Colonial Insurrections

The century preceding the outbreak of the Expansion Wars was marked by widespread conflict, not between the empires, but within them. While the Dominion's more rigid control over its inhabitants kept it somewhat more stable, it was not untouched by the simmering dissent that spread across the remoter colonies. Gaia stomped out a thousand brush fires during this period, and although no such rebellion ever proved successful, the repeated failures seemed to stoke the fire of the colonists' thirst for freedom rather than extinguish it. Many defeated freedom fighters fled into the Threshold rather than surrender, carrying with them an unyielding independence that still permeates the region.