Total Annihilation : The War in Space
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	Most warfare in the first 6 millenia of the ARM/CORE conflict concentrated around galactic gates. In fact, all warfare did. Commanders could single-handedly conquer worlds by passing through these gates. However, for travel, galatic gates are very energy-inefficient and very restricted. Space travel up until this point had not progressed much beyond the space shuttle. With no efficient form of moving through space at reasonable speeds, real colonisation by space travel could not be achieved. Hence why galactic gates were used.
	However, late during the 5th millenium of the war, the peroid known as the Bloodwars, the ARM stumbled across some DNA which had been thought lost forever. The DNA of the greatest ARM scientist who had ever lived - even more brilliant than the combined Central Consciousness. With their recent cloning enhancements due to the Bloodwars, ARM immediately set about cloning the DNA. 
	CORE covert intelligence found out about the ARM's discovery, and CORE made an immediate attack on the base where the DNA was being cloned. Even though the ARM managed to repulse the CORE attack, much damage was inflicted on the base. Only 1 clone had been created, and for some reason, its DNA was unable to be cloned further. ARM immediately set the clone to work.
	Something must have happened during the attack, or when the scientist died, because the clone could recall absolutely everying he had been working on in his previous incarnation - including work on a new form of intergalatic transport that would make galatic gates and Commanders obselete. ARM realised the potential of this, and diverted all of its resources to this project.
	Again, CORE intelligence managed to discover what the ARM was upto, and immediately used knowledge gained by its spies to start its own project. A new 'Space Race' had begun - but this time it would lead to the colonisation of the stars themselves.
	ARM managed to make the breakthrough first, several decades after the space race had begun. Discovered by using elements of the D-Gun, the galactic gate and parts off a recently captured Krogoth, and combining them with an old fusion-based rocket, an amazing thrust ratio was achieved, with equally amazing acceleration. Inertial dampeners were immediately fitted to a modified Hawk fighter, and the new propuslion system installed. The pilot climbed in and left the planet in, literally, a flash. The fighter started at the outer rim of the ARM territory, and was aiming for Emperrion Prime. Galactic gate travel would require about 10 trips, each with several weeks inbetween, taking, in total, about 15-20 weeks.
	The fighter arrived after about two weeks. ARM immediately started the construction of a new space fleet. At the dawn of the 6th millenium of the war, the ARM finally made the breakthrough that could end the war! Or at least break the current deadlock.
	This was something ARM propaganda played up, and the CORE soon found out about it. Realising their project was several years behind the ARM's, and after 'decommisioning' those involved in the failed attack earlier, the CORE launched an all-out attack against the main ARM fornt-line research base. Although they didn't capture a fully working version of the system, they found out about its construction and development. Thousands of Krogoths were dismantled, and their parts reused. A few years after ARM had taken steps into space, the CORE caught up.
	Planetary warfare almost ceased entirely. Garrison forces were the only forces seen on each side's planets. At the same time of the CORE offensive, ARM had created the Arc Cannon. Based on the D-Gun, the Arc Cannon led to planets becoming targets. Whole bases could be wiped out in a single blast from this mighty weapon. By now, the ARM had a fairly substanial fighter force. Capital ships were rarely seen until the appearance of the Paladin Arc Destroyer. The first true capital ship, its Arc Cannon laid waste to more CORE bases than the ARM had destroyed during the whole war. The CORE immediately responded with the Archangel, twice the power of the Paladin in the same sized package. The ARM realised the direction the CORE was taking with its ships, and started to refine and further strengthen its fighter forces. The CORE started building bigger and bigger ships. With the invention of the Blaster Cannon, even capital ships weren't safe. ARM built bigger ships in turn, but only to prevent itself being outclassed. The ARM concentrated on its fighters once more, and also started to build frigate-class ships - aimed at lending some more force to its fighter fleets, while being able to keep up with them. CORE ignored this hidden threat, until its capital ships started falling to these fleets.
	Xenox Industries, a more or less unknown CORE faction came to their rescue. They had invented a new weapon, the Rapier Cannon, which could help CORE annihilate ARM's fighters. Open to any suggestion, the CORE immediately commissioned the Rocker Crusier, armed with the new Rapier Cannons, along with several frigates, most notabley the Xenox Tracker and Destructor. However, ARM's forces did not faulter. They had also created Rapier Cannons, almost identical to Xenox Industries'. Their Rapier Class Destroyers tore through the Xenox frigates while frigates delt with the cruisers - and then the fighters closed for the kill. Xenox Industries came up with the solution once again - the Xenox Gunner and Xenox Cutlas. These ships evened the score...for a while.
	CORE never chose to act on its fighter inferiority - instead relying on its superior capital ships. Then they got the shock of their lives - the Starwing. A few years after the introduction of the Xenox Gunner, the ARM had discovered an alien wreck on a dead planet. After closer inspection, the ARM discovered that it had a small solid shielding system, capable of increasing the survivablity of a small area many times over. It was the perfect system that the ARM required. The Starwing was born with the shielding system installed. Although it has almost no armour, allowing it to achieve increadable speeds, it could survive the hail of fire thrown at it by the Xenox Cutlas and Xenox Gunner. The ARM also created the carriers - extending the reach of its fighter fleets, so they could now operate effectively in deep space.
	From then on, the war did nothing but escalate.........