The Toucan Empire

Empire

The Toucan Empire
Founding Date	2011-02-19
Member Count	100
Key Members
Angus725 (Founder) Torikhtil (Founder) Afromana Lazers
Allies
Tymas Confederation Celestial Kingdom Empire Rocket Stellar Syndicate West Galactic Federation Tresnoth Republic Kingdom of Avalon
Enemies
Horzine Ganduras Clan O'Connor Demigods Rus

The Toucan Empire was the biggest empire in the history of Hazeron from 2012 to some time in 2013.

At its height, the Toucan Empire ruled over eight hundred cities in over five hundred systems, had hundreds of spacecraft, spanned 100 sectors and was home to 100 players. In the week leading up the the disappearance of the empire, the Toucan Empire had a high of 10 players on at the same time each day.

The empire's immigration policy was set to password only, and used the Dictatorship government type. Species within the empire include the Toucanite, Reptilius Dioculi, and many others.

Formation

One of Toucan's cities during an active period.

On Feb 19, 2011, Emperor Torikhtil founded the Toucan Empire with Atrix and Lenny. The Toucanite race originally evolved in the Lapsus system in the Auschwitz sector, around the back of the Tymas Confederation Cluster. After achieving space travel, the brave Toucans set fourth and colonised a nearby empty sector and proclaimed it the Domain of the Toucan. During secondary exploration, a problem with the local wormhole network was discovered, temporal disturbances meant that the Entirety of the Toucan wormhole network was isolated to 5 solar systems.

Soon after, the leader of the Loraine Sovereignty offered a way out for the trapped Toucans, in the Hazeron Cluster. Abandoning their home world in search of progress and the future, the Toucans began anew on a ringworld given to them by Havear, the Loraine Emperor. This ringworld became known as New Lapsus, and the sector, First Light, named after the second Toucan solar system. Soon the Toucan Empire was growing on pace, developing strong relations with its now neighbour, the Loraine Sovereignty. When the Toucan began approaching its size, its neighbour grew weary, and ultimately the Loraine territories were handed to the Toucan when leader decided to join the ranks of Tymas Confederation. This set the stage for the Toucans to grow, they now had space, players, resources, and a position that allowed them to expand until they were ready to wage war.

History

SAGO Debacle

Early long range wormhole exploration of the surrounding space lead the Toucans to encounter the then higher tech level Dragunas Dominus Empire. Soon after, hostilities began[1] and ended shortly after, when SAGO stepped in and forced a peace under threat of destruction. This set the stage for what would come to be known to Early Toucans as the SAGO Debacle. A week later, SAGO had been told that the Toucan planned vengeance against them. The informant was a since-kicked member of the empire who had been banished for repeated empire property destruction who had decided to cause trouble. However, after diplomatic talks with all involved, it was realised that the information SAGO received was false, and peace was achieved before any blood was shed.

Pan Galactic War

Despite being around during the time of The Pan Galactic War, the Toucan Empire did not take part in the conflict and instead continued exploration and expansion efforts. The resulting power vacuum caused by the fall of The Foundation and the PTMC was probably a factor in allowing the Toucan Empire to attain superpower status.

Horzine Massacre

The (old)flag being raised on a liberated moon colony

After the Pan Galactic War had ravaged the galaxy, during the later stages of initial Toucan infrastructure creation, it was decided that additional combat experience and training would be needed. In addition, the Toucans wanted to expand the buffer zone between them and other major empires, this action would result in a long standing policy of Toucans; Conquest for the sake of making total destruction of the empire more difficult. As a result, the Toucan Navy mobilised for its first ever large scale military operation. The target was a nearby semi-abandoned empire in a state of decay, Horzine, a perfect target for training of fresh Toucan captains and admirals.

Joint Toucan shock trooper and Horzine rebel forces taking control of a spaceport

Diseased Soldiers Spending their final moments chasing a rat

As the Toucan charged fourth into the cluster, many more small unrelated empires were conquered along the way. One empire that was indifferently passed up during this crusade due to disease, The Tresnoth Republic later developed into a major power in the Hazeron cluster. When Toucan ships hit landfall at Horzine, it was a massacre. Toucan Warships devastated the uncommanded Horzine war fleets and squads of troops captured bases and cities one after the other. Halfway through the massacre, the attack was slowed and remaining cities were used for training of those who had not been involved in the initial assault. Many Horzine citizens who felt neglected by their old administration changed their loyalties in the later days of the war, augmenting armoured toucan shock troopers in capturing remaining cities.

During the attack it was realised that many of the neglected Horzine cities were infected with horrible diseases, which were responsible for the lion's share of toucan losses, even going as far to down a battleship due to crew infection from unknowingly infected troops. After infected cities were captured they were often left to their own devices due to the poor state of Toucan medical technology at the time, as nothing could be done for the damned souls.

After all cities had been taken, the space was established as the first major military gain of the toucan empire and administrated as such, with the diseased inhabitants (nicknamed blank faced crab men by the Toucanite populace) in a state of oppression for a long time, until after the Ganduras War.

Ganduras Annexation

The Ganduras annexation was one of the relatively few conflicts that occurred during the Era of Stability.

Due to their isolationist policies and close proximity to Toucan Space, they drew the attention of several members of the Toucan Empire. After several attempts at diplomacy that didn't go anywhere, the Toucan Empire decided to annex the space controlled by the Ganduras for their own security.

Scouting missions to establish the size and various wormhole links inside Ganduras space took place, and this was shortly followed by a fleet of fifteen ships entering Ganduras space by travelling to Koin, and from there the ships either travelled along a dangerous wormhole route, or travelled directly by deadheading to either Citadel or Hell.

The Ganduras empire was conquered quickly and with very little resistance, owing to all important locations known due to extensive scouting and lack of an enemy war fleet.

Speculation and anecdotes indicate that the remnants of the Ganduran empire withdrew into the space of the Demigods Rus.

Clan Conflict (Cold War)

After Ganduras had been scattered, many remnants joined Demigods Rus. They took their scorn and bitterness for the Toucan with them due to the recent devastation of their homeworlds, and as a result the overall relations of the superpowers were generally unpleasant and cold. Eventually this conflict developed into a cold war with the two sides fighting each other on other empire's soil.

In the following months a member of Clan O'Connor attacked and captured a Toucan colony, and the Navy responded in force, first retaking a colony and then going on to conquer Tir Ain, the Capital of the Clan. After this, demands were given to the clan leader, Ainbheartach, under the assumption that his empire had been used against his judgement. These demands included precautions to prevent terrorists under the clan flag using it against us again, such as limiting immigration. In return the capital of the clan would be returned and peace would be reached. However, before their leader Ainbheartach could respond, a fleet of terrorists moved from the neighbouring system and new capital of Burtonport to Tir Ain and engaged in combat with toucan fleets.

The origin of the terrorists was soon discovered as they spoke the language of Demigods Rus. This had become clear that it was a political move and it was decided that the Demigod societal system was abhorrent and mustn't be allowed to spread and would be crushed without mercy. In an attempt to sever the flow of ships at the source, additional Toucan captains were called in and the battle for Burtonport begun. This was one of the longest and hardest fought battles over a single system in Toucan History, as the terrorists were numerous and the troop reserves of the toucans limited due to a lack of awareness of what the true enemy infesting O'Connor was. By the end of the day, the capital city Burtonport had traded hands four times and was back in the hands of the terrorists, while every other city in the system had fallen to the Toucan offensive. Despite being unable to take the city, the Toucan navy embargo'd the planet and the terrorists were forced to give up and scatter.

The next day, Ainbheartach addressed the public and the Toucan Emperor Torikhtil, denying the initial attack and denying the presence of the Demigods in his empire. The clan refused to change immigration policy out of pride and weapons of temporal destruction were used as a threat against the Toucans[2]. The Toucans then were forced to return captured Clan land much to their distaste. Soon after, the great wizard Haxus appeared after hearing of the threat of temporal weapons, and demanded that the destructive threat be stopped lest the clan be obliterated by his own techno wizardry. Soon after, the Clan conformed to all previous Toucan demands and kept the colonies that they had forced the Toucan to return, in line with the original offer. However, due to the circumstances under which the terms was met, both empires maintained uneasy relations and enemy status with each other, with close borders making things more tense.

O'Connor War of Extermination

As the Toucan continued to grow in size, it was soon obvious that their space had grown to completely surround Clan O'Connor territory, however there were still systems of buffer in between them. When the clan decided to expand into this buffer zone, they decided that they did not want to tolerate an empire with such poor past relations with the Toucan moving any closer to their borders, and the newly colonised system, Keadew, was quickly conquered and left to stand as a reminder not to expand into toucan territory.

After weeks of no further conflict, Clan O'Connor troops assaulted the now reinforced with defence bases Keadew city, and it fell to the onslaught. The Toucans decided that they were weary of dealing with the clan and decided to forcibly relocate them once and for all. Two additional systems fell before the toucan navy reached Heinessen, where after destroying the Clan Leader Ainbheartach's ship the Toucan Battlecruiser "Cereal Killer" went into orbit of the moon. Moments later, the ship was hit by a temporal weapon fired by none other than Ainbheartach himself.[3]

Weapons of temporal destruction are considered extreme taboo to the extent that no empire other than the clan even still possessed working prototypes, and the backlash from this use of this weaponry on the Toucan was immense. Torikhtil, the emperor had only barely escaped from the ship with his life to give news of this weaponry. For the first time in history, The Hazeron Commonwealth voted unanimously to take action and declared war on Clan O'Connor. Soon the entire might of the galaxy bore down on the Clan, and it wanted blood. The galaxy was tired of it abusing its powers and a war of extermination was called. Empires such as The Tymas Confederation, The Kingdom of Avalon, The Tresnoth Republic, and many more mobilised massive fleets to assist the Toucan.

The following war turned out to be the largest since the Pan Galactic War I ravaged the galaxy. The Era of Stability however was maintained by the relatively small combat area and quick resolution of the conflict. Many losses were taken on the offensive side from additional use of temporal weapons. An entire Tresnoth Republic fleet was annihilated from long distance and many troops were slaughtered on the ground by a legion not bound by death or time. The sheer volume of naval superiority exhausted the temporal weapons however, and soon it was clear that the war would be over within the week. Instead of waiting to see the last city fall, Ainbheartach transferred all empire holdings to the Union of Soviet Nations, suggesting that he thought the USN was involved in the cold war between the now decaying Demigods Rus and the Toucan Empire. These holdings were then transferred from the USN to the Toucan Empire, solidifying absolute victory of The Hazeron Commonwealth over Clan O'Connor which now no longer existed.

The Freeing of Imperium

The great wizard Haxus had long since retreated into another dimension and as a result his empire of Imperium had soon fallen into disrepair. The people cried out but Haxus could not hear him as he was deeply engrossed in his important interdimensional crafting work. Toucan forces augmented by Kingdom of Avalon and Tymas Confederation shock troops and ships quickly liberated the people and brought them out of disrepair and poverty.

When Haxus returned from his expedition in interdimensional space, he saw that his cities were under new management and declared the Toucan Empire to be a mortal enemy of Imperium for all eternity. However, he had more important matters to attend to and after rebuilding a single city, well within his ability to manage well, he disappeared back into interdimensional territory.

The Fall of the Toucan Empire

After the game-changing 04/05/2012 patch, much rage was directed against Haxus. Haxus directed the following quote to D3matt, ex leader of the PTMC and host of the original Hazeron forums. "Have you ever seen one single request for any kind of compensation for playing this game? I do not accept donations.

If you don't like it, get lost. I owe you absolutely nothing. You are NOT a customer. Take your bullshit gimme gimme for free attitude to a different forum. Nobody will miss you. Nobody will even remember you next week. You are not needed. Your input has little value. Go away.

Does that add a little perspective for you?

I am doing this just for the fun of it. It's something I've always wanted to do and I am in a position to do it for as long as I like. People like you are a real buzz kill. I don't need you for anything. Go piss and moan about somebody else's game somewhere else."

Soon after, a few players were banned forum the forums and had all past forum history erased from existence by Haxus. This included Emperor Torikhtil and it was stated that in-game accounts would be next. This prompted the emperor to send all Toucan cities to Imperium as a final act of defiance and charity (as maybe doing this would cause Haxus to would fix the bugs associated with big empires). Haxus stated that his wife was disgusted by everyone on the forums while many threads were being deleted and his own posts going with them, and soon the censorship campaign had erased all existence of the event from the forums.

Shortly after that, The Imperium released the cities from their control and scattered them back into the galaxy, to be used as pirate bases or conquered by other players, without fixing any related bugs.

The Toucan Empire Strikes Back

Around January 1st, 2013, Afromana, Angus725, and a few others came back to reestablish the Toucan Empire.

And they've won the Klingon-Toucan War.

Notable Places

Dyadic Paragon

Dyadic Paragon is probably the 2nd most famous system in the Hazeron Universe after Hazeron itself.

Angus' Ring

Angus' ring was made into a public shipyard after being conquered by Empire Rocket. It was then returned to the Toucan Empire.

Notable Alliances

The Toucan Empire is one of the founding members of The Hazeron Commonwealth.

• Kingdom of Avalon
• Celestial Kingdom
• Tymas Confederation
• Empire Rocket
• Stellar Syndicate
• West Galactic Federation
• Tresnoth Republic

Notable People

Torikhtil

Also known as Mattk50, the God Emperor Glorious Best Leader Fruit Loop Baron President of the Toucan Empire enjoys long walks on moons and torturing burrowing creatures.

Afromana

Afromana enjoys documenting the locations of all empires in Hazeron, as well as supplementing the growth of smaller empires.

Angus725

Angus725 has been in the Toucan empire since mid 2011, and has designed several ships currently used in the Toucan Fleets. Angus also had one of the largest officer farms in the Toucan Empire.

Lazers

Lazers is the last survivor of the 2nd facepunch empire, somehow slept through the Pan Galactic War and awoke in a universe with a drastically shifted power balance. Has trekked all over the galaxy in order to get more advanced empires to build his ships for him, until he finally ended up joining the Toucans.

PyromanDan

He did stuff, and enjoys punishing himself by flying his terrible ship designs.

Shooer

Long time player, first time empire member. Is just here for the fruit loops.

Zensras

AKA Snakey, he has been in the Toucan empire since mid 2011. After getting lost in a third dimension in which him and his ship flew through planets, he decided to join up with the toucans with his race of dog-like things.

TCL987

Resident long distance expedition and exploration leader.

The-Sane

Spent a very long time designing a ship that wasn't very good.

Unicide (aka Master Bob)

Senator of the Elysium sector and commander of a Sectorial Fleet. Former ruler of the Second Facepunch Empire. Completely missed the Pan-Galactic War.

Gallery

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  Another screenshot of the Horzine massacre. Originally uploaded by Mattk50 on 2012-03-04

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  Another screenshot of the Horzine massacre. Originally uploaded by Mattk50 on 2012-03-04

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  General purpose ship by Angus725. Originally uploaded by Angus725 on 2012-03-07

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  General purpose cargoship by Angus725. Originally uploaded by Angus725 on 2012-03-07

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  Reaper class by Angus725. Originally uploaded by Angus725 on 2013-02-22

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  Another angle of the Reaper class. Originally uploaded by Staines on discord

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  Battleship by Angus725. Originally uploaded by Angus725 on 2012-03-07

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  Battlecruiser/Battleship by Angus725. Originally uploaded by Angus725 on 2012-03-07

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  Loze Island Class by Angus725. Originally uploaded by Angus725 on 2012-03-07

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  A colonizer class by Angus725. Originally uploaded by Angus725 on 2012-03-07

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  Carrier/Colonizer "CISCV" by Angus725. Originally uploaded by Angus725 on 2012-03-07

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  A proof of concept by Angus725. Originally uploaded by Angus725 on 2012-03-10

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  Carrier/Colonizer "FarStar" by Angus725. Originally uploaded by Angus725 on 2012-03-07

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  General/Cruiser by Angus725. Originally uploaded by Angus725 on 2012-03-07

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  Ship in background. Officer Pickup/Colonizer by Angus725. Originally uploaded by Angus725 on 2012-03-07

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  General/Colonizer by Angus725. Originally uploaded by Angus725 on 2012-03-07