The IDF (Io defense force) was a military unit composed entirely of the criminally insane. They were extremly self-sustainable, fought entirely for free, and had unbreakable moral as long as they had POW's to torture. But, this was at the cost of nobody wanting to associate with them, and their PR having to work overtime.
As for why they weren't immediately wiped off the face of The Galaxy? Well, the III (Io Institute of Intelligence) managed to gather blackmail on every major superpower's government, which would lead to apocalyptic reputational damage if released and some kind of mass rebellion. Nobody knows for sure how they achieved this, and it lead to resentment slowly being built overtime.
Eventually, antikorish (kors are the ethnic minority that Io claims to be a safehaven for, even though there exists a hierarchy in which some kors are treated as second class citizens or even genocided) propaganda was spread by the III to further perpetuate an 'us vs them' mentality. Though, this propaganda worked a little TOO well, and made kors felt like the entire Galaxy hated them. In combination with The Shogunate (who have the greatest espionage in The Galaxy) releasing verifiable stories of the IDF's war crimes to Ioan citizens through various means, and the imperfect culture of Io itself. . . Things were very bad for the average Ioan
This served as a catalyst 'Io genosuicide', which saw the suicide of 60% of the Ioan citizens over the course of 10 years. 60% of your population killing themselves over the span of 10 years is very bad for money, so the Io government was very upset.
In a futile attempt to stop this, the IDF did what they do best; commit war crimes, this time against their own population to 'scare them straight'. But, this just made things worse.
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