Secession War

The single most bloody war in human history, the "Secession War" started with the attempted secession of the first members of the Aurora Pact from the Deltan Confederacy and ended, two decades later, with the surrender and dissolution of the latter after the Battle of Terra.

MINOR CONTRIBUTING FACTORS

• Cessian Uprising
• The Lost Hope Rebellion

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

• Assassination of President Morgenstern
• Election of President Castellan
• The Colonial Reformation Act
• The Amarant Outerworlds Secession Crisis
• The Aurora Pact Signing
• The Spacer's Rest Massacre
• The Dissolution of the Deltan Confederacy

MINOR EVENTS

• Operation Mongoose - Codename given to the clandestine mission to destroy the shipyards producing the DCNV Constrictor and its sister ships above Persephone III.

SIGNIFICANT COMBAT ENGAGEMENTS

• The Battle of the Blockade - The first military engagement, and the start of the Secession War proper.
• The Battle for Tantalus Reach - Collective name given to an extraordinarily bloody and protracted series of skirmishes and small engagements fought in and around mining operations in the mineral-rich Tantalus Reach Asteroid Field. Never conclusively won by either side, though the Reach nominally changed hands several times during the course of the war.
• The Battle of Terra
• The Battle of Thaddeus - A major military engagement notable for the destruction of the DCNV Intolerance by Flight Commander Jensen Canterbury.
• The First Battle of Farshore - The Aurora Navy's single largest individual defeat during the course of the war, primarily down to the leadership of Admiral Kwame Ngogbe of the Deltan Confederate Navy.
• The Second Battle of Farshore - The retaking of Farshore from occupying Deltan Confederation forces.

MINOR COMBAT ENGAGEMENTS

• The Battle of the Blindspot - A sneak attack by the Aurora Pact on the Gas Refineries on Tau Bootis b

NOTABLE INDIVIDUALS

Aurora Pact

• GOVERNMENT
  • Frederic Amarant - First President of the Aurora Pact and founder of Amarant Outerworlds.

• MILITARY
  • Flight Commander Jensen Canterbury - Decorated Fighter Ace killed at the Battle of Thaddeus.
  • Commodore Sae Jung-Yim
  • Commodore Kana Thread
  • Lieutenant Maria Basille

Deltan Confederacy

• GOVERNMENT
  • President Jeremiah Castellan - President of the Deltan Confederacy

• MILITARY
  • Admiral Kaspar Undine - Perpetrator of the Spacer's Rest Massacre; indicted and convicted of war crimes.
  • Admiral Kwame Ngogbe - A prominent Confederation Navy fleet commander; killed at the Battle of Thaddeus.
  • Commander Shona Friday
  • Lieutenant Klaudia Kushenko ("The Howling Banshee")
  • Lieutenant Jonathan Randall
  • Ensign Ryan Chegery