Dalcretti Accords

The Dalcretti Accords were open negotiations between representatives from the planet Tanaab and the Norulac Freebooters, a pirate organization that operated from Norulac and controlled its local government.

The Accords
The meeting was called in 729 BBY by then–Judicial Forces Sector Overseer and former general in the Tanaab Militia Anwis Eddicus. He convinced two representatives from each party to meet on the nearby planet of Dalcretti to discuss peace. As the talks progressed, trade became an important factor in appeasing the pirates, who demanded to know any potential goods that could be bartered while revealing very little about themselves. Privately, however, Eddicus believed that the talks would fail and that the pirates were simply stalling for time or gathering information. As an agreement was reached between the parties, Norulac suddenly withdrew its delegation. All attempts at contact were not recognized and no transmission of any kind was sent from the planet whatsoever.

Two days later, and armed with information about key storehouses and manufacturing facilities, the pirates attacked the capital city of Tanaab, killing twenty people. The Judicial Forces–led defenses across Tanaab were caught unawares but were still able to destroy five marauding vessels. Eddicus&mdash;who even though he only oversaw the sector and had no real power to control the local military&mdash;took the collapsed peace talks and subsequent attack as an abject personal failure. Media coverage noted Eddicus's emotions and feared that a military response might have been imminent.

Impact
Outraged, Eddicus took the reins of the sector forces and led a devastating assault on the Freebooters, laying waste to whole communities on Norulac. The attack did provide a temporary reprieve from marauding for Tanaab and made Eddicus even more of a local hero. Interplanetarily, however, Eddicus came under fire. He initially attempted to rebuff criticism leveled at him by prominent Core World officials, such as Senator Cos Peradhi of Corellia, but instead opted to withdraw and resigned from the Judicial Forces. Tanaab, upset that the Republic had not upheld its end of the Brasworth Agreement, rescinded its involvement and reinstated its planetary militia.