With the defeat of their most experienced crews and a majority of their strength, the Kig-Yar Matriarchs were now in full panic, with no true navy to defend themselves and the younglings training in the newly established naval academies, there was absolutely no way to stop the onslaught of their enemy.
Reluctantly, they began the evacuation of the planet, with the youngest females given priority in order for the Kig-Yar to survive, using Freighters captured from raids, they saved what materiel they could while every weapons were stripped and installed to the nearby asteroids in hopes of slowing down the enemy.
Credits were pooled by several clans, hard earned cash from plundering merchant ships, selling countless lives into slavery and fighting in corporate wars as mercenaries, and were used to buy additional ships, weapons and hire whoever mercenaries they can afford.
Fortunately for them, the Unggoy were advancing slower than they ever imagined, thanks to capturing several star charts and maps at Eiza, they were able to locate all of the systems held by the Kig-Yar and the Relays to reach them. The Kig-Yar homeworld was also located, but fearing reinforcements from the other planets should they attack without first defeating these worlds.
Although unknown at the time, the Kig-Yar never had a navy to begin with and simply depended on their pirate crews to defend their worlds, would the Unggoy had known this fact, they would have dashed towards Eayn and the Kig-Yar race will be no more.
Instead, the Matriarchy simply abandoned its colonies and concentrated its defenses onto the Home System, nearly every asteroid on space was armed with either missiles or MACs, mines were laid on the path with the lightest amount of space rocks and ambush points were plotted and ships hiding in nearby rocks would spring and destroy them.
Most of the young females , younglings and eggs that were evacuated on the Planet Mulwin, to prevent the Unggoy from finding the planet, only a handful of crews were told of its location, with most ships guided by VI Navigation and their records wiped before returning to Eayn for another pick-up. Before the hammer fell, the Kig-Yar were able to evacuate nearly 20 million, enough for the race to rebuild itself.
The Colonies of Kaelarot and Valyanop were the first to fall, having absolutely no defenses and with most of the skilled shipcrews dead in the Eiza System, they fell shortly afterward and like its sister colony, the population was purged. The only colonies that were able to fight back was T'vao and Ibie'sh, home to the T'vaoans and Ibie'shan, genetic offshoots of the Kig-Yar, due to the racial paranoia of the Ruuth against them as well as interracial violence which made them paranoid and maintained their own homefleets should the Ruuthians finish them. Using hit and run tactics, the forces of these two colonies inflicted a good amount of damage before retreating or being destroyed. It also had the effect of further slowing down the Unggoy offensive, ironically buying more time for their hated cousins at Eayn to survive.
However, in the end it was for naught, the slow but inevitable advance of the Unggoy armada reached the two colonies and destroyed the meager opposition that these colonies offered. Rather than land in the planet, the Unggoy simply bombed all the settlements from orbit then concentrating their fire on volcanoes and glaciers, rendering the worlds lifeless before moving on.
At last, after half a year of destroying the Kig-Yar Colonies, the Unggoy were at last crossed the Relay to the Y'Deio System, nearly four thousand ships prepared to assault Eayn and put an end to the Kig-Yar menace once and for all. Opposing them were 200 Frigates, most of them now obsolete even by Unggoy Standards, crewed by least experienced captains and the survivors of the Eiza Battle.
Balancing this is the fact that the Kig-Yar will be fighting in their home turf, every chokepoint they fortified, every space rock armed and what ships that is not armed is loaded with bombs for suicide attack.
The Unggoy were not blind to the advantages of their enemy, to negate this, they brought a third of their strikecraft and half of all built Battleriders. Without preamble, spacefighters bearing bombs and missiles streaked out of their Hangars into the enemy sights while Cruiser riders accelerated towards the morass that is the Y'Deio Asteroid Fields, which is unusually dense and stretches half the whole system.
While all Cruisers and Dreadnoughts stayed at the edge of the system, advancing slowly while laying down support fire. The strikecraft and Battleriders meanwhile fought inside the asteroid fields, destroying all of the armed spacerocks and tripping ambush points, Cruiser Riders in particular were quickly singled out for their immense durability and took the brunt of most asteroid guns and suicide attacks while fighters were invaluable in sniffing out hidden ships and kamikaze shuttles.
Despite the enormous losses in strikecraft and Battleriders, the Unggoy fleet was successful in their breakthrough towards Eayn, with them approaching the planet in less than thirty minutes. Not waiting for them to take fire from the planetary cannons, the Unggoy ships began firing towards the planet. With such a large target infront of them, it was impossible to miss, most of the shots landed towards the oceans and empty landmass, causing enormous casualties. While the fleet bombarded the planet, other ships began towing every asteroid of appropriate size to Eayn, for a week the Unggoy rained asteroid strikes on the planet until no life remained.
A fitting revenge against their hated enemy.
Afterwards, the Unggoy fleet began heading home, confident that their war has ended at last and peace will now reign for their kind.
Codex: Unggoy Egg Levy
A form of conscription practiced today by the Unggoy Commonwealth. Egg Levying is a law that states that per every clutch laid, apart of it must be given to the military to bolster their military strength and have a force capable of fighting against invader. Seen as an alternative to Geronticide, it allows the military to replenish lost numbers to pirate hunting operations as well as preparation in a future war against the Hegemony (or against the Citadel Council) without much public backlash.
Usually, only ten eggs are taken in the clutch, a majority of them are males. In cases of emergencies or a prelude to war, this number is doubled and families are encouraged to breed more eggs.
In average, of the ten eggs levied from a family, two are sent into the infantry, two into the fighter arm, one in the navy, one in the armored divisions, two in the biotic program and another in the special forces training programs.
In theory, A levied Unggoy is retired after thirty years of service, allowed to choose what world will they live and paid for their three decades of service. In reality,the sheer number of casualties and attrition rates, as well as the simple fact that the few who survived their service has little knowledge in the Civilian world, prefers to simply continue their military career.
Codex: Slipspace FTL
A new type of FTL discovered by the Unggoy, Slipspace travel was the first type of faster-than-light that does not use Element Zero. It is done by creating a rift in reality towards a dimension known as slipspace, where the laws of physics are much more different, allowing that realm to be used as a shortcut and travelling between different regions in a reasonable time.
The engine allows travel into the large relay deadzones, as the limitations of Slipspace is governed by supplies, power generation and engine condition.
Due to being far more complex and harder to repair than a Mass Effect Drive, the Slipspace had been largely phased out with the exception of the Biggest ships, where putting a Eezo Core is both expensive and impractical such as sleeper Colony Ships and Ore Haulers.
The contact with the Citadel Council and subsequent ban on opening dormant Mass Relays brought new hope to slipspace advocates, long derided as an unstable and impractical form of travel, new research groups were established by the Commonwealth and Salarian Union regarding this type of FTL. Relay Dead Zones can now be explored although reaching them is much slower than before, nonetheless many are optimistic about the future of slipspace as attention and research towards it surges further.
