Year 1000, The Century of Death
In comparison to the previus centuries this was a time of death and destruction. The Kel'nar attempted to talk peace however the ancestral hatred between the two races was too great, however they were able to write up a series of rules for war to the races but only the Shriles alliance and the Slaskier alliance agreed to this. The two crusades linked up together and the Vorglockie began to fight one another. The life ships returned and also began to ask for peace, but only the Shriles and Slaskier alliances would listen, and the pressure from the Kel'nar and Life Ships finally won them over to peace, but they would still defend their borders. On everyone else the Life ships commenced bombardment, but the Salmass had much experience with this and the Vorglockie hives were nigh indestructable. The life ships went in and were butchered and so they resorted to a weapon that would truly give this century its name, they used the Vorlon Plauge.
The Kel'nar attempts of peace were difficuolt from the start, as they succesfully recalled their warriors their attempts to capture the leaders of the alliances resulted in the deaths of seven guardians, and twelve rangers. It was not until the year 912 that they were finally able to get the leaders of all the factions to meet up in one place. They spoke of peace and harmony however no-one, not even the Shriles alliance would agree to a permanent peace, and Matalosh also attempted to take the life of Vorlask, and soon most had left. The leaders of the Shriles alliance and of the Slaskier alliance agreed on an Armistice, and on a series of rules that would lessen bloodshed for when they went to war, the major rules were, if an enemy surrenders he must be allowed to live, no-one is allowed to kill a civilian on either side on purpose, if peace talks are offerd then they must be accepted and that no side is alloowed to burn the lands of the other. Those two sides fought using those rules only against each other, which still happened, and so against all other factions fighting was still just as bloody. When the Life ships arrived the Kel'nar first had a good opinion of them. As the life ships managed to convinve the Shriles and Slaskier alliances on an actual ceasefire and peace. But when the life ships began to ruthlessly attack those who would not agree the Kel'nar opinions of them began to drop, especially when they released the Vorlon plauge which aso slew many Kel'nar.
The Salmass were once again the superpower in this century, as when the Vastor crusade joined the Matalosh crusade, they went about butchering even more hives, sacking one of the major hives for the Steliek alliance and the Vorlask alliance, and then two hives of the Slaskier alliance, along with many smaller hives. In the eace talks the Salmass finally got good view of the Kel'nar, but they refused any offer of peace and Matalosh used the meeting as an opportunity to try an kill Vorlask, the Kel'nar intervened however and so he went back to the crusade, butchering millions of Vorglockie with his crusade. When Matalosh finally died in 962 a Dalsier named Virmess took over andhe was rather succesful at first then the life ships came, they first sent out a telepathic message to stop fighting, however the Salmass who were psionic disrupters didn't get this message, then the Life ships began bombardment, howeverthe Salmass had much experience with this and so damage was minimal, then the life ships attacked, but the Salmass technology had still risen, they now had Flack cannons, artillery, aircraft, rapid firing weapons and even some rockets and so the damage suffered by the Life ships was immence, an the Psionic disrupting capabilities of the salmass cuased the Life shits to lose cordination. Then the crusade recieved an invetion from the Shriles, a psi intercepter which allowed them tointercept messages sent by the Life ships and even the Vorglockie who would use psi to talk between hives fromgreat distance. By the time the life ships realised that the Salmass were intercepting their messages, they had lost two thirds of their Atmosphere fleet and even some of their Ground pounders, then the Plauge struck them, it annihalated the population and even the Shriles alliance felt its wrath, and soon the crusade fell apart. By the year 1000 the salmass population had decreased by about 80% leaving the Salmass a muh weaker force, and making their hatred of the life ships grow even more.
The Vorglockie fared even worse than the Salmass as the different alliances began to fight one-another to steal their larvae for the war effort. In the peace talks only the Slaskie alliance would listen from the vorglockie and so the vorglockie began to develope technology for the war effort. Psi-amplifiers, flack guns, rockets and even some Vorglockie tanks began to emerge. The Vorglockei also began to show another physical adaptation as they developed a soft organ at the back of the head, Vorlask decided to try for immortality and ut a special device that would constantly renew his brain, the main organ that rots which causes death at old age for the Vorglockie, others put compases, Psi-amplifiers and other such things in the back of their heads and this began to increase their coordination. The Vorglockie began to lose more and more hives not just to the Salmass, but also the Karlask and even other Vorglockie. The then Life ships came, and while the Vorlask and Steliek alliances wouldn't listen, so they felt the attack of the Life ships, but while the newer hives were often destroyed the older ones were to well built to suffer from Life Ship assult. When the life ships engaged them inside the atmosphere the Vorglockie met them with fury, the Mariners of the life ships were hated the most as they were traitors to Slask, so the Vorglockie forces anihalated the Life ships, accoutning for a full half of life ship casualties, they even launched rockets into space to destroy the ground pounders. Then the Plauge struck, this was terrible for the Vorglockie due to the tightly packed nature of their hives, entire hives were lost, even Vorlaskhimself fell victim to the plauge, such was its devastation that by the end of the century only two of the major hives were left, both of which had been part of the Slaskier alliance, the alliances were gone as those hives left isolated themselves and 90% of the population had been lost, those towhives were the only source of vorglockie on the planet.
The Life ships were soon to be hated by the creatures on the planet, when they first arrived back in orbit their forces had swelled increadebly, they sent out the message of peace to the races and when they had identified who had listened and who hadn't they attacked in the year 976. However the bombardment was highly innefecive and so they assulted the planet directly, only to find that their foes had changed, they suffered heavy casualties as both sides targeted them more than any others, and then the Vorglockie and Salmass began to launch missiles into space which did terrible damage to the Ground pounders that were hit. As their forces suffered more and more casualties they sent down plants to change the atmosphere, however these plants could not cope with local competition and so in 997 with no other option left, they released the plauge. The plauge was increadably succesful, anhialating th planet, but it had huge effects on the fleet aswell as, unknown to them it slowly corrupted their own fleet, until it finaly began showing effects, the planet soon had thousands or even millions of liife ships floating in space, dead. The life ships retreted from the planet to escape their own plauge, with only 12% of their population left.
That plauge brought back memories, she was reminded of the plauge that the enemy had released on them, she shuddered asshe rememberd the appearence of the infected, and shook her head to clear it of those nightmarish memories. The Vorlon plauge had decimated the planet, 70% of its life had ben extinguished as the plauge caared not wether it was plant or animal that was struck, only two Vorglockie hives were left and those were the two that had made up the Slaskier alliance before its fall, the Shriles alliance also had the only survivors as they had been forced to isolate their cities from the plauge infested, so only about seven cities of Salmass were left as the rest had opened heir doors as part of their kin phycoligy, she had developed a cure and if they wanted to then she would release it, but the plauge was a fast evolving so she had to constantly uptade it, its adaptiveness had caused thedeath of the many life ships whose own cure was inneficent to combat the plauge. Only the Kel'nar who were isolationists had gotten of better, and yet they had lost a full 60% of their species had been slain, it would be interesting now to see how the races would evolve now that the more warlike of aboth races had been wiped out.
(Phew that took three hours, now I was thiking of making a map with hexographer so tell me what you think of that, and the next turn will be over twenty years not one century, tell me if theres anything I missed OK, and Zanzekuthen do you know the amount of feul it would require to do what your wall plan is, not the mention the size of the planet, it would take a long time to isolate the races and you deont have enough fuel for that kind of operation anyway, not to mention you don't have that tech either)
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