Hoxim incident

The Hoxim incident, also referred to as the Hoxim battle and privately named by the Chiss Ufsa'mak'ro as the Battle of the Three Families, was a battle that occurred above the planet Hoxim between Chiss forces as a result of the machinations by "Jixtus" of the Grysk Hegemony. The culmination of Jixtus' plot to destroy the Chiss Ascendancy was to draw rival Chiss Great Families, each allied with a different Ruling Family, into open conflict; which would spread to the Ruling Families and then the entire Ascendancy. The skirmish nearly accomplished this, but the actions of Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet Senior Captains Mitth'raw'nuruodo and Irizi'in'daro of Picket Force Six prevented such an outbreak.

Agents of Jixtus manipulated ambitious officials from the three rival Great Families of Xodlak, Pommrio, and Erighal into gathering their family fleets in an open confrontation to lay claim to the supposedly nyix-rich mining world of Hoxim. Hostilities nearly broke out between the forces of the Great Families above the Agbui mining world, until Lakinda and Thrawn were able to convince the Great Families' fleets to work together against a supposed threat, which was in reality a force of remote-controlled gunboats controlled by Xodlak, Pommrio, and Erighal family members aboard Thrawn's Springhawk heavy cruiser. Thrawn had his warriors and officers put on a light show, targeting their families' vessels with "maximum ferocity but minimal actual damage".

At the end of the skirmish, Thrawn had his sky-walker navigator Che'ri use her powers of Third Sight to guide the hands of weapons officer Afpriuh. Che'ri and Afpriuh aimed at the commandeered Watith freighter at the exact angle needed to destroy the Agbui nyix "mine" and make it look accidental. As a result, the Great Families could not fight over the fake nyix deposit, believing it destroyed.

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