Medurma Pact
The Medurma Pact was a multi-system Confederation.
Description[edit]
The Medurma Pact was a petty state that dominated the rimward-coreward edge of Dagudashaag Sector late in the Long Night period.
History and background[edit]
In -524, an agreement signed by the governments of Medurma (Dagudashaag 2124) and Dipa (Dagudashaag 2223) established the Medurma Pact, an interstellar state which grew to cover much of what is now Pact Subsector. At its height, the Pact reached a solid TL–11.
In -209, the Pact warship Dragon's Breath met a Domination starship coming out of jump. Contact was attempted, but without success. It was a further three hundred years before successful communication between Humans and Domination was achieved.
The historian Bryen Colveni draws many parallels between the Pact and the 'infant' Sylean Federation, particularly in their political and military structures, in his text "False Dawns", and suggests that the Pact had the potential to become the core of a much larger state. Its militaristic nature would, however be its downfall; after about -250, the Pact was in almost continuous conflict, particularly in the Slaver Wars with the Aakhri Empire to rimward. The state was economically overextended by the ongoing warfare, and was in decline by -10.
The Pact remained in existence, but slowing failing until the expanding Third Imperium agreed to absorb Medurma in 90.
Demographics[edit]
Significant populations of the following sophont races existed within this polity:
Government and politics[edit]
The Medurma Pact was a multi-system Confederation, also known as a Pact, characterized by a low degree of governmental centralization that gave local (planetary) governments great freedom, while suffering from a poor ability to establish unified policy. The Medurma Pact was usually characterized as an Alliance, a form of a Confederation.
Astrography[edit]
This polity was primarily located in the following areas:
World Listing: 90[edit]
Timeline[edit]
- c.-8,000: Medurma System colonised by Vilani mining corporations
- -2,099: Hostile takeover of Medurma system by Solomani refugees
- -1,080: HighPeak Commonwealth formed on Medurma
- -1,019: Aslan ihatei fleet arrives in-system
- -1,010: Alignment Wars break out between provinces and Aslan colonists
- -880: HighPeak Commonwealth has united the system and gained control of Aslan Jump technology
- c.–600: Kuriishe Eraki formed
- -520: Medurma Pact formed by the joint governments of Medurma and Dipa
- -401: Anton Vusuraykhar (later Viisarikaa) proclaimed regent
- -324: Mutual Protection Treaty signed with Ushra
- -302: Medurma Pact starts trading with the Kuriishe Eraki
- c.-250: First contact made with the Aakhri Empire. This leads to numerous border conflicts and hostilities
- -155: Full war finally breaks out between the Pact and the Aakhri Empire
- -102: Pacter warships attack Aakhri colonies throughout their empire
- -76: The first of several short truces agreed to allow both empires to recover
- -40: Both empires economically shattered by the prolonged war
- -10: Aakhri Empire forced back to the Argi system
- -06: Argi falls to slave rebellion, Aakhri Empire falls
- 40: Medurma Pact makes contact with expanding Third Imperium
- 76: Imperium blockades Pact systems and subdues all the planets around the Pocket Empire
- 90: The Pact finally capitulates without any major conflicts and is integrated into the Third Imperium
- 274: Medurma designated Sector Capital and Viisarikaa the Ducal family of Dagudashaag
References and contributors[edit]
- Jae Campbell, Leighton Piper. "Port of Call: Medurma." Signal-GK 02 (1989): 49. via. HIWG
- Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 238-239.