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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]], perhaps the most powerful race in the Starmourn Sector at the time, were the first to be attacked. Although, they put up a valiant defense, they were utterly wiped out by the Ishvana's seemingly innumerable armada, an act the [[Shen]] still hold against the Ishvana to this day. In the wake of the Utan Mir's destruction, the remaining Elder Races realized that only together could they stop the onslaught of the Ishvana. Together the largest fleet assembled since the [[Ascension Wars]] was formed including the following: [[Rek]], [[Vyar]], [[Shrikem]], [[League of Anar]], [[K'sath]], [[Quix]], [[Ta-deth]], [[Sooq]], [[Sapphire Cults of the Jeweled Heresy]], [[Y'saari]] and their [[Lha Ti]].
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 [[K’sath]], and the [[Quix]] in their huge Dreadnaughts.


The galactic struggle waged for over 1,500 years, the combined might of the Elder Races proving insufficient to push back the relentless machinations of the Ishvana. In the end only a small contingent of the fear [[Star Kith|star kith]]-wielding Rek, the heavily entrenched Y'saari, and the telepathic Shrikem remained of the once impressive alliance. When it seemed all would be lost, the Shrikem used their telepathic abilities in unison and were able to fracture the Ishvana's sub-quantum mind causing it to go insane. In its confusion, it lost control of its massive fleet causing them to not only break from their strict formation, often crashing into one another, but also attacking one another. Its [[Starship|emissary ships]] were even seen broadcasting nonsensical messages with no apparent recipients. The supreme singularity of the Ishvana could not stand being fractured as it was and within a year's time, eventually withdrew to the [[Atman]] sparing the remainder of the Starmourn Sector.
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.


In the wake of the this event with most of the Elder Races extinct and their homeworlds and civilizations destroyed, the [[Younger Races]] began to ascend to power within the Starmourn Sector, a time which became known as the [[Younger Era]].
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 [[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]].
 
And finally, in the last, it was the [[Shrikem]] that saved not just the [[Elder Races]], but all of us, for it is certain that the [[Ishvana]] would have come for us with the Elder Races destroyed.
 
The [[Shrikem]] have always been the most mysterious of the Elder Races that we’ve had any contact with, though rarely do they deign to communicate with us, or allow us to as much as detect them. We do not know where their home system is, nor do we understand their technology, which some have accused, probably wrongly, of being some flavor of [[Wild Kith]]. They are an enigma that the [[Younger Races]] have yet to unravel.
 
We do know, however, that they are strongly telepathic, and that somehow, in some miraculous, completely unexpected way, they collectively unleashed those powers against the Ishvana, cracking its sub-quantum mind. By no means did they destroy it, but they drove a wedge into it, separating one part of its consciousness from the other. How they did this, and why they waited so long is a mystery that wasn't solved until much later, as the [[Shrikem]] were not inclined to offer explanation.
 
The Ishvana immediately went seemingly insane. Its ships would randomly attack each other, and its fleets would execute maneuvers with no purpose, sometimes causing ships within it to collide and destroy each other. Emissary ships from it bearing nonsensical messages that seemed bound for nowhere were intercepted. Within the span of a year, the Ishvana’s attacks had fallen apart completely, and it retreated into its [[Atman]] to lick its proverbial wounds.
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