Messier Coalition

Following years of encroaching economic exploitation, the plutocracies of the southern extent—known as the Great Houses—leveraged their vast resources and industry to rally the population and break off from the Galactic Republic, igniting what is now known as the Messier Secession War. The ensuing two decades saw slow advances and logistical troubles, as the Republic pushed to reclaim territory against strong resistance by local forces. The war scarred the border planets but only saw the destruction of a single Great House before the Republic’s eventual withdrawal. The Coalition saw a brief period of peace, but in the years that followed, political disagreement between the leaders of the Great Houses—along side personal feuds—cultivated into distrust and animosity. What started as espionage and disruption between Houses escalated into a policy of military intervention, sparking the Messier Civil Wars. The territories are now in a state of perpetual conflict, constantly creating and destroying small factions and attracting mercenary groups with the promise of riches and glory.