First Great Plasma Wars

The First Great Plasma Wars (So named due to their status as the first large-scale conflicts fought utilizing plasma weaponry), also referred to as World War Three or the Rise of Empires, and known by the Liberated Union as the War on Valerius, was a world-spanning series of widespread conflicts, taking place over the later years of the twenty-second century and ending in the year 2197. The war was fought between the emergent Valerian Alliance, a coalition of rising empires, and the Liberated Union, a corrupt alliance of republics and socialist states.