Battle of Oodalon

### Serpent Empire

1 Assault carrier, 2 battleships, 1 cruiser, 2 light cruisers, 6 frigates, 4 heavy destroyers, 10 light destroyers, 10 corvettes

## Losses and Casualties

### Republic of Judecen losses

27 ships out of action (11 lost with all hands, 3 abandoned, 8 deemed beyond repair, 5 crippled or out of action)

## Overview

On April 31st at 16:00 hours the Serpent empire attacked the Republic of Judecen world of Oodalon. The Grand Navy of the Republic of Judecen's (GNRJ) fourth fleet was moored at the planet and began to hold off the Serpent advance in order to buy time for an evacuation of the civilian population. The battle would soon become an embarrassment and another indication of the failings of the early GNRJ efforts against Serpent, including the battle of Atallos it drove public faith in the navy through the floor and would push Admiral Admiral Cadol Junal's promotion to supreme commander of the Republics military assets by the senate in the weeks after.

## Ship count

### Grand Navy of the Republic of Judecen 4th fleet

* 1 Lion class battleship
* 40 Panther class destroyers
* 39 Tiger class corvettes

### Serpent Fleet of Fatal Inquisition

* 1 Assault Carrier
* 2 Battleships
* 1 Cruiser
* 2 Light Cruisers
* 6 Frigates
* 4 Heavy Destroyers
* 10 Light Destroyers
* 10 Corvettes

## Battle

Following Serpent's fleet of Fatal Inquisition arrival in the Oodalon system Commodore Hariate Welles attempted to spread out his fleet in order to better protect all points Serpent might attack from; to create a wide net to block as many Serpent ships as possible. However his anticipation had massively miss judged the strength of Serpent's craft and his thinly spread out forces quickly found themselves being pressed on the center line. In response Commodore Welles attempted to bring his lines in to surround the Serpent fleet. But the in orbit jumps were to complicated for much of the fleet to perform and the fleet became scattered and easily picked off. After several hours of trying to wrangle together his lines Commodore Welles ordered a retreat despite the fact only around half of the civilian population of Oodalon had been evacuated. The resulting retreat saw the fourth fleet retreat to a ship breaking yard in the Yummon system.

## Result

### Republic of Judecen losses:

#### Lost with all hands

* GNRJS-White star-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Blue September-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Song of a winter night-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Elizabeth Warn-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Celebration of November-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Green Path-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Brightest day, Darkest night-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Juliuian D'mal-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Francis Foral-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Calpious Slayer-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Doomed voyage-Panther class destroyer

#### Abandoned

* GNRJS-Miraculous mist-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Capricious Wind-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Agamenim-Panther class destroyer

#### Deemed beyond repair

* GNRJS-Summer home-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Taki'Taki-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-A wonderful wish-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-New eyes day-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Oh wonderous star-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Pitch black wings-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Men of hollow bone-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Show me more-Panther class destroyer

#### Crippled and later scrapped

* GNRJS-Follow me once more-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Titans of the pound-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-In the air tonight-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Gilbish-Panther class destroyer
* GNRJS-Forlorn-Panther class destroyer

## Impact

Following the second defeat of the GNRJ by Serpent with heavy losses for the Republic of Judecen confidence in the navies ability to fight the extra-galactic invaders dramatically fell. Faced with two major losses and an unsure public the Republic senate pushed through Admiral Cadol Junal to be the supreme commander of all Republic military assets and fired Commodore Welles for his failure to protect the civilian evacuations.