Sunday, April 12, 2015

The Beginning of the Conflict between Orcs and everyone else

There was a star system with seven inhabitable planets. Each of the intelligent races of each planet did not know of each other until the Orcish Sorcerer lords began to open portals between all seven worlds to facilitate the invasion. The Orcs, led by their Sorcerer Emperor Kagan Kathar, marched on each planet looking for loot and magical artifacts. The great Orcish army had no intention of remaining on those worlds but as raiders, simply wanted to take what they could get their hands on and move on to other worlds. The two million orc army found itself immediately at war and entrenched on the planet of Ghissar, which later became their homeworld after the native elves fled for Talamaar. The Sorcerer Emperor was enraged when he discovered that his chieftains failed to capture the fabled "Staff of the Unlocking" which unlocked all ancient portals to all worlds in the galaxy. He had his 156 chieftains punished by throwing them to a giant sandworm on Maxaris. He assumed total control of all the clans and appointed Warlords from the ranks of the loyal soldiers. The great orcish army marched on the other worlds and still could not find the coveted staff but did find trillions of tons of gold and silver, all of which went into the treasury of the Emperor. The Warlords became the Governors of the seven worlds and became mini-emperors in their own right. Talamaar remained just out of their reach however and all 34 million elves had fled through the portals in a mass evacuation to Talamaar. The humans had not yet reached this part of the galaxy but the dwarves had and fought the orcs whenever they could, striking the orcs from their mountain fasts on all the planets. Eventually the orcs retreated to Ghissar and Maxaris once the portals opened and humans came in droves, barbarian clans of fierce warriors who relished the idea of a good fight against some being twice their size. 

The barbarian humans then quickly divided their newly won worlds into tribal Kingdoms and went to war with the dwarves, which they saw as being the guardians of infinite wealth. The cities of men sprang up and the elves began to come back in great numbers through the portals and fought the human clans and tribes for their ancient homelands. Soon an uneasy truce was established between the three races as word came that the Orcs under Kargath Kathar had invaded one of the seven worlds. The three races on all seven worlds agreed to an alliance, which was the start of a long and strained relationship between the usurper humans and the older races. 10 million orcs invaded each world, rolling over the alliance and smashing it aside until finally the war came to Alalkase. The free races fought the Orcish Empire in a massive battle of 8 million orcs versus 5 million allies, most of them mages and Paladins. The better equipped allied army defeated the orcish army and Emperor Kargath Kathar took his remaining legions back to Ghissar in retreat and utter humiliation. The human Kings consolidated their hold on their worlds and soon a human empire that ruled over the five worlds appeared headed by General Tiberius Noster, who was crowned Emperor Tiberius the First. An invasion from a distant orcish homeworld was beaten back after a portal appeared on Alalkase. The two Orcish Empires then learned of the existence of each other and made an alliance against the human Empire. Using a manufactured and highly unstable staff, the twin armies of orcs invaded Alalkase and destroyed the human Empire and proceeded to conquer and enslave the other five worlds as well. Many of the humans fled through a portal to the previously unsettled world of Kore, which was called by them Korrian. The humans shut the portal and destroyed the staff which they had captured from the orcs to prevent the orcs from getting a fix on their location. They established a thriving civilization divided among twenty-five Republics. The few humans who had remained on the Seven Worlds had done so because they had either been captured or were fighting as rebels. 

Korrian had not forgotten about the Seven Worlds and the republics built advanced military equipment and advanced enchanted military equipment to invade the former human homeworld and push out the orcs once and for all. After 500 years, the sorcerers opened the portal to Alalkase and the advanced military poured through. The settled and lazy orcs were taken by complete surprise and they all quickly retreated to the orc homeworld. Each of the five worlds were retaken and finally the portals were opened to the orc homeworlds and the modern army laid waste to the orcs and greatly reduced their numbers from 1 billion to 20 million in year of bloody fighting. The humans went back to the six worlds and sealed the portals and declared the campaign to be a total success. 

The end, for now.

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