Blue Giant:The Treaty Zone

The Astræ'an Empire and The Federated Territories both started expanding into Sector 5 soon after the Groombridge Accord had been signed. Some of the factions in the Federation where already there, such as S.Y.L.A and the Oruc-Pang but after the accord was signed everyone else began to trickle in. At first there was enough space for everyone, but after a few decades a few of the groups started getting all territorial and argumentative and little wars broke out. This caused a massive influx of military hardware into the region and eventually the various factions of the Federated territories went to war with the The Astræ'an Empire.

The last full scale war started in 2969 and lasted twenty three years. Each federal faction had one or two small fleets in the zone and the Empire had just three of its twenty seven fleets . Once again the Empress Astræ'a sued for peace and left negotiations in the hands of Admiral Osada who wisely sought help from a race called the Flarin. The Flarin were excellent negotiators and were accepted by many sides as an independant and neutral party and the eventual treaty satisfied everyone except the Oruc-Pang who had been making a fortune as arms dealers, smugglers and scouts during the conflicts.

(One tiny little glitch in Flarin psychology meant that the sub-sectors that the treaty rangers were given to patrol were divided into hexes twenty light across and five hundred light years deep.)