The Empire was this week licking its wounds after becomimg heavily embroiled in two separate, pitched battles. The first occurred in Facece, where the Vequess Liberation Army launched a suprise offensive against Imperial authorities. The Empire's infrastructure was seriously damaged in the attack, the ferocity of which surprised everybody - especially the Empire, which had taken great pains to ensure that the VLA was destroyed some months ago. The VLA strike fleet soon departed after the attack, leaving the arriving Imperial reinforcements with nobody to attack. We are going to strike until they change their ways.
Violence is the only language they seem to understand.
If it means we have to destroy the Empire, so be it. The VLA's attack caused serious network outages, which alerted the rest of the galaxy that something was going on. No communication got in our out of Facece for two days. It is suspected that this was a deliberate part of the VLA's plans to ensure the arrival of reinforcements was delayed until their objectives were met. Numerous Imperial attack craft poured into Sohocan, and tried to take over the system.