Farachian-Gallian War

The Farachian-Gallian War, more commonly known as the Ingot War, or the Farachian-Imperial War by some Gallians, was a war between Farachia and Gallious that lasted 21 hours in the year 2342 PBC (25 AU).

Background
In late November 2341, Farachian researchers had activated a Precursor facility on the Gallian colony of Ordol. This notified a small precursor AI fleet that had been in stasis. This precursor fleet of 3 smaller cruisers and a larger Proton Beam wielding ship responded to the notification and began its journey to Ordol. As the fleet traveled to Ordol, however, it picked up the Human presence on Gallious. Mistaking the Humans for something else, the Precursor fleet came out of Dropspace above the planet. The larger cruiser began charging its planet-destroying Proton Beam. The Gallians realized this and chaos broke out. Despite the government's warnings, civilians tried to evacuate the planet on either personal starships or hijacked ones. Many of these were shot down, causing thousands of deaths. The Gallian government would try to evacuate Chancellor Gustav Hall and his cabinet, but this ship was unfortunately shot down as well. Eventually a Farachian dreadnaught, the Friedma, was able to shoot down the Precursor ship before it could fire and sending it crashing into the planet's desert. Unfortunately, Gustav Hall and the Vice-Chancellor had died in the crash.

Lead Up
After the death of the Hall, a new election was held. Senate representative James Ingot of Lithum was elected Chancellor on December 15th, and he began immediately exercising his power. He began threatening people to do his bidding and paying senators to approve of legislation, giving him more and more power over the government. He began rounding up his opponents and arresting them. Many government officials, fearing that Ingot would attempt to dissolve the senate next, organized a coup. Unfortunately this coup failed. Ingot openly executed many people suspected to be involved, some of which weren't. The remainder of the democratic government took up arms and began resisting Ingot, but where largely unsuccessful. He used this as a reason to officially dissolve the Gallian senate and declared himself emperor. The very nationalist population supported his decision. He began advocating for straight up genocide, and billions across the planet would begin murdering people who openly criticized Ingot's cause or did not agree with his actions. Buildings were burned, stores were looted, and riots broke out in the streets against the "anti-ingoters" as the population called them. The military rounded up thousands and sent them to prisons or hard labor camps, sometimes even executing them on spot. An whopping estimated 4.6 million people would be killed by this in around a week. The Farachian Government did not like this, and they saw the rebels of the former government as their true allies and refused to recognize the new leadership. Under this pretense, the Farachian Parliament convened in the early hours of the morning, and at 4:25 am Farachian Standard Time on January 7th, war was declared upon the Gallian Empire.

Battle over Gallious
Though war was declared at 4:25 am, the news did not reach Gallious until around 7 am. Ingot decided to withdraw the entirety of their navy, consisting of some 612 capital ships to the Gallian system to protect Gallious and Ordol, which at the time were Gallious's only planets. Ingot however also believed that it would take a while for Farachia to amass a fleet, when in reality Farachia's Open Circle fleet of 320 capital ships, commanded by Admiral Salen Schute had been readied days before and partial mobilization had been in affect for around a week. At aprox. 8:05, just after the Gallian fleet was taking up position around Gallious, the massive Farachian dreadnaught FFN Haldius would come out of Dropspace above the formation, catching them completely off guard and with their shields down. It immediately launched a massive ion barrage which disabled over 40 Gallian ships which were destroyed shortly after. It also destroyed multiple other ships with turbolaser fire, and fired a single super-heavy turbolaser shot at the planets orbital defense satellite array, destroying multiple satellites and affectively disabling the entire system. The rest of the fleet then jumped in and began to engage the Gallians. The small Gallian ships were ripped apart by their larger, more heavily armed and technologically superior Farachian counterparts. The battle raged on for 3 hours as the Gallians desperately tried to repel the invaders, suffering extreme casualties along the way. As the battle drew to a close, the Gallian admiral, Radolfo Lazio, aboard a Gustav 8 class heavy cruiser would attempt to Dropspace ram the Farachian dreadnaught, but the ship was destroyed before that was possible. With their admiral dead and only 12 capital ships remaining, the Gallian fleet would withdraw into Dropspace, and the battle was over. The small fleet of 10 warships defending Ordol also withdrew alongside the rest of the fleet. The Gallian navy was completely crippled, losing 590 ships in just 3 hours, whereas the Farachians only lost 37. The battle showed just how powerful the Farachian military was, even facing an enemy with twice their numbers.

Landing on Gallious
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