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{{Infobox military conflict
|conflict = Contact War
|image = Moghes_porposal
|date = 2439 - 2449
|location = [[Moghes]]
|result = Hegemony Victory<br>Dissolution of the Traditionalist Coalition<br>Creation of the Wasteland
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|combatant1 = [[Izweski Hegemony]]
|combatant2 = Traditionalist Coalition
|commander1 = [[Notable_Unathi#Hegemon_S'kresti_Izweski,_The_Fallen|Hegemon S'kresti Izweski]]
|commander2 = [[Notable_Unathi#Don'zai_Azarak|King Don'zai Azarak]]<br>Various Coalition nation leaders
|strength1 = Approx. 1.4 million professional soldiers<br>Unknown number of levied forces
|strength2 = Approx. 1.8 million professional soldiers<br> Unknown number of levied forces
|casualties1 = Approx. 600 million combined civilian and military
|casualties2 = Approx. 1.3 billion combined civilian and military
|}}
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== Overview ==
== Overview ==


The Contact War was a massive global conflict that took place on [[Moghes]] and fought exclusively between [[Unathi]], and it created many [[Notable Unathi]] in its wake. The war lasted from 2437 to 2449. The fighting was between two global powers, the Izweski Hegemony, and the Traditionalist Coalition.  
The Contact War was a global conflict on [[Moghes]] which took place from 2438-2449. The war was fought between the [[Izweski Hegemony]] and a coalition of independent nations, primarily referred to as the Traditionalist Coalition. The war escalated into a nuclear exchange which devastated large swathes of Moghes, and created the barren and desolate [[The Wasteland|Wasteland]] which now scars the planet.


The Izweski Hegemony had a long history of condescending and patronizing attitudes towards its neighbors. As a global superpower it regularly and eagerly intervened in the affairs of other Clans and Kingdoms outside its borders. Many even within the Hegemony felt the Izweski were naked despots who would sacrifice any form of honor code or creed in the name of solidifying their own power.
The Izweski Hegemony had a long history of condescending and patronizing attitudes towards its neighbors. As a global superpower it regularly and eagerly intervened in the affairs of other clans and kingdoms outside its borders. Many, even within the Hegemony, felt the Izweski were naked despots who would sacrifice any form of honor code or creed in the name of solidifying their own power.


When the Sol Alliance and Jargon Federation officially contacted Moghes and worked on uplifting the species it was done exclusively through the Izweski. These same anti-Izweski factions came to fear a future where a technologically powerful Izweski, backed by alien invaders, would brutally enforce a One World Government and destroy all concepts of Unathi tradition and honor.
When humanity and the [[Skrell]] made first contact with the Unathi, diplomacy was conducted near-exclusively through the Izweski, who worked to ensure a monopoly on trade with alien powers. The nations of the Coalition came to fear a future where the Hegemony would rise as an interstellar empire, and the other nations of Moghes would either be crushed effortlessly or left to fade into irrelevance.


== Background ==
== Background ==
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=== First Contact ===
=== First Contact ===


In 2433, a human exploration team discovered Moghes. Shortly after, first contact was made. Sol Alliance merchants and scientists flocked to Moghes, living under very careful observation and guard in Izweski cities. Skalamar, the second largest city in Izweski, became the first Unathi city to have a shuttleport constructed. Owned by NanoTrasen, it served to transport people to and from the planet’s surface.  
In 2403, a human exploration team discovered Moghes. Shortly aftewards, first contact was made. Traders and scientists from the [[Solarian Alliance]] and [[Nralakk Federation]] flocked to Moghes, living under very careful observation and guard in Izweski cities. Skalamar, the capital of the Hegemony, became the first Unathi city to have a spaceport constructed. Built by [[Einstein Engines]] and opened in 2405, it served to transport people to and from the planet’s surface.  


The Izweski claimed to speak for Moghes, and the difficulties in the early-days of human xenolinguistics had Sol and Skrell scientists taking the concept of the "Hegemony" extremely literally. Believing that Hegemon S’kresti Izweski spoke for all of Moghes, private and state businesses were done exclusively through him and his Clan, even if the business affected land or people outside Izweski borders! In most of these instances the Izweski had its vassals send out soldiers to enforce demands placed on the foreign populations.
The Izweski claimed to speak for Moghes, and the difficulties in the early days of human xenolinguistics had Solarian and Skrell scientists taking the concept of the "Hegemony" extremely literally when first contact was made, believing initially that the Izweski ruled uncontested over Moghes. Hegemon S’kresti initially kept alien presence restricted and under watch, with human vessels only being permitted to trade in Skalamar and on [[Ouerea]] - all in order to prevent rival nations from gaining access to advanced technology.


=== "The New Moghes" ===
=== "The New Moghes" ===


Shrewd political maneuvering by the Izweski Clan saw the introduction of the Extranet to Skalamar by 2434, though access was extraordinarily stratified to the upper echelons of the Hegemonic government, which reflected the massive economic disparity between the upper and lower classes of the Izweski Nation. With the unprecedented access to the sum collection of all human and skrell knowledge at the time the Izweski were able to begin creating bootlegs of human and skrell technology based on information gained via the Extranet, or otherwise gained in-depth as a result of various treaties or trade deals between them and galactic powers.
Shrewd political maneuvering by the Izweski Clan saw the introduction of the Extranet to Skalamar by 2406, though access was extraordinarily stratified to the upper echelons of the Hegemonic government, which reflected the massive economic disparity between the upper and lower classes of the Izweski Nation. With the unprecedented access to the sum collection of all human and Skrell knowledge at the time the Izweski were able to begin reverse-engineering alien technology based on information gained via the Extranet, or otherwise gained in-depth as a result of various treaties or trade deals between them and interstellar powers.


By 2435 this resulted in the first fusion power plant being opened in Skalamar after rushed commissioning and construction. Operated by the Yuitiz Guild, which was the dominant monopoly of the Izweski energy market. The Yuiztiz Fusion Plant had a capacity of 30,000MW of electricity, compared to most Moghean Natural Gas power plants that had a capacity of 5,500MW.  
By 2410 this resulted in the first fusion power plant being opened in Skalamar by Junzi Electric - the dominant guild of the Izweski energy market. The Yuiztiz Fusion Plant had a capacity of 30,000MW of electricity, compared to most Moghean natural gas power plants that had a capacity of 5,500MW.  


Needless to say, the global energy market collapsed as energy Guilds began to realize they would become irrelevant within a decade at most. Ironically the price of electricity skyrocketed across Moghes for years as fusion power became a reality and utility Guilds went under, whereas after a brief few months of fluctuations the Izweski found themselves achieving full energy independence until the conclusion of the Contact War.
Needless to say, the global energy market collapsed as energy Guilds began to realize they would become irrelevant within a decade at most. Ironically the price of electricity skyrocketed across Moghes for years as fusion power became a reality and utility Guilds went under, whereas after a brief few months of fluctuations the Izweski found themselves achieving full energy independence until the conclusion of the Contact War.


=== The Firebrand Summit ===
=== The Uezwik Incident ===
 
As soon as diplomatic channels were opened with alien life, the Hegemony prioritized its offworld expansion, investing enormously into its fledgling colony on Ouerea and increasing funding to the space program. As Ouerea became increasingly self-sufficient, Hegemony scientists turned their efforts towards expanding beyond Uueoa-Esa. The Hegemony possessed some warp-capable ships, purchased from human corporations - but Hegemon S’kresti did not wish to remain reliant on alien assistance forever. In collaboration with Solarian and Nralakk scientists, the Izweski Space Program began studying the science of warp travel. Their efforts finally bore fruit in 2437, with the creation of the first Unathi-manufactured FTL-capable spacecraft - the HRV ''Uezwik’s Hope'', named for the project’s lead scientist.


Over 100 world leaders attended the world summit called by [[Notable Unathi|King Don'zai Azarak]], including representatives from the Izweski Nation. Two representatives from the Sol Alliance and Jargon Federation came to observe, which the Izweski had demanded in return for their attendance. There was no precedent for such a summit of world leaders, which reflected the near universal apprehension and anxiety Moghes was going through over the growing power of the Izweski.
The ''Uezwik’s Hope'' was scheduled to depart Uueoa-Esa on July 18th, 2437, making a warp jump to a neighboring star system - but disaster struck. A minor unnoticed error in the calculations of the researchers led to the vessel drifting outside of the charted warp lane, diverting it from its planned course. The vessel rematerialized in the correct system, but the malfunction led to a high-speed impact on the surface of a barren dwarf planet. Solarian and Nralakk vessels searched for the ''Uezwik’s Hope'' for several days before locating the wreckage - with no survivors.


Azarak opened the summit with his infamous 'Broken Oaths' speech. In it he took on firebrand rhetoric, claiming the Izweski to be puppets of alien invaders who possessed 'false smiles and unknowable minds'. He blasted their condescending attitude towards the rest of Moghes, pointing out that the Izweski had turned the entire world economy into an unstable train wreck in their flagrant and unchecked proliferation of alien technology. He blasted the Izweski for their imperialism, claiming they desired to create a One World Government run exclusively by the Izweski family and their human masters, and famously ended his speech by proclaiming 'The Izweski founded their Hegemony on broken oaths! Will we allow them to break us like they broke the bodies of the Sarakus? They come with arms outstretched in friendship, but their intention is to reach out and snap our necks!'
The loss of the vessel was regarded as a great tragedy across Moghes, with some anti-Hegemony figures claiming it as a testament to Izweski wickedness, accusing the Hegemon of having thrown away the lives of its crew out of his own hunger for power. Though it was considered a tragic loss of life, there was little international anger until November 3rd, 2437- when the HRV ''Uezwik’s Memory'' successfully completed the same warp jump that its predecessor had failed. The Izweski were now an interstellar nation in truth, and to many of the other nations of Moghes this was a sign that they would soon be powerless before the Hegemony’s strength.


=== The Ourean Catalyst ===
=== The Firebrand Summit ===
After the Uezwik’s Memory made its successful warp jump, the nations of Moghes were in a state of uncertainty. In January of 2438, the [[Broken Coalition|Azarak Kingdom]] - the largest and most powerful of the non-Hegemonic nations - called a summit in the city of Darakath, inviting the leaders of nearly every nation on Moghes. Over a hundred world leaders attended the summit, alongside observers from the Sol Alliance and Nralakk Federation, to discuss the growing power of the Izweski and concerns about the future of Moghes.


In '''2437''', the Izweski Nation had established the Izweski Space Program, and with bootlegged Sol Alliance technology constructed a rocket intended to carry 300 unathi colonists to their system’s second habitable planet, Ouerea. The launch was a disaster, with a yet-unidentified failure causing the rocket to explode after reaching 2,000 feet and the death of all hands. The failure sends shock waves through all of Moghes, with the Izweski Nation suddenly besieged by scattered, angry neighboring Clans. Anti-Izweski Clans and kingdoms were outraged by the unnatural use of technology leading to the loss of so many lives, as well as the apparent indifference of the Izweski to the disaster.
[[Notable_Unathi#Don'zai_Azarak|King Don’zai Azarak]] opened the summit with his now-infamous “Broken Oaths'' speech, decrying the Izweski as honorless and brutal conquerors, who sought to use alien technology to bring all of Moghes under their rule and bring about a single global government firmly under Izweski control. King Don’zai famously ended his speech by declaring that “The Izweski founded their Hegemony on broken oaths! Will we allow them to break us like they broke the bodies of the Sarakus? They come with arms outstretched in friendship, but their intention is to reach out and snap our necks!”


The Sol Alliance partnered with the Jargon Federation to help Izweski construct a second rocket, with NanoTrasen engineers and scientists helping construct it. Its launch was successful, and Ouerea was colonized by 350 Unathi under the guidance of the Sol and Skrellian Alliances on February 3rd, 2438. This successful colonization caused panic and alarm outside the Hegemony. With the world's sole superpower now becoming an apparent spare-faring power, Sinta'Unathi knew that it was only a matter of time before the Izweski became unstoppable, backed by alien overlords and the full wealth of the solar system.
[[The Queendom of Sezk-Hakh|Some nations]] chose to stay neutral, or believed that aligning themselves against the Hegemony could only end in devastation. However, many of the independent nations of Moghes - and nearly all of the ones with the capacity to threaten the Hegemony - found reason in King Don’zai’s words, believing that the only way to stop the Izweski from conquering all of Moghes was to strike first and defeat them before their designs could be realized. When the summit was over, these nations planned a grand alliance - one intended to crush the Izweski swiftly and force a surrender.


=== Fighting Begins ===
=== Fighting Begins ===


The universal panic and outrage made the usually divided and segregated Clans and nations of Moghes united in purpose. Nearly universally all non-Izweski clans formed or joined the Traditionalist Coalition, which invaded the Izweski Nation. Officially their reason for war was to liberate Moghes from the Izweski and xeno invaders, while their other goals were the destruction of the Hegemony and a return to the traditional ways of life. The Izweski themselves began to see civil unrest from angry commoners, while Lords dissatisfied with the rapid pace of modernization began defecting, taking their soldiers with them.
On February 6th, 2438, the first shots of the Contact War were fired, with a massive force from several kingdoms assaulting the cities of the [[Zazalai Mountains]] - the eastern border of the Hegemony. Though their forces broke upon the walls of Mudki, Traditionalist forces were able to capture the city of Bahard and march through into the [[Southlands]], though they were met in battle by the assembled armies of Overlord Miazso and driven back towards the mountains.
 
In the west, the forces of the [[Torn Cities|Kopesk States]] and the [[Tza Prairie|Tza Kingdom]] fared better, with the former’s navy disrupting Izweski control of the Moghresian Sea and the latter’s soldiers seizing large swathes of land in the northern Hegemony, though unable to penetrate the well-defended borders of the Heartland. The fighting would continue for several months - but the Coalition’s forces were steadily repelled by the Izweski, having lost the element of surprise. When the eastern front was pushed back past the Zazalais, the nations of the Coalition had realized that they were doomed to defeat - and that their fears of an Izweski-dominated Moghes would come to pass.


The violence lead to the catastrophe conflict now known as the Contact War, which began with the sudden invasion of Izweski lands east of Res'karum three days after the Izweski Colonists landed on Ourea.  
The forces of the [[Unathi in Dominia|Kazhkz Kingdom]], a small yet powerful nation from the western Coalition, sought to end the war in a bold and decisive stroke - using purchased alien shuttles to launch a spaceborne assault on Skalamar and capture the Hegemon himself, forcing an unconditional surrender. The assault failed, driving the Kazhkz and their Han’san allies from Moghes and into a life of piracy, which would eventually lead them to their current position in the [[Empire of Dominia]].


Humans and Skrell evacuated the planet as the fighting got underway.


==== A New Model Army ====
==== A New Model Army ====


The Coalition fought as its clans always had, with steel weapons and hand-to-hand combat. Many upper-class Traditionalist clans utilized [[Moghes|Hegeranzi]] as a Moghean version of feudal knights. The biggest concession was the use of ballistic weapons and heavy artillery. The Coalition also used propeller-based bombers and fighters which they used to bomb Izweski targets.
The Hegemony had not faced a true threat in war since the War of the Honored Alliance - and with access to alien technology, they had the most advanced military force that Moghes had ever seen. Hegemony-made ballistic weapons were increasingly phased out, replaced with alien-imported and later Unathi-manufactured laser weaponry and energy blades. The first prototypes of the breacher suits were designed and fielded, rendering an Izweski soldier nearly immune to small-arms fire from enemy forces.  


The Izweski used Skrellian and Human energy weapons like energy glaives, swords, and laser carbines, as well as fielding several hundred Mk I “Breacher Suits”, which the Izweski nation invented and utilized to frightening efficiency. Izweski Lords were stubborn against creating an air force beyond the [[Unathi Military Structure|Sky Behemoths]], and progress did not advance on that front.
The forces of the Coalition were far more varied in their equipment - though the Azarak and a few other nations possessed weapons and technology nearly on par with that of the Izweski pre-Contact, many of the poorer and less advanced nations of the Coalition were forced to make do with ancient and outdated equipment - levied troops wielding rifles that would not have looked out of place centuries ago, hastily-converted guild vehicles acting as makeshift armor, and the looted aircraft of Izweski nobility being used for crude air support all being common sights among these nations. Many of these nations were unable to resist the Izweski counterattack at all, with Traditionalist military strategy coming to rely on the better-trained and equipped forces of the wealthier kingdoms.


[[File:Space refugees by thirteen dogs-da00teb.jpg|thumb|alt=Refugee Crisis.|The Izweski Nation finds itself struggling to accommodate refugees trying to escape the growing Wasteland.]]
[[File:Space refugees by thirteen dogs-da00teb.jpg|thumb|alt=Refugee Crisis.|The Izweski Nation finds itself struggling to accommodate refugees trying to escape the growing Wasteland.]]
==== A New Model War ====
==== A New Model War ====
The Contact War was a war unlike any fought on Moghes before - one where ideas of honor, valor and tradition steadily vanished from both sides, replaced with the sole goal of survival. Battles grew more vicious, negotiation between the two sides became increasingly rare, and all of Moghes drifted closer and closer to total annihilation. The world was locked in a total war, one which both sides knew could only end in victory or death.


Many Unathi on both sides faced serious and upsetting decisions in which they had to weigh the safety of their soldiers and vassals along with the success of their operation against ancient Unathi customs of honorable warfare that had held more or less firm for thousands of years.
The Contact War saw little in the way of naval combat - the fleets of the Kopesk States providing the main engagement in the Moghresian Sea. In 2439, Kopesk vessels attempted to capture several Izweski nuclear facilities on islands in the Moghresian Sea, in the hope of forcing a surrender. Though the Kopesk sailors possessed far more experience at sea than most Izweski forces deployed, and they were able to win several victories, they were eventually cornered and destroyed off the southern coast by a joint force of the Sarnac and Eizde clans.
 
One notable constant was the lack of large-scale attempts by either side to engage in naval warfare; the Moghresian sea saw limited privateers or skirmishes, but both sides shied away from focusing on the sea, fearing mutual famine if they targeted Guild fishing fleets.


Coalition ground troops tended to be butchered en-masse by the Izweski Breacher Suits, which could absorb laser and bullet fire similar to Terran tanks. In response Coalition Lords began adopting heavy artillery to shell Izweski positions on top of air bombings, to which the Izweski were slow to respond to. Coalition tactics tended to favor viscous, ruthless offensives.
As the war dragged on, the Coalition’s ground forces increasingly proved a poor match for the Izweski, with more advanced technology making its way to the Hegemony’s front lines such as the breacher suits. In response, the Coalition began practicing increasingly indiscriminate aerial and artillery bombardment of losing positions, which Izweski lords were slow to respond to. Though the nations of the Coalition were immensely varied in their tactics, their doctrine came to favor swift and vicious offensives, in the hopes of forcing a decisive victory.


The Izweski proved effective on the defensive, with a handful of Breachers able to cut down entire platoons of Coalition forces. But the Izweski lacked a cohesive air force, and many stubborn Lords refused to utilize indirect warfare such as artillery or air support, leading to higher casualties and a greater difficulty in offensives. Their focus on infantry warfare also meant they were slow to advance, leaving the Izweski military, while nearly unstoppable when fully mobilized, extremely slow to advance.
The Izweski mounted an effective defense, but encountered difficulties in advancing into Coalition territory. Issues of communication through such a large and inefficiently managed army, as well as a focus on infantry warfare, led to the Izweski army being both nearly-unstoppable and incredibly slow to advance.


=== Reactions To The War ===
=== Reactions To The War ===


The war was portrayed in Izweski propaganda as a war against backward savages. Unathi from the Traditionalist Coalition were 'dehumanized' and people were told to consider them as barely Sinta'Unathi. Many Izweski Unathi feared that the Traditionalists wanted to destroy modern society itself.
The war was portrayed in Izweski propaganda as a war against backward savages. Unathi from the Traditionalist Coalition were treated as savages railing against progress, and portrayed as barely Sinta at all. Many Izweski Unathi feared that the Traditionalists wanted to destroy modern society itself.


The Izweski were portrayed by the Traditionalists' propaganda as alien collaborators. The Izweski were painted to be oppressive puppets to the humans and Skrell, forcing literal alien culture on Moghes without the consent of its population. Many sincerely believed that the Hegemony was threatening the very foundation of what it meant to be Unathi, shaming their ancestors or having lost the favor of the Great Spirit.
The Izweski were portrayed by the Traditionalists' propaganda as vicious imperialists - and later, as alien collaborators. The Izweski were painted to be oppressive puppets to the humans and Skrell, seeking to conquer all of Moghes and sell it off to alien powers for the benefit of the Izweski and their allies. Many sincerely believed that the Hegemony was threatening the very foundation of what it meant to be Unathi, shaming their ancestors or having lost the favor of the Great Spirit.


The Jargon Federation found itself shocked by the violence unfolding on Moghes. They dispatched a cruiser to orbit over the planet, and transported down a peace delegation to the Coalition capital city. The shuttle was shot down by Coalition anti-air weapons, killing everyone on board. Offended, the Skrell moved their cruiser in the system in orbit around the Ouerean planet, pledging to never again provide assistance to Moghes, while NanoTrasen continued to do just that with back-room dealings and weapons sales.
The Nralakk Federation found itself shocked by the violence unfolding on Moghes. They dispatched a cruiser to orbit over the planet, and transported a peace delegation to the city of Darakath, in the hopes of negotiating a peaceful end to the war. The shuttle was shot down by Azarak anti-air weapons, killing everyone on board. Outraged at the murder of a diplomatic delegation, the Skrell moved their cruiser in the system to the orbit of Ouerea, pledging to never again provide assistance to Moghes - all the while human megacorporations continued to do just that with the sale of weapons and technology to the Hegemony.


[[File:Unathiatom.jpg|thumb|alt=Gun emplacements.|It's unknown how the Coalition acquired atomic weapons, but many conspiracy theories persist.]]
[[File:Unathiatom.jpg|thumb|alt=Gun emplacements.|Though the threat of nuclear war was a constant one, its outbreak had been kept in check by the promise of mutually assured destruction - an idea which vanished quickly as the war continued.]]


=== The Atomic Exchange ===
=== The Atomic Exchange ===
After vicious fighting, primarily in the Zazalai Mountains and the borders of Traditionalist kingdoms, the Coalition realised they lacked the ability to breach the Hegemony’s borders in conventional battle. On September 6th 2439, a Traditionalist atomic bomb was dropped on the Izweski city of Da’ha’den, nearly completely obliterating the city.
The Traditionalist Coalition’s use of nuclear weapons came as a surprise - though the Azarak and a few other kingdoms did possess nuclear weapons, the Coalition used them in enormous numbers, almost comparable to the Izweski’s. To this day, the question is often raised when discussing the Contact War - how did they get so many nuclear weapons, and how did the Izweski not know about it? Theories range wildly, with some suspecting a decades-long plan for a global war from the Azarak - discreetly arming their fellow independent kingdoms for when the time came to strike the Izweski. This is a fringe theory, however, with the more commonly accepted belief being that the kingdoms of the Coalition received aid from Izweski scientists and rapidly began the production of nuclear weapons in the hopes of providing a deterrent against Izweski power when it became clear that the Traditionalists would not be able to win the Contact War conventionally. When the first nuclear weapons were fired, however, the idea of mutually assured destruction vanished - and all of Moghes would pay the price for it.


On September 5th, 2439, the Traditionalist Coalition suddenly dropped an atomic bomb on the Izweski city of Da’ha’den, obliterating it. It’s unknown how the Traditionalists gained access to atomic weapons, but the consequences were catastrophic: both sides began a continued exchange of atomic weapons that lasted for a week. Hundreds of nuclear weapons were detonated across Moghes, and orbiting, observing Alliance stations and vessels having their shutters lowered to prevent eye damage to people observing during the time of the exchange. Hundreds of millions of Unathi were killed within the first few days by direct atomic detonations alone, with hundreds of millions of more Unathi dying as the weeks dragged on and the fallout spread across the planet.
Though some of the wealthier and more powerful kingdoms of the Coalition possessed atomic weapons, the Izweski were unprepared for their use in such numbers, with both sides beginning a continued nuclear exchange - launching hundreds of nuclear weapons. It is reported that observing alien vessels had their viewing shutters lowered constantly to prevent eye damage to the crew, as Moghes burned below them. The nuclear exchange lasted for one week. By its conclusion, nearly two billion Unathi were dead, and over sixty percent of the planet’s surface was rendered uninhabitable [[The Wasteland|wasteland]].


=== The Aftermath ===
=== The Aftermath ===


In the end, atomic hellfire had seen most of the planet's surface vaporized or blasted with radiation. Despite this, violence continued to spill across the planet as the initial war of ideology turned into a desperate fight to secure the remaining, non-affected areas. The continued conflict continued for 10 more years, with every level of Unathi society affected in one way or another. No clan escaped unscathed, and many lost their entire levy or even their entire dynasty when the atomic weapons were dropped.
Nuclear warfare devastated Moghes, rendering nearly two-thirds of the planet’s surface an uninhabitable wasteland. Despite this, the violence continued as the war devolved into a desperate struggle for survival - with both the Hegemony and Coalition knowing that defeat would mean extinction.
 
As Moghes burned and the war raged on, the Izweski began to gain an unmistakable upper hand, capturing several of the most powerful nations of the Coalition and forcing a surrender. Though it would not end the war, many historians say that the outcome was decided in 2446 - when the previous king of the Tza Prairie perished, and his son Azui Hutay’zai ascended to the throne. The new King Hutay’zai’s reign would be short, as he decided to preserve his lands from the madness engulfing the world - surrendering his crown and swearing his fealty to the Izweski Hegemony. With one of the Coalition’s most influential states having defected, the lands to the east of the Zazalais began to increasingly fall under Hegemony control - with some particularly pro-Izweski accounts claiming that Traditionalist forces fired nuclear missiles at their own lands as they retreated to slow the Hegemony advance, though this is viewed with skepticism at best by modern historians.
 
=== The Fall of Darakath ===


=== The Capture of Darakath ===
The Contact War finally ended on December 4th, 2449, when Izweski forces captured the Azarak capital of Darakath. Azarak air defenses had protected the region from nuclear strikes, leading to a ground invasion by Hegemony armed forces under the personal command of Hegemon S’kresti. The Azarak forces fought viciously, but the city soon fell, marking an end to eleven years of bitter war. The entire Azarak clan was sentenced to death for their role in the war and the devastation of the nuclear exchange, and many of their vassals chose to face execution rather than bow to the Izweski.


The Contact War did not end until exhausted Izweski forces captured the Coalition capital city of Darakath on 2449, which had been their relocated capital after the original, Tisxaclas, was destroyed by several atomic weapons. The capture of the city also marked the end of the Contact War, with the Izweski technically victorious in the face of there being no further organized resistance against them on Moghes.
With the war over, Moghes was changed forever - billions had perished in the war, and nearly two thirds of the planet’s surface had been transformed into the lawless and barely-habitable Wasteland that still plagues Moghes today. The population of Moghes prior to the war was approximately eight billion - today, decades after the war, it stands at around 6.4 billion.


In retaliation for the war crimes preformed by the Traditionalists, being the atomic detonations and multiple other accusations, every single Traditionalist leader was decapitated over the next few months, including the entire Azarath dynasty. At the start of the war the population of Moghes was 8 billion, and by 2458 it stands at 6.2 billion.


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  • Contact War
    Date: 2439 - 2449
    Location: Moghes
    Result: Hegemony Victory
    Dissolution of the Traditionalist Coalition
    Creation of the Wasteland
    Belligerents
    Izweski Hegemony Traditionalist Coalition
    Commanders and leaders
    Hegemon S'kresti Izweski King Don'zai Azarak
    Various Coalition nation leaders
    Strength
    Approx. 1.4 million professional soldiers
    Unknown number of levied forces
    Approx. 1.8 million professional soldiers
    Unknown number of levied forces
    Casualties and losses
    Approx. 600 million combined civilian and military Approx. 1.3 billion combined civilian and military

    Overview

    The Contact War was a global conflict on Moghes which took place from 2438-2449. The war was fought between the Izweski Hegemony and a coalition of independent nations, primarily referred to as the Traditionalist Coalition. The war escalated into a nuclear exchange which devastated large swathes of Moghes, and created the barren and desolate Wasteland which now scars the planet.

    The Izweski Hegemony had a long history of condescending and patronizing attitudes towards its neighbors. As a global superpower it regularly and eagerly intervened in the affairs of other clans and kingdoms outside its borders. Many, even within the Hegemony, felt the Izweski were naked despots who would sacrifice any form of honor code or creed in the name of solidifying their own power.

    When humanity and the Skrell made first contact with the Unathi, diplomacy was conducted near-exclusively through the Izweski, who worked to ensure a monopoly on trade with alien powers. The nations of the Coalition came to fear a future where the Hegemony would rise as an interstellar empire, and the other nations of Moghes would either be crushed effortlessly or left to fade into irrelevance.

    Background

    First Contact

    In 2403, a human exploration team discovered Moghes. Shortly aftewards, first contact was made. Traders and scientists from the Solarian Alliance and Nralakk Federation flocked to Moghes, living under very careful observation and guard in Izweski cities. Skalamar, the capital of the Hegemony, became the first Unathi city to have a spaceport constructed. Built by Einstein Engines and opened in 2405, it served to transport people to and from the planet’s surface.

    The Izweski claimed to speak for Moghes, and the difficulties in the early days of human xenolinguistics had Solarian and Skrell scientists taking the concept of the "Hegemony" extremely literally when first contact was made, believing initially that the Izweski ruled uncontested over Moghes. Hegemon S’kresti initially kept alien presence restricted and under watch, with human vessels only being permitted to trade in Skalamar and on Ouerea - all in order to prevent rival nations from gaining access to advanced technology.

    "The New Moghes"

    Shrewd political maneuvering by the Izweski Clan saw the introduction of the Extranet to Skalamar by 2406, though access was extraordinarily stratified to the upper echelons of the Hegemonic government, which reflected the massive economic disparity between the upper and lower classes of the Izweski Nation. With the unprecedented access to the sum collection of all human and Skrell knowledge at the time the Izweski were able to begin reverse-engineering alien technology based on information gained via the Extranet, or otherwise gained in-depth as a result of various treaties or trade deals between them and interstellar powers.

    By 2410 this resulted in the first fusion power plant being opened in Skalamar by Junzi Electric - the dominant guild of the Izweski energy market. The Yuiztiz Fusion Plant had a capacity of 30,000MW of electricity, compared to most Moghean natural gas power plants that had a capacity of 5,500MW.

    Needless to say, the global energy market collapsed as energy Guilds began to realize they would become irrelevant within a decade at most. Ironically the price of electricity skyrocketed across Moghes for years as fusion power became a reality and utility Guilds went under, whereas after a brief few months of fluctuations the Izweski found themselves achieving full energy independence until the conclusion of the Contact War.

    The Uezwik Incident

    As soon as diplomatic channels were opened with alien life, the Hegemony prioritized its offworld expansion, investing enormously into its fledgling colony on Ouerea and increasing funding to the space program. As Ouerea became increasingly self-sufficient, Hegemony scientists turned their efforts towards expanding beyond Uueoa-Esa. The Hegemony possessed some warp-capable ships, purchased from human corporations - but Hegemon S’kresti did not wish to remain reliant on alien assistance forever. In collaboration with Solarian and Nralakk scientists, the Izweski Space Program began studying the science of warp travel. Their efforts finally bore fruit in 2437, with the creation of the first Unathi-manufactured FTL-capable spacecraft - the HRV Uezwik’s Hope, named for the project’s lead scientist.

    The Uezwik’s Hope was scheduled to depart Uueoa-Esa on July 18th, 2437, making a warp jump to a neighboring star system - but disaster struck. A minor unnoticed error in the calculations of the researchers led to the vessel drifting outside of the charted warp lane, diverting it from its planned course. The vessel rematerialized in the correct system, but the malfunction led to a high-speed impact on the surface of a barren dwarf planet. Solarian and Nralakk vessels searched for the Uezwik’s Hope for several days before locating the wreckage - with no survivors.

    The loss of the vessel was regarded as a great tragedy across Moghes, with some anti-Hegemony figures claiming it as a testament to Izweski wickedness, accusing the Hegemon of having thrown away the lives of its crew out of his own hunger for power. Though it was considered a tragic loss of life, there was little international anger until November 3rd, 2437- when the HRV Uezwik’s Memory successfully completed the same warp jump that its predecessor had failed. The Izweski were now an interstellar nation in truth, and to many of the other nations of Moghes this was a sign that they would soon be powerless before the Hegemony’s strength.

    The Firebrand Summit

    After the Uezwik’s Memory made its successful warp jump, the nations of Moghes were in a state of uncertainty. In January of 2438, the Azarak Kingdom - the largest and most powerful of the non-Hegemonic nations - called a summit in the city of Darakath, inviting the leaders of nearly every nation on Moghes. Over a hundred world leaders attended the summit, alongside observers from the Sol Alliance and Nralakk Federation, to discuss the growing power of the Izweski and concerns about the future of Moghes.

    King Don’zai Azarak opened the summit with his now-infamous “Broken Oaths speech, decrying the Izweski as honorless and brutal conquerors, who sought to use alien technology to bring all of Moghes under their rule and bring about a single global government firmly under Izweski control. King Don’zai famously ended his speech by declaring that “The Izweski founded their Hegemony on broken oaths! Will we allow them to break us like they broke the bodies of the Sarakus? They come with arms outstretched in friendship, but their intention is to reach out and snap our necks!”

    Some nations chose to stay neutral, or believed that aligning themselves against the Hegemony could only end in devastation. However, many of the independent nations of Moghes - and nearly all of the ones with the capacity to threaten the Hegemony - found reason in King Don’zai’s words, believing that the only way to stop the Izweski from conquering all of Moghes was to strike first and defeat them before their designs could be realized. When the summit was over, these nations planned a grand alliance - one intended to crush the Izweski swiftly and force a surrender.

    Fighting Begins

    On February 6th, 2438, the first shots of the Contact War were fired, with a massive force from several kingdoms assaulting the cities of the Zazalai Mountains - the eastern border of the Hegemony. Though their forces broke upon the walls of Mudki, Traditionalist forces were able to capture the city of Bahard and march through into the Southlands, though they were met in battle by the assembled armies of Overlord Miazso and driven back towards the mountains.

    In the west, the forces of the Kopesk States and the Tza Kingdom fared better, with the former’s navy disrupting Izweski control of the Moghresian Sea and the latter’s soldiers seizing large swathes of land in the northern Hegemony, though unable to penetrate the well-defended borders of the Heartland. The fighting would continue for several months - but the Coalition’s forces were steadily repelled by the Izweski, having lost the element of surprise. When the eastern front was pushed back past the Zazalais, the nations of the Coalition had realized that they were doomed to defeat - and that their fears of an Izweski-dominated Moghes would come to pass.

    The forces of the Kazhkz Kingdom, a small yet powerful nation from the western Coalition, sought to end the war in a bold and decisive stroke - using purchased alien shuttles to launch a spaceborne assault on Skalamar and capture the Hegemon himself, forcing an unconditional surrender. The assault failed, driving the Kazhkz and their Han’san allies from Moghes and into a life of piracy, which would eventually lead them to their current position in the Empire of Dominia.


    A New Model Army

    The Hegemony had not faced a true threat in war since the War of the Honored Alliance - and with access to alien technology, they had the most advanced military force that Moghes had ever seen. Hegemony-made ballistic weapons were increasingly phased out, replaced with alien-imported and later Unathi-manufactured laser weaponry and energy blades. The first prototypes of the breacher suits were designed and fielded, rendering an Izweski soldier nearly immune to small-arms fire from enemy forces.

    The forces of the Coalition were far more varied in their equipment - though the Azarak and a few other nations possessed weapons and technology nearly on par with that of the Izweski pre-Contact, many of the poorer and less advanced nations of the Coalition were forced to make do with ancient and outdated equipment - levied troops wielding rifles that would not have looked out of place centuries ago, hastily-converted guild vehicles acting as makeshift armor, and the looted aircraft of Izweski nobility being used for crude air support all being common sights among these nations. Many of these nations were unable to resist the Izweski counterattack at all, with Traditionalist military strategy coming to rely on the better-trained and equipped forces of the wealthier kingdoms.

    Refugee Crisis.
    The Izweski Nation finds itself struggling to accommodate refugees trying to escape the growing Wasteland.

    A New Model War

    The Contact War was a war unlike any fought on Moghes before - one where ideas of honor, valor and tradition steadily vanished from both sides, replaced with the sole goal of survival. Battles grew more vicious, negotiation between the two sides became increasingly rare, and all of Moghes drifted closer and closer to total annihilation. The world was locked in a total war, one which both sides knew could only end in victory or death.

    The Contact War saw little in the way of naval combat - the fleets of the Kopesk States providing the main engagement in the Moghresian Sea. In 2439, Kopesk vessels attempted to capture several Izweski nuclear facilities on islands in the Moghresian Sea, in the hope of forcing a surrender. Though the Kopesk sailors possessed far more experience at sea than most Izweski forces deployed, and they were able to win several victories, they were eventually cornered and destroyed off the southern coast by a joint force of the Sarnac and Eizde clans.

    As the war dragged on, the Coalition’s ground forces increasingly proved a poor match for the Izweski, with more advanced technology making its way to the Hegemony’s front lines such as the breacher suits. In response, the Coalition began practicing increasingly indiscriminate aerial and artillery bombardment of losing positions, which Izweski lords were slow to respond to. Though the nations of the Coalition were immensely varied in their tactics, their doctrine came to favor swift and vicious offensives, in the hopes of forcing a decisive victory.

    The Izweski mounted an effective defense, but encountered difficulties in advancing into Coalition territory. Issues of communication through such a large and inefficiently managed army, as well as a focus on infantry warfare, led to the Izweski army being both nearly-unstoppable and incredibly slow to advance.

    Reactions To The War

    The war was portrayed in Izweski propaganda as a war against backward savages. Unathi from the Traditionalist Coalition were treated as savages railing against progress, and portrayed as barely Sinta at all. Many Izweski Unathi feared that the Traditionalists wanted to destroy modern society itself.

    The Izweski were portrayed by the Traditionalists' propaganda as vicious imperialists - and later, as alien collaborators. The Izweski were painted to be oppressive puppets to the humans and Skrell, seeking to conquer all of Moghes and sell it off to alien powers for the benefit of the Izweski and their allies. Many sincerely believed that the Hegemony was threatening the very foundation of what it meant to be Unathi, shaming their ancestors or having lost the favor of the Great Spirit.

    The Nralakk Federation found itself shocked by the violence unfolding on Moghes. They dispatched a cruiser to orbit over the planet, and transported a peace delegation to the city of Darakath, in the hopes of negotiating a peaceful end to the war. The shuttle was shot down by Azarak anti-air weapons, killing everyone on board. Outraged at the murder of a diplomatic delegation, the Skrell moved their cruiser in the system to the orbit of Ouerea, pledging to never again provide assistance to Moghes - all the while human megacorporations continued to do just that with the sale of weapons and technology to the Hegemony.

    Gun emplacements.
    Though the threat of nuclear war was a constant one, its outbreak had been kept in check by the promise of mutually assured destruction - an idea which vanished quickly as the war continued.

    The Atomic Exchange

    After vicious fighting, primarily in the Zazalai Mountains and the borders of Traditionalist kingdoms, the Coalition realised they lacked the ability to breach the Hegemony’s borders in conventional battle. On September 6th 2439, a Traditionalist atomic bomb was dropped on the Izweski city of Da’ha’den, nearly completely obliterating the city.

    The Traditionalist Coalition’s use of nuclear weapons came as a surprise - though the Azarak and a few other kingdoms did possess nuclear weapons, the Coalition used them in enormous numbers, almost comparable to the Izweski’s. To this day, the question is often raised when discussing the Contact War - how did they get so many nuclear weapons, and how did the Izweski not know about it? Theories range wildly, with some suspecting a decades-long plan for a global war from the Azarak - discreetly arming their fellow independent kingdoms for when the time came to strike the Izweski. This is a fringe theory, however, with the more commonly accepted belief being that the kingdoms of the Coalition received aid from Izweski scientists and rapidly began the production of nuclear weapons in the hopes of providing a deterrent against Izweski power when it became clear that the Traditionalists would not be able to win the Contact War conventionally. When the first nuclear weapons were fired, however, the idea of mutually assured destruction vanished - and all of Moghes would pay the price for it.

    Though some of the wealthier and more powerful kingdoms of the Coalition possessed atomic weapons, the Izweski were unprepared for their use in such numbers, with both sides beginning a continued nuclear exchange - launching hundreds of nuclear weapons. It is reported that observing alien vessels had their viewing shutters lowered constantly to prevent eye damage to the crew, as Moghes burned below them. The nuclear exchange lasted for one week. By its conclusion, nearly two billion Unathi were dead, and over sixty percent of the planet’s surface was rendered uninhabitable wasteland.

    The Aftermath

    Nuclear warfare devastated Moghes, rendering nearly two-thirds of the planet’s surface an uninhabitable wasteland. Despite this, the violence continued as the war devolved into a desperate struggle for survival - with both the Hegemony and Coalition knowing that defeat would mean extinction.

    As Moghes burned and the war raged on, the Izweski began to gain an unmistakable upper hand, capturing several of the most powerful nations of the Coalition and forcing a surrender. Though it would not end the war, many historians say that the outcome was decided in 2446 - when the previous king of the Tza Prairie perished, and his son Azui Hutay’zai ascended to the throne. The new King Hutay’zai’s reign would be short, as he decided to preserve his lands from the madness engulfing the world - surrendering his crown and swearing his fealty to the Izweski Hegemony. With one of the Coalition’s most influential states having defected, the lands to the east of the Zazalais began to increasingly fall under Hegemony control - with some particularly pro-Izweski accounts claiming that Traditionalist forces fired nuclear missiles at their own lands as they retreated to slow the Hegemony advance, though this is viewed with skepticism at best by modern historians.

    The Fall of Darakath

    The Contact War finally ended on December 4th, 2449, when Izweski forces captured the Azarak capital of Darakath. Azarak air defenses had protected the region from nuclear strikes, leading to a ground invasion by Hegemony armed forces under the personal command of Hegemon S’kresti. The Azarak forces fought viciously, but the city soon fell, marking an end to eleven years of bitter war. The entire Azarak clan was sentenced to death for their role in the war and the devastation of the nuclear exchange, and many of their vassals chose to face execution rather than bow to the Izweski.

    With the war over, Moghes was changed forever - billions had perished in the war, and nearly two thirds of the planet’s surface had been transformed into the lawless and barely-habitable Wasteland that still plagues Moghes today. The population of Moghes prior to the war was approximately eight billion - today, decades after the war, it stands at around 6.4 billion.