I am waiting for the Wave of Mist. I am still fascinated by it, even after all these years. It is an army of androids I put today in its path, preparing for the battle of tomorrow. I remember… I remember the story of my Father, about the first day he discovered Bactriana. The Living Planet…

Father was one of the last people remaining on the planet where humans were born, Earth. He was, at the time, a normal astronaut (this is the name people who explored the space were called). I wonder if we now have a human who hasn’t been on a ship till the age of 10, hehe. After the global meltdown of Earth, He took a Scout and flied away in search of another habitable place. He flied where no other man has ever been: towards the end of the Universe. He crushed on Celgora half-dead, without supplies and in a broken ship, thinking only about a peaceful death. But a strange thing happened to him after he woke on the bottom of a lake, breathing water. He was alive; not hungry, nor thirsty, not at all tired, realizing he’d changed. From that day on, he was the first Universal Lord we all know, the human who drank from Celgora’s Water of Life!

He found out that his wishes materialized on Celgora, the planet giving him whatever he asked for. He acknowledged he had a great mission, the one of building a better home for humanity. How naïve was he, in his kindness! Thinking that humans can live in peace and harmony!

He started by instructing us, the actual Universal Lords, his sons. Renex was the first, giving him the power over Celgora, the magical, immortal planet. He would be Father’s first follower. Ymer followed, as the perfect human being. Handsome and proud, he would be the leader of the masses. Order and chaos needed a strange mind like The Maniac’s to be controlled. The last was I, Duhu, the Genie of the Lamp, as old Terran stories called the one who grants wishes…

Knowing we won’t all be able to live on the same planet, each of us being so different, he teleported the best planets in the Universe near Celgora, Northern Lights for Ymer, the planet who was also known as Paradise, and Crew for The Maniac. At that point He remembered about Bactriana, the planet that terrorized him when he was only human, the planet that almost had him caught in the Mist Wave. He knew I was able to control it, so he gave it to me.

Bactriana is a living planet. Every night it sends out the Wave of Mist from its swamps, covering a large desert area, duplicating whatever it finds in its path, dead or alive. Like the Lord of Celgora, who just makes a wish before things happen, as Lord of Bactriana, I can reproduce thousands of things a night, from just one.

We began creating Carriers and Transporters, sending them to the remaining people on Earth and to other dying planets. We settled them in new, fertile planets; terraformed others. But it was soon that humans argued with each other. They spread chaotically into the Universe, breeding like rabbits and starting fights with each other. The Maniac couldn’t handle it anymore; Ymer’s promises of a perfect life were in vain; they started to ask me for weapons instead of happiness, and Renex himself planned to create an implosion of the Universe.

But we remembered a thing our Father told us, right before he left us, moving into a superior state of existence.

- Sons, I think humanity has a chance in this Universe, even though people don’t seem to deserve it. I created you to carry my dream further. Protect them from the back-stabbers and cheaters, but do not interfere with their wars! If they kill each other, let them do so. Still, the perfect Universe can exist!

Wrote by Radu Oprita (Duhu).

My name is George Olah and I am Universal War’s project leader and programmer.
You can find me in game, IRC, forums and blog under the nick Renex.

Between 2002- 2005, me and a few friends: Peter Vestberg (Ymer - Sweden), Tom Sjoeberg (Ancalagon - Sweden), Morten Lie (Scootern - Norway) have created a browser based game by the name of Universal War. It is the game you are located at now. Some players from the community helped us a lot. I would like to thank you to Mihai Dinculescu (FaithRaven), Radu Oprita (Duhu), Doctor, Jicannon, Silmearendil, SirFire.

However, we were at highschool then and we had to follow our paths in life. So when we finished school we gave up on this project. Universal War went offline and it remained only in our and player’s memories.

I didn’t think Universal War ment anything big for someone except us. For us it was giant: we learned how to program, how to lead an online community, we established relations all around the world.

However, it seems someone else thought of uwar too. One year ago, in a evening I received an sms from Peter asking me to come online. You can’t imagine the happiness that surrounded me. For over 1 year I had no news from anyone from Universal War and now something had happened. I came online as soon as I could and what Ymer told me was astonishing. A player, Maniac, searched for Universal War on google but found nothing except our addresses.
The game was offline so he tried to contact us. He told us he wants Universal War back and we told him we don’t have the time to run it again. So he asked if he could do it. I managed to create better administrative tools for him but the game didn’t seem to work. Perhaps God considered it was not the right time for it to come back.

In the last year I followed my courses at university and meanwhile I work at a web development company in Sibiu, Romania. A few weeks ago I tried Universal War on one of our servers and found out what problems it had. So I fixed them, then contacted Maniac and now you can play it online.

Universal War was created between 2002 - 2005 but we intend to continue the work on it. Web gaming experience changed a lot, but we will focus on bringing Universal War to a new level. Any ideas, suggestions, help are welcomed. Your word counts here and any of you can put a little bit into the game.

We hope you will have a great experience here at UniversalWar.org. We will make sure you do!