The Arcenian Aquisition
The Arcenian Acquisition is the first conflict ever fought by the Pikasistani and probably the one that had the largest impact on the culture of the nation. As they had to land on the lush forest world of Pikasistania, they also made contact with an agressive, yet primitive, insectoid race named Gapneks. The Gapneks, upon discovering the human colonists immediatly engaged hostilities against them, using their supperior knowledge of the terrain and physical aptitude to slay many of the Pikasistani. After a particuliarly bad streak of defeats, in one of which they lost all of their air support, the Pikasistani Colonial Government, a democracy) was on the verge of collapsing. It was then that the tide changed when a young man named Telemacus managed to destroy the closest hive using some of the hydrazine that was still left in the vessel. He was celebrated as a hero and soon after, repeating the process by various other means (including detonating the already critically damaged and unrepairable FTL-drive), he was crowned first Emperor of Pikasistania. The war concluded 20 years later and changed the culture of the humans significantly from their view on other sentient lifeforms and their political system. It also made the Pikasistani fiercely patriotic and created a strong military culture.