Constellation Campaign

> ***"We come out empty-handed. Once again..."***
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> **-Lord Admiral Lara Kulia, 2288-**
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### Defender Numbers

8 Warships, Upwards of 4,2 Billion Standing Troops, Militias & Other Armed Citizenry

### Noteworthy Battles:

Battle of RaskaSkirmish at Lowell's Point

## Estimated Casualties

### Defender Losses:

6 Warships, Over 3 Billion Standing Troops

### Civilian Losses:

Unknown (Upwards of Half the Raxycodium population)

Branded as an obscure chapter in history to the peoples of the Eastern Galactic bloc, the **Constellation Campaign** is what marked the determination of an entire species to survive, despite overwhelming odds times after times. The conflict was a military campaign conducted by the Eternal Empire's Royal Army and Navy, aiming to take over the remnant systems still in control of the Raxycodium aristocracy with overwhelming firepower and aerial supremacy. The invasion was orchestrated by Lord Admiral Albion Ashbury, who sought to gather further army support and funding since the devastating Great Northern War. Starting in March of 2278, the Empire counted with about 100 Combat Vessels against the Raxycodium's 6.

Despite the numerical, technological and firepower advantages upheld by the Imperial forces, the vagueness of their orders eventually dragged the conflict to unsustainable time periods that only amounted in costs and lives to the attackers, whilst not striking any critical blows to their bleeding adversaries. The confrontations in locations such as Raska are to this day recalled for their brutality, not only inflicted on the butchered civilian population of the Raxycodium planet, but also done by the defenders, who pursued the most torturous methods in reprisal to atrocities occurring to their nation. Although weakened during the Third Southern Thrust Campaign (A fact proven by the loss of the Raxycodium homeworld, Kara), the defenders learned many of the strengths and weaknesses of Imperial forces over decades of raids, incursions and small expeditions; When the Empire came at force, they hunkered down and manned their fortifications - Layers upon layers of underground fortifications that took months to become clear. Once a unit of human redcoats finished up with a hill and moved onto the next, their enemies returned and resumed operations once more, a fact that dragged the war over years and years, instead of the merely expected months that had been anticipated by the High Command.

With the Eternal Empire not being able to conquer a single fortress planet belonging to the defenders, the newly installed Lord Admiral pulled the invading forces from Raxycodium systems and officially brought an end to large scale hostilities on 2288 - As an effective end to the Constellation Campaign as a whole. Although the conflict turned out to be a stalemate militarily on both sides, the bombardment inflicted in the planets of Raska, Ketorium and Kutra brought about massive damage to the Raxycodium ability to function effectively as a nation, halving the population in the process and causing severe famines across the worlds. Yet, despite all this, the war brought about a renewed sense of unity to the Raxycodium people, guaranteeing their survival for 60 further years under an independent nation of their own to care for.