Alsakan Conflicts The Alsakan Conflicts were a series of seventeen wars waged between the planets Coruscant and Alsakan over a period of 14 , 000 years for the right to be the capital of the galaxy . The Alsakan Conflicts were mainly fought in the Expansion Region over the rights of corporations to sponsor colonization and settlement . The first conflict was in 17 , 000 BBY and the last was in 3017 BBY . . Prelude . The seeds of the Conflicts were sown during the Great Manifest Period , the widespread colonization of the Slice by the young Galactic Republic beginning in 20 , 000 BBY . Two super - hyperroute s reached outward from Coruscant : the Perlemian Trade Route to the galactic east , and the Corellian Run to the south . The open - bottomed triangular wedge of the galaxy defined by these spacelanes was known as the Slice , considered the cradle of galactic civilization , and Coruscant owed its pre - eminence to its position as the common point where these two hyperlanes emerged . The Corellian Run additionally continued through Coruscant to the west to become the Metellos Trade Route . Together , these routes formed a single hyperlane originally known as " the Spin " , extending from Duro to Alland with spurs to systems such as Salliche , Koros and Kuat . This was the original spine of the early Republic , defining a civilization based on heavily - urbanised and bureaucratic megaworlds , where a strong state was seen as a protector against economic exploitation and inequality . The Perlemian Trade Route , however , was not part of this political geography and intersected with it only at Coruscant . The sectors along the Perlemian were human - dominated as opposed to the multi - species worlds of the Spin . Amid growing economic and political competition among the Core Worlds , Alsakan , Rimward of Coruscant along the Perlemian and a stopover between it and Axum , became a champion of those human - dominated sectors , which envied Coruscant ' s privileged position and influence over the worlds of the Spin . Thus , the Perlemian Trade Route ' s values were defined by those of Alsakan as opposed to Coruscant . The Alsakani saw the Republic as overly - powerful , having sought a limited economic and political union during the founding of the Republic , and were a people aristocratic in their values , enthusiastic for colonization and local independence , and cared little for bureaucracy or mass - produced goods beyond warships and blasters . Alsakan ' s national epic , the " Archaiad " , named the Perlemian " the Axis " , and described it as " an arrow sent into the possible . " Thus the young Republic became divided into two very different civilizations , each defined by its separate hyperlane . Conflict first flared when the younger sons of Alsakani nobles , seeking to distance themselves from authority , established small colonies in the Inner Rim . Meanwhile , the great trading conglomerates of the Spin - the Grand Companies - pressed Rimward into the Slice in pursuit of raw materials , forming a territory dubbed the Exploitation Region that was actively controlled by the Grand Companies by 17 , 000 BBY . The settlement of the Inner Rim around the Perlemian was bolstered by refugees displaced by the Grand Companies ' activities . Around 17 , 000 BBY , Alsakan led the Axis worlds in moving south to block the Grand Companies , claiming resource - rich worlds in the path of their expansion . The Conflicts . The first wars . The First Alsakan Conflict began in 17 , 018 BBY when armed Duros freighters clashed with Alsakani warships . The Republic ' s Coruscant government backed the Grand Companies , invading and occupying Virujansi before it was liberated by Alsakan . Further clashes took place at Porus Vida and Belasco , and the fleets of Coruscant and Alsakan clashed indecisively in the hyperspace minefields between the two systems at the Battle of Kes . The first conflict ended in 16 , 800 BBY when the Bureau of Ships and Services , which controlled the hyperspace beacon system both sides depended on , threatened to withhold navigational data if the war continued . The Challat Compromise temporarily resolved questions of representation in the Galactic Senate , but Alsakan continued to sponsor southward settlement across the Slice to seize raw materials . With another war on the horizon , Corellia - sympathetic to Alsakan but with deep ties to the Spin and the Grand Companies - inserted the " Contemplanys Hermi " clause into the Galactic Constitution , which gave it the right to recuse itself from the Republic if the two sides reopened hostilities . The First Alsakan Conflict and its resolution set the pattern for fourteen thousand years of history : Alsakani nobles and Coruscant - backed megacorporations competed for resources in the Expansion Region while Corellia protected its own interests in the father reaches of the Corellian Run but tried to avoid choosing sides . Each conflict effectively split the Republic into three " de facto " independent states , sometimes for centuries at a time . The first five conflicts , fought across the Indecta Era to the end of the Kymoodon Era , saw repeated attempts to secure a decisive victory using fleets of capital ships , but while both Coruscant and Alsakan were raided , neither side had the military resources to split its forces between attack and defense , and neither wished to leave itself defenseless . This prompted a shift in tactics : squadrons of battleships like the Alsakani " Atgeir " - class battlecruisers and Coruscant ' s " Gilagimar " guarded both sides ' Core planets , while fast cruisers launched raids into the Expansion Region . This was best exemplified by Admiral Hirken ' s tenacious defense of the Alsakani colonies in the Northern Dependencies in 12 , 980 BBY , which decided the conclusion of the Fifth Alsakan Conflict . Subsequent campaigns followed a pattern of raids and ripostes in the colonies and a ceasefire in the Core . During the conflicts , numerous items of historic interest were destroyed , including two of the Wonders of the Galaxy : Belgoth ' s Beacon , a hyperspace beacon and satellite dating from around 25 , 100 BBY , was destroyed in the Core Campaigns of the Second Alsakan Conflict in around 15 , 600 BBY . The centerpiece of the Alsakan Mosaics was destroyed during Cleansing of Rucapar in 14 , 450 BBY the Third Alsakan Conflict . The Pius Dea Era . After the Galactic Republic fell under the control of Pius Dea theocrats in 12 , 000 BBY , it began a series of increasingly - brutal Crusades against the species of the Outer Rim . In response , Alsakan and much of the Axis seceded from the Republic around 11 , 820 BBY . The Sixth Alsakan Conflict was a vicious war between Alsakan and the Pius Dea Republic , which saw Alsakan open up secret lines of communication with numerous species that had been the victims of the Crusades , including the Duros , Herglics and Hutts . From 11 , 100 BBY , the Pius Dea began a series of violent Inquisitions to root out heresy within its own ranks . Alsakan collaborated with the Caamasi and the Jedi Order to spread a secret faith within the Pius Dea to create a movement of Renunciates that would help them restore the Republic . In 10 , 967 BBY the Renunciates declared themselves , sparking the Seventh Alsakan Conflict , also known as the Pius Dea Civil War . This saw Alsakani battlecruisers attacking Pius Dea Faithful strongholds at Ixtlar , Fondor and Cyrillia , backed up by Jedi privateers and Herglic , Duros and Hutt warships . The Conflict ended with the arrest of Supreme Chancellor Contispex XIX by the Jedi at the Battle of Uquine . Conclusion . Though the Republic was restored , the Alsakan Conflicts would continue for another four thousand years , occasionally marked by atrocities like the Osara Mundicide of the Tenth Alsakan Conflict prior to the 9400s BBY . Eventually , however , the Conflicts grew less brutal and the period of peace stretched longer , until after 8000 BBY the Alsakan Conflicts were considered minor , almost antiquarian divisions . The Seventeenth and final Alsakan Conflict flared up in the aftermath of the Galactic War , which concluded in the 3600s BBY . The Axis continued building up its fleet , developing a capable force of mass - produced sublight missile corvettes . In response , the Republic Navy under Supreme Chancellor Vedij developed a fleet of " Invincible " - class fast battleships , designed to overwhelm Alsakan and Corulag ' s fleets in a direct assault . Alsakan ' s corvette squadrons successfully defended the Perlemian systems against Republic raids , but the decisive role was played by the Corellians , who responded to the saber - rattling of both sides by building a fleet of long - range frigates . These had originally been designed as pickets for Corellia ' s battleships , but technological breakthroughs during their construction enabled them to be fitted with fast engines , strong deflector shields , and heavy turbolasers , rendering the massive battleships of both sides obsolete . In 3017 BBY , Corellian privateers inflicted heavy defeats on both Alsakan and Coruscant , leading both to join forces and declare war on Corellia . Republic forces were rapidly outfought , and Corellian Prince - Admiral Jonash e Solo dictated a peace treaty at swordpoint on the floor of the Senate . Aftermath . Jonash e Solo ' s peace proved enduring . The true victor of the Alsakan Conflicts was Corellia , whose neutrality allowed it to protect and enrich its colonies in the Corellian Hegemony around the Corellian Run and the Corellian Trade Spine . The conflicts between Coruscant and Alsakan along the Axis made settlement along the Perlemian Trade Route increasingly unattractive , resulting in a shift of colonists to the west of the Corellian Run and along the growing Trade Spine . The Corellian Hegemony in the Expansion Region thrived at the expense of the Slice , attracting billions of colonists and seeing the development of the 77 sectors along the Run , a region that Corellia dominated as late as the Galactic Civil War . The Alsakan Conflicts were notable in helping to spread the High Galactic alphabet throughout the galaxy . While Aurebesh remained the dominant writing system , Alsakan heavily promoted the High Galactic alphabet as an alternative script for Galactic Basic as part of its efforts to portray itself as an alternate galactic capital . Owing to Alsakan ' s values , High Galactic became a popular script among upper - class Basic speakers , and its influence endured for millennia after the Alsakan Conflicts .