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The Drengin-Torian War- "We watched the Drengins and Torians wrestle with each other for more than a year, all the time wondering what they would think when we came out boxing." -Admiral Roger Barlow, Lord High Admiral of the Terran Navy By 2230, the Drengin and Torian forces were at each other's necks, battling each other on the western edge of the galaxy. The conflict had been sparked by the Torians' fervent colonization efforts, a continuous expansion that leap-frogged the a

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First Contact- "It's an odd thing that your dreams never come true, but your nightmares always do." - Captain Horatio Ware, on first contact with the Drengins First Contact with the Drengin Empire was made on Colony Day, May 20, 2228 when the UES Hermes investigated a spatial anomaly slightly over 2 parsecs from mankind's first permanent extra-solar colony on the planet Abraham. The Hermes was the Alliance's only functional survey vessel, a generation ahead of her time, designe

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The First War, A History of Man's First Interstellar Conflict "In the beginning, the Admirals told us war was an impossibility. That space was too big, systems too far apart. Like a spitting contest at 50 meters out. They were wrong, of course. Turns out the Drengins could spit pretty far." - President of the Terran Alliance, Thomas Pompeii As the first day of 2231 dawned on Earth, the capital of the galaxy-spanning Terran Alliance, humanity was the ascendent race in the galaxy