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Prelude
In around 25,000 BBY, the area of the galaxy known as the Tion Cluster was controlled by the Tionese Despot Xim, who united the area into one empire under his banner. For twenty five years he controlled the Cluster, bringing more and more worlds under Tionese control and eventually coming into conflict with the Hutt species of Hutt Space. Becoming obsessed with adding the luscious Hutt worlds to his empire, Xim made a doomed attempted to defeat the Hutts at the planet Vontor, and upon his third loss there, was captured and taken as a Hutt slave, eventually dying on the planet Nal Hutta still in chains. Without Xim to hold them together, the various regions of the Tion Cluster began to fragment and fight.

Following their victory over Xim and reclamation of the territories he captured, the Hutts began to try and expand into Tionese worlds they had not previously controlled. In a campaign known as the Devouring they attacked the Kiirium Reaches, devastating many of the planets found there with nuclear attacks which left them uninhabitable, earning them the new name of the Ash Worlds.

Fifty years after Xim's death, far from the remote Tion Cluster and ignorant of its existence, the Core Worlds formed a loose democratic union known as the Galactic Republic. These worlds

Meanwhile back in the Tion cluster the different Tionese regions had split into a number of conflicting factions, including the Honorable Union of Deservo and Tion, the Indrexu Confederation, the Jaminere Marches, the Kingdom of Cron, the Keldrath alignment and the Thanium worlds.

Meanwhile scouts from the Republic, desperate to find new resource rich worlds to profit from began spreading far out into the galaxy, with two major new hyperlanes being created, one of which was the Perlemian Trade Route. The route was named for the fact that most ships traveling it belonged to the Perlemian Haul company, and it ran from the Core all the way out to the Tion Cluster. As Republic scouts traveled up it, they made first contact with Tionese and told them of the galactic core. The Tionese became jealous of the scouts, as their hyperdrives were far more advanced than those available in the cluster, and also wary of the scouts treatment of aliens as equals. When the scouts left to return home, Tionese pirates followed them down the Perlemian to see the Republic for themselves, and they found a loose union they considered unready for war.

The war
In around 24,000 BBY, the Tionese began to raid the wealthy Republic, but what had at first seemed a weak enemy soon proved more of an opponent than they had thought. The Republic soon drove the Tionese back up the Perlemian and brought the fight back to the Tion Cluster. Forces from both sides traveled up and down the Perlemian to battle, battling above and dropping pressure bomb on each others captial worlds; Republic Coruscant and Tionese Desevro. The Republic however also fought with less direct methods, creating internal trouble within the Tion Cluster and also using agents in Hutt Space to coax the Hutts back into combat with their old foes. The Hutts were the final factor that broke the Tion, and within a century of the wars start most of the Tion surrendered to Coruscant.

Aftermath
With the Tionese utterly defeated the victorious Republic was able to write history as they saw fit, and so the foundation of "Core culture"; that Humanity first took to the stars in the Core and spread out out across the galaxy bringing civilisation with them from there, was established. The Tionese became remembered in history only as the servants of the villain Xim, a fact taught to children at schools throughout the Republic. Only the residents of the Tion Cluster itself remembered and took pride in their glorious past, holding a grudge against the Core even millennia after the end of the war.

The Republic continued to expand following their victory over the Tion, with most of the Tion Cluster coming to swear allegiance to the Republic. The next conflict they entered were the Alsakan Conflicts, and internal war between Coruscant and the planet Alsakan starting with the First Alsakan Conflict in 17,000 BBY.

Behind the scenes
The Tionese war was first mentioned in Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds, a reference book for Wizards of the Coast's Star Wars Roleplaying Game which was released in 2004

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Old Republic