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PROLOGUE

Secession, Ecologic (3647-48)

The war leading to the independence of the Coordinate of Accord [See also
Ecologic Rebellion, Accord, Ecolitian Institute] .

During the years 3645-46, Imperial relations with the Fuardian Conglomerate
became increasingly strained, and a number of colony systems protested the ad
valorem and ad personam taxes levied by the Empire to support the
infrastructure necessary to restrain the Conglomerate. Among the discontented
colony systems were chose of Accord (Imperial Sector Five) and Sligo (Imperial
Sector Seven).

Accord used high-technology sabotage and commando tactics to destroy key
military fueling and staging bases (Haversol, Cubera, Fonderol) at a time when
the majority of Imperial forces were deployed in Sector Two to counter the
perceived Fuardian threat. The Accord sabotage limited to an even greater
extent the ability of Imperial warcraft to reach Accord's isolated location on
the Parthanian Rift.

Unable to deal with potentially extended conflicts on three fronts, the Empire
reduced Sligo, where casualties exceeded fifteen million, despite an initially
published estimate of only three million [See Lies for the Popular Good].
Following the Empire's destruction of Sligo and all installations in its
system, the provisional government of Accord launched a successful ecologic
attack on Old Earth in 3647, primarily using the resources of the Ecolitan
Institute [See The Black Institute]. The resulting Ecollapse eventually
fragmented the terran ecology. The Empire retaliated by sending a full fleet
to the Accord system. Innovative and suicidal tactics developed and
spearheaded by Ecolitan [later Prime] James Joyson Whaler [See WrightWhaler
Controversy] resulted in the total destruction of that Imperial fleet in late
3647.

The Fuardian Conglomerate then unveiled a new series of warships of
performance and armament vastly superior to existing Imperial craft [See CX
Affair] and seized former Imperial systems in Sector Two (the Three System
Bulge).

With the Empire weakened by the increasingly unstable political climate and
mounting death toll from the Ecollapse on Old Earth, the potential of further
ecological devastation from the Ecolitan Institute, and the clear
technological superiority of the Conglomerate, Emperor Jynstin II recognized
the independence of Accord and shifted all Imperial forces and battle groups
to Sector Two, leading to the Truce of Tierna. Under the Truce, the
Conglomerate retained the Three System Bulge, except that the then-undeveloped
system of Artos was ceded to New Avalon, and the Empire ceded the undeveloped
system of D'Sanya to Chezchos, later the Federated Hegemony.

The perceived failure of the monarchy led to the Senatorial Reformation [See