Conquest of Lourieux

The **Conquest of Lourieux** was a major military campaign of the Keplian Empire, which sought to invade and annex the moon Majriti Lourieux, and its star system, Upsilon Andromedae. The unified planet of Teegarde pledged support for Lourieux. It was fought from 17 June, to 25 August, 1986. More than 230 million people died, the bulk of whom were Lourien civilians, who were targeted and enslaved after the conquest.

* Teegarde *Commandinos* positioned on a hill in Lorraine Wordea
* Touraine skyline after 3 days of fighting

 Location
 Result
* 15% of Lourien population massacred
* Mass enslavement of Louriens
 Territorialchanges
 LourieuxTeegarde (unofficially until 3 July)
 President SwagsonCommander In Chief Frouge
If-Undakinor (*De Facto*)Legionaire Diyatut
 **Lourieux:**9,457,100 Military13,782,500 Police**Teegarde:**74,4531,190,162 (dispatched, never arrived)
 **Lourieux:**3,280,000 Military killed9,920,000 Military wounded1,163,000 police killed6,385,000 police wounded227,000,000 civilians killed600,000,000 civilian wounded**Teegarde:**14,906 killed50,847 captured

Both Louriuex and Teegarde where completely unaware that Kepler was a space-faring civilisation until they identified the Fleet heading to Upsilon Andromedae, 4 days before arrival at the moon. They previously mistakenly assumed the fleet was a space-pirate conglomeration that was intending for a large scale raid. Louriuex and Teegarde only maintained smaller-scale, quality-over-quantity militaries for combating space-piracy and the insurgency in Louriuex's north and south poles. They had not fought a full-scale land battle for virtually hundreds of years. Kepler had recently violently unified and was seeking dominance over every known intelligent species within a few thousand light years.

The Keplian fleet arrived in Lourien orbit on 18 June, and crushed the Lourien Navy within 3 days. They made landfall at the poles, engaging the insurgent groups based there. More than half of Lourien military was defeated after they broke out of the poles and destroyed the military installations surrounding them. Landings were then made around Touraine, the capital, and Nirsailles, the moon's second city. Nirsailles fell on the 7 June, and Touraine was completely surrounded 2 days later. By this time, questions were being raised about Teegarde's loyalty. They had promised to send the largest force they could as soon as the orbital battle began, but ultimately this never arrived, and ordered to head back after it was clear the war was not going to last. The 70,000 Teegarde *Commandinos* already stationed there continued to fight against orders. The Battle of Touraine lasted for over a month, and the remaining forces dispersed into the rainforests around the equator after the city was lost on 21 August. Herieux was taken the same day. The government finally managed to negotiate surrender 4 days later.

Kepler subsequently displaced most of the Lourien population and forced them to live south of the equator. Many were also enslaved to extract the untapped resources from Heriuex, and also from the rainforests of Majriti Lourieux. A resistance force was quickly established and operated for more than 110 years until the Beautiful Resurgence. Despite their attempts to hide their existence from Kepler, Teegarde was discovered by them and threatened to abandon all support for the Resistance Forces and stop all spaceflight out of their star system. Teegarde refused, leading to the Teegarde-Kepler Cold War.