What? You were expecting the Spanish Inquisition?
-- Rear Admiral Leonard Peikoff Merrick, Eos Fleet, Combined Fleet of the Freya Pact
The people who colonized Eos (Cymbelline in the original Solomani Rim supplement) were rather insular and unmilitaristic. But losing over twenty percent of their planetary population to a band of ideologically driven psychopaths had stimulated a change of cultural attitude on military affairs.