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[[Category:Gallente-Caldari War]]
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<center>[[Image:Gcwar.jpg|Gallente-Caldari War: The Early Days]]</center>

By the time the [[Gallente|Gallente]] Federation was founded two centuries ago the [[Caldari|Caldari]] Corporations were already well established in [[Caldari|Caldari]] society. Although not nearly as powerful as they are today, they were still preeminent in [[Caldari|Caldari]] economic life.

Shortly after jump gate technology was jointly discovered by the [[Gallente|Gallente]] and the [[Caldari|Caldari]] a little over five hundred years before the Federation formed, the [[Caldari|Caldari]] corporations had started their own interstellar surveying and colonization, separate from that conducted by the [[Gallente|Gallente]]. It was these [[Colonies|colonies]], kept as a secret from the Gallenteans, that became the source of friction between the Gallenteans and the [[Caldari|Caldari]], culminating in the latter’s defection from the Federation and an ensuing war between the two [[Races|races]].

It all started when a [[Gallente|Gallente]] [[Exploration|exploration]] ship happened upon one of the hidden [[Caldari|Caldari]] [[Colonies|colonies]]. When the Federation Senate learned of this they demanded a full-scale investigation into the matter and that all hidden [[Caldari|Caldari]] [[Colonies|colonies]] should immediately been put under Federation authority. This was too much for the [[Caldari|Caldari]] Corporations, which were already grumbling over increasing Federation interference into their affairs. For the [[Caldari|Caldari]] it was a simple question of losing their autonomy forever by caving in or making a stand right then and there. They decided to make a stand.

What made the situation so tense right from the start was the situation on [[Caldari|Caldari]] Prime. Being located in the same solar system as [[Gallente|Gallente]] Prime made the Gallenteans very nervous and, more importantly, a sizeable Gallentean population was living on [[Caldari|Caldari]] Prime. Right after the [[Caldari|Caldari]] defected from the Federation they focused on securing the jump gates leading to their (once) hidden bases, as those bases provided the backbone to the [[Caldari|Caldari]] military infrastructure at that time. At the same time the Gallenteans moved their fleet into orbit around [[Caldari|Caldari]] Prime and started blocking the planet.

For the next few days nothing much happened. The [[Caldari|Caldari]] were content to sit by the jump gates, while the Gallenteans were debating how to best negotiate a peace agreement. But the [[Caldari|Caldari]] on [[Caldari|Caldari]] Prime were restless. They found the [[Gallente|Gallente]] blockade intolerable and soon small-scale guerrilla activities escalated into all out hostilities. In the end the [[Gallente|Gallente]] population on the planet had to pay the price for the Federation’s indecisiveness.

The turning point came when [[Caldari|Caldari]] partisans sabotaged the glass dome of the [[Gallente|Gallente]]-inhabited underwater city Nouvelle Rouvenor. More than half a million perished. From then on a lengthy, bloody war between the two [[Races|races]] was all but inevitable – the Federation retaliated at once by sending an invasion force down to [[Caldari|Caldari]] Prime and began a systematic orbital bombardment of the planet. Soon, the [[Caldari|Caldari]] population had been driven to the mountains and the forests; their resistance getting weaker by the day. The only question was: how would the newly formed [[Caldari|Caldari]] State respond?

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