Pax-Haydian War

In early 29 ABY, several Outer Rim systems were conquered by a strange force from the Unknown Regions. This force, known as the Haydian Order, had been hiding in the Unknown Regions since the end of the Galactic War almost four thousand years prior, slowly gaining territory and power. Having learned of the fall of the Republic and the weakness of its successor, the New Republic, the Haydians decided that it was the best time to begin taking territory in known space.

The Haydians sent out several flotillas to subjugate planetary systems in the Outer Rim, close to the border with the Unknown Regions. Due to the lack of a strong, centralized military, the Haydians quickly and easily defeated the planetary defense forces and occupied them in a three month long period of rapid expansion. Soon after though, word of the occupations reached the Pax Imperium, a splinter faction of the now defunct Galactic Empire, whom had laid claim to the entirety of the Outer Rim. Feeling that their claims were now in danger, Pax Zulucoirt, the leader of the Imperium, immediately sent a fleet, lead by Admiral Kharn, to defeat the invaders and drive them from the region.

Upon arriving in the contested region, Kharn's fleet was engaged by the naval forces of the Haydians; however, due to their beliefs in the weakness of the New Republic and their lack of information on the Imperial splinter factions, they had only sent light ships such as frigates, destroyers, and a few light cruisers and were thus unprepared for the much larger ships fielded by the Pax Imperium. Over the course of the next four months, the Pax Imperium rapidly began taking the territory occupied by the Haydians, in most cases completely destroying the enemy forces present until the Haydians decided to send their larger and more impressive capital ships that had been held in reserve, but it was too little too late, as the Imperium now held all of the territory the Haydians had conquered and Haydys ordered a cessation of hostilities and for his remaining forces to return to the Unknown Regions, where they would remain forever.

After the war, the Pax Imperium began the process of assimilating the liberated worlds into their own government, adding important resources to the Imperium's stockpile.