The Wars of Reunification (7562 BG-5022 BG) raged through the inhabited worlds. They were ferocious and long-lasting struggles and ended the Age of Ten Thousand Emperors. They resulted when cyborg Ibrahim Vaughn Holtzman pursued by his father, passed on (using the Holtzman Waves) a distress wave message to the six nearest inhabited systems, about an instantaneous interstellar comm device, which allegedly his father, intended to keep for himself. The systems complied (except one) immediately. These revelations resulted in the widespread and rapid development of Holtzman Wave generators, bringing on the Wars.