First Trade War

While piracy and small skirmishes had arisen locally and on planets, the first real inter-system war was fought after the creation of the Interstellar Gates and over 700 years before the Age of Silence. Two corporations, Agri-Star  and Harrison Armory , were in a brutal legal conflict over a resource rich cluster of systems within Pacifica. The Old Earth Republic tried to intervene but was mostly a toothless organization without any real significant military projection.
The results were devastating, as whole colonies saw their planets glassed in an attempt to cut the profit margins of each of the corporations. Billions died, dozens of worlds were left a smoldering ruin, and the republic was exposed as mostly ineffective government at the beck and call of whoever had the most money to throw around.

Date of Setting

776-726 Pre-Silence