The Pholan Alliance was an alliance of various empires whose sole purpose was to eliminate the Kascn. Formed shortly after the Central War, it included species such as the Tark, Graamross, and Elgeon, all victims of the tyrrany of the Kascn Empire. The alliance launched several small attacks on the Kascn, most of them faliures, and attempted one attack that could have finished them off, had it not been for the highly philosophical Tark agents dropping out at the last moment to search for a "secret weapon" in the Galactic Core. The attack obviously failed, but a year later, a ship they would later learn belonged to the Xarn emerged from the Core. The Tark scouts were nowhere to be seen.