Fiction:Imperial Civil War

Description
The Tokzhalan Empire are a militaristic race whose ultimate aim is to wipe out or conquer most of what they call "godspawn" life in the universe because of their obsession to let "truly alien" species flourish. Exceptions are allowed, at least for a while, usually galaxy-spanning civilisations who might value the Tokzhalan or Girdo as allies and so will be able to be manipulated into accepting minor colonisation agreements that allow the "truly alien" life to flourish.

Although the war is called the "Imperial Civil War", this is simply due to both the Girdo and Tokzhalan Empires being arrogant and only focusing on the conflict between the two of them. Other nations are more than welcome to join in on either side; just ask me either on my talk page or on this article's talk page if you want your empire to be one of them.

Like all such collaborative wars, this is a war without super powers such as time travel or the destruction of entire galaxies. Likewise, do not claim to have any more than a few billion ships, especially since the recent "March of the Apocalypse" should have resulted in such carnage that there shouldn't currently be any more than half a trillion starships in the entire Gigaquadrant.

Participants
NOTE: This only includes nations that are part of the main war, not just ones who have only been involved in it during conflicts such as the Battle of Sol.

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 * Empire of the Girdo Galaxy
 * Tokzhalan Empire

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 * United Republic of Cyrannus
 * Mortalitas Empire

Wormulon

 * Delpha Coalition of Planets

The Randomness

 * The Salsetthe Republic

Prologue
The Tokzhalan Empire was founded after an extragalactic colonisation mission by the Girdo Empire lost contact with their home galaxy. A new group mind was quickly formed by the expedition's leader, Commodore Tokzhalat, to maintain order. In addition, Tokzhalat's new-found individuality made him discover that he actually disagreed with many of the Girdo Empire's policies relating to "truly alien" species. Primarily, he believed that Girdo's diplomatic attitude to other empires was too time-consuming and would be unlikely to work, as few other empires would follow arbitrary colonisation laws in order to help potential alien species several billion years in the future.

Instead, Tokzhalat's empire would be warlike and militaristic. Taking advantage of the intergalactic situation caused by the damage of wars such as the March of the Apocalypse and the Intergalactic War, they decided that, after a week of preparations, they would announce themselves to the universe and begin their campaign of eradication.

Battle of Sol
The Tokzhalan Empire first revealed themselves to the universe at the Girdo Empire's colony of Titan, in the Sol system. Emperor Tokzhalat hoped that he could convince the Girdo Admiral that Tokzhalan was a far superior force and that Girdo should surrender to it, but the Admiral did not agree with Tokzhalat's ideas and did not send any transmissions to the Girdo Galaxy. Deciding that he could not simply kill the Admiral without a transmission being sent first, and realising that the Admiral was more likely to die than do what Tokzhalat wanted, Tokzhalat instead set his backup plan into action.

Eight Imperium-class ships, including Tokzhalat's own, moved into position in Saturn's orbit around Sol, and each ship fired a Sun Buster towards the star. The plan was carefully calculated so that all of the missiles would be destroyed by the various civilisations in the system, but the Tokzhalan ships would also have enough time to escape. The Sun Busters were basically used in order to display the Tokzhalan Empire's military power to the universe, as well as allowing Tokzhalat to avoid any immediate retribution.

The Sun Busters were all successfully destroyed by the combined efforts of the Girdo Empire, the Delpha Coalition of Planets (whose ships destroyed three of the missiles), the Jovar Empire, Rambo Nation and the Magma Pulsars.

Earth
Five of the eight Tokzhalan ships (the Discovery, Excavator, Intergalactic, Negotiations and Peacemaker) were sent to Earth instead of being told to leave, and were ordered to attack the Sol system's capital of New Tokyo. This was to serve two purposes: it would cause a great deal of disruption in the system's capital, potentially having harmful consequences on inter-planetary trade, communications and organisation; also, it would prevent Earth's large defence fleets from being able to intercept the Sun Busters, which would in turn mean that they not would be able to chase down the escaping Tokzhalan ships and track them to the Empire's capital of Tokzhalanapalos.

A small flotilla of Jovar ships, responding to the Girdo Empire's distress call, managed to leave Earth for the Sun Busters before the Tokzhalan ships arrived. The rest of Earth's defence fleet, however, was ordered to stay on the planet as superlaser fire was reported from Imperium-class ships over New Tokyo, first destroying the city's perimeter defences before firing on the buildings themselves. The closest ships to the city - a task force of various Jovar capital ships, a DCP Blade-class Battlecruiser, and a flotilla of BNSC Frigate-class ships - were scrambled to defend against the attackers. By the time they arrived, a large residential district had already been flattened, and a small area of the coast had been set alight.

One of the Jovar Imperator-class Star Destroyers was destroyed by superlasers and an antimatter missile salvo from one of the Tokzhalan ships, while two more surrounded a second Imperium and attacked its shields with a barrage of turbolaser bolts. A third Imperium had its shields taken out by the Blade before being crippled by proton torpedoes from the BNSC ships, while a fourth fought against a Jovar Interdictor that was four times its size. The fifth Tokzhalan ship had managed to disable one of the BNSC ships with an ion blast, causing it to crash into the coast and destroy millions of sporebucks of valuable beachfront property. It then fired an antimatter missile at New Tokyo Woolworth Building, the city's capitol, before firing on the DCP ship and disabling its shields. With the Blade's shields down, the Imperium managed to quickly get a covert scan of the ship and sent the information back to Tokzhalanapolos.



The Imperator shot down a few seconds earlier crashed into the ocean off the coast, triggering a large tidal wave which ruined even more of the city's coastal areas. Fortunately for many of the city's inhabitants, it hit a very soft region of the seabed covered by relatively shallow water, so the damage was far less than it could have been. This was followed by, to everybody's suprise, an army of ghostly Xhodocto emerging from the ruined residential district. Their origin was a mystery at the time, but many presumed that they had appeared due to a Xhodocto prophecy that refered to Earth. It was known that the Xhodocto believed that the survival of Earth was necessary for their own survival, so they would do anything to save it even if they were banished from the rest of reality. The ghostly nature of the Xhodocto meant that they were difficult to kill, as they could only be destroyed when they were firing their weapons.

The battle became increasingly chaotic from then. In the end, most of New Tokyo had been reduced to smouldering ruins, most of the rest had been smouldering ruins but the flames had been quenched by seawater, and several million civilians had been killed. As for the combatants, all five Imperium-class ships had been destroyed, along with all of the Jovar ships present with the exception of the Interdictor. None of the BNSC ships survived, nor did the DCP Blade, and several Gablinus-Avis ships along with DCP reinforcements that arrived later were also lost. A flotilla of ships from the Human Republic also arrived quite late in the battle to defend their old homeworld; only seven out of their forty-two ships fell in the conflict. Nobody was quite sure whether all of the Xhodocto had been destroyed, or whether they had simply disappeared when the final Tokzhalan ship was destroyed.

Despite the fact that the entire Tokzhalan force had been defeated, the Empire considered it to be a strategic victory, as they had accomplished both of their aims - the three commanding ships present at the battle had escaped without Earth's fleets following them, and the administrative sectors of New Tokyo were all in ruins.

Eris
The Emperor, along with the Destroyer and Dreadnought, left to return to their home galaxy (although using a route consisting of several detours so as to prevent tracking - and by extension, locating the Tokzhalan Empire's home galaxy - by enemy civilisations).

However, the Emperor was ambushed on its way out of the Sol system by ships from Eris. This ships belonged to Rambo Nation, who were on the lookout for any warships trying to leave the system. The Tokzhalan dreadnought managed to defeat the few Rambo ships that defended the colony on Eris, and also survived attacks by Gablinus-Avis support. However, its shields fell under a volley of quantum torpedoes, and four of those missiles combined with a Planet Buster set to detonate nearby caused the ship heavy damage. The Emperor managed to escape, though, and returned to Tokzhalanapalos for repairs.

Aftermath
After the battle, the Girdo Empire had to explain what had happened - as far as the other empires could tell, the Empire had attacked itself, then the rest of the Sol system, and then asked all of the other nations to defend the Sol system against themselves. The Girdo Admiral had to explain about the Tokzhalan Empire and exactly what had happened. He also had to confirm that something thought to be impossible due to the Imperial group mind had happened. The Empire was, essentially, in a civil war.

Of course, there were far more important issues than the diplomatic incident. The battle also had many casualties. Hundreds of spaceships had been destroyed and millions of people had been killed. In addition, the capital city of the Sol system had been brought to ruins, with the exception of the outermost districts far away from the coast.

And, finally, the battle had revealed the Tokzhalan Empire to the universe and brought yet another war to an already shell-shocked Gigaquadrant.

Aid from the Cyrannus Republic
Despite the URC's ongoing defeat against the Cognatus, they were willing to send a medium-sized fleet of warships under the command of Supreme Admiral Nagala to aid the Girdo against their new enemy. The Girdo agreed to upgrade the URC ships with antimatter weapons and shield-disrupting particle cannons. Due to the Intergalactic War, the fleet is made up of mostly heavy frigates and small Star Destroyers. However, the ships pack a strong punch.

Delpha Coalition of Planets on standby
The DCP had not yet decided its course of action, other than to prepare. The Tokzhalan's intentions are now known; they are xenophobic of what they consider not truly alien, and in those respects fanatical. They were evaluated as a Tier 3 civilization; they qualify as a credible threat to the DCP so far (for now, they have only just started) and a high threat to some of the DCP allies. But, the DCP was experiencing a Dark Age, after the War of Ages, Intergalactic War and DCP Civil War, the DCP's fleet was spread out, its peoples demoralised, insustrial capacity weakend, planets devastated and the DCP was not expanding, exploring or developing new technologies as much as it was, all so it could concentrate on the many wars it was involved in. The DCP now wants to concentrate on licking its wounds, yet, they could not let another empire to take advantage.

The DCP made its descision. It would not invade Tokzhalan space, but it will defend itself if the Tokzhalan become too much of a threat to the Milky Way galaxy. The DCP is on standby.

Defense Fleet of the Milky Way
As the DCP was recovering itself from previous wars, and trying to get out of the wretched dark era, the Council of War created a new ship, the DCP Flying Fortress. It was based on the archaic B17 Bomber from ancient Earth. The design, due to being thousands of years more primitive than the DCP's advancement, and almost so inferior technologically, the DCP found it very difficult to recreate the design. But why create a ship based on something so primitive?

Tactical analysis showed, if recreated and reoutfitted with new weapons and DCP technology, it would be a formidible ship indeed. It is not a B17, but its design is based upon it (althought it looks a bit different). The ship is a gunship class, stronger than a bomber or light cruiser. However, their small size meant they could be mass produced, and their shields are almost as strong as an Ion Fighter's. Great fleets shall be built, and they will defend the space around the DCP in the Milky Way. The DCP is now at recovery operations, and are invading the MSP (and are in a stalemate with most of their former enemies), and will only go into war with the Tokzhalan if it has to. However, soon, these ships might be the defenders of the stars!

Plazith Rim Campaign


Two days after the Battle of Sol, the Tokzhalan Empire began its invasion of the Plazith Rim. It was a carefully planned campaign, and they were not intending to go to war against most of the large empires in the galaxy. Their first target was the cybernetic Borg Collective, chosen because Imperial tacticians had decided (based on records of previous wars against them fought by civilisations such as the DCP) that the Collective was possibly one of their greatest future threats. They held the possibility for an alliance of sorts, but did not hold any high hopes on the matter.

Battle of Borg Space
Tokzhalat lured a Borg Cube to his ship, the Emperor, by appearing on a planet near to one of the Collective's own. When the Cube arrived and announced its aim to assimilate the Tokzhalan ship, and showed that it was undeterrable in its aim, the Emperor opened fire with ion blasts and disabled the ship. An crew of four Imperial soldiers were beamed into the ship. There, they managed to gain valuable tactical information before beaming out. Tokahalat proceeded to destroy the Cube, and began planning his war against the Collective.

The Tokzhalan Empire made its move by attacking every Borg-inhabited planet at once with its Droners, theorising that the Borg would not have time to adapt fast enough. They were right, and the Droners reduced the Borg Collective's dominion from 100,000 worlds to 64. Another 22 planets were destroyed by the Imperiums, using their Sun Busters to cause their systems' suns to go supernova. All of the Droners were destroyed in the battle, and thousands of Borg Cubes were still intact across the whole of (what had once been) Borg Space. However, it was ultimately a victory for the Tokzhalan. In addition, the sudden chaos that had taken one of the most stable civilisations in the galaxy had attracted the attention of warlike civilisations such as the Mortalitas, who recognised the Tokzhalan Empire from the Battle of Sol and decided to form an alliance with them.

Furthermore, the Empire had several secret weapons projects that were reaching completion - "Zxxon", "Emperor", and "Bolide" would be ready soon, although "Timeship" was still only in the initial developmental stages - which combined with the new allies made the loss of most of their space force seem like a small price to pay.

DCP Spies
After the near destruction of the Borg it became apparent to the DCP, that the Tokzhalan were a dangerous adversary. The DCP believes it is likely that the Borg will soon make a comeback, because they can recover and recolonise quickly. In one of the battles, the DCP sent a small ship to investigate an Imperium class. The DCP ship, readied its weapons and the Tokzehalan ship returned fire, however, the DCP ship cloaked, and created a false holographic explosion. As it did so, it sent small spying nanomachines to land on the vessel, which was unaware of the devices because they mimick materials around them, while returning data to the DCP.