Fiction:New Grox Wars/Phase 1

The War Begins
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.

The Salsetthe Republic Invades
In response to a failed invasion of a colony by the Grox, the Salsetthe Republic decided to put their plans into action in order to destroy the Grox colonies in Milky Way Galaxy/Plazith Rim. A Tokzhalan Empire backup fleet along with some Grox starships were found when they were doing an intelligence scan of the entire Galactic Core area, and so, became one of the first targets.

Other than the Tokzhalan/Grox backup fleet being targeted, Grox colonies closest to Salsetthe colonies in the area were targeted, and the invasion of Grox space began. Due to recent upgrades the Grox had been making on their ships and tactical systems, these invasions were more costly than previous ones, but most resulted in a distinct Salsetthe victory. Battles that were more costly often occurred due to the lack of a very thick atmosphere on the colonized planet being targeted, and so, the Salsetthe Republic would be forced to destroy/defeat the colony using more conventional means instead of destroying the atmosphere using a modified high yield plasma torpedo.

The Salsetthe task force that led the attack on the Tokzhalan backup fleet, however, was not so lucky. That issues such as lack of creativity and lack of knowledge about the Salsetthe that had plagued the Grox were not an issue for Tokzhalat's forces, and they were helped by a 45km Mothership vessel. The Salsetthe forces were defeated, and Tokzhalat showed them some of the technology he had gained from other empires (for example, the ability to beam through shields as developed from the Daleks was displayed by beaming antimatter missiles into the Salsetthe Dreadnoughts) before letting the survivors (which ended up being a mere three ships) escape. However, only two ships of the Tokzhalan force had survived. One of these was the Mothership, which was so large as to be almost impenetrable by the Salsetthe fleet's weaponry, and the other was the Apalos which had been safely inside the Mothership for the duration of the battle.

The Grox were also given information about this battle, and learned of "non-conventional" tactics. These included the aforementioned beaming through shields, but primarily (due to it being a far easier strategy) the use of cluster missiles that were developed by the Tokzhalan Empire as "Project Bolide" and used effectively against the cloaked Salsetthe ships during the battle.

DCP/Human fleet strikes
Note that for the DCP's side, this is not a new war; to them it is part of the Imperial Civil War.

The DCP and humanity were two of the greatest influences in Milky Way Galaxy. However, the two powers rarely interacted, being on opposite sides of the galaxy. This was about to change. With the Grox' attack on the Human Coalition, not too far from DCP space, the Delpha Coalition was enraged. 200 years before, the Grox and the DCP had ended a terrible war, finished with a treaty in which the Grox were not allowed to attack empires outside the Galactic Core zones. However, this new rising of the Grox broke the treaty, which the DCP held very importantly. Despite the treaty, the DCP still hated the Grox, and fought them in other galaxies. The DCP proposed an alliance with the Human Republic, in a joint attack on the Grox. The DCP would lead the first attack, while humanity prepares.

The first attack was not a fleet or nanoswarm invasion, rather, it was an attack from hyperspace. The DCP recently colonized this new dimension, giving them extreme power on spacetime in this universe. The DCP decided to use quantum tunnelling, where they fired heavy mass particles that existed in a quantum state, allowing the particles to penetrate solid barriers or shields, and then releasing their explosive power of radioactive decay from the inside. The outermost fleets of the Grox in the sector the DCP were planning to invade were destroyed, from the inside out. Next, the DCP deployed thousands of torpedo platforms, which while effective at first, eventually fell to the Grox' new transphasic torpedoes. The Grox then created a subspace disruption which interfered with the DCP's early hyperspace weapons. The Grox were expecting the DCP to use their peculiar strategies, but the Grox were now advanced enough to repel them. Soon, the DCP would have to engage them ship to ship.

"Huge Success"
After the engagement that reduced the Tokzhalan backup fleet in Grox space, intelligence reports as well as scans made by some of the ships that escaped were coming in. The following conversation between two individuals is what occurred due to Salsetthe Intelligence receiving the scans.

"We are receiving tactical information on the technologies encountered during the most recent Tokzhalan engagement along with a brief scan of the inside of the largest ship done by the individuals that were taken captive before they terminated their lives. It also appears they were foolish enough to allow three of our ships to escape."

"Really? Send the data to the engineers in the Defence Forces with a small note attached. Have it read huge success. While we lost that battle, we have gained more valuable information that will aid us in any further engagements."

First Clash


The DCP and human ships had rendezvoused and their flight pattern had prepared. Over a million DCP and human ships had grouped. The human and Near-human ships all varied in type, due to the fact that up to recently, humanity was still split into different empires, like the Nations of old Earth. Meanwhile, this would be the first time in 200 years the DCP and Grox ships would have clashed. The DCP had advanced since then, but so had the Grox.

At the first battle, the Grox were ready and waiting, phasers, disruptors, superlasers, quantum torpedoes, tubolaser fire and many other weapons were exchanged between both sides. Then the DCP fired their special "Drone weapon" (somewhat like the drones in Stargate, perhaps the DCP were inspired by the Ancients, but they'll never admit). The drones were released in their thousands, and passed through the Grox's first wave quickly. Not all of the first wave was destroyed, and was so was backed up by a second, and a third and a fourth, in fact, scans showed the Grox outnumbered the attacking fleet five to one, just in the sector. However, many were fighters. The main Grox ships looked like they did 200 years before, but were much more advanced. Several Grox hands of Death ship headed straight to the DCP capital ships, ripping some of them to shreds, while Grox motherships flanked by several new unseen ships decloaked.

The DCP and humans pressed on. 45 Grox Motherships headed straight for a flotilla of near-human heavy cruisers that had got carried away strayed too far (warbirds). 6 of them was destroyed, only 2 Grox motherships were down, but then 100 DCP Star Dreadnoughts intercepted the motherships and outgunned them. The near-humans were warriors, and were not too happy that they got rescued. Meanwhile, back on the frontline, the Grox held their ground. The DCP fired ion cannons at the Grox, only to find they were not so effective.

Eventually, after a great struggle, the DCP and humans fought their way to several star systems. The DCP used star killers, which resulted in the systems annihilation.

The battles continued, until...

A few more systems were destroyed, however, the Grox had been terribly underestimated, only 300,000 ships had survived. The DCP wanted to sacrifice itself, however, an emergency transmission was received. Mysterious, organic ships were attacking the sector they had came from. They were the Shadows, which quickly eradicated every ship the DCP sent after. The fleet returned, however, the Grox followed. Nearby, the Daleks attacked another sector, recently weakened by Taberon. This made the DCP forces withdraw. But the human ships stayed, and continued their attack.

The attacking empires hadn't finished with the DCP yet. The Shadows, Grox and Daleks invaded the DCP's core, the Delpha sector with over 10 million starships. The Shadows destroyed the DCP's spatial barriers in hyperspace, and the Daleks foiled the DCP's high-tech defences such as ghost phasing, holotech, nanoswarms, cloaking fields and spatial distortions. However, the DCP's fleet size in the sector was astronomical, and due to sheer size and firepower was able to keep the invading fleet from getting too far in. Despite this, there was much devastation, until the other First Ones lent a hand. The Shadows were pushed back, the Daleks destroyed by the Vorlon's advanced weaponry, and the DCP took the opportunity to cripple the Grox fleet. The First Ones then left the galaxy to continue their war and then ascend; now it was the DCP's job to guide the younger empires.

Plazith Rim in chaos
The Grox knew that they were unlikely to survive in the Plazith Rim with so many enemies attacking them, so they decided to do whatever they could while they were still able. Grox forces swarmed across the galaxy, picking off some of the weakest of the civilisations there. These civilisations were not so capable of fighting the Grox fleets. Other civilisations who also allied with the Tokzhalan Empire in the Imperial Civil War joined in with the invasions. Over the course of the next few days, several of the targeted nations collapsed and fell. Amidst the destruction, a few of the extragalactic civilisations with a presence in the Plazith Rim fled, abandoning their colonies. The galaxy was falling into chaos.

The Great Rising
The surviving Milky Way nations were not going to go down without a fight, and to save what is left of their glorious galaxy, the DCP rounded up various empires large and small. The DCP has 5 million starships poised for the attack, the empires of humanity have readied their large combined forces, over a million strong, the Jovar have sent 968,000 destroyers, the Vartekians will join in their various weapons, and Admiral Kaios, a famous mercenary will join the fray. Later the BNSC sent a fleet in revenge of their destroyed homeworld.

Admiral Kaios' Arrival
Since the DCP had not encountered the Admiral before, they decided to test him. They ordered him to land on a heavily defended Grox colony, one with so many orbital defences a ship based attack would be suicide. Kaios' response was to quickly call up his crew. Once on the ground, Kaios outlined his plan. Xoratas and Nascaw were to take the lead, while Emirillia and Saya would move along the walls and eliminate the Grox picket line. Kaios would be right in the thick of it, ready to give orders to whomever needed it.

A time was set one hour later, when Xoratas, Nascaw and Kaios would attack. Emrillia and Saya quickly dealt with the gate guards, and started to remove the sentries posted around the main Grox base. This citadel had a standing army of over 2000 infantry, armed to the teeth, but Kaios' crew were all sporting the best armor, weapons and equipment money could buy.

The first notice the Grox had of the Crew's arrival was when Xoratas brought the doors down with a bolt of dark energy. Immediately after, Kaios and Nascaw stormed in, launching plasma blasts and missiles wherever the Grox showed their faces. The DCP watching from Kaios' tactical camera brought out some popcorn and enjoyed the sight of the Crew's horrendously powerful guns obliterating team after team of Grox fighters. Kaios chuckled to himself, remarking that the Grox had upgraded their ships, but completely neglected their ground forces.

Emrillia and Saya weren't done, though. Giving each other a quick nod, they both leapt from the ramparts, their jump followed by a resounding crack as the tower they stood on was brought down by demo-charges. Sympathetically, the tower landed on a column of Grox reinforcements, and as if the walls themselves were on the Admiral's side they collapsed, crushing many of the Grox defenders. Kaios let off a smile, revealing his adamantium-plated right incisor, before firing off a plasma blast that punched clean through a Grox's plate armor.

All in all, it was a good day. When the DCP contacted him to arrange payment, Kaios told them to forget it. He'd had too much fun that day to ask for money. What he didn't know was that the Grox learnt from this attack, and began to outfit footsoldiers with personal energy shields and superior armor. Kaios' next mission was going to be much harder.

Vartekian Intervention
Not far away from Grox space an ominous ship drifted ever close. Watching through the cockpit view screen Admiral Votarah watched. His eyes deep in thought seemed almost lost as he scanned the space around him. He grinned at the sight of a coming planet. The computer scans reported Grox activity. Votarah already knew about this planet however. Years ago another Vartekian captain made his last stand here. The captain reported strange activities before he died. It was Votarah's mission to find out what that was. In the distance Votarah could see four Grox ships heading toward him. The Transmission lines popped up. "Identify!!!" the monitor ordered. Votarah replied firing off his anti-matter missiles. The missiles struck the Grox ships hard the explosion rippling through space as Votarah's ship inched closer. "You have been scheduled for termination! Prepared to DIE!!! The monitor screamed. Votarah looked past the screen. An entire fleet of Grox approached. Votarah grinned as he leaned into a second transmitter. "Go."

From either side two portals erupted. Vartekian battle cruisers began to pile out. In an instant Particle beams flew wildly around. taking advantage of the situation Votarah slipped through and began to land on the Vartekian planet. (more coming soon)

Rage of the Coalition!
The DCP unleashed an attack once more, now they have more knowledge on the Grox's new technology. Over 5 million warships of various classes dropped out of tachyon shift, above various worlds of the Grox, with more ships set to follow, plus the Fordan's Vendetta class ships they supplied. The DCP's used many torpedo platforms, drone ships, "berserker"-type Von Neumann probes at first, to target weaker points of the Grox's fleet, and as the DCP watched, the infrastructure of the fleet began to collapse. Next the DCP hit industrial systems with star killers, infecting the stars with Q-balls, which soon disrupted the weak nuclear force, causing fusion to either speed or slow down. But the battles gradually got tougher and tougher, as the Grox regrouped and struck again. At the battle of PsX.95 Alpha, the DCP lost 600,825 ships, with a further 20,000 damaged beyond repair and 5000 missing. This is because the Grox unleashed nearly all of their autonomous "Hands of death" (over a million), as well as other ships. Very tough robots, these giant machines latch onto the hulls of starships and rip them apart. With armour plates of neutronium, they are very hard to stop before they latch on and rip through a ships shields with EM-based devices, powerful tractor beams and anti-proton lasers. Furthermore, the Grox still had other tricks up their sleeves, but the DCP continued to fight on, even until the last escape pod was down.

The fleet was led by a mystery new ship of the DCP, the Expunge class as it was known to the DCP, it was actually a ship for space exploration, but was the most advanced ship. The Grox tried their best efforts to defeat it, but lost miserably every time. Before the Grox knew it, as much as 7,500 systems were gone within days. To make matters worse for the Grox, soon the DCP, Admiral Kaios and Vartekians will be joined by the rest of the galaxy. The Jovar and others, will make their move on soon, now with renewed courage.

Human and other empires join the DCP
The DCP joined with the human fleet once more, but found itself bolstered by even more ships, left by smaller empires of the galaxy as well as ones nearly destroyed and devastated in the Imperial Civil War, it seemed everyone wanted to join in and get their own back, with the DCP! The Borg also emerged, but fought on their own, sending several Borg Cubes to Grox space and assimilated several new colonies and technology, the Grox's cybernetic bodies easily turned to the collective. Their appearance was not so much rejoiced though, as this only meant that the Grox's tech might re-emerge once more.

The Glidiosaurian empire, Welky Grand council, Rhodiaxian empire, Birpok Theocratic Dominion, Swine Moose Order and the Elucaphon (Wormulon's other empires not counting the Borg) decided that to escape destruction, they must also join the Delpha Coalition of Planets. The DCP happily accepted, they had met these empires before, most being in Tier 5 except the Tier 3 Welky Grand Council. Even the hostile and xenophobic Rhodiaxian decided to help. The Swine Moose Order has amazing mind control, even overwhelming the Grox on a few occasions. The Glidiosaurians contributed with their intelligent actions in the new war.

Cephalodian Imperium's might
The Cephalodians were a Tier 4 empire on the edge of the galaxy, despite being Tier 4, their biotechnology and understanding of bioscience was as advanced as a Tier 2 empire. Being extremely peaceful, it takes a lot to annoy the Cephalodians, but in the defence of life, the Cephalodians will fight. After observing the Grox trash one of their biosanctuaries for no reason, the Cephalodians fought back. Only 450 bioships (willing to help their symbiotic pilots) went to attack, both ship and pilots coloured purple (their skin colour changes in response to different emotions), with purple meaning anger, a rare colour, which meant they meant real business.

At first, the bioships were gunned down easily, however, they have the ability to learn and quickly evolve, soon their exoskeleton had adapted. The Cephalodians unleashed both biological-based weapons (living ones) and non-biological, however, for every death on either side to be lost, the Cephalodians planted ten times as many organisms. They also seeded Grox planets with life, killing yet more Grox.

Hogomoth Refuge's bravery
The Hogomoth had been suppressed by the the Grox and their allies like the Marinox for too long. They had nearly been eradicated and despite being in a very weakened state, sent one cityship, defended by several escorts. Cityships were still very big and equipped with various weapons. The Grox laughed when they saw the Hogomoth coming "Well look at them! They think they can...", however, by then, Hogomoth mercenaries, now well adapted for secrecy and stealth, had infiltrated many Grox systems far from the main attack, destroying then from the inside! The Hogomoth hope that this courageous act will give them some more respect among the community.

The great rising/DSB
Although the DSB could not spare much from their fleet, due to the War of the Blocs, but they did want to help. A DSB dreadnaut, backed by seven cruisers, flew into Grox territory to aid the other empires.

As if the Jovar weren't going through enough already...
The Jovar dispatched 968,000 destroyers to engage the Grox. However, being able to send so much of the fleet was no easy task. The Empire was currently struggling internally, and instability within the government's interior was ever-increasing. A victory over the Grox would probably boost the morale for all Jovar, no matter what side of the civil war they were on.

So, using Gagran as the base of operations, the Jovar launched about an eighth of their fleet into Grox space, aided by DCP starships. They eventually encountered the Grox not far into their boundary, and the battle began. Along with the DCP's many advance battleships, the Jovar ships, with their extremely thick shields and hulls and powerful weaponry, were able to stand a chance against the small Grox fleet. The Grox had been surprised by the Jovar's sudden strength, for in their previous meetings, Jovar starships were nowhere near as powerful. Now, however, they were comparable to many Tier-2 empires' ships!

The Grox had a plan up their sleeves though. A smaller diversion of their fleet actually warped spacetime, using this warp, they were able to completely surround the Jovar with little time wasted! Surrounded, the Jovar seemed to have no chance of survival. Retreat was (obviously) not a viable action, and the Grox ships now outnumbered them, with reinforcements coming in constantly.

Of course, the Jovar would not be the heroes of the battle; in fact, it was the DCP! Out of a gesture of friendship, the Coalition used their most powerful ships, the Expunge-classes, to defeat the Grox. The plan worked brilliantly.

Technically, the DCP won the first battle between the Jovar and Grox. However, both the T.S.O.I.B and Jovar Empire used the success as a way to spark public relief in the nation, showcasing the nation's "power and intelligence". The propaganda machine that was the battle was a fraud at best, as nearly all Jovar ships had been destroyed. It worked, however, to help boost citizen morale. However, the nation would still be split in civil war. The effects of the battle would soon wear off, as another event would soon overshadow it...

The birds strike back
The Dyson sphere had activated the wormhole, and it was time to head for the Grox. The LSS Corenin slowly entered the gigantic portal, Admiral Arian was used to it, the feeling of being stretched out trough the galaxy was nothing new to him.

The Corenin arrived a grox space, together with 50 Stardestroyers, a newer model in the Gablinus-Avis navy, The Grox immediately sent their starfighters against the fleet. But they where soon stopped, as the Gablinus fleet sent a hail of proton and antimatter missiles. Small Grox bodies floated around in space.

Smiling, Arian sent the ships towards the closest Grox system, the great assault, had just started.

(More to come)

The great rising/BNSC
The BNSC attacked with fierce force, they sent all their forces towards the Grox's colonies, destroying them one by one, then a transmission from Grox appeared on Lieutenant Commander Benjamin XII's Normandy 137's screen, the transmission from the Grox said the Grox asked for mercy, and then the message appeared on the screen, "_BNSC=Strong_Enemy,_Transmission_Reason=Mercy_Freestyle_Turned_ON,_Universal_Langauge=Earth_Human_American_English_/:>Greetings oh powerful BNSC, I'm the Grox Emperor, and we want you to take our mercy and stop attacking our colonies, we shall stop bothering you and your colonies.<:/Transmission_End/>", then the transmission ended, but the BNSC never stopped, then Lieutenant Commander Benjamin XII then replied with another transmission, "Never, remember, you tried to destroy us just to prove to the DCP you're a strong enemy, but you aren't, now, prepare to die!!!", he replied, then the BNSC just kept coming with billions of warships that came out of Slipspace from the middle of the Orion Arm, they kept coming, and destroying every colony in just seconds, even the Grox ships didn't even survive to be promoted, the BNSC never stopped attacking the Grox until they only had 700.000.000.000.000.000 colonies left around Milky Way Galaxy Galaxy's Galactic Core, then Captain Benjamin XII sent another transmission, "Grox, we're now going to leave you alone, and let the DCP finish you off, prepare to face your death Grox, it will be your last, and like what you always say, EXTIRMINATE, EXTIRMINATE, EXTIRMINATE!!!", said the message, then the BNSC fled back to BNSC Space, then the Grox sent them a transmission, ":/>You BNSC fools are sissys, we will destroy you when we become stronger and you become weaker and beg for our mercy, but we'll refuse and destroy you!!!", said the transmission, this is what pissed the BNSC off the most, but they still left the DCP to handle the rest and they never touched the Grox again in the whole war.

The great rising/AGA
(set after the events in the Kcaj galaxy) the fight happening in Milky Way Galaxy was raging, when a massive emp fired from the kcaj galaxy, causing grox ships to go haywire, the shipcrews on both sides looked up as AGA behemoth class ships came out of hyderdrive, and activated their wormhole generators, causing AGA ships to pour out of the wormhole, literally raining into the atmosphere of grox worlds. ship pilots laughed as they fired proton missile after proton missile into grox colonies while the ctron's revenge class ships fired EMPs into grox fighters trying to escape. suddenly huge grox motherships in orbit deactivated their cloaking devices and started converging on the planet Jack was attacking, the leader, Jack saw was his brother sam, who was assimilated to the grox piloting the lead ship. there was only one option for reppelling these grox ships, and that was take out the main ship, and to do that you have to get inside... (more coming soon)

project Xsoldiers
the AGA decided to bring it's top scientists together to create a weapon to turn the war in the AGA's favour, they decided to expand the CregorineX project to other creatures, and project Xsoldiers was born. The AGA decided to distibute the Xsoldier technology to other factions in the war, to really make a dent.

What Lies Beneath
Meanwhile, the Salsetthe Defence Force's ships were focusing on eradicating the remnants of the Grox Empire threat in Milky Way Galaxy/Plazith Rim with remarkable success. However, a colony which was under construction at the time was targeted by a small Grox fleet. Only one ship was able to navigate through the plasma storms in the system with some success, but the Conqrix pod was destroyed, leaving only the Grox crew to attempt to take over the colony or destroy it. Little did they know what lay ahead of them. A blue transfer beam beamed around twenty Grox soldiers to the surface of the planet. Other than the hexagonal metallic structure that lay ahead of them, the surface of the planet was incredibly unremarkable, and was strangely enough, uninhabitable by most species. As they approached the building that would bring them into the colony, the doors opened for them, almost as if they were being welcomed to the colony. The Grox soldiers entered the building, descending the short ramp that lead into a dark hallway that was apparently divided into sections every 20 metres. Strangely enough, there was no sign of any light at the end of this hallway, and they then noticed that it was a trap. Ten different doors made out solid neutronium fell into position, crushing one of the Grox soldiers, and dull muted thuds could be heard as the locking mechanisms activated. The circular impressions on each wall, floor, and ceiling lit up, and a voice could be heard coming from each one. "Hello, friend." Then, they started to fire their polaron beams at the intruders, and any atmospheric gases that were inside of that part of the building were replaced by gases such as anesthizine and neurozine in an attempt to cause any intruder to be knocked unconscious if they were to breath in any of the gases. Several minutes in, only one Grox soldier remained, cowering in a corner that was a blind spot to the internal defence systems that had yet to be fixed, and had managed to activate an emergency respirator device so then he couldn't breathe in any of the gases. However, even this wouldn't have saved him, as two of the walls started to move towards each other after the internal defence systems shut down, and the individual was eventually crushed. Several minutes later after the walls had reset themselves to their default positions, plasma from the fusion reactors inside of the colony were vented into the different sections of the hallway, and were ignited, vaporising any evidence that the conflict had taken place. The Grox ship in orbit was suddenly destroyed as a cloaked tricobalt mine struck it, and the "battle" was over.

Final deathblow
Soon, the 70 systems dotted around the Galactic Core were easily picked off by the allies, however, there was still over a 1000 systems spread around the center, and another few near Taxton space. The Jovar's internal struggles meant they must return home, and other allies returned to their homeworlds to rebuild. The Borg salvaged various systems, scavenging on the remains, but returned to their space. The Grox were left in tatters, and the DCP would lead the final deathblow. The Coalition decided they wanted a swift victory, and used their advanced technology and superweapons to sweep away any final colonies. However, there was still a few left near Taxton space. The Taxton were a large empire, and so to not continue the war any further, the DCP knocked out the colonies quickly using hyperspace missiles. The Taxton, when found their allies were gone, decided not to interviene in revenge.

''And so, the Grox's long reign of terror that lasted millions of years had finally ended. Not a single Grox or ally continued to survive in the galaxy. Whether they will return again is unknown, but with the DCP's new plans, it seems most unlikely that they will ever find their chance again...''

End of Grox Cold War


The Grox, after "Project Upgrade", launched attacks on the Anti-Grox Alliance with renewed strength. Small empires fell as the Grox expanded their territory beyond the core for the first time in millions of years. The Entity was more active than ever, shutting down machines more all over the galaxy. The Ctron, out of all of the AGA, were most affected, because they were robots. The Entity tried to take control of the Grox again to exploit the war, but it didn't work, causing it to go on a rampage, shutting down machines as it went.

Commander Jack


Commander Jack, a high-ranking soldier, battled troops on the ground of Jaylion, the moon of the AGA capitol, with a squad of CregorineX. Suddenly, an assimilated Beltomoore jumped out of the shadows and started attacking Jack with a squad of Grox. Jack unleashed a large pulse blast, ripping off the assimilated Beltomoore's metal mask. He looked vaguely familiar, but Jack couldn't look closely, as he was fighting him. The Groxomore and Jack kept fighting, even after the Staff of Death was used on the planet and it was claimed by the Grox. Jack feinted a pulse blast, and then attacked with a energy slash uppercut and a lighting striker spin jump slash. The Groxomoore didn't fall for it and blocked the move. Jack thought "There are only two people who know that trick enough to be able to block it. Me, of course, but the other one... no way!" The Groxomoore looked up and Jack realized before they both beamed up to their ships that he was fighting Sam, his brother who ran away at the age of ten.

The Entity
The Entity decided that both races in this conflict needed to be destroyed, and flew into Grox territory at the core. The Entity tried to absorb the power in the Grox colonies but couldn't because of defences the Grox had set up for when it happened. The Entity was knocked back towards the galactic core, and merged with the massive energies surrounding it, turning him into a god-like being. He destroyed the Grox colony without making an effort and started travelling through time.

The Galactic Core
The Galactic Core, after the entity sucked power from it, felt the side effects of the energy suction. The power in the core reversed itself, and started shooting solar system-sized beams of antimatter out of itself. The Grox, the AGA and the Entity (now much older due to the time travelling powers it developed) all wanted to harness this as a weapon. Huge battles were the result, the energies used from all three sides collectively equalled the destructive power of a supernova.



Fordan turning point
With new Vendetta-class ships from the Fordanta, the AGA quickly took control of the Galactic Core. The Grox fled when they realized the AGA had the core. Ctron and Beltomoore engineers started converting the core into a giant weapon.



Ko'Sa'Va Galaxy
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The Ko'Sa'Va galaxy was once a little known galaxy somewhere near the Ottzello. The only really notable thing was that it was the home galaxy of the Fordanta. Like most galaxies, the Grox inhabited the space near the galactic core, and possessed around 2500 systems. Around two thousand years ago, the Fordanta sprang up only twenty or so parsecs from Grox space. The war was quick and brutal, and the once proud Fordanta were forced into exile in the Void. Now, they have returned, ready to seek vengeance and eradicate the Grox in their galaxy once and for all.

First Contact
Upon arriving back in real space, the Fordan naval units under command of Ja'Dan Fleetfather laid out their battle plans. First, Ja'Dan would lead a fleet straight to the centre of the galaxy, while the remaining two fleets under his command encircled the Grox, capturing lightly defended systems around the outskirts of their territory. Initially, the shock and awe approach worked perfectly. The Grox high command was in disarray, and the systems caught in Ja'Dan's trap were ripe for the picking. It was only when the Fordans began to close the noose that they encountered some trouble. Three planets stood in the way of their brilliant conquest of the core space: a triple-world combination made up of the Kavros, Jinders and Hocus dwarf planets. These three worlds were Grox staging points, and the Grox had heavily armed them. As soon as the Fordan Fleets arrived, they were under attack. Outnumbered 10 to 1, the Fordans weren't concerned. These odds were what they normally fought. What shocked them, though, was the new technology being employed by the Grox. In two thousand years, the Grox had become a highly efficient killing force, and soon every Fordan pilot was fighting for his or her life. High-powered lasers severed wings and weapons, while missiles exploded into clusters of ships, knocking them off course and out of control.

To add to the dilemma, reports indicated that some twelve thousand Grox reinforcements were expected to arrive within the hour. Ja'Dan's fleet only consisted of 1000 ships, and they were about to be facing odds of 22 to 1. Even the valiant sons of Forda would be hard-pressed to overcome those odds. Eventually Ja'Dan ordered a retreat, but the Grox reinforcements had come up behind the Fordan army, so the ships were forced to phase-out. Ja'Dan's noose was cut, and the fledgling Fordan colonies were vulnerable to a Grox attack.

A New Weapon
Reviewing what he had learned during the fight, Ja'Dan began to set his engineer's mind to the task of designing a new ship that would overcome the Grox. His fleets were ordered to engage in hit-and-run assaults to weaken the Grox, but they needed support if they were to engage their new foes head-on. After a week of constant effort, Ja'Dan finished his new design. Codenamed project Vendetta, his new ships were a fearful sight on the battlefield. The Empire's current weapons were not enough for this new force, though. Ja'Dan and some of his closest assistants ended up incorporating alien technology into the design, and soon the Mk. II Vendetta gunships were ready for their field test.

The Vendettas were all armed with two forward-facing Vengeance-pattern lasers, weapons so potent they could overheat an energy shield in moments; Hellfury missiles, which incorporated a high-power anti-armor charge with a napalm bomb that burned at over 5000 degrees; Harbinger-pattern autocannons, that fired adamantium slugs as thick as a man's arm; and lastly, the most devastating weapon of them all: the Void Cannon. This terrible artefact opens a small hole to Voidspace within the target, resulting in horrendous trauma as the target is pulled into a space the size of a pinhead.

Ja'Dan took a wing of 100 Vendettas to the triple-world he was defeated at before, and now it was the Fordanta, not the Grox, who had the advantage. For all the Grox' new technology, the Vendettas ripped though them like a blade through air. A quick blast from the Vengeance lasers brought down shields, followed by either a Hellfury missile or a tight burst from a Harbinger autocannon to destroy the ship. Wherever the Grox looked powerful enough to threaten the Vendettas, a Void Cannon sounded off, crushing scores of ships in much the same way as a black hole.

The Fordanta had broken the back of the Grox in the Ko'Sa'Va galaxy, and were now distributing their Vendettas to other species for use in the Grox Wars.

Blade Brothers March
For two thousand years, the Fordan military has been lead by two individuals: Blademaster Hel'Bre'K and Ja'Dan Fleetfather. In their many years of friendship they have become so close friends that they took the blade-brothers' oath. This solemn promise has forever bound them together, and one would give their life for the other without a moment's hesitation.

With supremacy in space all but guaranteed by the new Vendetta gunships, Hel'Bre'K phased-in to the largest of the triple-worlds, determined to cleanse the entire fortress by himself. This wasn't to be so, however, as Ja'Dan phased-in next to him. It took only a quick glance to tell each other that neither was leaving, so they would fight together. The front gate was the first barrier in their way, but it proved little challange. Hel'Bre'K had spent a long time studying the 'ascention' powers demonstrated by other races, and he soon realised that the extreme discipline that came with a Fordan's way of life suited this practice perfectly. Hel' walked up to the door and steadied his body. Focusing his entire consciousness, the bestial power of the Fordan warrior spirit flowed through him, reinforcing his already formidable strength with the supernatural power to tear the door off its hinges. A platoon of guards immediately moved to engage them, but Hel' threw the door at them, crushing half of them.

Ja'Dan was already moving, leaping up and flipping over. When he hit the ground, he was in a hand-stand position, and he extended his energy claws to continue the flip, landing in the middle of the guards. A Grox made a dash at him with a combat knife, but Hel's blade parried the blow, exposing the Grox's midsection to Ja'Dan's claw. Planting a hand on his blade-brother's shoulder, Hel' jumped over Ja'Dan to bring his blades down on two Grox, cutting their guns in half. His upper arms flashed past his head, the diamond-hard blades slamming through chest plates.

Another Grox steadied his rifle to shoot Hel', but Ja'Dan phased-in behind him and picked him up, crushing the guard's ribcage with a bear hug. Leaving the Grox gasping, Ja'Dan shot a bolt of acid from his tail glands, ending the guard's misery as he sprinted back to Hel'. Roaring a warcry, Ja'Dan's armored fist slammed into the rifle a Grox raised, the blast knocking over another guard dragging himself from under the broken door. Hel' whipped his tail around, the blade decapitating the Grox.

The remaining Grox could see that they were losing, so they fell back to take up firing positions. Activating his power armor, Hel' tucked up his impressive 9' frame and rolled up to the barricades the Grox were taking cover behind. With a quick nod to Ja'Dan, the blade-brothers struck. Hel' brought his head up, jaws latching on to a Grox' shoulder plate. The toxic creature burned Hel's jaw, but the Blademaster stabbed his upper arms into the fighter's back and flung him to the other side of the room. Ja'Dan's attack was no less impressive, jumping up and spinning, bringing his claws across five Grox, leaving three jagged gashes in each.

With the main defences wiped out, the Grox commanding the fortress called for armoured support. A Grox Grumbler rolled out, and had its guns trained on Ja'Dan before he could start moving. Once he did though, he ducked and weaved around the shells being launched at him. Matrix-esque, Ja'Dan's last move was to flip, grabbing the shell that had just been shot at him, bringing it around and redirecting it back at the grumbler. The blast knocked off the main cannon, giving Ja'Dan the break he needed to tear off the turret hatch, and he launched a bolt of acid into the power core. The acid breached the power core's outer cover, starting a reaction that destroyed the tank. It was not Ja'Dan and Hel'Bre'K versus the base commander, but they were bored, so they just blasted him with acid 'till the Grox dropped. With their work done, they phased-out, not realising their combat-cams were being replayed in a cinema, with fighters from the other races in the war cheering with every blow.