| abstract | - The Golden Empire conquered and absorbed the Chiss Ascendancy in 137 ABY. Thousands of capital ships of the Chiss Expansionary Defense Force were destroyed or captured, and the defenseless Chiss had surrendered, hoping to some day be rescued by the survivors of the CEDF. Most of those forces retreated to The Redoubt, planning an eventual attack on the Empire from that secure location. The Empire, meanwhile, struggled to assert actual control over all the Ascendancy's territory. While Csilla and its twenty-eight colony worlds had been taken and partially integrated into the Empire's structure, the thousands of systems functionally or nominally under the Ascendancy's sway were requiring considerably more effort. Straining the Armada further, the Vagaari Empire had attacked in 141 ABY, embroiling the Empire in the Vagaari War. An attack by the Ssi-ruuk later the same year strained the Armada nearly to the breaking point.
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