Orvus Sanctions

The Orvus Sanctions were a series of clauses in the Treaty of Thaniss that ended the Great War requiring many concessions from the Orgrokkì, namely that the Ork clans keep to the Orvus system and no further and that they pay a staggering two-trillion credits to the Core Alliance. Many in the Core consider the Sanctions unjust and cruel to the Orks as it has effectively bankrupted their economy and plunged them into several years of civil war. Others consider it justice against a people who ravaged the Core and caused untold amounts of death and destruction. In the years since, a lone half Ork has risen to the position of Khan in the Orvus system and it is worried that he has plans to invade the Core and do away with the Sanctions. 
== History ==
At the conclusion of the Great War's final battles, the remaining leaders of the Coalition met with the Alliance leadership to discuss a truce. While the scattered and Reach-bound races were too distant to constrain reasonably and too weakened to pay off any significant debt to the Core, the Orks were a Core race that sided with the Reach and aided in the killing and enslavement of many other races. Since they were the closest and had reaped a vast fortune from their conquest, the Orks had become the Coalition's scapegoat and the target of the Alliance's ire. 
The main Ork leader left at the time, Dagar Bloodsown, had lost two sons to the war and was deep in his grief. Eager to spare the rest of his kin further death, he eagerly agreed to whatever terms the Alliance would set. With this, he plunged the Orks into a deep financial debt and forced many of his people to relocate to the secluded and inhospitable Orvus system that they had originated from. Confident that the other clans would not risk the Alliance's wrath by refusing to repay their debt, Dagar was met with intense scorn when he met with the other clan chief's to collect their hoards. Many turned him away and refused his terms altogether. 
Dagar was eventually killed outside Fort Blackspear trying to collect payment from the Blackspears and the Alliance has placed a halt on any relief efforts to the Orks until payments resumed. The Sanctions lead to great social discontent among the Orks, causing a divide that has left many no longer able to pay their share and many clans have been obliterated for their hoards. Many Orks cite the Sanctions as their justification for serving as mercenaries, pirates, or bounty hunters and a seething bitterness for the Core remains in most. In recent years, a new Khan has emerged - Atriok Blackpaw - and has united most of the clans into a new Mongrel Horde. There are concerns in the Alliance that this means the shadow of a new Great War is looming. 
== List of Demands ==
== Trivia ==
*The Orvus Sanctions were inspired by the real life Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I and placed heavy reparations on Germany for its part in instigating the war.