And So It Begins: The Krish Campaign

It is the year 2232.

The League of Non Aligned Worlds is in flames. The Dilgar Imperium is collapsing under the inexorable advance of Earthforce and its allies. The Supreme Warmaster of the Dilgar, Dar'Shan, has seen the inevitable outcome of the war and is desperately seeking an alternative homeworld for his people. To this end the entire Dilgar exploration division has been searching for new routes through hyperspace that might find anything of value. During the last few months of the war a new jump route was found; one that led to a system with a long deactivated but functional jump gate. Survey teams quickly reactivated the ancient gate and moved into the system to scout possible planets for habitation. What they found was beyond their wildest hopes. The plan was to secure the system, exterminate or enslave the indigenous population, resettle every possible civilian from Omelos, and then shut off the gate again to recover and rebuild in isolation. It was their last, best hope for survival.

Unfortunately, the best laid plans oft go awry.

Earthforce scout ships at this time were actively blanketing Dilgar space in preparation for the final push to Omelos. One scout ship, the Delphi, was able to detect a Dilgar task force in hyperspace vectoring for an unknown location. Earth high command believed that this might be a flanking maneuver intended to allow an assault into EA space. A fleet was hastily assembled and sent toward the unknown beacon close on the trail of the Dilgar.

Meanwhile in Centauri space...

Pressure from the Narn continued to cause the Republic to withdraw further from its former holdings. Some more ambitious minor nobles were dissatisfied with this turn of events and began to fund exploration missions in order to discover resources which would be unclaimed by the many enemies of the Empire and, more importantly, would be owned solely by their house. A new beacon was detected by Centauri scout ships where none had existed before. Initial probes indicated an unknown new system only 2 jumps from Ragesh. Better yet, the system was rich in resources and isolated from any other known jump routes. The house fleet was dispatched immediately to claim the system. All resources of the house were put behind the expedition. This was a huge risk for them - but the rewards of success could catapult them to the status of Major House.

The stage was set for these three powers to clash in a secret, desperate campaign that has been lost to history.

The Krish Campaign.


The Krish system was once the center of an interstellar nation. However, a thousand years ago there was a titanic war that engulfed all worlds in this sector and wrought untold destruction. As the forces of darkness drew ever closer, the Krish shut down their gate to hide from extermination. It didn't work, and the black ships filled the skies and rained destruction on the people. But before they were completely destroyed an opposing army of light arrived and a titanic battle was fought on the outskirts of the system. After this the war moved on to other locales and the galaxy forgot about the Krish.

Devastated by this disaster, Krish civilization collapsed to a pre-industrial level and eventually the people forgot their star faring heritage. Over the centuries they rebuilt and reached out into space again. They had primitive ships roaming the system mining asteroids for resources. They discovered that the 3rd planet was also inhabited by their people and the two worlds formed a union. Demeter would farm and Krish Prime would build. There were even plans to settle the Verdant world of Garden. It would become the symbol of partnership between the two worlds.

The nature of the ancient Jump Gate was unknown and the primitive spacecraft of the Krish were unable to breach the strange radiation that surrounded the artifact. They believed they were alone in the galaxy and were quite content with their lot.

Then, one day, strange energy spikes were detected at the edge of the system. A month later the ancient artifact opened up and hell poured forth fourth. Now, as in the ancient legends, there were advanced alien ships in the sky and the millennium of peace was broken. Krish was again a helpless pawn in a far greater struggle...