Battle of Barras

## History

The last major battle of The Abyss War, the Black Eye Dominion discovered that the Jaqc Monocracy were attempting to use a newly discovered isotope known as *Voltarium*, to create a powerful beam that would amplify the gravity of the small black hole currently present at their home planet of Barras (Jaqc V), known as the Eye of the Abyss. This was part of a last ditch effort from the Jaqc to destroy the entire Black Eye Galaxy after failing to conquer the Galactic Commonwealth earlier this year.

As the battle was fought over several fronts, the Galactic Commonwealth formed an organisation known as the *"Black Alliance"*, an intergovernmental organisation aimed at bringing together the various different species of the Black Eye Galaxy encountered over the 35 years of the Commonwealth's presence in the galaxy.

President Ahnoh Echegaray was successful a forging an alliance between various powers in the Black Eye Galaxy and the New Systems Alliance in order to commit a large scale fleet engagement in the Barras System.

The battle was led by Fleet Admiral and Sky Marshal of the Galactic Commonwealth, Leogryn Romeli, supported by a sizable portion of the Black Eye Consortium, Aventis Royal Navy, Rothian Federation and Bassari People's Fleet. With each side able to inflict considerable damage on the sizable Jaqc Fleet, numbering within 50,000 ships which had been pulled back from their numerous crusades.

Attempts at diplomacy with the Jaqc had failed, who were fanatically loyal to the Spirit of the Abyss and intended to destroy themselves in the process of creating the Black Hole's expansion. At one point during the battle, the Spirit of the Abyss attempted to directly intervene by accelerating the expansion of the black hole and using most of it's energy to manifest directly and attack the allied fleet.

The battle drew to a close with the Normandy CBS-61944 choosing to detonate a Hellfire Missile, created with the help of the Qox'cotel Protectorate on the surface of Barras, destroying the planet completely resulting in the termination of the beam. However this action was not enough to stop the rapid expansion of the Black Hole, causing both *Yejat Hataxi* and *Nakarja Hataxi* to sacrifice themselves, flying into the event horizon in a fighter and creating a giant *Crystalline Entity* of both positive and negative energy, halting the expansion of the Black Hole and the emergence of the Abyss.

This giant crystalline formation branched into the surrounding multiverse, forming crystalline connections to all space-time curvatures in the space-time continuum in order to anchor itself and prevent the Abyss from escaping again. The creation of this giant formation, sacrificing both the mother and daughter in the process destroyed subspace, rendering warp travel and faster-than-light communication completely useless throughout the entire Black Eye Galaxy, however the Abyss was stopped once and for all, awaiting further containment by the Novus (The New Ones).

## Notable Participants

#### Galactic Commonwealth

* U.S.S. Republic
* U.S.S. Wadjet
* U.S.S. Normandy (NCC-61944-A)
* U.S.S. Kunau
* U.S.S. Wynter Life
* Commonwealth Aspiration Class
* Commonwealth Battlestar Group
* Aventis Bastion Class
* Aventis Burh Class
* Aventis Concentric Class
* Rothian Magnificent Class
* Rothian Emancipation Class

#### Black Eye Consortium

* C.S.V. Redwake
* The Exodus Battlefleet

#### Umojan Empire

* Umojan Curator Class
* Umojan Praetor Class
* Umojan Bishop Class

#### Jaqc Monocracy

* Jaqc Javan Class
* Jaqc Japheth Class
* Jaqc Madai Class
* Jaqc Tubal Class