Cyphar Incident

The Cyphar Incident occurred during the Imperial Era when a land dispute took place on the planet Cyphar between the local Cyphari Afe clan and human colonists based on the Hollenside Enclave. The land dispute was rooted in the colonists' desire to harvest a pre-spice material used in the manufacture of scarn that was running in a vein beneath the Afe territory. After a brief battle Commander Thrawn and his aide Eli Vanto managed to arrest Clay Tanoo and a group of other colonists that had entered Afe lands in the dark of night to collect the pre-spice, but they could not be brought on charges because possession of pre-spice was not considered to be illegal. To destroy the colonists' source of profit, Thrawn used turbolaser fire to burn out the entire pre-spice vein, which angered the Afes, whose farmland suffered a considerable amount of damage in the process. In response to angry report of Afe Chief Joko Thrawn had to explain his actions for a court-martial panel, but he was cleared of all misconduct over the incident, and soon after Thrawn and Vanto both received promotions to higher ranks in the Imperial Navy.

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