The Battle of Botchok was the opening conflict of the Orion War, a war of independence fought by the Orion people against the 58 races signatory to the Treaty of Kammzdast who held them in slavery, primarily the Nine Worlds Confederation. The Orion rebels had already issued the Recall of the Pirates to provide themselves with a defensive fleet; however, only half of the Orion pirates had gathered at Botchok in time. Nallin the Unconquerable himself commanded an armed freighter (legend would give him a warship and command of the entire pirate fleet).