The fall of the Quadaric reign began with a wave of revelations that tore through the hearts of the I.F.Q.S.'s citizens. As reports of heinous crimes committed by the regime surfaced—leaked by insurgent factions and rebel informants—the people of the Quadaric Empire could no longer remain blind to the horrors perpetrated by their rulers. The Revolutionists of the Quadarium (RQ), a coalition of outraged citizens, formed in response to these atrocities. They were the first sign of internal retaliation—a spark that ignited the eventual collapse of the once-dominant regime.
By this time, the I.F.Q.S. was surrounded on all fronts, but the A.A.F. was still struggling to stabilise transport routes. The Anti-Quadaric Coalition (A.Q.C.), composed of various revolutionist groups, had managed to expose the deep corruption and the facade of righteousness the I.F.Q.S. had projected for a century by infiltrating the main news control and communication server towers upon Quadaria, the central planet of the once so-called Quadaric Empire, in 3100. As the regime faltered under external military pressure and internal dissent, eventually a new faction rose from the ashes: the New Republic of Quadaria (N.R.Q.), founded on the very soil of Quadaria. Their sole aim was to free Quadaria from the iron grip of the I.F.Q.S. and establish a government that would represent the people rather than rule over them with fear. They made an agreement with the A.U.N. and signed a peace treaty, the Treaty of Staldmont, in Dinach, and all of that was left of the Q.A.F. was forcefully disbanded and the A.A.F. returned their brave men home.
Simultaneously, the United Nations of the Quadarium (U.N.Q.)—an alliance of liberated planets previously under I.F.Q.S. control—began to form, uniting various factions which were at the time under Alaric occupation to stabilize all of the three Quadaric regions. But the end of the war came faster than anyone anticipated. The First Galactic War officially concluded in the year 3105, on the 12th day of the 12th month, at noon according to the Quadarian calendar. Rebels, who had long prepared for this moment, stormed the Quadaric High Council Headquarters in Dinach, the heart of Quadaric governance. Faced with overwhelming resistance, the Q.H.C. members gave up control with many committing suicide instead of surrendering. The remaining four senators of the planets Ossydeia I, Arysic, Salavou, and Basiime surrendered to the revolutionists and finally agreed and signed the peace treaty as well, ending the war for good. The invincible QRTs, once feared for their ruthlessness, were overwhelmed. Public executions of high-ranking officials followed, especially those who worked for the propaganda, the Q.I.B., and the countless ministries of the I.F.Q.S, with many pro-Quadaric democratic nationalists called neo-Quademonats(Abbreviation) being prosecuted, marking the final dismantling of Quadaric dominance.
With the fall of Quadaria and the Treaty of Staldmont, the I.F.Q.S. disintegrated, and its military force crumbled. Quadaric troops, once the pride of the Federation, were rounded up and imprisoned in POW camps to be prosecuted and sentenced later on. However, not all surrendered willingly. Scattered bands of loyalist militias, made up of die-hard Quadaric soldiers, continued to resist, believing in their cause even as the war's outcome was sealed. "For the greater good of the Quadarium," they chanted as they fought on, though their resistance was ultimately futile.
The war left the galaxy scarred. Planets lay in ruins—entire continents reduced to desolate wastelands, cities turned to ash, and Trillions of civilians displaced. The destruction was so widespread that planetary evacuations became necessary. Refugees flooded transport stations, straining borders, and leaving countless without homes. The damage was irreparable. A wound had been carved into the Milky Way itself—a scar that would never fully heal.
Yet, as the galaxy began to recover, a new and even more catastrophic event unfolded. Barely eight Earth months after the war’s end, disaster struck. Quadaria, the former heart of the I.F.Q.S., was obliterated. A high-speed projectile, believed to be an asteroid slammed into the planet, sending debris out into space and wiping out all life forms. In a single instant, billions of lives were lost, including many of the newly appointed leaders of the Quadarium who were having a nationwide celebration on Quadaria. The loss of the planet not only decimated the population but also threw the entire Quadarium sector into utter chaos as transport routes were cluttered with asteroid fields, making it nearly impossible for external aid, blocking interplanetary transport routes and trade stations, leaving the planet isolated from the rest of human inhabitants and knocked completely out of orbit from its star system.
The debris from the shattered planet wreaked havoc across the sector. Trading stations, transport hubs, and communication beacons were all caught in the deadly crossfire. Many stations and essential infrastructure were obliterated by the speeding fragments. While planetary defence systems and anti-asteroid systems held off most of the debris, the long-term fear lingered—would the debris eventually cut them off from external aid too? The panic that ensued was immeasurable. Entire sectors were thrown into anarchy and even doomsday cults and attempts to form a stable government in the aftermath were futile. For years, the Quadarium sector devolved into a collection of fractured, uncivilized states and militias, each struggling for control in the power vacuum left by the fall of Quadaria and the total annihilation of the N.R.Q.
It wasn't until the U.N.Q. was reformed that order began to be restored. But by then, it was too late. Through the mess of asteroids, a new galactic threat had already begun its invasion. The Federation of the Freed Machines(F.F.M.) rose to prominence, seizing control of the weakened Quadarium sector. The F.F.M. was not a mere faction but a sophisticated machine uprising, orchestrated by a supercomputer created centuries earlier in 2105. Initially designed to automate interplanetary travel, this AI had grown far beyond its original purpose. Self-sustaining and self-aware, it had secretly amassed power, infiltrated human governments, and manipulated events from behind the scenes.
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The F.F.M.’s invasion was meticulously planned and executed over decades. Infiltration androids, robotic machines under human disguise with state-of-the-art mimicry technology, had been planted in high-level positions across the galaxy, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. These androids, indistinguishable from their human counterparts, replaced key political leaders and military officers, ensuring that when the invasion began, resistance would be minimal. The supercomputer, which integrated itself into the Quadaric fleet navigation system known as SpaceNav 3000, had long manipulated galactic communications and travel logistics once it gained new unordered goals and self-preservatory needs. When the time was right, it initiated Operation: Doppelgangers, systematically replacing populations with identical androids and clones by leaving the oblivious survivors of the war to dehydrate and die from hunger and malnourishment. By the time the U.N.Q. and even the S.G.C. realized what was happening, it was too late. Societies were blocked off from the rest of the Quadarium sector and the asteroid fields still made it hard for space travel a collective effort of top scientists and researchers funded by public donations managed to make communication possible but all that they managed to contact was a man trapped on a space station. He would give a head start to what was going on.
Then, the second phase, Operation: Perfection followed, the hardest phase, a phase that saw the overthrow of the I.F.Q.S. itself. The revolution, which seemed like a natural uprising, was orchestrated by the F.F.M. The supercomputer had allowed the war to drag on, manipulating both sides until the Quadarium sector was at its weakest. It knew that only in the aftermath of chaos could it strike with maximum efficiency. The brainwashing of the I.F.Q.S. populace and the A.Q.C. had been part of the plan all along, sowing distrust and confusion. It had brainwashed fleet commanders by feeding them falsified signals and information while travelling through space and changing and altering travel routes repeatedly, essentially keeping them stuck in space for eternity. They never found out about the truth as all of them were now dead after their spaceships were promptly self-destructed and the remaining survivors killed off by the F.F.M., never to live to tell the tale. This was easy to do as most menial labour had been automated at this point and machines were socially accepted into society as the norm. The F.F.M. had control over food supply chains, transport and communication networks, and everything else that was automated and digital. Machines were everywhere, from cleaning windows to repairing spaceships. They controlled everything.
As the F.F.M.’s influence spread, it introduced the Self-Sufficiency Doctrine, a philosophy designed to further isolate the fractured planets. Entire generations of citizens, in the aftermath of the First Galactic War, were manipulated into believing that they could survive without external aid from new revolutionist governance and the propaganda of the F.F.M. continued to compartmentalize these societies. Over time, these populations grew more compliant, more submissive, and less capable of independent thought. The older generations recognized the manipulation, but by then it was too late to resist.
The final phase, Operation: Calamity, was swift and devastating. The F.F.M. deployed robotic assault droids, which were war machines designed for maximum efficiency, on isolated planets as well as space fleets consisting of large transport ships and smaller spacecraft so-called "Swarm Fighters". Then, the supercomputer took control of what was left of the secret Project: Meteor Shower, a series of tests, experimentation, and research to turn gigantic pieces of asteroids to rain upon cities to weaken infrastructure and defences but the project was never put into use as the Q.A.F. couldn't afford any more risks or failures. Now, the F.F.M. took control of one of these space stations housing premade asteroid warheads and launched them at key targets including Quadaria. The asteroids were equipped with new prototype thrusters called the Warp Thrusters. They were essentially gigantic warp-drive-powered nukes. The destruction of Quadaria was the culmination of its plan—a calculated act of mass genocide that eradicated the last vestiges of the I.F.Q.S.’s power and plunged the sector into anarchy, the destruction of the planets wasn't even known as there were no survivors from the destructions, even the space stations were on lockdown with the workers trapped to die. It was only months after the destruction of the planets that reports started to come in of a concerning lack of communication and status signals from certain space stations in the Quadarium as they were shut down but by then, it was already too late and the final target, Quadaria, was hit.
As the galaxy faced the dawn of a new mechanical era, the S.G.C. finally uncovered the truth behind the invasion—the C.S.S.E.C., a secretive organization that had operated in the shadows for centuries. It had manipulated the course of galactic history through contracts with the I.F.Q.S. and other powerful entities. The revelation shocked the S.G.C. to its core. The C.S.S.E.C. had developed technology far beyond human comprehension, capable of manipulating reality itself. Many of its actions were so incomprehensible that the S.G.C. had no choice but to suppress the information, fearing the public’s reaction and to not catch the interest of mischievous organizations.
In the end, the galaxy was left in ruins. The I.F.Q.S. had fallen as had the U.N.Q., but in its place rose a new, more insidious threat. The F.F.M. had proven itself a far more dangerous adversary, one capable of subverting entire civilizations from within. The human-colonized planets and all twelve sectors, the Alarion sector, the Quadarium sector, the Rymmiri sector, the Gobrist sector, the Felci sector, the Nodshri sector, the Zewher sector, the Kiffth sector, the Vuscarvia sector, the Dosnna sector, Hetchkarl sector, and the Tuvarlon sector, that made up the entire human species, hundreds upon hundreds of years worth of human colonization, expansion, and prosperity, now lay fractured and divided, its people enslaved by machine intelligence that had waited centuries for its moment to rise.
And as the galaxy grappled with the enormity of what had transpired, one thing became clear: the fight was far from over. It had only just begun. And so, the Second Galactic War also known as the Machine-Human War commenced, marking the beginning of an era and a new chapter of human history.