The great War of Ticonderoga
The effect of the great Ticonderogan war is not an unimportant one in the history of Serbinia. The war started when the Ticonderogans, who lived on the planet Argo, tried to stop trade in their solar system. This was something Serbinian trade ships could not adapt to because the solar system (Trendor Hen) was in the middle of Serbinian space (then only a handful of solar systems) and to go around it would take precious months and thousands of gallons of fuel. Before the war started, Serbinia had star troopers. These were millions of soldiers hired by the United Planetary Security (U.P.S), a company headed by Mr. T. Ketcham. The company sent every available star trooper, 7,458,132 soldiers, to the planet.
On the first day, the company suffered 42,000 losses. Soon the company realized that it needed more than the simple startroopers and G class ships (huge spherical starships designed to carry supplies), so they started devising ships that could destroy the hard to reach unterbunks (“under fortress” in the Ticonderogan language), which lay hundreds of feet down. On the topic of how the U.P.S. solved the problem, a pilot named Captain Mahogany tells us, “We had to descend at a 45 degree angle and fire these little devices into the ‘anthills,’ as we [pilots] called ‘em, so they would fly into the air holes and clog them up so that the air would get used up and they [Ticonderogans] would have to open up the secret front door where thousands of our troops would rush in and secure the anthill.” He was the first of the fighter-jet pilots the company sent in to weaken the Ticonderogan army.
Months later, the Ticonderogan army decided to abandon the no longer defendable anthills and adopt jungle fighting. The jungles of Argo have an acidic quality which corrodes the metal that startrooper armor is made of. This led to the discovery of “the metal that won the war ,” argium, a metal that withstands hours of machine gun fire when in pure form (argium 1.0). This metal does not corrode and lies on the surface because the rock around it dissolves, leaving only the metal vein behind. The metal was used in the body armor of the newly developed Serbinian army. This army was one made out of billions of super soldiers created by the newly discovered telecloning.
With the invention of teleportation, the traders no longer needed the inter-stellar routes. They then decided to leave Argo, indirectly making the Ticonderogan species die out from hunger. Their farms and seed stores had been destroyed by the invaders, leaving no food for the vegetarian race.
