Qu-Martian War

Year: 264 CE

Qu-Martian War
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Date	264 CE
Location	Local Bubble
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Combatants
The Quhanim Martian Empire Yata Polsk Theian Republic
Commanders

As Mars and Humanity kept preparing for the Qu threat, a message was received from the Martian Outer Territories ~65 Lightyears away from Alpha Sol which reported that 'scout sightings' were becoming more and more common while sub-space scanners detected faint encrypted signals from massive ships ~150 Lightyears away, recommending that Mars and its protectorates build up for a defensive campaign effective enough to repel the attack as they believed that offensives would go nowhere, though they also noted that they couldn't be 100% certain of the situation and were still conducting research. Mars took this information after receiving it (and Polsk redirecting it to them despite them already having it) and kept arming itself while Polsk partially went against the advice and sent cloaked ships to the outer colonies to look for threats. Mars saw this as counterproductive, but Polsk claimed it had recovered the Terazene Crystal Miraak was inhabiting and planned on weaponising it on the Spear of Adun, which Mars saw as a fairly useful advancement at the face of a impending threat. Soon another message came in marked as an 'EMERGENCY', claiming that 'Qu' Scout Ships had crossed into Martian space and launched a series of attacks, necessitating immediate reinforcements which Mars and Polsk rushed to provide.

Polskan ships rushed to fight back against the Quhanim incursion while the Cybros fired where it could as Polsk entered a war economy. Freighters, Civilian Crafts, and outdated centuries-old war-ships were rushed into service as Martian scanners were taken down to the point that they weren't able to easily track where enemies were coming from. Polsk deployed 5 'Adun-Class Arc Ships', which when combined with the increasing number of defending ships managed to hold back the Qu while Martian scout-ships moved out to locate the Qu's bases. Polsk deployed its 'Golden Armada' to fight back against the enemy, while a garbled enemy message was intercepted and translated, which Mars and Polsk interpreted as an attack on Mars' "external communications" before another attack, prompting them to launch an offensive while the enemy was seemingly distracted. Qu ships circled the periphery of Martian space, allowing them to be pushed back once they moved through an area and ripped everything apart, destroying Mars' communications with the wider Galaxy. Another garbled enemy message was intercepted, though this one wasn't coherent enough to be interpreted beyond some kind of upcoming attack. Qu forces suddenly completely retreated while a garbled message suggested that they were moving 'southwest', prompting Polsk and Mars to send out various scouts, though they appeared not to be finding anything so they spread out in all directions until Mars eventually encountered a faint signal that the two moved to investigate.