The Dark Empire War, sometimes called the Spherus Magna Civil War or simply the Great War, was a massive, large-scale conflict fought between a small band of rebel fighters, the Spherus Magna Reform Coalition, and the united armies of the Corpse Empire, Shadow of Ages, and Empire of Shadows, who had banded together to form the Dark Empire, and manage to conquer Spherus Magna. The fighting would continue long after the defeat and capture of the Empire's leaders, and would continue to rage for at least six more years even after the resistance had become the Collectives of Light, the new ruling faction of Spherus Magna.