Tyran War

The Tyran War, also known as the Outer Colonial War of Independence, Freedom War, and Tyran-Federation Conflict, was a large-scale war spanning the territory of the Tyran Empire starting between 6 and 4 BC and ending in 9 AC. Prior to the galaxy-spanning War of the Broken Bow, the Tyran War was possibly the largest conflict in the recent history of the Vernarca Nebula. The war was also of drastic historical importance, serving as both the beginning of the end of the Tyran Empire and the impetus for the formation of the Vernarcan Federation and the international Yazera Pact alliance.

Background

The Tyran War had a truly epic scale, spanning hundreds of star systems within the Vernarca Nebula, but it also had an annoyingly nebulous beginning. Scholars of the early Federation period ascribe start dates for the Tyran War ranging over over three years from 4-6 BC, but the first signs of the coming conflict were as early as the first month of 9 BC with the rise of the various rebel cells across imperial space.

God-Emperor Shahso and Internal Developments

General Shahso took power over the Tyran Empire in 34 AC through the use of a neutronic bomb wiping out much of the peace-favoring faction of politicians in an unprecedented coup-de-tat. After this event, Shahso installed himself as the first God-Emperor of the Tyran Empire. A strong and politically savvy leader, at least at first, Shahso quickly established a bureaucracy under his absolute control, through which he would expand the empire to new heights of interstellar oppression.

His first act after attaining control of the imperial government was one of the most massive atrocities committed in recorded history, the elaborately orchestrated genocide of the Enolians. His theft of the Losekran Morphogenic Virus from a vault on Teralla led to its proliferation across Canamar and other Enolian colony worlds, wiping out the vast majority of the species and closing those worlds to the survivors forever.

After the Enolians were gone, their cities and colonies would be repopulated by the Tarasze, but here Shahso made his first big mistake: he began to treat those far from the "homeworld" as lesser than those who lived upon its surface. In part this was pragmatic, as he could keep a closer eye on the inhabitants of Tarash than those of far-flung colonies and thus felt safer allowing them greater expression. But tyranny is an unnatural force, and the increasing oppression of the outer colonies began to foster dissension, arguably sealing the fate of the Empire right then and there.

Falacian Developments

Meanwhile, the constant disputes between the Tyran Empire and the Falacian Dominion were within a hair of erupting into war during this era. Of particular note is the region of space surrounding the Haras and Varaltin-Zartha systems, which straddled the internationally accepted border. Both nations wanted the entirety of this region, but neither of them was able to hold the internal stability required to focus on such a drawn-out campaign against an equally matched foe.

The Falacian populace also held support for the rebelling peoples of the outer Tyran colonies. Prior to the ascension of Emperor Genore, it was considered to be a political suicide move to actually lend aid, but the government was always looking for an excuse to lay down a beating on their old enemy.

Timeline

The war's nebulous early years have frustrated scholars since the moment the war left the current events section. At the time, few beyond the empire acknowledged it as a war until the introduction of international interests at the Battle of Vistari. Certainly none within its borders publicly saw it that way, as the rebel groups were obviously nothing more than upstarts to be crushed. But later reinterpretations by historians have revised the war's true start date to somewhere between 4 and 6 BC with the first declarations of independence.

Marakat and Varaltin-Zartha Independence Movements

Raga Massacre

Enolian Freedom Movement

First Battle of Canamar

International Scheming

Teralla Prime

Operation Shadow Hand

The War Goes International

Battle of Vistari

The Yazera Pact

Battle of Kerillis

Sack of Filikar

The Tide Turns

First Battle of Zartha

Second Battle of Zartha

Orel Engagement

Second Battle of Canamar

Battle of Inielus

Bakino Campaign

De-Escalation

Shahso's Death

Collapse of Order

The Rubber-Stamp Armistice

Aftermath

Fragmentation of the Empire

Project Egress

The Oathbreaker War