History Lesson #2 news - Star Trek: Evolution mod for Star Trek: Armada II
Dec 18th, 2020
We left off with our last history lesson in 2270. The Federation-Klingon Cold War was the main conflict in the Alpha Quadrant, but neither side was interested in escalating the situation, but it still diverted the attention from another series of events. The Lyran Empire came out from the General War completely exhausted, and it had no chance recovering, because Cardassians, a race previously kept in servitude took the opportunity and overthrew the Lyran rule on their homeworld and soon took over the whole empire. The continued the expansion into the similarly exhausted Hydran territories, and thanks to the indifference of the Federation, they managed to completely conquer the former kingdom in a few months. The Kzinthi could have been the next target, but by then they joined the Federation. And thus a new galactic power was born bordering both the Klingon Empire and the Federation: The Cardas