(Fan Fiction) Exodus of the Lordakiums

After a recent Lordakium swarm assault on the three companies, a combined effort by many historians, both human and alien, was made to learn more about their history and how they came into contact with the known galaxy. This project, codenamed 'Project Eragoth' after the old home planet of the Lordaki, was supported by all three of the companies. Many amazing pieces of Lordaki history have become clear. For example, at least once in their history, they were engaged in a brutal, pan-galactic war against the Kristallites. While much of it is sketchy and a lot of the information provided comes from the archives of the Devolariums which was taken during an attack on one of the Devolarian colonies, humankind and the wider alien community now have some insight into the Lordakium and the Lordakia (The term Lordaki is used to define the species as a whole).

This is a summary of what was discovered. Here, it will be split into parts, each detailing a different part of the known history of the Lordaki. In the first part, the exodus of the Lordaki from their home planet, Eragoth Prime, is looked at in more detail.

The Exodus:

It is professed by the highest priests of the Lordaki religion that many millenia ago, the Lordaki lived on the planet of Eragoth Prime. Existence there was peaceful and its inhabitants lived in a utopia. Even then they were avid explorers, loving heading out into deep space and mapping out new regions.

All of a sudden, their serene existence on their home planet was rudely interrupted when a new power came into play; the Kristallins. The Kristallins had proven themselves to be a powerful group of organisms in their wars against the Cubikons. While at first, the Lordaki tried to negotiate with the Kristallins, Gaeta, the last golden-age Lordaki emperor, decided that war was the only option. This militaristic attitude proved to be his hamartia and would cost his species dearly.

Assaulting the Kristallin fleets, at first, the Lordaki fleets scored many victories. As their bio-engineers worked on making even larger ships, the Lordaki pushed the Kristallin back repeatedly, even at one point destroying a Kristallin fleet massed above earth, to the awe of the evolving humans below.

Begging for help, the leader of the Kristallins went to Justinia, commander of half of the Kristallon armada. While the Kristallins and Kristallons weren't the best of friends, Justinia agreed to assist the beleaguered Kristallins.

It was here that the tide turned for the Lordaki. The many tens of thousands of Kristallin ships were now bolstered by tens of thousands of Kristallon ships. Suffering defeats at the hands of their numerically superior opponents, Emperor Gaeta in his old age decided that one final push was needed to destroy the combined Kristallite fleet.

Massing around a gas giant in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way, the Lordaki were confident that their fleet, over a hundred thousand strong, was enough to finally rid themselves of the Kristallon menace. Emperor Gaeta was present with his subjects in (what was at the time) the biggest Lordakium ship ever created.

Barely a light year away, Justinia was also massing her fleets. She too flew a gigantic Kristallon craft, a ship almost four times as powerful as the other Kristallons.

After six months of regrouping, Emperor Gaeta felt that now, the time was right to attack Justinia and her fleet. There were now 350,000 Lordaki present above the gas giant. The countdown to the final clash had begun.

When the two fleets met, it was brutal. In the first hour, 27,000 ships had been destroyed and over half a million life forms were dead. In the thick of it, Emperor Gaeta spotted Justinia's Kristallon. Knowing that she was the focus of the Kristallite offensive, he charged at Justinia, all weapons blazing.

Justinia fire back and now the two mighty ships were firing barrage after barrage at each other. The poor subjects of the two commanders caught in the crossfire were wiped out as Gaeta charged at Justinia.

After suffering a heavy blow, Justinia ordered several of her Kristallin allies to charge at Gaeta. Not only did they charge, they crashed into Gaeta's ship, causing mortal damage. A counterattack by several smaller Lordakium ships caused heavy damage to Justinia but not to the same level as that suffered by Gaeta.

Knowing that the end was near, Gaeta decided to take Justinia down with her and charged, suffering hit after hit from the Kristallites. Just before they collided, however, Gaeta's ship exploded, wiping out dozens of Kristallites and almost wiping out Justinia.

After this, the Lordaki lost their desire to fight and many of them began to retreat back to Eragoth Prime. They were followed by the Kristallites, who bombarded the planet and destroyed many thousands of Lordaki ships.

Finally, after almost a century of fighting, the new Lordaki Emperor Seelix knew that to continue fighting was to risk extinction at the hands of the Kristallites and the recently crowned Empress Justinia. A treaty was agreed where the Lordaki would leave their home planet and they would be forced by the Kristallites to settle in another solar system many thousands of light years away. Upon landing, their ships were also destroyed, ridding the Lordaki of their spacefaring capacity. All their maps were destroyed and thus they had no way to return back to Eragoth Prime even if they did regain spacefaring capacity.

They had suffered over one and a half billion casualties and they had lost their spacefaring capacity. Their existence was now in the hands of the Kristallites, who had now taken over what used to be Lordakium space.

Despite all of this, Emperor Seelix and his successors would work hard to return the Lordaki to their former power, but mostly, to find their lost home planet. However, this part of Lordaki history, the revival, will be explored in the next excerpt.

--End of excerpt 1: The Exodus--


The Revival:

The planet that the Kristallites had dropped the Lordaki was barren and would not be able to sustain the entirety of the Lordaki population. Despite this, Emperor Seelix began a massive vegetation plan on the planet which would make it sustainable for the whole Lordaki population.

However, two years into Seelix's revival, the Lordaki started to notice strange deformities among certain members of their species. As common even then, many were killed but the majority were banished to a new continent. Then, a few months later, the entirety of the Lordaki population started to also have these deformities, and after six months, the entirety of the Lordaki race were now cocooned in massive, spacefaring bio-mechanic ships.

While we don't know why this happened, the priests of the Lordaki religion state that it was the will of their deity that they return to Eragoth Prime. They say that Seelix saw a vision and was told that he would return the Lordaki to their former glory.

Within less than three years of the Lordaki exodus, they were once more space-faring. The Kristallites, who believed that there was no way the Lordaki could return to space within the next few millenia, were shocked and astounded to their plasma cores. Within weeks, Justinia had gathered a fleet of fifteen thousand Kristallites to wipe out the Lordaki once and for all. The two forces met over what was called New Eragoth. Superior numbers meant that the Lordaki had a huge advantage and in a crippling victory destroyed over ten thousand Kristallite ships.

Realising that the Lordaki couldn't be defeated without another prolonged war, Justinia signed a peace treaty with Seelix, effectively ending Kristallite-Lordaki hostilities. Seelix was hailed as a hero by the Lordaki, who he now lead in the first stages of the quest to return to Eragoth Prime.

However, after a century of searching, Seelix, hero of the Lordaki, died. Given the title 'Great' by his successor Zarek, he would be remembered as the leader who freed the Lordaki from the shackles of Kristallite supremacy.

Under Zarek, the Lordaki grew steadily in power until they eventually controlled a region of space five thousand light years across. The Lordaki were even powerful enough to survive a war with the Cubikons, who even then were feared by the galaxy for their immense power. Zarek's successor, Kelder, continued the search for Eragoth Prime, expanding the Lordaki Empire.

The revival was now in full swing and the Lordaki had never been more powerful, but the Lordaki were yet to find their homeworld and a new threat was steadily, but stealthily emerging. This chapter of Lordaki history, the wars, will be explored in the next excerpt.

--End of Excerpt 2: The Revival--

 

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