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The Talaxian-Haakonian War was a war fought between the Talaxians and Haakonian Order "for a better part of a decade" from the mid-2340s to the mid-2350s. The war concluded when the Haakonians conquered Talax in 2356.

The details of the war, outside of the conquest, were unspecified; however, Neelix stated that he thought the war was "unjust." He further explained that "Talax was fighting for reasons that weren't worth killing for", which indicated they were as much the aggressors as they were the victims.

The Battle of the Pyrithian Gorge was one of the final battles of the war, where the Defense Forces prepared for a Haakonian invasion. While the battle was fought, the invasion never came, as the Haakonians diverted their attention to the Talaxian moon Rinax, where they deployed a devastating weapon known as the metreon cascade, vaporizing more than a quarter of a million Talaxians. The following day, Talax unconditionally surrendered to the Order.

Neelix, who lost his entire family due to the metreon cascade, was hiding on Talax from the Talaxian Defense Forces at the time the cascade was deployed; he was guilty of desertion and illegally refused to serve. While this fact was never discovered by the Talaxian authorities, had he been caught during war time, his punishment for "refusing military service" would have been the death penalty.

Ma'Bor Jetrel, a Haakonian scientist who had access to war records, discovered that Neelix was part of the team that returned to Rinax after the cascade in order to evacuate survivors, leading him to track down Neelix aboard the USS Voyager in late 2371. (VOY: "Jetrel") Following the war, the Haakonians continued to control Talax well into the 2370s. Several refugees, including Dexa, left Talax because of how the Haakonians treated them. (VOY: "Homestead")

Following the death of Neelix's parents, his sisters, and everyone who was killed in the war, he took great comfort in knowing that they would all be together again in the The Great Forest, the Talaxian afterlife; all of whom would be waiting for him by the Guiding Tree. Later, when Neelix died in 2374, and was later revived, he was disappointed to discover that everything he was taught about The Great Forest, and his hopes of being reunited with his family was not true. (VOY: "Mortal Coil")

In 2377, Voyager encountered a group of refugees that had left Talax, following the war, that were living on an asteroid colony near the Beta Quadrant. Dexa's son, Brax, upon learning more about his homeworld, thought that "maybe Neelix could go with [them] and [they] could fight them, [and] take the planet back," after Neelix had demonstrated to the colonists his intentions to protect them from persecuting miners. (VOY: "Homestead")