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Cold, cruel, and cunning. Of the major players in the last war, the Breen were held to the restrictions of the Treaty of Bajor to not conduct war, not build industry used for war, and not to raise cloned Dominion Warriors in the service of war. They broke from the treaty at the first sign of weakness. Now they boldly patrol the Federation border with their exotic warships, harrying merchant trade between the Ferengi and the Federation, and raiding outposts and colonies for material, slavery, or for the sheer pleasure of it. The Breen have crossed the line and mock the offers of dialogue and peace from the Federation. Now they rattle their sabers and bear their guns. Now they say the end of the Federation is nigh… what say you?
Breen Territories
When the Dominion War ended, the Federation's more militant allies strongly desired retribution against those who had done so much harm to their people and worlds. The Treaty of Bajor was particularly punishing to the Breen, demanding that a large region of their space be transferred to Federation control and taking a large portion of their production as war reparations to rebuild Cardassia and the colonies of the Federation's allies. The treaty also severely limited the military power that the Breen government could maintain. Both the war reparations and the limits on military power lasted for seven years, from 2375 until 2382.
The Treaty of Bajor also defined new borders amongst the major powers. While most of this was normalizing borders already in place or grants by the Dominion of space in the Gamma Quadrant for colonies, the Federation was granted a large amount of formerly Breen-controlled space. The Breen were required to abandon a number of outposts and two colonies. However, the true flash point of the conflict was an astronomic phenomenon that occured in 2385.
A portion of the border between the Breen Confederacy and the United Federation of Planets is defined by the Valoris Nebula, a class 4 nebula. While the nebula was considered stable at the time that the Treaty of Bajor was signed, a subspace singularity in mid-2385 caused it to rotate with relation to the surrounding stars. This moved several inhabited systems across the border in both directions, placing Federation colonies into Breen space and worlds raided by the Breen for slaves into Federation space. Both governments, in an effort to protect their own interests, laid claim to the entire contested region, thus laying the immediate groundwork for the current crisis.
During late 2386, a small fleet of Breen ship tried to gain control of the small asteroid Garen Epok and the Federation base on it, Roosevelt Station. What ensued has become known as the Battle of Garen Epok, which resulted in a temporary Federation victory. One of the few open engagement between the two powers, the battle had certainly the result of heightening the tensions along all the rest of the border.
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