Battle of Al Hukm (12,522 HE)

The Battle of Al Hukm was one of the last major battles in the Earth Civil War. The battle was part of the Frontier Sieges begun by Matt Tygore and Cheyanne Makenishi.

## Prelude

The United Terran Democratic Federation of Earth had steadily been losing territory to the United Terran Systems from Earth to Antarctos for months, and while they successfullly defended Al Hukm months prior the UTDFE was losing ground and support of the people.

Numerous protests against the UTDFE's economic failures and their loose foreign policy allowed Alien corporations such as the Tartussi and the Kuparians to effectively govern many Terran worlds. With millions of underpaid and angry workers, many revolts began following the UTDFE capture of Earth in 12,518. The revolts allowed the UTSEA to recapture the planet just a few years later.

On October 26th Kasil Kedra began moving his forces into posiiton around planet Al Hukm as well as a second and third fleet behind the twin moons of Aldar. Kedra having studied and beaten Matt Tygore various times before theorized that the Kaiser would attempt a piercing attack against Kedra's standing fleet and kept his other fleets a secret.

Meanwhile at the UTSEA 4th 9th and 6th fleets at the staging area at Kernal held a meeting led by Matt Tygore, having analyzed Kedra's formation and knowing that Kedra studied his tactics, Matt Tygore decided to go for a completely unpredictable strategy, he tasked his forces to use the scavenged and repaired but battle un-ready SC-3 Frigates to be retrofitted on site. Once that was accomplished they then set a course for Al Hukm.

## The Battle

### Opening Stages

Kasil Kedra's forces prepared for the UTSEA force. 14 SC-3 Class Frigates warp in ahead of the fleet, the fleet was large enough for Kedra to begin his attack, both of Kedra's fleets warped in to ambush the UTSEA frigates and began blasting them to shreds, however Kedra noticed that the ships weren't firing back and were moving straight toward the planet.

Grand Admiral: Ranson believed the Kaiser was planning on sacrificing the ships to slam into the UTDFE forces planetside, suggested a barrier formation to prevent the ships from coming through, Kedra agreed and the larger ships began to surround the ships very closely.

### The "Azure Flash"

Kaiser: Matt Tygore watching the battle remotely tasked Cheyanne Makenishi with his plan. Makenishi's team activated the hundreds of Frost Cores within the dummy ships. The resulting Endothermic implosion flash froze every ship nearby as well as the systems and crew within them, over 60% of the UTDFE's large ships were disabled in this attack.

### Closing Stages

The UTSEA fleets warped in as Kedra had expected but with numbers far larger than then he anticipated, and now with his fleet in shambles Kedra had little choice but to engage in a fighting retreat, Despite downing half a dozen large UTSEA ships, they were unable to deal enough damage to the UTSEA to make a difference. Kasil Kedra puled his remaining forces back to the planet to evacuate as many forces as he could.

### Aftermath

The UTSEA proceeded to invade the planet and suffered minor casualties in the attack, Al Hukm fell to the UTSEA soon after. With the disaster at Al Hukm having reached the UTDFE's Congress, the government began to panic and unilaterally hike up the taxes on their world's by 22% in order to fund their construction of a new fleet, this unsurprisingly enraged the populace to begin riots and protest across their territories.

Kasil Kedra the former President and founder of the UTDFE began to experience a psychotic breakdown by unleashing his anger upon his subordinates, Kedra was sent to the brig of his Harbinger "*Horizon*" until he calmed himself.

Vanessa Cerda began to plot her betrayal of the UTDFE back to the UTSEA, seeing how ineffective and corrupt it had gotten in such a small amount of time.