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Line 127: By the [[twenty-fourth century]], Quentin was already a wealthy independent world. Shortly after Quentin signed a mutual defense pact with the nearby worlds of [[Errai]] and [[Helen]] it was targeted for conquest by [[Director-General of the Terran Hegemony|Director-General]] [[James McKenna]] of the newly formed Terran Hegemony. Having secured his hold over all of the worlds within the rump state of the [[Terran Alliance]], McKenna began a "Campaign of Persuasion" to bring other former Alliance worlds and independent worlds into the Hegemony through military force, and the three allied worlds of Errai, Helen, and Quentin were his first targets.<ref name="SLSBp16">''The Star League'', p. 16: "Terra's Errant Flock"</ref> By the [[twenty-fourth century]], Quentin was already a wealthy independent world. Shortly after Quentin signed a mutual defense pact with the nearby worlds of [[Errai]] and [[Helen]] it was targeted for conquest by [[Director-General of the Terran Hegemony|Director-General]] [[James McKenna]] of the newly formed Terran Hegemony. Having secured his hold over all of the worlds within the rump state of the [[Terran Alliance]], McKenna began a "Campaign of Persuasion" to bring other former Alliance worlds and independent worlds into the Hegemony through military force, and the three allied worlds of Errai, Helen, and Quentin were his first targets.<ref name="SLSBp16">''The Star League'', p. 16: "Terra's Errant Flock"</ref> − McKenna attacked the Quentin system with a large fleet of WarShips, and despite knowing that there was little chance of resisting the invasion the leaders of each of the three allied worlds planned to teach McKenna a lesson; all three worlds converted fleets of cargo and interplanetary courier ships into fighting vessels by adding lasers and missile tubes to battle in space, and all three worlds beefed up their ground forces with large militia forces of trained personnel augmented by volunteers. The colonists on Quentin fought a dogged, even fanatical, campaign of resistance against the [[Hegemony Armed Forces]] before finally being conquered, and the resistance offered by those on Quentin taught the HAF a number of harsh lessons.<ref name="SLSBp16"/> + McKenna attacked the Quentin system with a large fleet of WarShips, and despite knowing that there was little chance of resisting the invasion the leaders of each of the three allied worlds planned to teach McKenna a lesson; all three worlds converted fleets of cargo and interplanetary courier ships into fighting vessels by adding lasers and missile tubes to battle in space, and all three worlds beefed up their ground forces with large militia forces of trained personnel augmented by volunteers. The colonists on Quentin fought a dogged, even fanatical, campaign of resistance against the [[Terran Hegemony Armed Forces|Hegemony Armed Forces]] before finally being conquered, and the resistance offered by those on Quentin taught the HAF a number of harsh lessons.<ref name="SLSBp16"/> ====Age of War==== ====Age of War====
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By the [[twenty-fourth century]], Quentin was already a wealthy independent world. Shortly after Quentin signed a mutual defense pact with the nearby worlds of [[Errai]] and [[Helen]] it was targeted for conquest by [[Director-General of the Terran Hegemony|Director-General]] [[James McKenna]] of the newly formed Terran Hegemony. Having secured his hold over all of the worlds within the rump state of the [[Terran Alliance]], McKenna began a "Campaign of Persuasion" to bring other former Alliance worlds and independent worlds into the Hegemony through military force, and the three allied worlds of Errai, Helen, and Quentin were his first targets.<ref name="SLSBp16">''The Star League'', p. 16: "Terra's Errant Flock"</ref> | By the [[twenty-fourth century]], Quentin was already a wealthy independent world. Shortly after Quentin signed a mutual defense pact with the nearby worlds of [[Errai]] and [[Helen]] it was targeted for conquest by [[Director-General of the Terran Hegemony|Director-General]] [[James McKenna]] of the newly formed Terran Hegemony. Having secured his hold over all of the worlds within the rump state of the [[Terran Alliance]], McKenna began a "Campaign of Persuasion" to bring other former Alliance worlds and independent worlds into the Hegemony through military force, and the three allied worlds of Errai, Helen, and Quentin were his first targets.<ref name="SLSBp16">''The Star League'', p. 16: "Terra's Errant Flock"</ref> | ||
| − | McKenna attacked the Quentin system with a large fleet of WarShips, and despite knowing that there was little chance of resisting the invasion the leaders of each of the three allied worlds planned to teach McKenna a lesson; all three worlds converted fleets of cargo and interplanetary courier ships into fighting vessels by adding lasers and missile tubes to battle in space, and all three worlds beefed up their ground forces with large militia forces of trained personnel augmented by volunteers. The colonists on Quentin fought a dogged, even fanatical, campaign of resistance against the [[Hegemony Armed Forces]] before finally being conquered, and the resistance offered by those on Quentin taught the HAF a number of harsh lessons.<ref name="SLSBp16"/> | + | McKenna attacked the Quentin system with a large fleet of WarShips, and despite knowing that there was little chance of resisting the invasion the leaders of each of the three allied worlds planned to teach McKenna a lesson; all three worlds converted fleets of cargo and interplanetary courier ships into fighting vessels by adding lasers and missile tubes to battle in space, and all three worlds beefed up their ground forces with large militia forces of trained personnel augmented by volunteers. The colonists on Quentin fought a dogged, even fanatical, campaign of resistance against the [[Terran Hegemony Armed Forces|Hegemony Armed Forces]] before finally being conquered, and the resistance offered by those on Quentin taught the HAF a number of harsh lessons.<ref name="SLSBp16"/> |
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