Dateline October 9th 13124 Common Imperial Era

With the power of a landslide, the Procyon response was terrible and swift. Protests were launched all over the empire as if they were waiting for this to happen. Violence throughout the Imperium was viciously put down by imperial forces. With a smile, the imperial news service announced that unclaimed bodies at the morgue world of Al Nilam III were being received by the imperial trash services for final disposition. The Procyon sovereign, Master Trader Halbermarl Frobisher V announced that “Today in response to the Imperium’s unprovoked restrictions of trade against our commonwealth we have issued letters of Marque and Reprisal to our war freighters Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Procyon.” They would begin raiding imperial shipping and remote outposts procuring those items that had been embargoed. The imperial blockades were no match for the blockade runners of the commonwealth. Their skills had been learned against the imperial blockades of other worlds. This was nothing new to the commonwealth.