Fiction:Girdo Empire


 * This is an alternate reality version of my original Empire. This page will mostly summarise of the parts that are the same as those of the original Empire, with only the specificially alternate reality parts being described in detail.

The Empire of the Girdo Galaxy, known in short as the Girdo Empire is an enigmatic multi-species civilisation from the Girdo Galaxy. The main Imperial species hides itself from most other empires, refusing to reveal any details about its biology or culture, but members of other species have occasionally been seen, such as during diplomatic negotiations that require the physical presence of the negotiators.

Pre-Intergalactic Era

 * There is very little difference between the Girdo Empire's history and that of the "original" Empire. However, the Girdo Empire never went through the Post-Grox Crisis, having assimilated all other empires as soon as they appeared.



The Empire's originated on Imperial Capitol, the homeworld of the main Imperial species. They have relvealed little of their history to others, only that it involved a 5500-year war with a rival nation known as "the Kingdom". After this, they launched their first spaceship, the Premier, to explore their home galaxy. At this point, the Empire began a new dating system, starting at 1 AE (Anno "Empire").

The entire galaxy was, at this point, in chaos. An old civilisation, the "Second Galactic Federation", had fought the Grox surrounding the Girdo Galaxy's core thousands of years earlier. When they lost the war, the Grox chased them to the ends of the galaxy and killed them all. This left the galaxy with no major civilisations - except for the Grox, who were recovering from the war - so when new empires emerged, they fought for galactic dominance.



When the Empire appeared on the interstellar scene, they used their abilities of manipulation to bring the galaxy under their control. They sent some empires to wars against each other until they were both destroyed, they assimilated others into their own Empire by the power of economy and diplomacy, but they simply destroyed most rival empires using their swarms of Droner-class starfighters.

After decades of this, in 30 AE, they had complete dominance over most of the galaxy. Then, they fortified their worlds and took on the Grox. 50 years later, in 80 AE, they had managed to defeat their cyborg enemies. Using captured Grox technology, Imperial scientists worked on further improving the Empire's own technological base, until 100 AE when the first Intergalactic Drive was developed and the Empire decided to explore the rest of the unverse.

Part of the reason the Empire wanted to control all other civilisations in their galaxy, and why they wanted to reach other galaxies, was their obsession with "truly alien" life. They had discovered that all life in their home galaxy was spread by some sort of panspermia, and they wanted to give other life a chance to develop unhindered by what Imperial biologists refered to as "Spodian" life (named after the mythological Spode). When they were finally able to access other galaxies, they hoped that they would be able to find some "truly alien" organisms.

First Intergalactic Contacts
The Empire began building large motherships, with added Intergalactic Drives, that would act as Imperial command bases during their exploration of other galaxies. First of all, they arrived in the Plazith Rim Galaxy and sent cloaked Frigate-class ships as scouts to locate the most advanced local civilisations.