Great Solaris War

"Our job is not to ask why we fight or if the war is even logical. Let the war take its toll. It matters not so long as the gods have their game. We have a job to do."

- General Lucian de Beauvais

The Great Solaris War (1–278 AE), also known as the War of the Gods and the Solaris Conflict, was a monolithic world war that ravaged the world of Solaris, afterwhich the war was named. The war has special meaning to the Novus of Xyon, for it was during this conflict that their creators, known as the Numen, were introduced. It remains the most destructive war known to the Novus and the Numen, and was considered a nightmare for the Numen who led their troops into the battles that covered the planet.

The war was the product of the ancient civilization known as the Arcan, who had created the Numen to prepare for a war with a beast known as the Atanka in the far future. They sent agents to the small world known as Earth; home to beings known to the Arcan for their violence against each other, in order to search for ten young individuals who would lead armies against each for the entertainment of the the Arcan species. They gifted these young adults the power to control the very fabric of time and space, expecting them to kill each other in the process.

While the Arcan got their war, they had mistakenly misinformed the Numen of their intentions, and turned their attention elsewhere; all the while igoring the need to remove the powers they had so foolishly given away to unstable humans. While this eventually lead to there downfall after the war, it gave rise to the Novus that exist today, and the world upon which they live. The war is thus of such great importance to both the Numen and the Novus for that reason, and remains a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and the individuals they mold.