Fiction:New Grox Wars

Description
Over recent years, the Grox Empire have been improving their military technology and building up their armed forces in order to take revenge against the various empires of the universe that have opposed them in the past. Now, they have finished, and are ready to declare war on the universe.

This is different from most collaborative war fiction: no individual user completely controls the Grox (although their allies are specifically controlled by the users who created them unless stated otherwise), so everybody can write about what the Grox does to their empires (if anything) and vice versa. However, make sure to keep it realistic, in that the Grox are an incredibly powerful empire. Essentially, only Tier 2, 1 or 0 civilisations on this list have much of a chance of withstanding a full Grox fleet, although smaller flotillas (or even some large fleets) can be taken down by alliances of multiple smaller empires, and hit-and-run/guerilla warfare tactics may even be effective in some circumstances. Also, this was is not a conflict that will probably end soon. More likely, there will be a constant state of war or cold war between the Grox and many other empires.

To compensate for all of this, neither of the normal layouts of war pages ("Week X" or "X's Story") will be adopted here. Instead, the page will be divided up into "theatres", i.e. which galaxy the battles are taking place in.

Finally, normal rules of fairness apply, e.g. no more than a few billion ships per empire, no superweapons such as time travel or galaxy destruction, etc, unless the community agrees on an exception.

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 * Most NPC empire interactions (e.g. Grox-Human battles)
 * Tokzhalan Empire

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 * Salsetthe Republic and satellite/member nations

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 * Light Sector Alliance

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 * Delpha Coalition of Planets

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 * Gablinus-Avis Empire
 * Allied Species of Orion

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 * Bearian Nations Space Command

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 * Anti-Grox Alliance

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 * Fordan Empire
 * Vyendan Republic
 * Admiral Kaios' Crew

Prologue
Many years ago, the Tigris War resulted in the near-destruction of the Grox Empire at the hands of the Ayrai'Shikua. After spending several millennia being slowly worn down by hundreds of enemy civilisations, this final strike made the Grox realise that something needed to change. They began "Project Upgrade", a universe-wide attempt to improve their military technology and rebuild their space fleet. Then, recently, the Grox began to recall their ships to their colonies. They upgraded their ships with weapons such as superlasers and "transphasic"-class antimatter missiles, and their Conqrix soldiers gained weaponry that was nine times as powerful as they had before, such as phased plasma rocket launchers and hypercharged autoblaster guns.

Helped by their new allies, the Tokzhalan Empire, who reverse-engineered various technologies from other advanced civilisations - improved shielding, ability to beam through shields, efficient antimatter generators, and much more - the Grox eventually managed to once more make their empire something to be feared. Even in a chaotic universe, filled with dangers such as the Cult of the Deathmarch, the Cognatus Alliance, and many more vicious empires, the Grox were no longer frightened. Soon, they began their war of revenge.

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 the Milky Way/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 the Milky Way. 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 tunneling, 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 Defense 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 rendvoued 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, disrutors, superlasers, quantum torpedoes, tubolaser fire and many other weapons were exchanged between both sides. Then the DCP fired their special "Drone weapon" (somwhat 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 soo 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 captial ships, riping 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 annihlation.

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 recieved. 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 defenses 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 oppotunity 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 frey. Later the BNSC sent a fleet in revenge of their destroyed homeworld.

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 then 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 agian 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 upppercut 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 bcause of defenses 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 corereversed 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 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 equaling the destructive power of a supernova.

The 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 fledgeling 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 artifact 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.