War of the Necrovoid
The necromancer Avtrax Huevin aquired a large void ship cruiser by conquest with his zombified fungal army. From this cruiser he set out to try to create an empire of his own. He conquered the Draconid settlements on the Moon Gheloer (Gorel's only Moon), and established a stonghold to the west of the Henderent Plains. In addition he captured a rouge planetoid and tried to set it in orbit around Gorel as a second small moon. After the war the Draconid settlements were abandoned and some became the sites of future Elvish and Dwarvish settlements.
The Conflict
Battlefield
The final battle took place on the planetoid Letum, in the palace of Bone. Here Avtrax had created a series of Mystic Engines to fuel his voidships and allow his slaves to equip his undead fungai with weapons for invasion. Three strike teams and a war force were able to slip between the defenses. One strike team created a portal to allow a small army into the palace. One targeted the Mystic Engines, and another strike team tried to kill Avtrax.
The strike team attempting to kill Avtrax was successful, but as a final act of defiance Avtrax started the engines movement to crash the planetoid down to Gorel. The strike team in charge of portals began to evacuate, while the one targeting the mystic engines endeavored to alter the course of the planetoid. They were in the end successful by creating an explosion that took out the team and destroyed half the planetoid and changed it's course into that of a comet as it screamed past Gorel. This new comet has returned every few hundred years to cause troubled times.
The strike team attempting to kill Avtrax was successful, but as a final act of defiance Avtrax started the engines movement to crash the planetoid down to Gorel. The strike team in charge of portals began to evacuate, while the one targeting the mystic engines endeavored to alter the course of the planetoid. They were in the end successful by creating an explosion that took out the team and destroyed half the planetoid and changed it's course into that of a comet as it screamed past Gorel. This new comet has returned every few hundred years to cause troubled times.
Outcome
The battle succeded in destroying the invading army. The damage to the mystic engines created a permanent rift of negative energy on the comet, destroyed the spells that made the comet habitable for normal creatures, and left a wriggling mass of necromantic fungi growing on the underside of the planetoid.
Aftermath
It's irregular orbit takes it past the Three Sisters, Gorel and Mizuni. When it gets close a trail of zombie fungal spores rain down on the planets. These spores mostly die on entry into the atmosphere, but a few make it to ground and grow into fungal zombies as they infect dead tissues.
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