abstract | - The details of the war, outside of the conquest, were unspecified. Ma'Bor Jetrel, the originator of the metreon cascade, said that he believed he had done what needed to be done. Neelix stated that he thought the war was "unjust." He further explained that he thought "Talax was fighting for reasons that weren't worth killing for". However, he then clarified that in retrospect all this was just to rationalize being a coward. One notable engagement was the Battle of the Pyrithian Gorge. Near the end of the war, Talaxian Defense Forces on Talax prepared for a Haakonian invasion. The war ended when the Haakonians deployed a devastating weapon known as the metreon cascade on the Talaxian moon Rinax. More than a quarter of a million Talaxians were vaporized, and the following day Talax surrendered unconditionally to the Order. Neelix, who lost his entire family due to the metreon cascade, was hiding on Talax from the Talaxian Defense Forces at the time the cascade was deployed; he was guilty of desertion and illegally refused to serve. While this fact was never discovered by the Talaxian authorities, had he been caught during war time, his punishment for "refusing military service" would have been death.
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