The Battle of Blaud

The small red planet of Blaud is located at the far end of Protectorate controlled space, many light years from the closest settled system. A partly savage frontier world, Blaud is the religious centre of the war god Khorai whose cult is spread throughout Protectorate space. When the Empire tried to invade Blaud it faced incredibly resilient resistance from the Blaudites who fought off vastly superior numbers and the Empire was forced to dedicate more troops to its conquest.

When they returned they found that the planet’s population had increased massively, as devout followers of Khorai gathered on Blaud to withstand the aggressors who had violated the sacred planet. In total the Empire tried to seize Blaud thirty times but each invasion was driven off by the stout Blaudites and the fanatics of Khorai. Now Blaud is little more than a wasteland, its entire surface marked with craters and the wreckage of thousands of battles. Before the war, Blaud had been a minor member of the Protectorate Pact, but now it is a major base for the Protectorate Star Fleet.

The Rebellion

In the early 45th century the Protectorate was, for the first time, able to launch a counter-attack. For decades special Advisors had operated secretly on the captured worlds, organising resistance to Empire control. In 4522 the rebellion against the Empire started.

On a hundreds of worlds the populations rose up and fought the Empire with the aid of Protectorate forces and armies of mercenary fighters. The Empire was forced to fight on many military fronts at the same time and their invasion forces were brought back to counter these new threats.

With the Empire’s forces pinned down the Protectorate launched a cunning raid into Empire space. Thousands of drones were sent deep into the systems of the Empire where they deployed a network of hyper-space beacons. Then, using these beacons, Protectorate commandos were able to penetrate deep into Empire territory where they inflicted massive damage to poorly defended worlds, destroying key strategic targets and crippling the Empire’s military might.