Alliance-Somakian War

The Alliance-Somakian War was fought between the Alliance of Planets and Moons, and the Somakian Empire between the 12th of April 2415 and 3rd of October 2420. The war began when the Empire invaded the Alliance colony planet of Athirat in the Fringe. The Battle of Athirat followed, when a fleet of Alliance navy ships jumped to Athirat to defend the colony. Many more battles followed. The bloodiest campaign of the war was the Aberloth Campaign, in which the Alliance attempted to invade and take control of the Aberloth star system, which was under Somakian control. There were six planets in the system and the Alliance sent five million soldiers to take them all. The campaign was overseen by General D'nok Bri, a Trondyte alien. The campaign ended with an Alliance retreat after two million of their soldiers were killed. During the war the Wardens also fought, as per their training, though this was mostly just defending Alliance worlds from Somakian invasion, acting as a sort of Home Guard. The war ended in 2420 when the Somakians, severly drained of soldiers and resources due to the fighting, agreed to sign a peace treaty with the Alliance, known as the Treaty of Malpas, named after the planet it was signed on. During the war the Alliance Senate placed a trade embargo on the Somakian Empire, meaning no Alliance corporation or member world could trade with them. At the time, the war was the deadliest war in galactic history, responsible for the deaths of about three billion individuals, both military and civilian. The death toll was surpassed in the Alliance Civil War, nearly forty years later.