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Throughout humanity’s race to the stars, colonists relied upon hardy animals to provide food on worlds where the native fauna was unable to sustain their needs. The goat was just one of the many animals they commonly used. Once introduced into Brockway’s environment, the mountain goat grew even more useful. Thanks to feeding upon the local flora, the Brockway goat not only grew larger and stronger, but incredibly prolific. Kids mature faster and females produce more offspring with each birth than any Terran goats. Additionally, its coat of fur, though not particularly fast-growing, can be made into a useful textile. These facts alone make the Brockway goat attractive to colonists and ranchers alike, but it’s the creature’s horns, which typically reach more than a meter in length, that make the most significant impression on observers.

[2590] After the failure of General Forlough's 'scorched-earth' tactics on New Vandenburg, he was recalled to Terra in January 2590, to be replaced by Lord Damien Onaga.

With much of the Concordat's force withdrawn within the relative safety of Hyades Cluster, General Onaga led the Star League forces through the remainder of the outlying Concordat planets virtually unopposed.

Brockway was occupied in November 2590.

[3066] Expecting a Davion invasion of the Taurian Concordat which never came, the now paranoid Protector Shraplen ordered his own strikes deep into the Federated Suns. At first his regiments made remarkable progress, having attacked a region of space where the AFFS had few resources remaining - most being tied up in the ongoing civil war. Brockway fell to the Hyades Light Infantry without much of a struggle in late 3066.

Meant only to be punitive raids, these successes prompted further strikes with the Taurian regiments now believing they could reclaim their ancient homeworlds, and pay the Federated Suns back for their losses in the Reunification Wars.

By early 3067 however, and with the civil war coming to an end, Duke George Hasek was able to send a massive force of AFFS regulars and mercenary units to cut the Taurians off and repel them.