Battle of the Moon

-Capture of Cunningham

-End of the Hunt for Hive

## Combatants

Terran RepublicMartian Republic

Raxian-Aikanian Authority

Ark'ain Dominion

Hive's Warlord FactionHuman Reclamation Army

## Commanders

Marshal Luigi FoxMarshal Otto Laake

General Jäger

Admiral Stroner

Admiral Kann

Ark'ain Admiral

Warlord Hive †Admiral Robert Cunningham

## Strength

Unionis Invicta TSS Ranger

TSS Invincible

TSS Trafalgar

MSS Conqueror

RXS Guardian

AGS Vindicator

11 Terran Cruisers

5 Ark'ain Cruisers

3 Raxian Cruisers

3 Martian Cruisers

1 Interdictor Cruisers

1 Terran Battleship

1 Raxian Battleship

1 Ark'ain Battleship

HSS Patriot TSS Liberator

15 Kara Cruisers

3 Kara Battleships

## Casualties

3 Terran Cruisers1 Terran Battleship

15 Kara Cruisers3 Kara Battleships

The **Battle of the Moon** was the last military encounter between the Terran Republic and Galactic Parliament Task Force against Hive's Warlord Faction and the Second HRA in the conflict known as the Hunt for Hive.

## **Background**

After the Second Battle of the Gate, Hive and his faction were hunted down by a Parliament task force, and had been ultimately left without a fixed base.

In a last ditch attempt at taking revenge on his enemies, Hive and his fleet with the support of the rogue terran starship TSS Liberator warped to the Sol System near the Moon.

As they recovered from their Skirmish on Hive's Base, the parliament task force was notified of the warlord's attack and the fleet scrambled to the Sol System. Thus, the two forces would engaged as the enemy fleet raced towards the Gate.

## **The Battle**

As the task force entered the Sol System, a battlegroup of six ships was already engaging in combat with the battlestation Unionis Invicta and its defense fleet. Meanwhile at the Gate, only four terran cruisers led by the TSS Ranger and TSS Trafalgar stood before ten Kara Cruisers and the HSS Patriot as well as the TSS Liberator.

General Jäger and the 2nd Battlegroup with the support of Admiral Kann's forces raced towards Unionis while Marshal Fox's 3rd Battlegroup broke off the main task force fleet and steamed behind the Kara forces.

Marshal Laake and his notably faster starships took the long way around the enemy forces to join up with Admiral Stroner's 1st Battlegroup protecting The Gate.

The Kara battlegroup attacking Unionis started ramming its shields while the accompanying battleships protected the other ships from the fire shredding them from the incoming terran and raxian forces. Under the orders of Müller, the station lifted off from the moon to fully engage. The Kara then proceeded to attempt a ram strife towards the task force only for one of the battleships to be able to fully destroy a terran cruiser. After the unsuccessful offensive, the dwindling Kara forces warped out of the system. What remained of the 2nd Battlegroup and the Raxian force escorted Unionis to the Gate in hopes to shield the Gate from the overwhelming warlord forces.

Hive and Cunningham's forces were sandwiched by the Task Force and the 1st Fleet, the warlord's forces began to be shredded by the combined firepower of the allied forces. Meanwhile Laake's martian interdictor prevented them from warping.

Shortly thereafter, the HSS Patriot and the TSS Liberator were disabled and surrounded. Two boarding parties besieged the disabled enemy ships and Cunningham was captured, but General Jäger's strike team discovered that Walord Hive had committed suicide and had fully wiped the memory from his ship.

## **Aftermath**

HRA figurehead Admiral Robert Cunningham was imprisoned aboard the TSS Ranger shortly after the battle ended and was then convicted of charges of high treason against the Terran Republic. Much like his conspirators before him, he was executed via firing squad in front of the Capitol Building in Terra City.

Hive's ship and the TSS Liberator were both decomissioned and scrapped on Hispania Base in the Interregnum. Both captured vessels would help to further develop cloaking technology for the TDO and later Solar Governments. This event also strengthened the Terran Republic's relationship with the Martian Republic.