Battle of XDeltaZero

Battle of XDeltaZero
Part of the Long War
Date	June 5322 A.E.
Location	XDeltaZero System
Result	Decisive Jardin Victory
Belligerents
Jardin Republic	Ur-Real
Phoenix Republicans
Commanders and Leaders
Jacques Desmond	Exarch Bhuutiliumina
Joachim Mornstein-Montfort
Units Involved
4th Fleet	Long Range LMC Expedition 5
La'Vienne Corporation
11th Black Eagles Special Operations Flotilla
Strength
XDeltaZero Station, 11 Ships	6 Ships
8 Ships
Casualties & Losses
500+ Killed	1,000+ Killed
1 Destroyer, 1 Gunship Foundered	1 Explorer Unit (Long Range) Foundered
2 Prototype Ship of the Wall Damaged	5 Dragoons Captured
1 Destroyer Crippled

The Battle of XDeltaZero was the first recorded contact - as well as the first armed clash - between the colonists of the Large Magellenic Cloud with the subject-armies of the Ur-Real. Long Range LMC Expedition 5 EU(LR) commanded by Exarch Bhuutiliumina, consisting of the EU(LR) Pharoah Alziani the Great and its dependent craft, launched from the Milky Way and arrived in the XDeltaZero system of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a remote outpost of the Jardin Republic privately owned by the La'Vienne Company. In a stroke of fortune the recently named First Minister Desmond was personally inspecting the facility with a substantial armed guard.

The defeat of the and a breakthrough in research of the Second Core brought public awareness of the

Background

Following the elections of

Aftermath

Between interrogation of the survivors aboard the Pharoah Alziani the Great and the Second Core, the Jardin government learned a substantial deal of information. Most important of all however was the news that the EU(LR) had been launched to provide reconnaissance data for the 5th Banner Fleet which was projected to arrive in the Large Magellanic Cloud in a roughly sixty year timeframe. First Minister Desmond hastened to publish the most pertinent information as across the Cloud. As well, he issued personal diplomatic overtures to all known powers ranging from the Phoenix Empire and Free Star League to the most minor periphery powers that urged reconciliation and military preparation to meet the threat. Within a week's time the Phoenix Empire acknowledged the veracity of Jardin claims in a major public broadcast. Other responses varied.

It is believed that the

Reconciling the differences between the renewed militarization programme - particularly the possibility that the next administration would abandon critical preparation efforts - and a restoration of decayed civil liberties and democratic institutions would prove the most difficult challenge of the Desmond government. The prompt nationalization of La'Vienne Corporation assets would be one of the first conflicts of interest.

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