Discussion A New Star War

[Vazela]

I think it is fair to say that Invasion season is in full swing on the board.

Currently Coruscant is being invaded by the Galactic Empire as the Dark-Imperials pick up from where they left off against the Galactic Alliance. I know that the Sith Order were planning there own invasion (on the GA) after the Junction at Endor was concluded and conversely the Imperial Confederation will be posting an OOC sign-up for an upcoming invasion thread for the Thandon Star Cluster superhex.

Also the Diarchy have expressed interest in getting involved in war posting after growing their cloud and community since they went major at the end of 2024. They look ready to go and I love that. The map game is vibrant and communities have risen up left or right with thanks to the Freedom of Nation's flashpoint (kudos to Tefka and his staff team). Even the Black Sun are about to begin invading the High Republic at Sepan. Everyone is at it or ready too. It's a wonderful time to be writing on this board.

Since my return to the website I have heard time and again how it was such a wonderful time on Chaos when The Second Great Hyperspace War was live. Multiple factions all over the map going at it in a war for the ages which redefined the board and formed an unprecedented era that is still felt today. I believe it is time for a new Star War to come about in story thirty in-character years after TSGHW.

The Core Wars from last year, alongside other smaller conflicts along the Outer Rim (Mandalorian Enclave attack on Naboo, ACO attack on Enarc, TAC rebellion vs. EOTL), can be cited as the smaller campaigns and conflicts which have now erupted into a larger, full on Star War comprising of all the major factions going at it for their own agendas.

Let's discuss this and see where the community is on this.

 

[Vemric Keldra]

Bit of an error correction - Enclave didn't attack Naboo, the Neo-Crusaders did. It was the Plasma Wars between NEO and RNR.

And though I can sort of get behind giving all these conflicts across theatres an overarching name akin to World War - there's really not a lot of options to name it, I feel personally. You can either go for Great Galactic War or just a Third Great Hyperspace War tbh. And with the legacy that SGHW had left, it might feel like a poor imitation of it to do it again.

 

[Darth Malum of House Marr]

Wait a minute... the Stars are going to war?

Anyway my proposal is following the Elfin Lord, the Great Galactic War goes supremely hard.

 

[Darth Trayus]

The Great Galactic War goes really really hard. Book it!

I look forward to corrupting.

 

[Razmir Tezhyn]

star WARS

I love these types of stories. I'm more than down to help organize. Thank you for throwing this idea out there.

 

[Vazela]

My bad Vemric Keldra . Thank you for the correction.

The Great Galactic War does go hard. What is the catalyst event for it being a war including everyone rather than the various conflicts being their own thing? Think WW1 when Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.

 

[Darth Malum of House Marr]

My bad Vemric Keldra . Thank you for the correction.

The Great Galactic War does go hard. What is the catalyst event for it being a war including everyone rather than the various conflicts being their own thing? Think WW1 when Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.

Unfortunately I do not think we have reached the stage of the conflicts being interconnected enough to actually call it something like this yet. You pointed it out in your post, GA is fighting the GE and SO, the THR is fighting TBS, TIC will soon be fightig the SO, and Diarchy and Mandos as far as I know (though anyone over there feel free to correct me), have not begun their major war arcs yet.

The alliance connections like with the IRL Entente and Central powers just don't yet exist for the wars to all be merged, and not just coincidentally at this moment there be a lot of war.

Though in saying this, and I speak of this purely on the "cool" factor, without the precedent or context of what this board has been through in the past... I think straight up alliances between Majors would be really cool to forment that kind of Great Galactic War.

 

[Vemric Keldra]

My bad Vemric Keldra . Thank you for the correction.

The Great Galactic War does go hard. What is the catalyst event for it being a war including everyone rather than the various conflicts being their own thing? Think WW1 when Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.

This is why I voiced concern in throwing it all under one banner.

As having been part of planning and taking part in SGHW from start to finish, I can tell you there is a lot of work that goes into something like it. It's not a quick thing and there was some exhaustion at the end of it all.

Honestly and personally, the various conflicts across the board are a bit too unrelated to one another to actually blanket under one thing. However, if the community all want this, I'd suggest to maybe take the rebellion of Kuat and Balmorra and the attack on Coruscant now as the catalyst of said war. I also suggest discussing this with all factions involved as it does require everyone to work together on it. Everyone balling OOC while duking it out with each other IC is the only reason SGHW was as successful as it was. GE can be a good overall badguy that funds other axis forces like Black Sun for example, based on their upcoming invasion with High Republic. Another dark horse like ME or Diarchy coming in as third parties could also work, but once again I stress discussion with and cooperation of all that could or would want to be involved. It has the potential to be a grand thing, but an energy pulse needs to be checked if folks would be willing to take something like that on again. A lot of the folks involved in the conflicts now, were part of SGHW oversight and might not have the drive to do go through that rodeo again.

 

[Darth Trayus]

Since conflicts are not directly connected....I agree that it would be weird to call it as such.

However! With the amount of conflicts that have risen in the galaxy recently you could have this be the first stage towards something that covers entire galaxy.

Call it Great Galactic Anarchy. Galaxy is destroying itself trough the constant wars and it's somewhat lawless.

Eventually if for example groups ally up and gang up on a faction and that faction gets an ally you switch it from Great Galactic Anarchy to Great Galactic War.

I am still very very new so I am just saying what comes to my mind.

 

[Vazela]

As a moderator from the Imperial Confederation I am down to co-operate with other faction staff to create such a Star War using pre-existing storylines to serve as conflicts in the larger war. But I could be a minority and other writers, factions and their staff might want to keep to themselves which is fair.

 

[Mishel]

If I recall the Great Galactic War was fought with the FO vs GA, with bits of an older GE faction, and the 10th Sith Empire known as The Sith Empire that helped bring the old GA down. That I believe culminated in Endgame when Taeli Raaf then Grandmaster of the NJO revealed herself as a Sith Lord.

So technically we'd be going for the Great Galactic War II, electric boogaloo or some jazz like that.

Anyway all for it.

 

[Vazela]

I am also of the opinion that if the wider community does want a storyline then faction staff should feel obligated to give everyone what they want, so if you do want such a site wide storyline, then make your voice heard.

 

[Diarch Reign]

I can chime in here at least to lend some info to the Diarchy side of things.
Darth Malum of House Marr a slight correction, the Diarchy and TIC are friendly currently, and if wanted we would actually probably help them in their invasion of the Holy Worlds.

The Diarchy exists to lead up to what they call the "final war" so while realistically we aren't a big enough powerhouse (yet ) to warrant everyone coming after us, we do have friends within the TIC and a mercenary contract with the ME. I'm sure narratively we could form some other alliances pretty easily.

I would believe that with us declaring open hostilities with the GE, the Sith, and Jedi it could be done as long as other people were willing to jump in. But the GE invasion of the Core, the Sith going back at it with the GA, and everything like that has given us a want to tussle as well.

I would be more than open for jolly cooperation, I think the powder keg is there, we just need to find a way to light it up.

 

[Alan]

If you’re a major faction you ain’t safe, wars baby wars

 

[Diarch Reign]

Unfortunately I do not think we have reached the stage of the conflicts being interconnected enough to actually call it something like this yet. You pointed it out in your post, GA is fighting the GE and SO, the THR is fighting TBS, TIC will soon be fightig the SO, and Diarchy and Mandos as far as I know (though anyone over there feel free to correct me), have not begun their major war arcs yet.

The alliance connections like with the IRL Entente and Central powers just don't yet exist for the wars to all be merged, and not just coincidentally at this moment there be a lot of war.

Though in saying this, and I speak of this purely on the "cool" factor, without the precedent or context of what this board has been through in the past... I think straight up alliances between Majors would be really cool to forment that kind of Great Galactic War.

This made me start noodling some stuff around even more.
Now to work on consolidating an alliance lol

 

[Kitter Bitters]

I believe it is time for a new Star War to come about in story thirty in-character years after TSGHW.

Has it really been 30 IC years since TSGHW? Or are you suggesting a time jump?

 

[Vazela]

Kitter Bitters

From the writing I have observed from participants on the war TSGHW happened sometime in the 860s to early 870s so it has been around 30 years with the current year (on the timeline) being 902 ABY.

 

[Kitter Bitters]

Kitter Bitters

From the writing I have observed from participants on the war TSGHW happened sometime in the 860s to early 870s so it has been around 30 years with the current year (on the timeline) being 902 ABY.

Man, where has the time gone? Is it possible to feel old IC? lol

 

[Ingrid L'lerim]

A big thing like that would be really cool at some point, because SGHW was epic (no T in it to be exact).

True, since then Chaos has become very different than it was then. There was no other invasion for more than a year or a year and a half before the current GE invasion and the last one was also from the DE. Maybe the current players would burn out quickly or not be able to recover. If we are going to do something this big, it would be good to built up slowly to minimize the burnout.

 

[Tefka]

I love the enthusiasm but can I make a suggestion, and I'm not trying to take away or diminish anything.

Can we please stop trying to script World War 2's arrival on Chaos? Like, again. You guys always do this. Like, even more than me being the "war" admin, I'm the "organic roleplay" admin. If you keep trying to rope everyone into scripting the arrival of the Golden Age, we will never get in a @#$%ing golden age. Stop trying to be the leading narrative voices - let it unfold organically.

The Second Great Hyperspace War was fun, but it was 1000% reliant on certain individuals leading the narratives. This is not good. Of course you always need narratives, but Chaos is built around empowering multiple, even dozens of groups of narratives all at once. If you want to invade someone, just @#$%ing invade them. Don't wait for the Third Great Hyperspace War committee to act like they have jurisdiction, don't wait for the GA or SO leadership to buy off on it, just @#$%ing announce "we're invading you, we're aiming for this timeslot" and push for it.

Invasions bring activity. The smartest Major Factions are planning them. Major Factions that don't want to die to a activity check are performing them. They will continue to do this, regardless of some overarching "Big Era" storyline that players always seem to want but always fail to help do the work for.