After the War, things changed in the east. The short-lived conflict was the final spark that allowed for the Coalition to finally exist. The member states had become interconnected much before than that, but the War provided proof that truly coordinated efforts could push back even the stubbornest of enemies. It proved that dangers, unsolvable with peace, lurked in the west and perhaps through the rest of the Sector.
But most of all, the War started to change Galactya. The ancient, monolithic state that hadn’t mutated in it’s eternal laughing chaos for more than 7000 years.
The Government decided that it was time to restart the production of weapons and defenses. After a long time of stagnation, the Ministry Of Defense started mass-producing weapons and ships again, and building a defensive megastructure to replace the nuclear minefield around Taivaallinen. With the incredible wealth brought in by being the center of the Coalition, few knew how large the Empire’s relatively small military could grow. Calerost, who had always been in a love-hate relationship with the ancient nation, started to fear that a new expansionist ideology might form in Galactyan culture. The Drakari Imperium, even though more trusting, worried that one day it might have to intervene in a possible expansionist movement, such was the paternalistic attitude of it’s ruling species.
Ultimately though, both kept these worries to themselves, and were admittedly happy to be members of the Coalition, and still trusted Galactya, who had always proved to be a trustworthy ally.
However, while Galactya ultimately benefited the most from the conflict, a problem arose for the Empire. A problem that, while having existed for more than 1600 years, had never proved to be excessively problematic, at least from what the Government could tell. A problem that, after publicly spilling blood, took the name of The Children Of Aqan’Thau.