Novayan–Saiyanese War

The Novayan–Saiyanese War is a centuries-long military conflict which began simultaneously with the War against the Sith. The war began when the Saiyanese Stellar Federation, a democratic federation under a hereditary plutocratic oligarchy and supported but actually manipulated by the Sith Order secretly, attacked the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth in an effort to dethrone and replace the NSC with the SSF itself as the new hegemonic hyperpower. The war stalemated after two centuries of offensives and defensives that cost millions of lives. Limited scale offensives saw little gains but more casualties, though some limited scale attacks saw the destruction of important assets, the capture or retaking of strategic areas, and the elimination of high-ranking officers.
==Prelude==
===A Golden Age in the Void===
The rule of the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, a federal state under a hereditary military dictatorship, led to a golden age of peace and prosperity for the inhabitants of the Void. The NSC, being the dominant hegemonic hyperpower, found itself policing much or most of the Void, especially the Outer Regions and No Man's Regions where required military service saw men and women being employed outside of the NSC performing civil-military operations such as peacekeeping, humanitarian missions, pirate wars, crime wars, liberation wars and suppression of extremist revolts and groups, and the Known and Explored Regions where NSC military and police forces help maintain the peace and order. The NSC Armed Forces, once seen as a defense force and now a volunteer-based military force capable of force projection, became the main driving force in keeping the peace in the Void.
NSC military units stationed in the Outer Regions and No Man's Regions were bolstered by local militias, pirates, local volunteers, colonial troops, and local police and military forces. NSC outreach offices were established to help engage with different parts of the regions' worlds and local communities with services, education, infrastructure, development and healthcare, while development banks were set up to provide financial resources to help businesses and get started. NSC-trained local inspectors helped maintain standard safety laws while investigators trail what, when, how, where and why a crime or incident happened. NSC military forces were usually deployed to install a democratic government, especially if the previous government was found to be corrupt, despotic, totalitarian and oppressive; the only exceptions were extremist parties which were elected to do what they promised to the people.
===A new challenger approaches===
The Saiyanese Stellar Federation, a federal state under a hereditary plutocratic oligarchy, have been expanding slowly. Unlike the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, the SSF is aggressive towards those it sees as having socialism or communism, leading to preemptive military intervention, covert or not. This results in the installment of governments and regimes friendly to Saiyane and composed of right-wing democratic, plutocratic and autocratic governments. Most of the pro-Saiyanese states were military occupational transitional governments, some have governments installed legitimately and with consent, while others were governments installed by the Saiyanese illegitimately and without the consent of the native inhabitants. The SSF Armed Forces, also known as the Federal Saiyanese Armed Forces, a conscript-based military force capable of force projection, is the primary force in keeping control over the "more rowdy" worlds.
SSF military units stationed in the Outer Regions and No Man's Regions bolstered local allied militias and military and police forces, which were known for committing sentient rights abuses and violations, including massacres and genocides. SSF outreach offices were also established to help with different parts of the regions' worlds and local communities, but some conditions - such as one where those with leftist sympathies have to abandon their leftist sympathies or ties - must be followed, or else the local natives will not receive any benefits. SSF military forces were deployed to install a government that would be aligned with Saiyane. Those who follow political ideologies that contradict with the ideologies of the Saiyanese were treated with suspicion and usually sent to prisons, even those were imprisoned because all the minor crime they committed is that they speak out against their governments and their hypocrisy. Banned political ideologies that were considered "unacceptable" and/or "dangerous" were social democracy, democratic socialism, reformism, revolutionary socialism, and even religious socialism.