Talk:Battles of the Magnate War

Thoughts on a generalized timeline

• 2100s: More and Delten strike up friendship; both are relatively outcast and isolated from the human sphere due to their flouting of various UN and international resolutions dating from the 'Crazy Years'.
• 2130s: The extremist Omaran sect of the exhumanist 'Adharans' are losers in a civil war. UN intervention seeks a mediated peace and ultimately the Omarans depart on the old colonial arc for a world where they may be more accepted; More.
• 2130s-2150s: Omarans fail to socially integrate on More, though their operating principles are similar. Occasional threats of military action to force the recalcitrant worlds of Delten and More reinforce a bunker mentality.
• 2151: The Breakdown hits.
• 2151-2156: 'War Faction' on More, primarily lead by the Omarans reconditions the colony arc for aggressive war to acquire resources and a buffer zone in case of a Core-led attack at some future; its first-generation jump drive, while slow, remains functional. Mark I-III combat bioroids constructed.
• 2157: The 'Mothership' arrives in orbit over Gimlet, a system near dust-bereft More. The sudden landing of over a hundred thousand light infantry completely overwhelms the locals. The Omarans debark and announce their New Dawn.
• 2158-2163: War prep. More and Delten's small stock of first-gen freighters are clad in additional armor for protection and fitted with drop pods.
• 2164: Hyperborea is attacked, with the Mothership deploying 140,000 Mk II and III combat clones in expendible re-entry pods. The relatively rustic world takes several years to properly be conquered by the steady advance of the soldiers.
• 2165: Fourth Expansion Fleet arrives in Nidaros. Early gainst on the temperate world but a swift and decisive ZOCU counterattack hands the Magnates an ugly loss of almost 1/4rd of their non-Mothership spacelift.
• 2166: League officially incorporated after couriered discussions and reports of the sudden attacks.
• 2167-2170: Various landings on worlds including Van der Teega, Finnegan's Folley and Sarreva. Landing forces are supplemented by some vehicles but the primary forces remain Dawn-designed bioroid soldiers. Initial landings seek to capture factories and production infrastructure.
• 2170-2177: War of planetary attrition as both sides roll out weapons on the surface using local production. First generation of Mk II bioroids reaches senescence and is expended in suicide diversionary attacks on rear-area League worlds - ultimately to little effect. The League frantically attempts to ramp up its defenses, industry and weapon output. Most spacelift dedicated to surface assets to hold defensive lines.
• 2178-2179: League begins spacelifting in-system gunships into contested systems as lines stabilize over time, eventually stemming the intermittent flow of Magnate reinforcements coming from offworld.
• 2180: Reconnect. Solomonic Ceasefire.