CSR Saga
In B.R. 2002, the Czecho-Slovenian Republik wrested control of their worlds from the Assyrian Star Empire in a war for independence. In B.R. 2003 the CSR fought another war with the ASE that secured their position as a truly independent sovereignty.
Background In early B.R. 2002 there were strange happenings in the beige carpet deserts on the Assyrian world Perseid IV. At the time this was just a small colony, the local militia could not handle the problem on its own. A strange virus which the Assyrian government will not confirm exists began infecting some of the settlers on the outskirts of the capitol city, Kesmark. These minifigs were turned into what can only be described as rednecks, but the condition possibly has some relationship to Dimmyism. In any case, the redneckified settlers ended up drinking their beer supplies and they acquired pick-up trucks and shotguns and in a blind march they descended upon Kesmark in search of more beer, but really it just turned into chaos. The Perseid militia could not put down the redneck uprising, and more and more of the inhabitants started becoming rednecks. The local governor was forced to request help from the Assyrian Space Force.
Captain Smith was dispatched with a squad of 20 Harvesters to crush the rednecks. At first, their Harvester hovercraft could not be fought by the rednecks; buckshot and small arms fire could not pierce the armour. Scores of rednecks were mowed down by the Harvesters with their homing missiles and their twin machine guns. However, the rednecks improvised and started making rocket-propelled grenades. In a daring attack, the rednecks surrounded 6 of the Harvesters and destroyed them with a barrage of RPGs from the rooftops and a parking garage near the centre of the city. Facing the new weapons, Captain Smith requested back-up, but no other ships came to Perseid IV; the main Assyrian fleet was engaged in a conflict with the Gludavian Raiders at the time. Smith backed his squad out of the downtown area because they couldn't compete against the constantly swelling redneck masses. It was horrible, even educated minifigs like doctors, scientists, and architects were losing their sanity and becoming mindless drunken idiots.
Captain Smith then ordered an evacuation of the planet, anyone with half a brain was to leave immediately. Smith had the rest of his squad guard the road to the Kesmark spaceport so that the civilians who were still sane could flee. In orbit, an Assyrian battleship waited for the evacuation to complete. Once all shuttles had left, Smith returned to the battleship with his squad, but then a new set of orders came in from the Assyrian Viceroy, Dark Blackness, telling them to plasma-bomb the entire city. Lieutenant Major Jackson who was commanding the battleship complied, and Kesmark was destroyed. An untold number of lives were lost.
Some of the civilians on the shuttles witnessed the destruction of their city as they left the atmosphere. They were ferried to other nearby worlds in the Czech Sector where they told the news to the inhabitants. However, a number of the civilians on the escape ships had already been infected and they didn't know it. Shortly after arriving on the other worlds, the redneck disease began to spread. Lt. Major Jackson saw what was going on and declared a quarantine of the 6 other systems in the Czech Sector, no one was allowed in the excluded zone and no one was allowed out.
A small strike force was sent down to Perseid IV outside of the ruins of Kesmark, to one of the small towns where the virus was thought to have originated. They met heavy resistance but they got what they were looking for. They collected the bodies of three of the rednecks and returned them to the battleship for examination in the quarantine unit. Scientists began examining the bodies to find out what went wrong.
On the other worlds, chaos ensued. All available Assyrian Space Force patrol vessels
