Daglian Conflict
The Daglian Conflict refers to the events on Daglius that eventually led to the Gigerdian-Bacterian War/Third Bacterian War. The term covers the time period of the initial first contact between the Gigerdians and the Daglians along with the Bacterian response to the discovery of their role on the evolution of the Daglian political situation.
The Conflict began 22 standard years after the Peace Station was abandoned.
Background
After the Second Bacterian War, the Bacterian Empire went silent once again, seemingly ashamed of their irrational behaviour. What little respect and trust they had gained during the Peace Station Era had been wiped out in days. The intergalactic community either avoided them or outright despised them. It was no surprise that conflicts erupted between other species and the Empire even over trivial matters, and soon enough one of these matters of unrest turned into a war. This event, known as The Daglian Conflict, is commonly regarded as one of the turning points in Bacterian history.
The First Contact
It all began when the Gigerdi Alliance encountered a new species while conducting goodwill fleet excercises in the Damuta system with the Bacterians as a way of rebuilding interspecies relations. When the unknown transmissions were received, the Gigerdi presence asked the Bacterians to accompany them to its destination in order to further improve the relations of the two stellar governments. The Bacterians accepted this invitation, knowing that the civilization behind the unknown transmissions were the Daglians, a race which had been constantly under attack by the Bacterian Empire in the past. This was nothing new to the Empire; it had conducted several assaults against minor, isolated cultures such as the Daglians and the Antimaniacs.
Needless to say, the situation was a diplomatic timebomb about to go off. The Gigerdians contacted the Daglians according to their First Contact protocol, and everything went fine. The Gigerdian ambassadors and the Daglians exchanged knowledge in an open dialogue between leaders, while the Bacterians quietly observed. However, when the Daglians started to reveal their history, of "black ships that came out of nowhere" and bombarded their planet, the Bacterians knew it was time to act, quickly. Without any warning, the Bacterian fleet presence in orbit of Daglius opened fire, deployed a variety of planet-contaminating bioweapons and then a full-scale planet-killer assault, after which the fleet jumped back into Imperial space. The Gigerdians, shocked by the sudden attack, were capable of saving only six Daglians, who were all government representatives.
Declaration of War
Enraged by this seemingly senseless attack, the Gigerdi Alliance officially declared a war against the Bacterian Empire. This is known as the Gigerdian-Bacterian War. The Bacterian government tried to calm the situation down by claiming that the ship captains acted alone and without the Emperor's approval, but the Gigerdians didn't believe this. Weakened by the Second Bacterian War, the Empire was unable to defend itself against the full force of the Gigerdi Alliance armadas. Bacterius, the command world, was bombed, invaded, and occupied by the Gigerdian Armed Forces. The entire Bacterian Empire was declared to be under martial law and all Bacterians were urged to immediately return to Bacterian space. The Gigerdians placed massive occupational forces on several key Bacterian colony worlds, and in months the entire Empire was stripped of its former glory. The Bacterian presence in the Milky Way Galaxy never quite recovered from this war, and their bitterness over the humiliation of occupation later culminated in the Third Bacterian War.
