Great Naval Battle of Esthirant

### Outcome

The Great Battle of Esthirant broke out. 550 Parpaldians navy flagship ships were sunk and unable to navigate. Destruction of more than 90% of the Parpaldians navy force.

### Result

**Japan Decisive Victory*** Over 90% of the Parpaldian Navy destroyed.
* Survivors of the fleet launch the attack on Japan.

**Great Naval Battle of Esthirant**  was a massive naval between Japan and the Parpaldia Empire, and a major event in the war between the two countries.

* Strategist Chief Martal
* 3rd Fleet Commander Admiral Arcaon
* Rear Admiral Bern
* Dragon Knight Commander Dairos
600 ships estimated total
* Parpaldia Imperial 1st and 2nd Fleet
	+ 400 ships-of-the-line
* Parpaldia Imperial 3rd Fleet
	+ Super-Phishanus class 150-gun ship-of-the-line *Dios* (flagship)
	+ 179 Ships-of-the-line
		- *Addis*
		- *Marutasu*
		- *Rejiru*
		- *Kamio*
		- *Tarasu*
		- 174 other ship-of-the-lines
	+ 20 Dragon carriers
		- *Abys*
		- *Gargaon*
		- *Sirene*
		- 17 other carriers
	+ 250 Wyvern lords
* 2nd Escort Group
	+ Hyuga-class helicopter destroyer *Ise* (Japan Flagship)
	+ Atago-class destroyer *Ashigara*
	+ Kongo-class destroyer *Kirishima*
	+ Takanami-class destroyer *Tanam*i
	+ Murasame-class destroyer *Harusame*
* 4th Escort Group
	+ Kongo-class destroyer *Chokai*
	+ Hatakaze-class destroyer *Shimakaze*
	+ Murasame-class destroyer *Inazuma* and *Samidare*
	+ 11 other destroyers/escort ships

**Japan Ground Self-Defense Force**
* Attack Helicopter Units
* Third Fleet annihilation
* 550 ship-of-the-line and 20 dragon carriers sunk or non-navigable
* 250 Wyvern lord knights dead by shot down
* Navy headquarters office building annihilation
* Turret, arms and ammunition depot, and barracks at the port of Esthirant were annihilated
* Large numbers of imperial troops, navy sailors, officers, dragon knights, etc. were dead.
* More than 90% of the destruction of the Parpaldians navy force

## Background

Due to Parpaldia's declaration of genocide against Japan and the Japanese people, Japan had begun efforts to annihilate Parpaldia's military and industrial assets. Central to this was the use of an airbase in Altaras to put their bombers in range of Parpaldia's capital. Japan had destroyed Parpaldia's garrison on the island nation and liberated it during the Battle of Altaras Kingdom nearly three months earlier. Enraged by the loss of a colony, Emperor Ludius ordered the Empire's entire navy to sortie to take back the island. Seeing an opportunity to eliminate Parpaldia's sea power, Japan also deployed a significant surface fleet and made the decision to strike Parpaldia's Navy HQ in Esthirant directly.

Whether through Japanese design or just coincidence, the Esthirant Air Strike occured on the same day Parpaldia launched its counter attack.

## First Battle (Third Fleet Naval Battle)

First, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 2nd escort group fired twenty-five type 90 SSM-1B ship-to-ship missiles. 250 wyvern lords from Third Fleet’s dragon carriers flooded into the sky and prepared to shoot their fire blasts by avoiding the interception of twenty Parpaldia Imperial dragon carriers and the ship-of-the-lines. All of the dragon knight order’s fire blasts missed, not single hit. The anti-ship missiles that were skimming over the ocean suddenly swerved up and plunged into the twenty Parpaldia Imperial dragon carriers and five ship-of-the-lines. All of them were exploded and sunk.

The Kongo-class destroyer *Kirishima* and Atago-class destroyer *Ashigara* fired and hit the third fleet, Phishanus-class 100-gun ship-of-the-line Addis and other twenty ships over twenty kilometers by shells from 127mm single-mounted rapid-fire gun. The large numbers of explosives were set off, inducing an explosion that erased the empire’s ship-of-the-lines from existence.

Next, 250 wyvern lord dragon knights under the dragon knight commander Dairos were launched prior to that and have headed south to search for and eliminate the JMSDF ships. The Kongo-class destroyer *Kirishima* blew the ship-to-air missiles up and shot all of 250 wyvern lords down.

After the dragon knight order has been annihilated, the third fleet’s Admiral Arcaon and other navy officers were shocked at the Japan’s might, and they began to feel hopeless at their far superior capabilities.

The operation that imperial strategist Martal conceived would have been effective if they were fighting against Mu. However, this enemy had 100% accuracy and the firepower to sink the ship with just one shot of cannon; they were basically cheating. This strategy became completely pointless, and their ships just kept sinking.

The Parpaldia Empire’s third fleet flagship, the super-Phishanus-class 150-gun ship-of-the-line *Dios*, sailed and rushed towards the JMSDF’s escort fleet at maximum speed. Third Fleet Admiral Arcaon faced against JMSDF’s escort fleet to the death. The Japanese escort fleet, in a single file, sailed right into the sparse, spread-out imperial formation like they were skewering it. The Japanese escort fleet fired and hit the ship by main cannon. The Parpaldia Empire third fleet’s flagship, *Dios* exploded spliting in half by the gunpowder spilled with fire and sunk into the ocean.

In addition, 175 battleships were sunk in less than 10 minutes by shelling.

## Second Battle (First and Second Fleet Naval Battle)

After third fleet flagship, *Dios* has been sunk, the Parpaldia Imperial Navy Headquarter, which was set up in a remote area, ordered the remaining 400 first and second fleets to be charged in a close-packed form in order to take advantage of the advantage of the number. However, it was also badly scratched and 350 ships were sunk or unable to navigate due to artillery and attack helicopters, and only 50 ships escaped. Parpaldia Imperial Navy flagship was virtually annihilated at this time.

During the battle, Takanami-class destroyer *Tanam*i launched three Type-90 ship-to-ship missiles towards the Navy headquarters where the general headquarters is located. Navy headquarters explosion is, a Navy commander-in-chief Vice Admiral Barth and strategist Chief Martal, nearly everyone, including was killed. As a result, the command ability of the entire Navy is lost.

Due to the bombardment of the JSDF escort groups that wiped out the Parpaldia fleet, the port of Esthirant was destroyed and all functions were lost. Due to this attack, the Third Civilization’s superpower, the Papaldia Empire, had to consider its navy completely neutralized.

## Aftermath

The battle led to the decimation of Parpaldia's main naval force. Added to losses in Fenn, 90% of Parpaldia's Navy was now destroyed. Only a total of fifty first-class ships survived, including twelve dragon carriers. Parpaldia still had thirty-five ships in the Oversight Army, but these were all outdated designs.

Combined with the strategic bombing of the Esthirant Capital Defense Base, on that day, at least 300,000 Parpaldians were killed.

The loss completely halted any attempts to reclaim Altaras as a colony, and Parpaldia instead decided to shift to a defensive posture to avoid any more losses to Japan. In order to deploy a defensive force to replace the Imperial Army’s Esthirant Capital Defense Base, Supreme Commander Arde carried out the simultaneous withdrawal of troops from the colonies. Governing Board Director Parras opposed this, but Arde overruled him, placing defense of the homeland above security in the colonies.

During the meetings between the top officials to discuss the disaster, Kaios indirectly suggested the Emperor Ludius and Remille to surrender themselves to the Japanese to avoid more damages to their Empire. Ludius and Remille in their blinded rage and pride refused. Despite hating to admit that the Japanese were far mightier than the initial thought, Ludius made a ridiculous assumption that Japan couldn't attack Parpaldian mainland due to their small army and that the weapon manufacture and supply from the industrial city Duro could get the military back on their feet to fight the Japanese effectively, totally ignoring the fact Japan could bomb the whole city into the ground by now.

The next week, Queen Lumies of the Altaras Kingdom announced these defeats across the entire continent and encouraged other colonies to fight for their independence. Uprisings soon began to spread throughout the colonies. Due to the withdrawals, Parpaldia was unable to crush these revolts. The Empire began to crumble from the inside.