Wakanda Civil War

In 1500 BCE, a tribal chief named C'Muro seized the throne from King T'pwen in a bloody coup, aided by a cabal of priests worshipping the god Seth. The Wakandan Royal Family was exiled and forced to flee into the jungle. C'muro consolidated his power and began launching expeditionary forces into the neighboring nations using the weapons derived from their Kheran ancestors. Styled as Overlord, C'muro rapidly conquered a great deal of territory. The Wakandan armies wore ceramic armor and carried energy weapons as well as spears. They attacked the ancient Bunyoro Empire, annexing the far-flung tribes and destroying their military. One of the great kingdoms of Africa was simply annihilated and removed from history. No part of Africa was safe from the flying armies that could traverse mountains and oceans on a whim, and a corruption of their name became associated with legends of flying sky gods of Africa: The Chwezi.

C'muro's armies were depleting their ancient reserves of Kheran weapons and equipment. The Kherans had guaranteed Wakanda's borders would be secure but after almost ten generations, much of the technical knowledge and raw material needed to sustain their armies was being lost to attrition. Ambitious and considering the possibility of striking north after the vast Persian empire and the wealth of the Nile floodplains, C'muro sent his armies to capture another isolated nation: the Steel City of the Inhumans.

Never had anyone tested the full might of the Inhumans, and the response was a war the likes of which had not been seen since Atlantis. The conscripted slaves fighting for Wakanda were routed immediately and the Inhumans proved to be more than a match for even the elite Wakandan warriors.

C'muro's armies were routed and thousands of true Wakandans died in the retreat. The Inhumans launched attacks against Wakanda itself, though the Kheran automated weapons took their share of casualties from them. Wakanda was laid to siege as their automated defenses engaged the Inhumans.

Unknown to both parties, a struggle for control of Heliopolis was raging between members of the Ennead. Bast and Seth were locked in battle, desiring ownership of the birth of a new pantheon. Seth became aware that the Cosmic Cube had woken in response to their battle and raced to claim it before Bast could. He delivered it to C'muro. Passionate, but not wise, C'muro's wish was made in haste and fury.

C'muro wished for 'weapons to defeat his foes'. A nearby hillside burst into a flash of fury and the iron within it was converted into the rarest of metals-- vibranium.

Armed with vibranium suits and spears, his armies closed ranks with the Inhumans again, who captured the Cube from C'muro after attacking the royal palace. The resulting battle caused the deaths of many Inhumans, turning the tide of the war once again.

Finally, the Inhumans unleashed Terrigen Mists and other bioweapons on their vessel. By a cruel twist of fate, the Terrigen Mists were fatal to those who had consumed the Kheran herb, and the population of Wakanda was decimated in minutes. With his dying breath, C'muro detonated a Kheran energy weapon that ripped the Inhuman ship apart as it was attempting to fly away. The impact broke the ship. Half of it crashed, while the other half surged into a moment of uncontrolled FTL travel. Shedding debris over thousands of miles, the colony ship was wrecked against the northermost point of Greenland.