20 million years ago, The Orion wars started over territory in the constellation of Lyra.
But soon the war spread to Orion, and it became a war of mindsets and ideologies. On the one hand, there was a group of mainly humanoid races that was committed to the idea of service to others.
On the other hand, there was a mixed group of humanoids and reptilian races that propagated service to self. These were mainly located in the constellations of Draco and Orion. Initially, the philosophy of service to self implied that when everybody takes care of him- or herself, then the whole is taken care of, too.
But gradually it changed into service to self, if necessary at the expense of others, which resulted in "victimizers" and "victims." The victims and their allies, who by now had joined forces in a Federation, started looking upon the victimizers as evil, while they started seeing themselves as good. As a result, the wars got polarised and ended up being wars of duality, even though things didn’t start off like that, at all. Now history is filled with examples of how a polarised conflict can never be resolved as long as the polarities remain. It was no different in the Orion wars that lasted for eons, but where no breakthroughs by either side would ever be lasting.
Every once in a while, usually within the worlds that had been submitted by the Orion and Draconian Empires, there would be rebellions by groups that did no longer want to be submitted, but that did not want to join the federation, either. Things only started changing when groups within the Federation got fed up with the war, too, and broke away from the Federation.
Feel sad for the Lyrians.
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