The Great War

As far as reports from the time inicate, the conflict quickly excalated to total war, with a dozen species all throwing their available arsenels at each other with abandon. On planets, moons, asteroids, and beyond the veil of mortal existence. Weapons ranged from standard bombs and guns, to localized blackholes and fusion weapons.   Ironically, the opening salvos of the war contained more of the later and proved effective enough to destroy the abilities of each species to continue such warfare. Those first terrible moments of the war may have been enough to save the Solar System as a whole.

As the war came to it's end a great silence stretched out between all sides. Even the haughtiest species were all aware of the stature they were reduced to and what had been lost in the fighting. They all retreated to lick their wounds as best they can. LIttle contact was made between the species at this point, and marks the beginning of the Graveyard Time, which would only come to an end as species started to tentatively interact with each other one again, for positive or negative.   Many of the Higher Order individuals of each species were outright killed, while others have been greatly reduced in power or have gone missing completely. The structures of power, the literal not the societal, that each species maintained were almost universally damaged to a degree that their function is incredibly reduced. Many of the individuals that operated these systems are killed in the fighting and are unable to teach apprentices or write down their operations, leaving several species lost on the true extent of these power structures, and bereft of the ability to trul fix them.

The paracausal abilities of each species were effectively crippled, even in the best of outcomes. This loss, as well as the loss of technological advancement and the severing of connection to colonies both within the Solar System and without. The status of extra-solar human colonies is unknown, and many of the home planets of the participating species are known to have suffered even when they were spared direct fighting upon their surface.

The ruins of the war are still apparent across the whole of the solar system. Bunker complexes and tenches can be found on every planet with a surface. Those that don't bear the remains of massive fleats. Floating in the dark, or becoming massive amalgamations.