In 2633, Vakka runs into a Confederation ship near a planet in an uncharted system.
Action Stations, page 85:
And then by random chance his own ship found a jump point, went through it, and ran straight into the humans of the Confederation.
Action Stations
by William R. Forstchen
Baen Books
Copyright (C) 1998 by Origin Systems Inc.
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The planet had recently been settled by humans, but outside the official Confederation maps. Vakka boards the ship and takes control of the planet, Fawcett's World. He leaves his old friend Harga to guard the human slaves. Harga becomes friends with the captain of human ship; and later Vakka and his son, Jukaga, learn much about humans from those chats. They gain respect for humans, which the other clans lack.
Action Stations, page 86:
He had left his oldest friend, Harga, in charge. It was the type of task to Harga's liking. A strange one, war had lost its appeal for him. Perhaps he had seen too much at the Battle of Karing, with the death of all his own cubs; it was after Karing that the questioning had begun. And it was through Harga that the warnings had come. Bizarre how the old warrior now claimed fiendship with one of the captives, but Vakka had to admit he could not help but admire the human as well.
Action Stations
by William R. Forstchen
Baen Books
Copyright (C) 1998 by Origin Systems Inc.
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And this has enormous repercusions later on: Vakka tried (unsuccessfully) to avoid a war with the humans; but at the end of the Battle of Earth in 2668, his son Jukaga kills the captain of the cruiser he's aboard, before the captain releases biological weapons that would have destroyed all life on Earth.
Hans Maximillian Kruger, after defending the Landraich from the Kilrathi incursion in 2634, gives chase to the retreating Kilrathi, and ends up crash-landing on Fawcett's World. Nothing is said of what happens after, or how he makes it back to the Landreich, but one might theorize that if he made it back, as he did, to later become President of the Landreich, he may have freed the human slaves that were kept there.
Action Stations, page 336:
He was two jump points inside the Empire, nailed raiding a Cat base at some place called Fawcett's World that was supposedly garrisoned by an entire division of Imperial marines.
“You know, Kruger, that was pretty dumb, coming into the atmosphere of this place to try and shoot it up.”
“Elaine, we trashed it, didn't we?”
“Yeah, and they got us too.”
………
“Let's go raise some hell with the Cats first. The odds are only ten thousand to one.”
Action Stations
by William R. Forstchen
Baen Books
Copyright (C) 1998 by Origin Systems Inc.
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