there. All empires profitted and the Giaga were one. They would not get involved in anything after except sending resources occasionally to humanity during the Great Sporeian War and allegedly helping to work on certain classified technology in Area 51