Timeline: The HyperGate Wars

Event: The HyperGate Wars

When: 5000 BCT (Before Current Time)

What: A series of 10 Wars spanning 500 years  involving various races or factions trying to control the HyperGates within the Galaxy, during a time when government were trying to connect the galaxy completely through them.

Starting in 5000 BCT, the first HyperGate War was a small skirmish really, not much of what the later wars would entail. A small group of freighter pilots on a small world launched a suicide mission on the single HyperGate within the small system of Uta. The First Worlds Republic was putting heavy taxes on the goods coming in and out of the Uta system and the people had enough of the tyranny the government was displaying. Within two days the freighter crews had completely captured the HyperGate and connecting control tower, but could not shut the Gate off from the network. Three days later the Republic ships entered the system and took back the Gate, squashing the hopes of the people within the system. However defeated they might have been, their cause ignited a fervor across the galaxy.

Fifty years passed before events within the Galaxy before the Second HyperGate War occured. a group of small planets in the Cratis Systems banded together their small militaries and took out the Republic ships guarding the HyperGate there. For thirty years they lasted holding off the system, attacking any ships coming through the Hypergate. However due to limited recources within the system, the planets began to fight amongst themselves for control. During the chaos of the small inter-planetary wars, the Republic swept in and took control of the Gate and the Worlds.

After the events of the Cratis systems, various small factions built up and tried to accomplish what they did. While none of them were large enough to qualify as a war, the accumilation of these skirmishes (around 100) caused historians to link the next 47 years as the Third Hyperspace War.

The next HyperGate War was not a war over the HyperGates in general, but trading routes and access points being discussed at the time provoked the Senarri race retreating form the First Worlds Republic, in which they took control of over 1/3 of the Space Navy and retreated to their corner of the Galaxy. Over the next 15 years the Senarri pushed out from their controlled worlds, defeating the Republic one battle after the next. However the Senarri were betrayed by one of their leaders and the Republic was able to defeat them in one final blow. Over the next five hundred years the Senarri had to work their way back up to join the rest of the galaxy in the governing body, even then considered like second class citizens.

The Fifth Hypergate War involved a planet secretly building their own HyperGate, linking it to the system network without the Republic knowing. Once they established this connection, they blew up the previous Hypergate, effectively cutting off the rest of the galaxy from them. The Republic was content to leave the system out in the voids of space until pirate ships from the same system started using their Gate to attack travelling freighter ships. Hijacking one such pirate ship, a crew of Republic commandoes entered the lost system and returned it back to the Republic, giving the access codes for the new Gate as well.

Not much is known of the Sixth, Seventh, and Eigth HyperGate Wars. Little was recorded about them other than that they occurred, each trying to accomplish what happened within the fifth war. None actually succeded in building a new hypergate but one system, the Nellis system, did destroy it's hypergate. No ships to this date have been sent to help return the world to the galaxy, the worlds status is unknown.

The Ninth HyperGate War was a secret war, a political war. Over twenty years soldiers, crews, and high ranking officers from a select number of races and worlds secretly formed a new government within the old Republic, calling themselves the Confederate Worlds Alliance. Through use of the military and governmental funds, the secret CWA was able to build hidden inactive HyperGates , waiting for the day to be connected to the network of worlds. At the end of the political turn over, the CWA announced itself and broke away from the Republic stating that the tyranny of the previous government needed to end. Not wanting to start a war, the Republic spent years trying to bring back the CWA worlds. While trying to attempt this, they were losing many worlds and peoples to the CWA.

After another ten years of trying, the Republic had enough and fired the first shots against civilian ships trying to flee to the CWA. With a new low brought to the Republic, the CWA initiated all the hidden HyperGates and attacked the Republic. The Tenth and final Hypergate War was a civil war amongst the galaxy, lasting over 50 years. The CWA had the upper hand because of their secret hypergates, in which the FWR tried to create new ones, but just couldn't do so in time. Eventually the Republic lost and the rest of the galaxy was brought under the CWA's rule.

After this, the CWA reconnected all the old and new hypergates together and turning them into a free intergalactic travelway, unlike the Republic which saw the HyperGates as a vast money making tool.