The galactic date of 44.612.1.0 isn’t a date like any other; in the Hub, dates in this style aren’t given much credence. There are those who still count dates for their own personal reasons, but for the most part, they remain as markers for significant historical events.

For instance, on or around 44.612.1.0, an arduous (as they all are) and hard fought (again, they all are) war between the royal families (not many of those, though) extinguished the lives of tens of millions of inhabitants of the Hub and outlying neighbour systems, namely those of royal houses.

Since then, there hasn’t been an occasion to mark in the annals of the Hub warranting laws, treaties, mandates, agreements of sorts. In part it’s due to how long and tedious the names of such things are, and in another, it’s due to how long and tedious the source events are. Such as wars, for instance.

The Treaty of Outer Planetary War Acts and Other Misgivings is one such treaty. It espoused the unspoken rule against maiming or harming in another way, royal subjects during times of capture, or duress. It was largely understood afterwards that if one were to harm a royal emissary or some such titled person, an incite into another war might happen. Though that’s one part of the treaty, the rest stand to reason in similar fashions. In regards to harming others, of course.

An important, possibly the most important, day during the war came about when there occurred a sudden and unremarkable silence. Some might call it a cease fire, but beyond that, there was a silence. No frigates carrying gravity projectiles bursting forth and around upon shocked soldiers upon their explosion, no intersystem border stations bombarded with raiding parties of advanced warriors bred and trained specifically for combat, discussions between one planet’s forces and another went mute for a time, and so on. It was during this time that actually, a few families did speak. And through that silence they came upon the inception of the Treaty of Outer Planetary War Acts and Other Misgivings. Now, some journalists and archivists and others might say how heroic such an act was, while others blame them for being cowardly; throwing up fancy displays with important, large words on their surfaces in order to stop losing so badly.

But that group was a minority, as all families, well save for one, had lost a great deal during the war.

The only family to exit the thrall of chaos and maddening bloodshed seemingly unscathed, was the Coelgins. The Coelgins are a luminous, agile, sharply featured looking humanoid species who, even till this day roughly eight hundred years later, matched themselves with the warrior world of Eeran Bo, and the female soldiers of the Quipalian species during the war. Their strategies and methods of brutality earned them the safety of their numbers. Their large, hundreds of kilometer long ships, filled with explosives and bursting plasma containers, lunged at other family systems while that system’s forces grew, weaponized, prepared, and the Coelgins’ devastating vessel sundered their armies without dropping a single blood of their own peoples.

This, in fact, was the silencing orchestra of action. This was the inception moment for the treaty of 44.612.1.0.

On another note, the University Galactic Board of Naming Conventions and Other Such Proper Titles and Pronouns’ own Reok Forx earned his consul title from his exceptional reports and journals during the time of the Royal War. To this day, some eight hundred or so years later, he still holds office as a consul, author, archivist, and journalist with hundreds of books and reports about strategies, histories, cultures, politics, and such. His successful, eternal tenure.

He stated that if the silenced moment never occurred, the end of all royal lines would come upon the galaxy not months later. This is because the other families would copy the Coelgins’ strategy and then of course, nothing goes well after that.

However, Consul Reok Forx coined the term Moonlit Eschew to describe the counter movement against such an indomitable action. It was this report with this very strategy that he coined, that earned him the title consul after the war ended.