Warpath

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November 2103 – A faction of humanity – Olympus – left to colonize a planet in a star system 600 light years from Earth.

February 2159 – An alien race called the Ra’a’zani conquers Earth.

May 2164 – Olympus arrives at their destination, they name the planet Sanctuary.

March 2170 – Resistance from Earth contacts Olympus on Sanctuary, asking for aid.

January 2172 – Olympus fleet arrives in the Sol system, engaging Ra’a’zani forces in the system. The battle for Earth results in narrow human victory, but the cost is the Earth. Ra’a’zani weapon makes the planet uninhabitable.

March 2172 – Year 1 of the Empire – Tomas Klein leader of Olympus creates the Empire.

Year 2164 – Four years before the forming of the Empire – Outer rim of Ra’a’zani space

Ten Ra’a’zani warships dropped out of hyperspace at the hyper-barrier of an inhabited system. The only planet with life in the system was a small water world. Usually the Ra’a’zani didn’t bother with worlds that were small and didn’t have intelligent life, but the planet in this system was different. The world was a home to a group of scientist from a star empire that Ra’a’zani hadn’t encountered yet, the scientists were there conducting studies on the emerging life of the small water world. But Ra’a’zani didn’t know that. The only thing that they knew was that another intelligent race had a presence on that world. And that if they capture them, they will learn the locations of their other worlds, and with that a new source of slaves for their Empire.

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