The discovery of hyper-efficient Anti-Matter engines in 2589 led the way to Thorium Fuel Cells - and soon enough, to a tidal change in Meklar consciousness. The Worldnet established new protocols under Relay Boot Order 27, and beginning around 2600, the behavior of the Meklar across the galaxy had transformed.
Beginning around 2600, spying efforts were stepped up from "virtually nonexistant" to "overpowering". Meklar agents concentrated primarily on weapons technologies, for miniaturization purposes more than any other reason. In 2607, when THR-999 technology came into play for unlimited starship range, Meklon was ready to build itself a fleet.
So long as warlike aliens existed in the galaxy, no matter how distracted with their mutual wars - especially as they began to come to the Meklar seeking aid - Meklon could never expect a future of true and eternal peace. The perfection of planetwide communion could never be fully realized while external forces tried to drag the species into war. And so the war was entered - on the Meklar people's terms. The Alkari were the greatest immediate threat - and so the initial targets were the Alkari.
A HEF-Graviton Beam Repulsor dreadnought handled the Alkari swarms while swift-moving bomber-destroyers mounting twin AMBs and a pair of "hold-out" Fusion Bombs apiece wrecked their planetary bases. The bomber fleet took losses - often even heavy losses - from the birds' Pulson missiles, but never too many to replace - and wherever it went, the OSG-074 owned deep space. Exactly twenty-five years after its most recent Alkari story, GNN posted a minor correction:
Certain leaders however were indeed preparing to merge with the Alkari - and with everything else that had passed forever from the galaxy.
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