The Dalek Wars
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By the year 2225, the galaxy, Milky Way as we call it, was in a state of panic. The old balance of power was broken by the Terran invention "hyperdrive". As the races discovered a new way to travel across the stars, they realized how small galaxy really was. Within the next two decades, the whole galaxy was colonized, leaving the balance of power with four super powers: Earth Alliance, Drengin Empire, Arcean Empire and Yor Collective and six great powers: Altarian Republic, Torian Confederation, Thalan Empire, Iconian Refuge, Korx Consortium and Drath Legion. These were known as the major powers, as still there were species within the edges of major power species borders and inside of them.
As all species started researching for more advanced technology and stockpiling for weapons of war, it was decided in the Unidet Planet's council chambers to ban the mass drivers technology, thus opening a cultural impact on weapons design, leading to a doctorine of fusion between laser and missile technology.
For years this was how the things were, everyone preparing. For war, for panic, no one was really certain. Finally, in the year 2245, the silence was broken with a coup. The president of Earth Alliance, Alan Bradley was assasinated by Altarian mining workers. The Alliance was outraged and declared war upon their old friends. As Drath Legion had a deep hatred against the Altarian people, they supported Earth Alliance with weapons of war. The war was quick and destructive. Human fighter ships broke trought Altarian Defense Fleet's forces around Wisp within the third week of the war and conquered all of Altarian space. From that moment on, the newly elected president of Earth Alliance, secretive and powerfull human known only as cloneof (me 
) declared the end of Earth Alliance and instituted a new Earth Empire. The new regime was upon towards conflict, rather then protective of peace. Within months, the galaxy had fallen towards numerous conflicts between numerous species. The Era known as the "Great Panic" came to a halt around 2298, leavind Earth Empire as the ruling power of the galaxy, followed by Drengin and Arcean. Iconian Refuge was wiped from the map, Yor fell in to civil war between the Dark Yor, leaving their respective spaces small compared to other powers. Drath Legion came under Drengin's sphere of influence and the exchausted Korx, left with only a small amount of people do to their mercenary ways, begged Earth Empire for protection in exchange for the usage of Korx miliatry bases.
The galaxy was once again in peace, however, in 2300, The Thalan Empire suddenly disappeared. With no explanation, goverments send out expeditions of scouts, miliatry vessels, some even colony vessels to discover the reason of Thalan disappearence. All of these expeditions were lost and the major powers were confident that it was nothing to be worried about. In the year 2303, an Earth Empire patrol fleet, close to old Thalan space, was attacked by an unknown fleet.
-Captain, sensors are picking up vessels on close range.
-What? How did they manage to get that close?
-They were propably using the close by asteroid belt as a cloak against our long range sensors.
-Very well, red alert! Raise shields, power up plasma cannons and launch fighters.
-Yes sir, plasma cannons one and two fully charged. EES Scarecrow informs it's plasma cannons are still offline, as they have not yet been repaired from our earlier battle with the pirates...
-Very well, order the fleet to go in a attack formation, hail the closing ships.
-Yes, sir. This is the Earth Empire combat cruiser Vengeance. Unknown vessels, you have entered Earth Empire space and we will not tolerate trespassers. Change course or prepare to be fired upon.
-Any response?
-Non, sir.
-Very well. Tactical, order to fleet to fi...
-Sir, the unknown vessels are launching missiles! We are beign fired upon!
-Take evasive action!
-It's too lat...
The Dalek Wars had begun
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(The balance of power in 2303, that picture is just my old recollection, as I actually played this game some time ago and didn't save any screenshots for it :/)
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