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= The First Planetwars =
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== The First Planetwars ==
  
 
The Imperium founded the first Empire, besting the Democratic Order of Planets and uniting the galaxy under the banner of Earth. Emperor Japko I had claimed the heavens themselves, its borders reaching the farthest edges of known space. Millions upon millions of inhabited worlds dancing among the stars, home to trillions of humans. It consolidated its power in the second PlanetWars, yet, like so many other empires before it, its success was the sign of its own downfall.
 
The Imperium founded the first Empire, besting the Democratic Order of Planets and uniting the galaxy under the banner of Earth. Emperor Japko I had claimed the heavens themselves, its borders reaching the farthest edges of known space. Millions upon millions of inhabited worlds dancing among the stars, home to trillions of humans. It consolidated its power in the second PlanetWars, yet, like so many other empires before it, its success was the sign of its own downfall.
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Countless planets and star systems broke away from a massive, faceless empire they care not for, seeking instead to stake their own claims in a lawless universe. The Empire had constructed vast technological arrays designed to control their robot armies, these fell successively into to the hands of IonStorm of Fair Live and then Drone of the Zoid Imperium.
 
Countless planets and star systems broke away from a massive, faceless empire they care not for, seeking instead to stake their own claims in a lawless universe. The Empire had constructed vast technological arrays designed to control their robot armies, these fell successively into to the hands of IonStorm of Fair Live and then Drone of the Zoid Imperium.
  
= The Ascension =
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== The Ascension ==
 
Yet the Empire would finally be shattered by the Valhallans, warriors who had slowly ceded more and more of their physical humanity until they lived only as immortal AI's controlling massive war machines. Though their machine bodies were destroyed many times in battle, they returned again and again until all who opposed them were subdued. What followed was centuries of domination by these colossal post-human AI's and mass campaigns of enforced cybernetic enhancement. The Valhallans forged the Ascended, cybernetically enhanced post-humans who controlled the universe through endless conflict through three Planet Wars.
 
Yet the Empire would finally be shattered by the Valhallans, warriors who had slowly ceded more and more of their physical humanity until they lived only as immortal AI's controlling massive war machines. Though their machine bodies were destroyed many times in battle, they returned again and again until all who opposed them were subdued. What followed was centuries of domination by these colossal post-human AI's and mass campaigns of enforced cybernetic enhancement. The Valhallans forged the Ascended, cybernetically enhanced post-humans who controlled the universe through endless conflict through three Planet Wars.
  
 
At the end of these long campaigns, in the Eighth Planet Wars, the Imperial seat of Throne was itself besieged, and Emperor Conrad I defeated. Having driven back all others and conquered countless worlds, the Ascended became the new masters of the galaxy. After centuries of conflict and no one left to fight, the Valhallans powered down their machine bodies and went into stasis.
 
At the end of these long campaigns, in the Eighth Planet Wars, the Imperial seat of Throne was itself besieged, and Emperor Conrad I defeated. Having driven back all others and conquered countless worlds, the Ascended became the new masters of the galaxy. After centuries of conflict and no one left to fight, the Valhallans powered down their machine bodies and went into stasis.
  
= The 9th Planetwars =
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== The 9th Planetwars ==
 
Finally free of the Valhallans, the universe rose in revolt. The universe was now filled with machines of war and industry with no Valhallan post-humans to control them. The machines rose up in revolution against their human enslavers. Among there humans were those survivors of the enhancement campaigns, and those born without cybernetic enhancement calling themselves the True Born. There were also those who would see the Empire of Old Earth rebuilt, and restored to its glory.
 
Finally free of the Valhallans, the universe rose in revolt. The universe was now filled with machines of war and industry with no Valhallan post-humans to control them. The machines rose up in revolution against their human enslavers. Among there humans were those survivors of the enhancement campaigns, and those born without cybernetic enhancement calling themselves the True Born. There were also those who would see the Empire of Old Earth rebuilt, and restored to its glory.
  
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With the help of his True Born allies, Saktoth quickly struck out, defeating the Machine defenders and seizing the artifacts. With control of all four relics the Imperial forces brought the Machines back under their control.
 
With the help of his True Born allies, Saktoth quickly struck out, defeating the Machine defenders and seizing the artifacts. With control of all four relics the Imperial forces brought the Machines back under their control.
  
= The Empire Reborn =
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== The Empire Reborn ==
 
General Saktoth was crowned Emperor and forged a new empire with the ideology of the True Born, promising human control of machines. The Second Empire brutally oppressed the cybernetically enhanced humans that were left over from the reign of the Ascended, and utterly subjugated the Machines using the great artifacts from the First Empire.
 
General Saktoth was crowned Emperor and forged a new empire with the ideology of the True Born, promising human control of machines. The Second Empire brutally oppressed the cybernetically enhanced humans that were left over from the reign of the Ascended, and utterly subjugated the Machines using the great artifacts from the First Empire.
  
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The war having ground to a half as the Imperial armies and the Cybernetic Front crashed their armies useless against eachother, the surviving 4 factions eventually realized that none of them could gain any ground against the others. They gathered together and signed a ceasefire, ending the 11th Planetwars.
 
The war having ground to a half as the Imperial armies and the Cybernetic Front crashed their armies useless against eachother, the surviving 4 factions eventually realized that none of them could gain any ground against the others. They gathered together and signed a ceasefire, ending the 11th Planetwars.
  
= The Eleventh Hour =
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== The Eleventh Hour ==
 
After Emperor Saktoth passed on, the Empire came to be plagued by a succession of weak emperors. When war broke out again, vast swathes of Imperial territory were ceded to the upstart Cybernetic Front and Liberated Humanity without a fight, and the remnants of the Empire ironically found themselves vassals of the Free Machines.
 
After Emperor Saktoth passed on, the Empire came to be plagued by a succession of weak emperors. When war broke out again, vast swathes of Imperial territory were ceded to the upstart Cybernetic Front and Liberated Humanity without a fight, and the remnants of the Empire ironically found themselves vassals of the Free Machines.
  
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The fighting took its toll on both sides, and the Dynasty of Earth elected to cease their advance and consolidate their gains, which were shared with the nominally independent worlds of Liberated Humanity. The Twelfth Planetwars thus drew to a close, leaving humanity the leading power in the galaxy.
 
The fighting took its toll on both sides, and the Dynasty of Earth elected to cease their advance and consolidate their gains, which were shared with the nominally independent worlds of Liberated Humanity. The Twelfth Planetwars thus drew to a close, leaving humanity the leading power in the galaxy.
  
= Man v. Machine =
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== Man v. Machine ==
 
''"Me against my brother; My brothers and me against my cousins"'' — an ancient Bedouin saying
 
''"Me against my brother; My brothers and me against my cousins"'' — an ancient Bedouin saying
  
 
In the face of a dominant humanity, the Free Machines and Cybernetic Front set aside their differences and banded together to form the Synthetic Pact. They instigated a violent uprising against the newly amalgated Dynasty of Man, plunging the galaxy into chaos once more.
 
In the face of a dominant humanity, the Free Machines and Cybernetic Front set aside their differences and banded together to form the Synthetic Pact. They instigated a violent uprising against the newly amalgated Dynasty of Man, plunging the galaxy into chaos once more.
  
Although the Dynasty was able to regroup quickly in the face of the Pact's greater military strength, it suffered a number of major defeats and failed to defend several key alien artefacts, which fell into the hands of the Synthetics. Lacking any other option for survival, the human factions made common cause and inflicted a complete reversal against the machines under the banner of Humanity Rising. In the face of potential subjugation the Free Machines took leadership of the AI forces and attempted further resistance against human domination; however the Empire, backed by the hidden influence of the Dynasty, defeated the Machines and enforced total human domination of the galaxy.
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Although the Dynasty was able to regroup quickly in the face of the Pact's greater military strength, it suffered a number of major defeats and failed to defend several key alien artefacts, which fell into the hands of the Synthetics. Now, both factions are locked in the deadly struggle of the 13th Planetwars, a conflict with no middle ground between victory and defeat.
 
 
= When The Cat's Away... =
 
 
 
Lacking an existential threat to keep them unified, the human factions of the galaxy separated and were soon in armed conflict once again.
 
 
 
The fifteenth and sixteenth Planetwars were characterised by swift assaults as the factions attempted to seize one another's homeworlds, reasoning that the secrets of the Artefacts would be easier to divine after removing any organised opposition. In the first of these wars the Empire inflicted a serious setback on the Federation by capturing their homeworld of Sparta (though the Empire's own homeworld of Throne was left a radioactive mess). However, in subsequent skirmishes culminating in the sixteenth Planetwars, the Federation reasserted control of their border with the Empire and seized the Dynasty homeworld of Radius to achieve an insurmountable power base.
 
 
 
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