Sarna Supremacy

First Sarna Supremacy

The original Sarna Supremacy was a powerful nation and among the first to form when mankind colonized the stars in the late 22nd century; it did exist prior to 2195. Described in some sources as a dictatorship that prized itself on efficiency and productivity at the expense of individual freedoms, its centralized government was seated the capital world, Sarna.

In 2225, the third Premier of Sarna, Emmanuel Denevieve Brunn, launched a first ill-fated military expedition against Capella who had risen to be a serious economic and policital rival. They were defeated by the Co-Prosperity Sphere, a mutual defense alliance that the Capellans had created with their trade partners. The Sarns remained at odds with what would later turn into the Capellan Hegemony for over a decade.

Another full scale war was fought from 2305 to 2309 following the secession of the worlds Palos and Wei from the Supremacy. The Hegemony managed to fight off the initial Capellan thrust at Sarna, re-occupied Palos against stiff resistance and later managed to hamper the Capellan war efforts through Kluanian pirates (sponsored by House Davion). In 2306 the Capellans negotiated military aid from the Free Worlds League. Although succeeding in the defense of Wei and occupying seventeed former Sarna worlds, the Capellan offensive ground to a halt when the Capellan Hegemony began to crumble from within. A peace settlement was signed in December 2309.

Following bickering with the Free Worlds League, the Sarna Supremacy attacked the neighbouring Tikonov Union in a savage two-year war from 2351 to 2352. In 2357 a Davion attack occupied the Sarna world of Bell. A combined Sarna-Tikonov-Capellan relief force arrived next year but found no trace of the Davion garrison or the civilian colonists. To this day the fate of 15,000 inhabitants of Bell remains a mystery.

Part of the Capellan Confederation

In July 2367, the Sarna Supremacy formed the Capellan Confederation together with four other states to defend against a growing menace from Davion controlled space. Within the Confederation it became the Sarna Commonality, abandoning its independence. For almost seven centuries, the Sarna Supremacy ceased to exist.

The worlds of the Sarna Commonality were conquered by the Federated Suns or otherwise lost by the Capellan Confederation over the course of the Fourth Succession War and later became part of the Chaos March when the Federated Commonwealth was sundered.

Second Sarna Supremacy

The Sarna Supremacy was revived during this time as a short-lived ministate within the Chaos March. Besides Sarna, it included Sakhalin (which contributed vital mineral resources) and Kaifeng (which provided surplus food for the other worlds).

Chancellor Sun-Tzu Liao set a plan in motion to retake these worlds in 3058. While blockading Sarna with three of the Confederation's new WarShips (two frigates and a destroyer), Warrior House Hiritsu occupied Kaifeng for the Confederation. The dependence of the Sarna Supremacy on food imports from Kaifeng gave the Confederation the fulcrum to eventually absorb the reformed Sarna Supremacy back into the Capellan Confederation.