Fiction:The Upstarts

"These new empires, these children, these... upstarts. They act like they understand conflict. Understand war. They do not. They have never faced true war, true destruction. They will learn, in time. And then they will no longer wonder why we are inactive, why we have acted the peacekeeper for all these millennia."

- Chancellor of the Drenmarr Republic

The Upstart Conflict, as it is called, began when am Okyiat attacked reproduction vats of the in what the APR considered an unprovoked terrorist attack. 

Drenmarr Republic
The Drenmarr Republic is a large, sprawling nation that has long sat in stagnation and inaction. Being spread out across most of the Byzan Sector, it's colonies and territories are often the first that newer civilizations meet when they start to spread beyond their systems and into the galaxy. This nation is politically strong, but militarily weak and economically and socially stagnant. Much of the Sector is simply waiting for it to break apart from sheer inactivity...


 * Fill this in Vincent.

A fairly large nation held together by economic ties and a weak central government, the Collective is mostly ruled by the powerful interstellar megacorps and their immense economic power. Deploying mostly a mercenary fleet of brigands and pirates, this widespread economic nation is unskilled in the art of war, but very skilled in the art of economics and industry.

An obscure and almost unknown nation of eco-zealots and hyper-religious warrior squid, this small theocratic nation deems all those who interfere with or harm life, or the Life Mother, as heretics and sinners who deserve to be slain for their crimes. They are located near the APR, and the APR is the first civilization they encounter. It was never a story that could end well.

First Encounters
Republic & Republic The meeting between the Algolurn Peoples Republic and the Drenarr Republic. - written by 20100vincent. Stagnation Republic The first encounter between the Kioskstrum Collective and the Drenarr Republic - written by MasterMachine Conflicting Ideals The first encounters between the Kioskstrum Collective and the Algolurn Peoples Republic. - Collab, MasterMachine & 20100vincent

Attack on Tylambie

 * Written by 20100vincent - remember that the APR hasn't met the Okyno Expanse yet, but have met the Collective, and that this war needs to end up between the APR and the KC.