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 universe, 974.593 cycle of eternity.

And leave the ticking clock alone the path of time to go

Despite it’s apparent insignificance and initial blunder, the early campaigns of the 378

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 Corps in the Imperial-Volunian war would have resounding consequences not only for its belligerents, but for all the players of ‘The Great Game’.

But even so, most historians agree that their first ground battle was of little significance to the overall strategic situation.

From decla.s.sified doc.u.ments, we now know that Admiral Yemen’s counterattack 

and subsequent strategic decisions that followed, came not as a result of the baiting operation by the 378

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, but it was in fact the opening move of a campaign that he had been planning against the Empire for quite some time.

Thus, most historians now a.s.sert that when compared to the Battle of Volun 3, Operation Seawolf and the eventual Galactic War and Great War that followed, it was a very small and insignificant slap fight in a very grand battle.

And while that may have been true for the strategist and tacticians, to the soldiers fighting in that barren little mudball, that ‘slap fight’ was the most important thing in the universe.

Extract from the book “A short history of a vast conflict.”

Professor James Stotkeluffzingen, Ombridge University