Editing Strike Legion (section)

== Background ==
In a nutshell, humans mutated and became super strong and super intelligent. Humanity started exploring the galaxy, and the chaos that ensued led to the rise of the [[Emperor Of Man| Empress]], who brought humanity under her iron fist and demanded she is worshiped as a god. Massive amounts of science that could do anything, creation of various genetically modified humans called gens for various things, with some humans forming the Star Republic that was independent of the Empress.

Eventually, numerous alien threats started to emerge and gens were enhanced to be able to think and fight in wars to repel them. While the gens repelled the aliens, they got sick of how badly the Empress treated them and decided to rebel. The Empress's response when she was losing? Get a bunch of Masters together and mess with reality so any ship that attempted FLT travel through [[Warp| Nullspace]] (the main form of FTL) would be destroyed instantly in an event called the Eternal Night, cutting every planet in the galaxy off from each other, and then go into hibernation and take over the galaxy again when she reawakened. 

Cutting planets off from each other meant much of the technology gained was lost, and of course, it wiped out her old domain which was then referred to as the Old Empire. When the Eternal Night eventually ended, humans and gens began to spread and explore again, with the inhabitants of the Star Republic meeting with the gens and the various species forming an alliance and prospering from their various technologies and ideas. The Empress, however, began to rebuild her empire and seeing the Republic and its gen population, she was determined to wipe it from the galaxy.

The Star Republic had a huge technological advantage, but only controlling 6000 planets to the Imperium's three million star systems, the Imperium started to take the upper hand through a war of attrition. As a last resort, the Republic created the Strike Legion to take on various otherwise suicidal missions to wear down the Imperium enough to allow victory.