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Twigster -> RE: Another RetreatUE AAR (7/29/2016 9:59:55 PM)
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Within a month and a half of Corras assuming power, the Daidalun Supremacy, Core Axis and Grand Ortain Authority had imposed trade sanctions against the Hegemony. The HSC was debating censoring the Hegemon a second time over these developments, but the rapid-fire events of the following eight months de-railed such efforts. In April a remote Ancient star base was boarded, and on board were discovered data cores which allowed the Hegemony to piece together exact details of the Precursor’s entire history. As sobering as this was, the Ancient Guardian’s holdfast of Utopia was visited by Hegemony scouts in June of 2350, mere days after contact was made with the Faliin Technocracy. Within two months of that, more information relating to ancient history was discovered at ancient ruins at the Chamber of Urd Radamer and the Guardians themselves issued a warning in November. During all the excitement, the Hegemon’s beginning construction of the Advanced Medicomplex on Dalasteni 2 almost escaped noticed, especially given that the economy was beginning to noticeably improve. Discoveries continued to be made by the scouting fleet, and in late March of 2351 the Great Archives of Janudral Mezar were discovered, giving indisputable proof to the legends that certain races had collaborated with the intergalactic Invaders thousands of years ago- in this case the Gizureans, which had yet to be encountered by the Hegemony. What with mounting developments, the Hegemon ordered a limited refit of Fleet units on 27 March 2351. The next four months saw Wradu return successfully against the Core Axis and to depart almost immediately against the Tarapin Coalition; the Bakura High Speed Shipyard was competed by the Faliin Technocracy in June; the Casidor Weapon Facility was completed by the Paratis Conformity in July; and the Daidalun Supremacy completed the Advanced Medicomplex in July. These Prohibition Dictat facilities represented lost resources to the Hegemony as Corras had ordered them begun but was beaten to them- another opportunity for censor by the HSC. Such pronounced dissatisfaction with a Hegemon so early into his term would have been unprecedented, not what the Privy Council wanted to see and would have ultimately have represented a potential existential threat to the Hegemony. This might have happened anyway, if not for the string of uninterrupted positive developments that took place in the next year.
From 26 August 2351 to early June 2352, the following events occurred: construction of the Trade Guild, Holographic Universe, Galctic Archives, Koloros Medical Academy and Bio-Engineering Facility were completed on Hegemony worlds. Sunja Wradu returned succcessful again, and again departed immediately gainst the Paratis Conformity. Resources were made available to begin crash research programs on Machine Intelligence and Galactic Hegemony, and preparations were begun to vastly increase both Hegemony ground force levels and to upgrade all large and small space ports throughout Hegemony space. The Char Dilba did impose trade sanctions against the Hegemony in late June of 2352, but after the successful colonization of Aitun Major 5 and Fyudus 1 by February of 2353, the Daidalun Supremacy’s declaration of war against the Faliin Technocracy in April 2353 and the completion of the Merkidor Planetary Fortress on Vrila in May, the Hegemon had become the darling of the HSC, indeed the entire Hegemony. By this point, only the sale of Hegemony information to the Core and the Paratis held strongly against the Hegemon by some in the HSC and elsewhere. In late May 2353 the Hegemon called the First Hegemony Grand Conference on Vrilya, which was the introduction to Zenox government of the Privy Council’s plans to attack the Grand Ortain Authority and to impart the urgency behind such plans. As such, the FHGC was a success for the Hegemon,as no serious dissent made itself apparent against such plans. Between late August 2353 and early January 2354, the Char Dilba Authority and the Daidalun Supremacy blockaded mining stations at nebula DQ 280 and the Vuras system. Both situations were defused by yielding the stations involved to the blockading powers in exchange for them dropping trade sanctions against the Hegemony. In May an ancient World Annihilator project was discovered in Paratis Conformity space, offset by the beginning of construction of the Sentient Core Computer on Vrilya that June. 2354 ended with a brief crisis when the Grand Ortain Authority submitted an ultimatum to the Hegemony for a mining station in Sector O8, but nothing came of the Hegemon’s refusal to yield. Construction of the Strategic Command Headquarters began on Vrilya on 3/3/2355 and crash research projects for Megatron Flux Skin and Galactic Capital begn 4/23/2355. The last half of 2355 saw Minister Shokia shine with the completion of research on Gravitic Singularity Creation, and the Sentient Computer Core was completed on Vrilya 11/2/2355. In December 2355, a World Annihilator was discovered actually under construction by the Piliados Realm, but the Strategic Command Headquarters was completed on Vrilya on 3/10/2357. As his inspection ended, Corras smiled broadly, lost in his thoughts. Those around him interpreted it as pleasure at what he has just seen. In reality, Corras knew that Minister Wradu has tripled the effectiveness of the Ministery of Intelligence. More disturbing discoveries continue to be made by Vrilya’s scout fleet; other races fall at each other’s throats in war, but- the Hegemony was at peace, the economy had improved immensely, and in all respects the Hegemony was better off than it was seven years ago. By now, the Hegemon was the hero of the HSC, and the Privy Council continued it’s work undetected. The Hegemony was at the pinnacle of its political power in the Galaxy, and the attack against the Grand Ortain Authority was about to begin. Indeed, as a result of all that had been accomplished in the last seven years, the Zenox were about to begin an adventure unlike any other in the course of their history. For unlike in the distant past, when Zenox fought alongside others to prevent conquest by intergalactic aggressors, now it would be the Zenox who reached out for and grasped the mantle of leadership of the Galaxy- hopefully before the Invaders returned.
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