The Oblivion Crusades, also known as the Otherspace Genocide, were a series of especially brutal military campaigns launched by the cult-turned-empire of the Charon. Rechristened as the Charon Dominion following the vanishing and resurgence of the Prophet of the Void, Sylar Xaga. The Oblivion Crusades began at some point before 1000 BBY with the Massacre of Hyrus, the first battle of the Dominion's first military operation, the Dawn Campaign, and concluded with the Decimation of Esolus, the final assault of the Verge Blitzkrieg.