Ar'krai

"The enemy shall become dust or we shall."

- Admiral Traest Kre'fey

Ar'kai (also spelled ar'krai) was a state of xenocidal war amongst the Bothans. The basic tenets of ar'kai state that if it was declared, all fit Bothans&mdash;and usually those that weren't&mdash;were required to volunteer for military service against an enemy that threatened the Bothans with extinction&mdash;and the Bothans were to repay the enemy in kind. The enemy was to be destroyed to the last individual, their name be wiped from history, and their homeworld be ground to dust. In recorded Bothan history, ar'kai had been declared only three times. The third was during the Yuuzhan Vong War, after the Fall of Coruscant and the sacrifice of the Bothan Borsk Fey'lya, President of the New Republic.

Unfortunately, ar'kai did not have a concept of ceasefire. Even ten years after the end of the war, Bothan fundamentalists were still attempting to locate Zonama Sekot and destroy the Yuuzhan Vong. The planet, however, remained safely hidden. To this date, the True Victory Party wishes to carry out ar'kai and completely destroy the Yuuzhan Vong.