Thread:Zillafire101/@comment-5496489-20151108071955/@comment-4960835-20160312103938

Patriot868 wrote: What I had planned was something similar to that. The Hegemony would help finish of the Imperium of War, but the Mirusians would be desperate allies at best, since the hatred after Xonexi is still there.

At some point after the Imperium crumbles, the Hegemony would be considered too dangerous and the Mirusians would move in to finish off a weakened Hegemony before it can recover its strength. Unbeknownst to the Mirusians, foul beings from beyond have corrupted roughly half of the Hegemony's military, leading to a civil war. The astartes would be sundered, with some staying loyal, others being corrupted, and others sickened by the Hegemony's actions defecting over to the Mirusians to fight along with the Olympians who used to be their brothers.

Basically, a clear cut war breaks down into utter confusion. There civil war, demons are running everywhere, Astartes are defecting, loyalties are basically unknown. The Commandos, who have grown arrogant after operation muskeg decided to stage a coup and skorzeny kills most of them, with a small minority fleeing into Mirus and being a danger to everyone. Skorzeny, ashamed off his failure and realzing what his actions have done, leaves and becomes a bounty hunter in Mirus, fighting for the highest bidder

Marius dies in battle in the inner chambers of the imperial palace, and Durac is lost to the infernal hordes. By this point, the Mirusian fleets are badly damaged and withdraw.(but not fully destroyed, and no named characters have to die if you don't want)

The rest of the Hegemony's military leadership is scrambling to fix the situation. Marius, being much longer lived then any zozer in history and being an amazing leader, becomes the focus of a new religious cult created by a Sophia Jamduar, who has become almost mad with grief over his death. The cult prays for Marius's return and a return to order.

The collective pool of psychic energy births a new being. It looks like Marius but is devoid of his good qualities. Compassion and Mercy are replaced by cold arrogance and a desire to crush all of reality under his heel. Basically a new sub group of demons, though they look "angelic" being white and gold colored, smooth and metallic, and with wings. Sophia is rewarded for her devotion and becomes the second in command of this new group, essentially transforming into an arch angel. Despite this change, she still has most of her memories, and blames the Mirusians for Marius's death and the fall of the Hegemony.

The remaining patriarchs and the surviving military officials will be in charge of whats left of the Hegemony, and while there are still some areas of the empire that are strong, its power will be broken.

Of course, into this gap will come new powers. The Magellianic Reich will come to Mirus since its far away from their main foes, the DCP and the Human Superstate. And expeditionary from the Bacaanian Eternal Empire will arrive as well.

So thats my general plan. If stuff doesnt work, tell me.

@Patriot: It's not likely that the Alliance as a whole would attack the Hegemony. The Hegemony are still Xonexi after all, and attacking a Xonexi nation head-on would bore their chance to become the legitimate Mirusian Galactic government into the ground. Futhermore, as Gorzill pointed out, the Vanara and Waptoria are way more concerned with the eventual coming Scelus than they are with an other attack from the Hegemony (they basically hope the Xonexi will keep them in line as they did with Eldarisia).

However, as I stated the Alliance is fairly weak right now so it's forces have much more free reign than they had before. As a result, it seems fairly likely that the Olympians and Koatria will wait out the civil war, then strike (even though the Alliance had not ordered them to do so, both still want to finish the Hegemony for the reasons you listed).

Some Olympians, like the Breaker Dragons (I assume), would kill off all Hegemonic supersoldiers they come across, but most would welcome their deflection over to their side as they didn't like killing their brothers-in-arlms either. Probably providing them with a false Olympian anchestry/completely new heraldry and colors to go with it in order to both shield them from Hegemony repercussions and keep the Alliance citizens frompicking on them (Oh yeah those new ones? Oh just some new groups we formed. Nothing to do with the Hegemony at all, hence the complely differnent colors and heraldry.).

The Koatria would altogether act diffrent. Whereas the Olympians would welcome back any Hegemonic supersoldiers to their side (abeit as new groups) and kill off those who remain loyal to the Hegemony itself, the Koatria would focus solely on hunting down the Hegemony commandoes whom hunted down so many of their kind. This is sort of justified as, like I said, the Darklings were the ones who revealed the locations of the Koatria training grounds to them, and even trained some Commandoes into Koatria Hunters (really Dark Koatria, still fully loyal to the Hegemony but with an overarching loyalty to the Darklings as well). As a result they fear the Commando Agency of the Hegemony is becoming just another Darkling pawn and thus move in to assassinate them. Their actions really become justified after the Comandoes launch their coup and suddenly Rakar and Darkling Warbands pop up everywhere, plus a War-Imperial Warband led by Warmaster Terrozius arrives in support. At that point the Koatria might grudgingly work with Skorzeny to put an end to these these combines threats, while also helping evacuate any Hegemony citizens who try to flee the chaos.

Once the Hegemonic supersoldiers and Darkling incursions are dealt with, and all refugees are evacuated, both the Olympians and Koatria would indeed withdraw, leaving the Hegemony behind to burn itself apart, though the Koatria might continue to focus on supressing the Marius cult afterwards.