First Pius Dea Crusade

The First Pius Dea Crusade was the first of a series of military campaigns launched by the Galactic Republic while under the control of the Humanocentric Pius Dea cult. Sanctioned in 11,965 BBY by the Republic's Pius Dea Supreme Chancellor Contispex, the crusade targeted Hutt Space, the realm of the Hutt species, which had long been unpopular with the Republic. The First Pius Dea Crusade ushered in dozens of other crusades during the subsequent millennium that were aimed at various non-Human species and had long-lasting repercussions on the relations between the Core Worlds and Rimward regions.

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