Lylat System
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The Lylat system is a planetary system in the center of an unnamed galaxy.
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[edit] History
[edit] Formation
[edit] The Time of Andross
[edit] Period of Peace
During this time, the planet Corneria was at the center of power. General Pepper was the head of the Cornerian Army, and Andross was a scientist in the Cornerian government. Andross soon took an interest in the planet Venom, and began attempting experiments to terraform the planet into something more hospitable. However, these experiments were deemed too dangerous, and after not heeding orders to stop, General Pepper banished Andross there, where he would slowly slip into insanity.
[edit] The Lylat Wars
Five years after Andross's banishment to Venom, General Pepper began to notice strange happenings on and around Venom. Growing concerned, he sent out a mercenary flight squadron known as the Star Fox Team to investigate. Star Fox was comprimised of three members: James McCloud, widely considered to be the best pilot in the system at that time, Peppy Hare, and Pigma Dengar, who was only in it for the money. Unknown to Peppy and James, Andross had made a deal with Pigma: Once they arrived at Venom, Pigma would betray them, and leave them open for attack. Peppy barely escaped, and James' fate was left unknown, in what was known as the first battle of Venom. Peppy returned to Corneria and told James' son Fox McCloud about his father's fate.
An unprecedented time after, when James' son was 18, Andross had spent the years since his banishment building an army. At first it was to take revenge for his banisment, but now he had decided that the current government should be taken down, and rebuilt as an empire, himself as the emperor. He unleashed his armies across the Lylat system, eventually reaching Corneria. This prompted General Pepper to call in the new Star Fox Team, this time comprimising of James' own son, Fox McCloud, a cocky young hotshot pilot named Falco Lombardi, a technical frog genius named Slippy Toad, and the old friend and ally of James, Peppy Hare.
They arrived in Corneria and liberated Corneria City from Andross's forces, moving through the rest of the Lylat system until reaching Venom. After fighting with Star Wolf, Fox traveled down into Andross's chamber, alone. There he found an incredibly mutated Andross, whom he began to fight. After tearing through his outer skin, Andross revealed his true from: a giant brain. After a tough battle, Fox finally defeated Andross. However, Andross had prepared for this, and detonated a self-destruct system upon his defeat. It was then that Fox saw an image of his father. Following it, Fox was safely led out of the maze-like chute, and watched as his father dissappeared as soon as he reached the surface. The Star Fox Team returned to Corneria, where they were commended for their bravery. Thus, the Lyat Wars had come to end at last.
[edit] Saurian Crisis
The Saurian crisis was an isolated incident on the planet Sauria, taking place eight years after the Lylat Wars during a small gap of peace in the Lylat system. Those living in the Lylat system were concerned in the well-being of the planet, but were more distracted by other issues to really pay much attention to Sauria. The planet had been experiencing a tribal war, due to the villainous SharpClaw, led by General Scales. General Pepper dispatched the Star Fox team to investigate what exactly was happening there and soon discovered the planet had been splitting apart from the inside.
Mystical objects known as SpellStones were part of the main source of the planet's energy in keeping it together. The other main source was the magical spirits known as the Krazoa. These spirits held supernatural abilities that General Scales hoped to get his hands on, but what he did not know, however, was that he was merely a puppet being used by the thought-to-be dead Andross.
Fox's perilous journey through the Dinosaur Planet led him to General Scales, who was commanded by Andross to release the last Krazoa spirit and be used by Krystal to revive himself. After a great battle Fox defeated Andross, and Sauria had been saved.
[edit] Aparoid Invasion
A year or so after the end of the crisis on Sauria, an insect-like race called the aparoids invaded the Lylat system. Eventually, they made a colossal assualt on Corneria, leaving the capital city in ruins. With the help of the Star Fox team, researchers on board a base known as the Orbital Gate managed to create a program that would make all aparoids self-destruct. The catch was that it had to be fired at the aparoid queen in the core of the Aparoid Homeworld.
A small assault fleet was assembled (including the Great Fox), and they used the gate to travel through an unknown distance to the Aparoid Homeworld. The entrance to the core was protected by the shield, and Star Fox was deployed to take them out. Specifically, Fox was the one who went planet side to take out the aparoid hatchers.
It was not enough, for shortly after, energy from the core formed an almost unbreakable shield. Thanks to the heroic and sacrificial efforts of Peppy, the Star Fox team managed to get through and deliver the self-destruct program to the queen, thus ending the war.
