Destruction of Messilinia. Dirunde Forriva. Coruma scattered.

The Seven Races held conclave and made peace in the threat of the Gergathan. Many Coruma, fearing their own creation, joined the alliance and one -- Dirunde Forriva -- became the main agent of the Seven Races. Dirunde Forriva, accompanied by his spouse, traveled to Messilinia, and stood in Geva Ganloohen, the Place of Despair, before the Gergathan itself. Forriva carried one of the Singing Stones, to serve as a focus for all the life-energy of the galaxy -- the only weapon capable of destroying the Gergathan. The Gergathan offered Forriva and his friend ultimate power, but they triumphed, and the blow was delivered. Yet at the last instant Forriva, pitying the war-machine and loathe to lose all its sophisticated circuitry, blunted his blow. The Gergathan was all but destroyed, yet still its empty circuits remained, and undetected sparks of life remained. This attack against the Gergathan was later called "Forriva's Strike." In the war, Messilinia was all but destroyed in nuclear holocaust. The Daamin, Hechevidiire, and Evellan accepted Coruma survivors on all their worlds, and even settled some new planets (notably Maela Gres).