Where to catch up on the lore progress of ~ 4-5 years?

[DarkTails]

For the most recent updates after the info in that old readme, Gallia pushed imto New London after trying to blockade Cortez and Magellan. Thinking the Liberty fleet couldn't breakthrough, they build a new jumpgate and overrode the New London - Newcastle connection and launched a full invasion. At the same time a supergate between Liberty and Bretonia went active and brought through light capitalships needed to put a stopper in the Gallic offensive.

During the initial Gallic thrust, Bretonia scuttled Southampton shipyard rather than let it be captured, slowing the Gallic advance slightly. After a series of back and forth occured culminating in a strike fkrce of Liberty cruisers breaking through and destroying the head of the Gallic rearguard. Despite this, Gallia found out about the supergate and sabotaged it as two fleets were due to come through, resulting in both being lost in deep space, likely never to be seen again.

This forced Liberty to break the Gallic blockade in Cortez to pour in further reinforcements. During this time the Council made strides in Gallia, the breakthrough in Cortez forced the Royal Navy to draw whatever spare units it had left to the front with Liberty fleets arriving to reinforce New London.

This act left the Tau supply corridor entirely defenseless and Crayter Republic forces swooped in and fully occupied Tau-31. This put the pressure on both sides as without available supply, Liberty and Bretonia could starve the Royalists out. In a desperate bid to scrape out a victory, all forward assets in Leeds and New London attacked the capital world, culminating in the Battle of New London. The assault was vicious but desperation fell to stalwart defense. Both sides suffered greatly but out of the 7 Gallic fleets and 1 Corsair fleet, only 1 Gallic and the Corsair fleet managed to escape the slaughter.

During the battle, Gallia used their new destroyers' underbelly warwolf to bombard New Londons surface, killing many. They were quickly routed but the damage was extensive. The remaining Gallic forces fled to Leeds and deactivated the jumpgate to delay the dominant Allied powers. In Gallia, the Council seized swaths of outer territory and now marched on Planet New Paris, what was left on the Gallic home front consolidated and prepared to mount a hasty defense after the King fled.

In the final days, Royalist forces began bombarding Planet Leeds in full, leading to an all time high in defection and mutiny. Few destroyers escspe but one key vessel broke away and gave the codes to the jumpgate to the Allied force. Determined to save Leeds from annihilation, the Allies invaded straight away, only to find experimental weapon platforms designed to slice through entire fleets, but they werent fully capable as the attack was earlier than anticipated. Battleship Ottawa was felled, but the platforms demolished in vicious fashion, but their efforts in vain.

When the Allies reached the planet they found a lifeless volcanic rock. Billions on Leeds had been exterminated by the Gallic bombardment, and few who were left retreating were given no quarter. All stations barring the jump gate construction site were scuttled, and the system left still and lifeless barring the Allied military.

In Gallia, the Council commenced their attack, but provisional leaders took control and immediately stood down the Royal Navy, surrendering to the Council to avoid further bloodshed after news of Leeds' destruction spread like wildfire.

In the end Royalists were defeated and confined to the few captured systems; Edinburgh Roussillon, and Orkney. Gallia is still in 3 provisional states pending negotiations, but remains fractured for now, and the Allied powers more or less victorious, but Bretonia left with the short stick, its territiry left devestated and a sizable portion of its population genocided.

Kusari was relatively calm. During these battles civil war raged, but was brought to peace and reformation of the Empire. It was dragged into war with Rheinland as a GMG-Rheinland conflict resulted in war, but Rheinland sued for peace after invading Honshu snd drastically over extending their military rather than face a bloody war in Kusari as they neared launching a renewed armada, and peace was restored. Kusari continues to rebuild since its losses in the Gallic invasion and civil war, but the attack showed vulnerability and the Empire wouldn't have it happen again. The wreck of Battleship Nagumo being broken up for use of materials as Kusari endeavors to rebuild.