Fiction:Imperial Civil War

Description
The Tokzhalan Empire are a militaristic civilisation whose ultimate aim is to wipe out or conquer most of what they call "godspawn" life in the universe because of their obsession to let "truly alien" species flourish. Exceptions are allowed, at least for a while, usually galaxy-spanning civilisations who might value the Tokzhalan or Girdo as allies and so will be able to be manipulated into accepting minor colonisation agreements that allow the "truly alien" life to flourish.

Although the war is called the "Imperial Civil War", this is simply due to both the Girdo and Tokzhalan Empires being arrogant and only focusing on the conflict between the two of them. Other nations are more than welcome to join in on either side; just ask me either on my talk page or on this article's talk page if you want your empire to be one of them.

Like all such collaborative wars, this is a war without super powers such as time travel or the destruction of entire galaxies. Likewise, do not claim to have any more than a few billion ships, especially since the recent "March of the Apocalypse" should have resulted in such carnage that there shouldn't currently be any more than half a trillion starships in the entire Gigaquadrant.

Participants
NOTE: This only includes nations that are part of the main war, not just ones who have only been involved in it during conflicts such as the Battle of Sol.

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 * Empire of the Girdo Galaxy
 * Tokzhalan Empire

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 * United Republic of Cyrannus (Cyrandia Alliance)
 * Confederate Alliance of Systems

Wormulon

 * Delpha Coalition of Planets

The Randomness

 * The Salsetthe Republic

Dinoman82

 * Rambo Nation (Cyrandia Alliance)
 * Imperial Alliance

Sporeguy33

 * Light Sector Alliance

Prologue
The Tokzhalan Empire was founded after an extragalactic colonisation mission by the Girdo Empire lost contact with their home galaxy. A new group mind was quickly formed by the expedition's leader, Commodore Tokzhalat, to maintain order. In addition, Tokzhalat's new-found individuality made him discover that he actually disagreed with many of the Girdo Empire's policies relating to "truly alien" species. Primarily, he believed that Girdo's diplomatic attitude to other empires was too time-consuming and would be unlikely to work, as few other empires would follow arbitrary colonisation laws in order to help potential alien species several billion years in the future.

Instead, Tokzhalat's empire would be warlike and militaristic. Taking advantage of the intergalactic situation caused by the damage of wars such as the March of the Apocalypse and the Intergalactic War, they decided that, after a week of preparations, they would announce themselves to the universe and begin their campaign of eradication.

Battle of Sol
The Tokzhalan Empire first revealed themselves to the universe at the Girdo Empire's colony of Titan, in the Sol system. Emperor Tokzhalat hoped that he could convince the Girdo Admiral that Tokzhalan was a far superior force and that Girdo should surrender to it, but the Admiral did not agree with Tokzhalat's ideas and did not send any transmissions to the Girdo Galaxy. Deciding that he could not simply kill the Admiral without a transmission being sent first, and realising that the Admiral was more likely to die than do what Tokzhalat wanted, Tokzhalat instead set his backup plan into action.

Eight Imperium-class ships, including Tokzhalat's own, moved into position in Saturn's orbit around Sol, and each ship fired a Sun Buster towards the star. The plan was carefully calculated so that all of the missiles would be destroyed by the various civilisations in the system, but the Tokzhalan ships would also have enough time to escape. The Sun Busters were basically used in order to display the Tokzhalan Empire's military power to the universe, as well as allowing Tokzhalat to avoid any immediate retribution.

The Sun Busters were all successfully destroyed by the combined efforts of the Girdo Empire, the Delpha Coalition of Planets (whose ships destroyed three of the missiles), the Jovar Empire, Rambo Nation and the Magma Pulsars.

Earth
Five of the eight Tokzhalan ships (the Discovery, Excavator, Intergalactic, Negotiations and Peacemaker) were sent to Earth instead of being told to leave, and were ordered to attack the Sol system's capital of New Tokyo. This was to serve two purposes: it would cause a great deal of disruption in the system's capital, potentially having harmful consequences on inter-planetary trade, communications and organisation; also, it would prevent Earth's large defence fleets from being able to intercept the Sun Busters, which would in turn mean that they not would be able to chase down the escaping Tokzhalan ships and track them to the Empire's capital of Tokzhalanapalos.

A small flotilla of Jovar ships, responding to the Girdo Empire's distress call, managed to leave Earth for the Sun Busters before the Tokzhalan ships arrived. The rest of Earth's defence fleet, however, was ordered to stay on the planet as superlaser fire was reported from Imperium-class ships over New Tokyo, first destroying the city's perimeter defences before firing on the buildings themselves. The closest ships to the city - a task force of various Jovar capital ships, a DCP Blade-class Battlecruiser, and a flotilla of BNSC Frigate-class ships - were scrambled to defend against the attackers. By the time they arrived, a large residential district had already been flattened, and a small area of the coast had been set alight.

One of the Jovar Imperator-class Star Destroyers was destroyed by superlasers and an antimatter missile salvo from one of the Tokzhalan ships, while two more surrounded a second Imperium and attacked its shields with a barrage of turbolaser bolts. A third Imperium had its shields taken out by the Blade before being crippled by proton torpedoes from the BNSC ships, while a fourth fought against a Jovar Interdictor that was four times its size. The fifth Tokzhalan ship had managed to disable one of the BNSC ships with an ion blast, causing it to crash into the coast and destroy millions of sporebucks of valuable beachfront property. It then fired an antimatter missile at New Tokyo Woolworth Building, the city's capitol, before firing on the DCP ship and disabling its shields. With the Blade's shields down, the Imperium managed to quickly get a covert scan of the ship and sent the information back to Tokzhalanapolos.



The Imperator shot down a few seconds earlier crashed into the ocean off the coast, triggering a large tidal wave which ruined even more of the city's coastal areas. Fortunately for many of the city's inhabitants, it hit a very soft region of the seabed covered by relatively shallow water, so the damage was far less than it could have been. This was followed by, to everybody's suprise, an army of ghostly Xhodocto emerging from the ruined residential district. Their origin was a mystery at the time, but many presumed that they had appeared due to a Xhodocto prophecy that refered to Earth. It was known that the Xhodocto believed that the survival of Earth was necessary for their own survival, so they would do anything to save it even if they were banished from the rest of reality. The ghostly nature of the Xhodocto meant that they were difficult to kill, as they could only be destroyed when they were firing their weapons.

The battle became increasingly chaotic from then. In the end, most of New Tokyo had been reduced to smouldering ruins, most of the rest had been smouldering ruins but the flames had been quenched by seawater, and several million civilians had been killed. As for the combatants, all five Imperium-class ships had been destroyed, along with all of the Jovar ships present with the exception of the Interdictor. None of the BNSC ships survived, nor did the DCP Blade, and several Gablinus-Avis ships along with DCP reinforcements that arrived later were also lost. A flotilla of ships from the Human Republic also arrived quite late in the battle to defend their old homeworld; only seven out of their forty-two ships fell in the conflict. Nobody was quite sure whether all of the Xhodocto had been destroyed, or whether they had simply disappeared when the final Tokzhalan ship was destroyed.

Despite the fact that the entire Tokzhalan force had been defeated, the Empire considered it to be a strategic victory, as they had accomplished both of their aims - the three commanding ships present at the battle had escaped without Earth's fleets following them, and the administrative sectors of New Tokyo were all in ruins.

Eris
The Emperor, along with the Destroyer and Dreadnought, left to return to their home galaxy (although using a route consisting of several detours so as to prevent tracking - and by extension, locating the Tokzhalan Empire's home galaxy - by enemy civilisations).

However, the Emperor was ambushed on its way out of the Sol system by ships from Eris. This ships belonged to Rambo Nation, who were on the lookout for any warships trying to leave the system. The Tokzhalan dreadnought managed to defeat the few Rambo ships that defended the colony on Eris, and also survived attacks by Gablinus-Avis support. However, its shields fell under a volley of quantum torpedoes, and four of those missiles combined with a Planet Buster set to detonate nearby caused the ship heavy damage. The Emperor managed to escape, though, and returned to Tokzhalanapalos for repairs.

Aftermath
After the battle, the Girdo Empire had to explain what had happened - as far as the other empires could tell, the Empire had attacked itself, then the rest of the Sol system, and then asked all of the other nations to defend the Sol system against themselves. The Girdo Admiral had to explain about the Tokzhalan Empire and exactly what had happened. He also had to confirm that something thought to be impossible due to the Imperial group mind had happened. The Empire was, essentially, in a civil war.

Of course, there were far more important issues than the diplomatic incident. The battle also had many casualties. Hundreds of spaceships had been destroyed and millions of people had been killed. In addition, the capital city of the Sol system had been brought to ruins, with the exception of the outermost districts far away from the coast.

And, finally, the battle had revealed the Tokzhalan Empire to the universe and brought yet another war to an already shell-shocked Gigaquadrant.

Aid from the Cyrannus Republic
Despite the URC's ongoing defeat against the Cognatus, they were willing to send a medium-sized fleet of warships under the command of Supreme Admiral Nagala to aid the Girdo against their new enemy. The Girdo agreed to upgrade the URC ships with antimatter weapons and shield-disrupting particle cannons. Due to the Intergalactic War, the fleet is made up of mostly heavy frigates and small Star Destroyers. However, the ships pack a strong punch.

Delpha Coalition of Planets on standby
The DCP had not yet decided its course of action, other than to prepare. The Tokzhalan's intentions are now known; they are xenophobic of what they consider not truly alien, and in those respects fanatical. They were evaluated as a Tier 3 civilization; they qualify as a credible threat to the DCP so far (for now, they have only just started) and a high threat to some of the DCP allies. But, the DCP was experiencing a Dark Age, after the War of Ages, Intergalactic War and DCP Civil War, the DCP's fleet was spread out, its peoples demoralised, insustrial capacity weakend, planets devastated and the DCP was not expanding, exploring or developing new technologies as much as it was, all so it could concentrate on the many wars it was involved in. The DCP now wants to concentrate on licking its wounds, yet, they could not let another empire to take advantage.

The DCP made its descision. It would not invade Tokzhalan space, but it will defend itself if the Tokzhalan become too much of a threat to the Milky Way galaxy. The DCP is on standby.

Defense Fleet of the Milky Way
As the DCP was recovering itself from previous wars, and trying to get out of the wretched dark era, the Council of War created a new ship, the DCP Flying Fortress. It was based on the archaic B17 Bomber from ancient Earth. The design, due to being thousands of years more primitive than the DCP's advancement, and almost so inferior technologically, the DCP found it very difficult to recreate the design. But why create a ship based on something so primitive?

Tactical analysis showed, if recreated and reoutfitted with new weapons and DCP technology, it would be a formidible ship indeed. It is not a B17, but its design is based upon it (althought it looks a bit different). The ship is a gunship class, stronger than a bomber or light cruiser. However, their small size meant they could be mass produced, and their shields are almost as strong as an Ion Fighter's. Great fleets shall be built, and they will defend the space around the DCP in the Milky Way. The DCP is now at recovery operations, and are invading the MSP (and are in a stalemate with most of their former enemies), and will only go into war with the Tokzhalan if it has to. However, soon, these ships might be the defenders of the stars!

Plazith Rim Campaign


Two days after the Battle of Sol, the Tokzhalan Empire began its invasion of the Plazith Rim. It was a carefully planned campaign, and they were not intending to go to war against most of the large empires in the galaxy. Their first target was the cybernetic Borg Collective, chosen because Imperial tacticians had decided (based on records of previous wars against them fought by civilisations such as the DCP) that the Collective was possibly one of their greatest future threats. They held the possibility for an alliance of sorts, but did not hold any high hopes on the matter.

First Battle of Borg Space
Tokzhalat lured a Borg Cube to his ship, the Emperor, by appearing on a planet near to one of the Collective's own. When the Cube arrived and announced its aim to assimilate the Tokzhalan ship, and showed that it was undeterrable in its aim, the Emperor opened fire with ion blasts and disabled the ship. An crew of four Imperial soldiers were beamed into the ship. There, they managed to gain valuable tactical information before beaming out. Tokahalat proceeded to destroy the Cube, and began planning his war against the Collective.

The Tokzhalan Empire made its move by attacking every Borg-inhabited planet at once with its Droners, theorising that the Borg would not have time to adapt fast enough. They were right, and the Droners reduced the Borg Collective's dominion from 100,000 worlds to 64. Another 22 planets were destroyed by the Imperiums, using their Sun Busters to cause their systems' suns to go supernova. All of the Droners were destroyed in the battle, and thousands of Borg Cubes were still intact across the whole of (what had once been) Borg Space. However, it was ultimately a victory for the Tokzhalan. In addition, the sudden chaos that had taken one of the most stable civilisations in the galaxy had attracted the attention of warlike civilisations such as the Mortalitas, who recognised the Tokzhalan Empire from the Battle of Sol and decided to form an alliance with them.

Furthermore, the Empire had several secret weapons projects that were reaching completion - "Zxxon", "Emperor", and "Bolide" would be ready soon, although "Timeship" was still only in the initial developmental stages - which combined with the new allies made the loss of most of their space force seem like a small price to pay.

DCP Spies
After the near destruction of the Borg it became apparent to the DCP, that the Tokzhalan were a dangerous adversary. The DCP believes it is likely that the Borg will soon make a comeback, because they can recover and recolonise quickly. In one of the battles, the DCP sent a small ship to investigate an Imperium-class ship, the Destroyer. The DCP ship readied its weapons and the Tokzhalan ship returned fire, however, the DCP ship cloaked, and created a false holographic explosion. As it did so, it sent small spying nanomachines to land on the vessel, which was unaware of the devices because they mimic materials around them, while returning data to the DCP.

New Allies and Enemies
The next civilisations along from the Borg were eight rival empires who were descended from people who left the Human Republic centuries earlier and settled on the other side of the galaxy. Tokzhalan discovered an opportunity that did not require mass xenocide. His ships each visited one of these empires and sent an "offer", asking them to join forces with the others to form a new and powerful federation. If they refused, they would have their defence ships and colonies destroyed until they surrendered. The peaceful races accepted the offer (especially after being told that their warlike enemies would end up being under their control), and were given advanced technology in return. The only thing they had to do in return was abide by restrictions on colonisation and terraforming, which left several systems open for "truly alien" life to evolve in. The empires who refused received their punishment, and soon relucantly agreed to start negotiations with their more peaceful (and now more well-armed) neighbours.

However, all was not well for the Tokzhalan campaign. The Salsetthe Republic, who lived near Borg Space, had learnt of the Empire's intentions and declared that the two civilisations were now enemies. In addition, the Girdo Empire had overcome the flaw that allowed the Tokzhalan to control their Droners, by making the ships rewire themselves to only accept some new command signals. On the other hand, the Empire had also managed to ally with the rest of the Imperial Alliance, and "Project Emperor" was well on its way to completion.



Tokzhalan Military Projects
The Tokzhalan Empire had been working on several projects to improve their military capabilities (as has been already mentioned). Three of these were now ready to field:
 * Project Zxxon was the genetic modification, cybernetic enhancement and psionic training of a tribal species discovered in one of the Tokzhalan Galaxies. These creatures, now known as "Zxxon" after an order of warrior monks from the Girdo Galaxy, were made to be powerful psychic warriors. They were also physically strong and highly athletic, and were even upgraded with force field generators to make them even more resilient to weapons fire (an ordinary Zxxon could withstand two direct proton missile hits). Some were even to be beamed down with supersizers, which would give them even greater strength and power (a supersized Zxxon could withstand two direct antimatter missile hits). The Zxxon were mainly to be used as assassins (for the small ones), sentries (for the supersized ones), and to manipulate primitive civilisations into following the Tokzhalan Empire (either small or supersized could work this way).
 * Project Emperor was the construction of a new class of drone ships, intended as a far superior replacement to the old Droners. These were built using millions of tonnes of nanobots to convert a rocky planet in the Ghelaxin Galaxy into fully-formed starships. Larger manned craft were also to be built, to replace both the Frigate and Imperium classes. This project was publically revealed by Tokzhalat to a meeting which was discussing the Imperial Civil War, with the intent of scaring the allies and warning them to keep away from his Empire.
 * Project Bolide was the development of a high-yield antimatter cluster bomb, which could be dropped by a Project Emperor ship and used to devestate a continent-sized portion of a planet. Like Emperor, Bolide was publically revealed by Tokzhalan to the rest of the universe, but this time it was revealed to the ships who had participated at the Battle of the Emperor Planet.

During this time, two Tokzhalan starships, the Destroyer and Dreadnought, were sent on scouting missions to other galaxies to search for "truly alien" life and to determine whether the "godspawn" civilisations that lived there were a threat to it. The Destroyer collected samples of silicon-based life from the Andromeda Galaxy, while the Dreadnought searched Ottzello and returned with tactical information suggesting that it would be a good place to invade after finishing in the Plazith Rim. The Imperium, meanwhile, travelled to the Lagross Rift to collect some samples of the spacefaring organisms that lived there.

Plazith Rim Campaign, continued


The Plazith Rim Campaign saw a temporary break from the end of the first week to the beginning of the second week.

Battle of Deltaeta
Four days after the Human empires near Borg Space were made to consider peace talks by the Tokzhalan Empire, the new Human Coalition was officially founded with its capital on the previously-neutral planet Deltaeta. The celebrations were cut short, however, by a Borg invasion. Hundreds of Borg Cubes, all of what remained of the Collective's forces (besides other ship classes such as Spheres and Diamonds) were en route to the planet in order to begin a mass assimilation of Human worlds.

Fortunately for Deltaeta's defenders, a large fleet of starfighters had been modified with Tokzhalan technology (they were given "transphasic"-class missiles designed to pass through Borg shields, improved shields, and faster superluminal drives). These fighters were sent in three-ship squadrons to intercept the approaching armada before it reached Deltaeta.

Over the course of the battle, the Borg failed to adapt to the new torpedoes, but they developed a new plan instead. At the end of the battle, there were only three Cubes left, but the Human fighters had ran out of missiles so they no longer had any weapons that were effective against the Borg. The Borg disabled the few remaining starfighters by bombarding them with shield-disrupting weapons, then pulled them in with tractor beams for assimilation. The Cubes then left, before the Deltaetan defence forces could make use of any more superweapons.

Second Battle of Borg Space
Hoping to strike back before the Borg had managed to adapt the advanced technology into their own systems, the Coalition launched a counteroffensive against the Collective. Seventeen Borg colonies were destroyed by Planet Busters, but most of the Human ships were destroyed by Borg Spheres. Realising that several of their Spheres had also been destroyed in these attacks, the Collective launched their flagship, the Borg Diamond. Distress calls from Coalition ships quickly caused the battle to centre around the Diamond. In the chaos, the battle ended when the last Coalition cruiser fired a Planet Buster at the Borg flagship - even its shields couldn't withstand a missile designed to break apart septillions of tonnes of solid rock. The explosion also destroyed the remaining buildings in the Borg colony below, along with the Spheres that were the Diamond's escort craft, however, the entire remaining fleet of the Human Coalition was also caught in the blast.

Both the Borg Collective and the Human Coalition isolated themselves from the rest of the galaxy in the aftermath of the battle. The Borg, because they had been reduced to twenty-four planets, six Cubes and a few dozen other ships; the Humans, because their entire space force had been wiped out. It would take both sides several months - at least - to recover.

The end of the battle marked the end of the Plazith Rim Campaign in the Scutum-Crux Arm of the galaxy. It would still continue elsewhere, though.

Alliance with the Daleks
Meanwhile, Emperor Tokzhalat was at New Skaro, capital of the New Dalek Empire. He proposed an alliance with the Daleks, hoping that they would make for useful allies. Both empires shared what appeared to be similar aims - the Daleks wished for the extermination of all life in the universe except themselves, and the Tokzhalan Empire believed that the eradication of most "godspawn" life in the universe was necessary.

Although the Daleks initially chose not to accept the offer of alliance, they changed their mind when Tokzhalat proved his abilities in battle by destroying a Dalek "negotiations" drone in single combat. Three new experimental warrior Daleks were then sent to serve on Tokzhalat's ship, the Emperor, while the rest of the Dalek Empire began to seriously consider the possibility of an alliance (although, as far the Daleks were concerned, this would simply be a means of using the Tokzhalan Empire as laser fodder).

The Salsetthe Fleet
As the battles in Borg space continued, the Salsetthe Republic was beginning to make preparations to engage the Tokzhalan Empire in battle. Ships were called to the shipyards of the Salsetthe Republic in order to be outfitted with technology that would improve their capabilities in battle, and the new flagship of the Salsetthe Republic, the Vey'rch was commissioned on Earth date August 12th, 2756 in order to join the fleet in order to defend the Salsetthe Republic against this new threat. Most of the fleet consisted of Salsetthe starships, but around 25 Huartin starships joined the fleet. As the entire fleet, consisting of 17,500 ships, assembled, colonies once again put their defensive systems to "standby" and went to tactical alert. The minefields that surround almost every Salsetthe colony were activated, and a tense calm started to be felt by the Salsetthe and their allies.

Once the entire Salsetthe fleet had assembled, a single order was transmitted to the entire fleet. "Pach!" meaning, "Engage!" was the entire transmission, and every single ship activated their interphase cloaking devices, set a course for the Tokzhalan fleet, and powered up their quantum slipstream drives. The Salsetthe fleet was expected to arrive at the last known coordinates of the Tokzhalan fleet within the next 18 hours.

Battle of the Emperor Planet
A Girdo Frigate-class ship managed to track the Destroyer (which had been bugged by DCP nanobots the previous week) to a point where it was meeting with the Emperor to transfer cargo between the two ships. The Emperor was then tracked to the Ghelaxin Galaxy, where it was believed that "Project Emperor" was located after the message announcing it to the universe was traced to there. More Girdo Imperial scouts began to the explore Ghelaxin, and soon they found the "Emperor Planet".

On another planet in the same system, the whole of the Girdo Empire's fleet (including with the flotilla of URC ships) gathered to prepare for an attack on the planetoid. Several other empires - including the Salsetthe Republic and Rambo Nation - also sent ships to join in with the attack. The DCP, although not sending any vessels, developed a spacetime missile which could be used to completely destroy the Emperor Planet and gave it to the Girdo fleet.

Once the entire allied fleet had gathered, the spacetime missile was fired and the Emperor Planet was annihilated in a few seconds. However, around thirty billion of the planetoid's sentry drones managed to escape, and flew towards the attackers. The allied fleet fired various superweapons at the approaching swarm, reducing its numbers to a more managable 100 million ships. The Girdo Empire's Droner-class starfighters moved to engage the Tokzhalan swarm, however, it was quickly discovered that the Tokzhalan drones were designed to be superior to the Girdo ones. Despite being outnumbered, there ended up being twice as many Tokzhalan drones as there were allied ships by the time the Droners were forced to retreat and regroup. The other allied ships continued the battle and managed to destroy the rest of the enemy swarm, although they were reduced to four thousand ships in total in the process.

Tokzhalat then contacted the allied fleet, revealing that he had taken several billion drones away from the Emperor Planet before its destruction, so the destruction of the planetoid had only made it less easy for him if he wanted to conquer the universe. He then sent his own eleven Imperiums and two hundred Frigates to attack the allied ships. The allied fleet was again victorious, losing only five hundred ships. The Girdo ships Imperium and Astronomer destroyed the Tokzhalan flagship Emperor with a volley of superlaser fire, and the Imperium then disabled the three Daleks that were on board the Emperor with ion bolts.

Tokzhalat again contacted the allied fleet, explaining that he had also taken some non-drone ships from the Emperor Planet, including a new flagship, which is where he currently was. The ships that had just attacked the allies were of now-obsolete design, which is why they had been sent to fight such a numerically superior foe. Tokzhalat finished the message before revealing "Project Bolide", an antimatter cluster bomb system that had been installed in all of the new Tokzhalan ships, before disappearing. The allied ships were unable to follow his ship, as it had disappeard too early for them to track it.

The next day, long after the allied fleet had left, Tokzhalat's new flagship returned to the system to collect the remains of the three Daleks for further study. Tokzhalat also decided that the Plazith Rim Campaign should take a temporary hiatus, as there were far more unstable regions of the universe to attack, and it would be best to try out his new fleet in those places.

Solar explosion


The third week of the Imperial Civil War started with a boom, literally.

The Galactic Emperor took the Novae, escorted by two Imperial Star Destroyers II to the Insector Homesystem. The Insector reacted immediately, sending an emergency transmission to the Cyrandia Alliance that three Imperial ships had arrived in their homesystem. Various D'Kyr classes went to intercept the various Imperial ships. However, they headed for the sun in their surprise and, upon meeting each other, the Star Destroyers engaged the D'Kyr Class vessels of the Insectors.

In the midst of battle, the Unknown Entity opened a channel, claiming this was the end for the Insectors and the strange Imperial ship, known as the Novae fired an energy beam at the sun of the Insector homesystem. Immediately flames erupted and destroyed the various Insector ships, and soon the sun went nova, massive waves of solar energy ripped through the system, killing all that inhabit her.

Yet to the Galactic Emperor's surprise (he was also onboard) something went wrong, the sun did go nova but the two Imperial Star Destroyers also took heavy damage and one even exploded. Soon the Novae began shaking and, as the sun was gone, it was left with no propulsion system. Communications were also down. Still, the Galactic Emperor was pleaed, as the Insector homeworld was destroyed. But now he was stranded, with Rambo and URC forces probably arriving soon.

The Emperor's new soldiers
Tokzhalat sent several Apalos-class ships, the result of Project Emperor, to explore uninhabited areas the First Gigaquadrant. Several of these carried Zxxon soldiers, which were intended to be able to convert any uncontacted civilisations to the Tokzhalan Empire's cause. One of the exploration ships soon managed to find a planet with an intelligent species on it.

It was an early tribal race - so early, in fact, that they had yet to develop a language and a proper name for themselves. They also had no technology more advanced than fire, basic hut-building, and a few simple weapons. However, they were fierce predators, with highly-tuned senses and a strong hunting instinct.



The Empire decided that they would make for good warriors - after all, the new Tokzhalan Imperial Space Force had no dedicated ground soldiers at the time - so they sent down some Zxxon to make contact with them and try to incorporate them into Tokzhalat's forces. Like the Zxxon, these "Hunters" were promised luxury and a perfect life. In the Hunters' case, this perfect life consisted of hunting down as much prey as they possibly could, which they would be able to do in warfare.

Most of them accepted their offer and were assimilated into the Tokzhalan Empire's group mind. Then they were taken off-world, given cybernetic upgrades, armour, and powerful weaponry in order to complement their already-deadly natural abilities. The few openly hostile tribes that refused the offer invariably fought back against the Zxxon, resulting in their eradication.

They were now named the "Faratann", after the city of Faratan on the Imperials' homeworld (and also the Girdo Empire's capital, although the Tokzhalan Empire weren't planning on that to last too much longer) of Imperial Capitol. Back in the ancient history of Imperial Capitol, Faratan was once the home of a dangerously militaristic nation-state, before being conquered by the armies of Apalos and made as the new Apalosian Empire's headquarters for military administration. For the Tokzhalan Empire, made sense for these Hunters, now conquered by the Tokzhalan Empire and put to work as their soldiers, to be named after that city.

The new Faratann soldiers then began military training in secret locations somewhere within the Tokzhalan Galaxies, to prepare themselves for almost-inevitable future engagements.

Project Timeship and more Tokzhalan military research
In another secret location within the Tokzhalan Galaxies, scientists were working on "Project Timeship". The main aim of Timeship was to develop space-time manipulation technology that could be incorporated into Tokzhalan ships. To aid their research, the Empire's scientists managed to acquire several sources of information:
 * Scans of a DCP Blade-class battlecruiser, taken during the Battle of Earth.
 * The three Dalek casings, disabled during the Battle of the Emperor Planet.
 * Graviton spheres, given to them thanks to allying the Imperial Alliance.

The Dalek casings were also used to develop and improve on other technologies by careful reverse-engineering. Firstly, the Tokzhalan Empire managed to improve their scanners and tranfer beams to be able to work through even nonphasic shields. In addition, they began studying the Dalek gunsticks to try to figure out how to recreate their unique "death ray" technology.

The Imperial Alliance also, in return for the Tokzhalan Empire's zero-point energy extractors, gave them information on the Novae's new particle weapon, which Tokzhalat had expressed interest in. Yet another team of scientists were set to work on analysing, replicating and modifying the starbusting technology for use in the Tokzhalan Imperial Space Force.

Ottzello Campaign


In the Ottzello Galaxy, the New Kralgon Empire suddenly appeared and began a war on the rest of Ottzello. Tokzhalan Imperial scout ships noticed this, and Emperor Tokzhalat proposed an alliance, offering vast fleets of Drones along with help from the Dalek Empire in the invasion. The Kralgon Emperor accepted, and gave his new allies startegic targets which the Daleks could take slaves from, which convinced the Daleks to dedicate hundreds of battleships to the conflict. With thousands of Tokzhalan Drones as escort ships to fight off enemy defence fleets, and with countless Dalek soldiers being used as ground forces to exterminate unwanted civilians and capture strategic locations, the combined Dalek and Tokzhalan offensive quickly and efficiently cleansed their target worlds of native Ottzelloan presence with minimal casualties.

The Second Ottzello Galactic War continues
The Ottzello Campaign continued into the fourth week of the Imperial Civil War. The Telzoc were the first Ottzelloan species to become extinct or enslaved, while the war then spread to the Gykar Empire and the DCP. The Dalek-Tokzhalan fleet was no longer operating under Kralgon orders, and instead the Daleks just made their way across the galaxy exterminating and enslaving hundreds of worlds.

Meanwhile, Tokzhalan scientists continued their attempts to replicate Dalek technology. They concluded that "Dalekanium" was no improvement on the armour that they already had, but were still struggling to work out how to generate the Daleks' shields and "death ray" weapons.

Girdo Imperial Mass Production
However, the Tokzhalan Empire weren't the only ones working. The Girdo Empire was also working on improving their technological capabilties and the size of their space force. Firstly, their own scientists had developed a rapid-fire launch system for their missiles, which meant that their Droners could match the Tokzhalan Apalos-class Drones for firepower. Their antimatter missiles were replaced with improved "quantum"-class missiles, which contained plasma in their warhead to help cut through defensive shields more easily. In addition, they modified their energy guns to also be able to fire ion blasts in the unguided "repeater blaster" style as well as in the typical guided "autoblaster" way. These unguided blasts would mainly be used when there was little risk of not hitting the target, but they could also be fired over a large area to increase the changes of a hit if the Droners found an opportunity to do so. Both of these systems were fitted into all of the new Droners and Frigates as well as the Premier and the Imperium-class ships.

Production of starships initially began with making Droners, but after seven days (the entire third week of the Imperial Civil War) this stopped. Each of the Girdo Empire's colonies was given three Swarms of Droners (46,656 Droners to a Swarm, so 139,968 to a planet) for defence each, and them production shifted to building Frigates. Once there were 46,656 Frigates, which took a further three days, production stopped again. Finally, the Girdo Empire began work on building more Imperiums, since they realised that they would need a dedicated fleet of warships for dealing with the threat of Tokzhalat and his forces. One Imperium was built for each Girdo colony world over the course of four days, but production had not even finished by the time the Tokzhalan Empire began their invasion of the Girdo Galaxy.

Week Five
The Second Ottzello Campaign continued, but the Tokzhalan Empire quickly turned their sights to elsewhere. They put their Drones under the control of the Daleks, set up a system by which every Drone that was destroyed in Ottzello was automatically replaced, and took their war to the Girdo Galaxy.

Girdo Campaign


Without warning, all of the Girdo Empire's colonies along the Southern Arm of their galaxy were attacked by Tokzhalan Drones over the course of a few sectons. The Girdo forces were caught by surprise, and quickly scrambled their defence fleets to stop the invaders. They had not yet finished making their first set of Imperiums, but the ships were ready to fight and were sent off to battle as soon as they could be crewed. However, the Tokzhalan Imperial Space Force outnumbered and overwhelmed that of Girdo, and within a matter of hours the entire Southern Arm no longer had any Imperial presence. The ex-colony planets were then stripped of all life and the Tokzhalan fleet moved on.

The Girdo Empire's civilians were not killed, however. They were taken inside Tokzhalat's new "Mothership" type Apalos-class craft, incorporated into the Tokzhalan Empire's group mind, and taken to the Tokzhalan Galaxies to become citizens of the Tokzhalan Empire. This allowed Tokzhalat to transfer skilled workers and useful scientific knowledge directly from Girdo to his own group mind, which he expected would eventually give him yet another advantage in the war.

Meanwhile, in the Northern Arm, a mass evacuation was taking place. All citizens of the Girdo Empire were taken to the Imperial Sector, the part of the Girdo Galaxy surrounding Imperial Capitol. This included all Trade Frigates and Imperium-class ships, leaving only the Droners and perimeter turrets of their other colonies to fend off the Tokzhalan hordes. And Tokzhalat's ships, knowing that the uninhabited colonies could be later recolonised by the Girdo Empire, indiscriminately glassed the planets from orbit.

The Imperial Sector was left alone, as Tokzhalat chose not to destroy the Girdo Empire. He realised that the Girdo Empire's influence of other empires would help in his fight against "godspawn life's uncontrolled dominance over reality", even though the same influence may result in more harm being directed towards his Empire. Instead, the Girdo Empire was restricted to colonies in the Imperial Sector. The Tokzhalan Empire explained that they would use a nova-causing superweapon, given to them by the Imperial Alliance, to prevent any nearby stars from turning into an uncontrollable supernova, which meant that the Girdo Empire's colonies would be protected from astronomical disasters.

To prevent outside invasion or attack, Tokzhalan forces began building "Hyperluminal Defence Stations", which could fire hyperluminal missiles either in real space or subspace, and at targets either inside the Girdo Galaxy or approaching it. Sixteen of these were built around the edge of the galaxy, built using millions of tonnes of nanobots (since the Tokzhalan Empire didn't stop producing them after Project Emperor), and defended with millions of static turrets and Drones. These could also reinforce the rules put in place by the Tokzhalan Empire, as Tokzhalat showed the Girdo Admiral by destroying the (uninhabited) planet Artes with a single hyperluminal missile.

Meanwhile, the rest of Girdo became a galaxy-sized nature reserve for the protection of "truly alien" life, with features such as the "8000 Parsec Sanctuary" for spacefaring organisms, built with the intention of it being a larger and better-protected version of the Lagross Rift in the Plazith Rim. The Girdo Empire was given the duty of looking after the galaxy, and the Hyperluminal Defence Stations would protect it from outside threats.

The Girdo Campaign had lasted less than a day, but although it had finished, it did not mean the end of the Imperial Civil War.

The Plazith Rim Campaign resumes


Not long afterwards, the Tokzhalan Empire began putting into action its plans to continue the Plazith Rim Campaign. First of all, it went to the area of the galaxy around the Human Republic, and tried the same trick on the empires of that region as they did to the near-Humans around Borg Space. This attempt went differently, though, with most empires surrendering after the destruction of a few of their colonies and a large portion of their fleet, one demanding that Tokzhalat win an honourable duel against one of their own warriors before submitting, and the Human Republic remaining on poor terms with the Tokzhalan Empire due to the Battle of Sol. However, the Human empires were soon once again united into a single Human Republic, although one that did not seem to be as stable as the Coalition on the other side of the galaxy. As far as Tokzhalat was concerned, that was a matter for local international organisations to deal with, as he believed that he had more important issues to consider.

Specificially, he was planning to form an alliance with the Grox Empire. He was so dedicated to this that he sent the Daleks to eradicate the Covenant, a Zealot civilisation slightly closer to the centre of the galaxy than the Human Republic, so that his ship could fly through unimpeded. When the Apalos arrived at the Grox Space, the Grox responded to Tokzhalat's offer of alliance by beaming some upgraded Dronox onto the ship and testing them by attacking some Faratann guards. The Faratann fell instantly, but the ship's internal security systems incinerated the Dronox before they could cause any more problems. Still, the Grox considered their project a success, and then reconsidered Tokzhalat's proposal. Even though the Grox-Tokzhalan alliance was finally made in secret, the Tokzhalan Empire's use of Sun Busters around Grox Space was enough for nearby civilisations to easily be able to work out that it had happened. Destroying planets is a typical tactic for impressing the Grox, although few empires would use Sun Busters for something with no other tactical or strategic benefit. Tokzhalat's Empire was clearly one of these, since it had used several Sun Busters just a few weeks earlier in the Battle of Sol.

Rambo Nation aid the Girdo Civilians!


After the Admiral of the Girdo Empire and Empress Ramashe had made contact due to the fall of the Girdo Empire at hands of Tokzhalat, they came to an agreement.

The Admiral told the Empress they were allowed to leave the Girdo Galaxy as refugees and Rambo Nation was willing to open her borders to Girdo refugees. The Admiral also asked for aid in the evacuation and during the Serindia meeting at Rambo Command in Rambo City, Rambo Command ordered Captain Klopiels of the USS Valley Forge, a Excelsior Class V2 to aid the Girdo. He was given command of a large task force of Antares Class (transport ships), Olympic Class V2 (medical ships) and Normandy Class (civilian transport ships) to aid in the evacuation.

Klopiels immediately headed to the Girdo Empire and, upon arriving, he contacted the Admiral of the Girdo Empire again, bringing the words that Rambo Nation was prepared for the evacuation.

The Girdo Empire was already in the process of rebuilding in the part of the galaxy in which they were allowed to remain, which meant dozens of new colonies in the Imperial Sector and hundreds of new starship would soon be able to house most of the refugees from the Northern Arm. However, 84,000 would still be homeless, so these were taken to Quandrant 82 by the evacuation fleet to temporarily live as part of Rambo Nation. The Tokzhalan Empire's defence stations were ordered by Tokzhalat not to shoot down the escaping civilians, so the evacuation lasted three days without any problems other than organising all of the evacuees. Now that their citizens were safe, the Girdo Empire continued to rebuild.

DCP ready for war
By now, the DCP had recovered from previous wars and was ready for new conflicts. Although the Tokzhalan had never attacked the DCP yet, the Daleks had, and pretty much won. Also, the DCP had been observing the activities of the Tokzhalan, their allies the Telzoc, had been made extinct, at least this was thought for now, and the Girdo had been defeated. The Tokzhalan were also very dangerous, able to force nearly all Human and near-Human empires (one of the most influential species in the Milky Way) into one alliance, reduced the Borg and crushed the Convenant (not that the last two would be missed a great deal by many). Any Tokzhalan ship that nears DCP space will be fired upon; it wouldn't take much now for the DCP to declare all out war.

Week Eight
Nearly two and a half weeks had passed since Tokzhalat formed an alliance with the Grox Empire, and not a single shot had been fired in the conflict since then, unless the Tokzhalan Drones' part in Ottzello is also included in the Imperial Civil War. This was because of technology sharing between the Grox and Tokzhalan Empires, as well as the Grox continuing their project to upgrade and update their entire military force to once again be a threat to the rest the universe. Eventually, their project had finished, and the new Grox Imperial Fleet was ready to take revenge against their enemies.

New Grox Wars
The first Grox attack in several years was against, of all civilisations, the Human Coalition. Since they were still recovering from their battles against the Borg, the Coalition fell quickly. This was probably the reason why the Grox chose them as a target - they were a highly advanced civilisation, yet would also be easy to destroy. After each battle, the Grox assimilated any useful technology, exterminated any survivors that they could find, and dropped Conqrix pods onto each planet in order to purge them of life and use all useful resources to make more troops and ships for the Grox war machine. Some Coalition ships survived the invasion, though, and fled to the Human Republic in hope of refuge amongst their relatives on the other side of the galaxy. The Republic, being a peaceful society, accepted the refugees. They also made use of the Coalition's technology in order to boost their own military defences, since they knew that the universe was becoming a dangerous place with groups such as the Tokzhalan Empire, the Cult of the Deathmarch - and now the Grox - ready and able to destroy them at any time.