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As tabulons of noble Uingffhaestia, spreading our greatness and order across the cosmos is our duty... our obvious fate... our manifest destiny.
The Imperial Sovereignty of Garmageddon, sometimes referred to as the Ingffhaestian Star Empire or the Great Ingffhaestian Empire, was an interstellar far-right superpower known for its exceptionally advanced technology and extreme practices of authoritarianism and bigotry. Its capital is located on Uingffh, and the Sovereignty is predominantly made up of tabulons (Uingffh's native alien race); some refer to the Garmageddon Sovereignty as the Great Uingffhian Empire or the Uingffhian Star Empire.
The Garmageddon Sovereignty formed in 2105 amid the Ingffhaestian Civil War, when its founder, Urlum Eudae Kaywell, took advantage of the civil unrest within the Ingffhaestian Federation and forced its two factions, the Ingffhaestian Union and Ingffhaestian Confederacy, to submit to her rule. Garmageddon later began a program of rapid expansionism, conquering dozens of star systems as its technology exponentially improved. At its peak, the Sovereignty controlled a total of 50 solar systems, including the Earth's Solar System. Eventually, the Garmageddon Sovereignty was overthrown by the Apatelos Rebellion in late 2153 when Urlum's adopted human son, Trey Peterson, assassinated her, leading to the formation of the United Orion-Cygnus Federation (UOCF) in its place.
Garmageddon implemented oppressive policies that made even the Holy Empire of Earth-Kalgamania's rampant corporate- and government-sponsored speciesist genocides seem pale in comparison. They saw the tabulon race as a superior, godly race and sought to exterminate or subjugate any other civilizations in its path. The Imperial Sovereignty conducted planetary genocides on every inhabited planet or moon it encountered, often resorting to staging mass extinction events on inhabited worlds through its planet-destroying spacecraft in order to make way for tabulon settlers. Garmageddon would kill off billions of people, often using cruel and unusual methods to do. They would subject any survivors or populations they saw special worth in to torturous experimentation or to slavery and other forms of coerced labor. For civlizations seen as unfit for direct subjugation or extinction, Garmageddon forced billions of individuals at a time out of their native worlds and into areas with far less hospitable conditions, usually leading to the extinction of said species which would often later be used by the Sovereignty's propagandists as evidence for other species' genetic inferiority. The Garmageddon Sovereignty established centers where tabulons forcibly sterilized billions of individuals as to prevent the reproduction and spread of species they saw as genetically inferior. Any children that were birthed anyway were either executed or brought to special boarding schools where Garmageddon supporters would attempt to suppress the native practices of these children's own civilizations and force them to adapt customs and traditions more aligned with Uingffhian culture. Though their teachers claimed to see alien children as people, they disrespected their culture and used violent means such as whipping, deliberate thirst/starvation, and hard labor in order to "kill the non-tabulon and save the man."
Like Kalgamania, Garmageddon not only discriminated against other civilizations, but against certain minority groups within the tabulon race as well. Cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied, neurotypical, rich tabulons were seen as the norm in Garmageddon society. The Imperial Sovereignty of Garmageddon carried out particularly harsh policies towards genetically mutated tabulons such as cube tabulons and glowing tabulons. They stereotyped such groups as degenerate and savage on a level even more derogatory than their portrayal of other species, and they were often experimented on even more brutally than other groups.
Garmageddon adopted Macbethism, a new religious faith that had arisen during the reign of the Kalgamanian Empire, as its sole legal religion. Macbethism involved the worship of an ancient alien race known as the Drori and their leader, Macbeth. According to the religion, the Drori were responsible for seeding all life in the Milky Way before mysteriously dying out billions of years prior to Garmageddon's formation. Macbethism carried large influence in Garmageddon politics, with church and state being one and the same. The Sovereignty carried out mass persecutions and genocides against other religions, faiths, and even the non-religious and sent them into the same brutal concentration camps, execution sites, experimentation labs, and forced labor as other alien species. In addition, the Sovereignty utilized Macbethist verses as justification for the oppression of other minorities such as the LGBTQ+ community, neurodivergent people, and the poor.
Garmageddon contained an organization called the Order of Apollyon (also known as the Apollyonic Foundation) whose claimed purpose was researching anomalous and supernatural phenomena. Most of these "supernatural" phenomena consisted of decidedly non-anomalous artifacts created by the Drori. More importantly, however, the Foundation orchestrated the most infamous experiments carried out on alien species and minorities. The Order treated other species and minority groups including the disabled and the LGBTQ+ communities as anomalies in themselves, and advocated for the public incarceration of said groups under the guise of contributing to research. The Order of Apollyon also manufactured some of Garmageddon's most feared, powerful weapons including the Apollyon-class Battle Cruiser, a 6-kilometer-long battleship unparalleled in combat; and the Macbeth Device, an immense planet-sized space station that not only could destroy an entire solar system, but also was theoretically capable of creating wormholes into alternate realities. Such endeavors were performed not for the greater good of the public nor for science, but to instill fear among dissenters and to devise further brutal methods for oppressing those deemed misfits by the Imperial Sovereignty.
History[]
Origins and Formation (2103-2105)[]
Prior to Garmageddon's formation, its origin system, the Ingffhaestian system, was in disarray due to the Ingffhaestian Civil War. The Ingffhaestian Federation, the previous government presiding over the system, had split into the Ingffhaestian Union and the Ingffhaestian Confederacy over the issue of equality among the different alien species that existed in the system.
At that time, the tabulon Urlum Eudae Kaywell resided in the Proma System, the closest star system to Ingffhaestia and a red dwarf star unknown to humans located 4.85 light-years from it. Notably, Urlum and a few of her closest supporters had developed the Thegasia Drive, a portable wormhole generation device allowing for quick interstellar travel, in secret, which had allowed her to travel to Proma in the first place.
Urlum Eudae Kaywell had formed the Confederacy and was a strong opponent to species equality, but had become dissatisfied with the Confederacy's status in the war as it began losing to the Ingffhaestian Union. Abandoning the Confederacy and resolving to form a new nation, Kaywell launched the Garmageddon Primary Plan.
Garmageddon Primary Plan and the Polyhex Plan[]
As part of its first phase, the Polyhex Plan, Kaywell commissioned the construction of a fleet of powerful Thegasia Drive-equipped starships called Polyhex-class Battle Cruisers with the capability to destroy a planet. To supply resources and labor to construct the Polyhex fleet, her supporters kidnapped millions of other alien species she saw as "inferior" from the Ingffhaestian System and used them as forced laborers for the construction of the Polyhex-classes. Kaywell also captured renowned engineers and scientists, forcing them to engineer robots to aid in the construction. Both of these efforts succeeded, and the Polyhex fleet had reached completion by only July 4, 2105.
The Redemption Plan[]
Kaywell then launched the Garmageddon Primary Plan's second phase, the Redemption Plan, on July 5, 2105. In what is referred by the general public as "the Redemption," Kaywell had all 16 Polyhex-class ships warp into orbits around each of the Ingffhaestian System's 15 habitable worlds as well as around Earth, ignoring both their previous allyships with the Union or the Confederacy. Large fleets of other, less powerful ships also entered orbital space around other planets not targeted by the Polyhexes. Kaywell threatened planetary destruction if they did not surrender and submit to her rule.
Flag of the Imperial Sovereignty of Garmageddon upon its formation in 2105. It would see the addition of stars encircling its central symbol signifying the various solar systems it would conquer in the future before being replaced by an entirely new design in (year TBA) to celebrate the conquest of its 50th solar system: Earth's solar system.
Though they were initially caught off-guard by the so-called Redemption Fleet's usage of Thegasia Drives, a technology unknown to them at the time, the Union and Confederacy both saw Urlum's Redemption as a bluff and staged attacks on the Polyhex-class ships. However, Urlum's threats were confirmed when one Polyhex, the Nemesia, fired upon the inhabited planet Cornelia after it attempted to fight back, killing off all 12 billion inhabitants. The attack not only rendered Cornelia's surface uninhabitable, but also sent debris spiraling outward to cause devastating impact events on the nearby worlds of Golorra and Euphemia. The Ingffhaestian Federation's remaining 14 inhabited worlds plus Earth all surrendered within less than a month, with the last world (Kaywell's own homeworld, Uingffh) surrendering on August 10, 2105. A day later, Kaywell gave her victory speech and reorganized the Union, Confederacy, and Earth into the Imperial Sovereignty of Garmageddon. She proclaimed herself as its ruler, granting herself the title Highmost Sovereign.
Victory Speech[]
This speech has been translated from Natil, the national language of Garmageddon, to English. Some translation errors may exist.
Attention, citizens of Ingffhaestia! Lend me all of your senses and submit to none but me. I am Urlum Eudae Kaywell, Highmost Sovereign of the Garmageddon Sovereignty and your one and only ruler. All planets have surrendered to me, and both the Union and the Confederacy are under my control. If a single planet dares to oppose my rule, they shall face the devastating wrath of the Polyhex-class Battle Cruisers. They shall share the fate of the moon Cornelia - blasted to pieces. No one has even a single percent of the ability to topple the overwhelming might of the Imperial Sovereignty of Garmageddon.
Starting at this day... Starting at this moment... the universe belongs to me.Urlum Eudae Kaywell
Inaugural Speech[]
Though the Highmost Sovereign essentially gave herself the title of ruler, Kaywell still commissioned an inaugural speech on August 12, 2105. The event mostly served as a parody of Ingffhaestia's delegate inaugurations and was seen as a form of mockery towards the diverse, democratic ideals of the Federation.
The inaugurator was Olympus rei Tharsis, captain of the ship that destroyed Cornelia. Olympus' daughter, Arsia Tharsis, also attended the inauguration.
This speech has been translated from Natil, the national language of Garmageddon, to English. Some translation errors may exist.
Inaugurator Olympus rei Tharsis: Do you swear by oath to protect our great, highmost Sovereignty for as long as you live?
Highmost Sovereign Urlum Eudae Kaywell: I swear my life.
Inaugurator Olympus rei Tharsis: Do you swear to secure, contain, and protect our great, highmost Sovereignty against the iniquities of democracy, of equality, of progressivism, of diversity, and of multiculturalism, and uphold the fear of difference that drives the universe around us?
Highmost Sovereign Urlum Eudae Kaywell: I swear my life.
Inaugurator Olympus rei Tharsis: Do you swear to secure, contain, and protect the noble blood of us Tabulons against the genetic degeneracy of the non-tabulons, of the humans, of the gays, of the lesbians, of the disabled, of the transgenders, of the mentally definient, of the colored, of the religious dissenters, and of the poor?
Highmost Sovereign Urlum Eudae Kaywell: I swear my life.
Inaugurator Olympus rei Tharsis: Do you swear to bring civility to the inferior races, uphold survival of the fittest, and bring order to the primitive, inferior species that sit below our esteemed Tabulon race?
Highmost Sovereign Urlum Eudae Kaywell: I swear my life.
Inaugurator Olympus rei Tharsis: I hereby pronounce you as the greatest of leaders, as the Highmost of Sovereigns: Urlum Eudae Kaywell of Uingffhaestia, ruler of the Imperial Sovereignty of Garmageddon as of August 12, 2105.
Inaugurator Tharsis places the Imperial Crown on Urlum and taps the Staff of Red - Garmageddon's imperial scepter - on Urlum's shoulders. A round of applause as the anthem of Garmageddon plays from a large church organ in the back of the room. Seconds later, this applause abruptly turns into angry shouts as anti-Garmageddon protestors fill the room.
Human citizen: Down with the Highmost Sovereign!
Human citizen: Down with Garmageddon!
Cornelian citizen: Down with the ones who destroyed our planet!
A pair of tabulon citizens holding a rainbow flag (symbolic of the LGBTQ+ community): Down with the ones who reject love being love!
Highmost Sovereign Urlum Eudae Kaywell: I've heard enough.
The Highmost Sovereign signals to Arsia Tharsis, who promptly pulls out an assault rifle and begins shooting the protestors. Within minutes, all protestors are dying or close to death, with blood covering the floor.
Arsia Tharsis: Let this be a reminder of the power of the Sovereignty of Garmageddon and the futility of rebellion. Revolt is a mark of sentimentality, of feelings, of weakness. We of Garmageddon are a society built upon facts. And facts don't care about your feelings.
Highmost Sovereign Urlum Eudae Kaywell: Arsia's words hold great truth. However, as we all know, actions speak louder than words. To demonstrate, witness the fall of a planet plagued by sentimentality and feelings.
Behind Inaugurator Tharsis, his daughter, and Highmost Sovereign Urlum, a large screen turns on. Depicted on the screen is the planet Florazia, known for the peacefulness, hospitality, and compassion of its inhabitants. A Polyhex-class battle cruiser, the Apollinx, is seen approaching the planet.
Highmost Sovereign Urlum Eudae Kaywell: Apollinx, fire!
The Apollinx unleashes a green laser beam at Florazia. Upon impact, a large explosion ruptures the planet, causing its entire surface to be burnt and destroyed. All of its inhabitants are presumed dead.
Highmost Sovereign Urlum Eudae Kaywell: Glory to Garmageddon!
Inaugurator Olympus rei Tharsis, Arsia Tharsis, and audience: Glory to Garmageddon!
A round of applause as the Garmageddon anthem once again plays on the church organ.
Invasion of Uingffh (2106)[]
Though the Redemption and its associated ships successfully brought Ingffhaestia's other habitable worlds under Garmageddon's rule, the moon of Uingffh - Urlum's birthplace - formed a more complicated issue. Being the capital of the Ingffhaestian Union, Uingffh quickly went against Garmageddon control and successfully brought down the Polyhex-class stationed at the moon.
Noticing this, Highmost Sovereign Kaywell resorted to a more complex, efficient invasion of her homeworld. She organized fifteen of Garmageddon's elite generals - Sonnah vir Horizia, Christophsis Mock, Karnelius Haskett, Korvin rei Oceania, Melania Metanovic, Oran Nisme Nian, Naal vir Trytho, Immaniis rei Toremaia, Laurentia vir Ixium, Nienna rei Cercani, Coppel Kalien, Stenci vir Kyto, Olu'um vir Volux, Alpymia rei Alcidora, and Saru Tygoo - into a special group known as the Orbital Knights. Urlum then handed each of the generals Asseylum-class landing castles - modified Polyhex-class ships designed to land on planets, generate destruction on a continental scale upon impact, and conduct ground invasions - and had them lead the invasion of Uingffh. By January 1, 2106, all 17 landing castles (the Orbital Knights' 15 along with the personal landing castles of the Highmost Sovereign and weapons director Siddalee Urzua) had positioned themselves in orbit of Uingffh.
Attack on Yang-Moof City and the Garmageddon Invasion of the United States of Osuwa (January 2106)[]
On January 6, 2106, the Highmost Sovereign officially began the invasion of Uingffh in what became known as the January 6 Insurrection. Aiming to destroy the capitals of every nation on Uingffh, Urlum Eudae Kaywell launched an Interplanetary Ballistic Missile (IPBM) containing several nukes aimed at the capitals. Uingffh detected the IPBM and took defensive action, destroying all of the nukes in the process.
However, the IPBM turned out to be a diversion to attract attention away from the real invasion: the descent of the landing castles. SHortly after the Uingffhian nations took down the IPBM, 14 of the Asseylum-classes descended down onto the Uingffhian nations' capitals. The nations fired hundreds of interceptor missiles and even nuclear missiles at the landing castles, but all of their efforts proved futile in dealing even minor damage to the castles.
The arrival of the 14 landing castles generated massive shockwaves that caused immense destruction on a continental scale. In an instant, the shockwave burned all life-forms within a 500 kilometer radius, wiped out entire cities, generated tsunamis in the ocean, and threw gigantic amounts of debris into the air. An estimated 299.71 million civilians died within the first 24 hours of the assault.
The United States of Osuwa in particular saw three landing castles land in its territory. Christophsis Mock's landing castle landed on Iphelia as Siddalee Urzua's landing castle landed on Ammoze. Most importantly, however, Urlum Eudae Kaywell's landing castle, the Ojas Joshi, landed in Yang-Moof City, the capital of the USO. The Ojas Joshi's landfall resulted in the destruction of the entire city along with the deaths of 195.2 million civilians - presumably among them Odyssia rei Iphelia, the Union's former leader, and accounting for over half of the deaths associated with the attack.
The loss of the USO's leader allowed Garmageddon troops to seize control of the Yang-Moof province. On January 30, they declared the formation of the Imperial Sovereignty of Uingffh-Garmageddon, a tributary empire of Garmageddon. Urlum Eudae Kaywell herself led the invasion and appointed herself Uingffh-Garmageddon's Highmost Sovereign.
With the United States of Osuwa's capital and leader gone, the nation quickly devolved into chaos and anarchy. Mock, Urzua, and Kaywell took advantage of the USO's state of civil unrest and led swift invasions of its provinces. Any citizens who refused to swear allegiance to Garmageddon were publicly executed; on January 13, Urlum Eudae Kaywell oversaw the execution of 1,006 citizens in Jasper City who were accused of plotting to overthrow Uingffh-Garmageddon. The Sovereignty also destroyed cities that expressed dissent against Uingffh-Garmageddon, such as when it nuked Amazia City on January 21 and killed 66,000 tabulons. In all of its conquered provinces, the Highmost Sovereign had any LGBTQ+, disabled, mentally ill, non-Macbethist, etc. tabulons executed or sent off-world to a concentration camp.
By the end of January, the entirety of the USO's territory had fallen under the control of Uingffh-Garmageddon.
Nienna rei Cercani invades the Bagyo Isles (February 2106)[]
On January 6, Highmost Sovereign Urlum assigned orbital knight Nienna rei Cercani to the Bagyo Isles. After her landing castle landed on the Bagyan capital of Alnilam and killed a total of 1.87 million civilians, Uingffh-Garmageddon took advantage of the country's poverty and encouraged the Bagyan poor to revolt against their leaders, promising better living conditions under Garmageddon. Nienna presented herself not as a malicious invader, but a savior promising to bring the Bagyo Isles to prosperity if the Bagyans proved themselves worthy by capturing the ruler of the Bagyo Isles Republic (who had survived the initial assault during the January 6th Insurrection due to being on a diplomatic trip to another region of the Bagyo Isles) and delivering him to her.
This plan proved effective; over the course of January 2106, dozens of civilian uprisings took place against local Bagyo Isles leaders, with many of the dissenters publicly displaying Garmageddon flags as General Cercani lent thousands of troops to the rebels. By February, these uprisings had increased in number and escalated into wider-scale rebellions promising to oust the Bagyan government from rule.
On February 11, news spread that Abondio Fortunato, prime minister of the Bagyo Isles, had returned to the ruins of Anilam. In response, Garmageddon sympathizers stormed the ruins of Anilam as Nienna rei Cercani deployed thousands of soldiers to search for the exiled ruler. The pro-Garmageddon forces detained Fortunato by the end of the day; on February 12, Nienna publicly executed the prime minister via a shot to the head and broadcasted it on Uingffhian television as pro-Uingffh-Garmageddon propaganda.
Uingffh-Garmageddon immediately assumed control of the Bagyo Isles following Fortunato's death. As per Nienna's promises, the Sovereignty brought vast improvements to the Isles' infrastructure and economy, with millions of Bagyans coming out of poverty and gaining jobs under Garmageddon employers. However, like with Osuwa, Uingffh-Garmageddon also implemented strict, deadly policies against dissenters and minorities, with thousands of LGBTQ+ Bagyans in particular being publicly executed by Nienna and other troops associated with the Orbital Knights.
In the end, the economic benefits of Uingffh-Garmageddon in the Bagyo Isles were short-lived; when Kaywell dissolved Uingffh-Garmageddon, she had Nienna rei Cercani return to her military duties and installed a far more hostile governor, Lomina Valentine, into power in the archipelago. Valentine, public in her disdain for the poor, cut taxes for the rich and stripped away employee benefits for the poor, resulting in an increase in economic inequality as thousands of Bagyans fell into poverty. When the Highmost Sovereign passed the Worker Strip Act and other similar policies during the later Imperialization Plan in her efforts to turn capitalism into a Garmageddon-wide phenomenon, all Bagyan workers lost their rights and became exploited under their employers. Cruel employers forced workers into slave-like conditions and inflicted abuse, torture, starvation, thirst, and even execution upon them. By 2110, a majority of Bagyans returned to poverty while a small collection of corporate and Garmageddon officials owned most of the Isles' assets and wealth. 1,150 workers had also died due to poor working conditions, likely more.
Naal vir Trytho invades the Kingdom of Kaywell (March 2106)[]
On January 6, orbital knight Naal vir Trytho landed on the Kaywellian capital of Kirbani, resulting in the destruction of the entire city along with the deaths of an estimated 8.9 million civilians. However, General Trytho experienced difficulty in invading Kaywell, whose already-powerful military successfully fought back Uingffh-Garmageddon invasion.
In response, Stenci vir Kyto, another orbital knight still stationed in orbit during the January 6 Insurrection, landed fir landing castle on Kaywell territory to assist Trytho. However, the tide of the war only turned even more towards Kaywell's favor when the nearby Liyres Commonwealth, Nerusgol Union, and Kelargar Republic all declared their support of Kaywell on February 5 in spite of their own struggles against the other orbital knights and sent even more forces to fight back against Kyto and Trytho.
However, after invading the Bagyo Isles, Uingffh-Garmageddon directly intervened in the Kaywell invasion in March and sent several vanguard armies with troops numbering in the millions into Kaywell territory. Urlum Eudae Kaywell quickly turned the tide of the invasion back into Garmageddon's favor by using her family's survival to her advantage.
When the Kalgamanian Empire invaded Uingffh in 2085, all members of the Kaywellian royal family were presumed dead. When Uingffh regained its independence in 2099, the surviving members of the Kaywellian parliament took power. However, because the Kaywell Family was, in fact, alive thanks to Urlum saving them as the Seraph, Kaywell was forced to accept the former ring Shol Gregrox Kaywell as its new leader.
Because Urlum's family had sworn allegiance to her and Garmageddon, their first move was to incorporate the entirety of the Kingdom into Uingffh-Garmageddon. Numerous internal rebellions plagued the former Kaywell territory for the rest of March, but Urlum suppressed all of them through forcive means including public executions, massacres, city bombings, etc. In addition to the usual suppression of minority groups and political opponents, Urlum also revived imperialist sentiments from when Kaywell had existed as a large empire, spreading Kaywell supremacist views and negative stereotypes of non-Kaywellian races.
Olu'um vir Volux invades the Kelargar Republic (April 2106)[]
Orbital Knight Olu'um vir Volux was sent down to the Kelargar Republic during the January 6 attack. Fir landing castle landed on its capital city of Neragel and killed 6.26 million civilians in the process. Taking advantage of its already-conservative political climate, Olu'um used propaganda to encourage far-right extremists within the nation to swear allegiance to Uingffh-Garmageddon.
This plan initially proved effective - by February, millions of Garmageddon supporters had begun storming regional and national governmental buildings in the republic. However, the republic used its large, powerful military (which remained largely unscathed by Olu'um's landing castle) to quickly break up these insurrections; on March 17, the Kelargan government announced its rejection of Garmageddon and its fascist principles.
Ultimately, the Kelargan government's power was limited. When Kelargan Garmageddon supporters received large amounts of weaponry from Uingffh-Garmageddon following its invasions of Osuwa, Bagyo, and Kaywell; the tide of the war quickly turned to Urlum and Olu'um's side. As Urlum lent arms and troops to Olu'um's forces, extremists quickly overwhelmed local and national troops and overran Kelargan governmental buildings. On April 24, fascist extremists seized control of the provisional Kelargan capital of Nires and murdered all Kelargan government officials. Uingffh-Garmageddon quickly moved in and occupied Kelargar the next day.
Melania Metanovic invades the Nerusgol Union (May 2106)[]
Melania Metanovic's landing castle impacted the capital of the Nerusgol Union, Nerome, during the January 6 attacks. Her initial attack led to the deaths of 2.61 million people.
Despite the severe damage from the initial attack, General Metanovic experienced significant difficulty in establishing control over the rest of the Nerusgol Union. Though the attack succeeded in killing most of the Nerusgan government including Prime Minister Negalia il Neritope, renowned progressive minister Malcalia Breisgau quickly rose up as acting Prime Minister, rejected Uingffh-Garmageddon, and demonstrated effective military leadership. For many months, Breisgau and the Nerusgan military successfully fought back against Metanovic's landing castle and troops.
However, the war began to turn back to Metanovic's favor in May when the annexation of Kelargar in April left the nation surrounded on almost every side by Uingffh-Garmageddon territory - the only non-Garmageddon nation bordering Nerusgol was now Morbidia, which refused to supply aid to the Union. With that, the Nerusgol Union quickly crumbled as Kaywell, Urzua, and the other Orbital Knights began launching devastating attacks on the Nerusgol Union. Armies of millions of Uingffh-Garmageddon troops overwhelmed Nerusgan towns with their sheer numbers; many regions voluntarily surrendered, seeing all feasible forms of resistance to Garmageddon as futile.
On May 18, just 10 days after the beginning of the invasion, Metanovic and the Uingffh-Garmageddon army arrived at the provisional capital of Nibraltaria, where Breisgau resided. Though the remains of the Nerusgan army along with civilian forces managed to hold back the Garmageddon invaders for three days, the capital eventually fell on May 22. That same day, Urlum Eudae Kaywell formally annexed Nerusgol into Uingffh-Garmageddon and publicly executed Malcalia Breisgau.
Under Urlum's reign, much of the reformist policies implemented by Nerusgol were repealed. The Sovereignty curbed money away from infrastructure and public services, instead spending Nerusgol's national budget on expanding Garmageddon's already-massive military. Urlum Eudae Kaywell repealed all reformist policies, such as the law permitting same sex marriage, and began the persecutoin and extermination of various minority groups such as neurodivergents, the disabled, the LGBTQ+ community, etc.
Laurentia vir Ixium and Immaniis rei Toremaia invade the Great Bar and Jebellion Island (June 2106)[]
Laurentia vir Ixium and Immaniis rei Toremaia respectively attacked the Great Bar and Jebellion Island during the attacks on January 6. Their attacks succeeded in destroying Jebellion and the Great Bar's capitals of the Jebellion City and Castle Bebellia, killing 5.81 million and 6.18 million respectively. Like General Metanovic, however, Generals Ixium and Toremaia initially experienced difficulty in conquering the rest of their assigned nations due to their citizens and surviving government officials setting up provisional capitals and governments in other cities.
The situation changed in June 2106 when Uingffh-Garmageddon established control over Kaywell and Osuwa, two of Uingffh's most powerful nations. With these conquests, Uingffh-Garmageddon now had access to thousands of nuclear warheads and other highly advanced long-range weaponry. The Sovereignty utilized these to invade the rest of the Great Bar region.
On June 3, 2106, the weapons director of the Uingffh-Garmageddon military, Siddalee Urzua, authorized Ixium and Toremaia to launch 3 nuclear missiles at the Jebellian cities of Jebel Aru and Jumeira as well as the Great Bar city of Castle Bobarius. Together, the 3 bombings led to the deaths of an estimated 3.75 million tabulons, but more importantly triggered large-scale economic and political collapses in both of the aforementioned countries - the atomic bombings of the major cities both killed all surviving Jebellion and Great Bar politicans, leaving both nations without any potential rulers. This allowed the Uingffh-Garmageddon Sovereignty to quickly invade the two countries.
Jebellion Island fell to Uingffh-Garmageddon on June 12, 2106, followed by the fall of the Great Bar Kingdom on June 17. As with the previous conquests, Uingffh-Garmageddon immediately instated oppressive, authoritarian policies in replacement of old governments. The Highmost Sovereign authorized the persecution and public execution of millions of minority group members such as LGBTQ+ individuals, disabled people, and neurodivergent people. All hints of Jebellion and the Great Bar's old governments were abolished, as with both countries' progressive policies.
Coppel Kalien invades Flornelia/Neo Gaia (July 2106)[]
Coppel Kalien's landing castle impacted the Flornelian City of Neo York during the January 6 Insurrection. The landing led to the destruction of the city and the deaths of 8.9 million people.
Because Flornelia (also known as Neo Gaia) had a human population, being a former colony of Kalgamania, Kalien and the Uingffh-Garmageddon forces exercised extreme prejudice against the Flornelian Union's inhabitants despite the humans' peaceful intentions. Kalien aimed to not only conquer Flornelia, but also eradicate all traces of humanity on the continent through a brutal genocide on humans.
Immediately following the landing, General Kalien had troops scour the surrounding landscape for any human survivors, ordering them to shoot and kill on sight. By the end of January, Kalien's troops had murdered all 1.7 million human survivors, among them many children and infants. Afterwards, the orbital knight launched nuclear missiles at the islands of Neo Hispaniola, Neo Jamaica, Neo Cuba, Neo Cayman, and Neo Puerto Rico on January 10 in order to easily eliminate these overseas targets. The missiles succeeded in completely destroying all traces of civilization on the islands, killing 48.62 million people in the process.
After the destruction of the Neo Caribbean Islands, Coppel Kalien decided to personally destroy the settlements on the Neo Gaian mainland. On January 11, Kalien transitioned his landing castle to "Moving Castle mode" and utilized its retractable legs to travel to other human settlements. On February 4, Kalien arrived in Neo Florida and used laser cannons, missiles, etc. to completely level the province and kill all 24.18 million inhabitants.
Kalien and his troops arrived in Neo Louisiana on March 1 and completely annihilated all human settlements like in Neo Florida. The Neo Louisiana attack killed an estimated 4.69 million humans. Next came the attack on Neo Texas on March 26, which ended with the total destruction of all human settlements there and the deaths of 9.2 million humans. The subsequent attack and destruction of Neo Mexico on April 22 killed 20.5 million people. Finally, General Kalien attacked and annihilated Neo California on May 16, leading to the deaths of 39.7 million humans. Three days later, troops sent by Kalien in February to invade Northern Neo Gaia reported the completion of their invasion and the destruction of the province's capital of Winterouth. After fighting back against human resistance groups for several months, the Uingffh-Garmageddon Sovereignty annexed the continent of Flornelia/Neo Gaia on July 4.
Oran Nisme Nian invades Morbidia (August 2106)[]
Orbital Knight Oran Nisme Nian's landing castle impacted Luciferous, the capital of the socialist Morbidian Republic, on January 6. However, Morbidia's strong military quickly overwhelmed General Nian's forces despite fir valiant attacks; as such, Urlum Eudae Kaywell ordered fir to retreat back into space and leave Morbidia alone, intending to attempt another invasion once Uingffh-Garmageddon grew more powerful.
Peace ensued between Uingffh-Garmageddon and Morbidia until August 11, 2106; surprisingly, Morbidia acted first, launching 17 nuclear missiles at various populated regions Garmageddon as its leader, Gamilas Galra Gaira, condemned the "virulent capitalism and imperialism" of Uingffh-Garmageddon on live television. However, Urlum Eudae Kaywell had anticipated such an act from Morbidia long beforehand and easily intercepted all of the missiles before they could hit their targets. She then retaliated with her own barrage of 30 nuclear missiles taken from Osuwan, Kaywellian, and Kelargan stockpiles; the results were the total destruction of the Morbidian cities, Mamillon, Sinelia, Asmoda Island, Levinta, Stantain, Beezlenia, and Belphecourt along with the deaths of 17.2 million Morbidian citizens. Shortly afterwards, Oran Nisme Nian's landing castle landed once again on the ruins of Luciferous and resumed fir invasion of the socialist republic as per the Highmost Sovereign's orders.
Among the 30 missiles were several of two new nuclear bomb types engineered by Siddalee Urzua: the 345-megaton Nivestia warhead and the 500-megaton Gatalantia warhead. Though Uingffh-Garmageddon only deployed one of each type during the Morbidian bombings, the Nivestia’s detonation accounted for 10% of the death toll; the Gatalantia’s detonation, 20%.
To further destabilize the already-crumbling nation, the Highmost Sovereign and General Nian staged revolts against Morbidia’s leftist government. They had Uingffh-Garmageddon agents spread pro-capitalist messages and pamphlets among Morbidian citizens, successfully leading to anti-socialist movements across the nation as they perpetuated notions that Gaira's rule amounted to nothing but "tyranny, communism, and a complete disrespect of the traditions that make Uingffh and the almighty Tabulons great." By August 23, Morbidia had destabilized to the point that Uingffh-Garmageddon easily conquered it within 3 days.
Despite Garmageddon’s promises of capitalism and freedom from socialist dictators, its rule over the country proved to be just as, if not even more authoritarian in nature than the old Morbidian government. The Sovereignty strongly suppressed political dissidents and carried out the public executions and torture of millions of Morbidian socialists and communists. The discrimination against minorities also extended into Morbidia. Most notably, Uingffh-Garmageddon began to stereotype the entire Morbidian race as socialists, leading to severe discrimination from the government, corporations, and even citizens; for example, during the Luciferous Race Riots of August 29, Uingffh-Garmageddon extremists led by Oran Nisme Nian firself massacred an estimated 107,000 individuals of Morbidian descent on baseless accounts of them conspiring to launch a socialist revolution across Garmageddon. This discrimination and stereotyping of Morbidians would continue on for the rest of Garmageddon’s history.
Sonnah vir Horizia and Karnelius Haskett invade the Uopian Federation and the Uveerian Kingdom (September 2106)[]
During the January 6 attacks, orbital knights Sonnah vir Horizia and Karnelius Haskett attacked the Uopian Federation and the Uveerian Kingdom respectively, destroying their capitals of Utopolis and Utarangia. Much like with the other attacks, Haskett and Horizia's efforts in invading their assigned nations initially went slow due to citizen dissent and revolt.
However, the situation changed when Uingffh-Garmageddon completed its conquest of the Ulstonian supercontinent in August 2106, allowing it to focus on invading the surrounding island continents like Uopia and Uveerius. This was furthered by allegations that the two countries were housing LGBTQ+, disabled, and other minority refugees, subsequently increasing the morale and conviction of Uingffh-Garmageddon troops. In September 2106, Uingffh-Garmageddon decided to invade the two island continents simultaneously, first by launching nuclear warheads at them as with Jebellion, the Great Bar, and Morbidia in order to kill off the so-called “minority degeneracy”.
Prior to the invasions, Weapons Director Urzua not only mass-produced the Nivestia and Gatalantia bombs, but also engineered another two new atomic bomb types: the 895-megaton Satsuki warhead and the 1180-megaton Ragyo warhead. On September 8, 2106, Weapons Director Urzua launched 5 Satsuki missiles at Uopia and 7 Ragyo missiles at Uveerius; the strikes led to the deaths of a staggering 10.5 million in Uopia and an even more staggering 13.2 million in Uveerius.
Though the strikes successfully killed off the Uopian government, the Uveerian government survived. This prompted Uingffh-Garmageddon to launch a sea-based invasion of Uveerius using special Polyhex-class ships modified for use in water. Through these naval ships, Uingffh-Garmageddon successfully captured the Uveerian government-in-exile and took control of all surviving Uveerian cities and bases by September 20; three days later, Highmost Sovereign Urlum Eudae Kaywell formally integrated Uopia and Uveerius into the Uingffh-Garmageddon Sovereignty, imposing many of the same oppressive, authoritarian policies passed in other defeated countries under her rule.
Korvin rei Oceania invades the Liyres Commonwealth (October 2106)[]
The final Uingffhian nation left standing during Garmageddon’s invasion of the planet was the Liyres Commonwealth. Korvin rei Oceania's landing castle landed on its capital of Aldnoah during the January 6 attacks, leading to the deaths of 7.2 million.
Compared to the other invasions, the invasion of Liyres turned out anticlimactic. With its military severely weak and ineffective compared to Oceania's forces, Liyres quickly fell to the Sovereignty in a matter of days. Furthermore, Liyres’ leftist policies rendered it a target of Uingffh-Garmageddon far-right propaganda, further bolstering Garmageddon troops’ morale and vastly dampening the Liyrians’. By just January 11, 2106, Liyres surrendered to Garmageddon amid threats from Urzua of launching a Ragyo nuclear missile at the Liyrian capital. However, due to mainland Uingffh-Garmageddon focusing on other nations expressing more dissent, the Liyres Commonwealth did not see its official integration into the Sovereignty until October 11.
As with the aftermaths of other invasions, the Uingffh-Garmageddon Sovereignty immediately repealed all of the Liyres Commonwealth’s left-wing policies following its annexation of the country. Bigotry, oppression, and public executions of minority groups all became commonplace.
Dissolution of the Uingffh-Garmageddon Sovereignty (November 2106)[]
The surrender of Liyres meant that Uingffh-Garmageddon now controlled all of Uingffh; with its purpose of invading Uingffh fulfilled, Urlum Eudae Kaywell formally absorbed Uingffh-Garmageddon into the main Garmageddon Sovereignty on November 14, 2106.
Imperialization Plan and Assertion of Power (2107-2110)[]
Highmost Sovereign Kaywell held the desire to spread her rule beyond the two star systems and spread Sovereignty rule to other star systems. However, with Ingffhaestia still in social, economic, and political ruin following the catastrophic Civil War, the Garmageddon Sovereignty made the decision to first establish control over its two star systems. Launching the third phase of the Garmageddon Primary Plan, the Imperialization Plan, Kaywell began a massive four-year campaign to fix Ingffhaestia's infrastructure in her own oppressive ways, create a formal system of government and economics, and establish forms of oppression against other alien races.
The Highmost Sovereign publicly executed all 14 surviving delegates (Cornelia's delegate was killed during the destruction of said planet in 2105) of the Ingffhaestian Council on January 20, 2107. She also executed the family members of said delegates including young children and infants at the same time. Protests arose criticizing Garmageddon for, in their view, senselessly murdering innocent children and babies. Kaywell responded with the introduction of newly-engineered sword-shaped combat robots known as fasces which ruthlessly murdered the protestors by stabbing them with loaded ultrasharp needles; the estimated death toll following the protests and their subsequent suppression via the use of the fasces was 195 million - more than the death tolls of Earth's two world wars combined. On February 1, 2107, the Highmost Sovereign publicly executed all 72 surviving members of the Ingffhaestian Court and Legislature, this time through the use of fasces. These events, which would come to be known as the Fasces Massacre, laid the basis for the dismantling of the current government.
Garmageddon then began eradicating all traces of not only the old Ingffhaestian government, but the old culture of Ingffhaestia itself. On February 8, the Ingffhaestian Council, Court, and Legislature were formally dismantled along with the Ingffhaestian Confederacy's government. All citizens were stripped of their say in political affairs. In its place, the Highmost Sovereign established the Imperial Index of Sins, a new constitution which included direct attacks on both minority groups and political dissients.
In a rather shocking move, however, Urlum decided against installing herself as the sole, absolute ruler of Garmageddon due to such a position leaving her particularly vulnerable to assassination. Instead, she reorganized the Sovereignty into an absolute monarchy, installing her family as its royalty. Her aether, Shol Gregrox Kaywell, became the Ring and official ruler of Garmageddon; however, the royal family ultimately acted as a puppet government to Urlum, who continued to act as the true, de facto ruler of the Sovereignty as evident by her retention of the title "Highmost Sovereign". Urlum continued to act as the primary deviser of Garmageddon's strategies and policies as well as a totalitarian dictator, crushing all who dared to oppose her. This act also allowed her to play a more direct role in Garmageddon's future conquests; while Urlum was out winning battles against enemy nations, Shol and the rest of the imperial family could manage the Sovereignty's internal affairs.
In the New Order Act of February 13, all displays of the Federation's flag, motto, and anthem were banned. Old Federation governmental buildings were demolished. Yang-Moof City, the Federation's former capital which had been destroyed by the Highmost Sovereign's landing castle prior to imperialization, was newly rebuilt and renamed Polyhex City in honor of the Polyhex-class warships which brought down Ingffhaestia. However, "New Korroway" arose as a common nickname for Polyhex City, derived from the name of the capital of the now-conquered Kingdom of Kaywell: Korroway.
Interior of the Carykh Gallery
A standing, decorated Polyhex-class was placed in the center of the city to act as the royal family's palace. Notably, the Highmost Sovereign had a replica of Stanford University, a school on Earth, constructed around the Polyhex tower to act as Urlum's personal garden, library, and database; the garden, named the Carykh Gallery, became a symbol of Urlum's exceptional intelligence and strategic genius. In the event of a major disaster or uprising, Urlum also had an auxiliary palace constructed in Sumber Alami, a well-defended city located on the island of Boklom, thousands of kilometers from Polyhex. This secondary palace contained an identical copy of the Carykh Gallery known as the Fernozzle Gallery.
Millions of cities and landmarks across the Ingffhaestian star system's planets and moons were renamed to honor Garmageddon and its achievements as part of its program to establish a sense of nationalism. The old currency, sters, were renamed to Imperial Asters. Even the official language was changed, with the Highmost Sovereign forcibly transitioning Ingffhaestia to a nation speaking Natil, the Tabulons' ancient language. However, the previous main language of Golagat continued to be legal and in use by many tabulons.
During the period from March to April, the Imperial Sovereignty of Garmageddon passed a collection of laws and acts known as the Non-Tabulon Codes, which restricted the rights of non-tabulons. "In order to create a prosperous nation, we must protect our pure tabulon race from the evil that is other species," Highmost Sovereign Kaywell famously declared during the passage of the first of the Codes. Intelligent species aside from tabulons were demoted to what were essentially slaves, losing many fundamental rights. Garmageddon denied non-tabulons the rights to vote, own property, travel independently, and to many other things. The Non-Tabulon Codes entailed the construction of the first concentration and extermination camps, and millions were sent to the first completed camps to be sentenced to hard labor or execution. Statisticians estimate the death toll in these camps to be 11 billion in 2107 alone.
The Sovereignty also began restricting the rights of minorities within the tabulon species. On March 3, Urlum Eudae Kaywell passed the Child Welfare Act, which restricted the rights of people in the LGBTQ+ community. Despite its seemingly-benign name, the act proved to be one of the most devastating blows to LGBTQ+ rights, with the Highmost Sovereign passing the act under the pretext of "protecting the nation's children against sexual psychopaths." Under the act, transgender people were no longer allowed to seek gender-affirming care and same-sex marriage became limited. Teachers, employers, and other adults were required and encouraged to out any LGBTQ+ students and/or employees to their families. Same-sex couples were no longer allowed to adopt children, with the act forcing sexual education programs to push the notion that same-sex couples are more likely to abuse their children. Sexual educations programs were also forced to exclude all positive and neutral portrayals and information regarding LGBTQ+ identities. All LGBTQ+ individuals became excluded from holding jobs in the federal government, and private employers were permitted to fire or refuse to hire workers on the basis of being homosexual, transgender, bisexual, asexual, etc.
The steady degredation of LGBTQ+ rights culminated in the community's total loss of status as people. In the Conformity Act of March 15, the Sovereignty stripped citizenship from both mentally and physically disabled tabulons. Both the tabulon LGBTQ+ community and disabled tabulons underwent forced sterilizations and were sent to conversion therapy, where Garmageddon medical professionals brutally tortured them in an effort to undo their queerness/disability and "return them to the purity of heterosexuality and ability." Opposition to these acts and codes was few and far between due to the intimidation the Polyhex-class ships and the Fasces posed over potential dissenters. It is estimated that 6.5 billion LGBTQ+ and disabled tabulons were sent to their deaths in 2107.
In addition to government-mandated oppressive policies, Garmageddon harvested a culture of bigotry within its citizenry. Thousands of popular television programs, works of literature, movies, plays, and other forms of fiction were banned and replaced with Garmageddon propaganda which grossly stereotyped alien races and gave off prominent themes of racism, ableism, etc. A group called the Associated Student Body was formed which aimed to indoctrinate children and teens into the bigoted ideologies of Garmageddon, attracting millions of members. Schools were forced to ban non-tabulons from attending and to teach speciesism in their curriculums; the average school day was increased from 7 hours to a whopping 12 hours to accomodate a 5-hour-long period specifically for the teaching of speciesist principles such as social darwinism, racial hierarchies, stereotypes, etc. Teaching critical race theory and other forms of progressive teaching were made punishable by death, and organizations like Kalgamania and the Ingffhaestian Confederacy were glorified. Prominent social justice figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., the Seraph, etc. became demonized and portrayed as dangerous communists.
The Highmost Sovereign had millions of speciesist propaganda posters be hung up in public spaces. These efforts were highly successful. Citizens of Garmageddon often rallied together to form enourmous, violent mobs, beat hundreds to thousands of aliens and minority group members to death, and burn said groups' towns to the ground. Hate groups such as the Warriors of the Tabulon Eugeo (side note: The Eugeo was a native Uingffhian flower known for its large, blue-colored rose-like blooms) and the Proud Tabulons. Companies, which had retained their autonomy, either barred non-tabulons from employment or subjected them to hard labor. They also incorporated speciesist propaganda in their advertisements.
The Ingffhaestian Federation's constitution, along with many of its freedoms of religion, speech, and the press, were suppressed under Garmageddon's rule. The Sovereignty drastically increased state surveillance, especially for those suspected of harboring left-wing or liberal ideologies; government organizations were established to suppress all opposition to the political far-right, the only legal part of the political spectrum in Garmageddon. Garmageddon, in addition to passing acts such as the Pridefall act, reinstated thousands of old laws against minorities such as homosexuality, transgender people, neurodivergents, disabled people, etc. as it carried out persecutions, public torture, and public executions of prominent progressive activists.
This oppression served not only to establish tabulons as a superior race, but to create a source of labor for the hard tasks needed to repair Ingffhaestia's ruined economy and infrastructure. Non-tabulons worked alongside shunned tabulon minority members in poor working conditions rebuilding destroyed structures, repairing infrastructure, and mining asteroids for the material used to build the Sovereignty's massive starships and palaces. Engineers from other planets were captured by Garmageddon and forced to design novel warships and weapons for the Sovereignty; by the beginning of 2107, over 100,000 ships were in the service of Garmageddon's navy, with 10 new ship classes being made including the Christo-class, Hunter-class, Ruina-class, Malum-class, Interitus-class, Perditio-class, Exitium-class, Eversio-class, Apollymi-class, and Apollonius-class.
Despite this new efficient labor force, however, the Highmost Sovereign decided to impose even more measures to increase productivity. She decided to go somewhat against her ideal of absolute control and create a laissez-faire economic system, stripping away many of the economic regulations imposed by the Ingffhaestian Federation. Openly promoting free-market capitalism much like the earlier Holy Empire of Kalgamania, Garmageddon's companies became largely free to do what they wished. At first, this actually backfired; though the economy quickly prospered and recovered from the Civil War (an effect seen as one of the few positives of Garmageddon rule), several companies used their freedom to openly protest against Garmageddon and secretly assist non-tabulons and other minorities. To combat this, the Sovereign passed the regulatory Coercion Act on March 26, 2107, which forced all companies to support the oppression of non-tabulons and set heavy fines for companies that failed to comply. Kaywell also passed the Worker Strip Act at the same time, which stripped all lower-class laborers of their rights and authorized their exploitation under employers. Employers and other overseers were permitted to extend working hours as long as they wished, assign any form of work regardless of its potential danger or brutality, and even torture or execute employees on-site. The act also abolished labor unions and minimum wage requirements and set a precedent for classism and worker exploitation for decades to come.
These policies established Garmageddon's culture and allowed it to recover from the ruin of the Civil War efficiently and effectively. Internal improvements were essentially completed by 2110, which marked the end of the Imperialization Plan.
Griffith's Rebellion and the Garmageddon-Earth War (2111-2114)[]
On April 22, 2111, Earth prime minister Evanor Griffith (born Evan inv Kalgamania, a member of the Kalgamanian Empire's royal family) surprised the Imperial Sovereignty of Garmageddon when he announced Earth's secession from the Sovereignty and the end of his support of Garmageddon speciesism and policies. In what was known as Griffith's Rebellion, Earth's human population slaughtered or forced out tabulon settlers and mounted assaults on the Garmageddon naval forces orbiting Earth, destroying the Polyhex-class orbiting the planet in the process by disabling its planet-destroying gun via an EMP. This came amid a period of reform brought about by Prime Minister Griffith which involved advances in race, gender, LGBTQ+, disability, etc. equality and a de-glorification of Kalgamania.
Within a day, the Garmageddon Sovereignty sent a fleet of 495 ships including three Polyhexes to Earth's solar system as part of the Highmost Sovereign's new (and ultimately last) phase of the Garmageddon Primary Plan: the Earth Capture Plan. The fleet was led by sibling generals Ascraeus Tharsis, Pavonis Tharsis, and Arsia Tharsis (the three children of Olympus rei Tharsis). All of the Orbital Knights and their landing castles also participated on the Garmageddon side and led operations on the other planets in the Solar System. Though the Garmageddon fleet was powerful, the Earth fleet matched its power with its own multi-kilometer world glassers inherited from Kalgamania. Constant space warfare continued for almost three years, with dramatic civilian and military losses on both sides; 230 million humans and 2.15 million tabulons died as the Griffith fleet took down hundreds of Garmageddon ships while the Tharsis siblings' Apollymi-class cruisers bombarded populous Earth cities such as San Francisco, Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai, Sao Paolo, Mexico City, Cairo, Mumbai, Beijing, Dhaka, Osaka, and New York. The tabulons took advantage of Griffith's perceived "oversensitivity" by targeting populous cities rather than governmental cities. Even Ingffhaestia was hard at work contributing to the war; in addition to drafting millions of tabulon citizens, the Garmageddon government forced already-overworked and underpaid laborers to become more productive in order to increase military output; workers and non-tabulon slaves were forced to work all 24 hours of the day, sometimes with no pay due to the absence of minimum wage laws.
ADHD Genocide[]
A notable highlight of Garmageddon's response to Griffith's Rebellion was the ADHD Genocide, where Garmageddon systematically eradicated people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). On January 5, 2112, general Arsia Tharsis ordered the executions of all 129 million people with ADHD on Earth, sending down an estimated 45.6 billion fasces down to every continent on the planet save for Antarctica with the goal of eradicating ADHD off of existence. Arsia carried out the genocide both as part of Urlum's plan to emotionally manipulate Evanor Griffith into surrendering and as an expression of her personal grudge against Blake Coonce, a Griffith Republic general with ADHD.
Arsia's plans had brutal results. On Earth, millions of people with ADHD died as fasces stormed the streets and stabbed every person with the condition in sight - in the first day alone, fasces killed an estimated 12 million people with ADHD including children - more than the death toll of the entire Holocaust. Numerous humans without ADHD were caught in the crossfire and lost their lives as well. In addition, Arsia would often kidnap groups of adolescents with ADHD and personally execute them brutally on live television as a form of ableist propaganda. On May 18, 2112, Blake Coonce was captured and executed by being ripped to shreds in front of his girlfriend, but Arsia Tharsis decided to continue on with the genocide due to her deep-rooted ableism.
One of the most notable events of the ADHD Genocide were the public executions of Jack Fischer and Charlie Choi. The two were dating when Arsia commenced the ADHD Genocide on January 5. Because Fischer had ADHD, only he was captured and detained at first, being arrested on March 13, 2113. In response, Choi led a massive protest movement against Garmageddon's invasion that, from April to August of 2113, hindered the ADHD Genocide's progress by dismantling fasces and driving out Garmageddon troops. She used her heartbreak over her boyfriend's capture to transform the protests into a planetwide social justice movement.
However, Arsia Tharsis quickly put down the protests when she orbitally bombarded the cities involved on August 17, 2113 and killed an estimated 1.28 million human civilians. Choi survived, but was quickly captured by GIAF troops shortly after. Arsia then had Choi detained and tortured for a long period from September 2113 to February 2114, performing acts such as whipping, cutting, teeth-pulling, punching, beating, etc. Arsia also kept Fischer alive to witness the torture of his girlfriend, however Choi did not know of her boyfriend's survival at any point during the torture session.
The public executions themselves occurred on March 13, 2114. Fischer was convicted of the crime of having ADHD; Choi, of treason against the Garmageddon Sovereignty. After physically beating and wounding Jack Fischer, Arsia had him and Charlie Choi reunite one last time in a street surrounded by fasces. Fischer and Choi shared a final hug before being killed not only by impalement from numerous needles fired by the fasces, but also from gunshots fired by Arsia Tharsis herself. Urlum broadcasted the executions, later touted the Lilium Street Execution for the name of the street they took place in, on national television as pro-Garmageddon propaganda shortly after. Evanor Griffith later made an emotional address condemning the deaths of Fischer and Choi and expressing his pride in the two for resisting the tyranny of Garmageddon. He reportedly shed tears during the address; while the humans actively expressed their sympathy for Griffith, the tabulons mocked Griffith as a "sensitive special snowflake" and turned his scene of crying into a popular internet meme. Urlum Eudae Kaywell herself parodied the speech as a form of pro-Garmageddon propaganda on April 22, 2114.
Creation of the Integrity Generals[]
During February of 2114, Garmageddon psychologist and researcher Alzheimia Leyland Kirby developed the Quinella Module - a device which, when inserted into the brain of an individual, would block said individual's most treasured memories and delude them into exercising fanatical devotion and reverence to the Highmost Sovereign. Through force, Highmost Sovereign Kaywell inserted Quinella Modules into several Griffith prisoners of war whose battle prowess impressed her and turned them into loyal integrity generals serving Garmageddon. On March 31, 2114, Kaywell and Kirby had converted prisoners of war Nicholas Nelson and Charlie Spring into the first integrity generals: Nicholas Gliese 1 and Charles Gliese 2.
The integrity generals, despite their non-tabulon status, later carried out the Highmost Sovereign's orders with more loyalty and brutality than even the most devoted of Garmageddon's tabulon generals. They succeeded without fail in bringing in those plotting against Garmageddon and its government. By October 7, Garmageddon had created 20 integrity generals.
The Quinella Module also proved useful on tabulons as well. Shortly after the conversions of Nicholas and Charles, Urlum inserted Quinella Modules into the brains of all members of the royal family in order to ensure their loyalty to her. Only her older brother Sarnus escaped such a procedure due to having already voluntarily expressed his allegiance to her and Garmageddon.
Stalemate and drafting of the Treaty of the Moon[]
When the Integrity Generals were introduced into battle, Garmageddon initially gained a slight advantage as they took Griffith by surprise with their battle prowess and brutality. They swiftly defeated Griffith fleets due to a combination of their own exceptional fighting capabilities and the fleets' reluctance to kill fellow humans, such as during the Battle of Saturn when a fleet led by Charles Gliese 2 wiped out a Griffith fleet of 67 led notably by Charles' own sister.
However, Evanor Griffith unexpectedly disregarded his sentimentality regarding the Integrity Generals and made a speech on August 22 stating that all Integrity Generals were no longer familiar humans and were to be treated as enemies to the Republic, consoling family members of any Integrity Generals by stating that the defeat of their converted loved ones would ensure bright futures for all of their other close friends and family. Though not everyone bought into his explanation, his speech nonetheless significantly increased Griffith morale to the point that Garmageddon's earlier advantage granted by the Integrity Generals became insignificant.
Eventually, both sides lost value in the war as casualties and damages accumulated without any significant victories or losses; on December 2, 2114, Evanor Griffith and Urlum Eudae Kaywell met on a lunar colony (albeit in separate rooms without making physical contact; Griffith insisted on this precaution so that Urlum and her supporters wouldn't attempt to poison or brainwash him), where they agreed to sign the Treaty of the Moon which declared the Solar System and a small collection of human-inhabited star systems an independent nation. The treaty also outlawed the destruction of planets, though the Sovereignty would quickly find clever loopholes to this aspect of the treaty and eventually ignore it altogether. Though Garmageddon and the newly-founded Griffith Republic agreed to engage in peaceful relations, both sides continued to express bitterness towards one another internally, especially on the side of Garmageddon; anti-human propaganda dramatically increased in Garmageddon-controlled planets and the Sovereignty began rapidly expanding its military in the hopes of one day re-conquering Earth.
The ADHD Genocide also ended with the passage of the treaty, but its effects remained clear even after the genocide - by the treaty's passage, Arsia Tharsis had killed 127 million people with ADHD - over 99% of the worldwide population of people with ADHD at the time of Garmageddon's attack. The genocide was so severe that the ADHD population was still below pre-Griffith's Rebellion levels when Garmageddon saw its disestablishment decades later.
In addition, Evanor Griffith demanded that the Garmageddon Sovereignty release the integrity generals during the drafting of the Treaty of the Moon, but the Highmost Sovereign refused and kept the generals under her custody and under the control of the Quinella Modules.
Beginning of the Ouroboros Contingency Plan (2115-2119)[]
On April 22, 2115, the Garmageddon Sovereignty ended the Garmageddon Primary Plan and began a new plan: the Ouroboros Contingency Plan, which focused on expansionism into other star systems now that the Thegasia Drives granted the tabulons a convenient method of interstellar travel. In Urlum's terms, the Ouroboros Plan was created to "civilize the inferior, savage races" beyond Ingffhaestia.
Though the Highmost Sovereign's ultimate goal was to conquer the entire galaxy, she knew that such a goal could not feasibly be accomplished in her lifetime given how many stars and planets it contained. Instead, she took a more methodical approach and made the conquest of 40 solar systems within the vicinity of Ingffhaestia, including Proma, the main goal of the Ouroboros Plan.
To this end, Garmageddon fostered a period of technological advancement during four years following the conclusion of Griffith's Rebellion, as part of the Ouroboros Plan's first phase - the Industrialization Plan - to prepare the Imperial Sovereignty for expansionism. Technological advancement was exceptionally rapid in pace, with the Sovereignty constructing multi-kilometer constructs in the timeframe of mere weeks and months - a feat that once took years - thanks to the invention of new construction robots. With almost unlimited resources thanks to non-tabulon slave labor and a lack of worker's rights, Garmageddom scientists, businessmen, and other industrialists began pushing out numerous new innovations and inventions, particularly within the Garmageddon military. Garmageddon's navy alone saw the introduction of eight new ship classes: the Iniquity-, Ignominy-, Piaculum-, Supplicium-, Katastrofi-, Chalasmos-, Ultio-, and Algol-class ships. Civilian life saw changes as well; cities and towns located on worlds formerly inhabited by non-tabulons were demolished and replaced by new tabulon cities with exceptionally high standards of living. In addition, dozens of new space stations including O'Neill Cylinders, Stanford Tori, and Bishop Rings. Furthermore, vast terraformation projects took place which turned dozens of uninhabitable terrestrials into prosperous Uingffh-like worlds. Some of the advancements during the time period even bordered on fantasy; the Garmageddon Sovereignty developed methods of mind control and memory manipulation, both of which the Highmost Sovereign quickly put to use to manipulate the public and crush dissent. Though industrialization deepened the already-severe wealth gap between laborers and higher-class tabulon citizens, with only a small few being truly able to enjoy the luxuries of the Industrialization Plan, the Sovereignty simply utilized these psychological weapons to force the lower-class into being complacent with their poor living conditions. In addition, Garmageddon technology gained the ability to control weather and significantly alter large landscapes; oftentimes, the Sovereignty would trigger artificial natural disasters such as hurricanes and volcanic eruptions as a way to put down opposition. Garmageddon scientists pioneered methods of biological immortality as well, allowing individuals like Highmost Sovereign Kaywell and her confidants to theoretically reign hundreds of years past their normal biological lifespans (Unbeknownst to Urlum, Evanor Griffith also gained access to Garmageddon's biological immortality methods via the black market).
The advancement period also saw a increase in discrimination against non-tabulons and other minorities as numerous concentration camps reached completion. The Sovereignty of Garmageddon forced entire planetary populations of non-tabulon species along with billions of other minorities into the newly-constructed camps to suffer under forced labor, experimentation, sexual abuse, and a plethora of other atrocities - an estimated 11 billion individuals - possibly even more, given the extreme censorship in Garmageddon - were killed from 2115 to 2119 while billions more sustained severe physical and physological harm. Several new laws also legalized the sterilization of planetary populations, the taking of minority youth into correction facilities and boarding schools, and the removal of native non-tabulons out of their land to make way for tabulon cities.
In addition to economic and social change, political change occurred in Garmageddon as well, with its government becoming much more organized and complex. Though the Highmost Sovereign still wielded dictatorial power and the Garmageddon Sovereignty remained a one-party totalitarian state, power became distributed among a selection of departments and organizations. The order system previously used in the Ingffhaestian Federation was revived and given new, state-of-the-art starships, manpower, and weaponry. Garmageddon also formed the Order of Urvinius to replace the old Order of Korvinius, which had been executed due to all of its members being non-tabulons. Many of the members of the old Ingffhaestian Federation orders, especially the higher-ranking generals and grandmasters, joined the new Garmageddon orders, but mostly due to the Highmost Sovereign threatening death and holding families hostage if they did not join. Garmageddon's orders partook in duties such as propaganda, executions of non-tabulons, censorship, military conquests, etc.
In addition, the Highmost Sovereign established a top-secret fifth order called the Order of Apollyon to act as her "right hand," performing much of the Sovereignty's more sinister tasks. Several noble families were also established; one of these was the Tharsis family, which the Highmost Sovereign awarded nobility to for their role in the destruction of Cornelia and in Griffith's Rebellion. Garmageddon established a judicial system, the Highmost Imperial Court; as well as proper intelligence, propaganda, and youth organizations.
The advancement period ended with the invention of the Commercial Thegasia Drive in 2119. The Commercial Thegasia Drive was a smaller, more economically-efficient model of the Thegasia Drive designed for mass production. With the Commercial Thegasia Drive's invention, mass production, and subsequent installation onto Garmageddonian ships, the Sovereignty at last began its journey to conquer the local stars, though technological advancement would continue well past 2119.
Beginning of Explosive Expansionism and the Galaxies Unbound Plan (2120-2122)[]
In late 2119, the Highmost Sovereign began the Galaxies Unbound Plan, the next phase of the Ouroboros Plan which entailed the conquest of the first few solar systems close to Ingffhaestia. Armed with an exponentially-expanding fleet with ships numbering to the tens of thousands, Garmageddon quickly conquered dozens of planets with the help of Thegasia Drives mounted onto every ship.
By February 14, 2120, the Sovereignty had begun transforming the Proma System into a proper settlement as opposed to a simple military manufacturing center. Civilian populations grew on the planets of Ilsa and Icum as well as on space colonies orbiting the giant planets Nergius, Entokia, Sarvente, and Ruv. These expeditions into neighboring planets were led by high-ranking generals and noblemen who would later come to be nicknamed Conquerators.
Contact with the Tinara System and the First Alien Genocide[]
During this period, Conquerator Mirn Nova Kirbani encountered two species of native intelligent life on Tertan and Fera, moons of the gas giant Palemarma, the third planet of the red dwarf star system of Tinara (known to humans as the obscure LP 469-67), marking the first encounter with another species of intelligent life outside of Ingffhaestia since contact with the human race in 2040. Though Mirn described the inhabitants as a kind and generous people, she also noted their potential to be used as slaves for the Sovereignty. Obtaining authorization by Highmost Sovereign Kaywell to subjugate Tertan and Fera under Garmageddon control, Mirn sent a fleet led by her brother, Vael Nova Kirbani, to invade both worlds along with all other worlds in the Kalaga System.
What followed next was an event known as the First Alien Genocide: the total enslavement of the Tertanian and Feran species. Utilizing similar strategies the Highmost Sovereign used during the Redemption, namely threats of planetary destruction by Polyhex-class ships, Vael led a massive invasion campaign of the two worlds. As nuclear bombs and orbital lasers laid waste to Kalagan cities and killed millions, Garmageddon troops went down onto Tertan and Fera themselves. There, they kidnapped or massacred immense portions of the Tertanian and Feran species, including millions of children and infants. Billions of Tertanians and Ferans were sentenced to forced, unpaid labor under cruel tabulon masters, who saw them as inferior in the same way they saw other non-tabulon species. Billions of others saw simple public execution, with Vael and other GIAF troops employing a variety of gruesome methods such as burning on the stake, mass shootings, and even consumption - tabulon scientists found that Tertanian and Feran meat carried a variety of health benefits for tabulons. By the end of 2121, Vael had completely conquered the Tinara System and all of its planets: Murmesa, Dend, Palemarma, Ruby, Bronze, Darhe, and Dek. The sight of Tertanian and Feran slaves became commonplace in Garmageddon society, but even more common were supermarkets selling Tertanian and Feran meat. In many plantations and farms across the Sovereignty, tabulon masters raised and treated aliens like livestock, killing individuals as young as infants for meat. An estimated 6.2 billion Tertanians and 5.7 Ferans perished in 2121 alone. Ultimately, however, the First Alien Genocide would pale in comparison to later genocides carried out by the Imperial Sovereignty of Garmageddon.
Earth reception[]
Garmageddon's conquest of other solar systems and its oppression of native civilizations brought attention and criticism from Evanor Griffith, who claimed that the Kirbani siblings' use of Polyhex-class battle cruisers in the conquest of Kalaga violated the Treaty of the Moon. Urlum Eudae Kaywell, meanwhile, defended the Kirbanis' actions, stating that simply threatening planetary destruction did not go against the treaty, which only outlawed actual planetary destruction. As such, Garmageddon's imperialist endeavors went on unhindered; by 2122, the Imperial Sovereignty had turned both the Proma and Tinara systems into bustling tabulon colonies and began planning its invasion of the Tani System, the next nearby solar system.
Hebrew Eclipse Plan and the Garmageddon Invasion of Krybolartarium (2123-2124)[]
With the Proma and Tinara Systems conquered, the Highmost Sovereign set her eyes on conquering the next-nearest star system to Ingffhaestia: the Tani System (known to humans as 107 Piscium), located 7.86 light-years from Ingffhaestia. Prior to beginning its conquest campaign, Garmageddon gathered intel on the Tani System's environment in order to better plan for battle.
Flag of the Krybolartarium Empire
As a matter of fact, the Tani System, at the time, was inhabited by a species known as the Krybolartarian Lizards, who had organized into the Krybolartarium Empire centered on their homeworld of Krybolartarium. Krybolartarium controlled the entirety of the Tani System (which they called the Aelatarium System), but did not possess any wormhole devices like Garmageddon did. Though their government wielded near-absolute power and a powerful military, Krybolartarium did not resort to oppressive policies and advocated for equal rights as well as inclusion.
A notable feature of the Tani System was a gas giant known to the Lizards as Tios. Tios had an unusually large and extensive ring system large enough to be visible to the naked eye in Krybolartarian skies. The existence of Tios only motivated the Ingffhaestian Star Empire to invade Krybolartarium even more, as they saw its rings as valuable natural resources to manufacture spaceships.
Initially, Garmageddon attempted to use its usual strategy of intimidating worlds into submission via Polyhex-class battle cruisers to annex Krybolartarium. On September 29, 2123, a vanguard force of 405 ships, including a Polyhex, warped into the space around colonized dwarf planets in the outer reaches of the Tani System, threatening their destruction if their Lizard colonists failed to surrender to Garmageddon. However, the Garmageddon Sovereignty underestimated the Krybolartarium Empire's technology; Krybolartarian lizards used their own planet-destroying ships to defeat all but 11 of the ships including the Polyhexes.
On October 4, 2123, the leader of Krybolartarium, Tyrannius Hugon, declared war on Garmageddon. The new war proved costly for the Sovereignty, with Krybolartarian ships destroying any Garmageddon fleets that entered the Aelatarium/Tani System with frightening efficiency. In response to her losses, however, Highmost Sovereign Kaywell devised a clever strategy to turn the tide of the war: Bioweapons.
Eclipsia-24 Pandemic and the Krybolartarian Lizard Genocide[]
Eclipsia-24 under a microscope.
The Highmost Sovereign set forth the Hebrew Eclipse Plan, the next phase of Ouroboros, into motion in November 2123 in order to take over 107 Piscium. The plan entailed the secret creation of an extremely infective and deadly virus, Eclipsia-24, in Garmageddon laboratories which could affect all forms of complex intelligent life save for tabulons. Garmageddonian virologists engineered the virus frighteningly quickly, completing Eclipsia-24's first prototype by just January 13, 2124.
Afterwards, Garmageddon lent a selection of non-tabulon concentration camp inmates for the Hebrew Eclipse Plan virologists to test the virus on. The test, which occurred on January 16, succeeded; it took less than 10 minutes for Eclipsia to spread from the manually-infected individual to the 27 other individuals being tested despite the virologists spacing all of them 6 feet apart. Symptoms and death, meanwhile, did not occur until a few weeks after exposure and varied wildly between individuals, but Princess Urlum intended this as a way to prevent Krybolartarium from detecting and eradicating the virus early.
Shortly after the virus' finalization in March, a disguised fleet led by Conquerator Alef Hebrew warped into the Tani System and released the completed virus onto the surface of an outer dwarf planet colonized by the Krybolartarian Lizards. Eclipsia-24 spread extremely rapidly; by just April 22, 2124, Eclipsia-24 had infected 35% of the entire Krybolartarian population; spread to every inhabited planet, dwarf planet, and colony in the Tani/Aelatarium/107 Piscium System; and killed a total of 1.38 billion Lizards. The virus forced Krybolartarium to lessen its defensive efforts against Garmageddon and focus on suppressing the pandemic within, with funds being diverted from military and war efforts to healthcare and relief. The Krybolartarium Empire went into lockdown, adversely affecting its economy as billions of workers were forced to stay home. By then, however, the virus had already affected the nation severely.
Then, the Sovereignty took advantage of the economic ruin brought about Eclipsia-24. With Krybolartarium's military significantly weakened by the virus removing personnel from service, Garmageddon ships were able to take control of Krybolartarian planets and dwarf planets with extreme ease. The Sovereignty seized more and more dwarf planets and colonies and converting them into their own, with the Sovereignty expelling Krybolartarian Lizards living on these planets and forcing them into concentration camps; hundreds of millions died from experimentation and genocide, while several more million died of Eclipsia-24 on their own. Within the Imperial Sovereignty of Garmageddon, tabulon nationalist propaganda came to include Krybolartarian Lizards in its long list of species deemed genetically inferior; the Imperial Sovereignty used the outbreak of Eclipsia-24 among Krybolartarian Lizards and the tabulons' immunity to the virus as evidence for the Lizards' inherent inferiority and the tabulons' superior genes.
By August of 2124, all Aelatarian dwarf planets as well as the planets Tios and Teranat had fallen under the control of the Ingffhaestian Star Empire, leaving only the Krybolartarium homeworld under the control of the Krybolartarian Lizards. By then, Urlum's many concentration and extermination camps had murdered an estimated 8.71 billion Krybolartarian Lizards - among them billions of children, minors, and infants.
Destruction of Krybolartarium[]
On August 11th of that year (the 19th anniversary of the formation of Garmageddon), a fleet of 1984 ships led by Alef Hebrew and Urlum Eudae Kaywell had entered the orbit of the planet Krybolartarium itself, marking the beginning of the Great Battle of Krybolartarium. Garmageddon took control of Krybolartarium by first taking over an extremely large 2000-kilometer-long bishop ring space station orbiting the planet called the Mothership. Quickly defeating the meager Krybolartarian defense fleet posted near the Mothership, the Garmageddon fleet threatened to collide the Mothership with Krybolartarium if Tyrannius Hugon did not surrender. These threats proved fruitful; Hugon eventually surrendered on September 8, 2124.
Satellite view of Krybolartarium after being fired upon by the Britannia.
However, the Garmageddon Sovereignty decided to take an equally-catastrophic action in spite of the surrender: firing a Polyhex-class ship at the planet in order to eradicate the native population and establish a tabulon colony. On September 20, Conquerator Hebrew's flagship, the Britannia, fired upon Krybolartarium and caused death and destruction on an apocalyptic scale; entire continents were burned while other parts of the planet suffered impact winters which decimated the already-ruined economy of Krybolartarium. The burnt corpses of billions of Krybolartarian Lizards, including many children and babies, littered the boiling oceans and streets of the once-prosperous world while millions of others starved and/or freezed in the bitter cold ruins. Within a decade, 90% of Krybolartarium's pre-firing population of 5.1 billion (the population was rather low due to Eclipsia-24 killing much of its population prior to the Britannia's firing) had perished along with 80% of all life on the planet, though tabulon colonization had begun long before then.
The destruction of Krybolartarium did not kill Tyrannius Hugon, as Urlum Eudae Kaywell had captured him on September 9 as part of his surrender. She kept him alive and even vaccinated him against Eclipsia-24 in order to save him for her own plan of executing him: a long and painful torture session instigated by her closest confidant, Arsia. This torture occurred on October 1, 2124 and was broadcasted nationwide. After Hugon's death, Urlum had Hugon's blood and bones fashioned into gemstones, vases, and other forms of furniture for the Carykh Gallery. She also had Hugon's head preserved as a taxidermied head mount, which she later had put on display in her throne room.
Notably, analysis of the corpses of various Krybolartarian Lizards, including Hugon, revealed that the Krybolartarium Lizard species shared notable anatomical similarities to known sentient species including the presence of a heart, brain, etc. Garmageddon biologists, having obtained the Highmost Sovereign's permission to physically analyze the Hugon family's corpses, then took samples of the corpses and found that the Lizards, like tabulons, humans, and other known forms of life, were composed of cells and stored their genetic information in structures similar enough to DNA to safely be referred to as DNA. This led to the conclusion that the Krybolartarium Lizards were descendants of the Drori as well - a theory later confirmed by the discovery of the Tayah artifact.
Court Act and the Establishment of the Tani Court[]
On December 9, 2124, the Krybolartarium Empire was officially disbanded and transformed into a colony of Garmageddon. In order to combat the very possible threat of a native alien uprising, Urlum had Emperioso Shol pass the Court Act on December 10. This act established the Court System, which called for the designation of star systems with native alien inhabitants as special provinces known as Courts. According to the act, Courts would receive a heightened military presence along with a special governor, a High Lord, who would enjoy greater authority over their assigned system as well as more direct communication with the Emperioso and the Highmost Sovereign. The Kaywell Family appointed Alef Hebrew as the High Lord of the newly-established Tani Court. The act also saw the conversion of the Tinara colony into the Tinara Court, with conquerator Mirn Nova Kirbani becoming its High Lady.
The establishment of the Tani Court meant the "Garmageddonization" of the system. The usage of names for the Tani solar system not assigned by Garmageddon became illegal and punishable by forced labor, rendering the designations of Aelatarium and 107 Piscium invalid. Thus, "Tani" became the only legal name for the star system in Garmageddon. This ban also extended to all celestial bodies within the system; Teranat, Krybolartarium, and Tios were renamed Kitho, Sarus, and Yorgos - names assigned by the tabulons when they discovered the exoplanets prior to the war - respectively. This ban, however, did not affect the Tinara colony, as High Lady Mirn received permission from the Highmost Sovereign to maintain the native names for the Tinaran planets for sentimental reasons. However, Mirn would receive some public backlash and criticism for the move, with some particularly conservative and nationalistic Garmageddon citizens labelling her "soft". This occurrence did not overshadow Mirn's achievements in the invasion of the Tinara System, though.
The Tayah Station
The annexation of Krybolartarium gave Garmageddon a control of a Drori artifact discovered in a far orbit around Tani known as the Tayah Station. The Tayah Station was composed of a large Bishop ring with a diameter of 1600 km. The ring-like structure, however, did not serve as a colony; instead, it generated an energy core at the center of the ring which provided the Garmageddon Sovereignty with a nigh-unlimited source of energy. The Imperial Sovereignty utilized this newly-gained tool to power its inumerable colonies and millions of spacecraft. Urlum also reasoned that Tayah formed the reason behind the Krybolartarium Imperial Navy's unusual initial strength.
Cortezia Protests and the execution of Ardatia Ocasia-Cortezia[]
Several protests arose back in the Ingffhaestian System and its closer neighbors in response to the mass extinction on Krybolartarium, with the event drawing criticism from both anti-Garmageddon activists and Garmageddon supporters. Activists denounced the Britannia's firing on Krybolartarium as a senseless act of genocide. Garmageddon supporters, meanwhile, criticized the act as a waste of resources, claiming that the Imperial Sovereignty had the ability to colonize the planet without resorting to mass destruction. Protests over other aspects of the war, such as the virologists' unethical experimentation on concentration camp inmates, also erupted. Like most protests, however, the Sovereignty ignored the protestors' pleas and forcibly brought about their end via the use of memory-erasing injections and, in more violent cases, fasces. Evanor Griffith also noted how Krybolartarium's destruction violated the Treaty of the Moon, but chose not to take action due to the Garmageddon Sovereignty's navy far overpowering the Griffith Republic's feeble forces.
The most significant of these protests were the Cortezia Protests, a peaceful protest movement organized by progressive politician Ardatia Ocasia-Cortezia. Cortezia argued for the peaceful integration of Krybolartarian Lizards into Garmageddon society, believing such an endeavor to prove beneficial for the Sovereignty in the end. Though Cortezia's approach was a moderate one, her cause recruited millions of members - both tabulons and non-tabulons - across Garmageddon.
Enraged at the prospect of one of her politicians spreading socially progressive beliefs, Urlum Eudae Kaywell ordered the deportation of all Cortezia Protestors into concentration camps on November 15, 2124. She also placed a bounty of $125 million on Cortezia's capture, motivating even private corporations to participate in the protests' suppression. Following her declaration, billions of fasces - both GIAF fasces and experimental models manufactured by companies - descended down onto all active Cortezia-related protests and began carrying out massacres of those involved.
Notably, Highmost Sovereign Kaywell had given special coding and instructions to the GIAF fasces to kill protestors in the same way as Tyrannius Hugo - teeth-pulling and dismemberment; November 15-20 became known as the Days of Dismemberment as the disembodied, bloody arms, legs, and tentacles of tabulons and other species killed by fasces littered the streets en-masse. Apollymi- and Polyhex-class cruisers also carried out the orbital bombardment of two minor colonized moons, Alexandria and Ilhan, in response to the protests, burning millions of innocent protestors and their families in the process while bringing ruin to their domed colonies. In total, the Days of Dismemberment and the destructions of Alexandria and Ilhan killed an estimated 324,000 people.
By just November 21, GIAF forces had captured Ardatia Ocasia-Cortezia herself, whom Urlum had brought into Arsia's palace. Afterwards, Arsia performed a torture session similar to the one performed on Hugon - only this time, she carved out a peace sign-shaped wound on Cortezia's abdomen as a form of mockery of her peaceful protest methods. She also had ultrasharp dove-shaped blades - another taunt of her pacifism - fired all over her body save for her heart and brain in order to ensure she was conscious during the torture. Arsia then performed the same torture methods on all members of Cortezia's immediate family including her 2 year-old son. Cortezia died of blood loss at 15:00 UTC that day; unlike Hugon, Cortezia's body was simply dumped into a river on Urlum's orders, as she had deemed Ocasia-Cortezia "not even worthy enough for use as a poetic display of propaganda". However, the Garmageddon internet did spread Cortezia's screams of pain and terror as a popular internet meme.
Beginning of the Construction of the Macbeth Device[]
The Garmageddon-Krybolartarium War marked the beginning of the Macbeth Device's construction around Jack Park's Star (known to Earth as PDS 70), with the device formally beginning construction on November 14, 2124. The Device, when completed, was planned to have have the size of a planet, carry the combined power of every Drori artifact the Sovereignty had discovered, and (most importantly) revive the Drori race to assist Garmageddon in its quest for universal dominion. Though the Sovereignty had only discovered one artifact at the time (Tayah), it would later discover other technological relics which themselves would see integration into the Macbeth Device.
Garmageddon had chosen Jack Park's Star for the construction site due to its large dust disk (the star is a protostar), which offered the Sovereignty a wealth of resources to use for the device's construction. They had also chosen it for its distance: over 300 light-years from both Earth and Ingffhaestia, a trait which would help prevent its early detection.
Notably, the construction task force contained stark inequalities - while overseers lived largely in luxury monitoring the progress of the Macbeth Device, laborers (many of which were children under the age of 12) faced dangerous and unsanity working conditions which led to a plethora of injuries, diseases, and deaths. In December 2124 alone, an estimated 580 workers died constructing the Macbeth Device. The loss of labor proved no problem to Garmageddon, which simply replaced the workers with non-tabulon slaves and construction robots modeled after the fasces.
The construction of the Macbeth Device was kept a top governmental secret at the time. Only Urlum, the Order of Apollyon, and the Tharsis siblings knew of its existence; the Highmost Sovereign did not even notify her family members.
Garmageddon Invasion of Xymidication (2125-2127)[]
After conquering Krybolartarium and the Tani System, the Highmost Sovereign immediately began planning her next conquests. She resolved to take the initiative and declare war on other stellar nations first in the unlikely, but still possible scenario that word of Garmageddon's brutality had spread across local space.
Flag of the Xymidication Empire
Luckily for her, the next-nearest star system to Ingffhaestia, the Oirator System (known to Earth as Kappa Ceti) already harbored a native stellar nation known as the Xymidication Empire (which knew the Oirator System as the Xystal System). The Xymethystas, which according to pre-war intel reports had a drastically different biology from the Krybolartarian Lizards and the tabulons in that they had floating gem-shaped bodies, formed Xymidication's dominant species. The Xymethystas organized themselves into several castes predetermined at birth, with members of different castes having their bodies genetically modified to fit the tasks mandated by their castes. Xymidication was ruled by an oligarchy known as the Diamondite Authority consisting of the nine members of the ruling caste, the Diamondites. The most powerful member of the Diamondite Authority was an individual by the name of White Diamondite.
Urlum officially declared war on the Xymidication Empire on January 15, 2125. Like with Krybolartarium, the Sovereignty began its attack on Xymidication by deploying ships to dwarf planets in the outer Oirator System; this time, however, Urlum meant for these ships to be destroyed and used them as decoys to gauge the Xymethysta's naval power (Notably, she did not inform the military personnel involved of their true role as sacrificial pawns, drawing some minor controversy during the later parts of the war which she quickly suppressed using fasces).
In the ensuing space battles, the Xymidication ships utilized beams of xymphorite, an exotic mineral with destructive properties. Xymidication fleets dispatched dozens of Garmageddon ships within minutes via xymphorite lasers; during the Battle of the Jungle Moon of May 21, 2125, a small fleet of 40 Xymidication ships (led by one of the members of the Diamondite Authority, Yellow Diamondite) defeated a substantially larger Garmageddon fleet of 205 ships when they attempted to attack the Xymidication-controlled moon of Zyrical (nicknamed the "Jungle Moon" due to its vast rainforest-like regions of native plant life). Xymidication matched Garmageddon not only in military strength, but also willpower; like the tabulons, the Xymethystas believed in their own genetic superiority and subjected any captured tabulons to many of the same gruesome conditions the Garmageddon Sovereignty inflicted on non-tabulons.
A few Garmageddon fleets also attempted to release Eclipsia-24 into Xymidication space. However, the virus proved less effective in infecting Xymethystas than Krybolartarian Lizards due to the Xymethystas' drastically different anatomy, which it failed to adapt to in most cases. The Highmost Sovereign quickly scrapped plans to resume the Hebrew Eclipse Plan on Xymidication upon this revelation.
Omperion Plan[]
The Omperion Plan's ship classes. From left to right: the Polyhex (for scale), Alexandru, Gherghescu, Kostlan, and Garrahan.
The Imperial Sovereignty of Garmageddon and its Highmost Sovereign responded in kind by unleashing the next phase of the Ouroboros Contingency Plan, the Omperion Plan, in order to expand the Garmageddon military enough to defeat Xymidication (overworking laborers and slaves even more in the process). The plan included the construction of four new planet-destroying ship classes based off the design of the Polyhex: the Alexandru (2.8 km), Gherghescu (3.3 km), Kostlan (4.1 km), and Garrahan-class (also 4.1 km) heavy battle cruisers. Thanks to not only the further increase of worker exploitation and new advancements in Garmageddon construction technology, but also the massive new slave force composed of captured Krybolartarian Lizards, the new Omperion Plan ships reached completion by just January 21, 2126 and were sent into battle not long after.
The new ships proved to be exceptionally effective in the war against Xymidication. The tide of the war quickly turned to Garmageddon's favor as the new Omperion Plan ships proved not just equal, but at times superior to Xymidication's xymphorite weapons; by the end of February, Garmageddon had captured most of the outer Kappa Ceti System along with the ice giant Hecarius, the habitable zone gas giant Nisitha (host planet of Zyrical), and the Venusian world Hilda, leaving only the hot Jupiter Plovos, the large warm gas giant Selemas, and the Xymidication Homeworld itself unconquered.
Like with the Krybolartarian Lizards, any Xymethystas captured by Garmageddon were sentenced to forced labor under corporations and concentration camps, with some facing unethical experimentation or even death. Though these experiments, the tabulons discovered that though the Xymethystas' biology differed greatly from those of known sentient species, they still shared a common ancestry with the Drori and possessed the basic building blocks of life such as cells and DNA. They also learned that the Xymidication biosphere as a whole is much younger and less diversified than Uingffh's, likely due to their yet-undiscovered Drori artifact seeding it late; this is consistent with the age of the Xystal/Oirator/Kappa Ceti System itself, which was only a few hundred million years old.
Kristallnacht Empire Plan[]
During one experiment involving enslaved Xymethystas, tabulon scientist Neprus Nerugol discovered that Xymethystas had the ability to fuse into a larger, more powerful, but less intelligent entity. They also discovered the Xymethystas' ability to survive in the vacuum of space for extended periods of time. The Highmost Sovereign quickly realized the immense potential benefits of this: the Garmageddon Sovereignty could create powerful war machines out of Xymethystas by fusing them without worrying about any revolts due to their lessened intelligence. Furthermore, since the weapons created would be composed of Xymethystas, the Xymidication Empire would have less incentive to fire upon them due to the act of doing so constituting as the murder of innocents.
The Kristallnacht on April 19, 2127. At the time, the ship was roughly 20 km in length.
As such, the Highmost Sovereign began another phase of the Ouroboros Plan, the Kristallnacht Empire Plan, on March 27, 2126. The plan involved the forced fusion of billions of captured Xymethystas into biologically-based starships, the largest of which being the Kristallnacht; these new bioships far oversized and overpowered conventional Garmageddon ships. The Highmost Sovereign placed a tabulon by the name of Candidus rei Adamas as overseer of the forced fusions. These forced fusions caused horrendous pain to the Xymethystas involved and were seen as extremely unethical by both Xymidication and Garmageddon citizens, but the Garmageddon Sovereignty broke up any and all protests related to the Kristallnacht Empire Plan by massacring their participants using fasces.
Both the Omperion Plan's new Polyhex-based battle cruisers and the Kristallnacht Empire Plan's bioships allowed the Garmageddon Sovereignty to rapidly conquer Xymidication-controlled worlds. With Xymidication's ships hesitant to fire upon Kristallnacht Empire Plan bioships due to their composition of innocent Xymethysta civilians, Candidus rei Adamas invaded the remaining worlds and stations, including Plovos and Selemas, with extreme ease. The Sovereignty subjugated billions of Xymethystas and forcibly fused them into the bioship fleet as hundreds of dissident worlds formerly under Xymidication control found their surfaces burnt and destroyed by Alexandrus, Gherghescus, Kostlans, and Garrahans.
The Insiya destroys the Xymidication Homeworld.
On July 15, 2127, a Garmageddon fleet of 8100 ships (including the Kristallnacht itself, which had since grown to a size of 100 kilometers) led by rei Adamas entered the orbit of the Xymidication Homeworld itself, now the only world under Xymidication control. Facing little opposition from the Diamondite Authority and its military due to their reluctance to kill captured Xymethystas, the Kristallnacht moved in to successfully destroy the fleet of 4096 Xymidication ships guarding the Homeworld. The Diamondite Authority surrendered to Garmageddon hours later, though like with Krybolartarium, Garmageddon disregarded the Diamondites' please for peace; on November 9-10, 2127, rei Adamas' flagship, a Gherghescu-class battle cruiser known as the Insiya, vaporized Xymidication's surface during what was known as the Night of Broken Glass. This nickname came about due to the shattered glass-like shards that littered the surface of the Xymidication Homeworld after Garmageddon destroyed its crystalline skyscrapers. The Homeworld's destruction did not, however, come without Garmageddon enslaving most of the Xymethystas on the planet and integrating them into the Krystallnacht's fleet beforehand.
Gatlorimtis
Colonizing Xymidication gave the Garmageddon Sovereignty control of a second Drori artifact: Gatlorimtis, an immense 122 km spacecraft consisting of a large city built within a partially-excavated asteroid. Gatlorimtis not only carried dozens of guns with planet-destroying capabilities matching the Polyhex and the Omperion Plan ship classes, but also had the ability to disguise itself as a comet by erecting an artificial gas tail. This ability's strategic and tactical potential would prove to be useful during subsequent invasions of planets. When questioned by the Highmost Sovereign, captured Xymethystas reported that they did not use the Gatlorimtis in battle due to Xymethysta society perceiving it as a mythical danger and a sacred artifact not to be meddled with.
As per the Court Act, the Xystal/Kappa Ceti System was renamed to the Oirator System and converted into the Oirator Court of Garmageddon. The Highmost Sovereign appointed Candidus rei Adamas as the sector's High Lady for her leadership in the forced fusions of captured Xymethystas and the conquest/destruction of the Xymidication Homeworld. Unlike Tani, the Oirator System's planets were not renamed, as the tabulons had not known of its planets long enough for them to assign names to them prior to the war.
Forced Fusion of the Diamondite Authority[]
As with Tyrannius Hugon of the Krybolartarium Empire, Urlum Eudae Kaywell kept all nine members of the Diamondite alive during the destruction of Xymidication on December 4, 2127. Unlike previous torture sessions, which Arsia instigated, the Diamondite Authority's torture came in the form of a forced fusion overseen by the Highmost Sovereign herself, as the forced fusion also had scientific intentions: Urlum desired to integrate them into the Kristallnacht.
During the session, Urlum had all nine Diamondite members sedated and strapped onto forced fusion machines. First, she brought their personal servants, the Peralums, into the room and methodically shattered their gem-like forms into pieces using her imperial scepter, decorating her crown with their shards much to the horror of the Diamondites. Afterwards, she activated the fusion machines and watched as all nine members forcefully fused - an act that would later become a prominent piece of racist anti-Xymethysta propaganda. Once the Diamondites' fusion reached its completion, at 20:00 UTC that day, all nine ceased to carry individual thoughts of their own and entered a coma-like, lethargic state. Afterwards, Urlum transported the fused diamondites to the Kristallnacht, where she experimented with the fusion to find an ideal purpose for them. She ultimately used them as an energy core, but gave the core the freedom to use its abilities offensively in the event of a severe attack.
Destructions of Ojas and Avalon[]
During the Xymidication invasion, another important event occurred regarding the construction of the Macbeth Device: the destructions of the planets Ojas and Avalon. During February of 2127, the Macbeth Device construction task force and its corporate overseer, Kronkus Chumlus, reported that the protoplanetary disk surrounding Jack Park's star would not be enough to provide certain forms of resources needed for construction. He stated that minerals found only in planets may be needed for construction.
On March 13, Urlum Eudae Kaywell authorized, without hesitation, the destructions of the planets Ojas and Avalon in order to gain the resources necessary for the Macbeth Device. This came in spite of the two planets housing sizeable hospitals and cafeterias for injured workers. Two days later, Chumlus destroyed both planets through use of Polyhex-class battle cruisers. Notably, Chumlus made no effort to evacuate those on Ojas and Avalon; their destructions led to the deaths of 197.7 million people. When Garmageddon forces began mining the remains of the two planets for materials, some surveyors reported finding the burnt corpses of workers - some of which were estimated to be as young as 6 given the construction's use of child labor - floating amongst the debris.
Rather than censoring or suppressing the destruction, Kaywell shockingly broadcasted the devastation of Ojas and Avalon on national television as propaganda. She contended that the workers killed deserved to die, labelling them as "impoverished scum," "weaklings who have utter failed in the natural struggle to survive," and "degenerates who have no merit in Garmageddon society whatsoever." Numerous protests, however, did arise in response to the two planets' destruction, all of which Garmageddon simply put down with bloody violence via fasces and armed troops. Regardless, the destructions of Ojas and Avalon would come to symbolize Garmageddon's disdain for worker's rights for many decades to come.
Other colonizations[]
In addition to Oirator, Garmageddon also colonized the Esernium System during 2125-2127. Esernium was a star system consisting of four gravitationally-bound cool red dwarf stars - Hernes, Thiro, Gallentis, and Bellantis - located around 9 light-years away from Ingffhaestia; none of the four were discovered by humans due to their dimness. Urlum Eudae Kaywell and the rest of the Ingffhaestian Empire saw Esernium as a particularly promising colony due to its large amount of planets - all four stars possessed their own planetary systems with at least 6 planets.
Unlike Tinara, Tani, and Oirator, however, none of the Esernium System's four component solar systems harbored native life, so its colonization was relatively uneventful compared to Garmageddon's previous conquests. For Esernium, a small group of Garmageddon government officials collaborated with a much larger force of private corporations to establish settlements on Esernium's planets and moons beginning in 2125. By the end of 2127, Esernium boasted a quickly-developing economy, growing cities, and a steadily increasing population, though .
No Drori artifacts were discovered in the Esernium System, forming the likely reason behind Esernium's absence of native life: there was nothing to seed life on any of its planets or moons. The system's lack of a native civilization meant that Urlum did not convert it into a court and appoint a High Lord to oversee it, instead appointing less powerful lords and viceroys.
Capitalist Uprising Plan and the Garmageddon Invasion of Imperatiya (2128-2129)[]
After conquering Xymidication, the Garmageddon Sovereignty began planning an invasion of the next-nearest solar system: the K-type star Tydantium (Gliese 33), located approximately 11 light-years from Ingffhaestia.
Flag of the People's Democratic Republic of Imperatiya
Scout probes sent into the system discovered a previously-undiscovered system of 9 planets - 5 terrestrials and 4 giant planets - around Tydantium. However, they also discovered the presence of the authoritarian People's Democratic Republic of Imperatiya, which controlled the entire system (which they called amongst themselves Finoleum) the habitable moon Imperatiya. Though both Imperatiya and Garmageddon practiced totalitarianism and exerted dictatorial power over their citizens, the two supported opposing economic systems - Imperatiya celebrated its socialist economy while Garmageddon had adopted a capitalist system. This set up conflict between the two stellar nations long before they had even made physical contact with one another.
Despite their rivalry, the Garmageddon Sovereignty refrained from engaging in direct warfare with Imperatiya due to their military still being in the process of rebuilding its forces after the Krybolartarian and Xymidicatian wars. Instead, the Imperial Sovereignty resorted to methods other than direct combat. Most notably, they deliberately initiated civil unrest within the People's Republic in order to weaken it and destroy it from within - specifically, they decided to take advantage of the Imperatiya citizenry's lack of education (including knowledge of Garmageddon itself) due to government censorship and propaganda. In addition, they decided to boost military manufacturing to match the power of Imperatiya by even further overworking its slaves and low-class wage workers as well as by speeding up the development of the Esernium colony in order to turn it into an arms manufacturing powerhouse.
To spread unrest, the Highmost Sovereign enacted the Capitalist Uprising Plan, the next in line of the Ouroboros Contingency Plan's many sub-plans, on February 1, 2128. As part of this plan, Garmageddon sent several disguised ships carrying Macbethist missionaries and Garmageddon propagandists into various Finoleum worlds including the planets Yultim, Akshay, and Rylvia and the moons Terrator and Ciliamte. Though the Imperatiyan military persecuted or shot down many of these missionary ships, the few fleets that survived successfully converted millions of locals to Macbethism and revealed the true, oppressive nature behind the Imperatiyan government. They also promoted ideals such as capitalism and libertarianism, garnering strong opposition to socialism among Finoleum citizens. Though the tabulons put forth many factual criticisms of the Imperatiyan government, culture, and economy, they also gave many lies regarding their own, equally oppressive home country of Garmageddon and covered up its many atrocities. They portrayed the Sovereignty as a utopia of freedom, liberty, and individualism and promised the Imperatiya citizens a place in Garmageddon society if they overthrew the People's Democratic Republic of Imperatiya.
The plan proved itself effective when the converted Macbethists and capitalists launched what they called the Sarvin Rebellion (named after one of the leaders of the missionaries, Sarvin Kerborigin) on May 9, 2128, around a week after the missionaries had left due to their suppression under the Imperatiya government reaching a breaking point. This civil war greatly weakened the Imperatiyan military as the rebels stole approximately $75.37 billion worth of military equipment including guns, warships, and tanks. Furthermore, the rebellion forced the government to focus its remaining military on safeguarding loyal planets against the capitalist rebels.
The Sarvin Rebellion allowed Garmageddon to eventually declare formal war against Imperatiya on June 12 that year. Working together with Sarvin rebels, the Sovereignty rapidly conquered the Finoleum System and ruthlessly slaughtered any Imperatiya-allied government officials present on the claimed planets, dwarf planets, and moons. Though the Imperatiya government fought back with its two owned Drori artifacts, the combined force of the Sarvin Rebellion and the Garmageddon Sovereignty quickly overpowered any fleets - some Imperatiya ship crews even announced their allegiance to the Sarvin Rebellion mid-battle and committed mutiny.
Acutain
Within just four months, the People's Democratic Republic of Imperatiya had lost control of all of its outer dwarf planets, the outer terrestrial world of Rylvia, and the outer gas giants of Jovana, Fronia, and Sima along with their moons. By December, Garmageddon had claimed not only the inner terrestrial worlds of Verenus, Yultim, and Chor; but also the aforementioned Drori artifacts: the Acutain, a space station containing vast amounts of terraforming resources; and the Silisko, a large battle station with tentacle-like mechanical appendages which could capture enemy ships and integrate them into itself.
Silisko
After gaining control of the habitable super-Earth Akshay on March 29, a combined Garmageddon Sovereignty-Sarvin Rebellion fleet of 9800 entered orbit around Imperion, Imperatiya's parent planet, on April 3, 2129. They quickly overpowered the local Imperatiya defense fleet and took control of the moon itself along with its neighboring moon Terrator within a week, marking the final annexation of the People's Democratic Republic.
Unlike with Krybolartarium and Xymidication, the Garmageddon fleet chose not to destroy Imperatiya in spite of the dozens of Polyhexes, Alexandrus, and Gherghescus populating its ranks. Instead, they offered the moon to the Sarvin rebels as a gesture of goodwill for their efforts. However, Imperatiya still saw the conversion of all of its former territory into an imperial province: the Tydantium Court. Sarvin Kerborigin rose up as its High Lord. The Finoleum/Gliese 33 system saw its legal renaming to the Tydantium System in the process, but like Oirator, Tydantium's planets held on to their original names due to no previously-assigned tabulon names existing.
Despite the Sarvin rebels' valiant efforts in overthrowing Imperatiya, and Garmageddon's lending of Imperatiya as a gift, the Sovereignty quickly but subtly betrayed their newfound allies. The Sovereignty indeed granted the rebel Imperatiyans Garmageddon citizenship, but provided them with little to no means to integrate themselves into Garmageddon society. Because of this, almost all of them were sentenced to hard, exploitative labor under speciesist tabulon masters while the rest often lost their lives to violent hate crimes and lynchings performed by tabulon supremacists. Imperatiya itself saw the quick arrival of several tabulon officials to "oversee" the moon's operations; though the Sarvin rebels had legal control over the moon, the tabulons turned them into a puppet government and seated themselves as Imperatiya's de facto leaders. They then proceeded to enact a quiet ethnic cleansing of the moon by deporting Sarvin rebels for minor crimes until Imperatiya's population became majority tabulon by 2132.
Garmageddon saw the Imperatiyans' plight as a reflection of Social Darwinism and a normal trait of capitalism; the Sovereignty dismissed any complaints regarding the Sarvin rebels' working conditions as socialism and "sympathizing with the Imperatiya government". Even High Lord Kerborigin showed apathy towards the suffering of his former allies, refusing to establish better welfare policies despite the rebels going as far as writing personal letters to him to sway his mind. Kerborigin justified his position by stating that such policies would hurt the Garmageddon economy and that he would not make exceptions for even his most personal allies.
As with the leaders of Krybolartarium and Xymidication, Urlum Eudae Kaywell had the leader of the Imperatiya Republic, Alexiel Finolian, captured and taken to Arsia's palace for her to personally torture and execute. She also brought Finolian's spouse, Calem Nicholia, into the palace for torture. This execution was initiated and broadcasted on April 20; propagandists later utilized the tape as prominent anti-communist and anti-socialist propaganda. Like with Tyrannius Hugon, the Highmost Sovereign preserved both Finolians' remains converted into gemstones, clothing, and furniture for herself and the Tharsis siblings.
Interstellar Red Scare and Leftist/Liberal Politicide[]
On the same day as the Capitalist Uprising Plan's passage, Garmageddon also began an internal extermination of communists, socialists, and other leftists.
This so-called Interstellar Red Scare when Garmageddon official Macca Carthia made a speech on February 1, 2128 warning against the threat of communist spies from the Imperatiyan Republic. Despite the limited evidence behind the claim, Garmageddon's vehemently anti-communist media and propagandists quickly spread and overinflated the problem. Within weeks, they had transformed the fear of leftists into a national cultural, political, and economic phenomenom.
On March 13, 2128, the Highmost Sovereign passed the Carthia Act, which granted government officials and the GIAF permission to send communists and socialists to concentration camps and use any means necessary to find and arrest leftists - in other words, giving them the same treatment as non-tabulons. The act also established a new federal organization, the Federal Un-Garmageddon Investigative Committee (FUGIC), specifically for investigating and detaining leftists. All across Garmageddon, FUGIC employees scoured government buildings, private workplaces, and homes for leftists and sent any leftists they found into the Sovereignty's custody. Freedom of speech and human rights were eroded as hundreds of millions saw arrest and even execution simply for being leftists; in 2128 alone, an estimated 125 million leftists were arrested by the FUGIC, with 67 million of them being executed. In addition, the Garmageddon Ministry of Truth partnered with various private propaganda corporations in pushing out hundreds of anticommunist propaganda works, many of which also wove in themes of racism against the Finolian species.
As the Galactic Red Scare progressed, the animosity towards communism and socialism spread to those "soft" on the leftist threat and those associated with leftists in minor ways. On July 4, Kaywell passed the Leftist Investigative Act, which authorized employers in the Garmageddon Sovereignty to fire workers or refuse to hire workers associated with communism. The Highmost Sovereign fired, arrested, or executed 1,387 federal officials in July 2128 alone for showing a "detrimental lack of enthusiasm" towards combatting communism. Being associated with communism even in insignificant ways became one of the worst sins in the eyes of the Garmageddon public; an estimated 1.27 billion individuals were fired in the wake of the Leftist Investigative and Carthia Acts, their careers completely and utterly destroyed by their connections to communism (many of which were extremely spurious to begin with). As they fell into deep poverty due to a combination of virtually all employers in the Sovereignty refusing to hire leftists and "leftist sympathizers" and Garmageddon refusing to establish any form of welfare in the name of laissez-faire capitalism, they saw severe public ridicule and even beatings - all of which saw no legal punishment whatsoever. Labor unions were broken up, their leaders arrested and detained. Worker's rights were eroded in the name of "rejecting communism". On September 17, Kaywell expanded Garmageddon's anti-communists policies to include liberals, moderate conservatives, and essentially all people with political beliefs outside of Garmageddon's far-right ultrafascism.
The Galactic Red Scare culminated with the Leftist/Liberal Politicide of 2129. On December 26, 2128, the Highmost Sovereign passed the Red Eradication Order, authorizing the GIAF and FUGIC to send all communists, socialists, liberals, and moderate conservatives into concentration camps to be sentenced to forced labor or execution. The Highmost Sovereign, not long after, added an amendment to the Leftist Investigative Act that forced the 1.27 billion individuals fired by the Leftist Investiagtive Act to concentration camps along with their families. Billions of leftists, liberals, and conservative moderates suffered under coerced labor, detestable living conditions, brutal torture, and painful re-education as the Garmageddon Sovereignty performed a mass killing of such groups on the scale of a genocide. Garmageddon also sent the families and friends of those accused into the camps regardless of their actual associations with the accused on the justification that "their genes were infected by communism"; children as young as infants were killed in gas chambers simply for being in the same families as suspected communists. By the end of 2129, Garmageddon had killed 88.2 billion leftists and their sympathizers, many of which were found completely innocent in analyses conducted following Garmageddon's disestablishment. With the Interstellar Red Scare and the Leftist Politicide, Garmageddon had effectively eradicated all left-wing and moderate right-wing sentiment within its territory.
Many Garmageddon nationalists criticized the politicide for infringing on freedom of speech, a value Kaywell not only claimed to cherish, but also supposedly protected under the First Amendment to the Bill of Sins, Garmageddon's constitution. The Highmost Sovereign responded with a speech on January 20, 2129 justifying the politicide using the paradox of tolerance, stating that "if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant" and that communists, socialists, and other leftists are inherently included in "the intolerant," being a fundamental threat to free speech (Ironically, the Garmageddon Sovereignty itself is often cited as an example of the paradox of tolerance - Kaywell succeeded in forming her dictatorship because the nations preceding it - the Holy Empire of Earth-Kalgamania, the Drori Invicta, and the Ingffhaestian Confederacy, among several others - practiced extreme free speech policies that permitted the expression of bigotry.).
Oveerion Plan and the Garmageddon Invasion of Zanthe (2130-2132)[]
Following the colonization of Gliese 33/Finoleum/Tydantium, the Garmageddon Sovereignty began making plans to colonize the Exirium System, a system centered around an M7V-class red dwarf located a little over 11 light-years away from Ingffhaestia. Exerium, known to humans as Teegarden's Star, posed an appealing colonization target for Urlum due to the presence of two Earth-sized exoplanets in the star's habitable zone.
Flag of the Republic of Zanthe
Scout ships sent to Teegarden's Star discovered several additional undiscovered planets in the system, increasing its appeal to Garmageddon even more. However, they also discovered the Zanthe Republic, a native civilization controlling the entire Exirium System (which they knew as the Solunirea System). Unlike the previous civilizations, the native Zanthens existed as a fair democracy rather than an empire (like Krybolartarium or Zymidication) or a pseudo-democratic dictatorship (like Finolian).
Unfortunately, the Zanthens' fair, peaceful ways did not deter Garmageddon from performing a violent conquest of the system, viewing the Zanthens as a barrier to tabulon colonization that had to be exterminated. On January 20, 2130, Garmageddon launched its first attack on Zanthe by making use of the newly-acquired Gatlorimtis. The Sovereignty utilized the spacecraft's comet disguise and sent it into orbit of Exirium on a trajectory towards the Zanthe home planet of Zyzor. Though the Gatlorimtis successfully reached Zyzor, Zanthe ships took Garmageddon by surprise and fired small, artificial black holes at Gatlorimtis. These black holes then quickly collapsed from Hawking Radiation due to their small size and generated massive explosions on the artifact. Though the mobile fortress succeeded in escaping destruction from the black holes, the attack not only made Garmageddon's intentions to invade Zanthe known to the entire Republic, but also closed off any opportunities for Gatlorimtis to fire upon Zyzor and destroy it.
War formally began on February 4, with Zanthe declaring war first. Though Garmageddon's territory and military vastly outsized the Zanthe Republic's, Zanthe's black hole generators, their so-called Ebonian Bombs, proved effective in halting the Sovereignty's expansion into the Exirium/Solunirea System. Through numerous battles, Garmageddon lost an estimated 1,587 ships and 4,271 personnel to Zanthe's Ebonian Bomb-equipped ships. Furthermore, the quick completion of a successful Eclipsia-24 vaccine when Garmageddon attempted to release the virus into the Solunirea System prevented the Sovereignty from re-using its Krybolartarium strategy.
To combat the Zanthe Republic's efforts, Highmost Sovereign Kaywell not only deployed the Silisko into battle, but started a program to develop her own powerful ships to counter Zanthe's black hole generators: the Oveerion Plan, the next phase of the Ouroboros Contingency Plan. Garmageddon scientists, including some enslaved scientists from conquered civilizations, went to work investigating ways to generate artificial black holes. Despite the Sovereignty imposing measures to increase productivity from them, including the extension of their working hours to a full 24 hours and an outlawing of minimum wage requirements, the scientists failed to devise a successful black hole generator.
Garmageddon bosses and employers executed an estimated 66 million scientists on the orders of Urlum Eudae Kaywell due to their failure to meet the goals of the Oveerion plan. However, the capture of a Zanthe ship on June 25, 2130 allowed imperial scientists to seize and study its Ebonian Bomb. They discovered their core mechanism (compressing the surrounding interstellar matter into a miniature black hole) and handed the plans to engineers, who quickly set to work replicating these designs. Within just weeks, the Garmageddon Sovereignty saw the development of the first successful black hole generator: the Oveerion Drive.
Creation of the Star Crushers[]
Third Princess Urlum did not stop at the Oveerion Drives, however - she wanted to not just match Zanthe's military strength, but to exceed it. As such, she also commissioned the creation of Rengoku Cannons, which would take advantage of red dwarf stars' proneness to flares. As weaponized Oveerion Drives, the cannons would fire miniature black holes at stars at high velocities, leading to rapid and substantial increases in solar flare activity that would devastate nearby planets.
An example of an Imperator-class hyper star crusher, one of the many immense space stations created as part of the Oveerion Plan.
The military quickly went to work mass-producing Oveerion Drives and Rengoku Cannons. Due to their size and risk of instability, the military was forced to develop a new kinda of ship, the Star Crusher, to properly accomodate the drives. The first star crushers had lengths that ranged from 7 km to 12.5 km and included the Autarch, Belzec, Treblinka, and Chelmno-classes. They reached completion and deployment during December of 2130.
In addition to the regular star crushers, Garmageddon also constructed even larger 15 km-24 km super star crushers, which included the Sobibor, Imperator, and Birkenau-class star crushers and reached completion during January of 2132. Three Imperator-class super star crushers, the Imperator, Melania, and Rudyard Kipling, became the new flagships of Ascraeus, Arsia, and Pavonis (who had all recently received the title of rei) respectively.
A notable feature of both star crusher types was their secondary purpose as concentration camps; due to their size, the ships could effectively serve as centers for Garmageddon officials to subject non-tabulons (especially captured Zanthens), members of minority groups, political dissidents, and other "degenerates" to torture, execution, forced labor, and the other forms of treatment common on Garmageddon's on-planet concentration camps. Furthermore, said captured non-tabulons could serve as unpaid laborers for maintaining the ship's functions, though this precedent had already been established on other, smaller ships.
An Imperator firing its Oveerion Drive.
Armed with these new black hole-generating, star-disrupting ships, Garmageddon's navy proved superior to Zanthe's in combat. Thanks to the exceptionally large sizes of the heavy, super, and hyper star crushers, the tabulons' black holes took on a much larger diameter and longer lifespans compared to the Zanthens' black hole and defeated Zanthe military forces with ease; in the Battle of Geass of May 1, 2132 (a battle taking place around the sixth planet of the Solunirean System, a gas giant called Geass), a black hole created by an Oveerion Drive managed to suck in an entire Zanthe ship entirely before generating an explosion large enough to affect the nearby terraformed moon of Robux.
Furthermore, the Oveerion Drive black holes' large size offered a new mode of mass destruction that not even the Zanthens discovered: using the black holes' pre-explosion bursts of gravity to destablize space stations, moons of dwarf planets, and other small objects. The Sovereignty deliberately launched black holes into the vicinity of populated Zanthe space stations and colonized asteroids. The Zanthen inhabitants would then believe themselves unharmed until finding their stations or asteroids careening towards their parent bodies thanks to the black holes' burst of gravity; this resulted in the deaths of millions as inhabited space stations and moons either fell too close to their parent bodies' roche limit and broke apart. For instance, in the Break Zuntyu event of July 24, 2132, an Oveerion Drive black holes caused the Zanthe-owned Zuntyu Space Station to fall into the gas giant Zorul, the planet Zuntyu orbited. By the beginning of November, Garmageddon had captured all four of Exirium's outer giant planets - Zorul, Geass, Lithia, and Coruno - the backbones of Zanthe's military and society.
Solunirean Scourge and the destruction of Zyzor[]
With the Zanthe Republic left crippled by the loss of its gas giants, an attack on the capital was in order; on November 26, 2132, a Belzec-class star crusher, the Endgame, warped into orbit around the Zanthe homeworld of Zyzor. The Highmost Sovereign had Emperioso Shol broadcast a message threatening to have the Endgame fire upon Zyzor if the Republic failed to surrender to Garmageddon within 24 hours. Eventually, the Republic's president, Zeta Zanthe, publicly announced their surrender three hours before the deadline, as the remnants of their military forces were insufficient to take down the Endgame now that the Republic no longer controled its gas giants.
However, Urlum had the Endgame fire its Rengoku Cannon at Solunirea shortly after, taunting in a new broadcast that such a firing did not violate her proposal since the star crusher did not fire upon Zyzor itself; Urlum made this decision in order to cleanse the Solunirea System of any surviving Zanthens and make way for colonization by tabulons. Shortly after the black hole hit Solunirea, it released a powerful explosion, leading to a substantial increase in its stellar activity. Exceptionally powerful solar storms and solar superflares assaulted not only Zyzor, but also the rest of Solunirea's inner planets. This lead to ozone layer disruption, deadly radiation releases, and widespread wildfires. By the time the flares ceased late on November 27, Zyzor and the other inner planets lay in smoldering ruins; tabulons recorded the deaths of over 17.8 billion Zanthens in what became known to posterity as the Solunirean Scourge.
Calystonia
By December 1st, the Garmageddon Sovereignty had converted the Zanthe Republic into the Exirium Court, with Exirium becoming the only legally-recognized name for the system; like Oirator and Tydantium, however, Exirium's planets did not see renaming due to no previously-assigned tabulon names existing. The creation of the Exirium Court also marked the stripping of all Zanthens of all their rights. In addition, it came with the acquisition of two of the Zanthe Republics's Drori artifacts. One was the Calystonia, a harp-shaped strcture with the ability to generate miniature black holes at its center; this artifact formed the source of Zanthe's black hole technology and would later be used by Garmageddon to improve its Oveerion Drives.
The Daybreak Cannon
The other artifact was the Daybreak Cannon, a space station containing a potent artificial parasitic organism known as the S.D. Locke Hyperparasite. This red-hued hyperparasite was under the complete control of the station and could be fired onto a planet or moon. According to data stored on the station, the hyperparasite would then spread through the air while multiplying rapidly, eventually resulting in a red haze of hyperparasites covering the entire planet/moon and filtering the light of its parent star to only allow red light to pass through. Any organism that contracted the hyperparasite from the air would have their biology altered by the parasite, with the end result being transformation into a gelatinous entity that would not only proceed to spread the S.D. Locke Hyperparasite to other organisms, but also heed any commands given by the cannon's activators. Because the hyperparasite was under the complete control of the Daybreak Cannon's systems, members of the species that activated the cannon would be immune to the hyperparasite. This artifact was found on an extremely high orbit around Exirium, which Urlum deduced to be the reason why the Republic never utilized it aside from the obvious disadvantages of using it on their own star system.
Zeta Zanthe Black Hole Broadcast[]
On December 2, Urlum Eudae Kaywell arrested Zeta Zanthe and had them personally detained in her care. Unlike with previous leaders, Urlum did not have Zanthe tortured personally by Arsia; instead, she had them thrown into a black hole both as punishment and as a science experiment on the effects of the Oveerion Drive on the body.
On December 11, the Autarch-class star crusher Castitatis released Zanthe, equipped with a spacesuit, into the vacuum of space around the smoldering remains of Zyzor. Shortly afterwards, the star crusher used its Oveerion Drive to generate a miniature black hole within the vicinity of President Zanthe. Within minutes, the black hole's gravity spaghettified Zanthe before exploding, presumably leading to their death. The execution, which was broadcasted to the public as racist propaganda, proved effective in not only providing data on black holes' effects on living things and confirming the spaghettification theory, but also strengthening prejudice against the Zanthen race.
Interstellar Gay Rights Movement, Grand Pridefall Plan, and the First LGBTQ+ Genocide[]
At around the same time as the invasion of Zanthe, a peaceful social justice movement centered around LGBTQ+ individuals had arisen in the Esernium System. This movement, termed the Interstellar Gay Rights Movement (IGRM), had spread into an interstellar cultural phenomenon by February 2130; practically all of the related protests were peaceful, non-violent demonstrations.
Despite the pacifist nature the protest movement, Urlum Eudae Kaywell decided to crush the movement with extreme prejudice, drafting a new phase of the Ouroboros Plan - the Grand Pridefall Plan - on August 17, 2130 specifically to eradicate the movement and all associated with it off the face of the Star Empire. As part of the plan, billions of fasces descended down onto planets, moons, and space stations inhabited by IGRM participants and ruthlessly massacred the participants there. All across Garmageddon, fasces interrupted peaceful protests by stabbing the protestors to death with their needles and blades; during one of these massacres, termed the Night of the Red River, the fasces killed so many people in the city of Stonos on the planet Frotia that the streets became knee-high rivers of blood and corpses - many of which were of innocent children caught in the crossfire.
The Citrian city of Corusent on September 9, 2130 after Garmageddon ships bombarded it from orbit.
In addition to regular massacring, Urlum Eudae Kaywell also authorized and carried out aerial bombings of IGRM worlds. As missiles and nuclear warheads rained down on cities with IGRM protests and killed millions, Polyhex-class ships and other naval spaceships orbitally bombarded worlds from space and killed even more peaceful protestors. During the Sacking of Citria on September 8, 2130, Garmageddon ships bombarded the moon Citria from orbit and killed and estimated 1.32 billion gay rights protestors. These bombings, alongside the massacres carriedout by the fasces, were broadcasted on national television as anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda.
Urlum not only utilized fasces and ships, but also biological weapons. During the put-down of the IGRM, the Highmost Sovereign's army purposefully released HIV viruses into gay rights protests and IGRM-controlled worlds in order to spread AIDS to LGBTQ+ individuals and IGRM supporters. This plan succeeded not only in killing an estimated 5.52 billion people by the end of 2131, but also in causing the public (who held no knowledge of Kaywell artificially generating this HIV/AIDS pandemic) to view the pandemic as Macbeth themself enacting divine punishment on homosexuals for desecrating the sacred nation of Garmageddon.
The brutal put-down of the Galactic Gay Rights Movement culminated with the First LGBTQ+ Genocide. Beginning on December 20, 2130, the Garmageddon Sovereignty drastically increased its persecution of LGBTQ+ individuals in response to the IGRM. Billions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc. individuals were rounded up by Garmageddon and sent to execution camps, where they suffered brutal torture, experimentation, conversion therapy, and execution. One of the most notorious camps was the prison moon Demurloth, where Garmageddon troops sent hundreds of millions of gay men to be executed by firing squads. Many LGBTQ+ individuals were also massacred publicly on the streets by fasces and Garmageddon soldiers. All across the Sovereignty, televisions and news stations broadcasted the indiscriminate killings of LGBTQ+ people as young as 11 along with public torturing of gay men in an attempt to convert them into heterosexuals. By the end of 2131, an estimated 48.5 billion LGBTQ+ individuals had died to Garmageddon's hands.
Propaganda against the LGBTQ+ community also markedly increased. Propagandists across the Sovereignty began releasing films, literary works, etc. demonizing queer identities as sinful and unnatural. They perpetuated harmful, warped stereotypes of LGBTQ+ identities such as same-sex parents being abusive and converting their children into homosexuals, homosexuals promoting communism and socialism, transgender identities being "a phase", transgender people molesting and sexually abusing toddlers in an attempt to change their gender, bisexual people cheating, pansexuality and other multisexual identities being bisexual erasure, and a plethora of other misleading myths. Garmageddon citizens began publicly ridiculing LGBTQ+ individuals both online and in reality, creating numerous humorous works satirizing LGBTQ+ identities while beating people suspected of being LGBTQ+ in schools, work, the streets, and more; in fact, a number of new slurs against LGBTQ+ people were invented during the First LGBTQ+ Genocide. Propagandists also began upholding the "purity" and "holiness" of heterosexuality and cisgenderism, consdering them a superior form of sexuality and gender much like how Garmageddon considered tabulons a genetically superior species.
Lastly, Urlum Eudae Kaywell carried out the destruction of significant locations involved in the IGRM. On March 13, 2131, super star crushers warped into orbit around the planets of Ambrose, Cusk, Kodiak, and Celius - four planets and moons prominently involved in the IGRM. The star crushers proceeded to fire their Rengoku Cannons upon the worlds, resulting in their complete and utter annhiliation. Though the GIAF evacuated all Garmageddon-loyal, cisgender, heterosexual tabulons off the planets prior to their destruction, the Polyhexes' firing still led to the deaths of 29.8 billion LGBTQ+ people and allies along with the deaths of 17.4 billion non-tabulon slaves. Urlum broadcasted the destruction of all four planets on national television as a form of anti-LGBTQ+ and pro-Garmageddon propaganda. Numerous ships containing IGRM supporters and non-tabulons attempted to escape the planet on refugee ships, but Garmageddon captured these ships and had GIAF troops ruthlessly torture the refugees on national television. Individuals as young as infants were beaten, raped, and killed in front of the eyes of apathetic Garmageddon tabulons. After the destruction, Garmageddon mined the shattered remains of Ambrose, Cusk, Kodiak, and Celius for materials to use for the construction of even more star crushers in the genocide of the Zanthen race.
Following the destructions of the four planets, the Highmost Sovereign had all non-heterosexual sexualities listed as supernatural anomalies in the Order of Apollyon's databse. Homosexual, bisexual, and asexual people became classified as anomalies Apollyon-069, Apollyon-070, and Apollyon-071 respectively.
Other colonizations[]
In addition to Exirium, Garmageddon also colonized the Olus System (Delta Eridani/Rana to humans), a solar system consisting of five giant planets orbiting around an aging K-type subgiant star ~12 light-years from Ingffhaestia, during the 2130-2132 period. Much like the Esernium System, however, Olus' conquest proved rather uneventful due to the lack of native life (and therefore lack of Drori artifacts) in the system and mostly consisted of corporations constructing infrastructure and colonies on the giant planets' various hospitable moons.
Olus proved less popular than Esernium as a permanent home, for Olus' evolutionary stage and relatively soon transition into a red giant discouraged many potential colonists. Instead, the system became a prominent center of industry, with a significant amount of factories, shipyards, manufacturing facilities, etc. popping up over the span of a few years. Several Garmageddonians took up lives where they worked in Olus but lived in other systems, commuting between the two systems via their personal Thegasia Drive-equipped ships - a new form of transportation that had recently emerged into the market a few years prior.
Floraniafall Plan and the Garmageddon Invasion of Sria (2133)[]
Immediately after the conquest of the Exirium System, Garmageddon set to work planning the invasion of the Kingdom of Sria, the parliamentary monarchy inhabiting the 12 light-year-distant Ictria System (known to humans as 40 Eridani) and its three component stars: the K0.5V-type star Ictria, the M4.5V-type red dwarf Faveystria, and the DA4-type white dwarf Yexystria.
Flag of the Kingdom of Sria
As usual, Garmageddon sent scout ships into the Ictrian Star System in order to determine Sria's characteristics as well as to discover any undiscovered planets in the system, of which there were multiple: Ictria contained an undiscovered system of 6 terrestrial planets and 4 gas giants; Faveystria contained an undiscovered system of 3 terrestrial planets, a gas giant, and 5 ice giants; and Yexystria contained an undiscovered system of 2 terrestrial planets and 2 ice giants.
However, the operation deviated from the plan when a Srian ship crewed by several members of the Sria Kingdom's dominant race, the firefly-like Floranias, inadvertently made contact with one of the scout ships. This resulted in the existence of Garmageddon becoming known to the entire Kingdom. However, because the crew of the scout ship in question treated the Floranias with respect and kindness, the Srian Kingdom did not develop ill intentions against Uingffh and actually desired to initiate a friendly allyship with Garmageddon (which was also fueled by Sria discovering that Garmageddon heavily outgunned and overpowered them).
In the end, the Floranias devised the Treaty of Cosmic Elections and the Treaty of Cosmic Law. The Treaty of Cosmic Elections would set up a peaceful democratic union between Sria and Garmageddon while the Treaty of Cosmic Law would forbid any violent attacks against the Floranian homeworld of Hitria or the tabulon homeworld of Uingffh; the Sovereignty was allowed to claim all other parts of the Ictrian System.
Betrayal and Fall of Sria[]
Urlum and the Kaywell Family, while disgusted by these prospects, realized that they could use the trety proposal to their advantage and drafted the Floraniafall Plan to stage the fall of the Srian Kingdom. As part of the plan, the Highmost Sovereign sent Arsia rei Tharsis onto Hitria to sign the two treaties on March 20, 2133. In reality, however, it was a deception on Garmageddon's part; during the treaty signing, Arsia, under Urlum Eudae Kaywell's orders, secretly infected all of the attending Floranias with a special, quickly-evolving strain of Eclipsia called Eclipsia-32F. The virus killed all non-tabulon attendees within just days. Arsia's wester (equivalent of brother/sister for somale, a third sex unique to tabulons), Pavonis rei Tharsis, then formally announced Garmageddon's rejection of the treaty and its declaration of total war on Sria on March 27, 2133.
With much of its parliament dead and the new virus spreading rapidly, the Kingdom of Sria quickly crumbled against Garmageddon. Internal conflicts over leadership, societal shock over such an unexpected betrayal, and panic over the presence of an overwhelming set of threats severely weakened the once-prosperous stellar nation.
Florania Exclusion Act and the Florania Genocide[]
Not wanting to risk the unnecessary deaths of more innocents in battles and skirmishes, the Floranias agreed to surrender to the tabulons on August 7 of that year. This effort proved futile in that aspect, however - on August 11, Emperioso Shol Gregrox Kaywell, under Urlum and Arsia's orders, declared the Floranias a useless species and ordered the quick and speedy extinction of the entire species in the Florania Exclusion Act. In the ensuing Florania Genocide, GIAF troops kidnapped Floranias by the billions and deported them into extermination camps, where Garmageddon killed them through a variety of extreme methods including impalement, stabbing, beating, intoxication, gassing, asphyxiating, infecting, starving, stretching, etc. This effort proved highly successful; by the end of the year, the Garmageddon military had killed off 91% of the surviving Floranian population, with the remaining 9% being captured and sent to hard labor. In doing so, they also rendered Hitria uninhabitable via shot from a Polyhex on August 17, 2133.
Ganawil
After the invasion of Ictria reached its end, Garmageddon renamed Ictria, Faveystria, and Yexystria to Iris, Kelda, and Virvn - the names tabulon astronomers had assigned to them in ancient times. The Iris System was converted into the Iris Court, with Arsia rei Tharsis rising up as its High Lady. With its formation, Garmageddon gained ownership of the Drori artifact Ganawil, an artificial star functioning similar to the Ingffhaestian artifact Kire; the tabulons would later use it to terraform cold planets.
Like the rulers of multiple other conquered nations, the Srian Kingdom's reigning monarch, Spoloix of Sria, was specially captured and detained by the Highmost Sovereign for a personal torture session at the hands of Arsia on August 19. Spoloix's torture, like other tortures, was broadcasted on live television and eventually grew into a Garmageddonian cultural phenomenon, with adolescent-aged tabulons reenacting the torture with florania effigies and dummies. Some corporations marketed off the torture by selling higher-quality effigies of Spoloix.
Rise of Florania Farms[]
Immediately following Spoloix's torture and death, the tabulon biologists studying Spoloix's forcefully-detached wings found that they presented a number of health benefits to tabulons. This resulted in agricultural corporations across Garmageddon to begin harvesting floranias for food.
On August 31, 2133, the Highmost Sovereign gave agricultural corporations permission to relocate surviving floranias in extermination camps to farms. Corporations also began sending specially-trained employees across the galaxy to capture runaway floranias for food. During the rest of 2133 as well as early 2133, both government and corporate forces sent millions of floranias onto Garmageddon farms, where they suffered under horrible living conditions including cruel treatment from owners, inadequate shelter, and limited freedom. In addition, Garmageddon farmers forced captured floranias to eat unhealthy amounts of food in order to maximize their wing growth. Once they saw their wings fit for consumption, they cut them off and sold them to supermarkets and other vendors. The wingless floranians were then either left to die, executed by the farmer, or tortured by the farmer for personal pleasure. Florania farmers also frequently forced floranias to engage in sexual intercourse against their will - sometimes through unethical methods such as torture and whipping - in order to generate "superior" breeds of floranias. These breeds frequently suffered from detrimental genetic disorders and overall lower qualities of life, sometimes causing florania farmers to execute them in childhood for being "useless" and "undesireable".
By the end of 2133, an estimated 11.6 million floranias had died from harvesting. By then, Garmageddon's populace had ceased to view floranias as intelligent, sentient beings and began viewing them as a form of livestock.
Esernium Rebellion and Mortem Fluminis[]
Though a majority of Garmageddon citizens viewed the Florania Exclusion Act, Spoloix Torture Tape, and Florania Farms positively, the three atrocities still generated significant public backlash from particularly vocal minorities. One of the most significant protests against the three acts was the Esernium Rebellion, which began on September 20, 2133 when the citizens of the Esernium quaternary star system publicly expressed their outrage over the Sovereignty's rampant discrimination against Floranians. After driving away the Esernium System's local viceroys and lords out of the system through violent protests, they declared their independence from Garmageddon and established what they called the Esernium Republic.
Urlum Eudae Kaywell would not tolerate any such opposition to her rule. To combat the Esernium Rebellion, the Highmost Sovereign came up with a clever solution: exterminating all in the Esernium System with bioweapons. Over the course of September and October 2133, tabulon biologists set about developing a toxic compound nicknamed Mortem Fluminis that would contaminate Esernium's food and water supplies and kill the rebels.
By October 27, Mortem Fluminis underwent its final tests and was deemed ready for deployment by the GIAF. The next day, stealth corvettes secretly contaminated the food and water supplies of all Esernium habitable worlds. The results were devastating: food and water poisoning related to Mortem Fluminis killed 72.9 billion Esernium rebels - over 90% of the unrecognized Esernium Republic's total population - by the end of the year, effectively ending the rebellion. The survivors, having witnessed the horror of Mortem Fluminis, voluntarily turned themselves in and were executed in public by firing squards shortly after. In addition, the Highmost Sovereign purposefully prevented any information about Mortem Fluminis's artificial nature from circulating amongst the public, allowing her to use the Esernium calamity as evidence that Macbeth themself had enacted divine punishment upon Esernium and that Garmageddon was a holy nation blessed by the Drori themselves. The public, as Kaywell planned, accepted the natural and religious explanations behind Mortem Fluminis and increased their religious fervor throughout the rest of 2133 as well as throughout 2133.
After the downfall of the Esernium Rebellion, Garmageddon-sympathetic tabulons, including the deposed local rulers, quickly repopulated the Esernium System - because the Esernium rebels did little damage to actual property, mass reconstruction efforts were unnecessary, leaving the purifcation of Esernium's food and water supply the only hurdle to recolonization. Urlum left the recovery of the system's infrastructure to the private sector, but offered significant subsidies to businesses who promised to restore the former glory of Esernium. This proved a success, with Esernium becoming a bustling colony once more by 2140 thanks to state-of-the-art food and water purifying machines derived from the Acutain artifact, but not without allegations that the companies exploited engineers and other employees in order to speed up the machines' completion. In all cases, the companies won on appeal, with the Garmageddon government sometimes arresting the accusers for "disturbing the peace."
Fat Genocide[]
At the same time as the war with the Srian Kingdom, Garmageddon carried out a genocide of all individuals with plus-sized bodies. This began in early September 2133, when the purposefully-induced obesity in livestock floranias brought attention to the increasing rates of obesity within tabulon society. Fearful that the tabulon race would stoop down to the level of domesticated floranias, numerous prominent Garmagedddon nationalists began encouraging better physical health and fitness for tabulons.
At first, physical health advocacy in Garmageddon existed as healthy promotions of exercise and healthy eating. However, as September progressed, advocacy quickly devolved into harmful stereotyping, harrassment, and marginalization of fat people; on September 20, 2133, an overweight tabulon by the name of Gigrus Profon was publicly attacked, beaten, murdered, and then hung by a mob of tabulons with the expressed intent of eliminating fat people. The Garmageddonian government pressed no charges against the mob; in fact, the public quickly came to celebrate the mob for "eliminating lethargic degeneracy" from Garmageddonian society. Physical health advocacy transformed into thin body advocacy, with Garmageddics harrassing fat people even if they put effort into exercising and improving their health.
On October 13, 2133, the Highmost Sovereign made a national speech proclaiming "degradation of fitness" and "physical decline" as the greatest threats to tabulon superiority, calling upon her citizens to prioritize improving their bodies in order to "live up to the high standards of being a tabulon of noble Garmageddon." Shortly afterwards, she had the Emperioso pass the October 14 Physical Wellness Act, which made having even a slightly plus-size body illegal and punishable by incarceration. The act mandated the detainment and starvation of all individuals with a BMI of 25 to 29 until their bodies improved along with the immediate execution of all individuals with a BMI of 30 or higher. All Garmageddon citizens were forced to perform routine, invasive medical checks on their bodies, with millions of plus-sized tabulons being arrested and sent to concentration camps. In addition to being sterilized, the overweight prisoners also faced debilitating starvation, with camp overseers purposefully refuding to feed them with the intent of making them lose weight. Garmageddon also forced overweight prisoners into coerced labor, believing such practices to constitute the physical exercise necessary for the prisoners to develop muscular bodies (in reality, most prisoners simply developed even more severe physical illnesses, suffered from work-related injuries, or even died from overwork). The Sovereignty also performed the killings of an estimated 5.8 billion individuals with BMIs of over 30.
Numerous citizens and scientists protested against the act for ignoring natural factors for overweightness such as metabolism, genetics, medical conditions, mental/physical disabilities, etc. The Highmost Sovereign simply ignored these viewpoints and punished the protestors with treason; all across the Sovereignty, fasces descended down onto anti-Fat Genocide protests and arrested, incapacitated, and brutally killed all protestors on sight. Propaganda works began perpetuating the notion that fat people had only themselves to blame for their poor physical health, portraying them as lacking in nutritious diet and physical exercise.
Notably, tabulons in Garmageddon's upper classes were given significant leeway during the Fat Genocide. Numerous plus-sized noblemen, including Emperioso Shol Kaywell firself, were spared execution or starvation on the basis that they would "exercise later". Even during the preliminary events leading up to the genocide, "physical health" advocates spared Emperioso Shol and other plus-sized noblemen and royals from criticism and continued to pay appropriate respect to their social superiors regardless of their body type.
Other colonizations[]
In addition to the Iris Star System, the Garmageddon Sovereignty also colonized two other star systems without native civilizations or life forms; like the Olus and Esernium colonizations, they mostly involved the mostly uneventful establishment of colonies and industrial facilities on suitable planets and moons.
One was the Uro System (Earth name: Van Maanen's Star), a white dwarf star with a newly-discovered system of three planets. Because of Uro's status as a white dwarf, the system was not chosen as a target for civilian colonization; instead, the presence of a number of rare and valuable minerals on its planets formed the primary motivation for Uro's annexation. Massive, sprawling mining facilities established quickly over the course of 2133 became the primary sign of civilization in the system, many of which doubled as concentration camps where tabulons sentenced non-tabulons to hard, forced labor in the often unsafe mines. Nonetheless, a few civilian space stations popped up in the system.
The other system was the Yahya Keshmiri System, consisting of three red dwarfs each with their own planetary systems. It was known to humans as LTT 1445. Unlike Uro, Yahya Keshmiri presented a much more favorable location for large civilian settlements. However, its colonial supervisors notably showed incompetence in developing the Yahya Keshmiri colony, with its rate of development consistently remaining lower than those of other colonies throughout succeeding months. They also showed incompence in crushing dissent, with a number of left-wing political dissident groups and non-tabulon refugees taking shelter in the system. In the end, this incompetence combined with the later emergence of the Garmageddon Sovereignty Transgender Rights Movement (GSTRM) resulted in the Yahya Keshmiri System being completely annihilated by Urlum, who afterwards abstained from attempting to re-colonize the system on the basis of it being permanently stained by sin.
Cyclonic Doomsday Plan and the Garmageddon Invasion of Danulia (2134-2135)[]
Garmageddon's next target for conquest was the Lanastea System, or Tau Ceti as known by humans. The tabulons initially considered this G8V-type a low-priority colonization candidate due to its large debris disk that would hinder the habitability of any planets. However, the confirmation of a large gas giant in a far orbit that would allow debris to be deflected from any inner terrestrials reignited interest in the system.
Flag of the Federation of Danulia
A native civilization already inhabited the Lanastea System, however: the Danulian Federation, whose native Danulians called Lanastea the Derolon System. Aside from existing as a typical democracy, Danulia also practiced a unique religion called Giedrism, which based on data from scout probes involved the view of hurricanes and other tropical cyclones as the highest embodiments of evil.
The Sovereignty decided to take advantage of Giedrism in the next phase of Ouroboros, the Cyclonic Doomsday Plan. This new plan involved the use of Garmageddon's weather-manipulating space stations, the Telavation Devices, to heat up Danulian planets' oceans high enough to induce the formation of cataclysmic tropical cyclones.
In order to allow the Telavation Devices in, the Garmageddon Sovereignty conducted intense studies of the Gatlorimtis Station's comet-like disguise and imported it onto the Telavation Devices. They then warped Telavation Devices into the outer regions of the Lanastea System under the guise of comets; the project reached completion by just January 20, 2134, with over 2,000 of the devices being deployed. Inside the systems, the devices made close passes to important habitable worlds, including Danulia (the Danulian homeworld) itself, where they secretly sent out large heat waves which increased planetary sea surface temperatures dramatically - up to 150°F (66°C) on some planets. Afterwards, they disappeared and warped into other systems, where they repeated the procedure.
Within months, extremely powerful hurricanes (including several hypercanes with winds exceeding 300 mph (485 km/h)) formed in ocean basins across habitable worlds in the Derolon/Lanastea System; the strongest, Hurricane Nevonius, reached sustained winds of 595 mph (955 km/) and caused significant destruction on the populated ocean planet Negasia. The results of the Cyclonic Doomsday Plan not only dealt severe damage to the Danulian economy and infrastructure - one storm, Hurricane Derevor, caused the equivalent of $14.7 trillion USD in damages along with nearly 1 billion fatalities on Danulia - but also spread turmoil among Giedrist followers, who took the high occurrence of hurricanes as a sign of the end of the world.
On August 23, 2134, Garmageddon declared war on Danulia as its economy and culture continued to collapse under the brunt of the powerful tropical cyclones. Due to the hurricanes damaging critical military command outposts and centers, the Danulian government concentrating resources on recovery, and the citizenry devolving into a state of religious panic, Danulian space fleets had high difficulty in effectively defending Danulian planets and star systems. Within three months, the Derolonian planets of Senghor, Hester, Korkurn, Negasia, and Himus had fallen under Garmageddon control, with Conquerator Vael Nova Kirbani leading the highly-successful invasion.
On January 20, 2135, Conquerator Vael's fleet of 2550 ships (including 485 Polyhex-classes, 308 Omperion Plan ships, 2 super star crushers, and an Unstoppable-class hyper star crusher) warped into orbit around Danulia, where they attempted to force the Danulian government to surrender. However, the Danulians responded by sending out their own powerful devices which created hurricane-like clouds of turbulent gas in space, which sent Ambali's fleet into disarray and destroyed 171 ships. As a counterattack, Garmageddon sent all of the high-ranking generals in the Order of Kerbos - Ferno, Byr, Aurus, Laevo, Jove, Lyrne, and Glacen rei Kerbos - into the battle. However, Danulia utilized more of these hurricane devices (called Aeolia Drives) to not only make the Garmageddon ships lose control of their steering, but shut out their power and allow Danulian troops to send boarding parties into the ships.
However, Garmageddon simply utilized a new strategy in response: using the Telavation Devices as offensive weaponry. Rather than aiming their heat rays at entire planets, the Garmageddon fleet concentrated the rays on Danulia's ships and Aeolia Devices. This effort succeeded; Danulian ships quite literally overheated and melted, burning their occupants inside. The heat, despite temporarily strengthening the space storms, also rendered the Aeolia Devices unusable and harmless after a few minutes due to circuit overheating. Though other Danulian Federation ships soon moved in to match Garmageddon's newfound strength, the heat attack gave Conquerator Vael enough time to fully charge his Chelmno-class star crusher and threaten to fire its Rengoku Cannon at Derolon/Lanastea/Tau Ceti if they failed to surrender to Garmageddon. The subsequent arrival of a Garmageddonian fleet of 3795 led by Ascraeus rei Tharsis and Vael's sister Mirn Nova Kirbani added strength to Ambali's threats. Faced with over 6000 powerful ships, heat rays, and possible stellar destruction, the Danulians surrendered on March 14, 2135 after almost 2 months of on-and-off warfare.
Arelon
The conquest meant the creation of a new court: the Lanastea Court, with Lanastea becoming the official name of the Derolon System and Vael Nova Kirbani becoming its high lord. In addition, Garmageddon gained an addition Drori Artifact: the Arelon, a pyramid-shaped space station which formed the source of Danulia's Aeolia Devices, containing a number of technological artifacts related to research on wind, gas, etc.
Giedrist Witch Hunt[]
The surrender of Danulia, as usual, meant the stripping of all fundamental rights from the Danulians. Garmageddon forcibly sent billions of the race out of their native home planets and into concentration camps, forced labor, slave plantations, laboratories, and other abusive institutions. The Sovereignty killed billions more as they destroyed an estimated 479 rebelling population centers, which included landmasses, space stations, and minor moon colonies.
Most notably, however, a mass persecution of Giedrists took place; in the ensuing Giedrist Witch Hunt the Garmageddon Sovereignty resorted to genocidal means in order to suppress the religion and promote Macbethism. All across the Sovereignty, citizens and military officials attacked Giedrists in mobs, sometimes pinning them on crosses and burning them alive. Propagandists began pumping out fictional works and posters portraying Giedrists as dangerous and savage; most notably, they generated a false conspiracy similar to the Nazis' views of Jewish people that Giedrists were secretly controlling the local star systems and had to be stopped. The GIAF forced billions of Giedrist children into boarding schools intended to "re-educate" and "civilize" them by forcefully converting them into Macbethists; to this end, the boarding schools' administrators punished the children for expressing Giedrist culture in even miniscule ways. They resorted to torture, whipping, hitting, punching, starving, thirst, imprisonment, and even dismemberment to force Giedrism out of the children. By the end of 2135, Garmageddon had killed an estimated 61.1 billion Giedrists, among them 27.2 million Giedrist children who succumbed to the horrible conditions of the boarding schools.
On March 20, 2135, the Highmost Sovereign began broadcasting yet another national broadcast involving the torture of an enemy official at the hands of Arsia - this time, Giedrius Asariel, the prime minister of the Federation. As with other tortures, the torture and later execution of Asariel served as a form of speciesist propaganda against the Danulians and Giedrists. Also like with other tortures, the Kaywell and Tharsis Families had their ashes fashioned into pots, vases, bracelets, and bowls for their palaces.
Danulia Mass Extinction Event[]
Immediately following Asariel's execution, the Highmost Sovereign ordered the destruction of all life on the Danulian Federation's homeworld of Danulia via Telavation devices to make way for tabulon colonization.
In the ensuing Danulia Mass Extinction Event of March 21, 2135, thousands of Telavation devices warped into orbit and simultaneously fired their heat rays at Danulia. This caused the entire surface of the planet to rapidly heat up and burn. Billions of innocent Danulians, including many families, babies, and children, burned alive and melted to death under the extreme heat. Entire cities and countries burned, the metal of their buildings turning molten. Gigantic wildfires erupted in the Danulian equivalents of forests, releasing inconceivable amounts of smoke and harmful gases into the atmosphere while burning all life forms inside them in the process. Icebergs melted instantaneously, sending massive floods and tsunamis across the world and into coastal cities, where they caused trillions of dollars in damages and killed billions. Entire oceans boiled, forming exceptionally storm systems whose winds decimated entire landmasses and killed even more billions.
By the end of March 2135, all 38.8 billion inhabitants of Danulia had died from heat and other effects related to the Telavation devices' mass firing. Garmageddon had converted Danulia itself into a hellish Venus-like world, with the water vapor of Danulia's oceans rising up into the atmosphere and generating an extreme greenhouse effect. Danulia's destruction was soon broadcast onto national television, where it drew national praise; many Garmageddon adolescents and children would come to watch footage of the destruction as entertainment, laughing at the sight of Danulian families burning to death. The Ministry of Truth and other propaganda companies would also use the destruction as racist propaganda against the Danulian species, using it as evidence of their genetic inferiority.
Shortly afterwards, the Sovereignty terraformed Danulia using resources from the Acutain as well as large chunks of ice from minor moons. Over several months, the tabulons stripped away Danulia's Venuslike atmosphere and restored the planet into a habitable Uingffh-like world. They then established a Uingffhian ecosystem on the newly-terraformed world. Tabulons colonization officially began near the beginning of 2136, with the colony continuing to grow throughout succeeding years.
Milky Way Transgender Rights Movement, Degeneracy Eradication Plan, and the Second LGBTQ+ Genocide[]
At the same time as the invasion of Danulia, renowned Order of Scentrilla general Emnitinus rei Scentrilla came out as a transgender somale. Though Urlum spared fir from execution due to fir military achievements, Grandmaster Surrealia rei Scentrilla expelled Emnitinus from the Order of Scentrilla due to fir identity. This caused fir to start a new LGBTQ+ rights movement: the Garmageddon Sovereignty Transgender Rights Movement (GSTRM), based around the IGRM, on March 26, 2133; unlike the IGRM, the GSTRM focused more on transgender identities than sexualities - mostly because Garmageddon had, for the most part, eradicated all non-heterosexual individuals during the First LGBTQ+ Genocide.
The GSTRM's formation and rise proved the breaking point for the Highmost Sovereign's tolerance. On March 30, she had Emperioso Shol pass the Degeneracy Eradication Plan, which gave the GIAF permission to carry out a genocide of all transgender people. The plan actually called for the extermination of all LGBTQ+ identities, but the First LGBTQ+ genocide had successfully exterminated most other identities and left transgender people the sole members of the community with a significant population.
The ensuing Second LGBTQ+ Genocide proved just as, if not even more gruesome and devastating than the first. Like the first LGBTQ+ genocide, the Second LGBTQ+ entailed the deployment of billions of fasces onto planets and moons with a significant GSTRM presence. They ruthlessly suppressed and broke up protests regardless of how peaceful or violent they were; protestors were severely injured or killed in a variety of gruesome ways including burning, impaling/stabbing, crushing, decapitation, dismemberment, disembowelment, etc. Notably, Urlum programmed the fasces to mutilate the bodies of all transgender people detected as a nod to her belief that gender-affirming surgery amounted to nothing but bodily mutilation and self-harm. By the end of 2135, an estimated 9 billion transgender people had died due to the fasces alone.
Urlum also carried out the orbital bombardment of GSTRM systems and worlds with even more fervency than during the first LGBTQ+ genocide. Across the Sovereignty, millions of naval spaceships, including a multitude of Polyhex-classes and star crushers, prowled deep space for planets with a significant GSTRM presence before bombing them from orbit. These bombings killed billions and devastated local ecosystems; one of the most notorious orbital bombings was the Destruction of Sri, where Kaywell responded to the terraformed moon Sri's legalization of gender transitioning with a shot from an Alexandru-class ship, leading to the deaths of all 10.2 billion tabulons living there along with Sri's loss of habitability on July 4, 2133. Garmageddon broadcasted the destructions of Sri as propaganda, using it as evidence of transgender people's "inferiority" and "inherent cowardice".
Notably, the Highmost Sovereign opened up numerous fake "transgender safe space" refuge centers made to capture escaping transgender people (similar to how the U.S. used the fake University of Farmington to catch illegal immigrants). During 2133, an estimated 27.9 million transgender people and other LGBTQ+ people admitted themselves into the centers, believing them to be safe havens from Garmageddon's Second LGBTQ+ genocide. However, they were actually traps; once inside, GIAF troops arrested the transgender people and sent them to concentration camps. In some cases, Garmageddon tabulons tortured or even executed them in the "safe" spaces themselves.
On October 31, GIAF troops captured Emnitinus rei Scentrilla on the planet Oldrin in the Yahya Keshmiri System, which had quickly fallen under GSTRM control due to the system's overseers' incompetence. Urlum then ordered the troops to send Emnitinus to Arsia's palace for her to personally torture fir. As another nod to Urlum's belief that transgender surgery simply constituted bodily mutilation, Arsia rei Tharsis tortured Emnitinus by mutilating fir body beginning with the feet, and then moving up until reaching the ears. As Emnitinus cried and screamed in pain, Arsia repeatedly misgendered fir and called fir a multitude of derogatory slurs against transgender people and the LGBTQ+ community as a whole. By the time fe died at 21:00 UTC that day, fir body had become completely unrecognizeable, being nothing but a blob of mutilated flesh and organs. Arsia and Urlum had these organs fashioned into more gemstones, furniture, decorations, and clothing later on while having Emnitinus' skeleton hung in public in front of the Polyhex Imperial Palace as anti-transgender propaganda.
The Second LGBTQ+ genocide concluded with the Highmost Sovereign entering the act of being transgender as an anomaly in the Order of Apollyon's database. Transgenderism became designated Apollyon-078 by the Apollyonic Foundation.
Yahya Keshmiri Massacre[]
Immediately after Emnitinus' torture and death, Urlum ordered the sundering of the entire Yahya Keshmiri System due to not only her transphobic beliefs, but also her dissatisfaction with the system's poor colonization efforts, having lost hope in the system ever becoming a suitable colony.
In the ensuing Yahya Keshmiri Massacre, billions of fasces descended down onto every inhabited planet and moon in the triple star system. They ruthlessly massacred and mutilated any and all living things on the worlds regardless of their alignment regarding the GSTRM, murdering individuals as young as infants. GIAF troops and other fasces rounded up and surrounded entire families before shooting them millions of times, later burning down their villages. Polyhex-class and Apollymi-class ships bombared planets from orbit and annihilated all settlements indiscriminately, paying no heed to whether they were GSTRM-controlled or not. Tey destroyed cities, devastated ecosystems, and generated blasts which in turn created tsunamis that caused even more devastation along coastlines. Severe climate disruptions and crises resulted from the bombardments, causing mass extinction events and humanitarian crises. Any refugee ships, including neutral medical ships, caught attempting to flee the system were destroyed, captured, or torn apart with no remorse from Garmageddon ships. The Yahya Keshmiri Massacre concluded with several star crushers and battlecruisers firing at the system's three stars, causing drastic increases in stellar activity and extreme solar flares which eliminated and burned any surviving people in the system.
In total, the Yahya Keshmiri Massacre claimed the lives of an estimated 165 billion people. Interestingly, Urlum made no attempt to censor the destruction of the system. In fact, she did not hesistate to spread word and footage of its destruction as propaganda against not only transgender rights, but also against general incompetence and failure. For the most part, her efforts succeeded in persuading hundreds of billions of tabulons across the Sovereignty to view the Yahya Keshmiri Massacre as not just a necessary evil, but a positive good.
Other colonizations (Colonization Golden Age)[]
In addition to Derolon/Lanastea, Garmageddon also initiated the colonizations of numerous other star systems - more so than during the conquests of Krybolartarium, Xymidication, etc. In fact, the 2134-2135 period is sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Colonization for this reason. This mass colonization occurred due to Garmageddonian astronomers, conquerators, and expeditionists discovering a wealth of new exoplanets around numerous nearby stars, motivating the Sovereignty to conquer them. In addition, a significant economic boom in Garmageddon (partially brought about by the influx of slaves from Finolian, Sria, and other annexed nations) allowed the Sovereignty and its many private corporations to invest the resources into developing colonies on these newly-discovered worlds. As all of these systems harbored no life or Drori artifacts of their own, their conquests were restricted to establishing infrastructure and peacefully creating settlements.
One was the Yuge System (human name: HD 17925), a young K1V-type star 14.25 light-years away from Ingffhaestia. This system contained 5 newly-discovered planets: three terrestrials nestled in-between a close-orbiting hot Saturn named Cyrane and a much farther ice giant named Homus. The presence of a substantial dust forced the Garmageddon to install countermeasures on Crassula, the system's sole habitable world, against asteroid impacts.
Another Colonization Golden Age system was the Arein System (human name: Pi3 Orionis), a system centered around an F6V-type white star at a distance of 14.47 light-years from Ingffhaestia. Though most of Arein's 7 newly-discovered planets and their moons hosted extremely treacherous and inhospitable environments, one particularly promising world - a Uingffh-sized terrestrial named Echeveria - garnered special attention from colonization overseers. Eventually, Echeveria would grow into one of the most propserous Uingffhian colonies over the next few years.
The Graxton System (human name: Gliese 876) formed another system colonized by Garmageddon during 2134-2135. Though its inner terrestrial planet (Ozen) and three outer gas giants (Matteo, Palacios, and Infante) were all already known to the tabulons at the time, the recent discovery of habitable moons around Matteo and Palacios piqued the Sovereignty's interest. Over the next few years, Garmageddon converted these two moons, named Haworthia and Gasteria, into bustling colonies; notably, Uingffhian colonists travelling to Haworthia inadvertently spread Uingffhian microorganisms to its parent planet Matteo, causing its atmosphere to take on a red hue from airborne life.
The Irun System (human name: 82 G. Eridani), also a Golden Age system, contained 10 planets (a gas giant, three ice giants, and six terrestrials) orbiting a G6V-type star. For this system, the tabulons knew about a portion of the planets (the exact amount was debated between astronomers), but discovered numerous new planets and confirmed existing candidates during Garmageddon, leading to its colonization. Two of its habitable planets - the desertic Sahar and the oceanic Rasaidor - became significant population centers.
The tabulons also colonized the Valia System (human name: Mu Herculis), a quadruple star system consisting of a close binary between a G5IV subgiant (Luz) and an M4V red dwarf (Amity), which were both orbited by another pair of red dwarfs (simply referred to as "Valia B" and "Valia C") at a larger distance from the primaries. Garmageddon initially ignored this system until late 2133, when scout ships discovered three gas giant planets, including one in the habitable zone with a habitable moon, orbiting the primary binary. This resulted in its colonization in 2134, with the aforementioned moon (Erutan) of the gas giant (Fersolia) becoming its primary population center.
In addition, they colonized the Halia System (human name: EZ Aquarii), a close binary of two red dwarfs 20.85 light-years away from Ingffhaestia. The tabulons discovered a system of 7 planets - four terrestrials and three ice giants - during the Golden Age of Colonization, leading to further exploration and eventually colonization. The system also contained a third red dwarf in a farther orbit, but its lack of planets made it insignificant to Garmageddon.
Yet another solar system conquered by Garmageddon was the Salia System (human name: Epsilon Indi), a K5V-type star 25.13 light-years from the Garmageddon home system. Initially believed to only host one planet, a super-Jupiter gas giant on a far orbit from Salia, expeditions into the system during the Colonization Golden Age revealed the existence of a far large planetary system consisting of 7 more planets: one more gas giant, four ice giants, and two terrestrials including a habitable ocean world named Bor. This led to the establishment of colonies, cities, and infrastructure on the planet over several years. Salia also had a binary system of two brown dwarfs in a very wide orbit; Garmageddon used the two and their planets/moons as military outpost stations.
Lastly, there was the Altaria System (human name: Upsilon Andromedae), a wide binary system between an F8V-type white star (Altaria) and an M4.5V-type red dwarf (Asacria). Located around 28.88 light-years away from the Ingffhaestian System, Altaria boasted a system of 4 previously-discovered gas giant planets and 2 newly-discovered planets: a small cold terrestrial and a small ice giant. The existence of a moon almost identical to Uingffh (Amar Dudakia) around the third planet (the gas giant Archinion) made Altaria a priority target for colonization. Over succeeding years, Amar Dudakia and the Altaria System as a whole would become one of the most populated, developed, and prosperous colonies of the Garmageddon Sovereignty; in fact, Prince Sarnus Robau Kaywell would establish his personal palace on the moon in 2137.
World Devastator Plan and the Garmageddon Invasion of Cergol (2135)[]
Shortly after Danulia's surrender, Garmageddon launched the colonization of the Apatelos System (Gliese 783 to humans), a wide binary system consisting of a K-type orange star and an M-type red dwarf both just shy of 33 light-years from Ingffhaestia, as part of the Golden Age of Colonization. Preliminary scout ships and surveying probes discovered a system of 10 planets (6 terrestrials, 2 gas giants, and 2 ice giants - a system many tabulons noted to be unusually similar to the Earth's Solar System) around the primary star and a smaller, but still sizable system of 4 planets (2 terrestrials, an ice giant, and a gas giant) around the smaller red dwarf companion.
Flag of the Cergol Union
However, the ships and probes also discovered native inhabitants of the Apatelos System: the Cergol Union, which consisted of a loose union between various planetary societies similar to the Ingffhaestian Federation pre-Kalgamania, but with only one race, the Cergals. The Cergals called Apatelos Cergol (hence the name of their union) and its companion star Nemis.
In response to this discovery, Urlum Eudae Kaywell launched the next phase of the Ouroboros Plan - the World Devastator Plan - in order to invade the Apatelos System. Due to the need to develop Garmageddon's numerous newly-acquired Golden Age colonies, the Garmageddon Sovereignty utilized not manned fleets, but automated world-destroying machines to conquer the Union. During August of 2135, the Sovereignty sent out the first ever AI-driven ships - the Majdanek-class super star crushers - into the Apatelos System.
The Majdaneks, along with several other smaller ship classes refitted to be captained by artificial intelligence, initially proved highly effective in subjugating the Cergol Union and its various member civilizations. However, during the October 27 Battle of Orl, Cergol Union troops stationed around Nemis' fourth planet, the gas giant Orl, performed a large-scale hack of the World Devastator Plan ships' AI systems, disabling most of them and bringing catastrophic losses to Garmageddon.
The Star Eravade vaporizes the surface of Cergin.
In response, Garmageddon sent fleets led by actual tabulons, with crown prince Jool Halleoneus Kaywell and nobleman Mesmo rei Kerolon volunteering to lead the assault. This new threat very quickly subdued the Cergol Union's short-lived burst of confidence following the Battle of Orl. Due to its decentralized nature, Cergol proved extremely easy to conquer; over the course of December, Jool defeated all ships and military outposts in the Nemis System as well as the outer giant planets - Jall, Virn, Omus, and Xogren - of the Cergol System. After conquering the binary planets Darrow and Sevro on December 18 and defeating persistent rebels at the super-Earth planet Neige on December 20, Jool's fleet arrived in orbit around the Cergal homeworld of Cergin on December 21. The Cergol Union surrendered in the face of the newly-arrived fleet of 7504 even before any fighting began; nonetheless, Jool' flagship, the Garrahan-class Star Eravade, fired upon Cergin's surface that day, rendering it uninhabitable and wiping out both the Cergals and their settlements on the planet at the time.
December 25, 2135 marked the formal dissolution of the Cergol Union and its conversion into the Apatelos Court, with Cergol being renamed to Apatelos; by Jool and Mesmo's personal requests, the planet Cergin was renamed to Apato. As with the other conquests, the conquest of the Cergol System meant the loss of rights for all Cergals and other Cergol Union species; many were reduced to slaves conducting forced labor while others were simply killed or tortured.
Garmageddon ships gained control of one Drori artifact in the Apatelos/Cergol System: the Bondora, a massive sword-shaped ship with the ability to slice smaller-scale celestial bodies into pieces. The Cergol Union had actually utilized the Bondora against Garmageddon at times, but it would always prove inferior in power, agility, and efficiency to the Sovereignty's mass-produced Polyhexes and star crushers. Likewise, Garmageddon would utilize Bondora rather infrequently in coming years, as its own ships had rendered the Bondora obselete.
Notably, the Sovereignty had a space station known as Apatelos Academy constructed in orbit of Apato for use as a training facility for captured humans that would become future Integrity Generals. The Sovereignty would send multitudes of captured humans in the adolescent age range to the Academy to have their memories wiped, after which the humans would attend classes where tabulons taught them basic spacefaring military tactics. Over a decade later, however, the captured fought back against their tabulon masters after an attempt at executing a poorly-performing class, later leading to the Apatelos Rebellion.
Cergal Genocide[]
On December 25, the Highmost Sovereign requested Jool to track down the Cergol Union's leader, Billob Cergan, for personal torture, oblivious to the fact that Jool had destroyed Cergin's surface. After learning of the destruction, Urlum did not attempt to punish Jool and even congratulated him for his efforts; assuming the Cergol leader died in the destruction of Cergin, the Highmost Sovereign decided to have her and the rest of the Garmageddon Soveignty's upper echelon instead personally torture the rest of the Cergal race.
On December 26, the Highmost Sovereign ordered the beginning of the Cergal Genocide through the Cergal Impurity Act, which stripped away all rights from cergals including their rights to citizenship, healthcare, education, free speech, etc. Millions of Garmageddon ships and fasces descended upon worlds formerly controlled by the Cergol Union and captured innocent cergals in the billions. When the cergals resisted, the Sovereign had them massacred on-site by fasces before having the city (or planet, in extreme cases) involved orbitally bombarded.
Unlike Garmageddon's previous genocides, the Sovereignty funneled a significant portion of the captured cergals into the palaces of high-ranking Garmageddon officials in order to make up for Urlum's inability to have Arsia personally torture Billob Cergan. In the palaces, the Garmageddon officials were given the freedom to torture, assault, and murder the cergals (some of which were as young as infants) to their hearts' content; this ultimately ended up including rape, burning alive, stretching, gouging, dismemberment, mutilation, asphyxiation, poison, decapitation, gassing, etc. Some officials decided to spare their cergals from death, but instead sentenced them to a life of slavery, forced labor, and horrific abuse under their owners. Many of the cergal torture sessions were filmed and distributed across social media, where they attracted large amounts of praise, entertainment, and enjoyment from Garmageddon's highly-manipulated public. Propagandists also won copyright of several tapes and marketed them as racist propaganda, using the profit earned to fund the genocide even more. By the end of 2136, an estimated 7.9 trillion cergals had died at the hands of Garmageddon.
Though many cergals were re-routed to Garmageddon aristocrats, concentration camps and other similar facilities still saw a significant influx of cergal prisoners. On camps, tabulon masters inflicted cergals with the typical harsh treatment they used on other non-tabulons: forced labor, execution, torture, abuse, etc. Corporations bought large numbers of cergals and used them as forced, unpaid labor, with millions of cergals injuring themselves or dying from overwork and poor working environments. Boarding schools took in millions of cergal children and used unethical methods such as abuse and physical harm to "kill the cergal and save the tabulon" and erase all traces of cergal culture from their personalities. Sterilization centers admitted trillions of cergal women, sterilized them, and murdered any already-birthed infants on-site.
Autistic Genocide[]
At the same time as the Cergol War, Garmageddon decided to carry out a genocide of autistic people due to an influx of autistic people and their supporters organizing peaceful autism rights movements. The Highmost Sovereign found autistic people particularly threatening to her reign due to their "frequent questioning of Garmageddonian social norms".
Unlike Garmageddon's other genocides, which began with the passage of a single sweeping act, the ensuing Autistic Genocide occurred gradually through a serious of acts and decisions which began with the Autism Identification Mandate of March 31, 2135. This act required all autistic people to register themselves in a government database cataloguing all people with autism. It also required said autistic people to carry IDs confirming their autism. The mandate appeared harmless to autistic people at first, but in reality, the Highmost Sovereign had Emperioso Shol pass it to better target autistic people during the passage of more hostile act.
On April 9, 2135, the Highmost Imperial Court affirmed in Payne v. Lanastea Court corporations' right to give lower pay or even fire autistic individuals at will for being autistic. During the following months, Garmageddon propagandists began outputting works that perpetuated the notion that autism formed a burden for families and employers. This was followed three days later by the passage of the Autist Re-education Act, which allowed universities to reject applicants for having autism, limited autistic people's educational opportunities, and outlawed special education/educational accomodations for autistic people. Both decisions caused autistic people's employment rates to fall by 87%, autistic people's university admission rate to fall by 76%, and Garmageddics to increasingly look down upon autism; the sharp falls are credited to the Autism Identification Mandate's autism government database, which made it significantly easier for universities and employers to identify autistic people to refuse admission/employment to. The acts also indirectly led to increased bullying of autistic people in schools; a survey conducted on April 23 found that almost 100% of autistic minors between 6th and 12th grade reported experiencing verbal harrassment on the basis of their condition and that over 89% were physically harmed by others for being autistic.
On May 28, the Highmost Sovereign passed the Battle against Autism Act, which increased funding towards a variety of autism research facilities in order to develop a "cure" for autism (a notion disproven by many scientists, psychologists, and researchers prior to Garmageddon's formation). During the following weeks, Garmageddon propagandists began spreading notions that autism was not a disability forming a central part of people's identities, but rather a disease that had to be cured in order to "save" its victims and convert them back to normality. Though the act ultimately failed to ever create a cure for autism, it saw widespread support among the Garmageddon populace.
Then, the Autist Special Education Act's passage on June 16 expanded on the Autist Re-education Act by reinstating special education for autistic people, forcing all autistic students out of mainstream education and into special "autism schools". Unlike true special education, however, these autism schools were created to marginalize autistic people rather than help them navigate the world; the schools purposefully gave subpar education to their students, punished autistic students with abuse for expressing autistic traits such as stimming, and aimed to rid students of their autism as opposed to accomodating their disabilities. Many compared these autism schools to the Sovereignty's many racist boarding schools designed to suppress non-Uingffhian culture out of non-tabulon children through abuse, starvation, thirst, and other unethical means.
By the time the act had passed, Garmageddon propagandists had begun targeting specific autistic traits and labelling them as symbols of degeneracy, savagery, and other values contrary to Garmageddonian values; this led to further stigmatization of autistic people in Garmageddon society, particularly from Garmageddon nationalists. In some cases, mobs of Garmageddic tabulons performed brutal public attacks on autistic people expressing their autistic traits and even executed them; Highmost Sovereign Urlum Eudae Kaywell supported these beatings, passing the Act to Preserve The Purification of Autistics (APPA) on July 3 to drop all criminal charges on the ableist lynchers and protect their right to lynch autistic people on the basis that it "protected the purity of Garmageddon from the ignominy of autism."
The final blow came on September 8, 2135 when Urlum passed the Eliminate Autism Act. The act stripped autistic Garmageddics of all fundamental rights including that of citizenship, allowing the GIAF to perform a large-scale extermination of autistic Garmageddonians. The GIAF captured billions of innocent autistic people and sent them into the Imperial Sovereignty's many extermination camps, where their staff performed horrific experiments on them and executed them in a multitude of brutal methods. Garmageddon had autistic people, unlike other minority groups, sent exclusively to execution camps and not to regular concentration camps because the Highmost Sovereign had deemed them unfit for even forced labor on the basis of their autism symptoms. Propagandists, in addition to stereotyping autistic people as evil and inferior, also exaggerated the public's fear of autism to the point that numerous non-autistic individuals were persecuted and executed for displaying autistic-like traits, being "soft on autism", having autistic friends or family members, etc.; for this reason, many historians nicknamed the Autistic Genocide the Interstellar Infinity Rainbow Scare (a reference to the rainbow-colored infinity symbol often used to symbolize autism rights movements) for its similarities to the Galactic Red Scare in terms of its fearmongering and effects on the public. By the end of 2135, the Eliminate Autism Act had killed an estimated 120 billion people - a number notably higher than the pre-2135 autistic population of 88.9 billion.
APWorth and the Lower-Class Genocide[]
The Cergol Union invasion saw not only a genocide of autistic people, but also a genocide of the Garmageddon lower-class. Like the Autistic Genocide, the Lower-Class Genocide was subtle; the Highmost Sovereign refrained from outright killing lower-class citizens due to their essential role in supplying Garmageddon cheap labor and instead chose to sterilize them in order to "maintain the purity of the noble upper-class" and suppress the "degenerate genes of the poor".
On July 18, 2135, Emperioso Shol Gregrox Kaywell passed the Act to Protect the Worthy (APWorth), which mandated the sterilization of the bottom 10% of Garmageddon society, under Urlum's orders. The act also raised $450 billion in funding for giant medical companies, which used the money to set up sterilization clinics across the Sovereignty. GIAF troops raided low-income communities on numerous Garmageddon-controlled worlds and forcibly sent poor people into the sterilization clinics, where doctors frequently treated them with abuse and rape in addition to the regular sterilization. The clinics also performed forced abortions on pregnant poor people and even orchestrated gory miscarriages.
In addition to mandating sterilizations, APWorth also led to further measures to drive homeless people out of cities. The act gave the GIAF permission to kill homeless people on site, burn down homeless tent cities with no prior notice, and send the homeless into the same concentration and execution camps as non-tabulons, homosexuals, transgender people, and other minorities. An estimated 450,000 homeless people were killed by Garmageddon under APWorth by the end of 2316.
Garmageddon propagandists justified the Lower-Class Genocide using social darwinist and capitalist thought. They spread notions that the poor were poor due to their own conscious life choices and, in more extreme cases, their inherent genetic inferiority. Uniquely, both "conservatives" and "liberals" (conservative-leaning and liberal-leaning Garmageddonians were both much deeper into the political right than true conservatives and liberals due to the Leftist Politicide and cannot truly be called such) submitted to these notions; while Garmageddic conservatives had fully supported the prospects of Lower-Class Genocide even before it began, liberals cloaked their social darwinist beliefs under the guise of promoting education and services. They promoted making schools, resources for good health, and adequate shelter, in order to give the poor the materials necessary to succeed, but opposed direct charity and supported the inequality derived from Garmageddon's form of capitalism. This did not stop the Sovereignty from persecuting these "liberals" for being "too soft on the poor," though. Propagandists furthered the idea that innate genetic traits were responsible for both poor people's poverty and rich people's wealth.
Other colonizations[]
While the latter half 2135 did not offer as many peaceful colonizations and discoveries as during the Danulia invasion, the period still saw the conquest of multiple new star systems with newly-discovered exoplanetary systems; thus, it is considered part of the Colonization Golden Age.
One was the Giro System, a star system consisting of two closely-orbiting red dwarfs undiscovered by humans. The system contained 6 planets; while most were gas giants, two of the planets were a pair of habitable terrestrial worlds named Yanny and Laurel in a binary orbit. These two planets became the main target of tabulon colonization and settlement.
Another 2135 system was the Zymarstia System (human name: Sigma Draconis/Alsafi), a K0V-type star located 29.88 light-years from the Garmageddon capital system. The discovery of 2 new low-mass gas giants as well as a habitable moon around a previously-discovered ice giant piqued the Sovereignty's interest and led to its settlement.
Also colonized during 2135 was the Larsha System (human name: Altair), centered around an oblate A7V-type star located a little over 30 light-years from Ingffhaestia. Though conquerators did not discover any habitable worlds orbiting Larsha, they did discover three gas giants with moons exceptionally rich in natural resources and minerals. This led to the system's transformation into an important Garmageddon shipyard and manufacturing hub; Garmageddic corporations constructed and moved space stations into orbits around its gas giants to serve as homes for the families of Larshan laborers. Larsha also became an infamous hotspot for the forced labor and exploitation of non-tabulon and minority group member slaves.
Garmageddon colonized the Razera System (human name: Zeta Reticuli), a pair of Sun-like stars named Rulid and Reltia in a wide binary orbit, as well. Both Rulid and Reltia contained plenty of newly-discovered habitable worlds for tabulons to colonize. Notably, Conquerator Laevo rei Kerbos of the Order of Kerbos discovered a small settlement of human refugees on Terrion, a habitable moon of the gas giant Cerania, third planet of the Rulid System. Laevo promptly wiped out and executed the entire settlement except for two humans. One was a child named Macia Mallory who displayed a particularly high intellect; Conquerator Laevo captured Mallory and sent them to the Highmost Sovereign, who would wipe their memory and send them to Apatelos Academy to be trained into an Integrity General. Mallory would notably rebel against the Academy and begin the Apatelos Rebellion in 2143. The other human was a boy of similar age to Macia named Trey Peterson; Trey managed to escape Laevo and go on the run before eventually falling into Urlum's hands. However, the Sovereign ultimately spared him due to seeing similarities between him and herself; the two would go on to forge a close bond.
Yet another system settled in 2135 was the Saris System (human name: Vega), where conquerators and stellar cartographers discovered 9 planets (three terrestrials, three ice giants, and three gas giants) around its central A0V-type star. In addition to the two nascent habitable moons (the oceanic Oca and the young Mars-like Dov) around the gas giants Saris and Kelon, a substantial circumstellar dust disk also attracted the Sovereignty's interest, particularly for resource mining. In addition, Saris allowed Garmageddon's private research institutions to study the development of planets in a young star system like Saris. Ultimately, Saris was the hottest star Garmageddon would conquer.
Daybreak Plan and the Garmageddon Invasion of Nera Nelinis (2136-2137)[]
In 2136, Garmageddon astronomers began surveying the Gliese 570 star system (known to tabulons as the Noctantis System), a quadruple star system consisting of a K-type primary, an orbiting pair of smaller red dwarfs, and a very distant brown dwarf of class T. The astronomers reported the discovery of three terrestrial planets, including a potentially habitable Uingffh-like super-Earth, around the K-type component of the system in February; immediately, the Imperial Sovereignty set out to colonize the system and all celestial bodies associated with it.
Flag of the Dominion of Nera Nelinis
However, an advanced alien society already inhabited the Noctantis System: the Dominion of Nera Nelinis, which contained a union of several planetary societies similar to the Cergol Union as well as a parliamentary monarchical government similar to the Srian Kingdom's. Its native species - the furry, mammal-like Nilians -
knew their system as the Nera Nelinis System (hence the name of their nation), the two binary red dwarfs as Nerinius and Nelgus, and the brown dwarf as Noll.
Like with the other civilizations, Garmageddon completely disregarded the Nera Nelinians' claim to the Noctantis System and began attacking Nera Nelinian settlements, beginning in March with outposts on Noll's rocky satellites. There, GIAF troops ruthlessly slaughtered and/or tortured any native inhabitants of colonized worlds. This marked the beginning of the Garmageddon-Nera Nelinis War.
In order to conquer Nera Nelinis quickly and efficiently, the Garmageddon Sovereignty initially attempted to send spies into the Dominion and generate politcal unrest between the Dominion's two political parties: the religious conservative Sarventists and the staunch socialist Ruvists. However, the Sarventists and Ruvists not only discovered the Garmageddic spies, but also displayed unexpected cooperation and unity in fighting against the common enemy known as the Ingffhaestian Star Empire.
Garmageddon's military conquests also saw challenges as Nera Nelinian ships began to fight back against the Sovereignty. Due to having received intel on other Drori artifacts from a database in their own Drori artifact (which was not known to Garmageddon at the time), the Nera Nelinian Dominion had placed effective countermeasures against the Garmageddon Sovereignty's weapons such as shields blocking against the planet-destroying beams of the Polyhex and similar ships, precise anti-black hole cannons to counter against star crushers, and more. They had even built sensors with the ability to distinguish the Gatlorimtis Fortress from actual comets, rendering Gatlorimtis' comet disguise unusable against Nera Nelinis.
However, Highmost Sovereign Urlum Eudae Kaywell had already developed a countermeasure against this; after thoroughly analyzing the intel gained on Nera Nelinian society and military, she deduced that the Dominion lacked one crucial safeguard against Garmageddon: a cure for the S.D. Locke Hyperparasite. She finally unleashed the cannon against Nera Nelinis as an emergency measure on April 20, 2136, marking the beginning of the Ouroboros Contingency Plan's eleventh phase: the Daybreak Plan.
The Daybreak Cannon saw its first test around five days later, where it warped into orbit around Noll's first planet/moon Niro. There, the cannon first fired smaller capsules containing S.D. Locke Hyperparasite samples onto the Nera Nelinian ships guarding Niro. The hyperparasite quickly infested the ships, transforming their Nilian crews into semi-sentient gelatinous blobs that obeyed Garmageddonian troops' orders. Afterwards, the cannon fired upon Niro itself, where the hyperparasite dispersed itself across its atmosphere and gave Niro its characteristic red haze within hours. In the process, all Nera Nelinians living on Niro transformed into slime-like entities subservient to the Sovereignty. By the end of April 27, the use of the Daybreak Cannon had granted Garmageddon control of the entirety of Niro, marking a turning point in the war where Garmageddon began to gain the upper hand.
The Garmageddon Sovereignty continued to win large amounts of victories against Nera Nelinis as the Daybreak Cannon infested thousands of ships and colonies with S.D. Locke, incapacitating millions of Nera Nelinians in the process. Transformed Nera Nelinians worked alongside tabulons in capturing thousands of Nera Nelinian natives and forcing them into S.D. Locke-infested haze, turning them into mindlessly subservient gelatinous entities. Garmageddon weapons researchers, meanwhile, continued to advance research on the Daybreak Cannon and eventually mounted successful replicas of the Daybreak Cannon onto conventional Garmageddon ships, giving them control over samples of the S.D. Locke Hyperparasite.
By March 12, 2137, the S.D. Locke Hyperparasite had infested all celestial bodies and space stations in orbit of Noll thanks to the Garmageddon Sovereignty. Highmost Sovereign Kaywell had also annexed the Nerinius-Nelgus red dwarf binary; though no planets orbited the two, Garmageddonian ships had succeeded in releasing S.D. Locke onto all artificial space stations located in the system.
Fall of Nera[]
Roughly a month later, the Halcyon - a Belzec-class super star crusher armed with replica Daybreak Cannons - warped into the Nera Nelinis System itself. As with the previous enemy civilizations, the Garmageddon fleet in Nera Nelinis ignored all pleas for peaceful surrender or compromise from the Nilians and fired their Daybreak cannons upon all three of its planets - Evania, Ilium, and Oratio. Within hours, the S.D. Locke Hyperparasite infested all of their atmospheres and converted all Nera Nelinians - the royal family and parliament included - into gelatinous organisms exercising fanatical loyalty to Garmageddon. Nera Nelinis' reigning monarch, Norayis ner Nominus, was transformed in the process; the Garmageddon press had this broadcast on national television as nationalist propaganda.
Ogdensia
With all native alien races subservient to Garmageddon, tabulons (who, as mentioned before, were immune to the effects of the Daybreak cannons) quickly settled into the Gliese 570 System. "Noctantis" became the official name of the system, which Garmageddon converted into the Noctantis Court. However, the names of the individual planets and stars remained the same, as the Sovereignty had not created names for them prior. The Sovereignty also acquired Ogdensia, a Drori artifact with the ability to fire a beam that instantly froze the regions it targeted; Nera Nelinis actually utilized it extensively during the war, but the S.D. Locke Hyperparasite ultimately proved resistant to its freezing capabilities.
Urlum Eudae Kaywell and other GIAF strategists held concerns that if conquered civilizations like Krybolartarium or Xymidication acquired the artifact, they would use it to reverse the effects of Garmageddon's predominantly heat-based weaponry by cooling Polyhex- or star crusher-affected planets back to habitable temperatures and allowing any Venus-like atmosphere present to condense back into liquid oceans. While the Sovereignty could easily prevent further rebuilding of cities and civilizations on such restored planets, such a scenario would severely dampen the Garmageddon public's morale by revealing a significant counter against the Sovereignty's many superweapons, thus decreasing faith in the GIAF and hurting nationalism. As such, they had the Ogdensia secretly hidden around Jack Park's Star most of the time, only bringing it out in secret for some terraformations.
Disability Genocide[]
At the same time as the Nera Nelinis invasion, the Sovereignty carried out a genocide of disabled people. The Disability Genocide focused more on physical disabilities rather than mental disabilities, as Garmageddon had already wiped out most mental disabilities in previous genocides such as the ADHD and Autistic Genocides.
On March 13, 2136, the Highmost Sovereign passed the Able Promotion Act, which stripped citizenship and other fundamental rights from all physically disabled people in Garmageddon. The Sovereignty gave GIAF troops permission to capture, deport, and execute billions of handicapped individuals including wheelchair users, amputees, deaf people, blind people, etc. It is estimated that a total of 45 billion disabled people died by the end of 2137 as a result of the Disability Genocide; ironically, most disabled people in Garmageddon had already died on their own before the genocide due to welfare programs for the disabled (and in general) being nonexistent as part of the Sovereignty's social darwinist philosophies.
The act also authorized the persecution of people with other genetic mutations, most notably glowing tabulons and cube tabulons. Unlike other physically disabled groups, however, genetically mutated tabulons were considered "wholly unnatural" and sent to the Order of Apollyon, which considered and treated them as supernatural anomalies. The GIAF separated billions of genetically mutated tabulons from their families (in some cases, their families themselves admitted the mutants into the Apollyonic Foundation) and sent to the Order of Apollyon, where they faced cruel experimentation, solitary confinement, and inhumane treatment. The Order of Apollyon captured an estimated 3.6 billion genetically-mutated tabulons by the end of 2137, with 630 million dying due to poor living conditions, torture, or from being executed by Apollyon staff for expressing defiant behavior.
The Disability Genocide led to a stigmatization of physical injuries. The influence of the plethora of propaganda works villainizing disabled people led to Garmageddics verbally and physically harrassing those with visible physical injuries such as broken legs, broken arms, etc., identifying them by their casts, wheelchairs, and bandages. Ableist propaganda also perpetuated the notion that disabilities made people useless to society; this led to the public prioritizing physical injuries' impacts on worker productivity rather than their impacts on the injured's health. This led to negative effects on both ends of the spectrum; while corporations forced injured people to work despite their injuries, others fired people for obtaining minor injuries such as cuts and bruises. Ultimately, this only continued the trend of survival-of-the-fittest and unfettered corporatism prominent in Garmageddon since its earliest days.
Sterilization of Low-Performing Student Families[]
2136 and 2137 also saw a dramatic increase in the rigor of education as affluent individuals and families established grandiose private schools and universities on the Sovereignty's various colonies. Urlum Eudae Kaywell and the Tharsis siblings' tactical geniuses and extreme intelligence incurred parents and schools alike to raise "genius children" living up to Kaywell and the Tharsis siblings' standards (ironically, this did not result in Garmageddon's government increasing funding for public education, as practically all forms of education in the Sovereignty were already handled effectively by the private sector, albeit at the expense of the poor).
However, this only had devastating effects on students and children's mental health as they faced overwork, unhealthy academic habits, and even abuse from their superiors when they failed to meet their absurd expectations. Garmageddon children increasing lost access to normal childhood activites, social interaction, and leisure as privatized schools, parents, and the Kaywell Youth/ASB increased their hours, workloads, and expectations. Many Garmageddonian schools increased their already-long 12-hour school days to as high as 16 hours in some cases, taking time out of students' lives during both the morning and the afternoon. In addition, they began mandating classes during both weekends and the summer while also eliminating or significantly shortening school breaks like winter break. Interestingly, Garmageddon society continued to expect students to get a job at a very young age in spite of the lengthening of school, adding even more stress to students' lives.
To add to this, propagandists also began not only encouraging academic achievement, but also demonizing poor academic performance, labelling academic under-acheivers as "degeneracy on the level of non-tabulon and gay scum" and pushing notions that grades and standardized tests defined students' worth. Though national test scores went up by over 56% in 2136, suicides among those under 54 (18 years equivalent in human years, as tabulons age three times slower than humans) increased almost fivefold compared to 2135 as student mental health plummeted.
Eventually, Garmageddon inhabitants began to view low academic performance as a genetic degeneracy similar to how they viewed disabilities, poverty, etc.; the Kaywell Family itself joined this trend when the Highmost Sovereign had Shol pass the Grade Sterilization Act on February 11, 2137. The Grade Sterilization Act allowed schools and other private interests to persecute and sterilize families whose children had low academic performance in order to "promote academic integrity" and "prevent the spread of low academic performance." By the end of 2137, school officials had sterilized 7.2 million families after raiding homes and kidnapping entire families for the crime of having children with low grades. Schools often abused the act to target specific groups like racial minorities such as Flornelians, Morbidians, and Bagyans; some particularly vain school staff members used it to fulfill personal vendettas against certain families, which the act allowed them to do without legal consequences. The Sovereignty refused to take action on these abuses of power on the pretext of intervention running contrary to the individualism, freedom, and liberty that defined Garmageddon, which was ironic considering how the Grade Sterilization Act only limited these three values even more (assuming that they were not already nonexistent by then time the Kaywells passed it).
Vegan and Vegetarian Genocide[]
In addition to the Disability Genocide and the sterilizations of low-performing students' families, Garmageddon also carried out measures against vegans and vegetarians. On August 17, 2136, the Sovereignty passed the Social Darwinism Promotion Act, which permitted the GIAF to carry out mass executions and persecutions of vegans and vegetarians, send them to concentration and execution camps, etc. Urlum Eudae Kaywell justified the genocide on the pretext that eating meat and animals upheld the social darwinist principles that formed the core of Garmageddon culture and that abstaining from doing so constituted as both anti-Garmageddon treason and a "dangerous descent into the degenerate oversensitivity of liberals."
Beginning in late 2136, GIAF troops began arresting known vegans and vegetarians in large numbers. They subjecting them to brutal torture, forced labor, experimentation, execution, etc. - by the end of January 2137, an estimated 6.78 billion vegetarians and 542 million vegans had died on Garmageddic concentration camps and execution camps. Thereafter, however, the Sovereignty experienced difficulty tracking down surviving vegans and vegetarians - unlike other minority groups such as autistic people, non-tabulons, etc., vegetarians and vegans could easily hide their identities as vegetarians and vegans. Vegan and vegetarian persecutions and executions starkly dropped to only a few hundred per month due to this.
In response, Garmageddon decided to carry out a sweeping smearing campaign against vegans and vegetarians similar to the Galactic Red Scale, creating a culture of fear of the two groups. On February 1, 2137, Garmageddon added vegans and vegetarians to the groups of people targeted by the FUGIC. The FUGIC carried out massive investigations meant to weed out vegans and vegetarians and "bring them to justice" via torture, forced labor, and execution.
More importantly, however, the FUGIC also acted against people "soft on veganism and vegetarianism". Garmageddon propagandists pushed forth the idea that showing enthusiasm in fighting against vegans and vegetarians was a primary duty of Garmageddon citizens and that not taking action on catching people in the two groups in domestic life constituted treason. Acts like the Vegan and Vegetarian Investigative Act permitted employers to fire vegan and vegetarian employees while encouraging citizens to act vigilant and call the police on any suspected vegans and vegetarians. Garmagedddon also used the so-called Vegan-Vegetarian Scare as an excuse to assert the supremacy of Macbethism; the FUGIC carried out mass persecutions of people whose religious faith called for or implied a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle.
The strategy of promoting a culture of fear of vegans and vegetarians proved effective in combatting the vegan and vegetarian "threat". Monthly persecution rates and execution rates skyrocketed by the end of 2137, the total death counts increased to 19.8 billion for vegans and 2.03 billion for vegetarians. Billions of other citizens, including numerous notable celebrities and well-known figures, were fired, publicly shamed, and barred from further employment by virtually every company for even the most trivial allegations related to vegans and vegetarians - some were fired and shamed on the basis of making minor contact with tabulons who simply tended to eat more vegetables than meat, but still incorporated meat into their diets. A notable example was the Destruction of Tibbs on September 18, 2137, where a Gherghescu-class destroyed the moon Tibbs after its governor was accused of having a vegetarian friend 20 years prior. Much like with communism and socialism, even being slightly associated with veganism and vegetarianism meant the end of people's entire careers and constituted a grave, unforgivable sin in the eyes of the heavily-manipulated Garmageddon public.
Other colonizations[]
The conquest of Nera Nelinis marked the end of the Golden Age of Colonization, with only one other solar system seeing colonization by Garmageddon: the Mitski System (human name: Gliese 581), a system of 5 planets (four super-Earths and an ice giant) orbiting around an unusually calm M3V-type red dwarf.
The end of the Golden Age came about partly due to growing calls for Garmageddon to develop its existing colonies rather than establishing new ones - indeed, many of the Sovereignty's colonies at the time continued to suffer from a state of relative underdevelopment. Thoughout the Nera Nelinian war, the Ingffhaestian Star Empire and its various large corporations funneled most of their leftover resources towards the advancement of its existing interstellar colonies. This effort proved successful, with many planetary and lunar colonies reporting growing urbanization and prosperity by the end of 2137.
Garmageddon Invasion of Isoia-Urdenmark (2138-2142)[]
Following the conquest of the Dominion of Nera Nelinis and the colonization of the Mitski System, the Garmageddon Sovereignty chose the Bucaloy System, or 55 Cancri, as its next target for colonization. Bucaloy consisted of three stars: the K-type star Bucaloy and the far-orbiting red dwarfs Rojo and Uthe. Despite the Bucaloy System's relatively high distance from Ingffhaestia of 59.6 light-years, the system presented a highly appealing target for the Sovereignty due to the large amount of planets orbiting its two stars - 10 planets around Bucaloy and 5 around Rojo.
Flag of the Imperium of Isoia-Urdenmark
The Imperium of Isoia-Urdenmark inhabited the Bucaloy System at the time. Unlike the previous nations, Isoia-Urdenmark was inhabited by tabulons - Isoia-Urdenmark was descended from a group of roughly a million tabulon refugees who had escaped to Bucaloy via an experimental warp drive in 2084 in a successful attempt to flee the Kalgamanian Empire; there, they colonized the system and slowly transformed it into a thriving settlement over several decades, christening Bucaloy, Rojo, and Uthe as Isoia, Urdenmark, and Urden respectively.
Initially, the Sovereignty treated Isoia-Urdenmark with respect due to its tabulon population. They offered the Imperium a place as a tributary empire of Garmageddon along with special privileges granting increased independence if the Isoia-Urdenmark tabulons agreed to support and tolerate Garmageddon. However, Isoia-Urdenmark's two rulers, Anca Isoia and Iztec Urdenmark, rejected the proposal, citing how Garmageddon had transformed into a regime just as, if not even more oppressive than the Earth-Kalgamanian Empire - the very nation the Isoia-Urdenmark ancestors fled.
Because of this, Isoia-Urdenmark and Garmageddon went to war on January 3, 2138. As usual, the Garmageddon Sovereignty attacked first, but Isoia-Urdenmark managed to hold their own for several years thanks to its large, powerful ships and the battle prowess of Admiral Nexus Obingar, the military official appointed by Anca and Iztec to oversee the war against Garmageddon. The Isoia-Urdenmark-Garmageddon War would grow into Garmageddon's longest, most complex invasion in its history.
First and Second Battles of Holleanas (2138)[]
Initially believing the Imperium to be an easy conquest and desiring to conserve military resources/assets, Urlum Eudae Kaywell sent a conventional fleet into the 55 Cancri System. Conquerator Rigel rei Orionis and his fleet of 49 attacked the ice giant Holleanas, ninth planet of the Bucaloy System and strategic outpost between the Bucaloy and Rojo Systems, in the February 2138 Battle of Holleanas. The battle, however, proved to be a crushing blow to Garmageddon when 21 of the 51 Isoia ships led by Admiral Obingar managed to collectively create a single, composite beam. The powerful beam destroyed 24 of the 49 ships led by Rigel rei Orionis. In addition, the chaos within the Garmageddon fleet left behind by the beam's strike allowed Obingar to destroy another 9 Sovereignty ships. By the battle's end in April 2138, losses totaled 25 Isoia ships and 33 Garmageddon ships.
In response, Urlum sent a second, much larger fleet of 307 led by Conquerator Betelgeuse rei Orionis in May of 2138, marking the beginning of the Second Battle of Holleanas. Unlike the first fleet led by Rigel, the second fleet contained numerous weapons replicated from Drori artifacts such as the Daybreak Cannon. This new fleet quickly overpowered the Holleanas fleet despite their higher firepower and larger ship sizes when Betelgeuse's flagship, the Alpha Orionis, fired its replica Daybreak Cannon at all objects orbiting the ice giant, causing not only all Isoia-Urdenmark forces, but also millions of innocent citizens (including countless children and infants) living on civilian space stations around Holleanas to undergo the same gruesome biological transformations the Nera Nelinians suffered. On June 1, 2138, Holleanas officially fell under Garmageddon control, forcing the Imperium to relocate its interstellar outpost to the nearby ice giant Apollinx.
Four Failures (2139-2140)[]
Though the Garmageddon Imperial Sovereignty won an impressive military victory in the Second Battle of Noctavias, four consecutive losses followed their triumph as Isoia-Urdenmark endeavored to enact vengeance on the Sovereignty for effectively massacring the inhabitants of Holleanas. These four battles are collectively nicknamed the Four Failures and were highly successful for Isoia-Urdenmark due to their extensive intel and information on crucial Garmageddon weapons, such as Gatlorimtis. The Four Failures period also marked the creation of a shield around the Isoia-Urdenmark capital worlds of Isoia Prime and Urdenmark Prime that prevented both the Daybreak Cannon and other artifacts from entering and interfering with the system. The Highmost Sovereign and other high-ranking Garmageddic military officials suspected that the Isoians used a database similar to the one on the Ogdensia used by the Nera Nelinians.
First, in the January 13, 2139 Battle of Ryllia, a Garmageddon fleet of 235 entered orbit around the ice giant Ryllia, the third planet of the Rojo/Urdenmark System, after reports suggested that the artifact containing the database was located there. However, this was revealed to be a trap set up by the Isoians; shortly after the fleet's arrival, Admiral Obingar surprised them with an advanced replica of Gatlorimtis, the Omperios. During the battle, the Omperios snuck up on the fleet before successfully destroying or capturing all Garmageddon ships in the system within a few hours due to its exceptionally advanced weaponry.
The second battle occurred near the gas giant planet of Grigore, the fourth planet of the Rojo/Urdenmark System and a gas giant with 7 moons, on June 30, 2139. An Isoia-Urdenmark flank fleet of 325 ships surprise-attacked a fleet of 200 Garmageddon troop transports, including 15 Omperion Plan warships, looking to attack a major Isoian shipyard on the nearby moon of Inutulia. In what became known to posterity as the Inutulia massacre, the fleet ruthlessly massacred all 215 ships and killed over 20 million Garmageddon-allied tabulons.
The third battle, called the Uvix Offensive for Nexus' flagship, the 600 km-long Osteros-class system devastator Uvix, occurred from July 23 to September 27, 2140 when Garmageddon attempted to destroy one of two space stations responsible for generating Urdenmark Prime's shield. There, Garmageddon's attack fleet of 100 ships of various classes (including a Birkenau-class super star crusher, the Beldam captained by Hikari Sandalphon) won against the small defense fleet of 20 Isoia-Urdenmark ships, but Admiral Nexus Obingar surprised them near the second station with the Uvix. He defeated 25 ships including the Beldam within two hours, causing Sandalphon's forces to flee shortly after. However, Garmageddon secretly sent a Polyhex-class to the first station and destroyed it, allowing a small corvette (a Christo-class) to infiltrate Urden and examine the Urden System's defenses. The ship found out that a second shield existed within the first anti-Calystonia/Daybreak barrier with four space stations powering it.
The fourth battle, Garmageddon's third straight defeat, was the August 26, 2140 Battle of the Capital Ships, where the Sobibor-class Kartizan challenged the Isoia-Urdenmark ship Kilonis, a 30 km-long Telinis-class star devastator, when the two stumbled upon each other in interstellar space. Initially, the Kartizan overpowered the Kilonis and killed an estimated 570 of its personnel. However, the Imperium dreadnought unexpectedly rammed the Kartizan, destroying both ships and disabling all of their escort ships. The escort ships carried thousands of non-tabulon prisoners on board, and the Kilonis' sacrifice allowed them to neutralize the Kartizan fleet's surviving tabulon crew and escape Garmageddon's clutches.
Great Battle of Urden[]
In addition to the Four Failures, a fifth battle that resulted in a draw still gave Garmageddon heavy losses. On November 20, 2140, a fleet of 500 Garmageddon ships laid siege to the Urden/Uthe System in the Great Battle of Urdenof late 2140. Though Garmageddon managed to gain control of the system's outermost planets, imprisoning its inhabitants and massacring 7.79 billion civilians in the process, the Urdenian governor-generals notified Nexus Obingar, who sent a reinforcement fleet of 600 to take back the Urden system on November 23, 2140. However, a group of Garmageddon-allied tabulons found out about the approaching fleet and notified the main Garmageddon Sovereignty fleet in Urden, allowing them to prepare. The two arrived and began the Battle of the Free Isoians, or the Battle of Chudelkin (named for a small gas giant near the battle's location).
This battle quickly escalated into dozens of Sovereignty-Imperium battles across the Urden System. The Great Battle's climax occurred when the Gherghescu-class Antonia threatened to destroy the Urdenian capital world of Ashford after dispatching all of its defense. However, a 1 km-long Imperium ship sacrificed itself by colliding with the Antonia at high speeds, dealing critical damage to its Oveerion drive and guns. However, the Antonia's admiral managed to escape to the nearby Alexandru-class Victra and resumed the battle, which ultimately ended in a draw due to both sides accumulating significant losses. By the end of the battle, 250 Isoia-Urdenmark ships and 265 Garmageddon ships were destroyed. The Garmageddon forces, having lost their motivation to take Urden due to the heavy losses on their side withdrew on December 2, 2140. The Isoia-Urdenmark forces temporarily reclaimed the Urden System afterwards, but both the Imperium fleets and the Urden System's settlements also sustained significant damage.
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Black Hole Resurgence Plan and the Three Triumphs (2141-2142)[]
Shortly after the Four Failures, the Garmageddon Sovereignty took the threat of Isoia-Urdenmark more seriously and sent much more powerful forces into the New Outer Arm. These extremely powerful fleets strongly overpowered Isoia-Urdenmark's and brought about three straight significant Garmageddon victories known as the Three Triumphs.
The first Garmageddon triumph was the Phora Uprising of January 2141, which occurred in the location of Jalos and Inutulia: the Phora System. There, Garmageddon propagandists sent after the Four Failures used Isoia-Urdenmark's victory and subsequent massacre to their advantage, citing the Inutulia Massacre as evidence that Isoia-Urdenmark-allied tabulons were inherently savage, bloodthirsty, and overall on the same level of inferiority as non-tabulons. As part of this propaganda campaign, the Imperial Sovereignty concocted a highly pseudo-scientific genetic definition of an Isoia-Urdenmark Tabulons: Any tabulon that had a skin/fur color of dark green or blue, as said colors made up the largest fraction of the Imperium's population. On January 6, an army of Inutulian non-dark green/blue tabulons with Garmageddon-sympathetic views began storming towards Inutulia's legislative building while murdering any dark green or dark blue tabulon they encountered that did not swear allegiance to Garmageddon. By the end of the day, the mob had killed Inutulia's Isoia-Urdenmark rulers along with 2.2 billion other innocent civilians. The Inutulia riot started even more violent uprisings across not only the other moons of Jalos, but also every planet in the Phora System, resulting in another 18 billion deaths by January 17. The Phora Uprising set the stage for Garmageddon ships to take over Isoia-Urdenmark's Phora Sector and for the Garmageddon government to more effectively garner public antagonism towards the Isoia-Urdenmark Imperium.
The second Garmageddon victory in a row occurred during the Destruction of Urden, which began when Garmageddon astronomers discovered a large stellar-mass black hole, Takuha, passing near the Urden System and disrupting its shields. The Highmost Sovereign noted how Isoia-Urdenmark was unable to destroy Takuha unlike the black holes generated by Garmageddon's Oveerion Drives (which Imperium ships easily destroyed). Thus, she devised a new phase of the Ouroboros Plan, the Black Hole Resurgence Plan, to take advantage of Takuha and invade the Isoia-Urdenmark's capital. On February 11, 2141, several super and hyper star crushers warped into the space immediately outside of the Urden System and its shield. Though the Isoia-Urdenmark defense fleet quickly shot them down, the sacrificial fleet managed to spawn enough black holes to alter Takuha's trajectory into a path taking it directly into the Urden System. Within hours, the black hole had destroyed Urden's shields and had begun absorbing planets within the Urden System itself. In what was known as the Takuha Massacre, Takuha killed billions of Isoia-Urdenmark citizens as it destroyed or destabilized countless inhabited planets in the system. An estimated 13 billion Isoia-Urdenmark tabulons died within the first day of the massacre alone; by March 1, Takuha had killed all 31 billion inhabitants of the Urden System and had either destroyed or destabilized all of its planets including both of its capital planets, Isoia and Urdenmark. Anca Isoia and Iztec Urdenmark successfully fled the system as the black hole destroyed it, but the Alpha Orionis later confronted their fleet and killed both leaders along with their 772,000 Urden refugees. Urlum Eudae Kaywell, while watching footage of the destruction of the Urden System, notably said "Run, Iztec, run! You are only delaying the inevitable!"
The third victory marked the fall of Isoia-Urdenmark itself: The 2142 Great Battle of Isoia-Urdenmark. On January 1, 2142, the Imperium had elected Nexus Obingar as its new leader following the murders of Anca, Iztec, and all other leader candidates. Obingar mounted one last a final, massive assault against Garmageddon, utilizing all 1.5 million remaining ships of the Isoia-Urdenmark navy in a desparate attempt to regain their former advantage in the war - an attempt that completely and utterly failed.
Garmageddon strategically countered Isoia-Urdenmark's large, powerful battleships with smaller, more agile cruisers and corvettes; these small ships' weapons easily targeted Obingar's ships due to their large size and quickly brought them down. By the beginning of June, the Sovereignty's ships had destroyed over 90% of the Imperium's forces. With most of Obingar's forces gone, the Imperial Sovereignty changed its focus to the systematic genocide of all Isoia-Urdenmark tabulons. Up to 215 million Polyhex-classes, Omperion Plan ships, star crushers, and even Drori artifacts soon replaced the small, fast ships involved in the war; this new, massive fleet began invading and/or destroying swaths of thousands of star systems, with an estimated 12 trillion Isoia-Urdenmark tabulons dying within the first 30 days. Many influential Garmageddon military officers, such as the Tharsis siblings and the grandmasters of several orders, also arrived to oversee the brutal conquest.
Zilium
Despite their overwhelming advantage, Garmageddon still experienced some difficulty in conquering the Imperium's systems due to their shields which resisted the effects of Drori artifacts. However, this changed on December 24, 2142, when two fleets led by General Sentar Kraglathea and Arsia rei Tharsis discovered the source of the Imperium's anti-Drori artifact technology: Zilium, a unique Drori artifact with the power to nullify the abilities of all other Drori artifacts. The remnants of Admiral Obingar's fleet, including the Uvix itself, had stationed themselves near Zilium. Combat between Obingar and the Kraglathea-Arsia fleets ensued for around 1 hour before Obingar's fleet, having suffered heavy losses, abruptly began warping away. Arsia famously mirrored Urlum's words and remarked, "Run, Nexus, run! You are only delaying the inevitable!" Obingar's fate went unknown for the rest of the Garmageddon Sovereignty's history, and Garmageddon forces failed to sight the admiral's fleet in the Milky Way.
With the discovery and acquisition of the Zilium, Garmageddon quickly battled past Isoia-Urdenmark's shields and invaded the rest of the New Outer Arm. As quadrillions of Isoia-Urdenmark tabulons were tortured, killed, or sent into slavery in Garmageddon-controlled systems, Garmageddon fleets used a wide variety of methods - destruction via Polyhexes or Omperion Plan ships, system destabilization via black holes, stellar conversion via Daybreak Cannons, etc. - to invade the remaining systems in the Imperium's territory. On December 25, 2142, the Sovereignty officially declared the dissolution of the Imperium of Isoia-Urdenmark and the formation of the Oirator Court, with the F8V-type star Oirator's planetary system becoming the court's capital.
Notably, unlike other artifacts, the Zilium's abilities were not incorporated into the Macbeth Device - when GIAF weapon developers attempted to incorporate them, the Zilium components ended up cancelling out the Macbeth Device's other Drori artifact-related abilities. Unwilling to sacrifice the abilities of several artifacts in favor of a single one, the Ring and the Highmost Sovereign both agreed to indefinitely postpone any further attempts to integrate the Zilium's capabilities into the device.
Order 10066, Uveerian/Liyrian Internment Camps, and Uveerian/Liyrian Genocide[]
Also notable during the Three Triumphs period was the passage of Order 10066 by Urlum Eudae Kaywell herself on February 17, 2141. Under the order, Kaywell authorized the GIAF to force trillions of tabulons of Uveerian (dark green fur) and Liyrian (dark greenish blue fur) descent into isolated internment camps on the justification that their race made them possible suspects of being Isoia-Urdenmark spies. The internment camps often had harsh living conditions along with strict, abusive guards; within the first month alone, an estimated 2.7 million died in the camps. After the Phora Uprising and the subsequent creation of the Isoia-Irdenmark Tabulon as a racial category, the internment camps converted themselves into full-on concentration/extermination camps which either forced the captive Uveerians and Liyrians into coerced labor or killed them outright. Even after the war’s end, the Sovereignty continued to persecute and oppress dark green and dark blue tabulons regardless of their affiliation. WIP
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