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The [[Federation of the Fused Mains]] is a [[polity]] that is located in [[Gakghang Sector]]. | The [[Federation of the Fused Mains]] is a [[polity]] that is located in [[Gakghang Sector]]. | ||
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Many words were used to describe it, but "largest" was one descriptor that all leading media sources at the time applied to the theft of a half-dozen [[battleship]]s in [[404]]. The financing to construct them in a single batch had been forged by a deep cover job involving three multi-subsector banking chains, agents at multiple levels of government, and a [[solomani]] gang making "wolfsbane" (a powerful, synthetic, addictive narcotic that could leave [[vargr]] in euphoric bliss for hours but had no effect on [[human]]s, allegedly based on an old [[Terra (world)|Terran]] herb). Mounting investigations were about to break the scam just as the battleships' [[jump drive]]s were installed. While they were incomplete, they were intact enough to fly to the hundred-diameter limit and enter jumpspace. Skeletal crews, posing as test technicians, powered them up and did just that. Orders to halt came only after the ships were well away from the [[highport]]; at first it was feared the communication equipment was not picking up, but remote diagnostics confirmed the orders were simply being ignored. | Many words were used to describe it, but "largest" was one descriptor that all leading media sources at the time applied to the theft of a half-dozen [[battleship]]s in [[404]]. The financing to construct them in a single batch had been forged by a deep cover job involving three multi-subsector banking chains, agents at multiple levels of government, and a [[solomani]] gang making "wolfsbane" (a powerful, synthetic, addictive narcotic that could leave [[vargr]] in euphoric bliss for hours but had no effect on [[human]]s, allegedly based on an old [[Terra (world)|Terran]] herb). Mounting investigations were about to break the scam just as the battleships' [[jump drive]]s were installed. While they were incomplete, they were intact enough to fly to the hundred-diameter limit and enter jumpspace. Skeletal crews, posing as test technicians, powered them up and did just that. Orders to halt came only after the ships were well away from the [[highport]]; at first it was feared the communication equipment was not picking up, but remote diagnostics confirmed the orders were simply being ignored. | ||
− | Losing | + | Losing 6 [[battleship]]s would worry any [[polity]]. When reports started surfacing a month later of the skeletal ships demanding that merchants hand over their cargo (even without their lesser weapons, their [[Spinal Weapons Mount]]s had been the first system installed and were threat enough), mass panic erupted. Votes to secede were quickly organized on several worlds on the rimward side of the [[Pirian Domain]]. Policy required repeated votes spread over 10 years. The battleships concentrated their raids on worlds leaning against secession and ignored worlds largely in favor, changing their targets within weeks of each vote, a message impossible to twist or ignore. For 8 years this went on, until eventually their base at a [[calibration point]] within the seceding region was discovered. This base was ambushed in [[412]], but it was too late; by then the populations had gotten used to the idea of leaving and had begun to draw up plans to handle their own affairs. Despite massive protests and political pressure, the final votes in [[413]] showed consistent support for leaving - and just like that, the [[Pirian Domain]] had lost several worlds. It was widely suspected those on the battleships had planned to rule these worlds by fear as [[TED]]s (in the modern parlance; they had other terms that meant the same thing), and that their agents had spread propaganda the battleships would ignore seceding worlds (which the battleships confirmed after the votes began), but whatever plans they had were destroyed with them in their final battle. |
That said, the worlds saw value in bonding together. Taking inspiration from the Hatching of the [[Solomani Preserve]], they promptly (in [[414]]) claimed the entirety of the [[jump drive|jump]]-1 [[main]] they were on, and the adjacent one for good measure. Many of these worlds were uninhabited, but no other [[polity]] was close enough to press a claim. Only the [[Spike Society]] was even close, and they supported the Federation's claim (historical records suggest they issued a declaration a week before they could officially have heard of it, suggesting they were unofficially previously alerted). The [[Spike Society]] has consistently been a staunch ally and trade partner of the [[Federation of the Fused Mains]] ever since. | That said, the worlds saw value in bonding together. Taking inspiration from the Hatching of the [[Solomani Preserve]], they promptly (in [[414]]) claimed the entirety of the [[jump drive|jump]]-1 [[main]] they were on, and the adjacent one for good measure. Many of these worlds were uninhabited, but no other [[polity]] was close enough to press a claim. Only the [[Spike Society]] was even close, and they supported the Federation's claim (historical records suggest they issued a declaration a week before they could officially have heard of it, suggesting they were unofficially previously alerted). The [[Spike Society]] has consistently been a staunch ally and trade partner of the [[Federation of the Fused Mains]] ever since. |