Fiction:Great Galactic War

=Millions }} The Great Galactic War was a galaxy-wide] conflict that started in 2024, fought between two separate coalitions of nations; on one side, commonly called the Free Galaxy, and on the other, the [[Fiction:New Grox Empire|New Grox Empire bloc. The war was a result of a decade of military and political uncertainty between the resurgent New Grox Empire and [[Fiction:The Omnipotent Chod|its former conquerors, which were falling one by one as the Grox sought to destroy those who had once opposed them. By late 2023 tensions were already running high and many vulnerable empires expected that the New Grox Empire was planning for conquest on a galactic scale; tensions which culminated in the attempted assassination of Emperor Goxis by a group of former [[Fiction:Anti-Grox Crusade|Crusader] veterans and war leaders.
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The failure to assassinate the Grox Emperor soon led to galactic war after the Grox Empire attacked the emerging superpower - the Gaal Kingdom - who had partaken in the attempted assassination attempt and had also snubbed the Grox by severing their alliance some decade prior. The Gaal were ill-prepared with their fleet caught defending another empire, and what was expected to be a space-battle by Grox Command (so that they could then sweep through Gaal territory with little resistance) quickly deteriorated into an all-out, planet-side ground war against the numerically-superior Gaal marines. The Battle for Velorum - a strategically-important 'fortress world' that blocked passage to the Gaal homeworld - ended in Gaal victory and Grox retreat after Grox casualties became too high for any hope to take the planet. The battle signified the end of the period of uncertainty, tensions and Cold War between the galaxy at large and the New Grox Empire. The Gaal Kingdom's network of alliances quickly reacted and the galaxy was plunged into a full-scale war, with billions of troops and ships mobilized within the first few days.