Ewoche Genocide

After observing the Nebaz from afar for millennia, the Ewoche Empire is at first shocked, and then horrified, when the androids launch a merciless genocide on the Ewoche Empire and its citizens. Despite its size, the Ewoche Empire is no match against the overwhelming power of the Nebaz. World after world fall to ruin. Despite the odds, the Ewoche fight for their very existence. Plans are drafted to build a super weapon capable of matching the Nebaz. Construction of the super weapon begins immediately in the solar system now known as the Zran solar system.

After nearly 50 years of clandestine work, Ewoche resistance fighters complete the construction of a super weapon capable of standing up to the Nebaz. The weapon would come to be known as the Worldbreaker by the civilised species of the star cluster. Despite the weapon’s capabilities, the Ewoche are never able to use it. The Worldbreaker requires an immense amount of power to fire. It had been built near Zran in hopes of absorbing its solar energy. However, even after a decade of solar energy absorption, the Worldbreaker’s crystals have not accumulated enough power to present a real threat to the Nebaz. The Ewoche Empire had also long fallen, and the Ewoche that remained are being hunted down and exterminated by the Nebaz. As such, the Ewoche decide to abandon the Worldbreaker, with the hope they’ll be able to come back to it at some point in the future. The space station is so close to Zran that it is nearly undetectable, and so the Ewoche do not fear its safety.

After nearly a century of genocide, the Ewoche are almost entirely wiped out, with less than 100,000 left alive. Most go underground, hoping to keep the Ewoche civilisation alive in some fashion. Only one such attempt succeeds. One of the large underground communities of Ewoche, desperate and willing to sacrifice everything, undertakes an experimental procedure to grant ever-lasting life to its members. The procedure had almost been perfected before the Nebaz attacked. In its current state, the procedure is just as likely to kill its subjects as to grant them eternal youth. What’s more, anyone who undergoes the procedure would be sterilised. Seeing no other option, many Ewoche undergo the procedure. A small number perish in the process. Those that don’t are forever changed, requiring extensive cyberware to stay alive.

Ewoche survivors go into hiding, safe with the knowledge that, though the Ewoche Empire was no more, the few Ewoche that remained would have as much time as they needed to devise a way to stop the Nebaz. Some Ewoche believe the best way to do this is to help uplift new civilised species, while others think it best to wait for another interstellar empire strong enough to oppose the Nebaz. Regardless, the Ewoche have become all but extinct, leaving nothing but ruins and abandoned underground facilities as their legacy.