Korzon-Jimmian War

The Korzon-Jimmian War, as it became known afterward, began on different dates, according to the two principal belligerents. Korzon puts the first day of the war on 13 Athnukel 3590. Jimmian puts the formal date of the war six days later, on 14 Lethnion, 1041. When the Jimmian starship Valiant arrives home and is surveyed by the Molequ Prince Regent and he declares Jimmian formally at war with Korzon.

Summary

Converging on the new world of Delezhavos/Aestatle at roughly the same time, a firefight breaks out between a small fleet of Korzon colony ships and their cruiser escort and the Jimmian starship Valiant. The result is almost complete loss for Korzon and serious damage to the Jimmian starship. The few Korzon survivors are rescued by the Jimmian starship and returned to Korzon some months into the war during a brief cease fire, negotiated by Molequ and the new Korzon government under the leadership of Mûn-Fahdik.

The war continues for twenty years, with long stretches of silence punctuated with violent outbursts. The Korzons tend toward open if sudden battles while the Jimmians tend to pursue quiet, special operations raids on intelligence targets. Jimmian seeks to contain Korzon aggression while Korzon seeks to keep Jimmian held back from much of the most promising areas of the galaxy, at least in Korzon's direction.

The war comes to an end after Korzon introduces a new type of shield and a new type of ship outfitted with it. The shield is a static gravimetric distortion aligned along the temporal plane. It slows all incoming matter and energy, allowing traditional shield generators to focus their absorption range and area to specific impact points. The ship is a massive affair, intended solely as a carrier and repair platform to bring two score of traditional cruisers into a theater and maintain and repair them. With these new battle platforms, Korzon attacks and destroys the starship Valiant and then overruns the two Jimmian colonies, Jonteau and Aestatle. Then Korzon moves against the Jimmian home system to completely neutralize Jimmian's fleet. But Anbrond destroys the bulk of the enemy fleet, allowing the combined Jimmian forces enough of an advantage to destroy the remaining ships.

The failure of the Korzon fleet throws the Korzon government into chaos and gives Jimmian time to develop a technological response to the Gravimetric shield. Partly based on advise from Anbrond and partly based on the research of Professor Nietro of Girv University they design and build a new weapon known as the iSeries i262 Penetrator. After refitting most of their fleet with this new missile weapon, the Jimmian fleet liberates Jonteau and then moves directly against Korzon. But rather than attacking the planet, under the command of The Lord Admiral Commander William Faridon, the fleet blockades the Korzon system to prevent any and all shipping from reaching Korzon. Being heavily dependent on shipments of food from the outside, the Korzon home-world is essentially besieged. It is William's plan that without engaging in direct military action, Korzon will nonetheless be forced to surrender.