The year is Colonial Year 34. War erupted in CY 33 when a Earth Federation transport ship carrying 252 Leo suits, 176 Aries suits, and over a thousand military personnel suddenly and mysteriously exploded in Colonial Space Confederation's air space. The Earth Federation demanded that the colonies pay for the damages. Half of the colonies complied and paid their share. The other eleven colonies refused to pay saying it wasn't their fault. The Earth Federation, angered by this, blockaded the colonies that refused to pay. Cut off from the outside world, the eleven colonies had to retaliate. The colonies that paid, calling themselves NC(neutral colonies), refused to fight but gave financial aid. The Earth Federation signed a peace treaty with the NC. This created tension between CSC. The NC assured that they were still part of the Confederation but did not want to get involved. As they war went into the sixth month, tensions decreased between the NC and the CSC but the war seems to have no end in sight.