First Interstellar War

## Factions

Bandorian Protectorate

Asgardian Alliance

League of Asteroid Belt Settlements

Union of Human Workers

vs

United Nations

## Timeframe

12 March 2144- 6 June 2145 (disputed, as the war technically ended with the unofficial end of the trade embargo in August 2145)

Result: Asgardian-Bandorian coalition victory, UN defeat

## Background

The First Interstellar War came about as a result of rising tensions between the UN government on Earth and the Bandorian and Asgardian colonies both in Sol and in other systems. The colonists in the systems outside of Sol especially grew resentful of the restrictions placed on them by the UN, but neither the Protectorate nor the Alliance would commit to military action on their own, having suffered many casualties in the First War of Sol. However, in early March 2144, the UN proposed a new series of restrictions that would further reduce the colonies' freedom; the main restriction was to limit the number of new citizens that each colony could accept each year, based on a limit set by the UN rather than colony leaders. After some talks between the Bandorian and Asgardian leaders, UN diplomats were expelled from four systems, Mystic, Kapetyn, Alpha Centauri, and Proxima on 12 March 2144. In addition to the expulsion of diplomats, Bandorian and Asgardian system commanders ordered all UN-flagged ships in their space to leave immediately.

## Blockade and battle stage

The UN declared these four systems to be in a state of rebellion, ordered all their civilian ships to leave "rebel" space, and initiated a military blockade of these four systems. In addition to the rebellions in these four main systems, other Bandorian and Asgardian systems including Darkstar and Bergeron declared their immediate independence from the UN and activated all their military and naval forces. Some star systems that had been colonized by independent organizations or even UN efforts now declared their independence and began working with the Asgardian and Bandorian alliance, most notably Vaconir. The UN's blockading fleets were strengthened by many warp interdictors, which were a special type of ship that prevented nearby ships from using their warp drives. Since this was the only way of interstellar or FTL travel at the time, these interdictors could easily shut down interstellar traffic in a large area, pulling ships out of warp so that ships with heavier weapons could destroy them. This also meant that, once ships capable of interstellar travel entered the blockaded systems, they could not leave. In late April, the Asgardian government accused the UN of committing war crimes by attempting to starve the populations of these systems. The UN gave no response to these accusations, but tried to increase the blockading forces. A few days later, an Asgardian force of 24 capital ships armed with heavy missiles, which had been stationed in the Sol system, entered the Earth restriction zone, threatening the UN's headquarters. This resulted in a UN fleet of 60 capital ships which had been on its way to reinforce the blockades in the four main rebel systems being quickly redeployed to Earth to engage the Asgardian fleet. The Asgardians fought heroically and 11 of their ships managed to escape, after they had destroyed 37 UN capital ships. This battle took place in early November 2144 and weakened the UN forces considerably, since they only had 20 capital ships for each blockade. Reinforcements were sent, but on 15 December 2144 a Bandorian fleet managed to break through the blockade in Mystic, destroying two interdictors and seven additional UN capital ships. The blockades in the other systems were maintained until 2 June 2145, when Bandorian ships broke through the blockade in Kapetyn, then launched a coordinated attack with Asgardian forces to attack the blockading fleets in Alpha Centauri and Proxima. At the same time, LABS forces in Sol launched a series of attacks on the UN fleets there, acting in coordination with the Bandorian and Asgardian forces in the system. In total, the UN lost 3 capital ships in Sol and 17 capital ships in Alpha Centauri and Proxima on this single day.

## Closing stage

On 6 June 2145 a combined force of 107 Asgardian, Bandorian, and independent capital ships entered Sol and forced the UN fleet to stand down. The UN did impose a trade embargo on all Bandorian and Asgardian systems; however, this was unofficially ended in August 2145 after many UN colonies that had remained loyal during the war now declared their independence and began bypassing the trade embargo; not wishing to lose any more colonies, the UN saw this as the last option available to them. The ending of this embargo was technically the end of the war, despite the earlier stand-down of the UN navy.