Battle of Jacent
- 2657AD. An engagement between a Sath reconnisance force and a group of human Second Confederation warships.
Description / Specifications
Despite opposition from powerful Factions among the Sath, the Shadow Emperor granted expansionist elements the right to perform a reconnaissance of the human worlds to coreward to assess their defenses and their level of development. The reconnaissance force used the best ships that the Sath were able to produce and had crews that were considered elite.
History & Background / Dossier
When it entered the Jacent system the Sath reconnaissance was met by the Confederation task force present there: an armored cruiser escorted by destroyers. Although records are unclear about the exact sequence of events, the Sath certainly fired the first shots when they destroyed a human naval launch that happened to be close to their jump exit point. The human warships massively outgunned the Sath vessels and comprehensively defeated them: only one Sath vessel, which had exited jump some distance from the main body, was able to escape. The Battle of Jacent, as it became known, caused a social revolution among the Sath and massively reinforced both their dislike of humans and their their policy of isolation.
- The destruction of the Sath vessels represented the loss of a substantial percentage of their starfaring capability. Starships, always in short supply, were never again thrown away with such frivolity.
The irony is that if the Sath had chosen to visit the Jacent system even just a few years later, they would have found a pleasant barren world ideal for conquest and settlement. Humans weren't active within the system again until sometime after 3300AD.
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science