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===The Second Galactic War===

The Pentad's basic strategy was that VoidCorp would tank the Rigunmor, and their puppets would tank the Austrins, while the Thuldans did most of the actual offensive work of bringing the war to the Orlamu and Orions.  

As it worked out, the Rigunmor-VoidCorp theater was mostly fought in gridspace, with neither side seeing much profit in kinetic warfare.  The Nariacs were successfully able to tarpit the Austrins but only with continuous material support from VoidCorp.  The Thuldans succeeded in taking a lot of space until their navy got drawn into a fight they shouldn't have taken and got blasted, and the Orions sent assistance to the Borealians to turn a creeping slow Hatire advance into a FreeSpace counterinvasion of Pentad space to force the Thuldans to send support to the Hatire. 

As all the participants exhausted their reserves, and with population numbers starting to sag, the Thuldans and Orions secretly began negotiating a treaty.  The secession of Insight along the Rigunmor border shattered the remaining Pentad will to fight and brought everyone to the table to consider the Thuldan-Orion proposal.