The Haakonians were involved with a war with the Talaxians from 2346 to 2356, when they forced the Talaxians to surrender after detonating their Metreon Cascade weapon on the Talaxian moon Rinax. The Haakonian Order had not wanted to merely demonstrate the weapon's destructive capabilities, but to directly show the Talaxians the horror and destruction that such a weapon could caused when used on a large population. Dr. Ma'bor Jetrel, inventor of the Metreon Cascade, was later exiled by the Order when he began to express sympathetic views towards the Talaxians and tried to develop a radical procedure that he believed would allow the disintegrated victims of Rinax to be reassembled from the Metreon cloud that surrounded Rinax.