Remind me: Bretonia v Kusari war, reason

[pbrione]

I put some thought into this myself when writing up Bretonia's history for the wiki.

My views were that Bretonia had historical claims on Tau 31 and Tau 23 since sometime during the 600s, but that since then Kusari's power and agressiveness had grown somewhat and they were looking for an opportunity to dispute those claims.

Then, in about 809/810, BMM began a period of aggressive expansion into Tau 23, leading to disputes over mining rights with the IMG. There were a few small skirmishes and the IMG began a long legal case in the Bretonian courts against BMM, but the two groups were never really at war. Kusari, however, seeing its opportunity to reverse Bretonia's claims over the Taus (and motivated by corsairs / hogosha / nomads / whatever other reasons dicussed) began to take up the cause of the IMG, far beyond what the IMG themselves had originally intended.

BAF Fleets mobilse in Tau 31 in a show of strength, so KNF Fleets mobilise in Tau 29. Some skirmishes begin and, before you know it, a full war has started. Well, of course, once war gets going the original causes are soon forgotten (it is somewhat like WWI in this respect - the trigger, in this case the IMG dispute, was a fairly irrelevent pretext) and by now the goals of both Houses have changed completely, aiming for total victory over one another.

Well, that's my opinions, feel free to disagree. In case anyone's interested, my history of Bretonia (largely invented after consultation with the various faction leaders and other Bret players) can be found here : http://www.discoveryfl.com/wiki/index.php?...retonia_history which partially describes the causes I've outlined above. If anyone can come up with a more convincing sounding history from Bretonia's perspective, I would consider amending the timeline accordingly.

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Sir Stanley Nelson




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