Forsaken War

Year 590 - Raids along the Azerothian and Orcish border spark rising tensions as the aggressor remains unknown, Further attacks are reported but all contact is lost before details are reported, losses are already in the thousands in just the first few months, but its not until a sudden surprise patrol of azerothian light warships encounter a raid in progress that the truth comes out. The forsaken are murdering people and taking the bodies home to be resurrected as part of the forsaken. A ban they had signed up too when the grand project was announced. The draenei denounce the forsaken and demand they stop there murder. As all other races start to gather there military forces.

For months the attacks continue, mostly on lone ships, outposts, mining bases and a few small independent or state border settlements. But the attacks are so fast that none can intercept them in time, only securing there strongpoints, and evacuating weak spots on the border. While diplomatic efforts continue, hopeless as it may seem with the rising deathtoll, None want a war if it can be avoided.

Year 595 - A small independent colony of Blood elves, Jaktor 2, population of 19 thousand, is attacked and wiped out, surviving video evidence proves its the forsaken once more. The blood elves declare an open state of war with the forsaken, followed rapidly by the azerothian humans and the orcs and tauren. There fleets begin moving towards the forsaken frontier. The Draenei begin to position there fleet to support the others, calling once again on the forsaken to stop this before its too late. But it falls on deaf ears, and even had the forsaken been willing to stop, the hierarchy, still young and untested, were unwilling to accept any peace now. The war began properly when 17 hierarchy frigates and destroyers assaulted 2 forsaken fortifications and destroyed them utterly. The alliance of races, force the forsaken to abandon there outer defence line and outposts. The allies having the numbers advantage, but the forsaken ships hold more weapons and armor than any other power on a per class basis. And the forsaken fleet fight like demons for every system. But the allied races advantage was not to go on forever.

Year 596 - Forsaken counter attacks along the front blunt the offensive, because to everyones suprise, the forsaken ark was not used to found there capital. It was instead retrofitted into a Dreadnaught class vessel. And it dwarfs the ships of the other powers. It engages the vanguard of the coalition forces and destroyed 6 ships before the rest withdraw. The invasion is put on hold untill they can analise what happened. The forsaken launch a strong effort to retake outer systems and they manage to force the allied powers back. Further throwing the allied powers on the defensive for the time being.

Year 597 - A renewed assault begins, dedicated to diminishing the forsaken fleet, the forsaken fleet is caught offguard by the pair of flanking strikes on there lesser worlds, and over 19 forsaken warships are lost, 11 badly damaged and forced to withdraw, and 6 captured. Coalition losses are 7 ships lost, 5 badly damaged.

Year 597 - Several battles occur over the year, most were clear coalition victories, 2 were brutal losses due to the sudden arrival of the forsaken flagship. Losses were mounting as the forsaken core worlds were too well fortified and defended by the flagship. And the coalition were putting more and more pressure on the other races to join there efforts, then the worgen fleet obliterated the forsaken rally point over there second largest colony. They went on to devistate the orbital infastructure and the resourcing operations in the system, blockading the planet and bombarding all military assets.

Year 598 - The tide was turning, with the worgen having ripped a hole in the forsaken lines, the rest of the coalition broke defensive position after position, taking the outer worlds and stations and surrounding the forsaken capital. Then the forsaken unleashed its super weapon. Long range inter planetary torpedoes were launched by the hundred. Intercepted torpedoes were crammed full of a new version of the blight. And all were targetted to the worlds of not only the coalition, but everyone. This was too much. The draenei unleashed there armada. The draenei fleet crossed the boundry of the forsaken homeworld and utterly destroyed the amassed forsaken fleet, poundign the flagship untill it was a drifting wreck spinning into the great dark beyond, a powerless hulk. The draenei fleet demanded the unconditional surrender of the forsaken....which was refused. The draenei finished taking position....and bombarded the forsaken homeworld untill all signs of life and civilisation were gone. They then proceeded to head outward, and did the same to every single captured world under coalition occupation. The coalition looked on stunned and horrified by the utter and total extinction of the forsaken. And the draenei fleet withdrew to there homeworld once more. One message broadcast before the flagship, The DNS Velen's Word, jumped.

"Evil can know only two outcomes. Defeat or destruction."

The coalition scouted for any survivors or remaining forsaken warships, and in the course of the next few years, none were found. The forsaken were gone. And there worlds were left alone and abandoned, for fear of any remaining blight.

Year 600 - A service was held at a gathering of the coalition races, commemorating the fallen and the missing, and honoring the sacrifice of all who joined to stop the forsaken. But there was a coldness to the celebrations. None could forget that this war was different, that this war directly ended what could be classified as an entire species. And a ban was declared and agreed upon by all races that necromancy be forever outlawed. Anyone breaking the decree would answer to the collective might of the old races. And the draenei sending a representative to also sign. The orcs and azerothian humans decided on one last gesture, a small fleet entered the former forsaken home system and deployed a becon. With a simple message forever broadcasted.