After the Iconian Empire's return in the early 25th century, the Vaadwaur Supremacy, which were being controlled by the Iconians through the Bluegill, attacked and conquered the entire Krenim Imperium, except for a Krenim colony on Kyana Prime, which possessed Annorax's designs and used them to create technology that could put themselves out of the timestream, completely hiding them from the Iconians. In order to eliminate the Iconian threat without too much alteration to the timeline, alliance scientists conducted several holographic simulations.