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"And to celebrate my astounding victory, there will be a seven-day festival for all! Eat and drink heartly!"

- King Romulus after his victory over his father.

The Romulus' War, also known as King Romulus' War, is an internal thirty-year conflict between the elite forces of King Romulus and the mass peasant army of his father, Remus on the planet Beta Romii. During the Great Schism, Beta Romii was cut off from the rest of the fragmenting Covenant Empire and its large population of Jiralhanae were left to fend for themselves. A competant Jiralhanae commander named Romulus gained power amongst the Jiralhanae military forces while his father Remus gained popularity with the massive peasant population that also inhabited Beta Romii. In order to feed his loyal soldiers, King (self-proclaimed) Romulus was forced to levy a tax upon the peasants forcing them to give 10% of their annual food produce. Remus argued that it was 10% to much and proudly offered himself to the people that he would stop Romulus's and his taxes.

Even with King Romulus' elite forces outnumbered eight to three, Remus' peasant army were outmatched as many were armed with simple farming equipment. While Remus tried to met Romulus on the field of battle, he could not even the terms compared to King Romulus' powerful military might and was forced to engage in guerrilla and ambush tactics while relying on an insurgency force to fight on his behalf. King Romulus led several campaigns against his father using his military forces to gain impressive amounts of territory in order to feed his soldiers, however he was fighting an enemy who could disappear into masses of farmers while his forces were being ambushed almost every day.

History
Both Remus and his son, Romulus had once served in the Covenant Imperial Army although not together. Unlike his son Romulus, Remus had not served loyally or with distinction to earn him a high rank - Romulus, however, had caught the eye of the late Alpha Chieftain Tartarus and with a keen but arrogant mind he had quickly ascended the ranks. Upon the death of the Alpha Chieftain, the three Hierarchs and the Great Schism, Romulus quickly gained power by gathering a loyal band of followers and eliminating any challengers.

For seventeen years,