First Galactic War

United Federation forces engage Sylon Collective drones.

### Results - Geopolitical

* Gain of additional systems and technological advances for the United Federation.
* Power shifts in Federation leadership by the end of Zhogarn Onslaught and Sourcefall phases.
* Heavy loss of power and influence for the Athrael Theocracy. Theocracy mostly destroyed in Thorun Retaliation and Zhogarn onslaught phases.
* Territorial and power shifts for Thorun Empire due to Thorun Civil War phase.
* Territorial shifts for Sylon Collective. Rising divergences between Praetor units and the Sylus.
* Sudden rising and fall of the Children of the Izlar.

### Results - Territorial

* United Federation recaptures previously lost systems and colonizes new ones.
* Almost total territorial loss for the Athrael Theocracy.
* Little to no permanent territorial changes for Sylon Collective, Thorun Empire and Children of the Izlar.

### Notorious Conflicts

* Siege of Tereshkova (Sylon Invasion)
* Battle of Gaugamela
* Fall of the Sylus Core
* Battle of Morael
* Fall of Vemana
* Ascension Program Execution
* Battle of Krion
* Izlarian Release

And more....

## Major Belligerents

* United Federation
* Athrael Theocracy

* Sylon Collective
* Thorun Empire
* Children of the Izlar

## Minor Belligerents

* EIRA Institute (Faction) *(Causing party of conflict)*
* Black Swan

* Renegade Sylons *(Defected)*
* Horrors of Izlar *(Destroyed)*

## Leaderships

* Anton Vargas *(KIA)*
* Victor Komarov *(KIA)*
* Benjamin Colburne
* Nephral *(KIA)*
* Adikara
* Zeraphim *(KIA)*

* Sylus
* Praetor (Protagonist)
* Unizar
* Tyran *(Deceased)*
* Bleda *(KIA)*
* Thalok
* The Source *(KIA)*
* Karak
* Mondor *(KIA)*

## Strengths

* United Federation Navy
* EIRA Institute (Faction)
* Black Swan *(Briefly)*
* Armada of the Patriarch
* Annaki Order
* Azrati Order
* Corael Order
* Krion Facility

* Sylon Collective drones
* Renegade Sylons' drones
* Thorun Imperial Legions
* Imperator Corps
* Sedra Thorun Expedition
* Coordinated creatures of the Izlar

## Casualties and losses

 United Federation
**Extensive** - Multiple fleets and armies destroyed, due to the combined major, costly encounters of the Sylon Invasion and Zhogarn Onslaught phases. Federation Navy below half their original strength by end of conflict.

 Athrael Theocracy

**Massive** - Armada of the Patriarch and most of at least one order (Azrati) destroyed by both the Thorun Empire and the Children of the Izlar. Devastated as a fighting force, few left fighting for Sedra System against Zhogarn remnants.

 Sylon Collective

**Heavy** - Noticeable losses of drone forces and at least one Sylus Core, yet enough facilities and controlled sectors to be recoverable.

 Thorun Empire

**Severe** - Moderate losses during the Throun Retaliation phase, severe losses during Thorun Civil War.

 Children of the Izlar

**Near Total** - Destroyed (along with most leadership except Karak) as an effective and united fighting force.

## Notorious Characters

 Benjamin Colburne
 Greg Leskovski
 Sterling Buckner
 Vera Vargas
 Anton Vargas
 Victor Komarmov
 Jacques Boyer
 Adikara
 Nephral
 Zeraphim
 Sylus
 Praetor
 Cura
 Tyran
 Bleda
 Thalok
 The Source
 Karak

The **First Galactic War** (2232-2236) was a series of galactic conflicts which occurred in very short time spans across several star systems of the Milky Way Galaxy. Originally derived from the **Hathor-4 Sylon Occupation**, between the Athrael Theocracy and the Sylon Collective, it increased in scale as the United Federation, the Thorun Empire and the Children of the Izlar were gradually involved in multiple means and circumstances.

## Backgrounds

### United Federation

The United Federation, formed out of the previous United Nations Organization on Earth, was relatively confined to the Sol System, attempting to spread it's reach across space, with at best both Luna and Mars as it's colonies and eventually expanding to the moons of it's other gas giants, pressured by the increasing overpopulation of Earth as well as economic needs given the dwindling state of Earth's fossile and mineral resources. Eventually, Mars would become the second-largest populated planet in the Sol System, with nearly two million people.

Although, in theory the Federation had given the opportunity for the colonies to be represented in the Council of Nations, the colonies' influence was very slim. This was due to both the general attitude of Earth towards the colonies, on Earth's dependence of them for resources to afford colonial independence, and the profit-hungry lobbying of the two mammoth companies of the Federation, McDonald & Hayes and Unicorp.

Such neglecting attitudes caused the colony of Mars, starting from it's capital colony of Bartolia, to eventually rise in rebellion against the United Federation, triggering the Martian Independence War, which lasted almost one year, with the United Federation being victorious. Despite the victory, however, the Federation started considering the colonies as federal states, thus requiring proper infra-structure to allow development into industrial, commercial and population centers.

### Athrael Theocracy & Sylon Collective

Ten millennia ago, on the Sedra System, the Athrael species started to mysteriously decay with it's home moon of Vemana due to the degradation of it's genetic bloodlines, which they attributed this to the Architect species that presumably created them, especially when they discovered an artificial gene that uniquely characterized their species and Vemana's biosphere, and thus triggered their decay and eventual infertility.

This pushed the Athraels - formed into a Theocracy around the belief of the Architects - into space-age technologies, sending thousands of exploration vessels across the Milky Way Galaxy, as well as cloning to preserve their species for as long as they could until the day they would encounter the Architects and, hopefully, their cure and salvation.

In the meanwhile, another unknown species, which also faced extinction events but on a longer time span than that of the Athraels (at about the Paleocene era on Earth, 60 million years ago), as their main star on the Aurum System had exhausted it's hydrogen supplies near it's core and expanded, which ensured a slow but sure death of their home planet. While attempting to move to the distant, inhabitable worlds, these planets were still couldn't be terraformed by this species to survive in the long run.

Eventually, this species would resort to a bold (or desperate) maneuver to transfer their individual consciousness into a central super-system, the Sylus, to preserve themselves and discarding their biological bodies, forfeiting biological reproduction and favoring existence in mechanical forms. This was the eventual formation of the Sylon Collective, which would remain in an infinite cycle of drone reproduction and self-improvement.

### Thorun Empire

Hundreds of years ago, the Thorun species in the world of Thorun Prima, in the Algor System, remained as a medieval barbaric society, divided in tribes (in particular it's sub-species, the Godar and Herjar) which fought each other over possessions such as livestock and land until the eventual arrival of an alien invading species, the Zahak, which exploited the planet's highly poisonous marshes for the unique Kanoid gas, capable of preventing antimatter particle annihilation, since antimatter was the base of the Zahak's propulsion and weapons systems.

When the Thoruns attempted reacting against the Zahak invaders, the Zahak unleashed their potent weaponry, decimating cities and villages on the first day, cremating millions in the following weeks. While the Zahaks believed this to be an easy victory against the natives, however, the Thoruns had adapted, united under the leadership of the Godar warlord Marendor, and using the planet's rich cave systems for guerilla warfare, communication and supply routes. The Thoruns engaged the Zahak forces for over three decades (known in Thorun history as the Thirty Years War) until they had manage to drive the invaders away from Thorun Prima.

With the technology left behind by the Zahaks, the Thoruns entered a Golden Age with a radical technological leap from medieval armies to space-age fleets, eventually colonizing the planets and moons of the Algor System. The Thorun society was united as the Thorun Empire, ruled directly by Marendor and his bloodline though remaining feudalistic, with the colonies ruled by families loyal to the Emperor.

### Children of The Izlar

In a small arm close to the galatic core of the Milky Way Galaxy, a star known as the Izlar blazed in all it's glory until it's eventual collapse in one day (possibly a supernova event), as in it's place remained an insidious membrane known as the ChromoSphere, which emitted such a devastating radiation that cremated anything unlucky enough to pass through it. At the center of the ChromoSphere, an ancient artifact (possibly a starship) known as the Source evolved into a living entity that, as it grew in intelligence, it could create and mutate the beings it created within the Izlar, eventually becoming the Children of the Izlar - the Zhogarns.

Thanks to the mutations of the Source, the Zhogarns formed themselves into a rich, varied extremophilic ecosystem, almost akin to the jellyfish, rays and fish in the oceans of Earth, each member playing an important role in their survival. For example, the plant-like extremophytes were not capable of moving, instead collecting light and nutrients which give a source of energy for the species able to protect and care for them. Various other sub-species had been specialized for various tasks, aiming to protect, preserve and enhance their ecosystems. This was made possible by the coordination of Alphas and Minds, strains with advanced cognitive abilities that'd support the Source's work.

However, eventually the Source realized that the ChromoSphere had started to shrink and would eventually collapse, killing everything trapped in it. While the Source attempted to breed multiple mutations to leave the Izlar, past the ChromoSphere and into deep space, all attempts were unsuccessful to date, as the ChromoSphere is too fatal for any biological creatures to survive. Still, the Source continued to try, on the eventuality that one day the Zhogarns would be free of their confines and thus freely multiply across the galaxy...

## Prelude to Conflict

### Aftermath of the DEMA War

At the final confrontation of the Martian Independence War, the Battle of Phobos, the practically victorious United Federation Navy had established a blockade at the outying space of Mars in order to capture the fleeing leadership of the Democracy of Mars (DEMA), in particular it's Director-General, Herwig Eizenkot.

However, at the mentioned battle, the DEMA had activated an until-then unknown technology which opened a galactic phenomenom, an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, that allowed Eizenkot and most DEMA forces to evade the Federation blockade and flee the Sol System towards fringe systems. However, the DEMA agents in charge of destroying the technology had failed before the Federation could recover and secure this technology, later revealed to be of an alien origin.

As a result of this extraordinary discovery, the Federation hadfounded the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research Administration (EIRA), determined to discover and tap into it's potential.

### Sylon Invasion of the Hathor-4 System

Approximately nine years prior to the end of the Martian Independence War, in 2214, the Hathor-4 System, originally a province of the Athrael Theocracy, was invaded and attacked without warning or provocation by the Sylon Collective, seeking it's mineral wealth to carry on the Sylus' infinite cycle of self-improvement and reproduction.

The province had been irrevocably devastated by the Sylons, whom established major manufacturing and mining facilities across the system, to the point a Sylus Core was established to easily supervise Sylon operations.

However the Athraels would not forget, nor forgive such an explicit aggression, and would mobilize in a long battle for the province, particularly the Annaki Order under High One Nephral.