Battle of Thalran's Glory

The took place on Tar'Thalran in during the Orcish-Fialta Wars.
== Summary ==
The Orcish Resurgence reached its territorial high water mark with the invasion of Tar'Thalran, or Thalran's Glory (literally "Glory to Thalran"), one of the last worlds conquered by Dres'Fialt himself before his death. Tar'Thalran was considered a monument to Dres'Fialt's later conquests and, therefore, a point of enormous traditional importance to the Fialta. The Orcish invasion of this world was an act of calculated psychological warfare, hoping to deligitimize the Fialta leadership. The Fialta of the Thalranese Marches, in turn, petitioned the great princes of the inner fialta worlds for aid, and the planetary battlefield soon drew millions of orcish marauders, Fialta mercenaries, crusaders and conscripts into one of the largest single military actions since the first Fialta Conquests. What the Fialta and Orcs themselves did not realize was that the orcish warlord Urlek's chief adviser, Karlock, had readily foreseen the meat grinder of the Tar'Thalran invasion and intended to use it as a crucible in which to forge his own vision for a civilized orcish people, feeding "wild and undesirable" orcs to the grinder while enforcing a brutal standard of military discipline as the only alternative for survival.
An early historical figure in the field of necrotic science, Jane "Patches" MacDuff, participated in the battle as a medic, along with Edward Apslund, a mercenary officer who later led the expedition to recover Garrel the Automaton for the Academy on Saldan and thereby inadvertently began the "mechanical revolution."
== Aftermath ==
The Battle of Thalran's Glory led directly to the creation of the Thalranese Marches and the Orcish Directorate.
Category:Battles