Grayson's War

Grayson's War (10,613–10,619 NE) was a brief military conflict between the Xyon Directorate and House Grayson, a minor household located in the Outback Worlds. House Grayson, led by the young and relatively inexperienced house leader, Archon Matthias Grayson, sought to gain increased political status within the Directorate by becoming a major house. Grayson foolishly assumed that this could be accomplished through force of arms and conquering neighboring worlds, carving out a small region of space of his household and gaining the respect he and his family believed they were due. The entire conflict was generally ignored by the rest of the Directorate's population, as the far more destructive Dalhart War in the galactic south was raging on at the same time as Grayson's War.

The war began when House Grayson was ill-advised by members of the far larger and strong great household, House Morgan, to carve out an empire for itself in the space neighboring the Morgans. The Morgans intended to use the Graysons as a buffer state between themselves and the many major houses in the Ruza sector, where the Morgans had been meddling for some time. The Graysons themselves had been planning to embark upon a military campaign for decades, but the Morgans helped in pushing them into actively seeking territory for their house. The war took off with the invasion of Knox in 10,613 NE, and given the ongoing status of the Dalhart War, the Obsidian Guard was slow to react, taking a full year before any military response was issued. The Graysons were swiftly defeated by the federal military, though Archon Grayson was given no punishment due to his minor house status, and simply ignored by the government on Xyon.

Grayson's War has since been ignored as a minor conflict between the government and an upstart house in the Outback, and little attention given to House Grayson ever since that war. The Morgans were never linked to the war's beginning, though the households in the Ruza Sector had been weakened, serving the Morgan's plans in the long-run. Since the war's end in 10,619 NE, the war has largely fallen into obscurity, with detailed information on the conflict only found in the federal government archives of the war and the archives of House Grayson. The war's relevance is limited only to the members of House Grayson and the worlds in the immediate vicinity of the planet Grayson itself.