In response to the ever growing pirate threat the League formed a military arm and renamed itself the Trade Protectorate. The fleets and armies of the Protectorate were brought together into a powerful fighting force which delivered swift and brutal order to the Dominion. But with this new military might resentment of the Protectorate’s power was greater than ever and its exploitation of many planets for the benefit of its core worlds grew even more blatant.

The Trade Wars

With ever growing tensions conflict was inevitable. Angered by centuries of exploitation many worlds refused Protectorate trade and military assistance and dealt only with those outside of the Protectorate.

Membership to the Protectorate could not be forced and so nothing could legally be done to stop a world that chose to close its space ports. However, Protectorate leaders, eager to safeguard the trade that made them rich, secretly hired mercenaries to force planets to reopen the trade routes.

For a century the Protectorate carried out this practice until hundreds of planets were ready to rebel against the Protectorate. Then, at the very moment when the Dominion was about to go to war with itself again, another more dangerous enemy emerged.

Empire munitions: heavy pulse gun Mark-40.

The development of electron singularity has led to the introduction of new and even more deadly types of pulse weaponry. The latest Heavy Pulse Gun is the pinnacle of this technology.

Standard pulse guns, like those carried by both Empire and Protectorate forces, are both lightweight, accurate and powerful, but the HPG Mark-40 takes pulse technology to its most lethal level yet.