The Dextroluma-Human War


The attack was unexpected to the dextroluma, although truthfully, humans for a while had been getting on edge worrying that some hothead might do something stupid - they just hadn’t thought that it would come from the government of one of the ambassadors there to try to acquire medical technology.

Accounts differ of what exactly happened.  The best account was given by the young then-Princess Iola - there was a meeting of her mother with the ambassadors.  They pressed for action, she said things were being worked on.  They said it was the same thing they’d heard for ten years and they were done waiting.  When she protested that wasn’t very long… they attacked.  They were armed, she was not.  They began killing other dextroluma, seemingly aiming to get to her, and her fiancé, Nero, raced with her to escape the Castle.  Initially, they tried to hide in the home of other dextroluma - but evidently, something had changed in the ambassadors’ minds, and the city began to be bombed.

Dextroluma tend to believe they are a peaceful species.  Although they have had fights for territory before, they have generally conducted it relatively… ‘politely’.  A battle place and time are agreed on where civilians will not be harmed, a battle is fought, and then it is over and the winner has either retained or gained the territory they wished.  While there have been other forms of war, they were not generally common - and even the worst never included bombing a territory they wished to seize.

Princess Iola, and the civilians she and Nero led from Harmony to flee the destruction, could only come to one conclusion - humanity had decided to eradicate the dextroluma species.

It didn’t take long for word to spread and for dextroluma to take action.  King Silvius had been on a diplomatic visit to Lunaris, and he soon came back to the ground, arriving in Haven to comfort his daughter and aid her in administrative duties - though there were whispers in Lunaris that their Royal had forced him.  Even as Iola assumed her role as Queen in Haven - a formerly sleepy town that now became her command post, as its magical barricade destroyed bombs dropped on it - the then-Queen of the Great Sea of Sand rousted all humans from her domain.  She was merciful, packing them onto their own starships with strict orders to never return to Aerius.  Not every dextroluma who tangled with humans was so kind - believing their species threatened so thoroughly, dextroluma took action according to their own belief and Queen Iola’s call to defend their planet.  The Captain of the Verdant Kingdom’s Royal Guard, Muramasa Kita - Nero’s father - was particularly not known for his mercy after he had to save his youngest children from the rubble of their home in Harmony.

Humans will typically note in their histories of the event that only a few nations of Earth had members in the ambassadors’ group, and only a few of those nations participated in the war.  Most nations considered it a problem of those ones, not of themselves.  Of course, even with hindsight, they still seem to forget that none of the ambassadors tried to negotiate with any Royals besides Deja.  (Even now, they believe that the Verdant Royal’s ability to remove or place new Royals in a position means the Verdant Royal is the only true ruler).  Both species have an unfortunate tendency to view one another as monoliths.

Galactica fought much of the war, keeping human starships away from Aerius.  On the ground of Aerius, the Verdant Kingdom, Swamplands, Emerald Ocean, Enchanted Vale, and Grand Flora Exchange saw most of the fighting.  Other regions were too inhospitable to humans for them to bother with - humans had never figured out how to survive in the Eternal Depths or even the Sky Barrier’s upper reaches.  Of course, this meant a number of nations were able to act as shelters for refugees, and to supply fighters, food, and medical care to the affected nations.

It had been a stupid plan, to stage a war on a planet without the full backing of their own planet.

Most of the ambassadors and most of the troops and assets their nations had supplied them with died, in the end.  When the last ones finally surrendered to dextroluma, they expected to be killed.  Instead, Queen Iola sent them back to Earth in disgrace.  She would not stoop to their level and fully betray the principles of her mother and people.  Her reign had started in blood by the choices of others, but she would not choose to perpetuate that beyond what was necessary to defend Aerius.  Not all approved of this, but it was nevertheless a clear message of the how she intended to conduct herself as a ruler.  She would not be as patient or soft as her mother - but neither would she let herself go in the direction of cruelty or pointless violence.


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