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6/21/2025, 2:53:17 AM
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The Zzkon system is a treasure trove of FTL resources, making Bozkir look like a barren waste in comparison. The dethek, as well, were a highly advanced people, not yet capable of FTL travel but already having explored their home system and even having settled some of the planets and moons in it. The dethek might have been willing to trade with the kyn, and that was a problem for the Bozkir Freehold, as it would wreck its FTL resource monopoly. The Bozkir sabotaged negotiations between the Freeholds Congress and the dethek (who did not yet have a united world government) and then contrived to go to war with the dethek, looking to seize control of the outer Zzkon planets and push the dethek back to Moraal, perhaps even wipe them out.
This proved to be a costly mistake. Kyn ships were better than dethek ones, to the point where 3:1 odds against was still considered favorable to the kyn...but Bozkir was outnumbered 10:1, and had much longer supply lines from the Bozkir system to Zzkon, measured in months, while the dehtek could resupply any planet in a matter of weeks at most. The war quickly became a stalemate that would, through sheer numbers and industrial capacity, eventually favor the dethek over Bozkir.
Bozkir had hired multiple mercenary groups, but after a year of war it started formally asking other Freeholds for aid in the war, which set off alarm bells back on Kass, not the least of which because the Bozkir were increasingly obviously looking to exterminate the dethek entirely. Coupled with the war being an obvious attempt by Bozkir to maintain its FTL resource monopoly, the members of the Freeholds Congress instead voted as one to declare war on Bozkir. It was stronger than any of them but it was not stronger than ALL of them. Facing a war on two fronts, Bozkir surrendered.
3/4
The Zzkon system is a treasure trove of FTL resources, making Bozkir look like a barren waste in comparison. The dethek, as well, were a highly advanced people, not yet capable of FTL travel but already having explored their home system and even having settled some of the planets and moons in it. The dethek might have been willing to trade with the kyn, and that was a problem for the Bozkir Freehold, as it would wreck its FTL resource monopoly. The Bozkir sabotaged negotiations between the Freeholds Congress and the dethek (who did not yet have a united world government) and then contrived to go to war with the dethek, looking to seize control of the outer Zzkon planets and push the dethek back to Moraal, perhaps even wipe them out.
This proved to be a costly mistake. Kyn ships were better than dethek ones, to the point where 3:1 odds against was still considered favorable to the kyn...but Bozkir was outnumbered 10:1, and had much longer supply lines from the Bozkir system to Zzkon, measured in months, while the dehtek could resupply any planet in a matter of weeks at most. The war quickly became a stalemate that would, through sheer numbers and industrial capacity, eventually favor the dethek over Bozkir.
Bozkir had hired multiple mercenary groups, but after a year of war it started formally asking other Freeholds for aid in the war, which set off alarm bells back on Kass, not the least of which because the Bozkir were increasingly obviously looking to exterminate the dethek entirely. Coupled with the war being an obvious attempt by Bozkir to maintain its FTL resource monopoly, the members of the Freeholds Congress instead voted as one to declare war on Bozkir. It was stronger than any of them but it was not stronger than ALL of them. Facing a war on two fronts, Bozkir surrendered.
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