This article is a stub. You can help The Penumbra Podcast Wiki by expanding it.The Galactic Civil War was massive interstellar conflict that lasted two hundred years[1] and ended sometime less than twenty years[2] before the podcast's events begin. Thus far, little is known about the nature of the War, why it began, or how and why it ended.
"A squabble on some other planet turned into a galaxy-spanning barroom brawl, the beginning of the War that would be humanity’s self-destructive story for the next two centuries…" Said by Juno Steel[1]
"She was an engineer drafted into working on Solar military weaponry back at the start of the war. And back then that was bad news." Said by Juno Steel[1]
"Seekers of the Free Dome. Those of you who believe a better life can be made out there, away from the greed, the war, the disease." Said by Erin Marshall D'Arc[1]
"The Oldtown Munitions Factory, flickering in the distance, reanimated after nearly a century in the dark. If the stories were right, then at the start of the War it had spit out nightmares across the galaxy of the kind that a civilization never really wakes from." Said by Juno Steel[3]
"As you know, Brahma is now very nearly on the front lines of our War. People act like the world is ending." Said by Madame Rossignol[4][5]
"Twenty years ago...in the former Outer Rim, before the war drained it of everything it had..." Said by Buddy Aurinko[2]
"Back in the War I once sat in the same foxhole for three days before they could even get food in to me." Said by Alessandra Strong[6]
"Either of you have any kids?... Well, I do. A little lady, only five years old. Too young to remember the War. Too young to remember all the stuff humanity showed it could do to itself. And when I think about her growing up in a galaxy capable of all that…" Said by Yasmin Swift[7]
"We were in the Solar Military together years ago. I thought she was dead, but... the paperwork finally went through and a bunch of PoWs just got released from the former Outer Rim." Said by Alessandra Strong[1]