Kesrith

History

After the Fall of Haven to the Mri in 2730, Alliance finally appeals to Union for aid. While help is debated in the Union Council, Haven falls, and when Union forces arrive they are met with distrust and anger by Alliance forces who do not understand what restraints have operated on the home front. It had been AlSec policy to keep the war out of the home territory of Pell; but there is now intense economic suffering and the loss of life can no longer be concealed. Alliance and Union forces destroy the last Mri warship in the pay of the Regul and end the Mri Wars in 2743.

Out of fear that Mri would eventually hire themselves to Humans (after serving as Regul mercenaries for some 2,000 years), the Regul destroy the last Mri refugee ship on take off from Kesrith (as described in CJC's first novel in the Faded Sun Trilogy, Kesrith, which was witnessed by Sten Duncan. The Alliance SurTac officer obtains a small ship to take the last two Mri back to Mri home space, which is recounted in CJC's 1978 novel, Shon'jir. The final confrontation between Alliance and Regul warships is described in CJC's 1979 novel, Kutath.

Chronology

 
2701 - First Alliance contact with Regul and their mercenary Mri.  
2703 - Mri wars begin.  
2743 - End of Mri wars. 
2744? - Sten Duncan arrives on Kesrith as the planet is handed over to Alliance. 
2744? - Regul destroy last Mri refugee ship on take off from Kesrith.  
2747 - After Regul and Alliance warships destroy each other in Kutath system, 
           Regul reach internal crisis due to human contact and go totally xenophobic