[Openme-developers] Background story!!! Just an idea of your consideration :-)

[Stephen L <ste...@ho...>]

Right more waffle from yours truly, well anyway i find it amusing and tried 
to make it as interesting as i could while not trying to write too much.

A long long time ago, the Mython Empire spanned many solar systems. It was 
made up of many species covering thousands of worlds. The society was 
controlled by 4 major races that shared power on a council of all the space 
going races. These races where Gornfrez, Hyven, Wicben and Jyess. All had 
developed into major powers within the universe for many hundreds of years 
by utilising their strengths, whether it was being highly skilled in 
trading, construction of planets, building of ports or the ability to travel 
great distances fast and efficiently. A thousand years earlier the racial 
leaders had agreed to live in peace and had former the council in order to 
maintain the peace between the races. These times where happy times, 
populations grew fast and merchants enjoyed trouble free trading with all 
space capable races.

Peace had last for over a thousand years partly due to the introduction of 
the Imperial Navy. Following a fierce council meeting over the ownership of 
the Zeta galaxy, a galaxy rich in resources, many races withdrew from the 
council promises that they would make the Zeat galaxy theirs. This also had 
effected the their support of the Imperial Navy leaving it a spent force, 
unable to patrol the vast area of the Empire due to lack of ships and partly 
due to exclusion zone of races that no longer supported the Imperial Navy. 
The Imperial Navy’s final act was a heroic effort to save a fleet of 
merchants on route to Nova 7 with emergency medical supplies. The merchant 
fleet had come under attack by 6 pirate ships and had sent out an SOS to all 
ships in the area. The last two Imperial Navy ships (Shadow & Lighting 
Strike) had responded to the SOS call for help. They arrived to see one of 
the merchant ships being destroyed. They knew that this would not be a 
battle that they could hope to win, but as members of the Imperial Navy it 
was their duty to try. The engaged the pirates taking them by surprise 
destroying one warship almost immediately. Now that the pirates where alert 
to their presence it was going to be the Imperial Navy ships that would have 
to fight for their life’s. The battle did not last long. The Imperial navy 
ships maintain formation for as long as they could, targeting one pirate 
ship at a time. The pirate however where less organised randomly hitting 
each of the Imperial Navy ships. The Imperial Navy ships had destroyed 3 
pirates ships before the captain of the Lighting Strike give the order to 
abandon ship. This left a badly damaged Shadow with two pirate ships. With 
luck and fine captaincy the Shadow managed to destroy one of the remaining 
pirate ships but had left itself crippled. With power failing, shields down, 
weapons offline and engines malfunctioning the caption of the Shadow give 
the order to set self destruct sequence and for engineering to prepare to 
give him all the power the engine could muster. As the pirate ship came in 
for another attack the Shadow engaged her engines at maximum impulse ramming 
into the bridge of the pirate ship. Shortly after that the Shadow exploded 
taking with it the last pirate ship and allowing the merchants to complete 
their supply run to Nova 7.

As the years went by attacks on peaceful merchants increased, as did the 
racial mistrust. Each race accusing another race of being behind the attacks 
on its traders’. As the tension grew so did the possibility of an all out 
war.  In one final bid to prevent all out war was a peace summit of the 
leaders of all the races was called. The leaders of the four races met at 
Orten central a name that would forever live in the history books. It was a 
small peaceful planet belonging to a small space going race called the 
Ventran. Each racial leader arrived in a warship escorted by two of their 
top warships. The summit went on for more than a week. Heated words where 
exchanged as sides vented their angry and frustration for the past years 
loses. All seemed to be going well peace was starting to look possible, but 
alas to no avail.  The peace talks broke down and all the leaders headed 
back to their ships. What started the following events is unknown, what is 
certain is that it started the bloodiest conflict known to this day.  Within 
minutes of the racial leaders boarding their ships a battle occurred, who 
fired first and why, are unknown. What is known is that within a few minutes 
the wreckage of 11 great warships was slowly drifting in space their hulls 
smashed to pieces, their crews dead at their stations and the all out war 
had been started.

War raged for 8 long years, all sides making gains as they saw it, but in 
fact losing as much as they gained. As the major racial powers fought more 
and more small space going races where drawn into the conflict. These 
smaller races did not have the resources or the technology to stand up to 
the major fleets of ships. One by one these races where exterminated.  As 
the war continued the major alliances formed treaties with each other until 
the races had formed into two sides. Several major battles soon followed 
with neither side able to claim victory from these battles. Each side 
launched massive attacks on their enemies’ home worlds all but wiping the 
races out.  With resource low and populations all but gone, one final great 
battle occurred at Archzan. The battled raged for 2 days, resulting in the 
deaths of over one billion.  What happened at the end is unclear, what is 
known is, as the battle drew to a close few ships remained. It is rumoured 
that an ancient and very secretive race known as the Nimda appeared and with 
one stroke they removed all of the remaining ships for existence.

No one remained from these warring factions, they where wiped for existence. 
Their worlds no longer had any sign of the society. All that remains to 
provide evidence of their being, is rumour or written in a book detailing 
the history of the universe.

Now some 2000 years following the final battle of Archzan, 5 races have 
gained the ability to travel though space and are each strive to take 
control of the univerise. These races are:- Zycklirg, Paragon, Xollian, 
Mawlor and Kallan.  Now it is your time to right the history for your race 
and the universe. But a word of warning to avoid and aggression against the 
Nimda, who may not been seen often around the univerise, but may still be 
around!!!!!!!!





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