Bravantian Campaign

The Bravantian Campaign was a military conflict fought between The Emperian Empire and Human rebel forces led by the interplanetary criminal consortium known as the Que-Min-Tang. The Que-Min-Tang having conducted operations in the system for eighty years before the commencement of hostilities and therefore had highly infiltrated the planetary administration. The Que-Min-Tang having spread their illegal black market empire throughout the periphery of the Astral Provinciales Aesta while maintaining bases outside of Imperial territory. Arguably it was the Bravantian Campaign itself that would lead to the much larger Consortium Wars which would follow in the succeeding decades.

Rebellion in the Bravant System
The Bravant system had been an Imperial colony, itself devoid of life until Imperial colonization, and despite it being on the periphery of the Vulkan Sub-Sector it was quite peaceful. However, by the late 2630's the system had been heavily infiltrated by the Que-Min-Tang. Being a star system offering a more direct route through the Sub-Sector for it to traffic its operations.

At first the Que-Min-Tang kept a low-profile, running registered shipping through the system, and slowly moving personnel and material onto the more populous Bravant I. Bravant I also served as the location of the planetary capital and system government. By the 2660's the Que-Min-Tang had infiltrated the government of the system and had either bribed, paid off, placed their own figureheads into power, or replaced opposition to their rule. Yet, as per their own directives they would not dare move openly out of fear for an Imperial crackdown. Instead opting to use the system to traffic and build up their empire. But by the 2680's even the political situation in the system was rigged and even the Imperial Planetary Governor was forced out of office on trumped up evidence of embezzlement that made its way to the Sub-Sector capital. In reality the Que-Min-Tang had falsified this evidence by setting up a false illegal enterprise and luring the Planetary Governor to accept funds from. Position their own figurehead to gain effective legal control over the star system.

That is until 2697 when a Sub-Sector investigation into smuggling rings throughout the Sub-Sector managed to trace evidence back to the Bravant system. But by then the Que-Min-Tang had stirred rebellion in the more rustic area's of Bravant I and II. Effectively supplanting in all but name the Imperial administration.