More organized and armed with powerful weapons, these new pirates have prompted the Centauri government to establish an elite fighting force, the Strike Force Centauri. Recently, however, a new breed of pirate has begun to emerge. The Centauri clans created military organizations to shut down these operations with their advanced hardware and technology, they had little difficulty.

But with economic success came a growing criminal element, bands of pirates and smugglers wanting the fruits of the new society without sharing in its labors. The economy thrived, their technology grew in new directions, and in 2239 the Centauri opened trade and ambassadorial relations with their one-time foes, the Earth Hegemony. Over the next century, the Centauri formed a stable clan-based society the colony grew and prospered on the planets of New Hope and Thatcher. By 2154, the last of Jupiter’s colony ships had departed the Solar System. In 2151 the Hegemony agreed to tolerate the dissident colonists if they would relocate to the Centauri system, discovered a few years before to contain two habitable planets.

The conflict between the Jupiter colonists and the totalitarian Earth Hegemony had been ongoing for decades, with the threat of military escalation growing with each passing year.

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