Great Sundering

The Great Sundering, occasionally also called the First Great Sundering, to distinguish it from the Volkar Civil War, which is also sometimes called the Great Sundering, was a civil war fought between the Great Houses of the Volkar Planetary Imperium from 1476 to 1499, which marks the transition from the Old Imperium to the Rhych Era.

The largest war in Volkara history until that point, the Great Sundering by 1481 had become a global war involving every Great House, and was recognized as a conflict over the future leadership of the Imperium.

By the end of the war, the Imperial House Harhath and six of the seven Great Houses had been destroyed. The victorious Rhych, of House Fythfikh, declared himself Imperator and abolished his own house, in order to found the Imperial House Rhych, which continues to rule the Stellar Imperium to the present.