Cruxite War

The Cruxite War was a conflict waged between 1 June 2630 and December 2635, that pitted the Interstellar Treaty Organization, primarily the Terran Empire, Empire of Orion, and the Kingdom of Crux, against the Central Republic of Taurus, which was aided by Soviet Republic advisers and special forces. The brocken-ruled Star Kingdom joined the war on the side of the ISTO late in the conflict, after a period of neutrality.
The Cruxite War was the culmination of centuries of military and political disputes over the Galactic Core region. The conflict was the most destructive interstellar war prior to the Great War thirty years later.
== Background ==
The Galactic Core is a highly energetic region of the Milky Way, densely clustered with stars circling the accretion disc of a supermassive black hole. It is rich with stellar formation processes, dying or exploding stars, and gaseous matter, making it valuable as a production source of exotic matter and antimatter. These resources are necessary for starship propellant and interstellar travel.
Several space empires came to emerge in the immediate habitable zone around the Core, attaining their wealth and power mainly through the extraction of these resources and providing them as good for interstellar trade. Other, larger space empires sought advantageous strategic relationships with these Core States. For a time, the states around the core formed their own non-aligned movement, the Core Pact, but this disintegrated in the 2500s and the Core States aligned with one of the three main interstellar alliances: the Kingdom of Crux became a member of the Terran-dominated Interstellar Treaty Organization; the People's Republic of Centaurus had long been communist-aligned and became a satellite state of the Soviet Republic; and the brocken-ruled Star Kingdom remained neutral but associated over time with the Free International Group.
Category:Wars