A brief recollection of events.

[Rodent]

From Walter Hurst, Historian. A perspective on the events in the Omicrons.


This is an attempt to collate and record facts of a rather obscure battle in the far Omicrons, of which rumors have reached us here on Gran Canaria. As a historian, I feel obliged to collect and record information regarding this battle, for posterity to remember and take lessons from.

This document has been created using various Order and zoner refugees that have just reached the planet in makeshift transports, as well as all records that I could obtain from Freeport 11 and Yaren base.

Details are rather sketchy, but what is known that is the the events began with Nomad and Order skirmishes in the Omicron Delta system. This initial phase of the battle seems to have lasted a few hours and ended in a decisive nomad victory.

Order survivors are adamant that The Order could have saved a lot more from the nomad attack, were it not for a simultaneously launched Core offensive on the Order home planet of Toledo.

The core fleet from all recollections seems to have been a full battlegroup, with five battleships, almost twenty cruisers and a few thousand smaller craft. Notable is the presence of troop transports among the fleet, suggesting the the Core were attempting to occupy, and not destroy.

The core attempted an encirclement tactic of Planet Toledo, and began a siege. Order forces caught in the encirclement would likely have faced enemy fire from all directions, and dealt out the same. It was a high-risk high-reward strategy adopted by the Core. This phase of the battle seems to have lasted at least four days, during which two Core battleships and a similar amount of Osiris class vessels were disabled.

What follows however is the main matter of this narrative. A Nomad fleet jumped into Omicron Minor, larger than any recorded till date. The fleet indiscriminately attacked both Core and Order assets, forcing the Core fleet into retreat.

The Order fleets around Toledo held the line for close to two days. All that time an evacuation effort from Planet Toledo was being attempted, since the Order command had agreed that it was impossible to hold the line in Toledo for an extended period.

The nomads broke through the defenses and destroyed the Isis.

It is believed that close to eight hundred thousand people were still on the Planet when the Nomads encircled it and began an orbital bombardment pattern. If the figure is true, it is one of the most appalling losses of life in Sirius in recent years.

The remnants of the Order retreated to an unknown system, while there is no record of the Nomad fleet after this action.