The Far Reaches

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The Story So Far...
Humanity is running out of things to exploit. It's exhausted it's planet and if it doesn't find a new source soon, the race may as well be extinct. In order to allow itself to continue onward, Humanity sent six great convoys with the resources it had; Vitality, Armistice, Surplus, and Nova. The convoys spanned far and wide, searching the galaxy. Vitality went MIA, with Armistice and Surplus bringing a decent amount of resources home, but not enough.

Suddenly, November 4th, 2075, Askott Conrad, Commander of the Nova fleet, returned with a rich cache of commodities. Human activity boomed once more, with more fleets being sent out into space, searching for materials and returning with a fortune. Then, December 15th, 2076, the Dominance was reported KIA. December 16th, a convoy returned with 87% of it's fleet destroyed. An intelligent species had done so in retaliation of the Nova apparently stripping whole planets dry for resources.

Now, if this were any other time period, the humans would negotiate, but the resources they were extorting were vital for their rapidly growing population. So they instead attempted to instigate a trade route as a compromise. They were met with another attack on the convoys, on December 25th, 2076, in what was known as the Christmas Massacre. The Humans launched a counter attack on the opposing species. Other species with similar issues, supported the Human's efforts. The attacks lead to the species calling upon it's allies to fight against the humans.

And now, the entire Milky Way is at war.