Jack of Harts

War is an ugly business, and whenever we seek to make it cleaner, I believe we do a disservice to ourselves.  During the Great Space Race of the 22^nd and 23^rd centuries, we signed treaties not to fight over our important worlds.  Our core worlds lived in peace, but we continued to fight over in the colony regions.  The majority of our people did not know War until the Shang brought it to us.  That nearly destroyed us all.