Terran-Illusian War

This was a war between the United Planets and the Illusians. It was marked by its brutality and the random destruction of the Illusians. It was thought at the time that they did not fully understand how to go about a war.
When the Terran human Rewton is captured by the Illusians he tricks them into thinking that all humans have incorpreal invisible guardian angles called Berties and this so confuses the Illusians that they call a ceasefire and the war ends.
Timeline
The war happens in the year 1113 by the Kochabian calendar.
Quote from Tall Tales In Space:
It was a new war, but was not wanting in bloodshed. After only six months of conflict a lot of lives had been lost. Some of them had been people that Rewton had liked. The Illusians seemed to be either new at the art of war or were very brutal. They attacked military and civilian targets with equal ferocity. They were as likely to destroy a hospital as anything of military worth.The Illusians had slaughtered many human colonies with big bombs fired from space. They didn’t seem to understand humans, and appeared to want to clear them out, the same way a man would wipe out an ants nest. There was little to no diplomacy. There were no surrenders on either side and, as Rewton had already reflected, they seemed to take no prisoners. He often wondered at the reason why he might still be alive.
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