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The '''Kai'pua system''' {{SClang|lang=xian|pa=|srx=Kai'pua|srx2=|kyexiin=9kai2pua}}, formerly known as '''Kayfa''' to the [[United Empire of Earth]] (UEE),<ref>{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/50259/thread/kayfa-2-day-s-length/1000962|text=Kayfa 2 day's length ? 07-03-2018}}</ref> is a Xi'an controlled star system.

"The greater the thought, the greater the action."

So states one of the main tenets of the [[Li'Tova]], a moral and spiritual belief system popular among the [[Xi'an]] which guides its adherents' view of the universe. In no place is that more apparent than the Kai'pua System, which is wholly dedicated to the Li'Tova thanks to the existence of one astronomically special planet, [[R.aip'uāng]].

Kai'pua's role as the focus of Xi'an spirituality was unknown by [[Human]]s during the [[Xi'an Cold War|cold war]]. After Humanity learned of the system's existence in [[2617]], rumors swirled that Kai'pua was the main staging ground for invasion or even the location of the Xi'an homeworld. The true nature of the system was so guarded that for two hundred years, all Humanity knew about Kai'pua was that any [[UEE]] ship found in the system would be immediately attacked — a message made abundantly clear to the UEE by way of the two [[UEE Navy|Nav]]y pilots who found the system.

In [[2617]], UEEN Lieutenants [[Ahmad Harar]] and [[Carl Dyson]] discovered a gravitational anomaly while patrolling the [[Horus system|Horus System]]. Harar and Dyson should have contacted their commander and reported the coordinates so a military pathfinder could be deployed, but, they later explained, doing so would have thwarted their chance at history. Without a word to anyone, they entered the [[Jump Point|jump point]] and became the first Humans to visit the Kai'pua System. The decision to keep their excursion a secret was foolish but, in retrospect, might have averted an all-out interspecies war.

Unbeknownst to Harar and Dyson, their arrival in Kai'pua triggered long range sensors that mobilized a nearby Xi'an squadron. Meanwhile, Harar and Dyson's return trip was delayed because Dyson's ship sustained damage from navigating the uncharted jump. While Dyson was running a diagnostic check to see if his ship was still jump-capable, an EMP blast neutralized both spacecraft. The Xi'an squadron swarmed and captured Harar and Dyson. For years, official UEE documents listed the two as on "medical leave" during this period. The full truth, however, was exposed after the [[Historical Truth Act]] of [[2941]].

Declassified UEE military records list Harar and Dyson as missing in action for three days. The two claim to have been held on a large Xi'an military vessel where they were interrogated while their ships were studied and stripped of weapons. After three anxious days, the Xi'an began to believe the pilots' story that the rest of the UEE military didn't know about the jump. The two were returned to their ships, escorted to the jump point, and given the message that any further UEE vessels would be attacked on sight.

It was only after the fall of the [[Messer Era|Messers]] and the normalizing of relations between the two species, that the Xi'an revealed the secrets of Kai'pua. [[Imperator]] [[Erin Toi|Toi]]'s first official visit to the [[Xi'an Empire]] occurred in the Kai'pua System. [[Emperor Kray]] led her on a personal tour of Tovaroh and clipped a branch of a [[Centennial Bloom]] plant for her to take home.

Emperor Kr.ēalso elucidated a core doctrine of Li'tova; that one small action can affect the entire universe. Harar and Dyson were shown leniency because the Xi'an knew the UEE would eventually rediscover the jump. The Xi'an wanted to avoid a similar situation, and another chance at aggression, when the UEE came through the jump for the second time. So it was with great thought that the Xi'an determined the right action was compassion because it provided the clearest path to peace.