History FanFic / TheDilgarWar

* ZergRush: The favored tactic of the Earth/League alliance members, The Gaim, a ferocious insectoid species who ferociously overrun a Dilgar occupied planet. However, after an initially devastating beginning, the Dilgar eventually manage to keep them at bay with air strikes and heavy artillery.

* SuperPrototype: the Sekhmet-class cruisers, made with new alloys and advanced weapons, [[DeflectorShield Deflector Shields]], artificial gravity and gravitic drives taken from destroyed League vessels (and, in the case of the ''Vendetta'', the interceptors of the ''EAS Persephone'', increasing the point defense and getting the ability to [[ShootTheBullet shoot down incoming fire]]). Their production was stopped by Jha'dur at twenty ships because they were massively expensive, each being worth a couple dreadnoughts.

* MoralityPet: Sha'Dur, Jha'Dur's beloved brother. However, this is in ''very'' relative terms considering that he himself is an efficient ruthlessly genocidal military leader himself, with an initial fanatical machismo her sister manages to make him grow out of. However, his death thanks to a superior's betrayal and the enemy's newfound might removes the final personal restraints from Jha'Dur and become even more desperately fanatical and vindictive moves to both save her people and more importantly lash out against the universe.
* OhCrap: Ari'shan's reaction when his squadron takes on Earth's starfuries for the first time and its nearly wiped out in a few seconds.

* TheJorEl: Jha'Dur is both the Dilgar's best military commander and a brilliant scientist and even she can't convince most of the Dilgar's Joint Chiefs of Staff to act rationally concerning dangerous potential enemies like the Minbari and especially Humanity.

* GodwinsLaw: Justified here in that Ambassador Sinclair quietly advises the League to play up the Diglar's parallels to the ThoseWackyNazis to the Earth Senate in order to persuade them to help.

* ZergRush: The favored tactic of the Earth/League alliance members, The Gaim, a ferocious insectoid species who can overrun nearly ''anybody''!

The story, as told by Jha'Dur aka Deathwalker to the Minbari during the Earth-Minbari War, tells of her brother Sha'Dur discovering that their world's sun was going to nova in 15 years. Although their immediate superiors scoff, the Dilgar military takes the warning seriously and recruits the siblings for a solution. Deciding that going public would be equally devastating with the probable mass panic and asking for help by neighboring worlds with an evacuation would mean being ruthlessly exploited, the Dilgar military decides to find a new home and secure it by force by absolutely any means necessary.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Subverted in that only thing that saves Ari'shan from Jha'Dur from executing him refusing to kill innocent refugees is that he is simply too valuable a fighter pilot to lose.

* MoralityPet: Sha'Dur, Jha'Dur's beloved brother. However, this is in ''very'' relative terms considering that he himself is an efficient ruthlessly genocidal military leader himself, with an initial fanatical machismo her sister manages to make him grow out of. However, his death thanks to a superior's betrayal and the enemy's newfound might removes the final personal restraints from Jha'Dur from even more desperately fanatical and vindictive moves to both save her people and lash out against the universe.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted that at the Dilgar in a desperate military crusade to secure a new home before their home world's sun goes nova. Unfortunately, the Dilgar culture, already xenophobic and militaristic, takes this as a justification to enslave, exploit or simply exterminate all other species in their path in the name of this goal.

* BigDamnHeroes: The Dilgar surround Markhab, its religious inhabitants pray with all their might for a miracle, and get one when 100+ jump points suddenly appear as Earth's space naval forces attack.

* HeroicSacrifice: When the Persephone chooses to stay and die fighting to defend innocent alien refugees from the Dilgar's murderous brutality, an act that does wonders for Earth's reputation as a heroic champion.

* HumansAreWarriors: They certainly impress Jha'Dur who sees one Earth ship, ''Persephone'', fight to defend the innocent from the Dilgar and proving much tougher than any Dilgar expected. It is that story that convinces the League survivors that Earth is their last hope, and it does not disappoint.

* OhCrap: Ari'shan's reaction when his squadron takes on Earth's starfuries for the first time and its nearly wiped out in a few minutes.

Parallel to this, we follow the desperate efforts of the various League members trying to defend themselves, crippled by their own disunity. Furthermore, help from the major space powers proves impossible: the Centauri would enslave them all again, the Narns prefer to keep out of the Dilgar's to focus on operations against the Centauri and the Minbari talk to ''no one'', period. Regardless, the genocidal Dilgar steamroller presses relentlessly ahead, crushing all hope and life in its path.

Parallel to this, we follow the desperate efforts of the various League members trying to defend themselves, crippled by their own disunity and the self-interested complicity of the major space powers. It all proves for naught as the genocidal Dilgar steamroller presses relentlessly ahead, crushing all hope and life in its path.

* BigDamnHeroes: The Dilgar surround Markhab, its religious inhabitants pray with all their might for a miracle, and get one when 100+ jump points suddenly appear as Earth's space naval forces arrive to wage full scale war on the Dilgar for the first time.

Ten years, Jha'Dur and Sha'Dur have become senior officers as we follow them and their comrades' bloody conquests against the League of Non-Aligned Worlds. Driven by the threat of their species' pending extinction, the Dilgar, already known as ruthlessly militaristic, become horrifically brutal in their campaigns with Jha'Dur becoming both the most skilled and most depraved of the commanders both the battlefield and her sadistic laboratories respectively. Not only does she and her brother inflict terrible genocidal havoc on the foreigners, but they have to deal with internal political rivals even as a foster sibling of theirs, Ari'shan, becomes the supreme Dilgar AcePilot, albeit with a [[HonorBeforeReason code of honor]] and a strong conscience for his species.

However, there is one rising hope from a newcomer into the galactic stage, Earth. Realizing the growing threat of the Dilgar, tentative steps are taken to understand the full situation and the story follows various Terran heroes as they are drawn into the conflict. These include Sgt. Alfredo Garibaldi and his trooper comrades, originally of the Persephone, a ship which during a scouting mission under the cover of a humanitarian gesture [[HeroicSacrifice fell in heroic defense of the innocent victims of Dilgar brutality]]. There is also the crew of the freighter, ''Space Race'' who find themselves in the thick of the resistance with their secret agent friend, Jenny Sakai. Together, this ragtag group of soldiers and civilians survive the Dilgar's attack, strike the first blow on the ground against them and against Deathwalker herself and escape with invaluable intelligence in an adventure that would be the first of many for them all. The opening skirmishes are not just in the frontier as Jenny fights subtler threats like hunting a deadly Dilgar spy on Earth with the help of Francis O'Leary, teenage hacker turned intelligence decryption analyst extraordinaire.

* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: The destruction of the ''Persephone'' defending refugees from slaughter by the Dilgar proved to wake up Earth to a small degree. However, it was the Dilgar's moronic timing of invading the Markab territory, buffer state to Earth, just as the League survivors were giving an persuasively impassioned speech to the Earth Senate showing how despicable their enemy is and pleading for help is enough to get Earth into the war.

* HeroicSacrifice: When the Persephone chooses to stay and die fighting to defend the innocent, an act that does wonders for Earth's reputation as a heroic champion.

* HumansAreWarriors: They certainly impress Jha'Dur who sees one Earth ship, ''Persephone'', fight to defend the innocent from the Dilgar and lasting much longer going down fighting than any Dilgar expected. It is that story that convinces the League survivors that Earth is their last hope, and it does not disappoint.

* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: The destruction of the ''Persephone'' defending refugees from slaughter by the Dilgar proved to wake up Earth to a small degree. However, it was the Dilgar's moronic timing of invading the Markab territory, buffer state to Earth, just as the League survivors were giving an persuasively impassioned speech to the Earth showing how despicable their enemy is and pleading for help is enough to get Earth into the war.
* GodwinsLaw: Justified here in the League's address to the Earth Senate pleading for them to join the war since the Dilgar are doing every nasty thing the Nazis did and on a bigger scale!

* AwakenTheSleepingGiant: The destruction of the ''Persephone'' defending refugees from slaughter by the Dilgar proved to wake up Earth to a small degree. However, it was the Dilgar's moronic timing of invading the Markab territory, buffer state to Earth, just as the League survivors were giving an persuasively impassioned speech to the Earth showing how despicable their enemy is and pleading for help is enough to get Earth into the war.

The story, as by Jha'Dur aka Deathwalker to the Minbari during the Earth-Minbari War, tells of her Brother Sha'Dur discovering that their world's sun was going to nova in 15 years. Although their immediate superiors scoff, the Dilgar military takes the warning seriously and recruits the siblings for a solution. Deciding that going public would be equally devastating with the probable mass panic and asking for help by neighboring worlds with an evacuation would mean being ruthlessly exploited, the Dilgar military decides to find a new home and secure it by force by absolutely any means necessary.

Ten years, Jha'Dur and Sha'Dur have become senior officers as we follow they and their comrades' bloody conquests in the League of Non-Aligned World. Driven by the threat of their species' pending extinction, the Dilgar become horrifically brutal in their fighting with Jha'Dur becoming both the most skilled and most depraved of the commanders both the battlefield and her sadistic laboratories respectively. Not only does she and her brother inflict terrible havoc on the foreigners, but they have to deal with internal political rivals even as a foster sibling of theirs, Ari'shan, becomes the supreme Dilgar AcePilot, albeit with a [[HonorBeforeReason code of honor]] and a strong conscience for his species.

However, there is one rising hope from a newcomer into the galactic stage, Earth Alliance. Realizing the growing threat of the Dilgar, tentative steps are taken to understand the full situation and the story follow various Terran heroes as they are drawn into the conflict. These include Sgt. Alfredo Garibaldi and his trooper comrades originally of the Persephone, a ship which during a scouting mission under the cover of a humanitarian gesture [[HeroicSacrifice fell in heroic defense of the innocent victims of Dilgar brutality]]. There is also the crew of the freighter, ''Space Race'' who find themselves in the thick of the resistance with their secret agent friend, Jenny Sakai. Together, this ragtag group of soldiers and civilians survive the Dilgar's attack, strike the first blow on the ground against them and against Deathwalker herself and escape with invaluable intelligence in an adventure that would be the first of many for them all. The opening skirmishes are not just in the frontier as Jenny fights subtler threats like hunting a deadly Dilgar spy on Earth with the help of Francis O'Leary, teenage hacker turned intelligence decryption analyst extraordinaire.

* GodwinsLaw: Justified her in the League's address to the Earth Senate since the Dilgar are doing every nasty thing the Nazis did and on a bigger scale!

* HopeSpot: G'Kar seemed open to having the Narn help the League fight the Dilgar, only to instructed at the last minute to turn them down.
* HumansAreWarriors: They certainly impress Jha'Dur who sees one Earth ship, The Persephone, fight to defend the innocent from the Dilgar and lasts much longer going down fighting than any Dilgar expected. It is that story that convinces the League survivors that Earth is their last hope, and it does not disappoint.
* [[{{Ptitlekt6mtovm4vne}} Recycled IN SPACE!]] This story is essentially WorldWarII in space.

* WhatAnIdiot: The majority of Dilgar High Command for bonehead stupid moves such as standing orders to fire on the Minbari (The same ones who would later [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] Earth in the Earth-Minbari War) on contact and ignoring Jha'Dur's advice to not provoke Earth and thus they provide the perfect excuse for Humanity to join the fight full bore.