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The Sarian Raider clans, the produce of the fallen Xantian League and the lost Star Kingdom of Sarias military, Pirates, nomads, xenophobes, rage driven and filled with constant murderous infighting. Constantly on the search for the next score of resources or ships. Fearless. Unremitting and relentless. On the base genetic level to be Sarian is both a curse and a blessing. 

The Sirus Republic, the produce of a Sol based generation ship armada, Rich, libertine, decadent and in theory at least powerful given its base industrial ooutput but riven by social strife, internal security issues and gross injustice. A vast population lives in almost close confinement on vast stellar orbitals ruled over by a nobility made up of the High Admiralty, the descendants of the "first ships" command crews.  They maintain an absolute monopoly of force within the slowly expanding republic. Only members of the High admiralty have the vote or anything resembling freedom or social mobility.  
   
YEAR ONE: 
SRN Nara Light scout cruiser taken by clan Varn raiding force. 

Wider Sarian clans informed of a fresh target, and eventually the Naras remaining crew and battered hull is taken to Royal Gauntlet by Heralds, upon inspection of it bounties are authorized by the Orders of Heraldry.  

Raiding harassment and scouting phase started on behalf of the Heralds, Clans harass and raid SRN periphery shipping Spinward. Bounties by Heralds increased ten fold.  

Destruction and co-option of the SRNs border probe network by the Heralds. 

The clans begin deep raiding, strikes against military targets, planetary raids against installations.

SRN moved to alert, capital squadrons commence activation, naval spending increases with new classes authorized.

Ds'Sala system raided by V'Ikn, first major Sirian system to be so intruded upon, SRN decide on mass news blackout. Conservative SRN admiralty faction seeks to suppress SRN internal communications on the incident.  

Orders of Heraldry consult aboard Royal Gauntlet. Unknown to them the Clerics see to raise a clan of there choosing. 

SRN Third fleet dispatched from Sirius to An'Sharat 

Heralds designate several dozen aggressor clans into a series of forlorn hopes, intending for there disposal, the paper tiger of the SRN however proves ineffective at the task.  these clans request from the Heralds there assistance not in a mere raid but a full scale invasion. Calculating the odds the Heralds approve it and immediately commence mass invasion synchronized by the SRNs own border probe network that had previously been compromised. 

Ds'Sala system lost to V'Ikn mass raid. 

SRN Third fleet prepared to liberate Ds'Sala from the V'Ikn 

YEAR TWO:

*The strike against An’Sharat by massed aggressor clans, Destruction of An’Sharat Fleet Anchorage, SRN spin-ward deep range scanning arrays are destroyed, the SRN looses the ability to track Sarian incursion forces at range, SRN third fleet gutted and forced to flee. First appearance of a Juggernaut shocks SRN almost as much as the losses of the third fleet.

SRN Fleet Alert issued, efforts by High Admiralty to suppress the situation at least in the outer spin-ward colonies and the fleet itself begin to fail. 

SRN Battleship Refit program completed, Citizen class battleships  CHARBONNEAU  , CHEVALIER, CORNETT, COUSINEAU join the SRN wall of Battle. 

SRN Battle cruiser program halted in favor of mass cruiser hull construction.  

*Master Herald Bla T Cliy decodes the SRNs Deep range scanning systems from SRN wreckage found at An’Sharat. SRN interstel com systems and notably ultra long range missile targeting systems compromised.

SRN commision patrician class cruisers en masse. Sirus Republic Naval industry prepares to convert to total war production, but the massive civilian industrial output of the Sirius system orbitals and there populaces are still ignorant of the threat. High Admiralty desperate to cover up there many failures. 

Assembly of the clans and the blood price for War princedom, Sarad I V'ikn declared War Prince after successfully seeing of twenty six challengers in the court of blood. The V'ikn gain ascendancy sponsored by Clerical factions, Heralds suffer major political blow as hardliner V'ikn policies take sway across over forty clans


Year Three:  

The Siege of the Sirius Repubic begins. Every system no matter how deep within the Republic finds itself beset by Beheader formations and worse. Tonnage losses on both sides mount but Sirius republic orbital frieghters begin to go missing in increasing numbers. High Admiralty control of the news feeds begins to fail even on the orbitals. Civil unrest on Tellus orbital itself sees the Faron University Massacre as High Admiralty enforcement officers open fire with live rounds rather than have the High Admiralties marbled precinct violated. 

Sarians commence mass piracy of all vessels in Sirian Republic space.  

Sirius system itself attacked in a lightening raid by Sarian cruisers from clan Sotekran on behalf of the Heralds, SRN High Admiralty claim it to be light colonial rebel or pirate activity shocking for its audacity, in truth the SRN 1st Capital fleet loose two destroyer divisions with over twenty eight vessels lost and the aging Mons class heavy cruiser class formation of all six of the remaining in service to the well Handled Sotekran Restive frigates and Firestorm class light cruisers. 

SRN Fifth Fleet led to utter disaster by High Admiral Pierre Bertrand in Clan Malsari ambush in Totek system. Fourth Frontier Fleet retreats to Sirius after arriving 49 minutes too late to assist with Bertrands dire positioning and finally viewing the mass jamming of SRN missiles by Sarian clan forces.  

Effective conquest of Totek though sporadic resistance continues 

Fourth frontier fleet make it through the chicane of Sarian ambushes led by the elderly Purity class Battleship POSSESIVE and Admiral Fields, SRN missiles updated upon reaching Sirius but all lines of communication now cut with other republic systems. Only the Capital and Fourth fleet are capable of engaging the Sarian clans in combat.  

Battle of the outer drift, Sirius System, Sarian Juggernaut MALSARI and SOTEKRAN destroyed by concentrated missile fire by Fourth Frontier fleet under admiral Fields as SRN communications are restored in part.  Twenty six mixed  Sarian Cruiser losses, SRN Bat Cru Div One along with SRN Purity class Battleship PRIDE, POSSESIVES sister ship destroyed by close massed Juggernaut Overdrive cannon fire.

SRN High Admiralty still unwilling to respond to true scale of invasion and still operating mass cover up. Mass unrest within orbitals populations spreads. High Admirals still refuse to unlock orbitals armories or unfortunately hopelessly antiquated but massive integral defenses.

Second Battle of the outer drift Twelve SRN Cruisers destroyed or rendered beyond use  from 1st Capitol and six rapid destroyer divisions from  4th Frontier fleets annihilated by mass Beheader formations after High Admiralty overrides Fields deployment with direct orders and vessel micro management.

Cracks begin to form between SRN frontier fleet and even some 1st capital Operational officers and High Admiralty aboard Tellus orbital. High admiralty still refuse to come clean to the public about invasion. 

Solus Orbital is taken with hardly a shot being fired, true scale of Sarian incursion broadcast system wide by local news outlets. Over forty Juggernauts spotted above the orbitals main urban center before mass boarding begins by Sarian clans. With the armories still locked by High Admiralty lock out and without civil defense units or even Solus security systems activated the Orbital and four hundred and twenty million citizens of the republic fall under Sarian Clan domination within hours. 

SRN already reeling from the the battle of the outer drift launches ill timed mass cruiser formation strikes as civil populace panics on all orbitals. Armories finally opened on all orbitals but Tellus but the massive infra red laser arrays aboard the orbitals prove to be woefully dated, many entirely rendered useless by lack of maintenance.  Losses on both sides mount.  SRN second and sixth fleet manage to break through the Sarian formations as they flow in system and receive updates from Fourth fleet. All SRN battleships however are ordered to join 1st capital fleet guarding Tellus Orbital. 

SRN Battleship POSSESIVE on a very extended route to Tellus and fourth frontier fleet engage and destroy Sarian Juggernaught Marak, Tolk and Rangcha and the bulk of there clans,  SRN long range battleship massed fire if the vessels given chance to maneuver proven decisive, SRN High admiralty however draw the wrong conclusion from the engagement believing it to be raw firepower which wins the day, SRN Deep scanning array still compromised they massively underestimate the depth of the Clan wall of battle and cannot risk having the non high admiralty family Fields carry the day lest it utterly undermine what little is left of there public position. 

Upon viewing his latest order pack Fields openly states the High Admiralty are dooming the republic, SRN 1st capital squadron naval police (who are effectively political police) arrest him and he is taken under guard to Tellus Orbital.  

SRN  admiralty order Fourth frontier fleet reinforced by three citizen class battleships from the 1st Capital fleet, now under High Admiral Sasta to sally against the Sarians.  Renamed Fourth fleet the formation is rendered useless in short order, all three citizen class vessels are lost after inflicting admittedly heavy losses against Sarian V'Ikn forces near Rasa Orbital.  Sasta proves to be an attrition obsessed butcher and is lost aboard his flagship the CORNETT under direct mass boarding by V'Ikn forgers.  Fourth fleet retreats to Tellus with the loss of many of its remaining cruisers to well timed Sarian missile attacks.   

Fifth and Sixth frontier fleets make there presence known at Rasa orbital, Clan forces including the Juggernaut ARNAK destroyed, Fifth fleet flagship PARAGON almost gutted by lucky fire from ARNAKs mass drivers. 

Fifth and Sixth frontier fleets join 1st capital and fourth at Tellus Orbital, upon learning of Fields imprisonment and mismanagement by High admiralty a short coup ensues, Fields is declared Fleet Admiral, a post that the SRN disposed of two hundred years prior, SRN "high" admiralty families effectively dispossed from power structure. The revolution on Tellus orbital is fast and final.  Though the Sirus republic would suffer under six years of brutal Sarian occupation it would afterword emerge a true if much poorer republic. 

Battle of Sirius, SRN deploys all remaining in system capital assets and capital ships, Even with Fields direct leadership destruction of the SRN as an effective fighting force in sixteen hours of continuous heavy engagement ensues. Combat halts when Farna Orbital destroyed as the Juggernaught MAKARIs wreckage impacts it, SRN civilian losses estimated at three hundred of million. Thirty six SRN battleships disabled or destroyed,  Fourteen Sarian juggernauts lost. Last remaining operational SRN battleship POSSESIVE formally and conditionally only on not destruction of the orbitals or there people surrenders the system and the republic. Fields taken as honored Broken by Saraid I V'ikn himself in the hall of the journey on Tellus. 

Mass looting commences, six years of continuous Herald organized thievery and exploitation before the Sirus system is abandoned by the clans, the Sirius republic left a shadow of its former self for nearly a century.

The clans are massively enriched, blooded and now experienced in capital warfare. Sarad I V'Ikn sets his sights on another multi star polity, the Kran Assembly.  Before his conquest can commence he suffers a mass malfunction from his space compression drive. Fields, by now a trusted Broken is equiped by the heralds for his final revenge. With ancient Xantian pulse rounds he destabilizes the V'IKN mid jump cycle.  Juggernaught V'IKN lost with all hands as Heralds dispose of V'Ikn power base.  

Spinward Clans brake up once more to scatter for the next one hundred and forty years ... 

It will take the people of the in some cases almost skeltonized Sirius orbitals and there shattered colonies a century to recover. The society that emerges is heavily militarized, relatively poor, conservative and insular if democratic. Though the Republics vast Orbitals once again shine with ten million lit spires it is no longer a light in the darkness but a closed fortification.  

 

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