Federation Commander

[Rich Stokes]

I figure it was just referred to as "the invasion". I get the impression that it was fairly obvious that the Andros weren't "from around here", and there were already Tholians around who were known to also be from another galaxy.

[mjwest]

Heh. I wonder if the Tholians had to convince others that the Andromedans were not just someone else they managed to genocidally piss off, too ...
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[leathernsteel]

Also think of the perspective of the other Empires on The General War. They may have never even called it that. For instance, the Rumulans might have called the war, "The War of Federation Aggression".

[mjwest]

[Nerroth]

The blurb in War and Peace says the Alpha powers got their first clue as to the M31 connection after the attempt on the WYN Cluster; one of the ships was captured partially intact (I'd guess it was the Dominator that the WYNs later used as a giant trophy) and presumably offered up enough clues to point things in that direction.


The LMC empires seem to have cottoned on to the extra-galactic aspect of the invasion pretty early on, though whether or not they independently came up with the Andromeda strain... of reasoning is not clarified.


It's not said whether or not the Iridani, or the empires in the Omega Octant proper, thought of them as "Andromedans" prior to the arrival of the USS Sakharov; they don't seem to have uncovered the routes from Omega back to the LMC by themselves, though.

I would not have been surprised if the Iridani, with their own experience as an extra-galactic power, might have been looking for some sort of link; but they were as unaware as the others as to why the Andromedans suddenly dropped off their onslaught after 2602.

Although, given how badly mauled the Omega empires had been by the invasions (to include the damage done by the Souldra), the high cost of finishing off the Andromedans in Operation Concerted Strike in 2604, and the need to look out for old (and new) would-be neighbours in the Seventh Cycle, there likely wasn't the kind of co-ordinated search for the nodes to the LMC that the Alpha powers were able to take on.

That said, the Chlorophon historians of the Omega Octant did have a name for that critical era; the Sixth Cycle of 2592-2604.
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FC Omega Discussion (v3)
FC LMC Discussion

[leathernsteel]

[leathernsteel]

Nerroth, I know very little of the LMC and the Omega Octant empires. Thank you for your input on that matter. That stuff is simply fascinating! I look forward to exploring those areas of the SFU!!

[terryoc]

[leathernsteel]

I for one, would not like to live under the reign of either of those two empires!