Battle of the Starforge

Sixth Battle of Luxor
Part of the Long War
Date	5-12 January 5323 AE
Location	Luxor System
Result	Pyrrhic Imperial Victory
Belligerents
Phoenix Empire	Ur-Real
High Kingdom of Killian
Commanders and Leaders
Angus Ferill	Zst-Heriarch Uthxili†
Tahminah Mina bint Yasmin al-Lasalle	Sst-Heriarch Ilithici†
Haile Asakura al-Mihran
(Imperial Army Marshal)
Cobthach Cóel Lorc
Units Involved
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1st Capital Fleet
Capital Sector Theatre Command
Strength
600 Ships	1000+ Ships
[] Capital Ships	5 Thilixic Class Heavy Combat Unit (Long Range)
[] Cruisers	[slaver barge?]
[] Escorts	1,000+ Assault Craft
Casualties & Losses
800,000+ Soldiers	200,000+ Killed
5,000,000+ Civilians
[] Capitals	3 Thilixic Class Heavy Combat Unit (Long Range)
[] Cruisers	[] Assault Craft
[] Escorts

The Sixth Battle of Luxor was a naval battle of the Long War fought by the forces of the Phoenix Empire and Killian's World against the [] Long Range LMC Expedition over the world of Luxor.

The battle was characterized by the absence of instruction from the Phoenix and the total dysfunction of the Ur-Real forces. The Ur-Real forces behaved erratically and with conflicting priorities.

A lone planetoid arrived well ahead of the rest of the force and demanded surrender, which was destroyed by the power of the Starforge.

With the retreat of the rest of the other Ur-Real and the destruction of the Rose of Nu-Paris, the battle would continue for several days inside the Hegemony of the Solar Wind. The fanatical and superhuman Ur-Real warriors within inflicted ferocious losses on all boarding attempts. The Imperial Capital Sector Theater Command would not declare final victory until [date] when the last holdouts were confirmed as eliminated.

The eventual result was a victory, including the first intact capture of a Battle Planetoid, but at severe cost. The Army of Frontiers and 1st Guard Fleet were mauled, losing almost 78% of their effective force. The Imperial Army elements committed by Capital Sector Theater Command suffered grinding attrition in the bulkhead to bulkhead fighting within the Hegemony of the Solar Wind. The civilian casualties and general damage to the cities of the Capital were appalling.

Deployment

A strong battlegroup was

Battle

War for the Hegemony of the Solar Wind

Ur-Real warriors and warmachines stubbornly resisted the growing footholds Imperial and Killian forces had won in several of its cavernous hangers and holds. The Thilixic Class carried a considerable complement of warriors in cold sleep intended for planetary occupation, many of which were waking to deal with the boarders. By the end of the first day of unrelenting combat Prince Cobthac and Imperial command began to fully grasp the true scale of the battle that had yet to be fought. While the breaches were reinforced, Field Marshal [] of the Imperial Army Capital Sector Theatre Command was given overall control of the battle. Using deep penetration telemetry data of the Hegemony of the Solar Wind the Field Marshal's staff divided the planetoid into roughly four different Fronts. Over the course of a week elements of the XXI, XVIII, VI, and VII Imperial Army Groups from the Capital Sector Theatre Command as well as a stream of Starforce regiments totaling almost 1.5 million troops were cycled through a continuing battle.

Victory

On the , the last holdouts were found to have ritually self-terminated in gory fashion. After such ferocious resistance Field Marshal [insert name] insisted on waiting for a comprehensive clean sweep before declaring the end of active combat operations on the Hegemony of the Solar Wind. Worried about the possibility of a self-destruct sequence he began evacuating large numbers of support personnel from the ship. After six hours of patrols without contact and the interrogation of communicable slaves, she was satisfied that fears of hidden pockets or a self-destruct were by now unfounded. On the [date], after [] days of combat, [] reported victory to the Phoenix.

The Sixth Battle of Luxor was over.

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