Ciutric War

"No more traitorous a war has been fought since Ciutric."

- Thorus Markand, Fleet Admiral of the Tenth Fleet Company

The Ciutric War also known as the Ciutric Offensive was a conflict within and around the Ciutric Hegemony from the 6 October 1958 with 's declaration of war, to 11 October 1989 with the signing of the Treaty of Ciutric formally ending the conflict, however fighting still continued between renegade elements of the Ciutric Military and the . The war, between the Ciutric Hegemony and the Galactic Empire, was on of the first engagements of the newly empire. At the time of the start of the conflict many people criticised Palpatine for his willingness to go to war immediately after the end of the rather than waiting to secure the still  systems of the recently defeated.

Background
During the the Ciutric Hegemony allied itself with the newly formed CIS, this alliance however be revoke in 1957 as the tide of the war began to turn in favour of the Republic. Following the  forces entrenched on  and  fled across the  to the Ciutric Hegemony so as to seek  from the Galactic Empire.

Palpatine's Plan
After the Clone Wars and the formation of the Galactic Empire, Emperor Palpatine's first goal was to stabilise the galaxy through both economic and military action. This was impart due to the threat that rogue forces in the outer rim faced to the still new and highly worn imperial navy, so through efforts to bring worlds that suffered during the clone wars back into the galactic economy, Palpatine hoped these threats could be negated. On the 6th of July 1958 Palpatine announced that diplomatic talks between the Ciutric Hegemony and the Galactic Empire would be held on Axxila in Late August to discuss trade, a proposed joint military operation to combat piracy as well as the potential extradition of separatist war-criminals to stand trial at.

Axxila Summit
The Summit at Axxila ultimately lead to increased tension between Palpatine and Thryde as the Hegemony was unwilling to give the Empire the separatists they were harbouring or allow the empire to engage in anti-piracy that could lead to the empire encircling the Hegemony. Also, during the talks an report suggested that the Ciutric Hegemony,, ,  as well as others were forming a coalition against the Empire, this further escalated tensions. Another report from the indicated that the Hegemony was indirectly funding rebel activity in the. After presenting Thryde with these reports and demanding the extradition of separatist war-criminals once again, the tension reached a breaking point with the Ciutric withdrawing from the summit and demanding that the Empire remove their embassy and diplomatic envoy from Axxila.

Celanon Blockade
Following the failed summit at Axxila the Ciutric Hegemony imposed a blockade on all imperial goods along the Celanon Spur that originated from the Core and Colonies as well as any goods linked to the Imperial Military. In response to the blockade, Palpatine enacted an aggressive policy of ceasing any vessel leaving the Hegemony and looting its goods, this enraged the many corporations within the Hegemony. As a response the Ciutric Military donated arms and helped to weaponize Freighter to fight against Imperial Inspections, unfortunately this lead to skirmishes between merchants and the Imperial Navy further increasing tension. As a result Palpatine saw no further course of action but to declared war on the Hegemony.