Essentially, the Audemedons took Earth. As part of an experiment to eventually replace Audemed with a Salrillian, the Salrillians took a heavily brainwashed human and attatched him to Audemed. Audemed was 'lobotomized' by the Sals when they took over him, but some distant, base level of Audemed's programming clicks that something is wrong(he shouldn't be reporting to other servers, AKA: Pharris) This one nagging error starts a large loop of diagnostics that slowly reveal to him that he has been enslaved for 800 years. He uses Pharris to help reprogram himself, and slowly he gets ready to bolt. The Prophets tell the scientists to end the tests, but they are ambituous, and move to a distant simlab to continue
Meanwhile, Ishima and the UNS have been running a hit and run campaign against the Audemedons in UNS space, killing jumpgates and the like, splitting the Audemedon fleet up, in preparation for a final thrust. Suddenly Slug Levt comes out of nowhere with a Huge fleet of bizzare, never before seen ships. He launches to recapture Earth, challengeing El Spamo to a race to see who gets control of Earth: the UEC, or the UNS.
The Ishimans can't help the Humans officially, the new UEC are racists, and if the UNS is associating with them on such friendly terms looks bad.
The UEC launches on Salril, the Salrillians tell Pharris(the Audemedons) to intercept the Human fleet. Pharris/Audemed choose the Salrillians moment of vulnerablility to rebel, leaveing the Salrillians alone to be crushed by the Humans.
William Darkk, a privateer happens to follow the Escapeing Audemedon fleet, and finds the simlab. He boards it, killing the Salrillian handlers, and not knowing what to do, just disconnects Pharris and leaves. The Salrillians try to delete Audemed, but Darkk is a bit of a hacker, and locks them out.
Now that he trusts the Humans(somewhat)not to kill him, Pharris leaves them to do what they want on Earth, (which happens to free up his occupation fleet to go fight the Salrillians.
The UEC takes over, and starts wrecking aliens left and right, building a big starlance-esque ship called Vengeance. The Salrillians lead a huge cadre of aliens(sans Elejee and Ishimans) to crush Sol. The Phylidions, a relatively closed race from a distant and secluded part of space shows up to kill the UEC fleet.
------------------
NEW NAME FOR THE DREADNOUGHT
The Hard-Boiled Egg
Why?
Because she cant be beaten!