The First and Second Interstellar Wars is a long history of elf/orc conflict, spilling over to their allied peoples as well. These events shaped and defined the universe.
In fall of 3807, the Tyrannian Invasion of Caer-Thun begins with a Blitzkrieg-like mass assault on Tornn, Inhydea, and Saharah, subjugating all three nations in a little more than 2 months. Over the next 6 years, 80% of Caer-Thun would be subjugated to the Tyrannian fascism under the dragon Kalisus.
Captain Kethelis Oakheart of the Avalonian Imperial Navy discovers the habitable world of Peridot, and its tiny moon, Beryl, in the roots of the Tree of Life known as Yggdrasil's Sprout in a peacetime exploration mission. He recommends to Star Command that it would make a good forward observer's base in the Telasian System to keep an eye on the Shoggothi that make their home on the outer planet Wylinta, and an excellent site for an elven shipyard to harvest and shape the Tree's Starseeds for Navy use.
The Avalonian Imperial Navy founds the Skyreach Crown Colony on Peridot as a Naval base and a home for the sailors' families.
Skypoint Harbour is also founded as a secure base, and a launching point for Naval ships-of-war.
The Fomorian Alliance known as The Solstice Pact attacks Evergleam during the celebration of Rumaraera. Total casualties number nearly a million in civilian and military injuries and lives. The Avalonian Imperial Navy, acting on behalf of the Avalonian Empire, declares war on the Fomorians of Known Space. Evergleam is destroyed, and the survivors flee as refugees into the stars. Most settle elsewhere within the Telasian System.
On the first day of the Fomorian year, the Spring Equinox, the Fomorian Empire officially declare war on the Avalonian Empire, in retaliation for their actions in the First Interstellar War (IW1) (or "The Great War" as the elves called it up to this point.) Their initial attacks are in outlying systems that are intended to shore up their rear, and a blitzkreig of smaller Avalonian systems follows.
Scene 16:1 in A Few Good Elves
The Telasian System Fleet receives news of the war and mobilizes. A meeting of the fleet is held at the Skyreach Town Hall. The underage members of the crew are dismissed from the service.
Scene 16:1 in A Few Good Elves
The first shots in the Telasian System of the Second Interstellar War (IW2) are fired when a single man-o-war, the Queen's Dirk, scouts the rings of Wylinta and discovers a flotilla of ten Fomorian men-o-war. Due to some exceptional flying on the part of hotshot young Star-Pilot Lieutenant Shaundar Sunfall and the command of Captain Yvoleth Oleander, the flotilla is defeated, with three burnt, three sunk, three fled, and one taken as prize.
Several members of the crew receive medals for this action, including the Pilot and young marine Yathar Goldenbough, and the Queen's Dirk receives a personal commendation from the Monarchs of Glimmerfell.
Casualties in the action include Tyelatae Vesper, whose leg is amputated, and Yathar Goldenbough, who receives minor injuries.
The Queen's Dirk Chapter 21 in A Few Good Elves Chapter 22 in A Few Good Elves
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