First Lauresh War

After years of hostility over the border worlds between the two powers, the Lauresh Imperium would invade the Human Federation in the year 2,642, beginning what was known then as the Federation-Lauresh War, and what is known now as the First Lauresh War. The invading Lauresh would swiftly crush the human defenders as they carved a path toward the Federation capital of Earth. The Human Federation would splinter during the invasion, as planets held back their forces from the frontline to defend themselves from a potential invasion. This resulted in the Federation Government invading the member planet of Tirrinough in an unsuccessful bid to gain the military resources it withheld for personal defense. This would ensure that the Lauresh could easily defeat the divided Federation forces, and invade and conquer Earth, ending both the war and the Human Federation.

Buildup to War
As the Human Federation continued to explore the local sector of the Galactic Mass and incorporate new worlds into mankind's sphere of control, contact was made with scouts of the neighboring Lauresh Imperium late in the year 2,571 within the newly discovered Burridaca Subsector. The Imperium was highly aggressive in it's expansion strategy, with the lack of Gateway Stations within the subsectors of native Lauresh worlds having funneled the Lauresh towards the equally expansionist Human Federation. The initial encounters were relatively peaceful, as neither side had the population or military resources to hold entire planets against the other. However, as human and Lauresh colonists continued to flood into the Subsector through it's two Gateway Stations, conflict was seen on both sides as inevitable.

Small border clashes, between squads of scouts, became relatively common in the frontier Subsector, as both sides began a gradual buildup of military forces Subsector. In the year 2,641, Military intelligence, gathered by scouts located in the Subsector, had alerted the Federation's Secretary of Warfare as to the superior technology of the Lauresh Military, and that when war broke out, only a surprise attack by Humanity would have any chance of a positive outcome for the Federation. The Secretary would immediately order fleets to the rallying planet of Tirrinough, in order to prepare for the attack.

However, the Lauresh had detected the military buildup over the next several months, their superior technology revealing the increase in movements between real space and the Horizon Plane. Seeing the large movements of material to a Human planet within the Burridaca Subsector, the Lauresh leaders ordered an immediate attack on the Federation, and in 2,642, the fleets of the Lauresh Imperium would flood the Federation's Frontier worlds.

Federation Attack on Tirrinough
Desperate for military resources to defend itself against the coming Lauresh onslaught, the Federation would issue an order to Tirrinough - prepare the fleet still in orbit to be sent to the front lines. The leaders of TIrrinough, seeing as it would leave their planet defenseless, refused to begin the movement of the warships. The Federation, it's army and navy pushed to the limits, would conference on Earth, with the Secretary of Warfare ordering the immediate invasion of Tirrinough using anything the Federation had available, including previously mothballed fleets sent for scrap. Federation forces would exit the Horizon Plane within the Tirrinough System in 2,644, and immediately prepare a siege of the planet. Tirrinough, being the Federation's forward operations base within the Burridaca Subsector, was well defended, with all the resources to protect itself in the event of a Lauresh invasion. When Federation ships began exiting the Horizon Plane above the atmosphere of Tirrinough, the planet's defensive mechanisms were given the order to fire. Orbital Defense platforms, defensive fleets, and ground-based weaponry would immediately open fire on the Federation ships, whose weapon systems were still inoperable, due to the interference in electrical systems caused by the Horizon Plane.

Seeing that the Federation forces stationed on the planet had allied themselves with Tirrinough rather than the Federation as was predicted, the invading force suffered heavy losses. Seeing the large amounts of unoccupied warships still sitting in drydock, waiting to be recaptured and once again support the war effort against the Lauresh, who were making large gains despite fierce Federation resistance, the invaders pushed on, eventually securing the Gateway Station and preparing to break the defensive lines and land on the planet. Over the next 2 weeks, the battle continued, as the well entrenched Tirrinough forces ensured that for every Tirrinough ship destroyed, four Federation vessels became burning hulls around it. When Federation forces finally had created a breach in the defensive ring and had established a beachhead on the planet's surface, the invasion force had been worn down significantly. Skeleton and automated crews had ensured that almost all of the Federation vessels in storage and drydock had been taken to the far side of the system, safe from the invading forces. The Lauresh forces, seeing the opportunity of a distracted Federation, had circumvented Tirrinough, instead striking through the less fortified Northern region of the Federation, and was closing in on the Terra System. Panicked populations on Earth, Venus, and Mars were putting a strain on the military and police forces there, fighting back against the riots and organized attacks on the governmental structure. The ground war on Tirrinough was looking to be even more of a challenge, as the defenders had fortified the area surrounding the Federation beachhead, resulting in limited progress and a very high casualty rate for the invaders. It was now clear that the Federation was in a horrible situation - a situation the Lauresh Imperium was soon going to end.

First Battle of Earth
The Lauresh forces would appear from Gateway Station Alpha in late 2,644, and immediately begin tearing through the depleted fleets in orbit around Earth.

Second Lauresh War
Almost a millennia later, the first Emperor of the Human Imperial Alliance, Agrica Karvan, would destroy the Lauresh Imperium during the Second Lauresh War, with mankind claiming victory in the end.