History of the Galaxy, part 1-Story Thread

[Jmenschenfresser]

Perhaps....but the Last thing I want to do is end up writing the history of the galaxy by myself.

[spacefan]

Encyclopedia of Galactic History
59th edition, 2996GE
Book 75: The Fazrah
Chapter 7: The Factions

After the near-complete loss of the prized Fazrah battle-fleet, and after the attack from Praetorian warships on the Huju system, and subsequent withdrawl of said ships, the shocked and frightened Lords who remained on the Huju homeworld agreed to peace with the Praetorian and Norak empires.

Representing a new message in Fazrah history, the citizens of Huju denounced war and violence as a means of action and decommissioned all mercenaries and other soldiers under their control. The overwhelming, quick and devastating nature of their loss in the First Battle of Huju convinced those who had experienced it that warfare is nasty and brutish whether you win or lose. This might have been a short lived philosophy even in Huju if Lord Alzene had not taken asylum in Sallegan territory. Once the treaty with the Norak was confirmed Alzene returned to Huju, and was welcomed in open arms as the first to advocate peace. Though Alzene was not the leader of the new Huju Faction that arose, he became the main ambassador and spokesman for it.

In sharp contrast to System Huju's message of peace, was the rebuilding of Fazrah military might occuring in what used to be outlying provinces and lesser territory. In the confusion of Huju's tragic defeat, the leader of the Knoglam system asserted that the empire could be rebuilt, and that Fazrah lords had become too soft. He ordered his supporters to build what ships they could and help him amass a warfleet worthy of the Fazrah name. Lord Knoglam planned to reunite the Fazrah under his rule and shift control of it to Knoglam from the Huju homeworld. He wanted to avoid a fight with the stronger powers until he had shown his fellow lords the rewards of war, by defeating such lesser powers as the Cue Cappan and Amon'krie.

When Lord Alzene visited orbit of Lord Knoglam's homeworld, looking for support for Huju, Lord Knoglam knew the Fazrah would remain splintered until he could show the Huju lords that war lead to victory, not defeat. He toyed with the idea of assasinating Alzene, but decided it would create a backlash against Knoglam.

While the two factions looked for support for other System Lords, some Lords decided they didn't want to be united for peace or for war, and just wanted to be left alone with their own agendas. Thus the Rim faction formed as a loosely governed council for the sole purpose of spreading the idea of more independence. They merely argued that no person, region, planet or system should be forced to work for some "greater whole" regardless of whether it was for peace or war. The faction was named Rim because the outermost systems of Fazrah space signed the original statement of intent. They felt that any union would force the rim systems to work for the core systems with no benefit for themselves.

Thus three factions of Huju were formed, with their own agendas and leaders, and conVersions from one to the other were frequent due to lobbying or political events in other empires.

[dumbluck]

So, did the Galactic Core go nova or something? I haven't been able to pick up the Galactic News Network for a week or two now...

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by dumbluck:
So, did the Galactic Core go nova or something? I haven't been able to pick up the Galactic News Network for a week or two now...

Yeah what's up wit dis? No new storys in awhile. Not complaining but nothing has been going on with this. Is it at a stand stillright now due to someones RL? Just curious.

[geoschmo]

No, the game is still going. We lost Spacefan, but the rest of us are still playing. Just finding it hard to post. I thought Mensch had more to go on his story there. I will have a post soon relating my taking revenge on the Sergetti for their meddling of late.

Geoschmo

[Jmenschenfresser]

Sorry people. I posted my Last one and then just ran outta steam. I have half of the next one to post...but am finding it hard to take the time to write on it.

But there might be more to write on in the near future.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Jmenschenfresser:
Sorry people. I posted my Last one and then just ran outta steam. I have half of the next one to post...but am finding it hard to take the time to write on it.

But there might be more to write on in the near future.

Oh ok, that's totally fine guys, understandable in all areas... I can see how you could loose some steam for writing if you do it long enough. It'd happen to me if I actually wrote. Don't worry about it if you can't post, we're all patient. At least most of us are.

[Skulky]

When, and if, i get aroudn to it i think ill turn this thread into text file for easy viewing (only the stories) any thoughts?

[geoschmo]

Year 2419.2 (The beginning of the end)

Commander Dennison looked over the pile of reports on his desk. The condition of the fleets in Cephredi were just shameful. It was his job to rectify that. He only hoped that the Norak gave him the time to do it.

He reviewed the threat assesments. Nothing new there. Things had calmed down considerably in a remarkably short time. He hoped his intelligence was right and that the the internal flux apparently going on within the Continuum would prevent them taking any action against the Republic.

He expected that the Amonkrie and Cue Cappa would be no problem for them here in Cephredi, even if they were to go crazy and attack. But it's been so long since either of them made a peep. There was no reason to expect a change from either of them. The Pretorians had no ships within three systems distance. Neither did the Sergetti.

For that matter according to the recent reports coming from the east, the Sergetti may not have any ships anywhere. Grandow had apparently taken upon himself the personal mission to remove every Last vestige of the Sergetti empire from the galaxy. Not that Dennison blamed him all that much. Their meddling had very nearly cost the Republic their empire, and would assuradly have cost Dennison his own life along with the rest of the Sallegans in the Cephredi system. Official positions notwithstanding, he had no illusions about holding off the Norak fleets were it to come to that.

No, the Norak were the threat that he was preparing for. And there was little hope of any assistance coming from the homesystem, and even less hope of assistance from the Fazrah. They had for all practical purposes ceased to exsist as an organized government. The planets were still there, but with the fleet losses to the Praetorians and Norak in the recent war, their remaining sytems had reverted to there prewar chaotic state. No, no help coming from there, Dennison thought.

He picked up the retrofit reports again and had just started reviewing them, when the red alert klaxon started blaring. Dennison jumped up and ran to the operations center, "What's going on!" he barked over the din of alarms and officers shouting at one another.

"Commander. It's the Norak. They are attacking sir!" the lieutenant said. The man was very obviously close to breaking down.

"Get ahold of yourself man. Where are they attacking?" He asked the Lt.

"Everywhere sir." the man stammered.

"My god!" Dennison exclaimed. Just then he saw the tactical screen. The Norak were attacking in a two pronged assault. Even if all the ships orbiting the two Sallgan colonies had been fully operational, they would have been no match for the Norak and their damn tailsmans. As it was, fully half of the ships under his command were in various states of repair and retrofit. It was going to be a slaughter.

Just then he heard the first explosions in the distance as the norak ships had sliced through the fleet and began pounding the planets surface. "Open a channel to Narcisston. Now!"

FLASH TRAFFIC........CEPHREDI SYSTEM UNDER ATTACK....ATTACKERS POSITVLY IDENTIFIED AS NORAK......REQUEST IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE......REPEAT....CEPHREDI SYSTEM UNDER ATT...................................

[Quikngruvn]

(The beginning of the end)

It's a shame it has to end... it's been a great read!

Quikngruvn