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Encyclopedia of Galactic History
59th edition, 2996GE
Book 75: The Fazrah
Chapter 7: The Factions

After the near-complete loss of the prized Fazrah battle-fleet, and after the attack from Praetorian warships on the Huju system, and subsequent withdrawl of said ships, the shocked and frightened Lords who remained on the Huju homeworld agreed to peace with the Praetorian and Norak empires.

Representing a new message in Fazrah history, the citizens of Huju denounced war and violence as a means of action and decommissioned all mercenaries and other soldiers under their control. The overwhelming, quick and devastating nature of their loss in the First Battle of Huju convinced those who had experienced it that warfare is nasty and brutish whether you win or lose. This might have been a short lived philosophy even in Huju if Lord Alzene had not taken asylum in Sallegan territory. Once the treaty with the Norak was confirmed Alzene returned to Huju, and was welcomed in open arms as the first to advocate peace. Though Alzene was not the leader of the new Huju Faction that arose, he became the main ambassador and spokesman for it.

In sharp contrast to System Huju's message of peace, was the rebuilding of Fazrah military might occuring in what used to be outlying provinces and lesser territory. In the confusion of Huju's tragic defeat, the leader of the Knoglam system asserted that the empire could be rebuilt, and that Fazrah lords had become too soft. He ordered his supporters to build what ships they could and help him amass a warfleet worthy of the Fazrah name. Lord Knoglam planned to reunite the Fazrah under his rule and shift control of it to Knoglam from the Huju homeworld. He wanted to avoid a fight with the stronger powers until he had shown his fellow lords the rewards of war, by defeating such lesser powers as the Cue Cappan and Amon'krie.

When Lord Alzene visited orbit of Lord Knoglam's homeworld, looking for support for Huju, Lord Knoglam knew the Fazrah would remain splintered until he could show the Huju lords that war lead to victory, not defeat. He toyed with the idea of assasinating Alzene, but decided it would create a backlash against Knoglam.

While the two factions looked for support for other System Lords, some Lords decided they didn't want to be united for peace or for war, and just wanted to be left alone with their own agendas. Thus the Rim faction formed as a loosely governed council for the sole purpose of spreading the idea of more independence. They merely argued that no person, region, planet or system should be forced to work for some "greater whole" regardless of whether it was for peace or war. The faction was named Rim because the outermost systems of Fazrah space signed the original statement of intent. They felt that any union would force the rim systems to work for the core systems with no benefit for themselves.

Thus three factions of Huju were formed, with their own agendas and leaders, and conVersions from one to the other were frequent due to lobbying or political events in other empires.