However, as the demand in the Celestial market continued to grow, the speed and yield of spice extraction from plants could no longer satisfy the Legion's intensifying exploitation. Meanwhile, the local companies and natives of the Garden evolved to leverage their wealth from the spice trade, with support from the Celestial Company, to launch several independence wars against the Legion.
After four Spice Wars, the Legion finally lost its patience and utterly devastated the surface of the 067 series of Earths, adopting a more direct approach—breaking the ground and mining for spices directly from the planet's crust. They also completely monopolized the spice trade, significantly inflating prices to suppress the wealth of companies and colonies.
This behavior ultimately led to a complete breakdown in the relationship between the Legion, the colonial Earths, and the companies, directly causing a large number of companies to defect to the Committee's side...
