[quote=@Darkspleen]
I don't want to reveal too much (its more interesting when the story is revealed ICly), but it'll involve a world/system in my country that has a minority in its population that wishes to join another country (presumably the one that ends up in the war with my country).

If anyone wants to further pursue this with me we can go more in depth over PMs.
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^ Is along the lines of what I was thinking. I'm dubious such an idea would work with your aliens (though I'm not necessarily against the idea), but if you'd like to do something separate let me know.