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'''The War of Extinction''' was war fought 42,000 years ago between the [[Ishvana]] and an alliance of the [[Elder Races]]. It began when the [[Ishvana]] finally made contact with the various races across the [[Starmourn Sector]], commanding them to submit and be assimilated into its collective consciousness. Naturally, all rejected this declaration realizing it meant extinction like the Ishvana's creators, the [[Elessi]]. | '''The War of Extinction''' was war fought 42,000 years ago between the [[Ishvana]] and an alliance of the [[Elder Races]]. It began when the [[Ishvana]] finally made contact with the various races across the [[Starmourn Sector]], commanding them to submit and be assimilated into its collective consciousness. Naturally, all rejected this declaration realizing it meant extinction like the Ishvana's creators, the [[Elessi]]. | ||
The [[Utan Mir]] were the first to be attacked, and while they battled back valiantly, they were soon in desperate straits. As the other [[Elder Races]] watched the [[Utan Mir]] – one of the mightiest of the Elder Races – crumple before the Ishvana’s onslaught, they quickly realized that if they didn’t stand together, they might all face destruction. Coming to their rescue in perhaps the largest combined fleet assembled since the ancient [[Ascension Wars]] of the [[Wild Kith]] era, tens of millions of years earlier, which ended the 100,000 year reign of the [[Soulshorn Empire]] and its [[Immortal Bloodlords]], was an alliance of the [[Rek]] – masters of star [[kith]], the [[Vyar]], the mysterious, telepathic [[Shrikem]], the member states of the [[League of Anar]], the combative [ | The [[Utan Mir]] were the first to be attacked, and while they battled back valiantly, they were soon in desperate straits. As the other [[Elder Races]] watched the [[Utan Mir]] – one of the mightiest of the Elder Races – crumple before the Ishvana’s onslaught, they quickly realized that if they didn’t stand together, they might all face destruction. Coming to their rescue in perhaps the largest combined fleet assembled since the ancient [[Ascension Wars]] of the [[Wild Kith]] era, tens of millions of years earlier, which ended the 100,000 year reign of the [[Soulshorn Empire]] and its [[Immortal Bloodlords]], was an alliance of the [[Rek]] – masters of star [[kith]], the [[Vyar]], the mysterious, telepathic [[Shrikem]], the member states of the [[League of Anar]], the combative [http://wiki.starmourn.com/K%27sath K’sath], and the [[Quix]] in their huge Dreadnaughts. | ||
The graceful [[Ta-deth]] came, flying their impossibly quick fighter craft. The [[Faceless Emperor]] of the [[Sooq]] sent his [[Fleet of the Imperial Dawn]], in the midst of which came his flagship, the [[Argent Star]], while his rival, the [[Sapphire Cults of the Jeweled Heresy]] brought their vast swarmships, protecting [[Y'saari]] carriers bearing void-kith wielding [[Lha Ti]], though other than these, who are by far the eldest of the [[Younger Races]], none of the Younger Races participated in the battle, for the others did not have the capability to make a difference and would have been fairly useless except as cannon fodder that the Ishvana’s forces would destroy easily. | The graceful [[Ta-deth]] came, flying their impossibly quick fighter craft. The [[Faceless Emperor]] of the [[Sooq]] sent his [[Fleet of the Imperial Dawn]], in the midst of which came his flagship, the [[Argent Star]], while his rival, the [[Sapphire Cults of the Jeweled Heresy]] brought their vast swarmships, protecting [[Y'saari]] carriers bearing void-kith wielding [[Lha Ti]], though other than these, who are by far the eldest of the [[Younger Races]], none of the Younger Races participated in the battle, for the others did not have the capability to make a difference and would have been fairly useless except as cannon fodder that the Ishvana’s forces would destroy easily. | ||
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For 1,500 years, the [[Elder Races]] fought and died. They died by the billions as entire worlds were destroyed by the great Kali warships the Ishvana deployed, using weapons and shielding beyond the ken of even the Vyar – greatest builders of the Elder Races – and using the network of Voidgates the [[Vyar]] and [[Utan Mir]] had built. One by one, they fell or fled. | For 1,500 years, the [[Elder Races]] fought and died. They died by the billions as entire worlds were destroyed by the great Kali warships the Ishvana deployed, using weapons and shielding beyond the ken of even the Vyar – greatest builders of the Elder Races – and using the network of Voidgates the [[Vyar]] and [[Utan Mir]] had built. One by one, they fell or fled. | ||
The [[League of Anar]] was wiped from history. The [ | The [[League of Anar]] was wiped from history. The [http://wiki.starmourn.com/K%27sath K’sath] fought to the last, frequently volunteering to stand and die in order to help others flee a losing battle. The [[Utan Mir]] and [[Vyar]] were similarly wiped out, while only a small population of [[Rek]] survived by fleeing. A least a few of the [[Quix]] are believed to have fled Starmourn on their Dreadnaughts, when defeat was imminent, for there were reports of a fleet of [[Quix]] leaving the sector recorded in Shen databases at the time. The Sapphire Cults, seeing no other choice, made a final, suicidal attack, supported by the [[Ta-deth]], on the bulk of the Ishvana’s major fleet, but was decimated, and the Ishvana destroyed their planets utterly in retaliation, for they did inflict substantial damage on its forces. | ||
The [[Faceless Emperor]] and his [[Fleet of the Imperial Dawn]] was a mighty force – perhaps equal to that of the Utan Mir or Rek – but it too fell before the unbridled power of the Kali ships the Ishvana had in uncountable numbers. The Emperor is believed to have fled the scene of the final battle of his race in their home system, broadcasting the [[Sooq]] [[griefsong]] across all channels as he and his small band of surviving ships left to try and survive in unknown space, led by the [[Argent Star]]. | The [[Faceless Emperor]] and his [[Fleet of the Imperial Dawn]] was a mighty force – perhaps equal to that of the Utan Mir or Rek – but it too fell before the unbridled power of the Kali ships the Ishvana had in uncountable numbers. The Emperor is believed to have fled the scene of the final battle of his race in their home system, broadcasting the [[Sooq]] [[griefsong]] across all channels as he and his small band of surviving ships left to try and survive in unknown space, led by the [[Argent Star]]. | ||