Fiction:Tokzhalan Empire

The Tokzhalan Empire is a large, militaristic civilisation from a group of galaxies that they refer to as the "Tokzhalan Galaxies" outside of the First Gigaquadrant. They were formed after colonists from the Empire of the Girdo Galaxy were seperated from the Imperial group mind, and formed their own led by Emperor Tokzhalat.

Split from the Girdo Empire
After the March of the Apocalypse, the Girdo Empire decided that they should begin colonising new galaxies. A fleet of several Imperium-class ships, along with a few hundred Frigate-class cargo transports and nearly 2.5 million Droner-class drone starfighters to colonise one of the many galaxies outside of the First Gigaquadrant that had presumably been rendered uninhabited by the xenocides of the Ayrai'Shikua. These colonisation efforts were kept secret from the other nations of the universe, as the Empire wished for these galaxies to be inhabited entirely by their own colonies much like Girdo was, and they believed that publically announcing their plans might inspire a new scramble for territory that would have filled the new galaxy with dozens of rival empires. They were wrong in this belief, as the March of the Apocalypse and numerous other conflicts had reduced almost every other civilisation to powerless ruins whose last priorities would be spreading their forces even further across the universe. Even the ones that remained relatively strong would have been unlikely to spend their efforts on extragalactic colonisation.

However, this was far from the only problem with the Empire's plans, although they were even less aware of what laid in store for them. As soon as the colonisation fleet arrived in their target galaxy, the Girdo Galaxy lost contact with them. Assuming they had been destroyed by a superior force from beyond known space, the Empire's authorities quickly stopped their colonisation plans. They spent one week isolating themselves from the rest of the universe to sort out their own losses from the Apocalypse war. Meanwhile, they had no idea about what had actually happened to their extragalactic pioneers.

The colonisation fleet, had, in fact, been cut off from contact with the outside universe by an unusual temporary spatial anomaly that disrupted hyperluminal communications. The fleet's leader, Commodore Tokzhalat, quickly managed to establish a new group mind in the confusion that followed. Tokzhalat had always been a particularly individual Imperial, which is why he was selected to lead the potentially dangerous mission into unexplored space. As soon as the Girdo Empire's group mind no longer had any effect on him, he realised that he had a very different worldview to that the of the Girdo Galaxy's Emperor. His new group mind was going to be completely seperate from that of Girdo, and it would be its own, seperate empire.

Founding and Expansion
Tokzhalat's Empire (in his native language of Apalose, "Tokzhala'n Spue-oer") was going to have a military focus. It would attempt to make room for "truly alien" life not by subtle manipulation of other civilisations, as the Girdo Empire's plan was to do, but by outright extermination of "godspawn" life. The Tokzhalan Empire's new home galaxy was to be turned into a fortress, from which Tokzhalat could force his will upon the universe without fear of retribution reaching him in his capital of Tozhalanapalos (Apalose for "Tokzhalat's City").