The Endless War for The Eternal Throne

## Factions

* Grand Sop Army
	+ Hoppist Allies
* The Infinite Empire
	+ Fleshy Allies
* The Lightning Rangers
* Multiple Misc Planetary factions

## History

### Pre-War

Before **Hop** was fluffed, **Sop** & his entire people wanted to ensure their status as an everlasting presence in The Universe. To achieve this, the concept of "The Eternal Throne" was created, referencing a storybook on **Karrots** often read to children. The Throne is not a physical item, but the seat of power in all the universe taken by the most powerful and capable being(s) to lead the cosmos away from entropy and infinite consumption causing the death of all things and thoughts. Great heroes would rise in the time nearing the Universe's death, as matter and energy would be swallowed and dissipate from existence, defying natural law.

Sop speculates a being meant to complete this god-bestowed task was corrupted and embodies entropy and chaos in order to prevent others from achieving its level of strength, for an unknown motivation. The perils of black holes, the dimensions of gravity and time fighting each other and all such metaphysical instances persists the need to defend existence of all things, regardless of intent for beings to ascend into a higher state to escape entropy. For all those that don't and can't ascend, entropy is the foremost opponent against existence.

Nearing the end of the First Great Hop Expansion, the hops ran into an organic being, a race similar to **fleshies** found on Earth. Their nearly equal might and strength to the hop race was frightening to Sop. They avoided each other when possible, but eventually they would meet in conflict. After an unprovoked interaction with a Grand Sop fleet in space would aggressively instigate a battle that stretched to the edge of existence, where stars and light could barely reach.

### Kindle The Embers of War

The first interaction between Sop and the race before them was sudden as they encountered each other again in empty space during the 1st Great Hop Expansion. The fleshies fired a superweapon upon the Hop capital carrier ship, *Her Majesty's Finest*. No damage was done, as an Electric Eye had swiftly sent energy to the carrier to increase the defensive capacity of the shields. This prompted Sop to order an instant warning shot and a threat, and ordered the enemy to surrender and explain themselves, or face death.

Another shot was spat out, countered again by the Eye. This prompted the first major battle of the war, and created a waypoint for both sides that would be referred to throughout history, **The Infinite Graveyard of Giants**.

A majority of both fleets on each side was destroyed and it seemed to be a mutual retreat and rearm. Sop had seen the destruction this caused and rallied a war effort to fight this powerful foe, as he planned the next strategy of this new war.

### Battles, Skirmishes & Events

There were countless conflicts since the war began, recorded & unrecorded, and are likely to continue, however now that Hop & Vibri have left Karrots, it is unknown if new information will be gathered, but it is assumed the war continues to this moment.

Defeated are for both sides of the conflict, unless otherwise stated.

Notable victories, stalemates & losses are as follows in chronological order:

* First Battle of The Infinite Graveyard of Giants - Stalemate (Unknown defeated, majority of both sides lost their fleets, excluding capital ships)
* *Bastion's Folly* - GSA Minor Victory (~40 billion defeated, **Sop** assaults and destroys multiple bases on **Ghyp**)
* *Crater's Peak* - Stalemate (Unknown death toll, Hoppist resource victory)
* *A Shadow in the Dark* - GSA Major Victory (~100 billion defeated, 2 planetary systems destroyed, Leader of the Infinite Empire, **Blackstar** joins The Infinite Empire, however is crippled by Sop)
* *Head of the Demon* - GSA Minor Defeat (~5 billion defeated, fall of *Her Majesty's Finest* & *The Endless* (Imperial Capital Ship), 1 planet's surface razed, **Blackstar** defeats Sop in combat, GSA retreats to Karrots & nearby galactic clusters)
* *Shatterpoint* - Stalemate (At least 4 trillion defeated and/or lost, both fleets destroyed by synthetic super-massive black-hole, 2 stars with dozens of planetary systems swallowed whole)
* *The* *Tombstone Alliance and Eon Crusher* - GSA Major Victory (No defeated for GSA or allies, **Blackstar** supposedly defeated, majority of Imperial navy destroyed by enhanced Electric Eyes, 1 planetary system obliterated)
* *Punished for Ignorance* - GSA Total Defeat (At least 15 trillion defeated, Sop takes his family into hiding, **Teribay** galactic cluster is taken, all GSA capital ships lost)
* *Silence as The Stars Dim in The Sky* - A 20 **orbit** cycle passes with no conflicts between either side
* *The Enlightened Return* - Stalemate (Unknown defeated, Sop reunited with his family, Hop begins training, new capital ships *Crimson Wrath* begins construction, Karrots is reclaimed)
* *Second Battle of The Infinite Graveyard of Giants -* GSA Minor Victory (~3 trillion defeated, the Empire is pushed back beyond the edge of *The Graveyard*, **Blackstar** returns)
* *Rest Comes With Death* - GSA Major Victory (At least 10 trillion defeated, *Crimson Wrath* is given to Sop's personal guard, they block off *The Graveyard* with a force field, and continue the fight against the Empire, **Blackstar** is killed, Sop and Hop return to home)

### Outcome

To this day, the amount of black holes and background radiation interference means observing past The Infinite Graveyard of Giants (spacial northwest, spanning about ~40 degrees, on the Hop Universal Map) is impossible without true teleportation, as a result of desperate tactics by Sop to save his family & fend off the enemy. Both sides are likely at combat, fighting along the edges of the physical universe, or on an endless chase across the star fields.