Swarm War

The Swarm War was a devastating conflict that gripped the entire Milkyway Galaxy for over one hundred years. The Swarm, an insectoid extragalactic alien race, invaded the galaxy with the intention of consuming all life within it. The Swarm were first encountered in 2614 on the planet of Radiance, but the Allegiance and the galaxy at large only truly encountered them in the year 2733. The war cost the lives of over 300 trillion Therans and devastated or destroyed over twenty million worlds. The galaxy did not recover from the Swarm War for at least a millenium after the defeat of the Swarm, though some historians believed it did not recover fully at all. Thus, the time before the Swarm War was referred to as 'The Golden Age', as a time like it was never truly acheived again.