It began when the terraforming colony lost its mission commander. In the power vacuum, the humans and Hath, having now divided into factions, became greedy and waged war on each other. They recalibrated progenation chambers designed to quickly create settlers to breed generation after generation of soldiers. Due to high casualties, they went through about twenty generations a day. This high casualty rate meant that the story of the origins of the war was severely distorted as it was passed on to the new generation as myth.