War of the Ancients

"The first races were always so full of hope. We were glad of meeting others in the galaxy, and feared and protected ourselves against war above all else, for we desired a peaceful cooperation through all creation. Then came the first war... and the Hollow Ones."

- The Last Eternal

The War of the Ancients was a massive war which took place primarily in the galaxy known as the Cradle hundreds of thousands of years before the. As told by the last Eternal, the war's story was that of tragedy followed by disaster followed by tragedy, in seemingly never-ending sequence, which lasted "for so long, we no longer remembered what it was like to have peace, even within our oldest histories and greatest arts". Among the war's most prominent leaders was Valdayn, the Grand Marshal of the Ethereal Dominion and first-known ancestor of the Valdayn family, who was said to have been a Force-Sensitive of primordial abilities, capable of using the Force alone to win otherwise hopeless battles, and who was one of the war's few surviving leaders. Another of the war's most recognizable figures and few survivors, the Lost Marshal, would eventually go on to engage in conflict with Valdayn's descendants over the course of hundreds of millennia, periodically reemerging from the dead galaxy referred to as the Void to wreak havoc, death and destruction around the universe.