For five long years, millions of my people starved, the Tripartite forces either confiscated or destroyed food and crops belonging to former rebel populations and sent them to interment camps as punishment for rebellion, although there were famines on all former rebel worlds, Hyaxnox saw the most concentrated efforts by the Tripartite forces, as the main rebel planet. Of the estimated 50 million deaths as a result of the Tripartite Purges, about 30 million of them occurred on Hyaxnox, as a result of the famine and mass executions.
—A Hyaxnoxian historian on the famine
The Great Famine of Hyaxnox was a very large famine brought about by the Imperial Tripartite Alliance as retribution for Hyaxnox's part in founding the Allied Armies Against Ingzan-Bregaran Imperialism, the famine was part of both the "Hyaxnoxian Purge" and the "Tripartite Purges", which were conducted against former rebel worlds to punish them for their rebellion.
Following the victory of the Tripartite over the rebels during the Rebellion against the Ingzan-Bregaran Empire of 1,129 ABY-1,130 ABY the Tripartite set about punishing former rebels for their insolence. As Hyaxnox was the founding planet of the AAAIBI, retribution was focused on Hyaxnox, for five years the Tripartite confiscated or destroyed food stocks of former rebel populations, the confiscated food was either given to pro-Imperial Hyaxnoxians, or shipped off-world to world which remained loyal to the Tripartite during the rebellion. There were also mass executions of former rebels, which were buried in large, unmarked grave pits. Entire populations were also expelled from their homes and forced to relocate thousands of miles from their homes.
Although the purges and famines received galactic condemnation, the Tripartite leaders briskly waved off the objections of other leaders and governments, saying that the former rebels were "Traitorous scum who deserve to die".
By 1,135 ABY 30 million Hyaxnoxians had died, either through starvation or executions, as well further hundreds of thousands which died for starvation, exhaustion and exposure during the long travels to their new settlements following their eviction from their original homes. The Tripartite decided that the Hyaxnoxians had learnt their lesson, and so ended the purge, and allowed former rebel populations to both grow their own food, and not endure strict rationing.
The famine, and the purge, left a bitter resentment amongst the descendants of rebellious Hyaxnoxians towards the Tripartite forces for centuries afterwards.