Chapter Two: History Lesson
Postwar Cease Fire Documentary Report: June 12th, 3871
Thirteen-hundred years ago...our ancestors intervened in one of the largest conflicts mankind has ever been a part of, effectively plunging our past civilization into the conflict. The U.E.D.(United Earth Directorate), our ancestors sought to take control of and dominate all sentient life that inhabited the Koprulu sector. Including our distant cousins that left earth two-hundred years prior to the U.E.D. arrival. What followed was a disastrous defeat at the hands of the three powers that claimed the sector for their own.
After the defeat of Earth's greatest fleet and its commanders, the Zerg, led by the infested ghost, Sarah Kerrigan, tore through the dwindling remnants of the Protoss and small human factions that still inhabited the sector. With her enemies devastated to near extinction, Kerrigan set her sights on our former homeworld.
Earth had little warning of its coming destruction, save a final letter from, Admiral Dugalle, written to his wife before all contact with his fleet was lost. However, Kerrigan didn't consider how...tenacious life could be. Many of the humans and Protoss of Koprulu fled to the outer rims of the sector before the zerg swarms overtook the core worlds. United under the banner of survival, the largest Protoss/Terran alliance ever to be built within the sector made its way towards Earth in pursuit of the Zerg attack force, which consisted of half the Zerg Swarm and was led by the Queen of Blades herself.
What happened when the two massive forces reached the small blue planet are only spoken of in folklore as no images or documents of the battle were ever recorded save one shred of information. When it was clear that the Earth could not be saved the two forces that pursued the Zerg and the U.E.D. decided that the preservation of the human race took priority over the salvation of its homeworld. During the mass evacuation and retreat, the Protoss fired their most powerful purification beam straight into the center of the Earth, igniting the planet from within. The distraction was enough to catch the swarm off guard and allow the humans and Protoss a clear escape route. Once our ancestors reached the Koprulu sector, the alliances between the Protoss and human factions dissolved over the years.
Devastated and at a loss with hardly any purpose except survival, our ancestors, wanting to stay out of the affairs of the dominant factions within the sector set out on a second human pilgrimage through space and soon discovered Crynosis, a large habitable Earth-like planet. The fifth away from the massive life sustaining star that the leaders of the pilgrim fleet christened, Los*. Thus, the U.E.D. was no more and as several colonists spread out to even farther reaches of the sector, the Benevolent Colonial Defense Federation was born on Crynosis within the Los System. Three systems fell under the control of the B.C.D.F. with over twelve colony planets and moons.
The expansion of our forces was allowed through the small war that erupted throughout the core worlds of Koprulu. Shortly after the Protoss/Terran alliance returned to the sector, they were attacked by the remaining half of Kerrigan's swarm, led by her own personally created Cerebrate general, Germ. The war seemed to have no end, the death toll reaching the billions after only a few years. However, for the Zerg, a quick death is an inevitability, not something to fear. The mass produced insectoid creatures ravaged the bipedal Terrans and Protoss until suddenly...the fighting stopped. For five years after the ten year war there was an unexplained cease fire initiated by the Zerg that for some unknown reason, stopped attacking. Some speculate that this was due to the fact that Germ lost his psionic link with Kerrigan as she was killed on Earth during its destruction. The fact that the Zerg Cerebrate created many more of its kind in order to fuse with them and mutate into a newly formed Overmind made Kerrigan's death seem all the more likely. However, many believe that Germ, being so far away from his master for so long was simply unable to maintain the connection, and once he was free, decided to take control of the swarm on his own. Others believe Kerrigan decided to spread her swarm to the farther reaches of space beyond the Milky Way galaxy and left Germ with the charge of exterminating the remaining sentient life in Koprulu.
Whatever the reason...for a little over twelve-hundred years, our ancestors were mostly ignored even after the fighting continued amongst the warring factions. Although many military operations were unofficially carried out by our government in vague assistance of those that saved us from total annihilation over the last millennium, it wasn't until recently that the fighting finally broke out amongst our star systems. Now...as many have always known would happen through ancestral teaching, folklore, and the core world news signals some of our planets receive, the struggle for dominance within the Koprulu sector had come to our doorstep in the year 3799. This was our first Great War. Many smaller scale wars would follow until the second Great War, which began in the year 3856.
My job carried me through many battles and skirmishes throughout GW2. However, no one really knows how this conflict began. Some blame the Protoss, believing their ruthless methods for handling Zerg infestations were too devoid of compassion for human life. Others believe that one of the three dominant factions to take control of the human populace on the core worlds are at fault. I myself witnessed several strange occurrences that made me question my belief in our government. Recently, several classified military documents concerning the war were released by an unknown source. I quickly got a hold of them. In reading them I discovered a path to a hidden truth concerning the origins of the war. Every report and record concerning different military forces from Galden to Yotua all have one thing in common. The battlefield reconnaissance and eye witness accounts from each force all have records of an unidentified military faction that tore through the Koprulu Sector for a short period of time...then vanished. Not much is mentioned about the faction except one recurring reference to one man. A mercenary referred to only as, Dragon Lord.
I quit my job and decided to follow the war through this mercenary and those that knew him. I thought maybe this man could lead me to the hidden truth behind the war. The first reported account of Dragon Lord's existence was referenced by the Black Sparrows. The platoon was disbanded one year after the war began and most of its members lost their lives during The Battle of Gensea. This news discouraged me as I was certain that as with every story, the beginning is the best place to start. There were only a handful of accounts of Dragon Lord fighting alongside any military units within our government. I needed to find someone who was there when it all started. Someone who was there when Dragon Lord first appeared onto our battlefields.
Gavin Mathews...was one such person.
The former G.C.D.F. marine glanced up at the camera with an expression of indifference covering his face ready to relive the horror that was The Battle of Gensea. "It was a dark and dismal day..."
*Los: The U.E.D. along with the civilian pilgrims from the destroyed planet Earth named the Crynosis star, Los in remembrance of Sol. Los is Sol spelled backwards and many pilgrims felt the name was fitting as, Los is "lost" without the T.