League of Ages

[History, War]

To carry out the Droch'ah's plans of domination over the entire galaxy and to subject humanity under his control and restore an era of Forerunner domination, Droch'ah employed an artifact known as the Chroniode to travel through time, using the Gateways, and "persuade" to some of the brightest generals and military leaders of Old Terra's past, perhaps offering them immortality and a new life of conquest on larger battlefields than their minds could imagine. "You will conquer the Stars".

A few analysts have hypothesized that these legendary heroes are but clones of the originals, whose DNA was acquired by Drochah during his time travels.

The Legendary Generals of the League of Ages

All the generals of the League of Ages are sworn in to Drochah and most likely tied to the Forerunner by telepathic links of control, although it is not unreasonable to imagine that in their nature as conquerors, these personalities would have a strong inclination to assume their role as leaders of an army created to subdue the whole humanity.

 Regardless of whether the generals of the League of Ages are the originals or clones thereof (which would make much more sense and preserve the synchronicity of the history of mankind, than of breaking it could have unpredictable consequences, not necessarily positive for The Forerunner's plans), it is quite possible that Droch'ah used his psychic and genetic resources, as well as intensive training to condition them and become both true elite pilots and mech-warfare strategists. Which is possible if we consider that Droch'ah possesses vast knowledge and artifacts of his Forerunner heritage with which humanity can only dream.

Some of the most notorious generals in the League of Ages are:

Xerxes the Great ("Governor of Heroes") (486-"466" BC), fifth King of the Persian Empire of the Achaemenid dynasty whose kingdom comprised from India to Ethiopia.

Genghis Khan (1162-"1227"). Mongolian warrior and conqueror who united the nomadic tribes of North-West Asia, founding the first Mongol empire, the largest in Old Earth history, comprising lands between Eastern Europe and the Pacific, and Siberia to the north, to Mesopotamia, India and Indochina to the South.
Otto von Bismarck (1815-"1898"), the "Iron Chancellor", statesman, politician and military who forged German unification and a system of alliances that ensured the supremacy of the German empire for four decades. He designed the Anubis BFM class, with the association of Dr. Drake.

Arnold Bennington (? -3215?). In the past was a skilled mercenary Mech-pilot, Bennington joined the army of Droch'ah and rose quickly because of his unconditional devotion to the Forerunner and partly to his great capabilities as both: pilot and commander. For this reason, Droch'ah honoured him by making Bennington his "mryehgl thrall" and herald.

In 3214, Bennington and Genghis Khan raised an overwhelming attack on the Great Powers, who resisted the massive assault once again with the relentless support of the Mercenary Clans. General Bennington was last seen during the Battle of Yomi.

 Although some historians have pointed out the existence of a medium-prestige British ornithologist who lived in Old Terra during the twentieth century, it has not been clarified what might have been the Forerunner's interest in making an ornithologist his herald, so the name coincidence could be totally accidental.

League of Age's Troops

The foot soldier-pilots of the League of the Ages are typically composed of clones belonging to the former hosts of their respective generals, cloned by DNA samples collected by Droch'ah on his travels and by improved cloning techniques thanks to his association with the Doctor Drake Novum.
The League of Ages also has volunteers and renegades coming from the pirate or the mercenary clans or from the Great Powers, who have joined the ranks of the League, seduced by the Droch'ah's promises of greatness or more specifically because of their threats.

 The mech most frequently employed by the League of Ages' troops as well as by the generals are the saurian classes (as Regis, Aspis, Ignis) whose models probably have their origin in Droch'ah's travels to the most remote past, in his unsuccessful attempts to attain a temporary quota in which his brothers, the Forerunners were alive (the extinction of the Forerunner race took place about a hundred thousand years before the 1 AC).

Campaigns of the League of the Ages

Each of the main generals have played some of the numerous offensives of the League of Ages, threatening not only the existence of the Great Powers, but of humanity itself.
  • 3287 to 3292. First attempts of Droch'ah's forces to take over the galaxy. 
  • 3293. First Xerxes appearance.
  • 3294. Otto von Bismarck and the Fourth Reich.
  • 3302. Second Xerxes attempt.
  • 3303. Second Bismarck invasion. 
  • 3307. Third Xerxes invasion. Besieges Clarke Federation. Xerxes falls in battle.
  • 3313. Genghis Khan appearance. He builds a new army for the League of Ages in the tunnels of Yomi.
  • 3314. Arnold Bennington and Genghis Khan use Rizpah as a staging area for the League of Ages.
  • 3315. Last battle of Yomi. Droch'ah is defeated and the Chroniode destroyed.
Although none of the campaigns of the League of Ages have triumphed, their toil on the mercenary clans and the Great Powers is undeniable, and were it not for the apparent final defeat of Droc'ha in 3315, it is not known that he could have to succeed.

Following the defeat of Droch'ah and the destruction of the Chroniode in 3315, the surviving generals dispersed, saving a fraction of the League of Ages. Although they are small contingents, compared to the tide of Mech-Troops that came to gather Droch'ah, they are a possible future threat.

The undergrounds of Yomi continued to keep the remains of the League of Ages who failed to escape or who did not succumb to the final battle of Yomi, and several elite pilots of the mercenary clans continue to perform eradication and location missions to find some of the Chroniode's shards.
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 (By GJ - 685605)