Timeline of the Croatian War of Independence Puns

Serbia and Croatia have been pitted as 'natural' ethnic enemies, but I see no evidence of this actually existing on a social scale until the 20th century. Why do people say this as if it's been going on "for centuries" and where does it come from?

Jovian Concord, specifically the Ropalolyst fight, brought some new information that changes what we know about how the Old War went down. Slightly. This post is my best attempt to summarize the Old War timeline based on what I know. Do note though that the sources used might be unreliable. Natah for exemple might be lying, mistaken, or both. I welcome new information and insight in order to build the most accurate timeline possible.

Information new to Jovian Concord is bolded.

Our story begins in the heyday of the Orokin Empire, thousands of years before present.

1. Dwindling ressources force the Seven Emperors to get over their (in hindsight completely justified) fear of AI and authorize the sentient project.

2. The drones are sent to Tau to terraform it. On their way there, they attain sentience. A long time passes.

3. The Zariman ten zero is sent to Tau, but is lost to the Void. It is recovered years later. Work on Transference begins.

4. The Orokin contact Tau. Sentients defy their authority. The Orokin attack the Tau system. [This changes the narrative for the Old War from sentient aggression (regardless of how deserving the Orokin were), to retaliation.]

5. The sentient counterattack, sending forces to the origin system and wreaking havoc. Hunhow probably does not take part in that initial attack. [The reason I infer Hunhow stays at Tau at this point is that Natah is not yet born, and travelling from Tau to Origin sterilises sentients. So he couldn't have done the trip at this point. He must have been the main sentient leader if he became a boogeyman to the corpus without setting foot in Origin during the period of the war where the sentients were winning.]

6. On a losing position, the Orokin unleash the infestation, then the prototype warframes, and finally the tenno.

7. The sentients are pushed back to Tau, where they suffer renewed Orokin attacks. [The Mag prime entry mentions tennos using archwings in a system with a blue star. By the way, this means either the mag entry is inaccurate, or the New War teaser did not take place at Tau proper, but rather in the outer reaches of Origin.]

8. At some point, Margulis is executed for apostasy as she opposes the use of the tenno as weapons.

9. Ballas makes a deal with Hunhow, providing him with information on the Reservoir on Lua, and presumably on Margulis and her ties to the tenno.

10. Ballas is found out, and turns a high ranking Dax soldier into Excalibur Umbra to c

This is an overlook on the part of the devs right? It makes zero sense to keep throwing massive, budget breaking chunks of my economy to my mortal enemy who I'm fighting a brutal war against.

It does create a funny mental image of me sending over tax collectors with ships full of energy and minerals to my overlord in between our fleets vaporizing each other and his armies burning my worlds.

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Lindsay discusses the alien invasion genre in recent American film history by comparing 1996's Independence Day with the 2005 version of War of the Worlds. She also goes a little into the history of the "invasion fiction" genre that swept England at the end of the 19th century (of which H.G. Wells' original novel was largely a culmination of), the role of aliens as metaphor in fiction, and the difficulty of alien invasion narratives in a post-9/11, post-War on Terror world.

Behold!