An invaluable high-speed trade and communication route, both sides have blockaded and restricted its use when it suited them. The current begins in Terran territory, but winds throughout the Procyon Expanse. The on-again, off-again state of war that has plagued both empires for the past ten years began over a dispute of ownership concerning the McCullough Etherium Current (named the "Breath of Ratec" by the Procyons).
His saner sister, Queen Catherine IV, replaced him. Called the "Mad King" by some, Alexander led the fleet personally and almost succeeded in pillaging the Procyon home world itself before being defeated. This truce lasted for 25 years until young King Alexander III decided to take advantage of a period of severe unrest in the Procyon Expanse and send a Retribution Fleet around the neutral territories to pillage vulnerable Procyon islands in the name of reparations for the Great War. Both sides were forbidden to exert any political or military influence within the buffer zone.
The Treaty of Gisane finally ended the war by establishing a neutral territory between the combatants. Sadly, independent worlds caught in the middle of the conflict did not escape unharmed. Initially the brutal assault by the tribes that gathered to his Banner met with great success, but three years later the campaign ground to a halt and began to be pushed back with great losses on both sides. Three years later, Rygan used the political fallout from his success to push the Procyons into a full on invasion of the "weak" Terran frontier. The Battle came about when tribal leader Rygan ambushed and destroyed Her Majesty's Colonization Fleet as it tried to settle the Garn Archipelago. The Battle of the Garn Archipelago happened 75 years ago, only a few short months after the first contact between Procyon Frontier guards and Terran Explorer vessels. The Procyon Conflict with the Terran Empire īeing the two largest political bodies in this spiral arm of the galaxy, perhaps it was inevitable that the Procyon Expanse and the Terran Empire would come into conflict.
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