First Aeno-Vasden War

Summary

The Mehereria Alliance's fanatic state religion declared that all other species be annihilated. Being in the middle of nowhere galactically, left them with little options of who to kill first. They chose the Aeno as they perceived them to be the weakest. At the time, the Aeno were Kardashev 2.1, while the Vasden were 2.3. Their massive invasion fleet smashed through the border, the rarely reinforced Aeno border guard helpless to stop them. The Mehereria Alliance committed horrible atrocities against the Aeno on occupied planets, systematically purging the population indiscriminately. The glorious Last Stand of Cenov took place around now.

The Aeno needed an ace, and quick, as the Vasden were rapidly approaching Phenho. Three of the seven Coalition member states has been eradicated, and the fourth was nearing destruction. Fortunately, the scientists on Kor, an icy research and development planet, had come up with an ace in the hole. Project Zenith had bore it's fruit in the form of a hyper-relativistic kill vehicle. Nicknamed Javelin, it was a specially-designed spacecraft that could accelerate beyond the speed of light, and smash into a planet, completely decimating it. The tests were promising, the result was better than anyone expected. The barren test planet of Ksyel's crust was shattered. Torrid magma poured out of the breach, creating one of the best mining fields in the district. The destruction was unimaginable.

A lone javelin streaked towards Delao, the capital of the Mehereria Alliance at the time. It hit with the unimaginable force of a trillion nuclear weapons. Tens of thousands of years of history, trillions of Vasden, quintillions worth of infrastructure, all gone. Even the Aeno wondered if they had gone too far. Yet, the Mehereria Alliance has committed genocide on their occupied planets, also murdering trillions of Aeno.

Both sides realized that this war had gone too far. Even the hyper-religous zealots that were the Vasden. The Treaty of Kansho promised peace and prosperity, which both nations now longed for.

The First Aeno-Vasden War would go down in history as one of the most brutal minor conflicts in Aylathiya. Although only about 34 star systems were involved, and the casualties were nowhere near wars like the War of the Ancients, the sheer barbaric savagery which killed trillions could make up for that. It shaped the Aeno like no other event in their history did.