Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-26181644-20151107003059/@comment-4960835-20151107093830

Of course you can! As you might notice, Sporeraptor is inactive at the moment, but the war was never meant to be a purely Troodontid IoW War (although it is mainly about these two as the Troodontids tend to use their allies purely for their own gain and the main antagonist is of course the Imperium of War). We didn't plan for it, but the whole war eventually became so one-sided that I simply lost intrest in completing it. The whole reason I am working on it now is to rectify that.

A shame, because the Coming of Eternal War directly leads up to the Great Mirusian Conflicts, known also as The Rising of Eternal War - so it's a good way to get yourself into that conflict. This war has just less sides than the Conflicts because the Imperium haven't set their plan in motion yet. They simply are ready to do so, and the Troodontids try -and ultimately fail- to stop then prematurely.

Plot we have set in stone so far:

After the Fall of the Tyranny, the Troodontids have gone to great lengths to re-assert theor old good name and make peace with their neighbours. All but with one - the Imperium of War, an old foe, whose Cyrannian colonies are, after the exodus of the Cyrannian DT in between, now neighbours of the Troodontids. So the Troodontids simply inavde to push them out of the Cyrannus Galaxy to secure their borders - originally.

Because on Conflikagus, the Cyrannian War-Imperial capital, the Troodontids find data have actual complete plans to create Eternal War in the Mirus Galaxy (que Great Mirusian Conflicts), instead of just yelling about it all day. Now the Troodontids pragmatically only care about themselves in the end, but they still like their pre-Tyranny allies that have kept faith in them all along (read: only the Waptoria) enough to try and prevent this.

Of course, the Troodontids don't tell the Imperium's plans to the Waptoria or anyone else - and why would they? They wave won literally every single batlle with the Imperium up to this point. They do not - perhaps cannot- suspect that the Imperum is hiding the huge technological leaps it has made off the enormous amount of Tyranny tech it gained as an ally. This overconfidence will cost them dearly later on.

The Troodontids then give the surving IoW warlords in Cyrannus the choice to join them or to die. They join, and headed hy Dragowar rebel Gastus Graviatus, they become the Rebel Consuls. Both names will later be extremely important in the Great Mirusian Conflicts, when the Imperium's plan of Eternal War is in full swing.

So, using the forces of the Rebel Consuls as meatshields, the Troodontids under General Thor and the Android Samrrak invade Mirus. But not to destroy the Imperium - just to assassinate Caligustus and then retreat, as they believe that act alone will make the Imprium turn on itself. Oh, they also call for allied aid in this - just so they can bear the brunt of the assault while the Troodontids themselves can safely sneak their own forces in. Troodontids have no difference between liking and using - you like a tool, you use it, right? Of course this goes both ways to them, and as such they have no problems sending Androids to a fight of a close ally where they otherwise would have no stake in.

Anyways, while the anti-Iow forces are bleeding themselves dry against the Imperium in Ex-Tyranny space (this is pore-Xonexi colonisation) and on the border of the IoW itself, the Troodontids fail to assassinate Caligustus. At this point the Imperium basically goes "SUPRISE!" and proves Caligustus' intellect by waiting for the Troodontids to become overconfident before revealing a whole fleet of TyrannyTech-upgraded ships on par with the Troodontid's own. Needless to say, the Troodontids are absolutely taken off-guard and after a battle which they actually lose, they descide to ditch their aliies and retreat.

Strangely enough, the Imperium does not use this opportunity to destroy the weakened allies - it is not time yet. Instead they hummiliatingly defeat them, forcing the to reateat as each blames the other for failing to hold the line - and just where are the Troodontids!? Distrust of the other allied forces ferments the seeds of rebellion in the nations of the UAE - Que MirusConflcits Year One. Just as planned.

The Imperium then curbstomps the Troodontids out of Mirus, pursue them all the way back into Cyrannus and quickly retake their Cyrannian possessions - and the Cyrannian ex-Tyranny colonies, which had previously gone to the Troodontids.

Needless to say, the Troodontid politicans are panicking at this point, with President Draichon being unable to hold the Senate together. The faction that supports seclusion begins to win the mayority of the votes and a massive Hyperspace Drive in build in the Raptura's AI Core with hurry. At the same time, the Rebel Consuls are kept under the impression that the Troodontids are still winning. They are called to a meeting under false promises, and promptly executed, because the Troodontids fear they will deflect back to the Imperium. Only Gastus is spared (and not present), because the Troodontids have spend too much resouces in him. Instead, he nearly completely synthetic now, and they plan to erease his memories and basically turn him into an Dragowar-shaped Android. Gastus finds out just in time and escapes, leaving the Troodontids to fend for themselves.

The Imperium, at this point, have reached Raptura. They are supported by the Reclamation Fleet of Kradik of the Zarbania Powers (Bygorian Unification on what comes next for them), and the forces of the Brotherhood of Darklings (Eternal War = Good for the plan/Troodontid Interference = Bad for the plan). A battle breaks out over Raptura, and the Imperium seems to win it. The Troodontids descide to activate the planetary hyperspace drive right now to warp the whole system into an unbrachable pocket dimension of realspace insde hyperspace, and to then pick off the war-Imperial forces who will be trapped inside. Kradik notices the change is space in time and safely warps his fleet out in time. Most of the War-Imperial fleet is less lucky because they are totally focussed on wiping the Troodontids off the map now they have the chance, do not notice the change, and need to be teleported out by the Dark One.

Nevertheless, both Dark and Caligustus are pleased because the Troodontids will need time to soften the barriers and get out themselves, and at that point Mirus will already be enboiled into conflict. Dark simply teleports off after congratulating Calugustus, and Caligustus himself bids Kradik farewell before retreating back to Mirus - Kradik himself now has the unification of his race to do in Cyrannus. Back in the Troodontid now-pocket dimension, an agument breaks out between Senator Teruclus who supports living in "splendid isolation" and leave the War-Imperial problem to the allies to deal with, and General Thor, who wants to continue fighting. It ands with Teruclus wining the debate by a slight mayority, so Samrrak cannot help Thor as of yet when the war against the Imperium resumes (in MirusConflicts Year 4), but Thor nevertheless keeps himself on the lookout.