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  • Great War of 2186
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  • The Great War of 2186, also known simply as the Great War, or the Reaper War was a galaxy-wide conflict that pitted the Systems Alliance and the many races of the Council against the Reapers. The war followed a series of well coordinated strikes by the Reaper armada which targeted several homeworlds of the most technologically advanced races. After the homeworlds came under attack, the Reapers moved in and isolated several hundred star clusters all throughout the Milky Way, cutting off supplies and indoctrinating entire colonies to supplement the Reaper ground forces.
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  • Reaper Armada
  • Systems Alliance/Council
Casual
  • *Extreme **All Reaper forces exterminated
  • *Extreme **Billions of civilians and military personnel killed **Tens of thousands of ships destroyed **Galactic infrastructure severely damaged
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Previous
  • *First Contact War *Eden Prime Incident *Collector War
End
  • *January 2187
Name
  • Great War of 2186
Begin
  • *June 2186
Commanders
  • *Harbinger
  • *Citadel Councillors *Turian Primarch *Asari Matriarchs *Salarian High Dalatrass *Alliance Parliament† *Prime Minister of the Systems Alliance†
conc
  • *Alliance-Cerberus War
Result
  • *Alliance/Council Pyrrhic victory **Earth retaken **Relays severely damaged **Citadel severely damaged **Reaper threat destroyed *Reaper strategic victory **Billions harvested **Galactic civilisation crippled
Forces
  • *Available manpower in the billions *~65,000 available ships
  • *Thousands of Sovereign-class and Destroyer-class ships *Troops transports *Processing stations *Billions of indoctrinated soldiers
Place
  • *Galaxy-wide
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  • The Great War of 2186, also known simply as the Great War, or the Reaper War was a galaxy-wide conflict that pitted the Systems Alliance and the many races of the Council against the Reapers. The war followed a series of well coordinated strikes by the Reaper armada which targeted several homeworlds of the most technologically advanced races. After the homeworlds came under attack, the Reapers moved in and isolated several hundred star clusters all throughout the Milky Way, cutting off supplies and indoctrinating entire colonies to supplement the Reaper ground forces. Never fully heeding the warnings of the first human Spectre, the galaxy was stunned by the speed and effectiveness of the Reaper threat. From the first month of the war, the galaxy was fighting alone, the humans, asari and turians only fighting for themselves, desparately trying to defend their colonies and homeworld to no avail. But thanks to the work of the Asari scientist, Liara T'Soni, the galaxy found something to unite and rally behind. Dubbed, the Crucible, a weapon designed originally millions of years ago by an unknown alien race, and improved upon every cycle, that could finally bring an end to the Reaper's genocidal reign. For the next five months, the galaxy would come together, pulling resources for this one final effort. A united galaxy actually proved difficult for the Reapers. Battles were finally being won, and the once nightmarish battlefields of Earth, Illium and Palaven were now looking like fields of victory, one of the most famous efforts was during the Battle of Palaven where the Turian/Krogan alliance saw several Sovereign-class Reapers destroyed, pushing back the Reapers but not without heavy casualties and environmental damage from nuclear weaponry. While the final outcome of the war ended with the Crucible firing and causing a domino effect across the galaxy killing the Reapers and their thralls, many pockets of the galaxy still contained infestations of husks controlled by Reapers deep within barren planets as well as remnant resistance forces of Cerberus. The galaxy would rebuild, and never be the same again.
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