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= Perry Line =

The Perry Line was a line of eight systems on the border between the UEE and the Xi'An Empire during the so-called Cold War, namely Tohil, Oya, Gurzil, Horus, Pallas, Hadur, Indra and Virtus. Named after ancient gods of war, these no-man's-land systems worked as a buffer for the military of both sides in case the Cold War would get "hot". After the Akari/Kray Peace Accord ceased the tensions between the Empire's, the Perry Line was dissolved and all systems equally distributed between the two powers.

The now so-called Transitional Systems (https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/13830-The-Observist-Sherman-Castra-II-Castra) are focal points of interstellar trade and hotspots of cultural and economic interaction - not always to the delight of everyone (citation).

First Contact
Site of Humanity’s first contact with the Xi’An. In 2530 a greedy Human company attempted to terraform Pallas III without doing the proper due diligence. Xi’An were already occupying the system and using it for research purposes. The situation was resolved, but the meeting set the tone for relations between the two species for centuries.

In 2542 Marie Sante discovered the jump from Horus to the Rihlah System. This made Horus a security risk for the UPE. The government closed the system to non-military personnel, receiving little resistance from the small group of civilians that had begun to settle on the fledgling planet of Serling.

In 2544, a system was discovered by UPE military pathfinders probing the Perry Line for undiscovered jump points. The military brass immediately grasped its strategic importance as a staging post for the brewing Xi’An conflict. The system was named Castra, after the ancient Roman term for land used by the military as a defensive position, and terraforming of its second planet began immediately. Decades later, when a jump point from Castra into Xi’An territory was discovered, the system was thrust into the front lines of the conflict.

Kayfa System Incursion (2617) UEEN Lieutenants Ahmad Harar and Carl Dyson discover a gravitational anomaly while patrolling the Horus System. Without a word to anyone, they enter the jump point and become the first Humans to visit the Kayfa System.

Horus Incident. Working in conjunction with Aegis, the Navy deployed a prototype AI-piloted Overlord bomber wing along the Xi’An front. Their hearts were in the right place: it was an attempt to bring home pilots that had been stationed along the Perry Line for their entire careers. But when Aegis’ billion-credit babies decided that their comms were compromised and shut them off – just in time to miss their recall order – we had to chase down and destroy our own mistake,

Akari-Kray Peace Accord (2789-05-29) The bold Terran Senator Terrence Akari defied the Messers and breached the Perry Line to meet a Xi’An delegation on Tohil III led by Emperor Kray himself. Aware of Imperator Linton Messer XI’s weakening power base, Akari and Kray spent days hammering out the details of the famous treaty that bears their names.

The Perry Line Pact (2793-07-05)

Messer Era
ArcCorp AI for bomber testing

Covert missions, sabotage (see Gurzil Gal. Guide)