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AMANZIAIKA:The Story So Far Part II

As the expedition-turned-failure drifted forward into space, the people inside the crafts discovered that they were the only humans left in the universe. In utter desperation and with nothing to live by anymore, the humans decided, in a moment of madness, to destroy each other by detonating the fuel rods in the ships.

However, communication was severed when a large electromagnetic wave hit the ships from a nearby planet, disabling their ability to detonate themselves. They subsequently lost control of their ships, and they crashed into several desolate planets in an isolated system, some of the ships crashing into other planets much further away.

The original crash land occurred in an extremely inhospitable environment on the planet of Urmaron. The planet was infested by a type of crystal that ionized and transformed any matter it touched into more copies of itself. At the time of the crash, the resulting heat-waves from the fuel cores burned the crystal away, giving the survivors some space to contemplate on.

The second crash occurred in an abandoned planet called Mar Sara, after the Craft Wars that occurred in the area some 32 millennia ago. The survivors there found themselves in a planet much like present-day Earth. The survivors began to rebuild their foundations and attempted to start another civilization, and ultimately survive from the supposed fate they thought occurred to the first group of ships.

The Urmaron survivors struggled to survive in the environment they were thrust into. They hopes began to drop and thoughts of imminent doom crept into their minds when the fuel cores began to fail.

However, an engineer managed to repair a piece of equipment and altered it to facilitate crude communication between them and whoever was out there that could save them. The engineer attempted to call for help, but the survivors’ hopes continued falling lower as no response was heard – a sign that the others had already died.

However, after repeated attempts, and nearly giving up all hope, the survivors picked up a distant response coding from a ship. The ship questioned the survivors on their location, but they could only respond to the ship about their immediate surroundings.

The ship, unknown to them but was in fact Deep Space Relay, configured their communications to facilitate maximum coverage and gave them details on the deadly crystals the survivors had to cope with, showing them how the crystals could be utilized to rebuild.

Within about two centuries, both colonies of survivors had rebuilt their infrastructures and began to expand to other planets. The Mar Sara survivors – the Confederacy – focused on technology and organization, building up a strong defense system out of fear that the past would repeat itself.

The Urmaron survivors built up their civilization with the mysterious crystal they called Ichor and built an expansive empire of planets around its systems. The planets they inhabited formed the Umajon Union, or more formally known as the Union.

By the year 4982, the Urmaron survivors lost contact with Deep Space Relay, but had already advanced extremely far in Ichorian technology. Besides being deadly, Ichor was now a key factor in the Union’s military, and weaponization of Ichor lead to some interesting and new concepts of combat.

The Confederacy, however, expanded using known technology, and kept improving. As more and more planets were inhabited, more and more technological advances took place. Some of the planets had ancient technologies used by indigenous species that had died out long before the Confederacy arrived.

About three years later, 4985, the Confederacy stumbled across a lonely planet that was filled with a strange blue crystal. Upon entering the atmosphere of the planet, they found out that the crystal was extremely harmful to humans, and on further investigations was discovered to have the ability to ionize and transform certain forms of matter around it into more of itself.

However, the crystal had economic value – it was a composition of materials that could be extracted and recycled. The immense value of the crystal prompted the Confederacy to find ways to harvest the crystal. They were successful in their very first attempt – using technology found on Mar Sara, the Confederacy designed machines capable of resisting the crystal’s ionizing properties by counteracting the ionization with hyper-charged particles, which could also slice through the crystal.

Although the crystal was proposed as a solution to economic problems on some planets, the true origin of the crystal was not known. The Confederacy decided that a race of silicon-based lifeforms had previously existed in the planet, named Korhal I, and could survive in the atmosphere that surrounded it.

However, the Union fleets arrived about eighteen years later. By then, the Confederacy had begun full harvests of the crystal they termed Terranium, after it’s ability to transform terrain.

Upon first contact, the Confederacy completely flustered. The Union used technology that prominently utilized the crystal, and these made the Confederacy believe that the Union were not humans but in-fact the indigenous species originally from Korhal I.

Initially, the Union believed that it had stumbled upon an indigenous race in the planet capable of surviving in Ichor infested environments. However, on further investigation, they found out that the only forms of life there were not life forms but in fact harvest machines resonating a heavy ionic aura.

As the Union descended onto Korhal I, the Confederacy decided to sit and watch and only communicate when they communicated first. The first signs of the ‘aliens’ captured by satellite cameras showed that they were humanoid, and initial observations showed that the ‘aliens’ had “properties and thought processes that are almost human-like”.

The Union, curious about the machinery operating all alone on the planet, did not realize they were being watched until they came across the flight-path of a satellite. They also discovered that the heavy ionic fields being generated by the machinery were causing Ichor to turn volatile and recede, allowing the bonds between its molecules to weaken.

Because the Confederate knowledge of the crystal was not wide, they did not know that this caused the crystal to turn volatile, and since the entire planet surface was encrusted with the crystal, a slight alteration to the chemical fielding could cause a massive chain-reaction, causing the planet to actually detonate like a super-bomb.

The Union, however, knew this, and because some of their colonies were nearby, feared that the machinery could trigger a detonation that would affect its sister colonies. The Union immediately mobilized its militaries to rid of the ticking time-bomb’s machinery.

The Confederacy was utterly surprised at this response to its machines and could not understand why. They took it as a sign of hostility and mobilized its own militaries to retaliate.

However, since they did not know much about surviving in an environment as hostile as that in Korhal I, all the confederacy could do was bombard the Union from space. The Union, unsuspecting of such a sudden strike, fell so quickly that initially the Union believed that the planet had reached its limit and has begun the detonation process. But when they investigated, they found that the Ichor compounds were not volatile enough to even begin a hyper-charge, and turned their heads to the sky.

The Union fleet engaged the Confederate one in space, nearly decimating the Confederate fleet with its Ichorian weaponry. The Confederate lost its nerve, never having seen such weaponry before, but a silencer ship, Cradle V, infiltrated one of the Union ships and managed to capture it before retreating with the rest of the fleet.

The Union, having lost control of a transport vessel, pursued the Confederate fleet and managed to place a tracker before they lost track of the retreating fleet.

Cradle V returned heavily damaged to the nearest Confederate outpost, Yamato. On investigating the transport vessel that it had captured, the Confederacy discovered that their enemies were not aliens, but actually humans. Startled by this discovery and the fact that there had been another batch of survivors, the Confederacy was in utter confusion on how to proceed.

However, an unidentified force arrived shortly and began a massive bombardment of the Yamato. Within thirty minutes, the entire surface of Yamato was bombarded so heavily that all life was extinguished.

The Confederacy believed that the Union had proceeded with the bombardment, but a recuperation and counter-attack so fast would have been impossible considering the distance between Korhal I and Yamato. As of now, they thought, anything could have performed the vicious attack.