Thread:Tek0516/@comment-2175373-20150211043808/@comment-6752454-20150211203409

Ugh, lost my whole reply

The title of the section and the incomplete story might be giving the wrong impression here.

Katar becomes a critical territory for the Allies in the Great Xonexian Schism. As the DCP attempt to purge the allies from the Scutum-Crux Arm (we made a map error so Katar got retconned from Norma to there) they eventually invade Katar along the Concordat route, which passes through Varapha. The DCP wouldn't make much distinction between the Allies and neutral empires in Katar, so in the case of an lomg inactive users the assumption was that their KSA nations would support the alliance.

Unfortunately for many Katarian nations the only weapons they have capable of even damaging the DCP are the Angelfire missile that would be given to supporting KSA members by the more advanced Allied nations. (The Angelfire is a hyperspatial missile with a range that covers much of Katar.) Also unfortunately besides those limited weapons their fleets are helpless, leading to a series of one-sided attacks as the outnumbered Allied forces employ a defense in depth strategy as they fall back to the Farengeto Wormhole (which has links to half a dozen allied capitals). At Farengeto the allies summon basically every available ship through the wormhole and pull a decisive victory, and within a week the DCP fleets would have retreated from Katar entirely.

The DCP intended to capture Katar relatively intact so damage wouldn't be too high fir the Vixaian under the current plan, since their primary focus there at the time would be eliminating their ability to interfere with their advance, which largely means destroying any Angelfire launch sites and scattering your fleets, possibly leaving a small force behind to secure the territory until they had secured the sector. Other damages and casulties would probably be limited.

Basically it's not a purge, just a couple days of occupation with a bit of an exaggerated title. Your empire isn't getting irreparably damaged or anything like that. You're welcome to change the details of the story (I tried to make it as glorious as I could XD ) or we can retcon things to keep them out of the war at the cost of KSA relations, it's still your fiction. Though Varapha will have some recovery to do it'll be largely back to normal outside of any further DCP incursions into Katar.