Ruoult History Part Seven: Age of War Begins
The Golden Age of the Ruoult Empire lasted for a few brief centuries, but in that time they had colonized hundreds of worlds around their home planet. And although they had already waged many battles in space so far, they have yet to stir the hive. While the Ruoults were rising technologically and advancing further throughout the stars, bordering with the Segmentum Pacificus was a rapidly rising Ork Empire. The existence of such an Empire was only rumored so far, but it was very real. Leading this Empire was a massive Ork with great strength and cunning intellect alike. He was known as Zogblast Da Loud by his Ork followers, which he had accumulated in bounds.
Due to fall of Federation of Men and decadence of Eldar, Orks were free to thrive and swell up in numbers. For many years, Zogblast was gathering Orks to his cause and sending raids to the edges of Civilized space, which would later retreat back to the Lair before any sizable counterattack could be made. He had amassed an untold number of billions, perhaps even trillions of Orks, with thousands of small planets under his control, and he was planning on turning his titanic WAAAGH! at the weakened Terra itself. The Segmentum Pacificus would be his first target, and since it was scarcely defended by dying Federation and was the one part of the Galaxy the Federation had the least control over, a WAAAGH! of that size would have been a catastrophe for all Mankind. But something else caught the Ork's eye.
While exploring further to the Galactic North, the Ruoult Empire had uncovered worlds belonging to Zogblast's Empire, and War began immediately. Due to the fact that the worlds held by Orks which were deeper in the Veiled Region were less defended than the ones closer to its edge, the Ruoults were able to achieve a streak of victories. Over the years, planet after planet, star after star, the Ruoults were freeing the Veiled Region from Ork infestation and had been able to further advance their military technologies to assist them. At one point, Zogblast realized that these Ruoults might become a nuisance if left unchecked. This was the reason for what was the longest and bloodiest war in Ruoult history.
Back on Muliv, Empress Out'Rargth had sensed that the Orks were planning to rally in massive numbers and start a full-blown invasion into Ruoult space. She had then ordered her men to ready themselves and from hundreds of worlds, millions of Ruoult warriors were sent to the front lines, amassing an army of great proportions. Out'Rargth had a plan; she would send small flotillas into Ork space which would take out smaller groupings and warbands, to prevent the Ork WAAAGH! from becoming too large and in turn cut them off from any resource shipments they would require. But she also instated that the Overseers should not be informed of this conflict and that the Ruoults would handle this themselves. She believed that if she brought the Overseers into this conflict, the Orks would target them as well, wiping out the last children of Avalon from the Galaxy.
At one side, the Ork Warboss Zogblast would be gathering his hordes in mass numbers and many ships would be assembled for his WAAAGH! On the other, the Empress Out'Rargth had ordered a great fleet of a hundred thousand vessels to be gathered at one point, an asteroid belt named Per'Na. There, the Ruoults would set a base of operations, and send out their raider flotillas to weaken the Orks. The Greenskins had followed these small incursions to that one point, where the Ruoults struck viciously. The hulking and clumsy Ork warships could not keep up with the agile and maneuverable Ruoult cruisers inside the asteroid belt and the Ruoult Armada was winning. But as the days went by, more and more Orks would gather there, and more and more battles had to be fought. At the end, the Ruoults were simply overwhelmed by the numbers, and the First Frontier had fallen. For every Ruoult ship lost, four or five Ork ships were taken out as well, but the Orks were still victorious there. After losing, Empress Out'Rargth had declared the Nak'Ymaaz over, and instead, a new age would dawn, one of havoc and bloodshed. From M26 onwards, there would be Nak'Qrakag, the Age of War.