Third Battle of Bastion Starzone

Third Battle of the Bastion Starzone
Part of the Phoenix Republican Uprising
Date	May 5 5322 AE
Location	Bastion System
Result	Imperial Victory
Belligerents
Phoenix Empire	Jardin Republic
	Phoenix Democracy Movement
Commanders and Leaders
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Miziuru-Saria	Julia Grasse
Angus Feril	?
Roscoe Hillenholler	?
Units Involved
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1st Guard Fleet	10th Fleet
Osakan Banner Fleet	Reunion Defense Command
Imperial Navy 15th Fleet
Strength
	forts
Casualties & Losses
Bunch	Bunch
[] Ships of the Line	[] Ships of the Line
[] Cavalry	[] Escorts
[] Escorts

The Third Battle of Bastion Starzone was a naval battle of the Phoenix Republican Uprising, fought on the 5th of May, between the combined fleet of Imperial ships led the Grand Duchess Miziuru-Saria and the Jardin 10th Fleet for control of the Bastion Starzone. The Revolutionary Army and the Jardini Liberation Command had spread themselves thin across captured space. While many of their overtures to turn the Empire into a loose confederacy of self-sovereign kingdoms with the Phoenix Republic as primus inter pares met relatively positive reception in other Grand Duchies, many historians consider these diplomatic gestures to have severely backfired in the Osakan Reach. Imperial loyalists rallied in the Osakan Reach responded by impetuously attacking the Bastion Starzone.

Though heavily outnumbered, the overstretched 10th fleet counterattacked in a somewhat disorganized and piecemeal fashion. The battle quickly turned in the favor of the Phoenicians particularly as forces broke through and captured the super-dreadnought. Julia Grasse was soon forced to retreat back to Reunion before Imperial cavalry forces cut off escape, leaving the system defenses to their own devices. Official notice of surrender of the garrison's surrender arrived on [].

Unlike many other tactical Phoenician victories that nevertheless failed to affect the strategic situation, the Third Battle of Bastion Starzone was a major blow to the Jardin expeditionary force and the Phoenix Republic. The recapture of Bastion now put several Imperial Circles back into tentative communication and the Combined Fleet one wormhole jump away from the former Imperial Fleet headquarters at Reunion. It also allowed Marshal Askar Michael ibn Ibrahim al-Gramont to link up with the Combined Fleet, whose intelligence and reinforcements proved essential to the Battles of Hestia and Broken Kybelle.

Aftermath

Having secured her seat as Grand-Duchess of the Osakan Reach, Miziuru-Saria. Unbeknownst to the

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