The war has arrived on the Capital planet Illisium of Ular. Krotos the Magus Supreme of the Ular looking at the changing strategy board and wondering how everything has unfolded.
Fifty years ago Ular was the overlord of the Andromeda Galaxy. The Magi Corps of the Ular military was one of the strongest Magi Corps in the Known universe. Illisium was hailed as the ideal planet to live on. The Ular Empire had direct control over thirteen of the thirty-one sectors of the galaxy. Around twenty star systems called the Ular Empire home. Then came betrayal from within. Governors of five outer star systems and three inner star systems joined hands in rebellion and all other factions of the galaxy soon started to help them in the so-called war of independence by supplying arms, resources for war. Ular military fought hard. The war was at a stalemate for thirty years.
Everything changed after the Asir Empire of the nearby Lys Galaxy took advantage of the ongoing war and attacked Ular twenty years ago. The two-front war made the Ular military weaker with each progressive battle. Star systems got lost, destroyed one after one. In the end war reached Illisium. Only the remnants of the Magi corps remained to defend Illisium.
Krotos knows that this is the end, the last stand of the great Ular Empire.
'Magus, hypercharge the mana blasters of the Illisium. Start the Doom protocol.'
'Done, Supreme' replied the officer in charge of the mana blasters of Illisium.
'Magi of Ular, join me, your Magus Supreme to kill every single traitor and scums of Asir.'
'For Ular, for Illisium' shouted Krotos.
The Magi Corps roared back, 'For Ular, for Illisium'.
The mana blasters keep on firing like a bright star undergoing a supernova. One after another warship of the Asir and rebels lit up in fire. But the defensive mana blasters are also getting destroyed one after another.
After seven days the enemy warships landed in Illisium having destroyed most of the orbital mana blasters and the remaining warships of Ular. And war rages on the planet's surface. Spells are fired like water droplets in heavy rain. Corpse of the civilians and Magi taint the planetary surface red.
Krotos looks at the gruesome battlefield and groans and casts an area-wide spell aimed at the central column of the enemy.
Rumble!Rumble!Boom!
The central column of the Asir army goes into flames. Two generals fly away along their Magi guards.
'Krotos, it's over. Look around you. You are the last notable Magus of Illisium alive. We have surrounded you.' Asir Magnus Commander shouted.
'Icarus! What offer do you have for our surrender?'
'Full subjugation of Illisium. You Illisium dogs will sign mana slave contracts and work for Asir for eternity. In exchange, you will live. And whatever remains of your Magi corps will join the slave auxiliary of the Asir Magi Corps.'
Krotos knows death is better than this. For this exact scenario Doom protocol was initiated. Before that Krotos had smuggled a few talented acolytes using pirate networks of Lys Galaxy.
Krotos closes his eyes and hopes the legacy of Ular, Illisium stays alive through the acolytes. His children are also acolytes travelling with pirates, trying to run away from a fate worse than death.
'Nice joke Icarus. Now pay for your sins.'
Krotos starts burning through his lifeforce and activates the final sequence of the doom protocol.
All the mana in the world starts rushing to the gigantic rune that is spread like a spider web throughout Illisium.
Krotos smiles for the last time knowing Asir dogs will also lose one of their Magus Supreme Icarus. All the mana of Illisium is depleted activating the final sequence of the doom protocol.
Icarus and the rest of the Asir Magi try to fly off the planet but their spells fail because of no mana availability.
Rumble!Rumble! Boom! The planet's core erupts. The Illisium is no more. Scattered rocks are rotating around the east while Illisium. Big chunks of Illisium shoot towards different directions in space and tearing all the nearby warships of the Asir Army to dust.
Asir Mothership
'Captain! Ular dogs have blown up Illisium. Incoming space rocks!' shouted the radar officer Magus of the Asir Mothership.
'Activate the defence barrier to max and full thrust and rush towards the nearest wormhole'
'Yes, Captain.'
Boom boom.
Rock after rock keeps on hitting the Asir fleet. Only the mothership reaches the wormhole and zooms past to the nearest star system. The Great Asir war fleet is lost.
Sol Star System
'This is the Mothership of the Asir War Fleet, grant access'.
'Dock'.
Captain Zakari called the Grand Admiral of Asir and informed the devastating loss of the Asir warfleet.
'You are telling me that Magus Supreme Icarus is dead!!! And the entire fleet is lost!!!
Damm those Ular dogs!!!! In their doom, they also take out our entire war fleet!!!'
Grand Admiral Balcazar is dumbfounded.
'Repair the mothership in the Sol star system.'
'As you command my lord.'
Black Flag Pirate Fleet
The pirate fleet Black Flag is zooming past wormhole after wormhole and trying to get away from the Lys Galaxy as fast as possible. The news of the destruction of Illisium has reached the Black Flag. Two more wormholes and Black Flag will enter the Milky Way Galaxy. Onboard Captain Isaac is staring blankly into space. When he took the job of smuggling the acolytes of Illisium he thought it to be an easy job. But the easy job now turned into a nightmare. Asir has declared war on the entire Andromeda Galaxy and will not stop before it subjugates the entire Andromeda. So there is no going back for Black Flag and its crew.
Milky Way Galaxy
10 years after the annihilation of Ular and 2 years after the complete subjugation of the Andromeda Galaxy by the Asir Empire ——
The Black Flag fleet is the only surviving pirate fleet carrying the acolytes of Illisium to the end of the Milky Way galaxy. Its destination is a new exploration frontier of humankind the Southern sector of Eagle Claw Galaxy. But fate would have other plans for the survivors. By sheer coincidence, a mercenary fleet of the Asir Empire
docked in the same transit hub as Black Flag. And the captain of the mercenary crew recognised Black Flag. Soon a space battle follows. In the end, Black Flag and the mercenary fleet destroyed each other and got a burial on the inhabited planet Terra. And with it the last fire of the Ular Empire, the last hope of Illisium extinguished.