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Karkaris became a warzone when Karkarodon authorities attempted to attack Behram's network of safehouses, resulting in a massive civil war, Behram's men instead lured the authorities into a trap and overthrew the government. Behram implemented his own authoritarian regime, delivering powerful speeches of the Inner Circle, a revolutionary political party and armed paramilitary force. Behram seeks to see a return to an autocratic rule like that of pre-Separatist Karkaris, as well as the presence of a royal crown in the Inner Circle's logo, it is likely the group have the overall intention to one day appoint Behram as supreme ruler over the Karkarodon nation and establish an empire under him that expands across all of the Galaxy. To achieve this goal, he secretly procured and produced a large arsenal of deadly chemical weapons to be used as a first strike weapon on many key government and military installations throughout the Galaxy. To cover his trail, Behram convinced Claude Bloom, the leader of the Children of Symmetry to become his bomb-maker and Bloom created a front company called Freegate Industries, distributing the chemical weapons to various rogue shipping outlets in the Outer-Rim. To further cover his tracks, Behram rallied a warlord named Waraabe to take control of several Outer-Rim paramilitary groups in Wild Space and Core Worlds and presumably other nations to seize control of the aforementioned outlets. Behram also recruited most of the Karkarodon military to his plan of invading the Core Worlds and plotting a coup d'état against the current leader of Karakaris by using the Karkarodon people’s belief that their war against the Imperial Empire was still justified and convincing the top Karkarodon officers that any peace agreement was a mistake.

With his chemical weapons ready and military invasion force settled, Behram hijacked Karakaris' aircraft en route to negotiate a peace treaty with the Imperial Empire. Behram's men forced the aircraft to crash land, they swarmed the site. Behram killed the leader's security detail and kidnapped him to a forced labor camp, which is basically a castle, where he would be interrogated. Meanwhile, Metal Crew focus on rescuing Hercules and allies from Behram's prisons. After disabling anti-air sites the Karkardons had placed on oil rigs, Overseer informs Metal Crew that the Sixth Fleet is mopping up the area and gives them a brief rundown of the gulag they are about to storm and that they are rescuing Hercules and recovering stolen and guarded intel in a panic room. The group is ferried on several transports as escort fighters destroy an anti-air site near a cliff. The Sixth Fleet then begins to bombard the gulag as the transports begin sniping defenders on the walls.

Fighting their way through the gulag, they arrive at a control room where Damocles hacks into the control system while Metal Crew members begin clearing cells. Damocles then tells them that Hercules was recently moved to the east wing, and that the armory is their best bet to reach them. As the group enters the armory, Damocles soon spots enemies moving in, who the team are able to repulse by cleverly using Plasma Shields to draw their fire away. Rappelling down to the bottom level, the team activates their night vision and engage another group of defenders. Upon clearing the hallway of enemies and making it to the other side, Clearing more enemies, the team then breaches into a shower room and engage more enemies, fighting their way to the other side. Now clear of enemies, Damocles soon informs them that there are two heat signatures, one of them being their prisoner. As they breach the wall separating them, Hercules overwhelms his guard. As Damocles yells for the prisoner to stand down, he quickly realizes that the prisoner is Hercules, who was captured during Operation Kingfish. When the building shakes, with Overseer informing them that the Imperial Navy has resumed their bombardment. Damocles and the team try to escape through a passageway, but are cut off by falling debris and are forced to find another route. They arrive in a cafeteria where an undetonated bomb has crashed through the ceiling. Worried that they have no way to escape, Damocles fired a flare through the ceiling which a shuttle pilot spots and drops a skyhook. All of the men are able to latch on and escape before the gulag is destroyed. Hyperion later built their own oil derrick ontop of the gulag.

The Inner Circle invaded Poseirei, with the Children of Symmetry acting as supporting infantry. With no Imperial reinforcements, Hyperion mercenaries and security guards were devastated by manned gunships. With a swift victory, Behram would reclaim his throne as rightful king of Poseirei. With an abundance of patriotic soldiers fighting for Behram, the Children of Symmetry would properly align their interests with Behram. Claude Bloom would become a high-ranking advisor for Behram's empire. Waraabe, a warlord for Behram, would set out to align other militias with his own. The Umbaran militia didn't hesitate at the opportunity and several other independent militias joined Waraabe. Waraabe became Behram's chief of security and intelligence officer. Key members of the Inner Circle would act as military leaders in charge of attacking multiple fronts at once. The Inner Circle would seemingly have an endless wave of soldiers, highly armed and dangerous set loose across the Outer-Rim, invading planets and enlisting more soldiers for their cause.