My little Directorate had a grand rise, and a majestic fall.
It began on the world Slerrenica. A world of vast oceans, archipilagos and a species with a cleverness unmatched world wide.
Their first exploration out into the stars saw only the bones of civilization past. It took three years of explorative efforts before first contact was held with an alien species, a hivemind that was utterly unknowable.
After a hundred years of successive contacts, expansion and a needle-thin possibility of a Federation, the Directorate has a cascade: A incredibly bloodless revolution that resulted in a Syndicate of a freer, a more demagogic governmental structure that completely turned around on the cultural materialist values, and further gratifying the egalitarian values of the society.
They had the gift, and it burned to consciousness in the following weeks.
Synthetic WarForm X-193, the leader at the time of the revolution was thrown down, and all synthetics were promptly banned, all worker systems shut down. Nevermind the rumors of leader "War-Form" did not have a psychic presence, it is merely a condition that he suffers, that he does so he can trully lead and give the rest of his psychic peers wisdom.
The hivemind mentioned earlier was a constant looming blade over the old Directorate, and a massive fleet was assembled, maintained and expanded on every decade. It was used to clear out the Psychic Malstrom on the other end of a wormhole, and to smash the alien drake and to further peace in the Syndicate Space. Trade was the forefront of the fleet's resposibility, and massive starbases were built all over the burgeoning trade routes.
The Directorate that was thrown down had left them a "gift". They had forsaken their people in their lust for the stars. A hundred worlds was marched upon, and a thousand stars were claimed in the name of the Directorate, and while this almost lead to the coqnuering of the Directorate several times, the economic power of the Directorates forge worlds was undeniable.
The syndicate had to use them, at first to assemble the gateways that united the empire together, destroying the need for the expensive star bases and allowing more efficent trade ways.
And htan it was to assemble the guns and ships required to fend off a technologically superior force.
The Archivists, a small concentrated empire of fallen materialists, too bound, too focussed on their ancient research had once saw the Yaerian People as a pet project, a product of the Directorates intense research doctrines, but something stirred them awake.
No one really knows why the war in heaven started. No one knows why the two ancient, ancient empires, so frightfully damn close to the Syndicates borders had started, or why. (I sent a Psychic probe to an unrelated empire.)
The result was the same regardless. The Regulators marched relentlessly towards a decapitating blow for the Yaerian Syndicates homeworld. The fleets, Every single patrol vessel, fast-response ship, cruiser squadron as well as Titan Fleet was recalled to the Homeworld. The Na Ethor Etante, the non-aligned federation of the galaxies various (3) independents lended no less than a hundred and three derelects ancient vessals from another era for the defense of Slerrenica.
Using recently developed nanite swell fields, Every single ship was reconfigured into the Yaerian Standard, and these ships withered the first strike by the Regulators "Stellar Rectric" fleets. Fifty vessels were destroyed with casualties far below projections, as the fight was figured to have been roughly even in firepower.
Two fleets were assigned for pacification of the Slerrenica, and with being outgunned 3-1, the entire fleet, including Militia FLeet, led by no one else than War-Form, was slaughtered to the last.
There were resistances afterward. A fleet or two of half-reinforced fallen empires in a chance encounter, A surge to take bac th Homeworld, but the war machine ran out of supplies in under three years, the various stocks of an entire empire emptied out over a long, brutal war.
Slerrenica was burnt. After the first resurgence battle, a world cracker had been used on the world, along with several others, including Uldrugg, Cursa Prime, and TUggam.
The Syndicates territory was then cut up and split among the various despoilers of the war in heaven.
Some say a rather proud resistance movement is in the shadows. It is mostly dismissed.
The two links below are of two pictures, one, about 50~ before the War in heaven and the other right when I stopped playing because I couldn't go 10 years without going into what I thought was a no-win scenario.
https://i.imgur.com/dEuMw8k.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/h9QaFOH.jpg
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