The Week of Terror

In the year 14,889 Ce, the week of terror refers to an event which took place near the northern sectors of the Galactic Antonian. The outcome forever changed interstellar defense measures, created the Satellite defense stations and introduced the galaxy to the Empire of Unity.

Begenning of the crisis

The Galactic Antonian was nearing it's 70th anniversary. The Torkas Empire recently had attempted a border breach to the west making security extra high throughout the entire Antonian due to the fear of spycraft entering confidential areas. Because of the heightened awareness, satellites detected an anomaly just to the outside of the G.A's eastern buffer zone near the Vulipi System. Appearing like a small black hole, it vanished within a day's time. Later in the same week, three satellite colonies were sacked. Survivors managed to escape to nearby installations and recounted unusual, foreign ships decorated with red lights. The attackers made strange demands for all of the dead on board each station be handed over to them along with food supplies and any soil to also be turned over. Upon refusing, the space colonies were destroyed. The mysterious fleet had the capability to join together in one mass and separate into at least 30 vessels. The first planet to encounter the foreigners was Vulipi. From that day forward the Vuliphites and their leader, Carper, became extreme isolationist until their planet was destroyed by another foreign fleet. (See Vulipi System for more details of that event) After pausing in its advances, the large mass of ships proceeded to travel at great speeds and entered G.A colonized space. Tepi12, an uninhabited planet was reduced in size after the large, black orb-like vessel visited its surface creating mass panic among both officials and civilians. The ruling Anton vowed to meet the "Barbaric and Brute Visitors" with a force of reckoning. Anton Saxton the Ist gave orders to his son, Head Admiral Baton, to meet the threat with the might of the entire defense fleet. Despite being ordered to move the entire fleet out of port from Vancoura, Admiral Baton decided to keep his flagship, the Bastion, in orbit of the capital planet.

Conclusion and Aftermath

What seemed to be a contained situation near Tepi12 quickly turned out to be more complex. The interstellar navy was present between the affected system and its neighbors forming a wall of defenses. However, the foreign vessels never appeared. To everyone's dismay, the dark fleet ran into another anomaly making it appear near Vancoura itself. Head Admiral Baton scrambled his strike force, along with his personal flagship, and proceeded forward to intercept the hostile forces.

Once in range, the Admiral attempted to raise communications with the largest vessel which was like a vast, dark orb speckled with an array of red lights. A connection was made, and according to witnesses, it was the most otherworldly encounter for all on the bridge of the Bastion. Below is the first-hand account from Ship's First mate, Dunher .

"The leader of the mysterious fleet introduced himself as an emperor of all, a synthetic mind seeking to unite every race of man to its will under 'The Empire of Unity'. The alien proceeded to tell the Admiral that he had come to our space due to a rare and uncontrolled phenomenon. And, the arrogance of this being, it demanded that we give over our dead and supply it with topsoil from our worlds until a passage back to its domain could be found. The Admiral would have none of this and began a counteroffer. He instructed me to scan for more anomalies, and in that lucky instance, one was found. We made the location not announced and proceeded to tell the tyrant alien there was indeed an anomaly. However, displeased was this creature. It began to demand we give it tribute for the sacrilege displayed before 'His sacred eye'. With this remark, the Admiral ordered all Corvette escort vessels and the Bastion itself to open fire on the large spherical ship. A space war erupted and beams of red light struck at us repeatedly testing our shields. The duel revealed that our lasers were impacting the foreign vessel, the damage it was receiving could not be confirmed. Upon orders from the Admiral, we proceeded to withdraw toward the anomaly. The goal was to trick the Enemy into sailing straight through it. And to achieve this, the Admiral reopened communications with the so called Emperor. And to my disbelief, our head admiral began to nickname the alien to it's face, calling it 'Wire Plugs' due to the strange nature of his body. Enraged and rightfully so, the orb like vessel tried to swallow us whole! At that moment I took the helm of the ship and dove the Bastion downwards dramatically. This caused the Enemy to get pulled into the anomaly vanishing."

First mate Dunher and all of the officers under his command received the medal of valor for going above and beyond to defend the G.A. Immediately after the threat was gone, Anton Saxton quickly conveyed an emergency council inviting the last Zebratarian, Princess Nova, to join. Due to the damage caused by the mysterious emperor on the Tepi system, the Zebratarian was able to restore the world that was reduced in scale which in turn altered the entire gravitational flow of the solar system. Nova also identified the anomalies as being caused by ghost signals from the ancient space gates used during the Golden Era. Closing them, the threat of more appearances from the Empire of Unity were solved.