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IN A.D. 2101 WAR WAS BEGINNING

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Historians tell us there were two separate revolutions in the Tusken government. The first came about as a result of a warlord grown weak with luxury and idle life. This formerly great warlord brought the Tusken Government to control the vast tracks of space it possessed, but lost interest in the way of government and eventually in the politics that kept him in power. It is believed he was called Preacher, he 'died in his sleep', and was replaced by a body of high-ranking aristocrats collectively referred to as Dreamplace.

As near as can be determined, the Dreamplace council was intimidated by the scope of the empire they had to control, and soon began making decisions of questionable merit. A conflict of unidentified and confused nature rose with the Andurians, and a fleet of warships was sent to Attack the powerful Gravey on the other side of the empire.

The Second Revolution came hard and fast to the Tusken people. The upper classes, the only Tusken aware of the outside world or the means of controlling an empire, were decimated in military, religious, and populist uprisings all around the empire, and most all knowledge of the past or of the relations with Tusken neighbors were lost.

Only three things were carried over: the treaties with other nations were maintained, the Andurians were not to be trusted and had placed mines in warp points separating Tusken systems, and a large fleet of Tusken ships had just glassed a Gravey world though the attack decimated the fleet itself.

A military coup in the north ramped up ship production and eventually led a fleet deep into Andurian territory, where they destroyed what they thought to be the Andurian Homeworld. The Nostropholeans and Seuizen protested the Andurian war incessantly, claiming obligations to which the new Tusken leadership (that fragment anyway) had never committed themselves. Eventually a peace with the Andurian people was negotiated, pending the delivery of a number of ships that did not arrive before the Tusken people found their doom.

In the south east a fragment of navy loyal to the old Tusken aristocrats found themselves wholly unprepared for the Gravey counter-attack. This war should never have been started.

The remains of the fleet that attacked the huge Gravey world were swiftly decimated by additional Gravey ships that arrived in-system within months. This began a long period of feint and lunge but the Tusken Navy in that area.

System after system were slowly given up to the Gravey over the course of several years. Often, once it was determined that the Gravey could not be resisted in a given system, all the Gravey would find were abandoned planets. All that might be left in a system would be cloaked recon satellites that remained for years afterward.

Intelligence operations were engaged against specific targets, troop ships, mine sweepers, lone warships. These operations were a great success, limiting the mobility of the Gravey fleets by denying them captured worlds on which to build Resupply Depots and removing their ability to move unharmed through numerous Tusken minefields.

Massive fleets were assembled, made of ships custom designed to deal with Talismanic ships. These fleets were trained to their max and were pulled back when the Gravey closed with them, tempting the Gravey to move further away from their supply lines and perhaps to engage the fleet in sectors that gave some advantage to the shieldless Tusken fleet.

In one case, the Tusken fleet was split into nine parts, each taking a different path to escape the Gravey aggressor. Only one of the sub-fleets was destroyed that month, and only one other was caught as it retreated. The survivors of this action would later join with larger fleets to win one only a few Tusken victories in this fight.

The victory, however, was short-lived. An additional Gravey fleet of greater size and mass was sighted on its way.

During this time, the Tusken worlds were thrown into disarray and riot. Only incredible efforts of construction saved them from ruin and, by extraordinary measures of troop distribution, every world was brought back to jubilation, save of course for those in a system with significant Gravey presence.

Occasionally a smaller fleet would be snuck through and around Gravey Fleet movements and strike at Gravey worlds. These fleets only met with minimal success, when they succeeded at all.

Eventually the Gravey began fielding ships with the fearful Quantum Reactor, sent fleets out with more than three times as many Mine Sweepers as necessary, and devoted enough Intelligence resources to countering Tusken operations that the Gravey fleets could no longer be held back.

Then came the decisions that decided the immediate fate of the Tusken people. A sector was chosen in which to stand and fight the Gravey fleet. The Gravey fleet engaged and utterly destroyed the Tusken defenders. The sector was poorly chosen.

Thinking that the asteroids in the given sector would completely disable Gravey shields, the Tusken Military Commanders failed to test their theory. The asteroids only barely decreased the strength of the shields, and the Gravey were unimpeded.

The Tusken Homeworld was destroyed and the economy fell to riot, again, and the military was only supported by scrapping huge amounts of infrastructure and whole fleets of lesser mothballed ships waiting for retrofit.

Using this funding a second fleet was prepared to face the Gravey and pulled back deeper into the mass of Tusken space. Another fleet was sent across the far side of the empire into the other side of the Gravey Empire, where it succeeded in destroying only a scant few planets.

The Five Races of the Tusken Empire were slowly burned off their planets, leaving behind pits of glass, ash, and salt where cities once stood.

The Military eventually realized that the ships they had assembled, that they were selling off their future to build would never be able to take down a single Gravey fleet. In the hopes that others could do greater things, they began giving ships to the Andurian and Nostropholean empires.

Many of the worlds of the once-Glorious Empire of the Peace-Loving Tusken People began to pull themselves out of riot and chaos and ships began being built again. It was theories that if the Gravey relented their attack for only five months the entire empire would be back on its feet. If they further relented for a year, a fleet could be assembled to face them. Based on this information, the Tusken People held on and perceived, building ships and giving them to the Nostropholean and Andurian peoples.

In the end it became clear that the Gravey fleets would never leave, and would only continue to burn Tusken worlds at the rate they could reach them. The Tusken people would only hold out for as long as hope did, and the Last delusions of hope died when the old allies and older enemies of the Tusken People announced that they would not be able to face the Gravey Threat.