Timeline Part 9 The Draken Wars Part 1

Draken wars:

2090:  The Union faces war on all fronts and the bastion systems barely hold back the new enemy. The creatures the Union faced were more powerful than any previous enemy, their weaponry was thought to be anti and dark matter based and made shields and armour virtually useless, on top of this mass drivers, missiles and other solid projectile weapons didn't work on their ships and so the Human ships which were the majority of the Union forces were hopelessly outmatched and outclassed in all areas. Also an exploration team sent to the deep space planet Tesslorah is lost rescue attempts are called off as the demand for ships is too high.

2091:  Some of the bastion systems begin to fall, but the Union has still not been able to capture or examine any Draken tech, on the planet of Hadriens Hope the Emperor leads the Union forces in defence, after a week of constant fighting a being appears that represents a commander, he calls himself the Soul Monarch and proves to be extremely powerful, after the Emperor defeats him in a duel the Draken withdraw and the Union celebrates its first victory.

2092: Constant battles are fought all over the galaxy as the Draken throw themselves at the Union, their extremely powerful ships carve their way through Union fleets only the Skia and the Violar have any real chance of defeating the Draken and they are stretched thin over the galaxy. Also it is made aware that the Soul Monarch is not the only Draken commander with extraordinary powers. Toxin a women who moves like a viper uses deadly poisons to kill her foe, Decapitator a being slaved to the will of the sword he wills with a powerful demon inside, Ravager another Talonian hunted down the rest of his race for sport and Sotek Myric's demon who has taken up sides with the Draken. Upon hearing this XCORE redouble their efforts especially Claw and Myric.

2093: It is discovered that the Draken are the great enemy referred to by Nakai texts, the Unions morale plummets. If the Nakai couldn't beat them with the power of untold technology how can the Union? But never the less Myric and the members of XCORE lead the way.

2094 May:  the Forona incident, the bastion world is invaded by the Draken, the Emperor along with some of the Angels and some of his commanders as well as the enigmatic Wolf mount the defence, it holds just in time for Ouka and Shugo to arrive with reinforcements. The Soul Monarch reveals himself and while fighting Myric tells Myric a terrible truth, the Draken have a master who is more powerful than any angel collaborating what Umbrea had told Myric… Xanthos commanded the Draken. The Draken are defeated but at a cost. Battle fleet Scarus is completely wiped out Fororna IV is declared uninhabitable due to fallout from a destroyed ships reactor and Fororna III is left destroyed but is later rebuilt. After this Duneyer reveals that she again is pregnant.

2094 July: again like the Skia wars the Union undertakes drastic re armament. A new mass driver round is developed that will penetrate the target and detonate within causing massive haemorrhage to the biological Draken ships. Missiles are fitted with new plasma warheads that prove to be very effective, and shields and armour are upgraded to be able to stand some chance against the Draken weaponry, and new weapons entirely are produced in order to curb the mass swarms of beasts the Draken deploy planet side.

2094 August:  Intel is collected about a potential Draken staging area in the Dispair system and the Union gathers its entire working fleet to attack it, Wolf and his new unit Alpha Company are deployed to take out the system defences while Duneyer leads the fleet against the Draken. The battle is won but at a terrible cost, a quarter of the Unions fleet is wiped out, Wolf is taken prisoner by Sotek and the Dispair system is completely destroyed. But on the bright side the Draken's entire fleet is wiped out to a man and the Ura’cle a corrupted ancient Nakai Dreadstar thought to be undefeatable is destroyed by Duneyer.

2094 October: Myric leads a rescue mission to the world of Larhun were Wolf is being held prisoner by Sotek, while breaking in Myric finds Wolf who was in fact breaking out, the two of them escape and Wolf knocks out Sotek, Wolf is rescued and the Union celebrates.

2094: November: Safire daughter of the Emperor is born and there is great happiness, Myric also finds a band of lost Union soldiers stuck on the planet of Tesslorah a world of many threats, their leader Alex Drace is reluctant to join the Union again believing the Emperor to have abandoned them. Myric convinces them to join and their information on efficiently killing Draken is used to train other Union soldiers. Drace is promoted to commander.

2095 March: Safire is kidnapped from the imperial palace by none other than Sotek himself, the Union mourns for her, Duneyer locks herself in her room and Myric takes on a stressed and gaunt look, he is wounded mentally by the loss.

2096:  battle of Olympus, the third biggest space battle of the war is fought and won defending the important world of Olympus. Myric himself leads the fleet, the Union suffers heavy casualties and 2 weeks later the world of Olympus is destroyed totally by Sotek. Myric is outraged at this.

2097: The Angels and the Emperor take advantage of a lull in combat to boost morale by doing a massive concert on the beautiful ocean world of Anthorsia and for 1 week the people of the Union forget about the danger they are in and the war entirely.

2097: July: the Angels find a chamber deep in the earth that is massive, they manage to enter through Myric deciphering the lock, inside they find a crystal of immense size and a golden Dragon, at first the dragon is wary but the Angels befriend it, his name is Cirym dragon of light and keeper of the dimensional crystal for this dimension, realising what the crystal holds Myric orders the room fortified with the Unions best technology and best units to guard it, Cirym agrees to help the Union.

2097 December:  Deep within the Zartan nebula a Union patrol fleet uncovered a previously undiscovered wreckage field. Unbeleiving of what the find the wrecks of over 200 Nakai vessels including battleships and carriers as well as untold numbers of Draken carcasses lay preserved along with a damaged structure of a Nakai gateway, the fabled Oblivion gates. Union science teams immediately start analysing everything in sight and the Emperor orders all tech salvaged and the Oblivion gates repaired.

2098: March: the Union engages Capitol ships belonging to Emperor Scar, these ships are easily destroyed and the Union carries the day.

2098: October:  on the world of Galgahst Myric and Duneyer are devastated to find that their daughter Safire has been turned to darkness, she has been corrupted by Xanthos and a demon infests her soul. The two angels cannot bring themselves to kill their own flesh and blood and so fall back and let the planet fall, though they manage to evacuate all the people from that world.

2099: The Oblivion gates are re-activated and Myric and the Angels take the Interceptor through, the gates then close behind them. The Angels finally find the remnants of the Nakai, at first the Nakai are reluctant to talk with the Angels but then the Angels are bought before the ascended council and they learn much. Myric tells them of what has happened, the Nakai already know of the events but the council refuses to come to the aid of the Union. They do however give the Angels access to the library of dreams which contains all the knowledge of creation. While discovering the future the Nakai stare in horror as Draken ships enter through the gates and start besieging the Nakai home, Myric pleads with the council one more time but before they can respond Sotek enters the council chamber. Myric tells the other Angels to leave and Duneyer refuses but reluctantly follows her husband's orders. The Interceptor escapes along with the last 5 Nakai cruisers one being destroyed by overwhelming Draken fire, having evacuated the remaining Nakai the council activate a failsafe within the pocket dimension causing its collapse. They make it out only to find the Union forces gone and the Oblivion gates in Draken hands. They return to earth devastated, with the Emperor gone and the last hope of victory gone the Union starts to fall apart.