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.

Ghelæ

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

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.