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War-History-Cryslonite-Post2408.8

As it was later known, the outsider Luminostra gained control of the Cryslonite Imperium with his forceful brainwaves, and after reinstituting an old religion, he turned to war doctrine.

Luminostra instituted a strict prioritization of placement prior to battle that reflected both Cryslonite weaponry and Luminostra's biases.

The best battle was over the enemies' most important world, regardless of the defenses there, because in that case, a suicidal rush of his ships could destroy a significant part of the planetary capabilities, if they were equipped with napalm.

Battles over colonial worlds were next best, followed by battles in enemy territory and Lastly, any battle in friendly territory.

Luminostra was an incredibly aggressive war planner, preferring to sacrifice hundreds of ships to put the enemy on the defensive, over any sort of defense.

In the war against the Piundon from 2408.8 onwards, there are many battles that illustrate the idiosyncracies of the Cryslonite.

In the first and second salvos' Luminostra destroyed two colonial worlds of the Piundon, but Piundon ships were on the move in great numbers, and Luminostra had to retreat his fleet, especially to upgrade his napalm weapons for the difficult fight on the Piundon homeworld.

But the Piundon had many ships and many shipyards, and the fleet could barely fight off them all and send the damaged for repairs before another group of ships warped in.

Luminostra's fleet struggled tactically, his weapons were weak, and the enemy ships were outfitted with more of the same crystal shard cannonry, but with shields, taking the place of the napalm and point defense that Luminostra's ships had.

It wasn't until 2410 that Luminostra finally targetted the Piundon homeworld, which had many space stations and transports in orbit.

Luminostra's fleet always came into battle in a formation roughly resembling a concrete block. He believed strongly in keeping ships together for supporting fire.

At the Piundon homeworld, most of the space stations were missile armed, which posed little threat to the fleet. Only a single space station, and a single destroyer, as well as the homeworld itself, had real damaging potential. The Piundon seemed to share the same aggressive stance as Luminostra.

But, the homeworld was extremely well armed, with dozens of long range shard cannon installations.

The manuever most well known of the Cryslonite throughout the galaxy was the planetary charge, and this charge would be the Imperiums' first in the long record of our galaxy...

Excerpt from the Encyclopedia Multiversia

The Cryslonite are one of the few races to rise to power in two seperate universes. In one of them, their rise to power was uncontested and they quickly overwhelmed their home galaxy. In the other, they were weak until a Crystal passed from the first into the second universe, acquiring great powers and converting the populous to the religion practiced in first universe.

Multiverse historians have labelled these two Cryslonite empires as the Ascendant and Transcendant Cryslonite civilizations. The early struggles of the Transcendant Cryslonite caused even Luminostra, the SunGod, to change his views. Even with his dominance, he still changed gradually towards the views of collective.

The struggle created a second element of their religion dedicated to sacrifice and veneration of the great sacrificial war charges of the Imperium.

The war charge at Piundon was the first for the Transcendant collective, it demonstrated the great power of a goal that transcending all other considerations.

For the Cryslonite, that goal was to crush all other civilizations, to crush them, leaving the Last sights of the infestations to be only the Sun illuminated form of a Crystal ship.