Vet Day

Vet Day (or, V-ET Day) is a holiday celebrated in the Fringe, but especially on Alter Mana and Alter Dragon. It is a commemoration of the day that the Tasnican Senate repealed the Extraterritoriality Act, which had long been a symbol of Core-world oppression throughout the Fringe.

Though its roots lie solidly in anti-Tasnican sentiment, it has come to lose that specific connotation, and those who celebrate Vet Day in the Fringe often do so with more generalized anti-Core sentiments close at heart.

The Vet Day Massacre

More a legend than fact, Fringe-world revolutionaries like to spread this tale around the time of Vet Day. The story goes that some Fringe group or other (sometimes the Unbound, other times a loose band of Forthenan guerillas) lead a massive strike on some Core-world symbol of authority to commemorate Vet Day one year. Some stories hold the "symbol" that was attacked was a Tasnican factory, others a Guardian Embassy or a SRAN airbase. The details change with each telling, but the key elements to the story seem to be an underdog Fringe victory against the demonized Core, and a massive, almost unrealistic body count of Core world military/corporate officials.

There is no historical veracity that backs up the telling of the story of the Vet Day Massacre, but that doesn't stop it from being told in every smoke-filled pub on the Fringe around the time of Vet Day.