Fiction:Sombrero War

The Sombrero War was a conflict between the and the Darkspore in the Sombrero Galaxy, fought shortly after the. The causes of the war are unknown, but it has been suspected that a remnant of the Grox Empire, having taken refuge in Sombrero in the aftermath of the first phase of the, manipulated events for their own purposes by bringing Girdo exploration ships to the attention of the hostile and technologically-enhanced, yet apparently non-sapient, Darkspore.

During the course of the war, the Girdo Empire constructed at least one underground base on one of the galaxy's planets, which at the time was home to a vibrant ecosystem. The purpose of this base was to reverse-engineer Darkspore technology, which was even more advanced that that of the Grox at the time. The base is also known to have contained a Vortex Generator, an experimental metric engineering device, presumably a connection to "Project Timeship" which was taking place within the.

The war lasted for nine years without coming to any satisfactory conclusion, as the Sombrero Galaxy was destroyed by the in 2782. The aforementioned base planet was ejected in the direction of the in the process; over the next eight years, all multicellular life on the surface had frozen and the base's buildings were in a state of disrepair, although they radiated enough heat to warm the atmosphere enough for occasional light flurries of snow to fall nearby, while the interiors remained functional enough for the last remnants of Sombreroan life to flourish within their subterranean arcologies.