Organiser: Gothenburg Megagames
Designer: John Mizon

Though the Council was always fraught with heated debate and aggressive negotiation, it played its part in giving all of humanity's nations a place to debate their problems face-to-face rather than waste resources and lives in costly wars. However, the Interstellar Council still felt the need to create and maintain a military force, as pirates and small rebellions needed to be kept in check.

As such, it wasn't too great a concern when in recent decades, the nation of Wolf had become more hostile and reclusive, eventually pulling out of the Council completely. Though there was very little intelligence on what was happening on Wolf, it was generally believed that it would sort itself out internally, and the overwhelming strength of the combined Interstellar Council Service Navy would protect the Council's member nations if Wolf did anything rash.

“The Attack”, as it came to be known, took everyone by surprise.

Announcing their intention to enact the total obliteration of all other nations, the Wolf Navy launched a combined attack on the ICSN and planetary defences across inhabited space. Advanced cyber-attacks managed to knock out automated defence protocols and cut off Command & Control networks. Carefully placed strytium-yield bombs detonated in major munition stockpiles and aboard larger military vessels, and meticulously placed sleeper agents simultaneously performed uncountable assassinations, sabotage and sending of falsified information.

The entire event was chaos. No-one knows how many lives were lost or how many vessels were destroyed, but the results were catastrophic. Major urban centres were bombarded and any surviving vessels the Wolf Navy found were destroyed without the option of surrender. Except for Wolf, the combined planets of humanity were lost.