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After a brief internal political struggle, in [[Federation Space History#2380-2383|2381]] Endar became the Commander-In-Chief of the Talarian Republic. With his experiences with the Federation, he moved for closer ties, though he rebuffed several cultural envoys that sought to help ''improve'' the Republic with various institutional changes. He did, however, begin to invest more heavily in education and technological development, trying to pull the Republic into the modern age by [[their bootstraps.

While numerous advances were made during the 2380s and early 2390s, Endar was disappointed with the progress that Talarian scientists were making. His drive to make Talarian technology equal that of the Federation or even the Cardassians was not bearing the fruit he desired, making their ships much improved, but still only equivilant to those of the Federation at it's founding, or at best early 23rd century technology. It simply wasn't producing fruit like he desired, and he was dying.

On his deathbed, Endar instituted a new program, authorizing the purchase of old ships from the various powers across the quadrant. Most were mothballed from their navies, some came secondhand through the [[Ferengi]], but all would be valuable. Once Elnor became Commander-In-Chief in [[Federation Space History#2396-2399|2397]], following the First General War2390s, he fast-tracked these purchases and funneled several of them to Mendoir Systems, the largest of Talar's research corporations. Other corporations soon became involved, and they all began to reverse engineer the systems they found.

The Talarians stayed internally focused, defending their territory but not venturing outside except for their purchases of more ships, until after the [[Krynar War]]. In Near the early days turn of [[Federation Space History#2417|2417]]the 25th Century, the [[Cardassian Union]] invaded the unclaimed space between the Union and the Republic. Having seen the Cardassian's agressions throughout the 24th century, the Talarians decided they could not simply wait and see what they would do. The Republic moved into that same unclaimed space, and began skirmishing with the Cardassians. The [[Cardassian/Talarian War (2421)|Cardassian/Talarian War]] was officially declared on stardate [[2421|242107.02]] and only lasted a matter of hours before they capitulated, formally joining the Cardassian Union.