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15s on the world of atilla's i the capital
19s of the anarchist police state known as
21s the asphodel and our kissed collective
23s the last vestiges of the planet's
25s natural ecosystem were swept away where
28s once there rose ancient savage mountains
31s or stretched mighty tempestuous seas
33s there were now only endless horizons of
36s dazzling cityscapes and boundless urban
39s sprawl the creation of the galaxy's
42s first Akuma na police of the new age was
45s celebrated as an unrivaled triumph but
48s none could ignore the creep of doubt
50s that this achievement might not survive
52s the threats that lay beyond the Pels
55s credo nian horde had been united and
57s unleashed with every nation humbled
59s before its might each had a choice
62s resist and face extinction or submit to
66s the one known to her followers as the
68s plume of silver but hated and feared
70s across the galaxy as the great Turkic on
74s the Bose Ionian Brotherhood was the
76s first to face the Great Khan in battle
78s and its fleets were quickly shattered
80s its armies smashed
82s unwilling to surrender to those they
84s considered heathens the only choice left
87s to the Bose Ionians was to accept their
89s fate and their worlds were taken one by
91s one the flurgle star gazers and the way
94s nations that just years earlier had
97s declared a great alliance together with
99s the Bose Ionians
100s felt no such spiritual obligation their
103s holy leaders knelt before chirpy Khan
105s and the newest subjects of the Horde
107s attempted to comfort themselves in the
109s idea that mortal empires were fleeting
111s while faith remained eternal if there
115s was any hope that the rise of the Khan
117s might break the ideological struggle
119s between the union of supreme synthetic
121s republics and the ung alliance it
123s faltered and died as fleets gathered on
126s the border of the USSR finally the long
129s awaited day arrived
132s coalition of forces from the ung platy
134s Corp Patito Empire vultan Kingdom Oh
137s Boden Republic Cupid ER technocracy and
140s reflux Inc struck at the USSR closing in
143s from both sides and perhaps the largest
146s pincer movement in galactic history so
149s dire was the threat posed by the USSR
152s that the coalition was joined by the
154s Church of Chains an isolationist nation
156s that for decades had contented itself in
159s simply managing the Galactic slave
161s market system after system fell before
164s this coalition but as they advanced
167s their cohesion dwindled in the Battle of
170s Novgorod a vast synthetic
172s counter-offensive fell upon the
173s scattered coalition fleets each caught
175s out of position and unsure whether to
178s flee or make a stand forced into a
181s battle for which they seemed unprepared
183s coalition leadership braced for a
185s disaster but shockingly the fleet's of
187s the USSR which for so long had seemed
190s poised to conquer the galaxy were
192s woefully ineffective where before the
195s USSR had only conquered Marauders and
197s pirates now they faced advanced
200s countermeasures and modern armaments and
202s were forced to concede Novgorod to the
204s coalition as the greatest fleets in the
208s galaxy were turned against each other
209s the Kahn continued her march of woe
212s reflects Inc was forced to surrender
214s while the destruction of the Bose
216s Ionians continued in the jap wrist
219s system the last Bose Ionian ship a
221s vessel in which the entire nation had
223s placed their remaining hope was quickly
225s destroyed and Jerris Prime their final
228s free world was besieged yet not even
232s this doomed heroic struggle could
234s convince the coalition and USSR to unite
237s against their common enemy in the lava
239s system newly retrofitted synthetic
242s warships massed in two enormous fleets
244s crushed the advance of the coalition and
246s forced them into a barely contained
248s retreat the ung and its allies had no
252s choice but to withdraw from the USSR
254s entirely denounced by their enemy as the
257s United cowards of the galaxy perhaps
260s emboldened by the defeat of the ung
263s subservient artificial intelligence
265s units
265s across their space broke out in open
267s revolt everywhere ung Garrison's were
271s overthrown and secretly constructed
273s fleets moved to destroy their organic
275s oppressors in a heartbreaking blow to
277s ung morale the newly declared artificial
281s alliance quickly seized control of two
283s systems named for the most legendary and
285s honored heroes in human history from
288s here they prepared mighty armadas far
291s larger than even those commanded by the
293s Great Khan the capitulation of the ung
296s seemed all but certain what happened
299s next
300s might never be truly understood it was
303s widely accepted that the artificial
305s alliance could not coordinate the
307s trillions of drones it had constructed
309s while others claimed that the eponymous
311s spirits of those systems lost intervened
313s themselves whatever the reason the power
316s of the artificial alliance was fractured
319s and hope returned to the ung as the
323s entire galaxy fell into chaos the cyber
326s equestrian collective announced they had
328s managed to bridge the gap to a
330s previously inaccessible extra galactic
332s star cluster by repairing a long dormant
334s an ancient gateway hoping to discover
337s some long-lost wonder that might be the
340s key to defeating the Great Khan they
342s instead encountered a highly advanced
344s civilization known as the DISA new
346s consonance to the Khan the discovery of
350s the so called L cluster was merely
352s another opportunity the tremendous
354s defenses of the Tucson knew were not
356s enough to deter the Horde and after
358s seizing the entrance to the L cluster
360s they quickly utilized its ancient
362s network of gateways to send their fleets
364s across the galaxy almost without warning
367s everywhere the Horde was set loose
369s against unprepared defenders and nations
372s that had ignored the Khan as a distant
374s concern now found their worlds on the
377s front lines not even the artificial
379s Alliance could escape the Wrath of Khan
381s and robotic war fleets dueled with belk
384s credo nian Raiders in the ruins of what
386s had once been ung space caught between
390s two powers that could not hope to stand
392s against and with earth itself occupied
394s the ung submitted
396s Kahn and desperation on Jerez Prime the
401s long assailed Bose Ionian Brotherhood
403s came to an end but in the death throes
405s of that spiritual people was born a holy
408s martyr the heroic final stand of the
411s Bose Ionians was personified in the will
413s and deeds of their last general his
416s death rocks the galaxy like a
418s thunderclap and once disparate powers
421s now found themselves united in his name
423s new armies and fleets were mobilized and
427s sent against the Khan with a new battle
429s cry stand with Steve the nations of the
434s 5th interstellar the dredge platy Corp
437s the cyber equestrians and the Turk Rd in
439s Utopia all marshaled their power against
442s the Khan but against her brilliant
444s strategic mind achieved only mixed
446s success when chirpy Khan faced her first
449s defeat it was not from any of the
451s younger races but the dice on ooh who
454s could tolerate the hordes control of the
455s L gates no longer emboldened by this
459s reversal the Turk ardian utopia asphodel
462s anarchist collective and the union of
464s supreme synthetic Republic's in an
466s unprecedented display of unity tracked
469s down the wounded Khan and in the Battle
471s of Bharata ambushed her war fleet and
473s destroyed her flagship the reign of the
476s Khan was ended and the galaxy granted a
479s reprieve with the death of chirpy Khan
482s democratic egalitarian forces within the
485s parks credo nyan people seized power and
487s attempted to reform the Horde into a new
490s Federation built on mutual support and
492s common ideals for many who had knelt
495s before the Khan the memory of her
497s conquest was too great and the heroic
500s symbol of Steve too powerful even before
503s the Horde had completed its transition
505s of power the val toon Kingdom the way
507s and the flarg o stargazers all declared
510s their independence only the ung remained
513s counting on whatever power remained in
516s the Horde to protect them from the
517s artificial alliance the sense of
520s galactic unity born with the martyrdom
523s of Steve died with the Khan old
525s rivalries quickly crept back into the
527s universe and the SOT siesta Shahi to the
530s public
530s together with v interstellar demanded
533s that the UN G finally bow to their
535s superior ideology again faced with a war
538s it couldn't hope to win and the support
540s of the reborn horde in doubt the UN G
543s immediately surrendered becoming the
545s newest member of the fifth interstellar
548s all across the galaxy the old ways
551s returned if they ever left at all
553s the flurgle star gazers and the way have
556s reformed the council of seekers
558s declaring steve to be their Messiah
560s while platy Corp claims to have obtained
562s his DNA and now sell it at a premium on
565s the Galactic market petty rivalries have
568s turned once more to war and everywhere
571s larger and more powerful warships are
573s being constructed threatening to bring
575s about an even greater Cataclysm
578s centuries from now if any historians who
581s might reflect on this era remain how
584s many might argue that the galaxy would
586s have been better off if the Horde had
588s never fallen and the universe had been
590s united under the genius of chirpy Conn
592s surely however brutal and repressive her
595s rule might have been it might still be
598s preferable to the unyielding insanity of
600s ideologies the incomprehensible plots
603s and Wars and the seemingly endless
606s spiral into madness that has once more
609s entangled the galaxy and threatens to
611s ensnare it in a perpetual hysteria from
614s which it can never escape
624s thanks to Paradox Interactive for
627s allowing us at the template Institute to
629s investigate and document the many
631s empires in this intense and
633s unpredictable universe we'll be
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642s Invictus series where we Chronicle the
644s rise of the greater terran union its
646s wars against the hostile alien
647s federation known as the compact and its
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