Editing Komra (section)

===The Severing===

By 2013LF (237.M8), differences began to emerge among the ruling councils - the ''Sojt'' - of the most sophisticated Komra worlds.  For all that their ancestors had sought unity in their common labour, their communication technology could not bridge the gaps between the stars.  Without the Warp Drive, the most sophisticated transmissions took months to travel from one world to another.  Communiques travelling the breadth of Komra space were over a year old on their receipt.  It was impossible for their civilization to co-operate under these conditions.  The first hostilities broke out when colonists from Karazak arrived on the world of Dabnug to find Komra from Chelob Hold had already settled the world.  Rather than combine their efforts, the settlers began to war over Dabnug and sent messages to their homeworlds requesting material aid.  Karazak was first to respond, re-directing its newest settler ship to reinforce Dabnug.  For their part, the Sojt of Chelob Hold resolved not only to send aid to Dabnug but to send punitive expeditions to outposts of Karazak.  So began a long period of internecine conflict among the Komra.

If the wars that developed in this period were low-intensity, they were still costly.  The most powerful worlds were too populous to succumb to a direct assault by their rivals, but a colony with a few million settlers could be overwhelmed by the arrival of a hostile fleet of transports.  Komra warfare was total and undivided from civilian life: the tools that had been used to battle with the harsh environments of the core worlds were used just as ruthlessly against the scions of rival worlds.  As the wars raged on, it became clear that Karzor's great population and industrial might made it more than a match for any one of its boisterous colonies.  After a Karzor fleet was barely beaten back from Rakizor itself, the Rakizor Sojt determined to found a league of the young worlds against the Komra homeworld.

The building of the league took considerable time and patience.  Karazak demanded that it host the first conference, and the Chelob Hold Sojt nearly boycotted a discussion on the soil of their arch-rivals.  In the end, Rakizor's emissaries had to threaten the other young worlds with defection, promising to submit to Karzor and fight for the subjugation of the young worlds if the league could not be founded.  The bluff was not called and in 2362LF (586.M8) a new body, the ''Brysojt'' was brought into being to lead the war against Karzor.  Even with their strength combined, the young worlds were outmatched and quickly settled on a desperate measure.  The space-warping superluminal drives of the Komra were known to unleash a hugely destructive burst of particles at their destination.  For centuries, the standard practice of Komra vessels, even in wartime, was to disengage the space-warping drive far above the elliptic of their destination solar system to allow this burst to dissipate harmlessly into space.  Rather than succumb to the might of their homeworld, the league massed its ships and used the combined fleet to unleash a massive particle wave at Karzor itself.

The destruction was total.  Unforgiving Karzor and its tens of billions of inhabitants were wiped out.  Many of the league's ships were lost in the attack, victims of the abominable energies they had unleashed.  In achieving victory, the league had thrown their civilization back hundreds of years.  Although unrepentant, the victorious worlds were chastened.  If the Komra were to survive, they could never again wage such total wars against one another.  In order to govern the new era of limited conflicts, the Brysojt was established as a court of arbitration over the disputes of the Komra worlds.  It would be housed on a great space fortress, Valaya Station, built from the ruins of Karzor as a monument to the victims of fratricidal war.